Category: Executive Functions

AttentionAuditory NeuroscienceNeural OscillationsPapersPsychologyUncategorized

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…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in press in the Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science
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New DFG project led by Mohsen Alavash on the Net­work Neu­ro­science of Spa­tial Atten­tion

Con­grat­u­la­tions to our cur­rent­ly ERC-fund­ed lab mem­ber and post­doc Mohsen Alavash who has just secured 3‑year fund­ing (~380,000 €) by the Deutsche Forschungs­ge­mein­schaft (DFG) for an ambi­tious project: Mohsen wants to get clos­er to a net­­work/­­graph-the­o­ret­i­­cal descrip­tion of how spa­tial…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New DFG project led by Mohsen Alavash on the Net­work Neu­ro­science of Spa­tial Atten­tion
Adaptive ControlAuditory NeuroscienceAuditory Speech ProcessingAuf deutschEventsExecutive FunctionsHearing LossMediaSpeech

Jonas pre­sent­ed for the KIND Hörs­tiftung in Berlin (Video)

Im Feb­ru­ar hat­te ich die Ehre, für die Kind Hörs­tiftung auf deren 2019er Sym­po­sium in Berlin unsere Arbeit­en zur Vorher­sage des Hör­erfol­gs exem­plar­isch anhand einiger unser­er Stu­di­en all­ge­mein­ver­ständlich zu beleucht­en. Ein 25-minütiges Video dieses Vor­trags ist jet­zt online. (In Feb­ru­ary,…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ Jonas pre­sent­ed for the KIND Hörs­tiftung in Berlin (Video)
AttentionAuditory CortexAuditory Speech ProcessingEEG / MEGPsychologySpeech

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)…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ AC post­doc Malte Wöst­mann scores DFG grant to study the tem­po­ral dynam­ics of the audi­to­ry atten­tion­al fil­ter
AttentionAuditory CortexAuditory Speech ProcessingPapersPsychologyPublicationsSpeech

New paper in press in the Jour­nal of Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science

Wöst­mann, Schmitt and Obleser demon­strate that clos­ing the eyes enhances the atten­tion­al mod­u­la­tion of neur­al alpha pow­er but does not affect behav­iour­al per­for­mance in two lis­ten­ing tasks Does clos­ing the eyes enhance our abil­i­ty to lis­ten atten­tive­ly? In fact, many…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in press in the Jour­nal of Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science
Adaptive ControlAgeingAttentionAuditory CortexAuditory NeuroscienceAuditory Speech ProcessingExecutive FunctionsfMRIPapersPsychologyUncategorized

New paper in PNAS by Alavash, Tune, Obleser

How brain areas com­mu­ni­cate shapes human com­mu­ni­ca­tion: The hear­ing regions in your brain form new alliances as you try to lis­ten at the cock­tail par­ty Oble­ser­lab Post­docs Mohsen Alavash and Sarah Tune rock out an intri­cate graph-the­o­ret­i­­cal account of mod­u­lar…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in PNAS by Alavash, Tune, Obleser
AttentionAuditory CortexAuditory NeuroscienceEEG / MEGPapersPerceptionPsychologyPublications

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
AttentionAuditory CortexBrain stimulationPapersPerceptionPublications

New paper in press in JASA: Kre­it­e­wolf et al. on the role of voice-fea­ture con­ti­nu­ity for cock­tail-par­ty lis­ten­ing

Oble­ser­lab post­doc Jens Kre­it­e­wolf is in press in The Jour­nal of the Acousti­cal Soci­ety of Amer­i­ca! Togeth­er with our col­leagues, Marc Schön­wies­ner (Montreal/Leipzig), Samuel Math­ias (Yale), and Régis Tra­peau (Montreal/Marseille), we inves­ti­gat­ed the roles of two of the most salient…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in press in JASA: Kre­it­e­wolf et al. on the role of voice-fea­­ture con­ti­nu­ity for cock­­­tail-par­­ty lis­ten­ing