Category: EEG / MEG

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New paper in Neu­roim­age by Fiedler et al.: Track­ing ignored speech mat­ters

Lis­ten­ing requires selec­tive neur­al pro­cess­ing of the incom­ing sound mix­ture, which in humans is borne out by a sur­pris­ing­ly clean rep­re­sen­ta­tion of attend­ed-only speech in audi­to­ry cor­tex. How this neur­al selec­tiv­i­ty is achieved even at neg­a­tive sig­­nal-to-noise ratios (SNR) remains unclear. We show…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in Neu­roim­age by Fiedler et al.: Track­ing ignored speech mat­ters
Auditory CortexEEG / MEGPapersPerceptionPublications

New paper in press in the Euro­pean Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science: Wöst­mann et al demon­strate that the pow­er of pres­tim­u­lus alpha oscil­la­tions direct­ly relates to con­fi­dence in pitch-dis­crim­i­na­tion

What is the mech­a­nis­tic rel­e­vance of neur­al alpha oscil­la­tions (~10 Hz) for per­cep­tion? To answer this ques­tion, we analysed EEG data from a task that required par­tic­i­pants to com­pare the pitch of two tones that were, unbe­knownst to par­tic­i­pants, iden­ti­cal. Impor­tant­ly,…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in press in the Euro­pean Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science: Wöst­mann et al demon­strate that the pow­er of pres­tim­u­lus alpha oscil­la­tions direct­ly relates to con­fi­dence in pitch-dis­­crim­i­­na­­tion
Adaptive ControlAuditory CortexAuditory NeuroscienceAuditory Working MemoryNeural OscillationsPapersPerceptionPsychologyUncategorized

New paper in The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science: Wilsch et al.., Tem­po­ral expec­ta­tion mod­u­lates the cor­ti­cal dynam­ics of short-term mem­o­ry

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Oble­ser­lab alum­na Anna Wilsch, who is – for now – leav­ing acad­e­mia on a true high with her lat­est offer­ing on how tem­po­ral expec­ta­tions (“fore­knowl­edge” about when some­thing is to hap­pen) shape the neur­al make-up of mem­o­ry! Record­ed…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science: Wilsch et al.., Tem­po­ral expec­ta­tion mod­u­lates the cor­ti­cal dynam­ics of short-term mem­o­ry
Auditory CortexAuditory NeuroscienceBrain stimulationClinical relevanceDegraded AcousticsHearing LossNeural OscillationsNeural PhasePapersPsychologySpeech

New paper in press with the Old­en­burg brain-stim­u­la­tion crew!

AC alum­na Anna Wilsch has a new paper in press in Neu­roim­age, with Toralf Neul­ing, Jonas Obleser, and Christoph Her­rmann: “Tran­scra­nial alter­nat­ing cur­rent stim­u­la­tion with speech envelopes mod­u­lates speech com­pre­hen­sion”. In this proof-of-concept–like paper, we demon­strate that using the speech…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in press with the Old­en­burg brain-stim­u­la­­tion crew!
AgeingAttentionAuditory CortexAuditory NeuroscienceEditorial NotesEEG / MEGExecutive FunctionsNeural PhasePosters

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 ➞ Come see us @ Neu­ro­science 2017 in DC
AttentionAuditory NeuroscienceEEG / MEGEvoked ActivityNeural OscillationsNeural PhasePapersPerceptionPsychologyUncategorized

New paper in Plos Biol­o­gy: Com­ment by Obleser, Hen­ry, & Lakatos

My col­leagues and col­lab­o­ra­tor Peter Lakatos and Mol­ly Hen­ry and I took to our desks and Mat­lab con­soles, when Assaf Bres­ka and Leon Deouell came out ear­li­er this year with their paper in Plos Biol­o­gy. We had a few things…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in Plos Biol­o­gy: Com­ment by Obleser, Hen­ry, & Lakatos
Adaptive ControlAgeingAuditory CortexAuditory NeuroscienceEEG / MEGEvoked ActivityExecutive FunctionsNeural OscillationsNeural PhasePapersPerceptionPublications

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…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in press: Hen­ry et al., Nature Com­mu­ni­ca­tions