Jonas Obleser

Executive and language systems competitively shape predictive processing during reading

This study shows that predictive language processing during reading relies on executive resources, especially under cognitive load, and is dynamically coupled with working memory.

Low-dose ketamine tilts the cortical excitation--inhibition balance irrespective of systemic physiological response

The paper shows low-dose ketamine shifts cortical excitation-inhibition balance toward excitation, with effects robust to cardiovascular responses, while propofol has the opposite effect.

Spatial Attention in the Moving Brain: Dissociable Roles of Neural Alpha Oscillations and Head Rotation

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.

Linguistic information compensates for age-related decline in attentional filtering

This study shows older adults compensate for age-related attentional filtering deficits by relying more on linguistic information during speech comprehension in multitalker situations.

Auditory Attention Implements Complementary but Independent Cortical Mechanisms of Enhancement and Suppression

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

Speech, gait, and brain dynamics during natural conversation in motion

The paper records and models neural responses to natural conversational speech during walking, showing coordinated rhythmic interactions between gait and speech.

Neural Tracking of the Maternal Voice in the Infant Brain

The paper investigates how 7-month-old infants track maternal vs. unfamiliar speech and its effect on face processing, finding stronger neural tracking of maternal voices and altered face encoding.

Attentional engagement with target and distractor streams predicts speech comprehension in multitalker environments

This study shows that neural tracking of attended speech features predicts comprehension, while ignored stream tracking correlates with performance in multitalker environments.

Cognitive-Perceptual Style on the Autism-Schizotypy Continuum Shapes Surprisal Sensitivity

The paper examines how cognitive-perceptual styles along the Autism-Schizotypy Continuum affect sensitivity to lexical surprisal during reading across the lifespan.

Dynamic Neural Encoding of Prior Expectations and Auditory Evidence Drive Perceptual Decision-Making

This study shows that sensory encoding fidelity, influenced by prior expectations, predicts perceptual choices in an auditory decision-making task using EEG and linear encoding models.

Neural Alpha Oscillations and Auditory Steady State Responses During Adaptation to a Cochlear Implant

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.

Prior Information Shapes Perceptual Evidence Accumulation Dynamics Differentially in Psychosis

This study examines how prior information affects perceptual decision-making in psychosis, finding that individuals with psychosis show reduced sensory gain and increased pre-evidence biases compared to healthy controls.

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

The paper uses MEG data and a machine learning approach to investigate causal connectivity between inferior frontal gyrus and temporal areas during semantic prediction, finding significant feedback effects.

Endogenous auditory and motor brain rhythms predictindividual speech tracking

The paper shows that individual resting-state theta rhythms in auditory cortex predict speech tracking during comprehension, with motor areas influencing this effect based on auditory-motor synchronization.

Does amplitude compression help or hinder attentional neural speech tracking?

The paper investigates how amplitude compression affects neural speech tracking in hearing-impaired and normal-hearing individuals, finding that compression reduces tracking but can enhance target speech representation when applied to distractors.

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

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.

Neurophysiology of effortful listening: Decoupling motivational modulation from task demands

The paper investigates how motivational state affects cognitive investment during demanding listening by analyzing pupil size and MEG data in an auditory gap-detection task.

Brain network interconnectivity dynamics explain metacognitive differences in listening behavior

The paper investigates how brain network dynamics during an auditory task correlate with individual differences in perceptual confidence and response speed.

Executive Resources Shape the Impact of Language Predictability Across the Adult Lifespan

This study shows that language predictability affects reading time more when executive resources are limited, and this effect increases with age.

Pupil-size sensitivity to listening demand depends on motivational state

This study investigates how pupil size responds to listening demand and motivational state during an auditory task, finding that pupil size reflects their interaction and predicts behavior.

Neural attentional filters and behavioural outcome follow independent individual trajectories over the adult life span

The paper shows that neural filtering and listening behaviour follow independent trajectories in aging individuals, with no predictive relationship between neural filtering metrics and behavioural change.

Auditory neural tracking reflects target enhancement but not distractor suppression in a psychophysically augmented continuous-speech paradigm

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.

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

This study examines how pupil size and neural alpha oscillations respond to cognitive demand in audio-visual tasks, finding they show different sensitivities and dynamics.

Slow neural oscillations explain temporal fluctuations in distractibility

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.

Explaining flexible continuous speech comprehension from individual motor rhythms

The paper investigates how individual differences in auditory-motor coupling and speech motor production rates influence speech comprehension at varying speech rates.

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

The paper investigates age-related differences in neural network interactions during speech comprehension under degraded conditions and finds preserved predictability gain in older adults with adjusted stimulus intelligibility.

Distributed networks for auditory memory differentially contribute to recall precision

The paper shows that attention to memory enhances recall precision by improving neural fidelity in specific brain regions, particularly the left superior temporal sulcus.

Neural signatures of task-related fluctuations in auditory attention change with age

This study examines how neural activity related to auditory attention changes with age, showing differences in brain regions and timing strategies between younger and older adults during listening tasks.

Implicit versus explicit timing - separate or shared mechanisms?

The paper compares implicit and explicit timing mechanisms using MEG, finding that implicit timing improves behavioral and neural responses, while explicit timing does not benefit from temporal predictions.

Predicting speech from a cortical hierarchy of event-based timescales

The paper shows that a hierarchical neural coding scheme based on event-based timescales predicts speech and is reflected in temporo-parietal brain activity.