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Why, hello: new generation of auditory cognition, new lab, new projector
Finally, this is a brief “Hello” from Lübeck, where the new instantiation of the Obleser lab has set up shop: I took this photo at the beginning of our journal club session last friday; the wide angle being necessary to showcase our latest addition, the new projector. From left to right: Michael Plöchl, Malte Wöstmann, Lorenz Fiedler, […]
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New paper out: Tune & Asaridou, Journal of Neuroscience
Our newest member of the lab, post-doc Sarah Tune, just published a review article in the Journal of Neuroscience. The article appeared in the “Journal Club” section, where graduate students or post-docs are given the chance to write short review pieces. Now available online: Stimulating the Semantic Network: What Can TMS Tell Us about the […]
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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 […]
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[UPDATE] New paper in PNAS: Spatiotemporal dynamics of auditory attention synchronize with speech, Woestmann et al.
Wöstmann, Herrmann, Maess and Obleser demonstrate that the hemispheric lateralization of neural alpha oscillations measured in the magnetoencephalogram (MEG) synchronizes with the speech signal and predicts listeners’ speech comprehension. Now available online: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/03/18/1523357113 Press release: https://www.uni-luebeck.de/forschung/aktuelles-zur-forschung/aktuelles-zur-forschung/artikel/aufmerksamkeit-in-wellen-erfolgreich-zuhoeren-im-rhythmus-der-sprache.html
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New appointments as Handling Editor in “Neuroimage” and Associate Editor in “Journal of Neuroscience”
It’s a great honour to have been appointed over the last days to the editorial board of two highly esteemed scientific journals, “Neuroimage” as well as the super-classic “Journal of Neuroscience”. I hope I will be able to live up to the expectations. — J.O.
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Jonas Obleser appointed as Action Editor in “Brain and Language”
Jonas has just recently been appointed as new Action Editor for the journal “Brain and Language” (Editor in Chief: Steven Small). Brain and Language is a classic, key journal in the field pushing the agenda of understanding the neurobiological foundations of language. Thanks in advance for your best submissions!