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…
Talk at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington, DC on Wednesday
If you happen to be at SfN this week, you might want to check out my short presentation on a recent study [1] we did: What do spectral (frequency-domain) and temporal (time-domain) features really contribute to speech comprehension processes in…
Kick-Off: Welcome to the new Obleser lab weblog
Welcome to this collection of news, facts and miscellanea from the Jonas Obleser “Cogntive Neuroscience of Speech” headquarters. Currently, these headquarters are situated within the fantastic scientific facilities that the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig…