Lars Riecke

Repeated listening induces exposure-specific cortical tracking of intelligible continuous speech

The paper shows that repeated exposure to intelligible speech enhances cortical tracking of sublexical features, with prediction performance decreasing as temporal distance between exposures increases.

Deep Sound Synthesis Reveals Novel Category-Defining Sound Features in the Human Auditory Cortex

The paper identifies novel sound features in the human auditory cortex using deep sound synthesis and neuroimaging, showing that unnatural sounds can elicit natural categorical responses.

Natural body-selective motion processing in humans: Evidence from event-related potentials

The paper shows that the human cortex distinguishes naturalistic body motion from objects at the P2 stage, with similar body-specific modulation across human and monkey stimuli.

Behavioral and neural evidence for perceptual predictions in social interactions

The paper tests if social predictions during observation of interactions influence perception of emotional expressions, finding behavioral and neural evidence for this effect.

Theta activity discriminates high-level, species-specific body processes

The paper investigates theta activity in response to body images, finding a species-specific neural response to human bodies.

Multimodal acoustic-electric trigeminal nerve stimulation modulates conscious perception

This study shows that multimodal acoustic-electric trigeminal nerve stimulation improves conscious tactile perception in healthy humans through interplay between acoustic and electric stimulation and correlates with neural connectivity changes.

Early threat perception is independent of later cognitive and behavioral control. A virtual reality-EEG-ECG study

This study uses VR-EEG-ECG to show that social threat perception occurs early in processing, while control ability relates to later cognitive evaluation.

Effects of continuous tactile stimulation on auditory-evoked cortical responses depend on the audio-tactile phase

This study investigates how continuous tactile stimulation affects auditory-evoked cortical responses based on audio-tactile phase alignment, finding enhanced cortical processing with in-phase stimulation and suppressed responses with anti-phase stimulation, without corresponding behavioral benefits.

Speech sound categorization: The contribution of non-auditory and auditory cortical regions

The paper investigates how the brain categorizes speech sounds by identifying brain regions that represent syllable reports independently of acoustic stimuli.

Biasing the perception of spoken words with tACS

This study investigates how transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) at different frequencies affects the perception of spoken words, finding a significant effect when words are presented in sentences but not in isolation.

How to test for phasic modulation of neural and behavioural responses

This study evaluates methods for detecting phase effects in neural and behavioural responses using simulations and identifies optimal approaches for different response types.

Dual-site high-density 4Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation applied over auditory and motor cortical speech areas does not influence auditory-motor mapping

This study applies dual-site TACS to auditory and motor cortex to test if theta phase coupling affects auditory-motor mapping, but finds no significant effect on verbal repetition performance.