Category Archives for Perception
Jonas as a guest on the Language Neuroscience Podcast
Episode 4 of the Language Neuroscience Podcast. Ever wondered about the role of neural oscillations & neural entrainment in speech & language? Well I have… so I invited the great @jonasobleser to come talk about it. I really enjoyed this … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
New paper in press in elife: Waschke et al.
Obleserlab senior PhD student Leo Waschke, alongside co-authors Sarah Tune and Jonas Obleser, has a new paper in eLife. The processing of sensory information from our environment is not constant but rather varies with changes in ongoing brain activity, or … Continue reading
New paper in Neuroimage by Fiedler et al.: Tracking ignored speech matters
Listening requires selective neural processing of the incoming sound mixture, which in humans is borne out by a surprisingly clean representation of attended-only speech in auditory cortex. How this neural selectivity is achieved even at negative signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) remains unclear. We show … Continue reading
New paper in press in the European Journal of Neuroscience: Wöstmann et al demonstrate that the power of prestimulus alpha oscillations directly relates to confidence in pitch-discrimination
What is the mechanistic relevance of neural alpha oscillations (~10 Hz) for perception? To answer this question, we analysed EEG data from a task that required participants to compare the pitch of two tones that were, unbeknownst to participants, identical. Importantly, … Continue reading
New paper in press in JASA: Kreitewolf et al. on the role of voice-feature continuity for cocktail-party listening
Obleserlab postdoc Jens Kreitewolf is in press in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America! Together with our colleagues, Marc Schönwiesner (Montreal/Leipzig), Samuel Mathias (Yale), and Régis Trapeau (Montreal/Marseille), we investigated the roles of two of the most salient … Continue reading
New paper in The Journal of Neuroscience: Wilsch et al.., Temporal expectation modulates the cortical dynamics of short-term memory
Congratulations to Obleserlab alumna Anna Wilsch, who is – for now – leaving academia on a true high with her latest offering on how temporal expectations (“foreknowledge” about when something is to happen) shape the neural make-up of memory! Recorded … Continue reading
New paper in Ear and Hearing: Erb, Ludwig, Kunke, Fuchs & Obleser on speech comprehension with a cochlear implant
We are excited to share the results from our collaboration with the Cochlea Implant Center Leipzig: AC postdoc Julia Erb’s new paper on how 4‑Hz modulation sensitivity can inform us on 6‑month speech comprehension outcome in cochlear implants. Erb J, … Continue reading