Category: Publications
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New paper by Molly Henry: Amusia diagnosis should better rely on signal detection theory
Signal detection theory – what helps preventing misdiagnoses and false positives in general can’t be bad for diagnosing Amusia either, one would think. Our very own Molly Henry and her former supervisor Devin McAuley now demonstrate in a just-accepted paper Failure to apply signal detection theory to the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia may misdiagnose amusia […]
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New paper out: Obleser et al., The Journal of Neuroscience
Adverse Listening Conditions and Memory Load Drive a Common Alpha Oscillatory Network Whether we are engaged in small talk or trying to memorise a telephone number — it is our short-term memory that ensures we don’t lose track. But what if the very same memory gets additionally taxed because the words to be remembered are […]
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New paper out: “Don’t be enslaved by the envelope” – Comment on Giraud & Poeppel (2012)
Today appears a comment / opinion article, with a tad bit of fresh evidence from our lab, that is mainly a reply to Anne-Lise Giraud and David Poeppel’s recent “perspective” article on Neural oscillations in speech. We loved that article, obviously, but after the initial excitement, a few concerns stuck with us. In essence, the […]
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New paper in press — Scharinger et al., PLOS ONE [Update]
We are happy that our paper A Sparse Neural Code for Some Speech Sounds but Not for Others is scheduled for publication in PLOS ONE on July 16th, 2012. This is also our first paper in collaboration with Alexandra Bendixen from the University of Leipzig. The research reported in this article provides an extension of the predictive […]
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New paper in press: Erb et al., Neuropsychologia [Update]
I am very proud to announce our first paper that was entirely planned, conducted, analysed and written up since our group has been in existence. Julia joined me as the first PhD student in December 2010, and has since been busy doing awesome work. Check out her first paper! Auditory skills and brain morphology predict individual […]
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New Public Science Weblog by our Max Planck Institute
I am personally not entirely convinced whether Weblogs will survive as a tool for communication. Notwithstanding, I am supporting the idea of our Institute together with German public science magazine “Spektrum der Wissenschaft” to start a new blog, entitled “Neurocognition”. It’s hosted at scilogs.eu and scilogs.de. I have the honour to serve as one of […]
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New paper out: McGettigan et al., Neuropsychologia
Last years’s lab guest and long-time collaborator Carolyn McGettigan has put out another one: Speech comprehension aided by multiple modalities: Behavioural and neural interactions I had the pleasure to be involved initially, when Carolyn conceived a lot of this, and when things came together in the end. Carolyn nicely demonstrates how varying audio and visual clarity […]
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3‑D animation of brain activations illustrates the idea of “upstream delegation”
Recently, with a data set dating back to my time in Angela Friederici’s department, we proposed the idea that auditory signal degradation would affect the exact configuration of activity along the main processing streams of language, in the superior temporal and inferior frontal cortex. We tentatively coined this process “upstream delegation”: The activations that were […]