Category: Publications
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Paper in press: Are labials special?
This went online just a day before Christmas: Neuromagnetic evidence for a featural distinction of English consonants: Sensor- and source-space data by Mathias Scharinger, Jennifer Merickel, Joshua Riley, and William Idsardi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2010.11.002 We wanted to look at featural (categorical) place of articulation distinctions in English consonants, and selected labial and coronal fricatives and glides for […]
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New paper out: Are early N100 and the late Gamma-band response negatively correlated in comprehension of degraded speech?
Late 2010 was particularly good to us: Multiple brain signatures of integration in the comprehension of degraded speech by Jonas Obleser and Sonja Kotz, in NeuroImage. The final pdf will hopefully be available online very soon. Meanwhile the figure below captures our main results: References Obleser J, Kotz SA. Multiple brain signatures of integration in the […]
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New paper out: Patterns of vowel and consonant sensitivity
Dear followers of the slowly emerging Obleser lab, I am glad to present to you a new paper that was published last week: “Segregation of vowels and consonants in human auditory cortex: Evidence for distributed hierarchical organization” by Jonas Obleser, Amber Leaver, John VanMeter, and Josef P. Rauschecker, in Frontiers in Psychology. It was submitted to […]
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Visit us at CNS
UPDATE — The Volcano ash that Island is kindly supplying might prevent us from getting to Montréal. Let’s see whether we make it until the poster session starts on Sunday. But I am slightly pessimistic on that. I am currently quite busy with finishing off loads of old data and preparing new adventures in auditory […]
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New articles
May I humbly point you to three new articles I had the honour to be involved in recently. Firstly, Chris Petkov, Nikos Logothetis and I have put together a very broad overview over what we think is the current take on processing streams of voice, speech and, more generally, vocalisation input in primates. It appears […]
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Obleser & Eisner in Trends Cogn Sci (in press) available
My year in science 2008 finds a satisfying ending by seeing the fruits of my colleague Dr. Frank Eisner’s (currently ICN / UCL) and my own yearlong efforts online. Our opinion piece on how the problem of pre-lexical abstraction of speech in structures of the auditory cortex should be best approached is finally available as […]
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Talk at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington, DC on Wednesday
If you happen to be at SfN this week, you might want to check out my short presentation on a recent study [1] we did: What do spectral (frequency-domain) and temporal (time-domain) features really contribute to speech comprehension processes in the temporal lobes? It is in the Auditory Cortex Session (710), taking place in Room 145B. […]