Category: Neural Oscillations
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New Paper in PNAS: Henry & Obleser [Updated]
Our new paper on neural entrainment with spectral fluctuations, and its effects on near-threshold auditory perception is now online in the “early edition” of PNAS: Henry, MJ & Obleser, J (in press): Frequency modulation entrains slow neural oscillations and optimizes human listening behavior Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America […]
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New paper out: Obleser et al., The Journal of Neuroscience
Adverse Listening Conditions and Memory Load Drive a Common Alpha Oscillatory Network Whether we are engaged in small talk or trying to memorise a telephone number — it is our short-term memory that ensures we don’t lose track. But what if the very same memory gets additionally taxed because the words to be remembered are […]
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New paper out: “Don’t be enslaved by the envelope” – Comment on Giraud & Poeppel (2012)
Today appears a comment / opinion article, with a tad bit of fresh evidence from our lab, that is mainly a reply to Anne-Lise Giraud and David Poeppel’s recent “perspective” article on Neural oscillations in speech. We loved that article, obviously, but after the initial excitement, a few concerns stuck with us. In essence, the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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New paper accepted in Cerebral Cortex [Update]
Obleser, J., Weisz, N. (in press) Suppressed alpha oscillations predict intelligibility of speech and its acoustic details. Cerebral Cortex. [Update] Paper is available here. References Obleser J, Weisz N. Suppressed alpha oscillations predict intelligibility of speech and its acoustic details. Cereb Cortex. 2012 Nov;22(11):2466–77. PMID: 22100354. [Open with Read] Modulations of human alpha oscillations (8−13 Hz) […]
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New paper out: Alpha oscillations in audition
I am also delighted to report the fruits of a very recent collaboration with Nathan Weisz and his OBOB lab at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Alpha Rhythms in Audition: Cognitive and Clinical Perspectives In this review paper, which appears in the new, exciting “Frontiers in Psychology” journal, we sum the recent evidence that alpha […]