Category: Publications

• 2 January 2014

  New paper in press: Her­rmann, Schlicht­ing, & Obleser, Jour­nal of Neuroscience

  Björn Her­rmann has yet anoth­er paper in press in the Jour­nal of Neuroscience! Dynam­ic Range Adap­ta­tion to Spec­tral Stim­u­lus Sta­tis­tics in Human Audi­to­ry Cortex The paper is now avail­able online free of charge, and—funnily enough—appeared right on Jan­u­ary 1, 2014. Ref­er­ences Her­rmann B, Schlicht­ing N, Obleser J. Dynam­ic range adap­ta­tion to spec­tral stim­u­lus sta­tis­tics in human […]

• 15 December 2013

  SNAP sum­ma­ry and impressions

  The SNAP work­shop (Sig­nal and Noise along the Audi­to­ry Path­way) is behind us. It is safe to say that it has been a great suc­cess. We will care­ful­ly look into the eval­u­a­tion forms you pro­vid­ed, and we will inform here in due course whether and when a 2nd SNAP (poten­tial­ly 2015) is in the making. […]

• 5 December 2013

  New paper in press: Erb & Obleser, Fron­tiers in Sys­tems Neuroscience

  Julia Erb just got accept­ed the third study of her PhD project, Upreg­u­la­tion of cog­ni­tive con­trol net­works in old­er adults’ speech comprehension It will appear in Fron­tiers in Sys­tems Neu­ro­science soon. The data are an exten­sion (in old­er adults) of Julia’s Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science paper ear­li­er this year. Ref­er­ences Erb J, Obleser J. Upreg­u­la­tion of cog­ni­tive […]

• 4 October 2013

  New paper in press: Hen­ry & Obleser, PLOS ONE [Update]

  Watch this space and the PLOS ONE web­site for a forth­com­ing arti­cle by Mol­ly Hen­ry and me; Dis­so­cia­ble neur­al response sig­na­tures for slow ampli­tude and fre­quen­cy mod­u­la­tion in human audi­to­ry cortex Hark­ing back at what we had argued ini­tial­ly in our 2012 Fron­tiers op’ed piece (togeth­er with Björn Her­rmann), Mol­ly presents neat evi­dence for dis­so­cia­ble cor­ti­cal […]

• 26 September 2013

  3sat fea­tures neur­al oscil­la­tions on TV

  Ger­man pub­lic tele­vi­sion broad­cast­er 3sat fea­tured our research on neur­al oscil­la­tions (see our PNAS Paper) in its series nano . Unfor­tu­nate­ly it’s only in Ger­man. How­ev­er, have fun watch­ing it: [Update] If the embed­ded video is not work­ing for you, watch it on the 3sat web­site (Flash). Ref­er­ences Hen­ry MJ, Obleser J. Fre­quen­cy mod­u­la­tion entrains slow neur­al […]

• 24 September 2013

  Lis­ten­ing: The strat­e­gy mat­ters [Update]

  In press on Neuropsychologia Thal­a­m­ic and pari­etal brain mor­phol­o­gy pre­dicts audi­to­ry cat­e­go­ry learning Cat­e­go­riz­ing sounds is vital for adap­tive human behav­ior. Accord­ing­ly, chang­ing lis­ten­ing sit­u­a­tions (exter­nal noise, but also periph­er­al hear­ing loss in aging) require lis­ten­ers to flex­i­bly adjust their cat­e­go­riza­tion strate­gies, e.g., switch amongst avail­able acoustic cues. How­ev­er, lis­ten­ers dif­fer con­sid­er­ably in these adap­tive capa­bil­i­ties. […]

• 19 September 2013

  New paper in press: Her­rmann, Hen­ry, Grigutsch & Obleser, The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science [Update]

  Oscil­la­to­ry Phase Dynam­ics in Neur­al Entrain­ment Under­pin Illu­so­ry Per­cepts of Time Nat­ur­al sounds like speech and music inher­ent­ly vary in tem­po over time. Yet, con­tex­tu­al fac­tors such as vari­a­tions in the sound’s loud­ness or pitch influ­ence per­cep­tion of tem­po­ral rate change towards slow­ing down or speed­ing up. A new MEG study by Björn Her­rmann, Mol­ly Hen­ry, Maren […]

• 28 August 2013

  New paper has been pub­lished in Cere­bral Cor­tex by Hen­ry, Her­rmann, & Obleser

  When we lis­ten to sounds like speech and music, we have to make sense of dif­fer­ent acoustic fea­tures that vary simul­ta­ne­ous­ly along mul­ti­ple time scales. This means that we, as lis­ten­ers, have to selec­tive­ly attend to, but at the same time selec­tive­ly ignore, sep­a­rate but inter­twined fea­tures of a stimulus. A new­ly pub­lished fMRI study […]

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