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”.…
Category: fMRI
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…
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…
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…
New paper by Erb et al. in Cerebral Cortex: Human but not monkey auditory cortex is tuned to slow temporal rates
In a new comparative fMRI study just published in Cerebral Cortex, AC postdoc Julia Erb and her collaborators in the Formisano (Maastricht University) and Vanduffel labs (KU Leuven) provide us with novel insights into speech evolution. These data by Erb et…
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)…
We’ll be hiring soon: Postdocs wanted
The research group “Auditory Cognition” (headed by Prof. Dr. Jonas Obleser; auditorycognition.com) in the recently established Department of Psychology, University of Lübeck, is seeking to hire several Postdoctoral Researchers starting by January 2016, initially for 3 years, with the option…
New paper in NeuroImage by Scharinger, Henry, & Obleser [UPDATED]
A new paper is about to appear in Neuroimage on Acoustic cue selection and discrimination under degradation: Differential contributions of the inferior parietal and posterior temporal cortices by Mathias Scharinger, Molly J. Henry, Jonas Obleser [UPDATE] Link added. References Scharinger M1,…