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Julia Erb. Completed the Doktor (PhD) in Psychology in 2014/06/16 at Universität Leipzig and Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften; Master in Integrative Biology and Physiology in 2010/07/01 by Sorbonne Université Campus Pierre et Marie Curie; Bachelor in Biomedicine in 2008/07/01 by Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. Is Postdoc in Universität zu Lübeck Institut für Psychologie I. Published 8 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Has received 4 awards and/or honors. In their professional activities interacted with 20 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Julia Erb

Citation names

  • Erb, Julia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
721A-55CA-5FCB
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3440-7269

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
German (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2010/12/01 - 2014/06/16
Concluded
 Psychology (Doktor (PhD))
Universität Leipzig Fakultät für Biowissenschaften Pharmazie und Psychologie, Germany

Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Germany
"The neural dynamics of adaptation to degraded speech." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008/09/01 - 2010/07/01
Concluded
 Integrative Biology and Physiology (Master)
Major in Neuroscience
Sorbonne Université Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, France
"Abnormal brain activation patterns in developmental stuttering during listening and covert reading." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2005/10/01 - 2008/07/01
Concluded
 Biomedicine (Bachelor)
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
"Oncostatin-M signal transduction." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/11/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
2021/03/01 - 2022/09/30 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Mimi Hearing Technologies, Germany
2018/03/01 - 2021/02/28 Postdoc (Research) Universität zu Lübeck Institut für Psychologie I, Germany
2014/09/01 - 2017/06/01 Postdoc (Research) Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Netherlands
2014/03/01 - 2014/08/01 Visiting Researcher (Research) Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino, Brazil
2010/12/01 - 2014/06/16 Researcher (Research) Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Germany
2010/01/01 - 2010/07/01 Research Trainee (Research) Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/11/01 - 2028/10/31 Sensitivity to speech-relevant acoustic features in the hallucination-prone human brain
2021.03491.CEECIND
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/03/01 - 2020/12/01 Acoustic feature encoding in the aging auditory cortex
646696
Post-doc Fellow
European Research Council
2014/09/01 - 2017/06/01 Natural sound-encoding in human and monkey auditory cortex
785907
Post-doc Fellow
Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Netherlands
 Horizon 2020
2010/12/01 - 2014/06/16 Neural dynamics of perceptual adaptation to degraded speech
00000
 Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Obleser, Jonas; Erb, Julia. "Neural Filters for Challenging Listening Situations". In The Cognitive Neurosciences. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT Press, 2020.
    Published
  2. Erb, Julia; Obleser, Jonas. "Coding of Spectral Information". In The Senses Volume II Audition. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier, 2020.
    Under revision
Conference paper
  1. Erb, Julia; Schmitt, Lea-Maria; Obleser, Jonas. "fMRI encoding and decoding of natural sounds in the aged human auditory cortex". 2019.
    10.32470/ccn.2019.1140-0
  2. Schmitt, Lea-Maria; Erb, Julia; Tune, Sarah; Rysop, Anna; Hartwigsen, Gesa; Obleser, Jonas. "Reading times and temporo-parietal BOLD activity encode the semantic hierarchy of language prediction". 2019.
    10.32470/ccn.2019.1333-0
  3. Armendariz Marcelo; Erb Julia; De Martino Federico; Formisano Elia; Vanduffel Wim. "Encoding of natural sounds in human and monkey auditory cortex". 2015.
    10.3389/conf.fninf.2015.19.00019
Journal article
  1. Franzen, L.; Eickhoff, S.; Schewe, H.; Schmitt, L. M.; Erb, J.; Borgwardt, S.; Andreou, C.; Obleser, J.. "Patients with psychotic disorders exhibit different audio-visual perceptual decision biases and metacognitive abilities". European Psychiatry 66 S1 (2023): S129-S130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.334.
    10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.334
  2. Schmitt, Lea-Maria; Erb, Julia; Tune, Sarah; Rysop, Anna U.; Hartwigsen, Gesa; Obleser, Jonas. "Predicting speech from a cortical hierarchy of event-based time scales". Science Advances 7 49 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi6070.
    10.1126/sciadv.abi6070
  3. Wöstmann, Malte; Erb, Julia; Kreitewolf, Jens; Obleser, Jonas. "Personality captures dissociations of subjective versus objective hearing in noise". Royal Society Open Science 8 11 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210881.
    10.1098/rsos.210881
  4. Erb, Julia; Schmitt, Lea-Maria; Obleser, Jonas. "Temporal selectivity declines in the aging human auditory cortex". eLife 9 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.55300.
    Published • 10.7554/elife.55300
  5. Erb, Julia; Kreitewolf, Jens; Pinheiro, Ana P; Obleser, Jonas. "Aberrant Perceptual Judgments on Speech-Relevant Acoustic Features in Hallucination-Prone Individuals". Schizophrenia Bulletin Open 1 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgaa059.
    10.1093/schizbullopen/sgaa059
  6. Erb, Julia; Ludwig, Alexandra Annemarie; Kunke, Dunja; Fuchs, Michael; Obleser, Jonas. "Temporal Sensitivity Measured Shortly After Cochlear Implantation Predicts 6-Month Speech Recognition Outcome". Ear and Hearing 40 1 (2019): 27-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000000588.
    10.1097/aud.0000000000000588
  7. Erb, Julia; Armendariz, Marcelo; De Martino, Federico; Goebel, Rainer; Vanduffel, Wim; Formisano, Elia. "Homology and Specificity of Natural Sound-Encoding in Human and Monkey Auditory Cortex". Cerebral Cortex 29 9 (2018): 3636-3650. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy243.
    10.1093/cercor/bhy243
  8. Mathias Scharinger; Molly J. Henry; Julia Erb; Lars Meyer; Jonas Obleser. "Thalamic and parietal brain morphology predicts auditory category learning". Neuropsychologia 53 (2014): 75-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.012.
    10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.012
  9. J. Erb; M. J. Henry; F. Eisner; J. Obleser. "The Brain Dynamics of Rapid Perceptual Adaptation to Adverse Listening Conditions". Journal of Neuroscience 33 26 (2013): 10688-10697. http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.4596-12.2013.
    10.1523/jneurosci.4596-12.2013
  10. Julia Erb; Jonas Obleser. "Upregulation of cognitive control networks in older adults’ speech comprehension". Front. Syst. Neurosci. 7 (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2013.00116.
    10.3389/fnsys.2013.00116
  11. Julia Erb; Molly J. Henry; Frank Eisner; Jonas Obleser. "Auditory skills and brain morphology predict individual differences in adaptation to degraded speech". Neuropsychologia 50 9 (2012): 2154-2164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.05.013.
    10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.05.013
Magazine article
  1. Erb, Julia. "Out of tune", eLife Digest on Erb et al., 2020, 2020, https://elifesciences.org/digests/55300/out-of-tune.

Other

Dataset
  1. Erb, Julia. German Speech in Noise Sentences.
    10.1037/t27721-000
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/02/19 Do hallucination-prone individuals perceive acoustic features differently? Invited talk
Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, PT
2019/10/25 Natural sound-encoding in the primate auditory cortex. Invited talk
Washington University, St. Louis, US
2019/10/18 fMRI encoding and decoding of natural sounds in the aged human auditory cortex. Talk (slide session speaker) Tucker-Davis Symposium on Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neurophysiology (APAN), Chicago, US
2018/06 Natural sound-encoding in the human and non-human primate auditory cortex. Invited talk
Department of Psychology, Oldenburg University, DE
2018/01 Natural sound-encoding in the primate auditory cortex. Invited talk
Department of Neurology, Heidelberg University, DE
2017/03 Natural sound-encoding in the primate auditory cortex. Invited talk
Timone Neuroscience Institute, University Aix-Marseille, FR
2015/10 Homology and specificity of natural sound-encoding in human and monkey auditory cortex. Talk (slide session speaker); selected as a Neuroscience 2015 Hot Topic APAN and the Society for Neuroscience Meeting (SfN), Chicago, US
2015/09 Processing of natural sounds in the macaque auditory cortex: An fMRI-encoding study. Invited talk Human Brain Project Summit, Madrid, ES
2015/05 Processing of natural sounds in the macaque auditory cortex: An fMRI-encoding study. Invited talk Dutch auditory meeting “WAS-Dag“, Groningen, NL
2014/05 How does the listening brain adapt to challenging acoustic conditions? Invited talk
Intsituto D’Or, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2013/12 How does the listening brain adapt to challenging acoustic conditions? Talk (Institute Colloquium)
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2016 - 2017 Cortical Encoding of Phoneme Classes: Multivariate Regression on 7T-fMRI Data.
Co-supervisor
Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Netherlands

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2015/10/17 - 2015/10/21 Nanosymposium: Cortical processing of complex sound. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Chicago, US (2015/10/19 - 2015/10/19)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Society for Neuroscience, United States

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/10 - 2019/10 Poster presentation: Schmitt LM, Erb J, Tune S, Rysop A, Hartwigsen G, Obleser J. The auditory dorsal pathway mirrors the semantic hierarchy of speech prediction.
Conference
 SfN and APAN 2019, Chicago, US
2019/09 - 2019/09 1st author poster presentation: Erb J, Schmitt LM, Obleser J. fMRI encoding and decoding of natural sounds in the aged human auditory cortex.
Conference
 Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) 2019, Berlin, DE
2019/09 - 2019/09 Poster presentation: Schmitt LM, Erb J, Tune S, Rysop A, Hartwigsen G, Obleser J. Reading times and temporo-parietal BOLD activity encode the semantic hierarchy of language prediction.
Conference
 CCN 2019, Berlin, DE
2019 - 2019 1st author poster presentation: Erb J, Schmitt LM, Obleser J. Encoding of natural sounds in the aging human auditory cortex.
Conference
 SfN 2019, Chicago, US
2018/11 - 2018/11 1st author poster presentation: Erb J, Düwel D, Valente G, De Martino F & Formisano E. Decoding of phonemes in continuous speech from fMRI response patterns. *selected as a Neuroscience 2018 Hot Topic.
Conference
 SfN and APAN 2018, San Diego, US
2015/12 - 2015/12 Poster presentation: Armendariz M, Erb J, De Martino F, Formisano E & Vanduffel W. Encoding of natural sounds in human and monkey auditory cortex.
Conference
 Second Belgian Neuroinformatics Congress 2015, Leuven, BE
2013/11 - 2013/11 1st author poster presentation: Erb J, Henry MJ, & Obleser J. Auditory envelope processing shifts from sensory cortices towards cognitive control systems with age.
Conference
 SfN 2013, San Diego, US
2013/05 - 2013/05 1st author poster presentation: Erb J, & Obleser J. Perceptual adaptation to degraded speech in older adults: Behavioural and neural signatures.
Conference
 Psychologie und Gehirn, Würzburg, DE
2012/11 - 2012/11 Poster presentation: Scharinger M, Erb J, Henry MJ, & Obleser J. Cortical dynamics and subcortical morphology predict rapid adaptation to changing spectro-temporal cues.
Conference
 SfN 2012, New Orleans, US
2012/03 - 2012/03 1st-author poster presentation: Erb J, Henry MJ, Eisner F, & Obleser J. Auditory non-speech skills predict individual differences in adaptation to degraded speech.
Conference
 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), Chicago, US, March 2012.
2012 - 2012 1st author poster presentation: Erb J, Henry MJ, Eisner F, & Obleser J. Perceptual adaptation to degraded speech: Tuning in cortical and subcortical brain structures.
Conference
 SfN 2012, New Orleans, US / Meeting of the Society for Aphasia 2012, Leipzig
2010/11 - 2010/11 Poster presentation: Wang L, Erb J, Supplisson S, Bongard M, Fernandez E, Schramm A, Marinazzo D, Dubayle D, & Graham LJ. Trans-synaptic retrograde tracing of neuronal pathways with a plasmid coding for the non-toxic fragment C of the tetanus neurotoxin.
Conference
 SfN 2010, San Diego, US
2010 - 2010 1st author poster presentation: Erb J, Gough PM, Ward D, & Watkins KE. Abnormal brain activation patterns in developmental stuttering during listening and covert reading. *selected as a Neuroscience 2010 Hot Topic.
Conference
 SfN 2010, San Diego, US

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2019/10 Exploration of the cognitive facet of schizotypy with respect to speech perception.
Supervisor
 Hannah Kleinhaus (Other)
Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
2019/09 The relation of schizotypal expressions and internal representation of speech in a nonclinical sample.
Supervisor
 Tabea Landschoff (Other)
Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
2019/09 The relation of schizotypy and hallucination proneness with speech perception and confidence in one's own perception.
Supervisor
 Franziska Mauz (Other)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/12 - Current Functional MRI Neuroimaging (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/10 - 2021/02 Auditory Cognition. Co-ordination and teaching. 1st-year Master of Hearing and Audiological Technology (Master) Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
2019/02 - 2019/07 Psychophysics. Elective in Bachelor of Psychology Psychology (Bachelor) Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
2018/09 - 2019/02 Auditory Cognition. Co-organization and teaching. 1st-year Master of Hearing and Audiological Technology (Master) Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
2018/09 - 2019/02 Advanced Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience (Psychophysics, MRI and PET). 1st-year Master of Psychology (Master) Universität zu Lübeck Institut für Psychologie I, Germany
2016 - 2016 Hearing: Basic principles and neurophysiology. Lecture for Maastricht Science Programme Cognitive Neuroscience (Master) Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
2016 - 2016 Functional Neuroanatomy. Psychology (Bachelor) Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Netherlands
2016 - 2016 Perception. Psychology (Bachelor) Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Netherlands
2015 - 2015 Methods and Paradigms in Cognitive Neuroscience. Psychology (Bachelor) Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Netherlands
2015 - 2015 Research - How to do it? Research practical. Psychology (Bachelor) Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Netherlands

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2020/05 - 2020/11 Search Committee for a Tenure-Track Position in Psychology
Member
 Universität zu Lübeck, Germany

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2012 - 2012 German radio (“DRadio Wissen”) 5-min feature and German press coverage on Erb et al., Neuropsychologia 2012 Hearing under adverse listening conditions

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020 - 2021 Neuroimage Reports
2019 - 2021 Science Advances
2017 - 2021 Scientific Reports
2012 - 2021 Neuroimage
2011 - 2021 Journal of Neuroscience
2018 - 2020 Ear and Hearing
2018 - 2020 Experimental Aging Research
2018 - 2020 Neural plasticity
2017 - 2020 Hearing Research
2017 - 2020 Plos One
2017 - 2020 Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2017 - 2020 International Journal of Audiology
2016 - 2019 Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
2017 - 2018 Journal of Neuroscience Research
2017 - 2018 Frontiers in Cognition
2012 - 2013 Journal of Neurology Surgery

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2019 - 2019 Speech perception in Hallucination-proneness. Three BSc theses Hannah Kleinhaus, Franziska Mauz, Tabea Landschoff (University of Lübeck)
2017 - 2017 Cortical magnification in audition, MSc research internship Antonio Smeby Torres (Maastricht University)
2016 - 2016 Consonance and dissonance perception. BSc thesis André Seidel (Maastricht University)
2011 - 2011 Voxel-based-morphometry. BSc research elective Zoe Schlüter (MPI for human cognitive and brain sciences, Leipzig)

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2015 - 2015 Reviewing of Grants: Action on Hearing Loss (UK)
Distinctions

Award

2012 Travel Grant
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Germany
2010 PhD Fellowship
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, Germany
2010 Travel Grant
2009 Fellowship for MSc studies
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Germany