The Obleser lab | Neural dynamics of communication
Publications 2014–2011
2014:
Henry, MJ, Herrmann, B, Obleser, J. Entrained neural oscillations in multiple frequency bands comodulate behavior. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2014;111 (41):14935–40. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1408741111. PubMed PMID:25267634 PubMed Central PMC4205645.
Herrmann, B, Henry, MJ, Scharinger, M, Obleser, J. Supplementary motor area activations predict individual differences in temporal-change sensitivity and its illusory distortions. Neuroimage. 2014;101 :370–9. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.026. PubMed PMID:25064666 .
Meyer, L, Cunitz, K, Obleser, J, Friederici, AD. Sentence processing and verbal working memory in a white-matter-disconnection patient. Neuropsychologia. 2014;61 :190–6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.06.014. PubMed PMID:24953959.
Scharinger, M, Herrmann, B, Nierhaus, T, Obleser, J. Simultaneous EEG-fMRI brain signatures of auditory cue utilization. Front Neurosci. 2014;8 :137. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00137. PubMed PMID:24926232 PubMed Central PMC4044900.
Strauß, A, Wöstmann, M, Obleser, J. Cortical alpha oscillations as a tool for auditory selective inhibition. Front Hum Neurosci. 2014;8 :350. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00350. PubMed PMID:24904385PubMed Central PMC4035601.
Strauß, A, Kotz, SA, Scharinger, M, Obleser, J. Alpha and theta brain oscillations index dissociable processes in spoken word recognition. Neuroimage. 2014;97 :387–95. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.005. PubMed PMID:24747736 .
Bendixen, A, Scharinger, M, Strauß, A, Obleser, J. Prediction in the service of comprehension: modulated early brain responses to omitted speech segments. Cortex. 2014;53 :9–26. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.001. PubMed PMID:24561233 .
Wilsch, A, Henry, MJ, Herrmann, B, Maess, B, Obleser, J. Alpha Oscillatory Dynamics Index Temporal Expectation Benefits in Working Memory. Cereb. Cortex. 2015;25 (7):1938–46. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhu004. PubMed PMID:24488943 .
Erb, J, Obleser, J. Upregulation of cognitive control networks in older adults’ speech comprehension. Front Syst Neurosci. 2013;7 :116. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00116. PubMed PMID:24399939PubMed Central PMC3871967.
Herrmann, B, Schlichting, N, Obleser, J. Dynamic range adaptation to spectral stimulus statistics in human auditory cortex. J. Neurosci. 2014;34 (1):327–31. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3974–13.2014. PubMed PMID:24381293 PubMed Central PMC3866491.
Henry, MJ, Obleser, J. Dissociable neural response signatures for slow amplitude and frequency modulation in human auditory cortex. PLoS ONE. 2013;8 (10):e78758. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078758. PubMed PMID:24205309 PubMed Central PMC3812144.
Keil, J, Timm, J, Sanmiguel, I, Schulz, H, Obleser, J, Schönwiesner, M et al.. Cortical brain states and corticospinal synchronization influence TMS-evoked motor potentials. J. Neurophysiol. 2014;111 (3):513–9. doi: 10.1152/jn.00387.2013. PubMed PMID:24198325 .
Sehm, B, Schnitzler, T, Obleser, J, Groba, A, Ragert, P, Villringer, A et al.. Facilitation of inferior frontal cortex by transcranial direct current stimulation induces perceptual learning of severely degraded speech. J. Neurosci. 2013;33 (40):15868–78. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5466–12.2013. PubMed PMID:24089493 .
Herrmann, B, Henry, MJ, Grigutsch, M, Obleser, J. Oscillatory phase dynamics in neural entrainment underpin illusory percepts of time. J. Neurosci. 2013;33 (40):15799–809. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1434–13.2013. PubMed PMID:24089487 .
Scharinger, M, Henry, MJ, Erb, J, Meyer, L, Obleser, J. Thalamic and parietal brain morphology predicts auditory category learning. Neuropsychologia. 2014;53 :75–83. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.012. PubMed PMID:24035788.
Henry, MJ, Herrmann, B, Obleser, J. Selective attention to temporal features on nested time scales. Cereb. Cortex. 2015;25 (2):450–9. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bht240. PubMed PMID:23978652 .
Weisz, N, Obleser, J. Synchronisation signatures in the listening brain: a perspective from non-invasive neuroelectrophysiology. Hear. Res. 2014;307 :16–28. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2013.07.009. PubMed PMID:23895875 .
2013:
Herrmann, B, Henry, MJ, Scharinger, M, Obleser, J. Auditory filter width affects response magnitude but not frequency specificity in auditory cortex. Hear. Res. 2013;304 :128–36. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2013.07.005. PubMed PMID:23876524 .
Erb, J, Henry, MJ, Eisner, F, Obleser, J. The brain dynamics of rapid perceptual adaptation to adverse listening conditions. J. Neurosci. 2013;33 (26):10688–97. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4596–12.2013. PubMed PMID:23804092 .
Müller, N, Keil, J, Obleser, J, Schulz, H, Grunwald, T, Bernays, RLet al.. You can’t stop the music: reduced auditory alpha power and coupling between auditory and memory regions facilitate the illusory perception of music during noise. Neuroimage. 2013;79 :383–93. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.001. PubMed PMID:23664946 .
Golestani, N, Hervais-Adelman, A, Obleser, J, Scott, SK. Semantic versus perceptual interactions in neural processing of speech-in-noise. Neuroimage. 2013;79 :52–61. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.049. PubMed PMID:23624171 .
Strauß, A, Kotz, SA, Obleser, J. Narrowed expectancies under degraded speech: revisiting the N400. J Cogn Neurosci. 2013;25 (8):1383–95. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00389. PubMed PMID:23489145 .
Scharinger, M, Henry, MJ, Obleser, J. Prior experience with negative spectral correlations promotes information integration during auditory category learning. Mem Cognit. 2013;41 (5):752–68. doi: 10.3758/s13421-013‑0294‑9. PubMed PMID:23354998 .
Herrmann, B, Henry, MJ, Obleser, J. Frequency-specific adaptation in human auditory cortex depends on the spectral variance in the acoustic stimulation. J. Neurophysiol. 2013;109 (8):2086–96. doi: 10.1152/jn.00907.2012. PubMed PMID:23343904 .
2012:
Meyer, L, Obleser, J, Kiebel, SJ, Friederici, AD. Spatiotemporal dynamics of argument retrieval and reordering: an FMRI and EEG study on sentence processing. Front Psychol. 2012;3 :523. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00523. PubMed PMID:23248607 PubMed Central PMC3518874.
Henry, MJ, Obleser, J. Frequency modulation entrains slow neural oscillations and optimizes human listening behavior. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2012;109 (49):20095–100. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1213390109. PubMed PMID:23151506 PubMed Central PMC3523826.
Obleser, J, Herrmann, B, Henry, MJ. Neural Oscillations in Speech: Don’t be Enslaved by the Envelope. Front Hum Neurosci. 2012;6 :250. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00250. PubMed PMID:22969717PubMed Central PMC3431501.
Obleser, J, Wöstmann, M, Hellbernd, N, Wilsch, A, Maess, B. Adverse listening conditions and memory load drive a common α oscillatory network. J. Neurosci. 2012;32 (36):12376–83. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4908–11.2012. PubMed PMID:22956828 .
Scharinger, M, Bendixen, A, Trujillo-Barreto, NJ, Obleser, J. A sparse neural code for some speech sounds but not for others. PLoS ONE. 2012;7 (7):e40953. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040953. PubMed PMID:22815876 PubMed Central PMC3397972.
Meyer, L, Obleser, J, Anwander, A, Friederici, AD. Linking ordering in Broca’s area to storage in left temporo-parietal regions: the case of sentence processing. Neuroimage. 2012;62 (3):1987–98. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.052. PubMed PMID:22634860 .
Erb, J, Henry, MJ, Eisner, F, Obleser, J. Auditory skills and brain morphology predict individual differences in adaptation to degraded speech. Neuropsychologia. 2012;50 (9):2154–64. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.05.013. PubMed PMID:22609577.
Jessen, S, Obleser, J, Kotz, SA. How bodies and voices interact in early emotion perception. PLoS ONE. 2012;7 (4):e36070. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036070. PubMed PMID:22558332 PubMed Central PMC3340409.
McGettigan, C, Faulkner, A, Altarelli, I, Obleser, J, Baverstock, H, Scott, SKet al.. Speech comprehension aided by multiple modalities: behavioural and neural interactions. Neuropsychologia. 2012;50 (5):762–76. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.010. PubMed PMID:22266262PubMed Central PMC4050300.
Obleser, J, Weisz, N. Suppressed alpha oscillations predict intelligibility of speech and its acoustic details. Cereb. Cortex. 2012;22 (11):2466–77. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhr325. PubMed PMID:22100354 PubMed Central PMC4705336.
2011:
Weisz, N, Hartmann, T, Müller, N, Lorenz, I, Obleser, J. Alpha rhythms in audition: cognitive and clinical perspectives. Front Psychol. 2011;2 :73. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00073. PubMed PMID:21687444 PubMed Central PMC3110491.
Obleser, J, Meyer, L, Friederici, AD. Dynamic assignment of neural resources in auditory comprehension of complex sentences. Neuroimage. 2011;56 (4):2310–20. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.035. PubMed PMID:21421059 .
Obleser, J, Kotz, SA. Multiple brain signatures of integration in the comprehension of degraded speech. Neuroimage. 2011;55 (2):713–23. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.12.020. PubMed PMID:21172443 .