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Tobias Overath

Tobias Overath

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
t.overath@duke.edu
90999, Durham, NC 27708
308 Research Drive, LSRC Room B248A, Duke University, Box 90999, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances

Acoustic and linguistic processing of temporal speech structure · July 2018 Invited Talk ExpORL at the University of Leuven, Belgium,
Acoustic and linguistic processing of temporal speech structure · July 2018 Invited Talk Hearing4All Cluster of Excellence at the University of Oldenburg, Germany,

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Data+ Project Leader - Data+ · 2023 Projects & Field Work
Summer Neuroscience Program Mentor - Summer Neuroscience Program · 2021 - 2022 Projects & Field Work Brain & Society
Science Mentor: Frontiers for Young Minds · November 2018 Community Outreach Science Mentor for 4th graders at local public elementary school, reviewing article for Frontiers for Young Minds (https://kids.frontiersin.org/)
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Music and Memory in the Aging Brain · July 2015 - May 2016 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Perception, Language, Memory · August 2014 - May 2015 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Perception, Language, Memory · August 2013 - May 2014 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America

Service to the Profession

Review Editor: Frontiers for Young Minds | Understanding Neuroscience · November 2018 Editorial Activities
Program Committee member: Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN) conference · January 2018 - December 2020 Committee Service

Program committee member of Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN) conference
Review Editor: Frontiers in Neuroscience & Psychology | Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience · January 2012 Editorial Activities

Frontiers in Neuroscience & Psychology | Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience

Service to Duke

Lafitte Foundation Graduate Research and Travel Awards Review Panel (Program) · September 2018 Committee Service
Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program Steering Committee (Program) · November 2016 Committee Service

Academic & Administrative Activities

2018:
  • Committee member for PhD candidate David Murphy’s MAP
  • Committee member for Lidea Shahidi’s MA thesis defense (Collins lab, ECE)
  • Lecturer: fMRI Lab as part of the Neuroscience Bootcamp for incoming CNAP and P&N graduate students
  • Advising of four undergraduate students in the lab (e.g. as part of Independent Study project), and graduate student David Murphy (shared with Jenni Groh)
2016:
  • Dissertation committee member of Kurtis Gruters (Groh lab).
  • Advisor to high school senior Jade Wu as part of the North Carolina School for Science and Math Mentorship Program
  • Lecturer. Lecture & Lab on fMRI for the Neuroscience bootcamp. Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program.
  • Lecturer. Lecture on Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience for the Neuroscience bootcamp.. Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program.
2015
  • Advisor to high school senior Jade Wu as part of the North Carolina School for Science and Math Mentorship Program
  • Lecturer. Lecture & Lab on fMRI for the Neuroscience bootcamp. Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program.
2014
  • Guest lecturer on Sound Processing in the Brain for a house course on Rhythm in Indian Music Systems