Whoot. New preprint.

.. and yes, this cross-sectional finding (N>240, age 18–80) goes against our explicitly stated, initial hypothesis that older adults should lean more towards schizotypy-like patterns and stronger priors. As Popper said, kill your darlings.

One more beachside reading from our lab — Schuckart, Tune & Obleser
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Perceptual style shifts with age, with older adults tending toward more sensory-driven, ASD-like profiles—shaping how people respond to predictability and volatility in language and perception.

Yesss.

Dynamic Neural Encoding of Prior Expectations and Auditory Evidence Drive Perceptual Decision-Making https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.11.669640v1

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New data from our lab — Sarah Tune, Iris Borschke, and I come out with modelling the neural fate and the behavioural impact of single clicks in auditory decision making. Beautiful work by
@sarahtune.bsky.social — foreshadowing what is going on in the lab currently.

OMFG

(The world is in shambles, but)
We did find out that your hearing aid comes with a certain cognitive cost a priori any of the (certainly greater) benefit you will draw from it. — The pupil is a lovely, sensitive measure. Congrats to first author Markus Kemper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@sarahjessen.bsky.social of the Babylab @uniluebeck.bsky.social took Martin Orf and me from the @jonasobleser.bsky.social lab along an intriguing journey into the neural fate and consequences of a mother‘s voice in her infant’s brain. Under review now. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Your point is well taken. I agree that TI and AVH (in Sz) differ widely, but treating them as expressions of altered ‘metacognitive alignment’ (not a word I am using in the model) on a potential continuum is worth testing, in my view.

I hope you enjoy some of the ideas I put forward in “Metacognition in the listening brain”: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro... — out now.

LEMMI: it’s happening. German
federal agency Wissenschaftsrat
recommends for funding the future „Lübeck Environment for Minds and Machine in Interaction“ research building. Hooray! @uniluebeck.bsky.social Land Schleswig-Holstein. t.co/xe5gFbzo5Q

Out now in @elife.bsky.social: @sarahtune.bsky.social and I showing with Sarah’s stats modelling how neural measures and behavioural outcome go separate ways in middle-aged and older listeners. Key endpoint to my ERC project. @uniluebeck.bsky.social #Obleserlab
elifesciences.org/articles/92079

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, and Sara (and, yeah, Anna) come out with an ingenious study on the perception of power structures (my words) in preschoolers #socialneuroscience #devpsych @sarahjessen.bsky.social @sarahtune.bsky.social

Five €4000 grants available to support PhDs and postdocs to conduct international lab visits to study how environments influence early development - including philosophy, methods/tools, policy impacts (www.cost.eu/actions/CA22...). More details here: t.co/iDmbI7pBEw

Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft richtet an der Uni Lübeck einen Sonderforschungsbereich ein, der sich mit der Erforschung der Vielfalt des biologischen Geschlechts beschäftigen wird! 🎉Das Verbundprojekt wird mit knapp zwölf Millionen Euro gefördert. #Forschung www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/na...

It’s happening. #jneurosci #sfn #openscience

Many cheers for your trust, everybody. I look forward to serving on the @dfg_public DFG (German Research Foundation) Fachgutachter:innen / reviewing panel in systems and cogn neuroscience for the next years. www.dfg.de/download/pdf...

I don’t sign open letters lightly. This one is relatively simple: German scientists must have issues with antisemitism and must name it when they see it. #NieWiederIstJetzt #istandwithmyisraelicolleagues www.athene-center.de/nie-wieder

If you think I might be useful in serving as a panelist (“fachgutachter”) to the
DFG in the next years, I would be honoured if your cast your vote for Jonas Obleser,
2.23-08, Kogn./Systemische Neurowissenschaften

www.dfg.de/dfg_profil/g...

okay, everybody’s bored by ChatGPT by now, but: still breathtaking how
(i) elaborate and erudite it refuses to help me cheat my way through a simple t-test (I tried to make it cheat for me, but it spoke of its high ethical standards. Very well),
AND
(ii) absolutely messes up the t-statistic itself.