Category: Speech
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New paper out: Are early N100 and the late Gamma-band response negatively correlated in comprehension of degraded speech?
Late 2010 was particularly good to us: Multiple brain signatures of integration in the comprehension of degraded speech by Jonas Obleser and Sonja Kotz, in NeuroImage. The final pdf will hopefully be available online very soon. Meanwhile the figure below captures our main results: References Obleser J, Kotz SA. Multiple brain signatures of integration in the […]
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New paper out: Patterns of vowel and consonant sensitivity
Dear followers of the slowly emerging Obleser lab, I am glad to present to you a new paper that was published last week: “Segregation of vowels and consonants in human auditory cortex: Evidence for distributed hierarchical organization” by Jonas Obleser, Amber Leaver, John VanMeter, and Josef P. Rauschecker, in Frontiers in Psychology. It was submitted to […]
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Visit us at CNS
UPDATE — The Volcano ash that Island is kindly supplying might prevent us from getting to Montréal. Let’s see whether we make it until the poster session starts on Sunday. But I am slightly pessimistic on that. I am currently quite busy with finishing off loads of old data and preparing new adventures in auditory […]
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New articles
May I humbly point you to three new articles I had the honour to be involved in recently. Firstly, Chris Petkov, Nikos Logothetis and I have put together a very broad overview over what we think is the current take on processing streams of voice, speech and, more generally, vocalisation input in primates. It appears […]
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What is it with degraded speech and working memory?
Upcoming monday, I will present in-house some of my recent ruminating on the concept of “verbal” working memory and on-line speech comprehension. It is an ancient issue that received some attention mainly in the 1980s, in the light of Baddeley’s great (read: testable) working memory architecture including the now famous phonological store or buffer. Now, […]
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Why will a person with a right-hemispheric stroke not become aphasic…
… if spectral (fine-frequency) details of the speech signal are “predominantly tracked in the right auditory cortex”, Prof. Sophie Scott just rightly asked after my talk fifteen minutes ago at SfN. I am not sure what Robert Zatorre and David Poeppel would answer, but I think that this is not an easy question and it can […]
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Talk at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington, DC on Wednesday
If you happen to be at SfN this week, you might want to check out my short presentation on a recent study [1] we did: What do spectral (frequency-domain) and temporal (time-domain) features really contribute to speech comprehension processes in the temporal lobes? It is in the Auditory Cortex Session (710), taking place in Room 145B. […]