Our lab is proud and happy that another major stepping stone from our ERC consolidator project (“AUDADAPT”) is now accepted for publication in PLoS Biology! Congratulations to our first author Dr Mohsen Alavash, now a senior researcher in the…
Category: EEG / MEG
New Paper in Trends in Hearing by Kraus et al.
Frauke Kraus, Sarah Tune, Anna Ruhe, Jonas Obleser & Malte Wöstmann demonstrate that unilateral acoustic degradation delays attentional separation of competing speech. Unilateral cochlear implant (CI) users have to integrate acoustically intact speech on one ear and acoustically degraded speech…
A quiet innovator: Peter Lakatos (1972–2021)
Our dear colleague and collaborator Peter Lakatos passed away suddenly two months ago. With Peter’s so untimely death at the age of 49, Neuroscience has suffered an unimaginable loss. It has been an honour and privilege to contribute Peter Lakatos’ obituary…
New paper in Nature Communications by Tune et al.
We are very excited to share that Obleserlab postdoc Sarah Tune has a new paper in Nature Communications. „Neural attentional-filter mechanisms of listening success in middle-aged and older participants“ is our latest and to-date most extensive output of the longitudinal…
New Perspective paper in Neuron by Waschke et al.
We are excited to share that former Obleserlab PhD student Leo Waschke, together with his new (Doug Garrett, Niels Kloosterman) and old (Jonas Obleser) lab has published an in-depth perspective piece in Neuron, with the provocative title “Behavior need neural variability”.…
New paper in press in elife: Waschke et al.
Obleserlab senior PhD student Leo Waschke, alongside co-authors Sarah Tune and Jonas Obleser, has a new paper in eLife. The processing of sensory information from our environment is not constant but rather varies with changes in ongoing brain activity, or…
New paper in press in the Journal of Neuroscience
Wöstmann, Alavash and Obleser demonstrate that alpha oscillations in the human brain implement distractor suppression independent of target selection. In theory, the ability to selectively focus on relevant objects in our environment bases on selection of targets and suppression of…
AC postdoc Malte Wöstmann scores DFG grant to study the temporal dynamics of the auditory attentional filter
In this three-year project, we will use the auditory modality as a test case to investigate how the suppression of distracting information (i.e., “filtering”) is neurally implemented. While it is known that the attentional sampling of targets (a) is rhythmic, (b)…