Category: Editorial Notes
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New lab members joining
As of December 1, we will have two new members joining the Lab. Björn Herrmann very recently received his Dr. rer. nat. from the University of Leipzig, after doing methodologically advanced worked on MEG and fMRI correlates of early auditory–syntactic interactions in language comprehension. Dunja Kunke is a trained audiologist and will help us gear up […]
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The group is approaching cruising altitude
I am glad to report that the lab is in full flight. (From left to right: ) Anna Wilsch, Julia Erb, Dr. Mathias Scharinger, Dr. Molly Henry, and Antje Strauß have joined forces with me. We are having a splendid time finding out more about speech, degradation of it, and the neural processing of it […]
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Autumn travels
Before our little lab gets into full throttle in late 2010/early 2011 with a great selection of new students and postdocs joining, I will be touring a bit with my most recent data. For late October, my former co-supervisor Aditi Lahiri has kindly invited me to give a talk in Oxford. In November, I will […]
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The Obleser lab is materialising: We’re hiring!
Spread the news: We are hiring for 2011. The Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI–CBS) in Leipzig and its newly established Max Planck Research Group on “Auditory Cognition”, led by Jonas Obleser, are now offering Postdoc and PhD positions for up to 3 years, preferably starting by January 2011. Postdoc applicants: Successful candidates will have […]
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Visit us at CNS
UPDATE — The Volcano ash that Island is kindly supplying might prevent us from getting to Montréal. Let’s see whether we make it until the poster session starts on Sunday. But I am slightly pessimistic on that. I am currently quite busy with finishing off loads of old data and preparing new adventures in auditory […]
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New articles
May I humbly point you to three new articles I had the honour to be involved in recently. Firstly, Chris Petkov, Nikos Logothetis and I have put together a very broad overview over what we think is the current take on processing streams of voice, speech and, more generally, vocalisation input in primates. It appears […]
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Why will a person with a right-hemispheric stroke not become aphasic…
… if spectral (fine-frequency) details of the speech signal are “predominantly tracked in the right auditory cortex”, Prof. Sophie Scott just rightly asked after my talk fifteen minutes ago at SfN. I am not sure what Robert Zatorre and David Poeppel would answer, but I think that this is not an easy question and it can […]
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Talk at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington, DC on Wednesday
If you happen to be at SfN this week, you might want to check out my short presentation on a recent study [1] we did: What do spectral (frequency-domain) and temporal (time-domain) features really contribute to speech comprehension processes in the temporal lobes? It is in the Auditory Cortex Session (710), taking place in Room 145B. […]