Category: fMRI

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 October 2021

  New paper in Sci­ence Advances by Schmitt et al.

  Very excit­ed to announce that for­mer Obleser lab PhD stu­dent Lea-Maria Schmitt with her co-authors *) is now out in the Jour­nal Sci­ence Advances with her new work, fus­ing artif­i­cal neur­al net­works and func­tion­al MRI data, on timescales of pre­dic­tion in nat­ur­al lan­guage comprehension: “Pre­dict­ing speech from a cor­ti­cal hier­ar­chy of event-based time scales” *) […]

• 24 February 2021

  New Per­spec­tive paper in Neu­ron by Waschke et al.

  We are excit­ed to share that for­mer Oble­ser­lab PhD stu­dent Leo Waschke, togeth­er with his new (Doug Gar­rett, Niels Kloost­er­man) and old (Jonas Obleser) lab has pub­lished an in-depth per­spec­tive piece in Neu­ron, with the provoca­tive title “Behav­ior need neur­al vari­abil­i­ty”. Our arti­cle is essen­tial­ly a long and exten­sive trib­ute to the “sec­ond moment” of neur­al […]

• 3 July 2020

  New paper in eLife: Erb et al., Tem­po­ral selec­tiv­i­ty declines in the aging human audi­to­ry cortex

  Con­grat­u­la­tions to Oble­ser­lab post­doc Julia Erb for her new paper to appear in eLife, “Tem­po­ral selec­tiv­i­ty declines in the aging human audi­to­ry cor­tex”. It’s a trope that old­er lis­ten­ers strug­gle more in com­pre­hend­ing speech (think of Pro­fes­sor Tour­nesol in the famous Tintin comics!). The neu­ro­bi­ol­o­gy of why and how age­ing and speech com­pre­hen­sion dif­fi­cul­ties are […]

• 21 August 2019

  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 atten­tion in the lis­ten­ing brain is organ­ised. In a lat­er stage of the project, Mohsen […]

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