Category: Executive Functions

• 24 September 2013

  Lis­ten­ing: The strat­e­gy mat­ters [Update]

  In press on Neuropsychologia Thal­a­m­ic and pari­etal brain mor­phol­o­gy pre­dicts audi­to­ry cat­e­go­ry learning Cat­e­go­riz­ing sounds is vital for adap­tive human behav­ior. Accord­ing­ly, chang­ing lis­ten­ing sit­u­a­tions (exter­nal noise, but also periph­er­al hear­ing loss in aging) require lis­ten­ers to flex­i­bly adjust their cat­e­go­riza­tion strate­gies, e.g., switch amongst avail­able acoustic cues. How­ev­er, lis­ten­ers dif­fer con­sid­er­ably in these adap­tive capa­bil­i­ties. […]

• 28 August 2013

  New paper has been pub­lished in Cere­bral Cor­tex by Hen­ry, Her­rmann, & Obleser

  When we lis­ten to sounds like speech and music, we have to make sense of dif­fer­ent acoustic fea­tures that vary simul­ta­ne­ous­ly along mul­ti­ple time scales. This means that we, as lis­ten­ers, have to selec­tive­ly attend to, but at the same time selec­tive­ly ignore, sep­a­rate but inter­twined fea­tures of a stimulus. A new­ly pub­lished fMRI study […]

• 27 June 2013

  New paper out: Erb, Hen­ry, Eis­ner & Obleser — Jour­nal of Neuroscience

  We are proud to announce that PhD stu­dent Julia Erb just came out with a paper issued in Jour­nal  of Neu­ro­science: The Brain Dynam­ics of Rapid Per­cep­tu­al Adap­ta­tion to Adverse Lis­ten­ing Conditions Grab it here: The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science, 26 June 2013, 33(26): 10688–10697; doi: 10.1523/​JNEUROSCI.4596–12.2013 Abstract / Full Text Full Text (PDF) Abstract: Lis­ten­ers show a remark­able […]

• 6 September 2012

  New paper out: Obleser et al., The Jour­nal of Neuroscience

  Adverse Lis­ten­ing Con­di­tions and Mem­o­ry Load Dri­ve a Com­mon Alpha Oscil­la­to­ry Network Whether we are engaged in small talk or try­ing to mem­o­rise a tele­phone num­ber — it is our short-term mem­o­ry that ensures we don’t lose track. But what if the very same mem­o­ry gets addi­tion­al­ly taxed because the words to be remem­bered are […]

• 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 April 2011

  New paper out: Alpha oscil­la­tions in audition

  I am also delight­ed to report the fruits of a very recent col­lab­o­ra­tion with Nathan Weisz and his OBOB lab at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Kon­stanz, Germany. Alpha Rhythms in Audi­tion: Cog­ni­tive and Clin­i­cal Perspectives In this review paper, which appears in the new, excit­ing “Fron­tiers in Psy­chol­o­gy” jour­nal, we sum the recent evi­dence that alpha […]

• 28 February 2009

  What is it with degrad­ed speech and work­ing memory?

  Upcom­ing mon­day, I will present in-house some of my recent rumi­nat­ing on the con­cept of “ver­bal” work­ing mem­o­ry and on-line speech com­pre­hen­sion. It is an ancient issue that received some atten­tion main­ly in the 1980s, in the light of Baddeley’s great (read: testable) work­ing mem­o­ry archi­tec­ture includ­ing the now famous phono­log­i­cal store or buffer. Now, […]

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