Category Archives for Ageing

New Per­spec­tive paper in Neu­ron by Waschke et al.

We are excit­ed to share that for­mer Oble­ser­lab PhD stu­dent Leo Waschke, togeth­er with his new (Doug Gar­rett, Niels Kloost­er­man) and old (Jonas Obleser) lab has pub­lished an in-depth per­spec­tive piece in Neu­ron, with the provoca­tive title “Behav­ior need neur­al vari­abil­i­ty”. … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

24. February 2021 by Felix Greuling
Categories: Ageing, EEG / MEG, fMRI, Papers, Publications |

We’re hir­ing (again): DFG-fund­ed 3‑year PhD posi­tion, apply by July 12 2020

New PhD oppor­tu­ni­ty: @bjoherrmann (Rot­man Research) and @ObleserLab at @UniLuebeck, Ger­many, have a @dfg_public-fund­ed 3‑year PhD posi­tion! (neur­al dynam­ics, tem­po­ral expec­ta­tion, age­ing). Apply now until July 12! Please RT widely/alert your MSc/RAs. https://t.co/gphGf8Xx4c pic.twitter.com/GneEmTGvaP — Jonas Obleser (@jonasobleser) June 26, … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

05. July 2020 by Jonas
Categories: Ageing, Degraded Acoustics, Editorial Notes, Executive Functions, Job Offers, Uncategorized |

New paper in eLife: Erb et al., Tem­po­ral selec­tiv­i­ty declines in the aging human audi­to­ry cor­tex

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Oble­ser­lab post­doc Julia Erb for her new paper to appear in eLife, “Tem­po­ral selec­tiv­i­ty declines in the aging human audi­to­ry cor­tex”. It’s a trope that old­er lis­ten­ers strug­gle more in com­pre­hend­ing speech (think of Pro­fes­sor Tour­nesol in the … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

03. July 2020 by Jonas
Categories: Ageing, Auditory Cortex, Auditory Neuroscience, Auditory Perception, fMRI, Hearing Loss, Papers, Perception, Psychology, Publications |

New paper in PNAS by Alavash, Tune, Obleser

How brain areas com­mu­ni­cate shapes human com­mu­ni­ca­tion: The hear­ing regions in your brain form new alliances as you try to lis­ten at the cock­tail par­ty Oble­ser­lab Post­docs Mohsen Alavash and Sarah Tune rock out an intri­cate graph-the­o­ret­i­­cal account of mod­u­lar … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

02. January 2019 by Jonas
Categories: Adaptive Control, Ageing, Attention, Auditory Cortex, Auditory Neuroscience, Auditory Speech Processing, Executive Functions, fMRI, Papers, Psychology, Uncategorized |

Sym­po­sium at PuG 2018

Dur­ing the upcom­ing meet­ing of “Psy­chol­o­gy and the Brain 2018”, PhD stu­dent Leo Waschke will be host­ing a sym­po­sium on states and traits of neur­al activ­i­ty and their func­tion­al rel­e­vance for per­cep­tion and age­ing. Togeth­er with Lin­da Geerligs (Don­ders Insti­tute, … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

05. March 2018 by Jonathan Mortensen
Categories: Ageing, Auditory Cortex, Events, Perception, Psychology |

New paper online by Waschke, Wöst­mann & Obleser

Read all about neur­al irreg­u­lar­i­ty in aging brains and how it relates to per­cep­tu­al deci­sions: New paper by PhD stu­dent Leo Waschke.  Now avail­able online: https://goo.gl/F4dFfe    

16. December 2017 by Simon Grosnick
Categories: Ageing, Auditory Neuroscience, EEG / MEG, Papers, Publications | Tags: , , , |

Want to come work with us?

Post­doc posi­tion in the Obleser lab, in the ERC-fund­ed project “Audadapt” — dead­line for appli­ca­tions very soon! (Nov 30 2017). Check out all appli­ca­tions details here!

26. November 2017 by Jonas
Categories: Adaptive Control, Ageing, Job Offers, Speech, Uncategorized |

Come see us @ Neu­ro­science 2017 in DC

Will be at the Soci­ety for Neu­ro­science Meet­ing next week in DC? Come find us in the Wednes­day after­noon ses­sion with a bunch of (we think) very cool atten­­tion-relat­ed posters (Poster boards UU42–UU46): 804.06. Audi­to­ry atten­tion and pre­dic­tive pro­cess­ing co-mod­­u­late … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

04. November 2017 by Jonas
Categories: Ageing, Attention, Auditory Cortex, Auditory Neuroscience, Editorial Notes, EEG / MEG, Executive Functions, Neural Phase, Posters | Tags: |

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