Wöstmann, Alavash and Obleser demonstrate that alpha oscillations in the human brain implement distractor suppression independent of target selection. In theory, the ability to selectively focus on relevant objects in our environment bases on selection of targets and suppression of…
Category: Publications
Jonas presented for the KIND Hörstiftung in Berlin (Video)
Im Februar hatte ich die Ehre, für die Kind Hörstiftung auf deren 2019er Symposium in Berlin unsere Arbeiten zur Vorhersage des Hörerfolgs exemplarisch anhand einiger unserer Studien allgemeinverständlich zu beleuchten. Ein 25-minütiges Video dieses Vortrags ist jetzt online. (In February,…
New paper in press in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Wöstmann, Schmitt and Obleser demonstrate that closing the eyes enhances the attentional modulation of neural alpha power but does not affect behavioural performance in two listening tasks Does closing the eyes enhance our ability to listen attentively? In fact, many…
Jonas appointed reviewing editor for The Journal of Neuroscience
Happy and enormously honoured to start my tenure as a @JNeuroscience reviewing editor! https://t.co/yMNOht4Py9 — Jonas Obleser (@jonasobleser) January 3, 2019 After three very interesting and instructive years as a handling editor for Neuroimage, I have just accepted an invitation…
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 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…
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,…