Category: Editorial Notes

• 7 May 2013

  Post­doc­tor­al researcher wanted!

  The Max Planck Insti­tute for Human Cog­ni­tive and Brain Sci­ences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig and the Max Planck Research Group “Audi­to­ry Cog­ni­tion” (head­ed by Jonas Obleser) are now offer­ing a Post­doc­tor­al researcher posi­tion, for ini­tial­ly 2 years, prefer­ably start­ing by Octo­ber 2013. Suc­cess­ful can­di­dates will have a PhD in cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science, psy­chol­o­gy, or nat­ur­al sci­ences. Pri­or expe­ri­ence […]

• 18 December 2012

  New paper out: Hen­ry & Her­rmann, Jour­nal of Neuroscience

  Proud to announce that our post­docs Mol­ly Hen­ry and Björn Her­rmann just came out with a review/op piece in the Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science “jour­nal club” sec­tion, where only grad stu­dents or post­docs are allowed to author short review pieces. A Pre­clud­ing Role of Low-Fre­quen­cy Oscil­la­tions for Audi­to­ry Per­cep­tion in a Con­tin­u­ous Pro­cess­ing Mode The Jour­nal of […]

• 13 October 2012

  Wel­come Malte Wöstmann

  We wel­come Malte Wöst­mann, who grad­u­at­ed from the Cog­ni­tive Sci­ence pro­gram in Osnabrück, as a new PhD stu­dent in the group. Malte will be part of the new (2012–2015) cohort of the Inter­na­tion­al Max Planck Research School “Neu­ro­com”. By the way, Malte already worked with us as an intern in 2010 and recent­ly co-authored our J Neu­rosci […]

• 13 October 2012

  Neu­ro­science 2012 Posters and Talks

  Dear friends and col­leagues, SfN Participants! Please go and check out our posters in New Orleans this year. It’s all hap­pen­ing in the Mon­day (15 Octo­ber) AM posters ses­sion, plus a bit of Tues­day AM, and one talk on mon­day AM as well. Thanks for your support! TALK MONDAY AM, 10:30321.11 — Selec­tive atten­tion to audi­to­ry […]

• 10 July 2012

  AC sum­mer BBQ

  Last week we had our first “Audi­to­ry Cog­ni­tion” group sum­mer BBQ. Research assis­tant Christoph Daube brought this amaz­ing cake, sport­ing some anatom­i­cal knowl­edge and some seri­ous patis­serie skills. Thank you, Christoph!

• 1 February 2012

  New Pub­lic Sci­ence Weblog by our Max Planck Institute

  I am per­son­al­ly not entire­ly con­vinced whether Weblogs will sur­vive as a tool for com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Notwith­stand­ing, I am sup­port­ing the idea of our Insti­tute togeth­er with Ger­man pub­lic sci­ence mag­a­zine “Spek­trum der Wis­senschaft” to start a new blog, enti­tled “Neu­rocog­ni­tion”. It’s host­ed at scilogs.eu and scilogs.de. I have the hon­our to serve as one of […]

• 12 November 2011

  Fur­ther posters at SFN / Neu­ro­science 2011

  In addi­tion to the excit­ing con­so­nan­tal mis­match neg­a­tiv­i­ty work Math­ias and Alexan­dra will be show­ing (TUESDAY AM ses­sion, posters UU10 and UU11), we will have the fol­low­ing posters this year. Come by! Chris Petkov and I are show­ing our brand new data in the TUESDAY PM ses­sion, poster LL14. I myself will be pre­sent­ing in the […]

• 11 November 2011

  Poster Pre­sen­ta­tions at SFN

  There will be two poster pre­sen­ta­tions at SFN in Wash­ing­ton, DC., on the top­ic of audi­to­ry pre­dic­tions in speech per­cep­tion. The first poster, authored by Alexan­dra Ben­dix­en, Math­ias Scharinger, and Jonas Obleser, sum­ma­rizes as follows: Speech sig­nals are often com­pro­mised by dis­rup­tions orig­i­nat­ing from exter­nal (e.g., mask­ing noise) or inter­nal (e.g., slug­gish artic­u­la­tion) sources. Speech […]

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