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…
Category: EEG / MEG
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)…
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…
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,…