Come and see our very first auditory cognition newsletter. From now on we want to present impressions of our latest work and results twice a year. In the interview section you also have the chance to learn more about our…
Category: Editorial Notes
SNAP2017 drawing closer!
Save your slot at the SNAP2017 workshop in Lübeck (December 8–9). Registration is available at snap.obleserlab.com and will end soon! A first line-up is already live. Submission deadline for the Posters will be July 31st, acceptance notifications will be sent out in August…
Story time: Henry & Obleser (2012) revisited
Story time: Some time in early 2011, I sat down with an American, fresh PhD graduate who had just joined my new lab, in a Leipzig bar (Café Cantona; if you are interested you can find this great 24⁄7 bar…
MSc student Lea-Maria Schmitt wins Colin Cherry Award 2017
Wow: Massive congratulations to Lea Schmitt, who just has been awarded the Colin Cherry Award 2017 at the 9th Speech in Noise (SPIN) workshop in Oldenburg. Germany. The Colin Cherry award honours the best poster (audience award) and gets you a…
PhD Student Lorenz Fiedler joining the Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, No. 19 as an expert
Disability, techno-bodies, and the question of autonomy. On Friday the 21th October, Lorenz is joining the 19th “Schwarzmarkt des Wissens” in Hamburg. “The Blackmarket attempts to bring together areas, which generally do not belong together in public perception: the reality of…
Wir suchen Postdoc-Verstärkung. (In German for once.)
From autumn on, or at the earliest convenience, we are looking for a new postdoc for the (still fairly new) Obleser lab in Lübeck. Please see the job advert here. Deadline for applications is July 6. From this particular postholder we hope for…
[UPDATE] New paper in PNAS: Spatiotemporal dynamics of auditory attention synchronize with speech, Woestmann et al.
Wöstmann, Herrmann, Maess and Obleser demonstrate that the hemispheric lateralization of neural alpha oscillations measured in the magnetoencephalogram (MEG) synchronizes with the speech signal and predicts listeners’ speech comprehension. Now available online: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/03/18/1523357113 Press release: https://www.uni-luebeck.de/forschung/aktuelles-zur-forschung/aktuelles-zur-forschung/artikel/aufmerksamkeit-in-wellen-erfolgreich-zuhoeren-im-rhythmus-der-sprache.html
New appointments as Handling Editor in “Neuroimage” and Associate Editor in “Journal of Neuroscience”
It’s a great honour to have been appointed over the last days to the editorial board of two highly esteemed scientific journals, “Neuroimage” as well as the super-classic “Journal of Neuroscience”. I hope I will be able to live up to the expectations.…