Our dear colleague and collaborator Peter Lakatos passed away suddenly two months ago. With Peter’s so untimely death at the age of 49, Neuroscience has suffered an unimaginable loss. It has been an honour and privilege to contribute Peter Lakatos’ obituary…
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New paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open: Erb et al., Aberrant perceptual judgements on speech-relevant acoustic features in hallucination-prone individuals
Hallucinations – percepts in the absence of an external stimulus – constitute an intriguing model of how percepts are generated and how perception can fail. They can occur in psychotic disorders, but also in the general population. Healthy adults varying…
We’re hiring (again): DFG-funded 3‑year PhD position, apply by July 12 2020
New PhD opportunity: @bjoherrmann (Rotman Research) and @ObleserLab at @UniLuebeck, Germany, have a @dfg_public-funded 3‑year PhD position! (neural dynamics, temporal expectation, ageing). Apply now until July 12! Please RT widely/alert your MSc/RAs. https://t.co/gphGf8Xx4c pic.twitter.com/GneEmTGvaP — Jonas Obleser (@jonasobleser) June 26,…
New paper in press in Neuropsychologia
Wöstmann, Lui, Friese, Kreitewolf, Naujokat and Obleser demonstrate that the vulnerability of working memory to auditory distraction is rhythmic. Previous research has shown that the attentional sampling of target stimuli is rhythmic at ~3–8 Hz (e.g. Fiebelkorn et al. 2013; Landau &…
We are hiring! 4‑y postdoctoral position
There is now an opening for an up-to-4-year (!) postdoc position in my lab for late summer/fall. Join us in Lübeck, Germany, and do cool behavioural and neuroscience on neural dynamics, ageing, sensory decline with us! The application deadline (as…
New members in the Obleser lab
In the Obleser lab, we welcome new members and PhD students Martin Orf and Troby Lui. Martin did his MSc in Audiology Technology here at the University of Lübeck. He is now joining us for PhD project funded generously by…
New paper in press in elife: Waschke et al.
Obleserlab senior PhD student Leo Waschke, alongside co-authors Sarah Tune and Jonas Obleser, has a new paper in eLife. The processing of sensory information from our environment is not constant but rather varies with changes in ongoing brain activity, or…
Jonas appointed as Reviewing editor to eLife
I am honoured to have been asked to join the editorial board of eLife, a journal I very much honour for their fresh approach to excellent scientific publishing. eLife is a publishing initiative by the Max Planck Society, the Wellcome…