Category Archives for Adaptive Control

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 →

21. August 2019 by Jonas
Categories: Adaptive Control, Attention, fMRI, Grants, Hearing Loss, Uncategorized |

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 →

07. August 2019 by Jonas
Categories: Adaptive Control, Auditory Neuroscience, Auditory Speech Processing, Auf deutsch, Events, Executive Functions, Hearing Loss, Media, Speech |

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 →

02. January 2019 by Jonas
Categories: Adaptive Control, Ageing, Attention, Auditory Cortex, Auditory Neuroscience, Auditory Speech Processing, Executive Functions, fMRI, Papers, Psychology, Uncategorized |

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 →

12. July 2018 by Jonas
Categories: Adaptive Control, Auditory Cortex, Auditory Neuroscience, Auditory Working Memory, Neural Oscillations, Papers, Perception, Psychology, Uncategorized |

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 →

19. January 2018 by Jonas
Categories: Adaptive Control, Attention, Auditory Working Memory, Clinical relevance, Executive Functions, fMRI, Papers, Psychology, Publications, Uncategorized |

Want to come work with us?

Post­doc posi­tion in the Obleser lab, in the ERC-fund­ed project “Audadapt” — dead­line for appli­ca­tions very soon! (Nov 30 2017). Check out all appli­ca­tions details here!

26. November 2017 by Jonas
Categories: Adaptive Control, Ageing, Job Offers, Speech, Uncategorized |

New paper in press: Hen­ry et al., Nature Com­mu­ni­ca­tions

Here comes a new paper in Nature Com­mu­ni­ca­tions by for­mer AC post­doc Mol­ly Hen­ry, with for­mer fel­low post­doc AC alum­nus Björn Her­rmann, our tire­less lab man­ag­er, Dun­ja Kunke, and myself! It is a late (to us quite impor­tant) result from our lab’s … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

08. May 2017 by Simon Grosnick
Categories: Adaptive Control, Ageing, Auditory Cortex, Auditory Neuroscience, EEG / MEG, Evoked Activity, Executive Functions, Neural Oscillations, Neural Phase, Papers, Perception, Publications |

New paper in press in Cere­bral Cor­tex: Wöst­mann et al. on ignor­ing degrad­ed speech

Audi­to­ry Cognition’s own Malte Wöst­mann is in press in Cere­bral Cor­tex with his lat­est offer­ing on how atten­tion­al con­trol man­i­fests in alpha pow­er changes: Ignor­ing speech can be ben­e­fi­cial (if com­pre­hend­ing speech poten­tial­ly detracts from anoth­er task), and we here show … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

07. March 2017 by Jonas
Categories: Adaptive Control, Attention, Auditory Cortex, Auditory Neuroscience, Auditory Perception, Auditory Speech Processing, Degraded Acoustics, EEG / MEG, Evoked Activity, Executive Functions, Neural Oscillations, Noise-Vocoded Speech, Papers, Perception, Psychology, Publications, Speech |

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