Category Archives for Auditory Speech Processing
Jonas presented for the KIND Hörstiftung in Berlin (Video)
Im Februar hatte ich die Ehre, für die Kind Hörstiftung auf deren 2019er Symposium in Berlin unsere Arbeiten zur Vorhersage des Hörerfolgs exemplarisch anhand einiger unserer Studien allgemeinverständlich zu beleuchten. Ein 25-minütiges Video dieses Vortrags ist jetzt online. (In February, … Continue reading
AC postdoc Malte Wöstmann scores DFG grant to study the temporal dynamics of the auditory attentional filter
In this three-year project, we will use the auditory modality as a test case to investigate how the suppression of distracting information (i.e., “filtering”) is neurally implemented. While it is known that the attentional sampling of targets (a) is rhythmic, (b) … Continue reading
New paper in press in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Wöstmann, Schmitt and Obleser demonstrate that closing the eyes enhances the attentional modulation of neural alpha power but does not affect behavioural performance in two listening tasks Does closing the eyes enhance our ability to listen attentively? In fact, many … Continue reading
New paper in PNAS by Alavash, Tune, Obleser
How brain areas communicate shapes human communication: The hearing regions in your brain form new alliances as you try to listen at the cocktail party Obleserlab Postdocs Mohsen Alavash and Sarah Tune rock out an intricate graph-theoretical account of modular … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
SNAP 2017 was a vast success
SNAP 2017 took place on December 8 and 9 in Lübeck, Germany. Nine internationally esteemed speakers and in total more than sixty researchers from all over Europe, Canada and the US made the second Signal and Noise Along the Auditory … Continue reading
New paper in press in Journal of Neural Engineering: Fiedler et al. on in-ear-EEG and the focus of auditory attention
Towards a brain-controlled hearing aid: PhD student Lorenz Fiedler shows how attended and ignored auditory streams are differently represented in the neural responses and how the focus of auditory attention can be extracted from EEG signals recorded at electrodes placed … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading