Category: EEG / MEG

• 31 August 2012

  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 […]

• 15 July 2012

  New paper in press — Scharinger et al., PLOS ONE [Update]

  We are hap­py that our paper A Sparse Neur­al Code for Some Speech Sounds but Not for Others is sched­uled for pub­li­ca­tion in PLOS ONE on July 16th, 2012. This is also our first paper in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Alexan­dra Ben­dix­en from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Leipzig. The research report­ed in this arti­cle pro­vides an exten­sion of the pre­dic­tive […]

• 1 February 2012

  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 […]

• 12 November 2011

  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 […]

• 11 November 2011

  Poster Pre­sen­ta­tions at SFN

  There will be two poster pre­sen­ta­tions at SFN in Wash­ing­ton, DC., on the top­ic of audi­to­ry pre­dic­tions in speech per­cep­tion. The first poster, authored by Alexan­dra Ben­dix­en, Math­ias Scharinger, and Jonas Obleser, sum­ma­rizes as follows: Speech sig­nals are often com­pro­mised by dis­rup­tions orig­i­nat­ing from exter­nal (e.g., mask­ing noise) or inter­nal (e.g., slug­gish artic­u­la­tion) sources. Speech […]

• 11 November 2011

  New paper out in Jour­nal of Speech, Lan­guage, & Hear­ing Research [Update]

  We are hap­py to announce that our paper “Asym­me­tries in the pro­cess­ing of vow­el height” will be appear­ing in the Jour­nal of Speech, Lan­guage, & Hear­ing Research, authored by Philip Mon­a­han, William Idsar­di and Math­ias Scharinger. A short sum­ma­ry is giv­en below: Pur­pose: Speech per­cep­tion can be described as the trans­for­ma­tion of con­tin­u­ous acoustic infor­ma­tion into […]

• 6 November 2011

  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) […]

• 15 April 2011

  New Paper out: HELLO? in press (Neu­roIm­age)

  Pho­net­ic cues instan­ta­neous­ly mapped onto dialec­tal cat­e­gories appear to be extract­ed at ear­ly moments in audi­to­ry speech per­cep­tion, as we try to show in our paper You had me at “Hel­lo”: Rapid extrac­tion of dialect infor­ma­tion from spo­ken words to appear in Neu­roIm­age (Math­ias Scharinger, Philip Mon­a­han, William Idsardi). In a mod­i­fied pas­sive odd­ball design, we com­pare […]

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