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…
Obleser & Eisner in Trends Cogn Sci (in press) available
My year in science 2008 finds a satisfying ending by seeing the fruits of my colleague Dr. Frank Eisner’s (currently ICN / UCL) and my own yearlong efforts online. Our opinion piece on how the problem of pre-lexical abstraction of…
Why will a person with a right-hemispheric stroke not become aphasic…
… if spectral (fine-frequency) details of the speech signal are “predominantly tracked in the right auditory cortex”, Prof. Sophie Scott just rightly asked after my talk fifteen minutes ago at SfN. I am not sure what Robert Zatorre and David…