Category: Auditory Neuroscience
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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 […]
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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 […]
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New paper out: Herrmann, Henry, and Obleser in Journal of Neurophysiology
In this study (available online) Frequency-specific adaptation in human auditory cortex depends on the spectral variance in the acoustic stimulation we show that adaptation of neural responses in human auditory cortex to acoustic stimulation is not fixed. Instead, the degree of co-adaptation in these tonotopically organized brain regions varies (widens/tightens) with the spectral properties of […]
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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 […]
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DRadio broadcasted three features on neural oscillations (Henry & Obleser)
German radio broadcaster Deutschlandradio produced three recent reports on neural oscillations and our recent PNAS paper. You can listen to/read (in German language) them here: 26.11.2012 — Die Macht der Gleichmäßigkeit 02.12.2012 — Hören in Wellen 03.12.2012 — Rhythmisches Gehirn Next time we’ll post before the broadcasting takes place… References Henry MJ, Obleser J. Frequency modulation entrains slow […]
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New Paper in PNAS: Henry & Obleser [Updated]
Our new paper on neural entrainment with spectral fluctuations, and its effects on near-threshold auditory perception is now online in the “early edition” of PNAS: Henry, MJ & Obleser, J (in press): Frequency modulation entrains slow neural oscillations and optimizes human listening behavior Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America […]
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New paper out: McGettigan et al., Neuropsychologia
Last years’s lab guest and long-time collaborator Carolyn McGettigan has put out another one: Speech comprehension aided by multiple modalities: Behavioural and neural interactions I had the pleasure to be involved initially, when Carolyn conceived a lot of this, and when things came together in the end. Carolyn nicely demonstrates how varying audio and visual clarity […]
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3‑D animation of brain activations illustrates the idea of “upstream delegation”
Recently, with a data set dating back to my time in Angela Friederici’s department, we proposed the idea that auditory signal degradation would affect the exact configuration of activity along the main processing streams of language, in the superior temporal and inferior frontal cortex. We tentatively coined this process “upstream delegation”: The activations that were […]