Publications

Nagarathinam, K. *, Scheck, A. *, Labuhn, M., Ströh, L., Herold, E., Veselkova, B., Tune, S., Cramer, J.T., Rosset, S. , Vollers, S.S. , Bankwitz, D., Ballmaier, M., Böning, H., Roth, E., Khera, T., Ahsendorf-Abidi, H.P., Dittrich-Breiholz, O., Obleser, J., Nassal, M., Jäck, H.-M., Pietschmann, T., Correia, B.E., & Krey, T.

Neural alpha oscillations and pupil size differentially index cognitive demand under competing audio-visual task conditions.

The Journal of Neuroscience

Kraus, F., Tune, S., & Obleser, J. §, Herrmann, B. §

Dynamic large-scale connectivity of intrinsic cortical oscillations supports adaptive listening in challenging conditions

Plos Biology

Alavash, M., Tune, S., & Obleser, J.

Familiarity and task context shape the use of acoustic information in voice identity perception.

Cognition

Lavan, N., Kreitewolf, J., Obleser, J., & McGettigan, C.

Unilateral acoustic degradation delays attentional separation of competing speech.

Trends in Hearing

Kraus, F., Tune, S., Ruhe, A., Obleser, J., & Wöstmann, M.

Neural attentional-filter mechanisms of listening success in middle-aged and older individuals.

Nat Commun

Tune, S., Fiedler, L., Alavash, M., & Obleser, J.

Circadian fluctuations in glucocorticoid level predict perceptual discrimination sensitivity.

iScience

Obleser, J., Kreitewolf, J., Vielhauer, R., Lindner, F., David, C., Oster, H. §, & Tune, S. §

Behaviour needs neural variability.

Neuron, Volume 109, Issue 5, Pages 751–76

Waschke, L., Kloosterman, N.A., Obleser, J., & Garrett, D.D. §

Frequency-specific effects in the infant EEG do not require entrained neural oscillations.

Psychological Science

Keitel, C., Obleser, J., Jessen, S., & Henry, M.J.

Orienting auditory attention in time: Lateralized alpha power reflects spatio-temporal filtering.

NeuroImage, Volume 228

Wöstmann, M., Maess, B., & Obleser, J.

Personality captures dissociations of subjective versus objective hearing in noise.

Royal Society Open Science, 8, 11

Wöstmann, M., Erb, J., Kreitewolf, J., Obleser, J.

Modalityspecific tracking of attention and sensory statistics in the human electrophysiological spectral exponent.

eLife

Waschke, L., Donoghue, T., Fiedler, L., Smith, S., Garrett, D.D., Voytek, B., & Obleser, J.

Neural tracking in infants – An analytical tool for multisensory social processing in development.

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Jessen, S., Obleser, J., & Tune, S.

Attentional sampling of visual and auditory objects is captured by theta-modulated neural activity.

European Journal of Neuroscience

Plöchl, M., Fiebelkorn, I., Kastner, S., & Obleser, J.

Predicting speech from a cortical hierarchy of event-based timescales.

Science Advances

Schmitt, L.M., Erb, J., Tune, S., Rysop, A., Hartwigsen, G., & Obleser, J.

Pub­li­ca­tions

2025

Acousti­cal­ly Trans­par­ent Hear­ing Aids Increase Phys­i­o­log­i­cal Mark­ers of Lis­ten­ing Effort.

Char­ac­ter­iz­ing direc­tion­al dynam­ics of seman­tic pre­dic­tion based on inter-region­al tem­po­ral generalization.

Does ampli­tude com­pres­sion help or hin­der atten­tion­al neur­al speech tracking?

Metacog­ni­tion in the lis­ten­ing brain.

Pre­dict­ing the irrel­e­vant: Neur­al effects of dis­trac­tor pre­dictabil­i­ty depend on load.

Cochlear implan­ta­tion in adults with acquired sin­gle-sided deaf­ness improves cor­ti­cal pro­cess­ing and com­pre­hen­sion of speech pre­sent­ed to the non-implant­ed ears: A lon­gi­tu­di­nal EEG study.

Aging mod­u­lates large-scale neur­al net­work inter­ac­tions dur­ing speech comprehension.

2024

Brain net­work inter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty dynam­ics explain metacog­ni­tive dif­fer­ences in lis­ten­ing behavior.

Neu­ro­phys­i­ol­o­gy of effort­ful lis­ten­ing: Decou­pling moti­va­tion­al mod­u­la­tion from task demands.

Epi­tope-focused immuno­gens tar­get­ing the Hepati­tis C Virus gly­co­pro­teins induce broad­ly neu­tral­iz­ing antibodies.

Aber­rant Audi­to­ry Pre­dic­tion Pat­terns Robust­ly Char­ac­ter­ize Tinnitus.

Neur­al atten­tion­al fil­ters and behav­iour­al out­come fol­low inde­pen­dent indi­vid­ual tra­jec­to­ries over the adult lifespan.

Tra­jec­to­ries and con­tribut­ing fac­tors of neur­al com­pen­sa­tion in healthy and patho­log­i­cal aging.

2023

Pupil-size sen­si­tiv­i­ty to lis­ten­ing demand depends on moti­va­tion­al state.

Pre­dic­tors of tran­si­tion in patients with clin­i­cal high risk for psy­chosis: An umbrel­la review.

Tar­get enhance­ment but not dis­trac­tor sup­pres­sion in audi­to­ry neur­al track­ing dur­ing con­tin­u­ous speech.

Slow neur­al oscil­la­tions explain tem­po­ral fluc­tu­a­tions in distractibility.

Neur­al alpha oscil­la­tions and pupil size dif­fer­en­tial­ly index cog­ni­tive demand under com­pet­ing audio-visu­al task conditions.

Neur­al sig­na­tures of task-relat­ed fluc­tu­a­tions in audi­to­ry atten­tion and age-relat­ed changes.

Cir­ca­di­an Rhythms in Audi­to­ry Hal­lu­ci­na­tions and Psychosis.

Explain­ing flex­i­ble con­tin­u­ous speech com­pre­hen­sion from indi­vid­ual motor rhythms.

2022

Ten sim­ple rules to study dis­trac­tor suppression.

Implic­it ver­sus explic­it tim­ing – sep­a­rate or shared mechanisms.

Age-relat­ed dif­fer­ences in the neur­al net­work inter­ac­tions under­ly­ing the pre­dictabil­i­ty gain.

Dis­trib­uted net­works for audi­to­ry mem­o­ry dif­fer­en­tial­ly con­tribute to recall precision.

2021

Pre­dict­ing speech from a cor­ti­cal hier­ar­chy of event-based timescales.

Dynam­ic large-scale con­nec­tiv­i­ty of intrin­sic cor­ti­cal oscil­la­tions sup­ports adap­tive lis­ten­ing in chal­leng­ing conditions

Famil­iar­i­ty and task con­text shape the use of acoustic infor­ma­tion in voice iden­ti­ty perception.

Uni­lat­er­al acoustic degra­da­tion delays atten­tion­al sep­a­ra­tion of com­pet­ing speech.

Neur­al atten­tion­al-fil­ter mech­a­nisms of lis­ten­ing suc­cess in mid­dle-aged and old­er individuals.

Cir­ca­di­an fluc­tu­a­tions in glu­co­cor­ti­coid lev­el pre­dict per­cep­tu­al dis­crim­i­na­tion sensitivity.

Behav­iour needs neur­al variability.

Fre­quen­cy-spe­cif­ic effects in the infant EEG do not require entrained neur­al oscillations.

Ori­ent­ing audi­to­ry atten­tion in time: Lat­er­al­ized alpha pow­er reflects spa­tio-tem­po­ral filtering.

Per­son­al­i­ty cap­tures dis­so­ci­a­tions of sub­jec­tive ver­sus objec­tive hear­ing in noise.

Modal­i­tyspe­cif­ic track­ing of atten­tion and sen­so­ry sta­tis­tics in the human elec­tro­phys­i­o­log­i­cal spec­tral exponent.

Neur­al track­ing in infants – An ana­lyt­i­cal tool for mul­ti­sen­so­ry social pro­cess­ing in development.

Atten­tion­al sam­pling of visu­al and audi­to­ry objects is cap­tured by theta-mod­u­lat­ed neur­al activity.

Pre­dict­ing speech from a cor­ti­cal hier­ar­chy of event-based timescales.

Acoustically Transparent Hearing Aids Increase Physiological Markers of Listening Effort.

Characterizing directional dynamics of semantic prediction based on inter-regional temporal generalization.

Does amplitude compression help or hinder attentional neural speech tracking?

Metacognition in the listening brain.

Predicting the irrelevant: Neural effects of distractor predictability depend on load.

Cochlear implantation in adults with acquired single-sided deafness improves cortical processing and comprehension of speech presented to the non-implanted ears: A longitudinal EEG study.

Aging modulates large-scale neural network interactions during speech comprehension.

Brain network interconnectivity dynamics explain metacognitive differences in listening behavior.

Neurophysiology of effortful listening: Decoupling motivational modulation from task demands.

Epitope-focused immunogens targeting the Hepatitis C Virus glycoproteins induce broadly neutralizing antibodies.

Aberrant Auditory Prediction Patterns Robustly Characterize Tinnitus.

Neural attentional filters and behavioural outcome follow independent individual trajectories over the adult lifespan.

Trajectories and contributing factors of neural compensation in healthy and pathological aging.

Pupil-size sensitivity to listening demand depends on motivational state.

Predictors of transition in patients with clinical high risk for psychosis: An umbrella review.

Target enhancement but not distractor suppression in auditory neural tracking during continuous speech.

Slow neural oscillations explain temporal fluctuations in distractibility.

Neural alpha oscillations and pupil size differentially index cognitive demand under competing audio-visual task conditions.

Neural signatures of task-related fluctuations in auditory attention and age-related changes.

Circadian Rhythms in Auditory Hallucinations and Psychosis.

Explaining flexible continuous speech comprehension from individual motor rhythms.

Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression.

Implicit versus explicit timing – separate or shared mechanisms.

Age-related differences in the neural network interactions underlying the predictability gain.

Distributed networks for auditory memory differentially contribute to recall precision.

Predicting speech from a cortical hierarchy of event-based timescales.

Dynamic large-scale connectivity of intrinsic cortical oscillations supports adaptive listening in challenging conditions

Familiarity and task context shape the use of acoustic information in voice identity perception.

Unilateral acoustic degradation delays attentional separation of competing speech.

Neural attentional-filter mechanisms of listening success in middle-aged and older individuals.

Circadian fluctuations in glucocorticoid level predict perceptual discrimination sensitivity.

Behaviour needs neural variability.

Frequency-specific effects in the infant EEG do not require entrained neural oscillations.

Orienting auditory attention in time: Lateralized alpha power reflects spatio-temporal filtering.

Personality captures dissociations of subjective versus objective hearing in noise.

Modalityspecific tracking of attention and sensory statistics in the human electrophysiological spectral exponent.

Neural tracking in infants – An analytical tool for multisensory social processing in development.

Attentional sampling of visual and auditory objects is captured by theta-modulated neural activity.

Predicting speech from a cortical hierarchy of event-based timescales.