I am glad to report that the lab is in full flight. (From left to right: ) Anna Wilsch, Julia Erb, Dr. Mathias Scharinger, Dr. Molly Henry, and Antje Strauß have joined forces with me. We are having a splendid…
New Paper out: HELLO? in press (NeuroImage)
Phonetic cues instantaneously mapped onto dialectal categories appear to be extracted at early moments in auditory speech perception, as we try to show in our paper You had me at “Hello”: Rapid extraction of dialect information from spoken words to…
New Paper out: Comprehensive map of a language’s vowel space
We are glad to announce that our paper (Mathias Scharinger, Samantha Poe, & William Idsardi) on cortical representations of Turkish vowels is in press in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. In this paper, we extend previous methods of obtaining centers of…
New paper out: Alpha oscillations in audition
I am also delighted to report the fruits of a very recent collaboration with Nathan Weisz and his OBOB lab at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Alpha Rhythms in Audition: Cognitive and Clinical Perspectives In this review paper, which appears…
New paper out: “Upstream delegation” for processing of complex syntax under degraded acoustics
A new paper is about to appear in Neuroimage on the interaction of syntactic complexity and acoustic degradation. It is written by myself, PhD student Lars Meyer, and Angela Friederici. In a way, the paper brings together one of Angela’s…
Paper in press: Are labials special?
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,…