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| Uta NoppeneySummaryAffiliation: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Country: Germany Publications
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Two approaches to repetition suppressionUta Noppeney
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Hum Brain Mapp 27:411-6. 2006..Finally, we combined the two approaches in a [global null] conjunction analysis...- Temporal lobe lesions and semantic impairment: a comparison of herpes simplex virus encephalitis and semantic dementiaUta Noppeney
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Brain 130:1138-47. 2007.... 
Natural, metaphoric, and linguistic auditory direction signals have distinct influences on visual motion processingSepideh Sadaghiani
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
J Neurosci 29:6490-9. 2009..In conclusion, natural motion signals are integrated in audiovisual motion areas, whereas the influence of culturally learnt signals emerges primarily in higher-level convergence regions...- Identification of degenerate neuronal systems based on intersubject variabilityUta Noppeney
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, 12 Queen Square, WC1 N3BG London, UK
Neuroimage 30:885-90. 2006..These results suggest that semantic decisions on auditory-visual compound stimuli might be accomplished by two overlapping degenerate neuronal systems... - Perceptual decisions formed by accumulation of audiovisual evidence in prefrontal cortexUta Noppeney
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany
J Neurosci 30:7434-46. 2010..To form decisions that guide behavioral responses, the IFS may accumulate audiovisual evidence by dynamically weighting its connectivity to auditory and visual regions according to sensory reliability and decisional relevance... - The effects of visual deprivation on functional and structural organization of the human brainUta Noppeney
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, Tuebingen, Germany
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 31:1169-80. 2007..Importantly, these plastic changes vary as a function of timing and are most pronounced in early onset blindness. Thus, sensory experience shapes functional and structural brain organization during sensitive periods in neurodevelopment... - The effect of prior visual information on recognition of speech and soundsUta Noppeney
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany
Cereb Cortex 18:598-609. 2008..semantic) determines its regional expression (middle temporal gyrus/STS vs. AG/intraparietal sulcus)... - The neural systems of tool and action semantics: a perspective from functional imagingUta Noppeney
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 41, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
J Physiol Paris 102:40-9. 2008..g. action vs. visual). Within this framework, we will review functional imaging evidence that semantic processing of tools and actions may rely on activations within the visuo-motor system... - Distinct functional contributions of primary sensory and association areas to audiovisual integration in object categorizationSebastian Werner
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
J Neurosci 30:2662-75. 2010..Furthermore, in STS/IPS, the profiles of audiovisual interactions were behaviorally relevant and predicted subjects' multisensory benefits in performance accuracy... - Physical and perceptual factors shape the neural mechanisms that integrate audiovisual signals in speech comprehensionHweeLing Lee
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
J Neurosci 31:11338-50. 2011.... - Two distinct neural mechanisms for category-selective responsesUta Noppeney
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1 N3BG, UK
Cereb Cortex 16:437-45. 2006..In terms of neuronal mechanisms, the category selectivity may be mediated by distinct top-down (task-dependent) and bottom-up (stimulus-dependent) mechanisms... - Imaging seizure activity: a combined EEG/EMG-fMRI study in reading epilepsyAfraim Salek-Haddadi
Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
Epilepsia 50:256-64. 2009..To characterize the spatial relationship between activations related to language-induced seizure activity, language processing, and motor control in patients with reading epilepsy... - Superadditive responses in superior temporal sulcus predict audiovisual benefits in object categorizationSebastian Werner
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Cereb Cortex 20:1829-42. 2010.... - Audiovisual synchrony improves motion discrimination via enhanced connectivity between early visual and auditory areasRichard Lewis
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
J Neurosci 30:12329-39. 2010..These automatic synchrony-induced response amplifications may then be gated to higher order areas according to behavioral relevance and task context... 
Long-term music training tunes how the brain temporally binds signals from multiple sensesHweeLing Lee
Cognitive Neuroimaging Group, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:E1441-50. 2011..Our findings show intimate links between action production and audiovisual temporal binding in perception...- Early visual deprivation induces structural plasticity in gray and white matterUta Noppeney
Functional Imaging Laboratory, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, UK
Curr Biol 15:R488-90. 2005 - Effects of visual deprivation on the organization of the semantic systemUta Noppeney
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
Brain 126:1620-7. 2003..In contrast, the exuberant functional connectivity between extrastriate and 'core' semantic retrieval regions might be explained by abnormal pruning processes during early neurodevelopment... - Retrieval of abstract semanticsUta Noppeney
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1 N3BG, UK
Neuroimage 22:164-70. 2004..Subjects might therefore generate an appropriate semantic sentential context to fully explore and specify the meaning of abstract concepts. Our results also explain why abstract semantics is vulnerable to left frontotemporal lesions... - Hemispheric asymmetries in language-related pathways: a combined functional MRI and tractography studyH W Robert Powell
Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
Neuroimage 32:388-99. 2006..These structural asymmetries are in keeping with the lateralization of language function and indicate the major structural connections underlying this function... - Reading skills after left anterior temporal lobe resection: an fMRI studyUta Noppeney
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
Brain 128:1377-85. 2005..e. the left middle temporal, right hippocampus and anterior superior temporal sulcus); and (ii) recruiting right hemisphere regions (i.e. the right inferior frontal sulcus) that are not activated in control subjects... - Selective activation around the left occipito-temporal sulcus for words relative to pictures: individual variability or false positives?Nicholas D Wright
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Hum Brain Mapp 29:986-1000. 2008..More generally, they show that studies using low statistical thresholds in single subject analyses should correct the statistical threshold for the number of comparisons made or replicate effects within subject... - Steady-state responses in MEG demonstrate information integration within but not across the auditory and visual sensesAnette S Giani
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany
Neuroimage 60:1478-89. 2012..In conclusion, our results indicate that information in SSRs is integrated over multiple time scales within but not across sensory modalities at the primary cortical level... - Prior auditory information shapes visual category-selectivity in ventral occipito-temporal cortexRuth Adam
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany
Neuroimage 52:1592-602. 2010..In the left inferior frontal sulcus, as indexed by a significant incongruency effect, visual and auditory category information are integrated interactively for response selection... - A dynamic causal modeling study on category effects: bottom-up or top-down mediation?Andrea Mechelli
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 15:925-34. 2003..These findings indicate that category effects in the occipital and temporal cortex can be mediated by bottom-up mechanisms-a finding that needs to be embraced by models of category specificity... - Can segregation within the semantic system account for category-specific deficits?Jacqueline A Phillips
The Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
Brain 125:2067-80. 2002.... - Degenerate neuronal systems sustaining cognitive functionsUta Noppeney
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
J Anat 205:433-42. 2004..We discuss how degenerate neuronal systems can be revealed using (1) intersubject variability, (2) multiple lesion studies and (3) an iterative approach integrating information from lesion and functional imaging studies... - Neurolinguistics: structural plasticity in the bilingual brainAndrea Mechelli
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
Nature 431:757. 2004..This relation between grey-matter density and performance may represent a general principle of brain organization... - Normal and pathological reading: converging data from lesion and imaging studiesCathy J Price
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
Neuroimage 20:S30-41. 2003..Future studies are required to examine the connectivity between these areas during normal and abnormal reading... - The contributions of transient and sustained response codes to audiovisual integrationSebastian Werner
Cognitive Neuroimaging Group, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Cereb Cortex 21:920-31. 2011..From a methodological perspective, these results highlight the limitations of conventional event related or block designs that cannot characterize these rich dynamics of audiovisual integration... - Audiovisual interactions in binocular rivalryVerena Conrad
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany
J Vis 10:27. 2010..Our findings suggest that auditory modulation of perceptual dominance times might be established in a top-down fashion by means of feedback mechanisms... - Source reconstruction accuracy of MEG and EEG Bayesian inversion approachesPaolo Belardinelli
MEG Center, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
PLoS ONE 7:e51985. 2012..However, the spatial accuracy of ARD and GS is generally limited to the order of one centimeter. We found that the use of correlated covariance priors made no difference to ARD/GS performance... - The neural mechanisms of reliability weighted integration of shape information from vision and touchHannah B Helbig
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany
Neuroimage 60:1063-72. 2012..Somatosensory and visual cortices may sustain integration of visual and tactile shape information either via direct connections from visual areas or top-down effects from higher order parietal areas... - Functional imaging of the semantic system: retrieval of sensory-experienced and verbally learned knowledgeUta Noppeney
The Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
Brain Lang 84:120-33. 2003.... - Effects of parietal TMS on visual and auditory processing at the primary cortical level -- a concurrent TMS-fMRI studyJoana Leitão
Cognitive Neuroimaging Group, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Cereb Cortex 23:873-84. 2013..Collectively, our results demonstrate that understanding TMS effects on (uni)sensory processing requires a multisensory perspective... - Interactions between apparent motion rivalry in vision and touchVerena Conrad
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany
Psychol Sci 23:940-8. 2012..Critically, the specificity of visuotactile interactions for spatially congruent stimulation indicates multisensory rather than cognitive-bias mechanisms... - The integration of higher order form and motion by the human brainPegah Sarkheil
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany
Neuroimage 42:1529-36. 2008.... - Anterior temporal cortex and semantic memory: reconciling findings from neuropsychology and functional imagingTimothy T Rogers
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, England, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 6:201-13. 2006..Critically, in patients with atrophy in precisely these areas, the most pronounced deficit was in the retrieval of specific semantic information...