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New preprint by Quirin Gehmacher & Patrick Reisinger (shared first authorship, together with Thomas Hartmann, Thomas Keintzel, Sebastian Rösch, Konrad Schwarz from MED-EL & Nathan Weisz) where they show that human hearing nerve activity is modulated by selective attention: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.01.433316v1

Out now in Cortex: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945221000320 Work led by our PhD student Nina Suess, Thomas Hartmann & Nathan Weisz showing a differential effect of attentional focus on entrained oscillations (or phase adjustment) in primary sensory areas and frontoparietal areas!

Out now in Frontiers in Psychology: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.585437 Work by Thomas Hartmann and Nathan Weisz. The Objective Psychophysics Toolbox (o_ptb) provides an intuitive, unified, and clear interface, built on top of the PTB that enables researchers to write readable, clean, and concise code.

Out now in Journal of Neuroscience: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0231-20.2020Work by our independent postdoc Andreas Wutz, Agnese Zazio & Nathan Weisz where they reveal neural correlates underlying the dynamic processing of multiple-object scenarios

Senior scientist Anne Hauswald and colleagues published a paper in European Journal of Neuroscience: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14912Their findings underline that speech tracking and alpha power are modified differently by the degree of degradation of continuous speech but together contribute to subjective speech understanding.

PhD student Fabian Schmidt published his first paper (“A backward encoding approach to recover subcortical auditory activity”) in NeuroImage: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116961

Work by Nathan Weisz, Nadine Kraft & Gianpaolo Demarchi has been published in eLife: “Auditory cortical alpha/beta desynchronization prioritizes the representation of memory items during a retention period”

Check out our latest paper:Decoding across sensory modalities reveals common supramodal signatures of conscious perception: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912584117 Work by Gaëtan Sanchez, Thomas Hartmann, Marco Fuscà, Gianpaolo Demarchi & Nathan Weisz!

Our team member Moritz Köhler has just been awarded a DOC stipend by the Austrian Academy of Science to pursue his research on top-down modulation of (rhythmic) cochlear activity.

In our latest preprint we illustrate predictive processing differences between individuals with and without tinnitus: https://doi.org/10.1101/869842 Collaborative work by the University of Salzburg (Marta Partyka, Gianpaolo Demarchi, Nina Suess, Nathan Weisz), University Hospital Salzburg (SALK; Sebastian Roesch), University of Regensburg (Winfried Schlee) and Newcastle University (Will Sedley)Funded by the European School for Interdisciplinary Tinnitus Research […]