For those interested in auditory cortex and how a regime of predictions, prediction updates and surprise (a version of “prediction error”) might be implemented there, I contributed a brief featurette (“insight”, they call it) to eLife on a recent paper by Will Sedley, Tim Griffiths, and others. Check it out.
Category: Publications
Wöstmann, Herrmann, Maess and Obleser demonstrate that the hemispheric lateralization of neural alpha oscillations measured in the magnetoencephalogram (MEG) synchronizes with the speech signal and predicts listeners’ speech comprehension.
Now available online:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/03/18/1523357113
Press release:
In an invited review in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Sophie Herbst and Ayelet Landau (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) discuss the role of spontaneous and stimulus-evoked neural oscillations in temporal processing.
Now available online:
Can you attentively “highlight” auditory traces in memory? If so, what are potential neural mechanisms of it?
Sung-Joo Lim’s paper in J Neurosci;
Selective Attention to Auditory Memory Neurally Enhances Perceptual Precision
is now available online (full text).
Congrats!
Former Obleserlab postdoc Molly Henry with Björn Herrmann and Jonas Obleser has a new publication in press at Journal of Neuroscience.
Neural microstates govern perception of auditory input without rhythmic structure
by Henry, MJ, Hermann, B, Obleser, J (in press). J Neurosci.
In deviation from Molly’s former paradigms, we here aimed at better understanding the role of oscillatory (as well as non-oscillatory) slow neural activity in shaping auditory perception when the stimulus is devoid of any rhythmic structure.
For a change, the significance statement and a teaser figure are shown below.
Jonas has just recently been appointed as new Action Editor for the journal “Brain and Language” (Editor in Chief: Steven Small).
Brain and Language is a classic, key journal in the field pushing the agenda of understanding the neurobiological foundations of language. Thanks in advance for your best submissions!
AC alumna Anna Wilsch (now University of Oldenburg) has a new review paper in press in a special issue on auditory working memory, curated by Jochen Kaiser (Frankfurt) and Michael Brosch (Magdeburg) in “Brain Research”. We provide a review on neural oscillatory signatures of (various forms of) auditory short-term memory.
Wilsch, A., Obleser, J. (in press). What works in auditory working memory? A neural oscillations perspective. Brain Research
Watch out for that special issue, as it will have an excellent roster of colleagues contributing, and we are proud to be part of it.
The abstract is given below.
[Update]Check out the article online.
See you at SfN
Society for Neuroscience 2015 is coming up. Please come and check out our stuff! Also, Jonas will be chairing the symposium on cortical encoding of complex sound (with talks by former PhD student Julia Erb and former Postdoc Björn Herrmann) on tuesday morning.
Posters by the Obleser lab:
Tuesday morning Session:
FIEDLER et al., In-ear-EEG …, Board M46
WILSCH et al., Cortica patterns of alpha power …, Board Y1
Wednesday afternoon Session:
LIM et al., Evoked responses and alpha oscillations …, Board BB37
See you there.