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Three new papers accepted this week
Testimony to the breadth of the science that our lab is involved in, three new peer-reviewed contributions got accepted in notable journals this week: Malte Wöstmann is in press in iScience with a very fresh look at how head rotations and eye movements fold in with a classic neural signature of spatially selective attention (lateralised alpha-oscillatory […]
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Jonas appointed as Associate Fellow of the Max Planck School of Cognition
Jonas Obleser has been appointed as Associate Fellow of the Max Planck School of Cognition and will serve as Associate Fellow from October 2026 onwards. The Max Planck Schools – A Joint Graduate Program of German Universities and Research Organizations are a national initiative designed to promote scientific excellence across Germany. The innovative program enhances […]
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New paper in eLife: Predicting what’s next does not necessarily come for free
Merle Schuckart has recently put out the center piece of her doctoral research. Out in open access journal eLife, Merle led a diverse team — the Obleser and the Tune groups of Lübeck, the Hartwigsen lab (Leipzig) , and Lea-Maria Schmitt from the Donders institute in Nijmegen — through a multi-study endeavour how reading, as […]
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We’ll be hiring
The Obleser lab will be hiring soon! New postdoc (fully funded) and new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded). — Please be in touch if you think cozy Lübeck near Hamburg and close to the baltic sea might be for you. Our university offers a very agile environment, with a new OPM-MEG lab under my lab’s […]
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Merle Schuckart wins Open Science Prize
Hooray! Merle Schuckart has won the Open Science Prize of the University of Lübeck 2025 for the project behind her latest preprint, “Lifespan Variation in Perceptual Style Along an Autism–Schizotypy Continuum Explains Individual Responses to External Uncertainty” The Open Science Prize recognizes open scientific practices: open code, open data, transparent hypotheses—ideally preregistered—and the early sharing […]
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Hooray: fresh funding for a fresh idea
Imagine the brain’s intricate work not unlike a traffic roundabout: signals continuously enter, yield, and merge — never static, but rarely chaotic. This balance between stability and flexibility (i.e., metastability) lies at the heart of a new interdisciplinary neuroscience initiative Jonas intends to pursue at the University of Lübeck. Today, we are delighted that this […]
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Find us at Neuroscience 2025
Next week, the Obleser lab will be present in San Diego at APAN 2025 (Friday) and at Neuroscience (SfN) 2025, with no less than four posters in the Tuesday PM session (1–5 pm local time): Investigating Hemodynamic Proxies of Neural Excitation-Inhibition Balance Across Human CortexR. CATENA, M. ALAVASH, B. HERRMANN, J. OBLESERPoster MM8 Low doses of […]
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Conference travel
As usual for academics worldwide, August and September are months busy with conference travel and inspiring interactions far beyond the confines of our own small campus here in Lübeck. This year, members of the Obleser lab have been present in Denmark, Portugal, the Netherlands, and we will hit Northern Italy next week for a great […]