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• 13 May 2020

  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 sin­gle PDF to the email address named in the add!) is June 7 2020, see Ger­man […]

• 9 January 2020

  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 our indus­try part­ner Widex Sivan­tos Audi­ol­o­gy, revolv­ing around hear­ing aids and elec­troen­cephalo­graph­ic sig­na­tures of attention. Tro­by […]

• 9 January 2020

  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 brain states. Thus, also the acu­ity of per­cep­tu­al deci­sions depends on the brain state dur­ing […]

• 7 January 2020

  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 Trust, and Howard Hugh­es Med­ical Institute. My tenure as review­ing edi­tor has start­ed Decem­ber 2019.

• 7 December 2019

  Mohsen Alavash and Sarah Tune win sci­ence award

  Con­grat­u­la­tions to AC post­docs Mohsen Alavash and Sarah Tune for receiv­ing the sci­ence award of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lübeck. Each year the uni­ver­si­ty hon­ors an out­stand­ing sci­en­tif­ic pub­li­ca­tion with this award. We are proud that Sarah and Mohsen were award­ed for their joint work on the neur­al net­work (re-)configurations sup­port­ing suc­cess­ful lis­ten­ing behav­ior. The study […]

• 9 November 2019

  New paper in press in the Jour­nal of Neuroscience

  Wöst­mann, Alavash and Obleser demon­strate that alpha oscil­la­tions in the human brain imple­ment dis­trac­tor sup­pres­sion inde­pen­dent of tar­get selection. In the­o­ry, the abil­i­ty to selec­tive­ly focus on rel­e­vant objects in our envi­ron­ment bases on selec­tion of tar­gets and sup­pres­sion of dis­trac­tion. As it is unclear whether tar­get selec­tion and dis­trac­tor sup­pres­sion are inde­pen­dent, we designed […]

• 9 September 2019

  New lab mem­ber Sebas­t­ian Puschmann

  We wel­come Dr. Sebas­t­ian Puschmann as a new post­doc in the Obleser/Auditory Cog­ni­tion lab! Sebas­t­ian has a back­ground in Physics. He received his train­ing in audi­to­ry cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Old­en­burg and the Mon­tre­al Neu­ro­log­i­cal Insti­tute. In Lübeck, Sebas­t­ian will push for­ward stud­ies on the neur­al mechan­ics and neur­al changes in hear­ing loss.      

• 21 August 2019

  New DFG project led by Mohsen Alavash on the Net­work Neu­ro­science of Spa­tial Attention

  Con­grat­u­la­tions to our cur­rent­ly ERC-fund­ed lab mem­ber and post­doc Mohsen Alavash who has just secured 3‑year fund­ing (~380,000 €) by the Deutsche Forschungs­ge­mein­schaft (DFG) for an ambi­tious project: Mohsen wants to get clos­er to a net­work/­graph-the­o­ret­i­cal descrip­tion of how spa­tial atten­tion in the lis­ten­ing brain is organ­ised. In a lat­er stage of the project, Mohsen […]

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