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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
Adaptive ControlAuditory CortexAuditory NeuroscienceAuditory Working MemoryNeural OscillationsPapersPerceptionPsychologyUncategorized

New paper in The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science: Wilsch et al.., Tem­po­ral expec­ta­tion mod­u­lates the cor­ti­cal dynam­ics of short-term mem­o­ry

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Oble­ser­lab alum­na Anna Wilsch, who is – for now – leav­ing acad­e­mia on a true high with her lat­est offer­ing on how tem­po­ral expec­ta­tions (“fore­knowl­edge” about when some­thing is to hap­pen) shape the neur­al make-up of mem­o­ry! Record­ed…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science: Wilsch et al.., Tem­po­ral expec­ta­tion mod­u­lates the cor­ti­cal dynam­ics of short-term mem­o­ry
AttentionAuditory CortexAuditory PerceptionBrain stimulationPapersPsychologyPublicationsSpeech

New paper in press in Brain Stim­u­la­tion: Wöst­mann, Vosskuhl, Obleser, and Her­rmann demon­strate that exter­nal­ly ampli­fied oscil­la­tions affect audi­to­ry spa­tial atten­tion

In a fine col­lab­o­ra­tion we com­bine exper­tise on audi­to­ry cog­ni­tion (Malte Wöst­mann & Jonas Obleser, Uni­ver­si­ty of Lübeck) and brain stim­u­la­tion (Johannes Vosskuhl and Christoph S Her­rmann, Uni­ver­si­ty of Old­en­burg) to show that exter­nal­ly stim­u­lat­ed alpha and gam­ma oscil­la­tions dif­fer­en­tial­ly…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in press in Brain Stim­u­la­tion: Wöst­mann, Vosskuhl, Obleser, and Her­rmann demon­strate that exter­nal­ly ampli­fied oscil­la­tions affect audi­to­ry spa­tial atten­tion
Adaptive ControlAttentionAuditory Working MemoryClinical relevanceExecutive FunctionsfMRIPapersPsychologyPublicationsUncategorized

New paper in press in ‘Neu­roim­age’: Alavash, Lim, et al

Oble­ser­lab post­doc Mohsen Alavash and Oble­ser­lab Alum­na Sung-Joo Lim are in press at Neu­roim­age! They argue with data from a place­bo-con­trolled dopamin­er­gic inter­ven­tion study that BOLD sig­nal vari­abil­i­ty and the func­tion­al con­nec­tome are sur­pris­ing­ly clear­ly affect­ed by L-Dopa, and (ii)…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ New paper in press in ‘Neu­roim­age’: Alavash, Lim, et al
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Come see us @ Neu­ro­science 2017 in DC

Will be at the Soci­ety for Neu­ro­science Meet­ing next week in DC? Come find us in the Wednes­day after­noon ses­sion with a bunch of (we think) very cool atten­­tion-relat­ed posters (Poster boards UU42–UU46): 804.06. Audi­to­ry atten­tion and pre­dic­tive pro­cess­ing co-mod­­u­late…

Con­tin­ue read­ing ➞ Come see us @ Neu­ro­science 2017 in DC