Category: Papers
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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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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. […]