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  • Great news! Our Stage 1 Registered Replication of Hickok et al. 2015 has been accepted! And you are invited to participate! If you are interested in contributing to our multi-site replication of this seminal study on auditory entrainment, please check out the project page here. 

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  • Welcome to Antonio Criscuolo! Antonio comes from the BAND Lab in Maastricht and will be visiting for three months working on an EEG project on rhythm perception. 

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  • Welcome to Yue Ren! Yue will be with the group for six months, and will head up a project examining how aging brains entrain to music. 

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  • New paper out! Work spearheaded by postdoc Yuranny Cabral-Calderin shows that neural entrainment to auditory rhythms is reliable across repeated measurements. You can find the e-pub ahead of print here, or check the updated pre-print until the paper becomes open access. 

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  • Peter Lakatos memorial symposium. Our field lost a gentle giant this year when Peter Lakatos passed away. Although it was not a talk I would have ever wanted to give, it was an honor to speak at his memorial symposium on his contribution to auditory attention. Sincere thanks to the organizers (Jonas Obleser and Maria Chait) and to APAN for hosting the session. You can read a beautiful obituary here. 

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  • Highlights from the Max Planck Society Yearbook 2020. Each year, the Max Planck Society submits a scientific research report in the form of a yearbook to provide an account of the scientific research performed at its Institutes to the public and its funding providers. The central questions addressed are: where do we stand, and where do we want to go? We were thrilled to have our work – "Better Hearing through Brain Stimulation" – featured as a 2020 Highlight. 

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  • Welcome to the group Liza Mekschrat, who will join us for an internship over the next few months!

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  • Welcome to new group members Lea Kerciku and Minju Kim. Both are student assistants from the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience program here in Frankfurt. 

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  • Yuranny Cabral-Calderin presented our latest findings at APAN 2020 (Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience)!

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  • Congratulations to Vera Komeyer and Nicole Huizinga! The group's first master students have finished and moved on to bigger and better things. 

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  • Welcome to new group members Keyvan Mahjoory (postdoc), Celine Bialek (student assistant), and Christina Frede-Trujillo (student assistant) to the group! 

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  • Molly is freshly back from TRF2 in Querétaro, Mexico and SFN in Chicago. Both were a blast and my brain is full of good science. 

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  • Matt Moore and Vera Komeyer arrived in October! Our group is now complete for the time being. 

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  • Welcome to the group: Olivia Wen, Ece Kaya, Nicole Huizinga, and Kristin Weineck! It really feels a bit like the first day of school. 

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  • Job opening! We're hiring an admin assistant to three research groups at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. Get in touch if you have questions. 

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  • I got so busy I forgot to announce a new paper in Current Biology with the one and only Juan Chen at the helm (I was mostly there for moral support). 

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  • Welcome Yuranny Cabral-Calderin! Yuranny is the first postdoc to join the group. Very excited to start some serious brain stimulation work with Yuranny at the wheel. 

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  • Welcome Tara Afghah! Tara is a visiting scholar in the group and a PhD student at UCSD. She'll be with us for a year.

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  • April 1, 2019: We're live. The Max Planck Research Group "Neural and Environmental Rhythms is live and ready for science. 

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  • Call for applications has closed. Apps for postdoc and PhD positions are being evaluated now. 

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  • First day of work! I'll be arriving in Frankfurt for my first day of work on Jan. 14. I'm so excited. 

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  • October 2018: New paper accepted! "Cortical tracking of rhythm in speech and music" has been accepted for publication in NeuroImage. Great work by lead author Eleanor Harding, and the rest of the team, Daniela Sammler, Ed Large, and Sonja Kotz.  

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  • July 2018: ERC Starting Grant funded!! The embargo has been lifted, so now I can share the exciting news that my project "Brain–environment synchrony and the auditory perception problem" has funding for five years. 

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  • July 2018: New paper accepted! Congratulations to Anna Wilsch (and of course co-authors Björn Herrmann, Christoph Herrmann, and Jonas Obleser) on publishing "Temporal expectation modulates the cortical dynamics of short-term memory". 

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  • July 2018: Well, technically June for another 2 hours. Taking off shortly for CuttingEEG in Paris! Will be leading a tutorial on frequency tagging (but sneaking in my own take on relating the phase of neural oscillations to behavior). 

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  • June 2018: On my way to Montreal to teach at the CAMBAM/NSERC-CREATE summer school on Nonlinear Dynamics in Life Sciences with Applications to Neuroscience and Psychology. Excited!

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  • June 2018: Freshly home after three weeks on the road. Highlights included the Auditory EEG Signal Processing (AESoP) symposium in Leuven, which was tons of fun!, and a visit to the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. 

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  • April 2018: Spent the month at the Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Floris de Lange's lab analyzing MEG data and loving the Netherlands in the spring. 

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  • March 2018: It was a great pleasure to be invited to present at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting as part of a symposium on "What makes musical rhythm special?" I talked about the synchronization of audience members' brains with each other during a live concert. You can read some of the press related to the study here or here. Or here's one in German. 

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  • January 2018: Freshly back from Perturbing and Enhancing Perception and Action using Oscillatory Neural Stimulation at the MRC–CBU in Cambridge. Lots of exciting research in a growing field presented by really great company made for a lovely couple of days.

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