Malte Wöstmann

This study shows that task-independent head movements decrease with age and correlate with attention accuracy, indicating they reflect attentional control rather than noise.

This study examines how neural alpha oscillations and head movements contribute to auditory spatial attention in humans, finding that both mechanisms work together to improve task accuracy.

This study investigates temporal contrast enhancement (TCE) in pain and non-painful aversive stimuli, finding modality-specific neural responses without corresponding subjective TCE effects.

This study identifies distinct neural mechanisms for auditory target enhancement and distractor suppression using EEG and behavioral data in an auditory search task.

This study examines how neural oscillations and auditory responses adapt to cochlear implants over time, finding increased phase-locking to certain frequencies and attentional biases toward the implanted ear.

The paper investigates how predictable distractors affect neural responses and cognitive load during an auditory task, finding that predictability reduces uncertainty and impacts neural activity differently under varying loads.

The paper investigates whether selective attention enhances target speech tracking or suppresses distractor speech, finding that target speech is enhanced but distractors are not suppressed below neutral baseline.

This study shows that human distractibility fluctuates on a subsecond timescale, linked to theta-band neural oscillations and pre-distractor neural phase in specific brain regions.

This study shows that unilateral acoustic degradation delays neural attentional separation of competing speech, affecting speech processing in listeners with cochlear implants.

This study shows that lateralized alpha power reflects spatio-temporal attentional filtering, with stronger modulation following temporal cues.

This study shows that working memory vulnerability to distraction follows a rhythmic pattern, with 2.5-Hz cycles affecting both neural and behavioral measures of distraction.

This study shows that alpha oscillations in the human brain suppress distractors independently of target selection, using EEG data from an auditory attention task.

This study shows that familiar distracting talkers impair working memory for spoken digits more than unfamiliar ones, but only in students, not in family members and friends.

This study investigates whether closing the eyes enhances auditory attention and perception, finding increased alpha-power modulation but no improvement in listening performance.

The paper shows that lower prestimulus alpha power predicts higher confidence in auditory discrimination tasks, independent of stimulus evidence or task performance.

The paper shows that late cortical tracking of ignored speech enhances neural selectivity in noisy conditions by involving fronto-parietal regions.

This study shows that alpha and gamma stimulation have opposite effects on spatial attention, with alpha reducing and gamma enhancing recall of attended speech.

This study examines how alpha power lateralization relates to auditory attention in middle-aged and older adults, finding it is not age-dependent but linked to attentional capacity.

This study uses weighted permutation entropy to quantify neural irregularity in EEG data, showing it correlates with age-related changes and influences perceptual decisions.

This study shows that single-channel in-Ear-EEG can predict auditory attention focus in concurrent listening tasks.

The paper investigates how beta-band oscillation network dynamics influence perceptual decision speed in auditory tasks, finding that faster decisions correlate with higher segregation and lower integration of beta-band oscillations.