Category: Auditory Neuroscience

• 17 July 2026

  Three new papers accept­ed this week

  Tes­ti­mo­ny to the breadth of the sci­ence that our lab is involved in, three new peer-reviewed con­tri­bu­tions got accept­ed in notable jour­nals this week: Malte Wöst­mann is in press in iScience with a very fresh look at how head rota­tions and eye move­ments fold in with a clas­sic neur­al sig­na­ture of spa­tial­ly selec­tive atten­tion (lat­er­alised alpha-oscil­la­to­ry […]

• 12 November 2025

  Your mother’s voice — out now in the Jour­nal of Neuroscience

  How do infants con­tin­u­ous­ly process famil­iar social sig­nals? And how does this famil­iar­i­ty shape perception? In a new paper out now in Novem­ber in the Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science, Jonas and Mar­tin Orf teamed up with The Lübeck Baby­lab and its Direc­tor Sarah Jessen. In a large group of 7‑months old infants and their fam­i­lies, Sarah […]

• 11 November 2025

  New paper with our Leipzig friends in the Jour­nal of Neuroscience

  The Gesa Hartwigsen lab’s own Vivien Bar­chet and their team in Leipzig with some help from Jonas have just pub­lished a com­pelling study in The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science titled “Atten­tion­al engage­ment with tar­get and dis­trac­tor streams pre­dicts speech com­pre­hen­sion in mul­ti-talk­er envi­ron­ments”.  In every­day lis­ten­ing scenes—think cock­tail par­ties, cafés, or busy open offices—the brain must […]

• 7 April 2025

  New paper in Trends in Hear­ing: Hear­ing aids add a demon­stra­ble amount of cog­ni­tive burden

  A true Hoer­hanse col­labo: Markus Kem­per and our col­leagues from the Deutsche Hörg­eräte Insti­tut (DHI) show, with Jonas’ help, and using data acquired in our lab, that hear­ing aids do take their how­ev­er slight toll on the cog­ni­tive system:  Despite the unques­tion­ably great help that hear­ing devices do pro­vide to those with impaired hear­ing, the […]

• 29 January 2025

  New paper in the Euro­pean Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science: Neur­al Effects of Dis­trac­tor Pre­dictabil­i­ty Depend on Load

  Out now in EJN: Tro­by Lui, Jonas Obleser, & Malte Wöst­mann show that the lis­ten­ing brain extracts sub­tle sta­tis­ti­cal reg­u­lar­i­ties from a sequence of irrel­e­vant speech items. Pre­dic­tion of dis­trac­tors is not ful­ly auto­mat­ic but depends on the avail­abil­i­ty of per­cep­tu­al and cog­ni­tive resources. We believe that these find­ings help under­stand poten­tial ben­e­fits of pre­dictable […]

• 13 December 2024

  Mar­tin Orf receives EUHA Award for Out­stand­ing Thesis

  Mar­tin Orf is one of three recip­i­ents of this year’s EUHA Award for Out­stand­ing The­sis from the Euro­pean Union of Hear­ing Acousti­cians. His the­sis, titled “Selec­tive Atten­tion in Mul­ti-Talk­er Sit­u­a­tions: Neur­al and Behav­ioral Mech­a­nisms”, offers valu­able insights into the neur­al and behav­iour­al process­es behind selec­tive atten­tion in com­plex lis­ten­ing envi­ron­ments. A key find­ing of his […]

• 7 December 2024

  New paper with the Weisz lab in eLife: Aber­rant per­cep­tu­al pre­dic­tions in Tinnitus

  Now out in eLife, Lisa Reisinger and Nathan Weisz (Salzburg) with a diverse team includ­ing myself (J.O.) show, using state of the art decod­ing mod­els and a rig­or­ous  approach of inter­nal, pre-reg­is­tered repli­ca­tion, that peo­ple liv­ing with tin­ni­tus (a chron­ic and often very dis­tress­ing audi­to­ry “phan­tom per­cept”) show altered pat­terns of pre­dic­tive audi­to­ry pro­cess­ing. Check […]

• 19 March 2024

  Jonas elect­ed and appoint­ed as DFG review panelist

  Jonas Obleser has been elect­ed by the Ger­man sci­en­tif­ic com­mu­ni­ty as one of the new mem­bers of the so-called “Fachkol­legium” (a select, stand­ing group of review pan­elists) of the Ger­man Research Foun­da­tion (DFG) in the field of sys­temic and cog­ni­tive neuroscience. This is an hon­ourable, non-prof­it addi­tion­al task that pri­mar­i­ly involves sug­gest­ing fund­ings deci­sions for […]

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