This went online just a day before Christmas: Neuromagnetic evidence for a featural distinction of English consonants: Sensor- and source-space data by Mathias Scharinger, Jennifer Merickel, Joshua Riley, and William Idsardi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2010.11.002 We wanted to look at featural (categorical) place…
New paper out: Are early N100 and the late Gamma-band response negatively correlated in comprehension of degraded speech?
Late 2010 was particularly good to us: Multiple brain signatures of integration in the comprehension of degraded speech by Jonas Obleser and Sonja Kotz, in NeuroImage. The final pdf will hopefully be available online very soon. Meanwhile the figure below…
New paper out: Patterns of vowel and consonant sensitivity
Dear followers of the slowly emerging Obleser lab, I am glad to present to you a new paper that was published last week: “Segregation of vowels and consonants in human auditory cortex: Evidence for distributed hierarchical organization” by Jonas Obleser,…
Autumn travels
Before our little lab gets into full throttle in late 2010/early 2011 with a great selection of new students and postdocs joining, I will be touring a bit with my most recent data. For late October, my former co-supervisor Aditi…
The Obleser lab is materialising: We’re hiring!
Spread the news: We are hiring for 2011. The Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI–CBS) in Leipzig and its newly established Max Planck Research Group on “Auditory Cognition”, led by Jonas Obleser, are now offering Postdoc and PhD…
Visit us at CNS
UPDATE — The Volcano ash that Island is kindly supplying might prevent us from getting to Montréal. Let’s see whether we make it until the poster session starts on Sunday. But I am slightly pessimistic on that. I am…
New articles
May I humbly point you to three new articles I had the honour to be involved in recently. Firstly, Chris Petkov, Nikos Logothetis and I have put together a very broad overview over what we think is the current take…
What is it with degraded speech and working memory?
Upcoming monday, I will present in-house some of my recent ruminating on the concept of “verbal” working memory and on-line speech comprehension. It is an ancient issue that received some attention mainly in the 1980s, in the light of Baddeley’s…