Category: Executive Functions

• 3 November 2023

  We are hir­ing: two new PhD train­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties start­ing ear­ly next year!

  Our two senior researchers, Sarah Tune and Malte Wöst­mann, are hap­py to each announce the open­ing of a three-year PhD posi­tion in the Obleser lab. The posi­tions are part of two recent­ly fund­ed DFG grants, and will fea­ture real­ly excit­ing com­bi­na­tions of behav­iour mod­el­ling and neur­al dynamics! Sarah’s project will look into how per­cep­tu­al infer­ence […]

• 31 July 2023

  A grant dou­ble to celebrate

  We are hon­oured and delight­ed that the Deutsche Forschungs­ge­mein­schaft has deemed two of our recent appli­ca­tions wor­thy of fund­ing: The two senior researchers in the  lab, Sarah Tune and Malte Wöst­mann, have both been award­ed three-year grant fund­ing for their new projects. Congratulations! In her 3‑year, 360‑K€ project “How per­cep­tu­al infer­ence changes with age: Behav­iour­al […]

• 30 May 2022

  New Paper in Sci­en­tif­ic Reports by Lui&Wöstmann

  A tick­ing clock in the liv­ing room; an ambi­ent music in the café; the foot­steps of a passers­by on the street – We are sur­round­ed by a pletho­ra of dis­tract­ing events with reg­u­lar tem­po­ral struc­tures in dai­ly life. Can we ignore these dis­trac­tors better? Tro­by Ka-Yan Lui and Malte Wöst­mann recent­ly pub­lished a study on […]

• 19 May 2022

  New paper in Neu­roIm­age, Lim et al.

  Atten­tion lets us focus our lim­it­ed cog­ni­tive resources on behav­ioral­ly impor­tant infor­ma­tion. Less obvi­ous is that atten­tion also helps us to hold infor­ma­tion in mem­o­ry with high pre­ci­sion. But how does the brain imple­ment this direct­ed atten­tion to mem­o­ry, and what behav­iour­al ben­e­fits does it yield for us humans? For­mer post­doc Sung-Joo Lim (now at […]

• 10 November 2021

  New paper in eLife, Waschke et al.

  For­mer Oble­ser­lab PhD stu­dent Leo Waschke is now out in eLife with an inge­nious demon­stra­tion how both endoge­nous and exoge­nous­ly-dri­ven changes in the steep­ness of the brain-elec­tric 1/f pow­er spec­trum (in part linked direct­ly to local excitation:inhibiton, E:I, ratio) in neur­al pop­u­la­tions can affect behav­iour in com­plex, mul­ti-sen­so­ry envi­ron­ments: “Modal­i­ty-spe­cif­ic track­ing of atten­tion and sen­so­ry sta­tis­tics […]

• 9 November 2021

  We are hir­ing: new PhD train­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty start­ing spring 2022

  Here’s a brand new PhD train­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty, @dfg_public-fund­ed, joint project of @ObleserLab at @UniLuebeck Ger­many, super­vised by me, with star col­lab­o­ra­tor @GesaHartwigsen (@MPI_CBS) — start­ing next spring. Please be in touch. Please dis­trib­ute wide­ly. https://t.co/oTUEVVgQSG pic.twitter.com/L4DtFaqRJl — Jonas Obleser (@jonasobleser) Octo­ber 19, 2021

• 16 September 2021

  New Paper accept­ed in Plos Biol­o­gy, Alavash et al.

    Our lab is proud and hap­py that anoth­er major step­ping stone from our ERC con­sol­ida­tor project (“AUDADAPT”) is now accept­ed for pub­li­ca­tion in PLoS Biol­o­gy! Con­grat­u­la­tions to our first author Dr Mohsen Alavash, now a senior researcher in the Obleser lab in his own right. Whoop. “ Dear Dr Alavash,I am pleased to inform you […]

• 17 August 2021

  New Paper in Trends in Hear­ing by Kraus et al.

  Frauke Kraus, Sarah Tune, Anna Ruhe, Jonas Obleser & Malte Wöst­mann demon­strate that uni­lat­er­al acoustic degra­da­tion delays atten­tion­al sep­a­ra­tion of com­pet­ing speech. Uni­lat­er­al cochlear implant (CI) users have to inte­grate acousti­cal­ly intact speech on one ear and acousti­cal­ly degrad­ed speech on the oth­er ear. How inter­act uni­lat­er­al acoustic degra­da­tion and spa­tial atten­tion in a mul­titalk­er […]

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