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Perception of acoustically complex phonological features in vowels is reflected in the induced brain-magnetic activity

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Eulitz C., Obleser J.
Perceptual grouping in the cocktail party: contributions of voice-feature continuity

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Kreitewolf J., Mathias S.R., Obleser J., Schönwiesner M., Trapeau R.
Pre-lexical abstraction of speech in the auditory cortex

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Eisner F., Obleser J.
Predicting speech from a cortical hierarchy of event-based timescales

Science Advances

Erb J., Hartwigsen G., Obleser J., Rysop U.A., Schmitt L.M., Tune S.
Predicting the Irrelevant: Neural Effects of Distractor Predictability Depend on Load

European Journal of Neuroscience

Lui T.K., Obleser J., Wöstmann M.
Prediction in the Service of Speech Comprehension: Modulated Early Brain Responses to Omitted Speech Segments

Cortex

Bendixen A., Obleser J., Scharinger M., Strauß A.
Prediction signatures in the brain: Semantic pre-activation during language comprehension

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Friederici A.D., Helle L., Maess B., Mamashli F., Obleser J.
Predictors of transition in patients with clinical high risk for psychosis: an umbrella review

Translational Psychiatry

Andreou C., Borgwardt S., de Bock R., Eickhoff S., Heide M., Obleser J.
Prestimulus neural alpha power predicts confidence in discriminating identical auditory stimuli

European Journal of Neuroscience

Obleser J., Waschke L., Wöstmann M.
Prior experience with negative spectral correlations promotes information integration during auditory category learning

Memory & Cognition

Henry M.J., Obleser J., Scharinger M.
Probing the limits of alpha power lateralisation as a neural marker of selective attention in middle-aged and older listeners

European Journal of Neuroscience

Obleser J., Tune S., Wöstmann M.
Pupil Size Sensitivity to Listening Demand Depends on Motivational State

eNeuro

Herrmann B., Kraus F., Obleser J.
Putting the Listening Brain in Context

Language and Linguistics Compass

Obleser J.
Quantifying the individual auditory and visual brain response in 7‑month-old infants watching a brief cartoon movie

NeuroImage

Fiedler L., Jessen S., Münte T.F., Obleser J.
Recovery from aphasia as a function of language therapy in an early bilingual patient: fMRI demonstration

Neuropsychologia

Eulitz C., Flaisch T., Meinzer M., Obleser J., Rockstroh B.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over left angular gyrus modulates the predictability gain in degraded speech comprehension

Cortex

Golombek T., Hartwigsen G., Obleser J.
Segregation of vowels and consonants in human auditory cortex: evidence for distributed hierarchical organization

Frontiers in Psychology

Leaver A.M., Obleser J., Rauschecker J.P., Vanmeter J.
Selective Attention to Auditory Memory Neurally Enhances Perceptual Precision

The Journal of Neuroscience

Lim S., Obleser J., Wöstmann M.
Selective attention to temporal features nested in time

Cerebral Cortex

Henry M.J., Herrmann B., Obleser J.
Semantic versus perceptual interactions in neural processing of speech-in-noise

NeuroImage

Golestani N., Hervais-Adelman A., Obleser J., Scott S.K.
Sensitivity of rat inferior colliculus neurons to frequency distributions

Journal of Neurophysiology

Bartlett E.L., Han E.X., Herrmann B., Obleser J., Parthasarathy A.
Sentence processing and verbal working memory in a white-matter-disconnection patient

Neuropsychologia

Cunitz K., Friederici A.D., Meyer L., Obleser J.
Single-channel in-Ear-EEG detects the focus of auditory attention to concurrent tone streams and mixed speech

Journal of Neural Engineering

Brandmeyer A., Fiedler L., Graversen C., Lunner T., Obleser J., Wöstmann M.
Slow neural oscillations explain temporal fluctuations in distractibility

Progress in Neurobiology

Lui T.K., Obleser J., Wöstmann M.
Slow-delta phase concentration marks improved temporal expectations based on the passage of time

Psychophysiology

Henry M.J., Herrmann B., Maess B., Obleser J., Wilsch A.
Spatial Attention and Temporal Expectation Exert Differential Effects on Visual and Auditory Discrimination

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Haegens S., Mercier M.R., Obleser J., Schroeder C.E., Wilsch A.
Spatiotemporal dynamics of argument retrieval and reordering: fMRI and EEG study on sentence processing

Frontiers in Psychology

Friederici A.D., Kiebel S.J., Meyer L., Obleser J.
Spatiotemporal dynamics of auditory attention synchronize with speech

PNAS

Herrmann B., Maess B., Obleser J., Wöstmann M.
Speech comprehension aided by multiple modalities: behavioural and neural interactions

Neuropsychologia

Altarelli I., Baverstock H., Faulkner A., McGettigan C., Obleser J., Scott S.K.
States and traits of neural irregularity in the age-varying human brain

Scientific Reports

Obleser J., Waschke L., Wöstmann M.
Statistical context shapes stimulus-specific adaptation in human auditory cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Fromboluti E.K., Henry M.J., Herrmann B., McAuley J.D., Obleser J.
Supplementary motor area activations predict individual differences in temporal-change sensitivity and its illusory distortions

NeuroImage

Henry M.J., Herrmann B., Obleser J., Scharinger M.
Suppressed alpha oscillations predict intelligibility of speech and its acoustic details

Cerebral Cortex

Obleser J., Weisz N.
Synchronisation signatures in the listening brain: a perspective from non-invasive neuroelectrophysiology

Hearing Research

Obleser J., Weisz N.
Target enhancement but not distractor suppression in auditory neural tracking during continuous speech

iScience

Hannemann R., Obleser J., Orf M., Wöstmann M.
Temporal Expectation Modulates the Cortical Dynamics of Short-Term Memory

The Journal of Neuroscience

Henry M.J., Herrmann B., Herrmann C.S., Obleser J., Wilsch A.
Temporal expectations and neural amplitude fluctuations in auditory cortex interactively influence perception

NeuroImage

Haegens S., Henry M.J., Herrmann B., Obleser J.
Temporal selectivity declines in the aging human auditory cortex

eLife

Erb J., Obleser J., Schmitt L.M.
Temporal Sensitivity Measured Shortly After Cochlear Implantation Predicts 6‑MonthSpeech Recognition Outcome

Ear and Hearing

Erb J., Fuchs M., Kunke D., Ludwig A.A., Obleser J.
Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression

Progress in Neurobiology

Addleman D.A., Andersen S.K., Gaspelin N., Geng J.J., Luck S.J., Noonan M.P., Obleser J., Slagter H.A., Störmer V., Theeuwes J., Wöstmann M.
Thalamic and parietal brain morphology predicts auditory category learning

Neuropsychologia

Erb J., Henry M.J., Meyer L., Obleser J., Scharinger M.
The Benefit of Attention-to-Memory Depends on the Interplay of Memory Capacity and Memory Load

Frontiers in Psychology

Geweke F., Lim S., Obleser J., Wöstmann M.
The brain dynamics of rapid perceptual adaptation to adverse listening conditions

The Journal of Neuroscience

Eisner F., Erb J., Henry M.J., Obleser J.
The circadian phase of antenatal glucocorticoid treatments affects the risk of behavioural disorders

Nature Communications

Astiz M., Bossung V., Fortmann M.I., Göpel W., Grütter B., Härtel C., Heyde I., Obleser J., Oster H., Roll C., Stein A.
The Human Neural Alpha Response to Speech is a Proxy of Attentional Control

Cerebral Cortex

Lim S., Obleser J., Wöstmann M.
The impact of premature birth and low birth weight on motor, visual, and cognitive skills and mental health in adolescence: a systematic review and meta-analysis

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Andreou C., Borgwardt S., Derner N., Eickhoff S., Franzen L., Göpel W., Greif E., Heller L., Obleser J., Röse K., Schewe H., Schröpfer F., Wiese J.
The representation of the verb’s argument structure as disclosed by fMRI

BMC Neuroscience

Assadollahi R., Flaisch T., Meinzer M., Obleser J., Rockstroh B.
The vulnerability of working memory to distraction is rhythmic

Neuropsychologia

Friese K., Kreitewolf J., Lui T.K., Naujokat M., Obleser J., Wöstmann M.
Top-down knowledge supports the retrieval of lexical information from degraded speech

Brain Research

Eulitz C., Hannemann R., Obleser J.
Tracking Temporal Hazard in the Human Electroencephalogram Using a Forward Encoding Model

eNeuro

Fiedler L., Herbst S.K., Obleser J.
Tracking the signal, cracking the code: speech and speech comprehension in non-invasive human electrophysiology

Language Cognition and neuroscience

Fiedler L., Obleser J., Wöstmann M.
Trajectories and contributing factors of neural compensation in healthy andpathological aging

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Bunzeck N., Krämer U.M., Luedtke K., Marshall L., Obleser J., Steiger T.K., Tune S.
Transcranial alternating current stimulation with speech envelopes modulates speech comprehension

NeuroImage

Herrmann C.S., Neuling T., Obleser J., Wilsch A.
Unilateral Acoustic Degradation Delays Attentional Separation of Competing Speech

Trends in Hearing

Kraus F., Obleser J., Ruhe A., Tune S., Wöstmann M.
Upregulation of cognitive control networks in older adults’ speech comprehension

Erb J., Obleser J.
Vowel sound extraction in anterior superior temporal cortex

Human Brain Mapping

Boecker H., Drzezga A., Eulitz C., Haslinger B., Hennenlotter A., Obleser J., Rauschecker J.P., Roettinger M.
What auditory cortex is waiting for

nature human behaviour

Obleser J., Schmitt L.M.
What do we talk about when we talk about rhythm?

PLOS Biology

Henry M.J., Lakatos P., Obleser J.
What works in auditory working memory? A neural oscillations perspective

Brain Research

Obleser J., Wilsch A.
Where are the human speech and voice regions and do other animals have anything like them?

The Neuroscientist

Logothetis N.K., Obleser J., Petkov C.I.
Working-memory disruption by task-irrelevant talkers depends on degree of talker familiarity

Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Kreitewolf J., Obleser J., Plöchl M., Tune, Wöstmann M.
You can’t stop the music – reduced auditory alpha power and enhanced auditory–parahippocampal coupling facilitate the illusion of continuity during noise

NeuroImage

Bernays R., Grunwald T., Huppertz H., Keil J., Müller N., Obleser J., Schulz H., Weisz N.

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