Category: Auditory Perception

• 26 September 2013

  3sat fea­tures neur­al oscil­la­tions on TV

  Ger­man pub­lic tele­vi­sion broad­cast­er 3sat fea­tured our research on neur­al oscil­la­tions (see our PNAS Paper) in its series nano . Unfor­tu­nate­ly it’s only in Ger­man. How­ev­er, have fun watch­ing it: [Update] If the embed­ded video is not work­ing for you, watch it on the 3sat web­site (Flash). Ref­er­ences Hen­ry MJ, Obleser J. Fre­quen­cy mod­u­la­tion entrains slow neur­al […]

• 24 September 2013

  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. […]

• 19 September 2013

  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 […]

• 28 August 2013

  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 […]

• 12 July 2013

  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 […]

• 27 June 2013

  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 […]

• 18 December 2012

  New paper out: Hen­ry & Her­rmann, Jour­nal of Neuroscience

  Proud to announce that our post­docs Mol­ly Hen­ry and Björn Her­rmann just came out with a review/op piece in the Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science “jour­nal club” sec­tion, where only grad stu­dents or post­docs are allowed to author short review pieces. A Pre­clud­ing Role of Low-Fre­quen­cy Oscil­la­tions for Audi­to­ry Per­cep­tion in a Con­tin­u­ous Pro­cess­ing Mode The Jour­nal of […]

• 11 November 2011

  Poster Pre­sen­ta­tions at SFN

  There will be two poster pre­sen­ta­tions at SFN in Wash­ing­ton, DC., on the top­ic of audi­to­ry pre­dic­tions in speech per­cep­tion. The first poster, authored by Alexan­dra Ben­dix­en, Math­ias Scharinger, and Jonas Obleser, sum­ma­rizes as follows: Speech sig­nals are often com­pro­mised by dis­rup­tions orig­i­nat­ing from exter­nal (e.g., mask­ing noise) or inter­nal (e.g., slug­gish artic­u­la­tion) sources. Speech […]

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