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  • Your mother’s voice — out now in the Jour­nal of Neuroscience

    How do infants con­tin­u­ous­ly process famil­iar social sig­nals? And how does this famil­iar­i­ty shape per­cep­tion? In a new paper out now in Novem­ber in the Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science, Jonas and Mar­tin Orf teamed up with The Lübeck Baby­lab and its Direc­tor Sarah Jessen. In a large group of 7‑months old infants and their fam­i­lies, Sarah… [READ MORE]

  • 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… [READ MORE]

  • New paper with our Leipzig friends in the Jour­nal of Neuroscience

    The Gesa Hartwigsen lab’s own Vivien Bar­chet and their team in Leipzig with some help from Jonas have just pub­lished a com­pelling study in The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science titled “Atten­tion­al engage­ment with tar­get and dis­trac­tor streams pre­dicts speech com­pre­hen­sion in mul­ti-talk­er envi­ron­ments”.  In every­day lis­ten­ing scenes—think cock­tail par­ties, cafés, or busy open offices—the brain must… [READ MORE]

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