Category: Auditory Perception
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New paper in press in elife: Waschke et al.
Obleserlab senior PhD student Leo Waschke, alongside co-authors Sarah Tune and Jonas Obleser, has a new paper in eLife. The processing of sensory information from our environment is not constant but rather varies with changes in ongoing brain activity, or brain states. Thus, also the acuity of perceptual decisions depends on the brain state during […]
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New paper in Ear and Hearing: Erb, Ludwig, Kunke, Fuchs & Obleser on speech comprehension with a cochlear implant
We are excited to share the results from our collaboration with the Cochlea Implant Center Leipzig: AC postdoc Julia Erb’s new paper on how 4‑Hz modulation sensitivity can inform us on 6‑month speech comprehension outcome in cochlear implants. Erb J, Ludwig AA, Kunke D, Fuchs M, & Obleser J (2018). Temporal sensitivity measured shortly after […]
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New paper in press in Brain Stimulation: Wöstmann, Vosskuhl, Obleser, and Herrmann demonstrate that externally amplified oscillations affect auditory spatial attention
In a fine collaboration we combine expertise on auditory cognition (Malte Wöstmann & Jonas Obleser, University of Lübeck) and brain stimulation (Johannes Vosskuhl and Christoph S Herrmann, University of Oldenburg) to show that externally stimulated alpha and gamma oscillations differentially affect spatial attention to speech. Our participants performed a dichotic listening task while being stimulated […]
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New paper out in the ‘European Journal of Neuroscience’: Tune, Wöstmann & Obleser
AC postdocs Sarah Tune and Malte Wöstmann have a new paper out online in the special issue on Neural Oscillations in the European Journal of Neuroscience! We are excited to share the results from our first study of the ERC-funded project on listening behavior and adaptive control in middle-aged adults. In this study, we asked […]
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New paper in press in Cerebral Cortex: Wöstmann et al. on ignoring degraded speech
Auditory Cognition’s own Malte Wöstmann is in press in Cerebral Cortex with his latest offering on how attentional control manifests in alpha power changes: Ignoring speech can be beneficial (if comprehending speech potentially detracts from another task), and we here show how this change in listening goals turns around the pattern of alpha-power changes with changing […]
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New paper out: Plöchl, Gaston, Mermagen, König & Hairston, Scientific Reports
An article by our new AC group member Michael Plöchl from his PhD project in Osnabrück has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. In their study, Plöchl, Gaston, Mermagen, König and Hairston demonstrate that “Oscillatory activity in auditory cortex reflects the perceptual level of audio-tactile integration”.
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New featurette in eLife: Tell me something I don’t know
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. [For those not so familiar with […]
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[UPDATE] New paper in PNAS: Spatiotemporal dynamics of auditory attention synchronize with speech, Woestmann et al.
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: https://www.uni-luebeck.de/forschung/aktuelles-zur-forschung/aktuelles-zur-forschung/artikel/aufmerksamkeit-in-wellen-erfolgreich-zuhoeren-im-rhythmus-der-sprache.html