Tag Archives for Scharinger
SNAP Day 1 is behind us
A great day 1 of the SNAP workshop is behind us. It could go on forever, if it would be according to me. While Thomas Lunner was sadly stopped short by new program committee member, pan-European storm rascal “Xaver”, 45 … Continue reading
Listening: The strategy matters [Update]
In press on Neuropsychologia Thalamic and parietal brain morphology predicts auditory category learning Categorizing sounds is vital for adaptive human behavior. Accordingly, changing listening situations (external noise, but also peripheral hearing loss in aging) require listeners to flexibly adjust their categorization … Continue reading
New paper in press: Herrmann et al., Hearing Research [Update]
Auditory filter width affects response magnitude but not frequency specificity in auditory cortex This is fantastic news on a friday morning: Obleser lab Postdoc Björn Herrmann teamed up with his fellow Postdocs Mathias Scharinger and Molly Henry to study how … Continue reading
New Paper in press — Scharinger, Henry, Obleser, in Memory & Cognition
For normal-hearing humans, categorizing complex acoustic stimuli is a seemingly effortless process, even if one has never heard the particular sounds before. Nevertheless, prior experience with specific correlations between acoustic stimulus properties affects the categorization in a beneficial way, as … Continue reading
Neuroscience 2012 Posters and Talks
Dear friends and colleagues, SfN Participants! Please go and check out our posters in New Orleans this year. It’s all happening in the Monday (15 October) AM posters session, plus a bit of Tuesday AM, and one talk on monday … Continue reading
Poster Presentations at SFN
There will be two poster presentations at SFN in Washington, DC., on the topic of auditory predictions in speech perception. The first poster, authored by Alexandra Bendixen, Mathias Scharinger, and Jonas Obleser, summarizes as follows: Speech signals are often compromised … Continue reading
New paper out in Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research [Update]
We are happy to announce that our paper “Asymmetries in the processing of vowel height” will be appearing in the Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, authored by Philip Monahan, William Idsardi and Mathias Scharinger. A short summary is … Continue reading