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New project with Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Leipzig): What is Angu­lar Gyrus actu­al­ly up to?

San­ta struck ear­ly this year: The Deutsche Forschungs­ge­mein­schaft (DFG) has just grant­ed AC head Jonas (Uni­ver­si­ty of Lübeck) and brain-stim­u­la­tion wiz Gesa Hartwigsen (now a group leader at AC’s for­mer insti­tu­tion, the MPI in Leipzig) a joint 3‑year grant, worth 371,000 € in total, on “Mod­u­lat­ing neur­al net­work dynam­ics of speech com­pre­hen­sion: The role of the angu­lar gyrus”. This project will build on Gesa and Jonas’ recent paper in Cor­tex on the top­ic. Thanks again to the fund­ing body and the help­ful reviewers!

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ERC Con­sol­ida­tor Grant award­ed to Jonas Obleser

It is with great plea­sure that we can report on a new major grant for the Audi­to­ry Cog­ni­tion group / Obleser lab: In the 2014 call by the Euro­pean Research Coun­cil (ERC), Jonas Obleser has very recent­ly been award­ed an ERC Con­sol­ida­tor grant (for researchers 7–12 years post their PhD), worth 1.97 mil­lion €. The grant has been award­ed to fund a project enti­tled “The lis­ten­ing chal­lenge: How age­ing brains adapt”. The project will last for five years.

Read the offi­cial ERC press release here.

 

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New grant by the Oti­con Foundation

Our lab has been award­ed a 100,000 € (750,000 DKK) research grant by the Dan­ish Oti­con foun­da­tion.

Togeth­er with Thomas Lun­ner from the Erik­sholm Research Cen­tre, we will explore real-time neur­al (EEG) mea­sures and forms of neur­al hear­ing-aid control.

This work is con­ceived to sup­port and fur­ther devel­op our efforts fund­ed ear­li­er in 2014 by the Volk­swa­gen Foun­da­tion (from the “Exper­i­ment!” call for high-risk projects, 100,000 €).