Category: Papers
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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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New paper in press: Herrmann et al., Hearing Research [Update]
Auditory filter width affects response magnitude but not frequency specificity in auditory cortex This is fantastic news on a friday morning: Obleser lab Postdoc Björn Herrmann teamed up with his fellow Postdocs Mathias Scharinger and Molly Henry to study how spectral analysis in the auditory periphery (termed frequency selectivity) relates to processing in auditory cortex […]
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New paper out: Erb, Henry, Eisner & Obleser — Journal of Neuroscience
We are proud to announce that PhD student Julia Erb just came out with a paper issued in Journal of Neuroscience: The Brain Dynamics of Rapid Perceptual Adaptation to Adverse Listening Conditions Grab it here: The Journal of Neuroscience, 26 June 2013, 33(26): 10688–10697; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4596–12.2013 Abstract / Full Text Full Text (PDF) Abstract: Listeners show a remarkable […]
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New paper out: Herrmann, Henry, and Obleser in Journal of Neurophysiology
In this study (available online) Frequency-specific adaptation in human auditory cortex depends on the spectral variance in the acoustic stimulation we show that adaptation of neural responses in human auditory cortex to acoustic stimulation is not fixed. Instead, the degree of co-adaptation in these tonotopically organized brain regions varies (widens/tightens) with the spectral properties of […]
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New Paper in press — Scharinger, Henry, Obleser, in Memory & Cognition
For normal-hearing humans, categorizing complex acoustic stimuli is a seemingly effortless process, even if one has never heard the particular sounds before. Nevertheless, prior experience with specific correlations between acoustic stimulus properties affects the categorization in a beneficial way, as we show in our paper: Prior experience with negative spectral correlations promotes information integration during auditory […]