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,…
Category: Ageing
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…
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…
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,…
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
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!
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…
New paper in press: Henry et al., Nature Communications
Here comes a new paper in Nature Communications by former AC postdoc Molly Henry, with former fellow postdoc AC alumnus Björn Herrmann, our tireless lab manager, Dunja Kunke, and myself! It is a late (to us quite important) result from our lab’s…