Category: Speech
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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 inside the ear-canal and around the ear.
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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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Story time: Henry & Obleser (2012) revisited
Story time: Some time in early 2011, I sat down with an American, fresh PhD graduate who had just joined my new lab, in a Leipzig bar (Café Cantona; if you are interested you can find this great 24⁄7 bar with exquisite food also in the acknowledgments of, e.g., Obleser & Eisner, Trends Cogn Sci, 2009). […]
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New project with Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Leipzig): What is Angular Gyrus actually up to?
Santa struck early this year: The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has just granted AC head Jonas (University of Lübeck) and brain-stimulation wiz Gesa Hartwigsen (now a group leader at AC’s former institution, the MPI in Leipzig) a joint 3‑year grant, worth 371,000 € in total, on “Modulating neural network dynamics of speech comprehension: The role of the angular gyrus”. This project will […]
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New preprint paper: Fiedler et al. on predicting focus of attention from in-ear EEG
Very proud: PhD student Lorenz Fiedler goes live (pre-peer-review) with his work of predicting the focus of attention in single-channel/forward models in in-ear EEG! Here is the preprint of the paper, which now will undergo peer-review. Thanks for checking it out!
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New Review Paper out: Wöstmann, Fiedler & Obleser in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
A review article for those interested in how to use magneto-/electroencephalography (M/EEG) to study speech comprehension. We provide a historically informed overview over dependent measures in the time and frequency domain, highlight recent advances resulting from these measures and review the notorious challenges and solutions speech and language researchers are faced with when studying electrophysiological brain responses. Now available online: […]
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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 […]