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Friedemann Pulvermuller

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Friedemann Pulvermuller

Contact details

E-mail address: friedemann.pulvermuller@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 355294 (extension 670)
Direct line: +44 (0)1223 273691
Fax: +44 (0)1223 359062
Address: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15 Chaucer Road,
Cambridge,
CB2 7EF

Research areas

What are the nerve cell circuits that enable us to speak and understand? My colleagues and I address facets of this question by theorising, experimenting and modelling. Individual projects focus on the binding between a word's form and meaning (more precisely: between the brain correlates of word form and word meaning), the binding between different words and morphemes in well-formed syntactic strings (likewise) and the relationship between perception, action and language mechanisms in the brain. I also work on the treatment of language deficits caused by disease of the brain (aphasia), for example by stroke.

My group uses the following experimental methods: MEG, EEG, fMRI, clinical behavioural investigation, neural network simulations and, in collaboration with other groups, TMS and ECoG. If time allows, we also use our own brains to generate new ideas about how the brain might manage to make the mouth speak and the mind understand.

Applications of doctorate students are welcome in all of our current areas of research.

More information can be found here:

Work and functions

My job title is MRC Programme Leader in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language. I am also the Head of the CBU's MEG facility, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge University, and a Professor at the University of Wales, Anglia Ruskin University and St. Petersburg State University.

Scientists working with me at the MRC CBU

- Dr. Yury Shtyrov

- Dr. Olaf Hauk

- Dr. Max Garagnani

Doctoral student

- Zubaida Shebani

Main collaborators at CBU and in Cambridge

- Prof. William Marslen-Wilson

- Dr. Karalyn Patterson

- Dr. Bob Carlyon

- Dr. Bettina Mohr

- Dr. Matt Davis

- Dr. Sami Boudelaa

- Dr. Michele Miozzo

- Prof. Roy Patterson

- Dr. Rik Henson

- Prof Usha Goswami

Main collaborators outside Cambridge

- Prof. Marcelo Berthier, University of Malaga

- Prof. Luciano Fadiga, University of Ferrara

- Profs. Vittorio Gallese, Giacomo Rizzolatti, University of Parma

- Prof. Risto Ilmoniemi, Helsinki University of Technology

- Profs. Teija Kujala, Risto Näätänen, University of Helsinki

- Dr. Thomas Wennekers, University of Plymouth

- Prof. Stefan Wermter, University of Sunderland

Postdocs who worked with me in the past

- Dr. Hubert Preissl

- Dr. Christian Dobel

- Dr. Fermin Moscoso Del Prado Martin

- Dr. Martina Huss

- Dr. Katja Osswald

- Dr. Veronique Boulenger

- Dr. Kambiz Tavabi

Past students

- Dr. Bettina Neininger

- Dr. Ramin Assadollahi

- James Kiff, M.phil.

- Dr. Max Garagnani

CBU publications

  • Berthier, M.L., Green, C., Lara, J.P., Higueras, C., Barbancho, M.A., Davila, G. & PULVERMULLER, F. (In Press) Memantine and constraint-induced aphasia therapy in chronic post-stroke aphasia, Annals of Neurology #
  • BOUDELAA, S., PULVERMULLER, F., HAUK, O., SHTYROV, Y. & MARSLEN-WILSON, W. (In Press) Arabic morphology in the neural language system: A mismatch negativity study, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience #
  • CARLYON, R.P., DEEKS, J., SHTYROV, Y., GRAHN, J., GOCKEL, H.E., HAUK, O. & PULVERMULLER, F. (In Press) Changes in the perceived duration of a narrowband sound induced by a preceding stimulus: a retrospective effect in auditory perception?, Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Cooper-Pye, E., DINE, C., HAUK, O., Nestor, P. & PATTERSON, K. (In Press) All categories are equal but some categories are more equal than others, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Kherif, F, HAUK, O. & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (In Press) Cortical cell assemblies for lexical and category-specific semantic processing as revealed by fMRI cluster analysis, Human Brain Mapping #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (In Press) Are you listening? Language outside the focus of attention, In Advances in Consciousness Research (Ed Maxim Stamenov). John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia #
  • Boulenger, V., HAUK, O. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Grasping ideas with the motor system: Semantic somatotopy in idiom comprehension, Cerebral Cortex #
  • D'Ausilio, A., PULVERMULLER, F., Salmas, P., Bufalari, I., Begliomini, C. & Fadiga, L. (2009) The motor somatotopy of speech perception, Current Biology, 19(5), 381-385 #
  • D'Ausilio, A., PULVERMULLER, F., Salmas, P., Bufalari, I., Begliomini, C. & Fadiga, L. (2009) Speech perception may causally depend on the activity of motor centers, Current Biology, Online discussion #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Explaining Attention and Language interactions: magnetic MMN validation of neurocomputational predictions, Fifth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and it's Clinical and Scientific Applications, Budapest (Hungary), April 2009, Abstract A-0079, P 79 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Effects of attention on what is known and what is not: MEG evidence for functionally discrete memory circuits, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3(10), doi:10.3389/neuro.09.010.2009 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Brain-based modeling and neurophysiological investigations of attention-language interactions, British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN) Annual Meeting, London, UCL, September 2009, Abstract #59 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Separating the short and long-term memory components of the MMN response: a neurobiologically grounded computational model, Fifth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and it's Clinical and Scientific Applications, Budapest (Hungary), April 2009, Abstract A-0131, P 106 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Recruitment and consolidation of cell assemblies for words by way of Hebbian learning and competition in a multi-layer neural network, Cognitive Computation, 1(2), 160-176 #
  • HAUK, O., PULVERMULLER, F., Ford, M., MARSLEN-WILSON, W. & DAVIS, M.H. (2009) Can I have a quick word? Early electrophysiological manifestations of psycholinguistic processes revealed by event-related regression analysis of the EEG, Biological Psychiatry, 80(1), 64-74. #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & Knoblauch, a. (2009) Discrete combinatorial circuits emerging in neural networks: A mechanism for rules of grammar in the human brain?, Neural Networks, 22(2), 161-172 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & SHTYROV, Y. (2009) Discrete rule formation in brain-inspired neural networks, Neural Networks, 22(1), 161-172 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & SHTYROV, Y. (2009) Spatiotemporal Signatures of Large-Scale Synfire Chains for Speech Processing as Revealed by MEG, Cerebral Cortex, 19(1), 79-88 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., SHTYROV, Y. & HAUK, O. (2009) Understanding in an instant: Neurophysiological evidence for mechanistic language circuits in the brain, Brain and Language, 110(2), 81–94 #
  • Wermter, S., Page, M., KNowles, M, Gallese, V., PULVERMULLER, F. & Taylor, J. (2009) Multimodal communication in animals, humans and robots: An introduction to perspecitives in brain-inspired informatics, Neural Networks, 22(2), 111-115 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y., Kujala, T., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) Neurocomputational and neurophysiological studies of brain interactions of language and attention., Experimental Psychology Society Meeting - April 2008, p52 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y., Kujala, T., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) Neurocomputational and neurophysiological investigations of brain interactions of language and attention, 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 08), 4-6 September 2008, Cambridge, #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) Brain interactions of Language and Attention, 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, p2174 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) A neuroanatomically grounded Hebbian-learning model of attention–language interactions in the human brain, European Journal of Neuroscience, 27(2), 492-513 #
  • HAUK, O., DAVIS, M.H. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) Modulation of brain activity by multiple lexical and word form variables in visual word recognition: A parametric fMRI study, NeuroImage, 42(3), 1185-1195 #
  • HAUK, O., DAVIS, M.H., Ford, M., MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) Can I Have a Quick Word? The Time Course of Visual Word Recognition as Revealed by Linear Regression Analysis of ERP Data, THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE, Volume 1, p58 #
  • HAUK, O., DAVIS, M.H., Kherif, F. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) Imagery or meaning? Evidence for a semantic origin of category-specific brain activity in metabolic imaging, European Journal of Neuroscience, 27(7), 1856–1866 #
  • HAUK, O., SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) The time course of action and action-word comprehension in the human brain as revealed by neurophysiology, Journal of Physiology-Paris, 102(1-3), 50-58 #
  • MOHR, B., PULVERMULLER, F., Rockstroh, B. & Endrass, T (2008) Hemispheric cooperation - A crucial factor in schizophrenia?, NeuroImage, 41(3), 1102-1110 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) Brain embodiment of category specific semantic memory circuits, In G. Semin (Ed), Embodied grounding: Social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific approaches, p 71-97. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) Grounding language in the brain, In M. de Vega, A. Graesser & A.M. Glenberg (Eds), Symbols and Embodiment: Debates on Meaning and Cognition, 85-116 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & Berthier, M.L. (2008) Aphasia therapy on a neuroscience basis, Aphasiology, 22(6), 563-599 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & SHTYROV, Y. (2008) Spatiotemporal signatures of large-scale synfire chains for speech processing as revleaed by MEG, In: Biomag 2008, 16th International conference on biomagnetism, pp.128-129, Sapporo, 2008 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., SHTYROV, Y., Hastings, A., CARLYON, R.P (2008) Syntax as a reflex: Neurophysiological evidence for early automaticity of grammatical processing, Brain and Language, 104(3), 244-253 #
  • SHTYROV, Y., Osswald, K. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) Memory Traces for Spoken Words in the Brain as Revealed by the Hemodynamic Correlate of the Mismatch Negativity, Cerebral Cortex, 18(1), 29-37 #
  • Assadollahi, R. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Signatures of Syntactic Processing in the Neuromagnetic Mismatch Field, Psychophysiology, Volume 44, Issue s1, #
  • GARAGNANI, M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Early and late brain reflections of what makes sense: attention effects in a neuronal model of the language cortex., Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, p.87 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) A neuronal model of the language cortex, Neurocomputing , 70(10-12), 1914-1919 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Explaining the effects of attention on lexical processes using a single Hebbian neuronal model of the language cortex., 39th Annual General Meeting of the European Brain & Behaviour Society - Trieste, Italy, Sept. 2007. p.13. #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Early and late brain reflections of what makes sense: attention effects in a neuronal model of the language cortex., Proceedings of the Experimental Psychology Society Annual Meeting, Edinburgh - July 2007. p.122 #
  • HAUK, O., PATTERSON, K., WOOLLAMS, A., COOPER-PYE, E., PULVERMULLER, F. & Rogers, T.T. (2007) How the Camel Lost its Hump: The impact of object typicality on ERP signals in object decision, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(8), 1338-1353 #
  • MOHR, B., Endrass, T., HAUK, O. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) ERP correlates of the bilateral redundancy gain for words, Neuropsychologia, 45(9), 2114-2124 #
  • Penolazzi, B., HAUK, O. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Early Semantic Context Integration and Lexical Access as Revealed by Event-Related Potentials, Biological Psychology, 74(3), 374-388 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Brain processes of word recognition as revealed by neurophysiological imaging, In G. Gaskell (Ed.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Oxford University Press, 119-140 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & Assadollahi, R. (2007) Grammar or serial order?: Discrete combinatorial brain mechanisms reflected by the syntactic Mismatch Negativity, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 19(6), 971-980 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & SHTYROV, Y. (2007) Spatio-temporal characteristics of large-scale synfire chaing for language processing, 15th Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, G119 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Early MEG activation dynamics in the left temporal and inferior frontal cortex reflect semantic context integration, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(10), 1633-1642 #
  • SHTYROV, Y., GARAGNANI, M., Kujala, T., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Brain interactions of language and attention: MEG, EEG, fMRI and neurocomputational studies, 37th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 864.4 #
  • SHTYROV, Y., Kujala, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Interactions between language and attention systems: attention effects on early lexical processing, 14th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, P170 #
  • SHTYROV, Y., PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Language in the mismatch negativity design: motivations, benefits and prospects, Journal of Psychophysiology, 21(3-4), 176-187 #
  • BAK, T.H., Yancopoulou, D., NESTOR, P., Xuereb, H.J., Spillantini, M.G., PULVERMULLER, F. & HODGES, J.R. (2006) Clinical, imaging and pathological correlates of a hereditary deficit in verb and action processing, Brain, 129(2), 321-332 #
  • Berthier, M. L., PULVERMULLER, F., Green, C. & Higueras, C (2006) Are release phenomena explained by disinhibited mirror neuron circuits?: Arnold Pick's remarks on echographia and their relevance for modern cognitive neuroscience., Aphasiology, 20(5), 462-480 #
  • BOUDELAA, S., MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D., PULVERMULLER, F., HAUK, O. & SHTYROV, Y. (2006) The neural correlates of Arabic morphology: A mismatch negativity study with roots and word patterns, In: Fourth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, p.66 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) A neuronal model of the language cortex, Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 98 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) A neuronal model of the language cortex, 15th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting #
  • Gonzalez, J., Barros-Loscertales, A., PULVERMULLER, F., Meseguer. V., Sanjuan, A,, Belloch. V,, Avila, C. (2006) Reading cinnamon activates olfactory brain regions, Neuroimage, 32(2), 906-912 #
  • HAUK O., Kherif, F., DAVIS, M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) Parametric fMRI analysis of psycholinguistic parameters, Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, C53 #
  • HAUK, O., DAVIS, M.H., Ford, M., PULVERMULLER, F. & MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D. (2006) The time course of visual word-recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data, Neuroimage, 30(4),1383-1400 #
  • HAUK, O., PATTERSON, K., WOOLLAMS, A., Watling, L., PULVERMULLER, F. & Rogers, T. (2006) [Q:] When would you prefer a SOSSAGE to a SAUSAGE? [A:] At about 100 ms. ERP correlates of orthographic typicality and lexicality in written word recognition., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(5), 818-832 #
  • HAUK, O., SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) The sound of actions as reflected by mismatch negativity: Rapid activation of cortical sensory-motor networks by sounds associated with finger and tongue movements, European Journal of Neuroscience, 23(3), 811-821 #
  • HAUK, O., SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) The sound of actions as reflected by mismatch negativity: Rapid activation of cortical sensory-motor networks by sounds associated with finger and tongue movements, In: Fourth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, p.34 #
  • MOSCOSO DEL PRADO MARTIN, F., HAUK, O. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) Category specificity in the processing of color-related and form-related words: An ERP study, Neuroimage, 29(1), 29-37 #
  • Naci, L., PULVERMULLER, F., Taylor, K., SHTYROV Y., HAUK, O. & Tyler, L. (2006) Spatiotemporal patterns of cross-modal integration., Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, E21 #
  • Naci, L., PULVERMULLER, F., Taylor, K., SHTYROV, Y., HAUK, O. & Tyler, L (2006) Spatiotemporal dissociation of perceptual and semantic processes in the ventral object processing stream, Neuroimage 31, S178 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & HAUK, O. (2006) Category-specific Conceptual Processing of Color and Form in Left Fronto-temporal Cortex, Cerebral Cortex, 16(8), 1193-1201 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & SHTYROV, Y. (2006) Language outside the focus of attention: the mismatch negativity as a tool for studying higher cognitive processes., Progress in Neurobiology, 79(1), 49-71 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & SHTYROV, Y. (2006) The mismatch negativity as an objective tool for studying higher language functions, In A. S. Meyer, L.R. Wheeldon & A. Krott (Eds.), Automaticity and control in language processing, 217-244. #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & SHTYROV, Y. (2006) The time course of MMN source activation: An index of word recognition?, In: Fourth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, p.39, #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Huss, M., Kherif, F., MOSCOSO DEL PRADO MARTIN, F., HAUK, O. & SHTYROV, Y. (2006) The Motor Theory of Speech Perception Confirmed: FMRI Evidence, Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, A127 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Huss,M., Kherif,F., MOSCOSO DEL PRADO MARTIN,F., HAUK, O. & SHTYROV, Y. (2006) Motor cortex maps articulatory features of speech sounds, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103(20), 7865-7870 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., SHTYROV, Y., Ilmoniemi RJ. & MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D. (2006) Tracking speech comprehension in space and time, Neuroimage, 31(3), 1297-1305 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., SHTYROV, Y., Ilmoniemi, R. & MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D. (2006) An MEG correlate of word recognition, In: Fourth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, p.115 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) Early semantic integration in the left temporal and inferior frontal cortex revealed by high-density MEG recordings., Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, G42 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (Eds) (2006) Fourth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, Programme and Abstract Book. (Eds. r). Edited Volume. Cambridge: MRC CBU, 136p #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) MMN4language: why are we using it?, In: Fourth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, p.35 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) Early contextual semantic integration in the left temporal and inferior-frontal cortex as revealed by high-density magnetoencephalography., Neuroimage 31, S116 #
  • SHTYROV, Y., Osswald, K. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) Memory traces for words in the brain are indexed by the mismatch negativity (MMN) responses: fMRI evidence, Neuroimage 31, S116 #
  • SHTYROV, Y., Osswald, K. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) BOLD evidence for word-elicited MMN enhancement., In: Fourth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, p.121 #
  • Wennekers, T., GARAGNANI, M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) Language models based on hebbian cell assemblies, Journal of Physiology, Paris, 100(1-3),16-30 #
  • HAUK, O., ROGERS, T.T., WOOLLAMS, A., PULVERMULLER, F., Watling, L. & PATTERSON, K. (2005) [Q:] When would you prefer a SOSSAGE to a SAUSAGE? [A:] At about 100 ms. ERP correlates of orthographic typicality and lexicalityin written word recognition., Society for Psychophysiological Research, 45th Annual Meeting, Session 6/35 #
  • KNOBLAUCH, A. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2005) Sequence detector networks and associative learning of grammatical categories, In Biomimetic neural learning for intelligent robots - Wermter, S., Palm, G., Elshaw, M., 31 - 53 #
  • Penolazzi, B., HAUK, O. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2005) Pre-N400 neurophysiological evidence for semantic context integration, Society for Psychophysiological Research, 45th Annual Meeting, Session 5/65 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2005) From babbling to articulatory echo neurons and unsolved questions of syntax., Behavioral & Brain Sciences #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2005) Brain mechanisms linking language and action, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6(7), 576-582 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., HAUK, O. & MOSCOSO DEL PRADO MARTIN, F. (2005) Category-specific conceptual processing of color and form in left fronto-temporal cortex: fMRI and EEG evidence, Society for Psychophysiological Research, 45th Annual Meeting, Session 6/37 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., HAUK, O., Nikulin, V. & Ilmoniemi, R.J. (2005) Functional links between motor and language systems, European Journal of Neuroscience, 21(3), 793-797 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., HAUK, O., Zohsel, K., Neininger, B. & MOHR, B. (2005) Therapy-related reorganization of language in both hemispheres of patients with chronic aphasia, Neuroimage, 28(2), 481-489 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., SHTYROV, Y. & HASTING, A. (2005) Early autonomy of syntax as revealed by cortical electrophysiology, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program 2005, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience supplement, p.25 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., SHTYROV, Y. & Ilmoniemi, R. (2005) Brain signatures of meaning access in action word recognition, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(6) , 884-892 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2005) Hemispheric dominance in spoken language processing: long-term memory traces vs. acoustic features, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program 2005, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience supplement, p.93 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2005) Dynamics of early MEG activation elicited by semantic incongruences in the left temporal and inferior-frontal cortex, Abstracts of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Psychophysiology, 42 (S1), 115 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2005) A neurobiologically-grounded model of syntactic processes, In: A.Glenberg, M.DeVega, A.Graesser (eds.) Proceedings of the Garachico Workshop on Symbols, Embodiment and Meaning, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, 2005 #
  • SHTYROV, Y., Pihko, E. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2005) Determinants of dominance: Is language laterality explained by physical or linguistic features of speech?, Neuroimage, 27(1), 37-47 #
  • VAN CASTEREN, M., DAVIS, M.H., HAUK, O., PULVERMULLER, F., MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D. (2005) Effects of surface and stem frequency on ERPs to visually presented words, Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, E194 #
  • Wermter, S., Weber, C., Elshaw, M., Gallese, V. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2005) Neural grounding of robot language in action, In Biomimetic neural learning for intelligent robots - S. Wermter, G. Palm, M. Elshaw., 162 - 181 #
  • Endrass, T, ,MOHR, B., and PULVERMULLER, F. (2004) Enhanced mismatch negativity brain response after binaural word presentation, European Journal of Neuroscience, 19(6), 1653-1660 #
  • HAUK, O. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2004) Neurophysiological distinction of action words in fronto-central cortex, Human Brain Mapping, 21(3), 191-201 #
  • HAUK, O. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2004) Effects of word length and frequency on the human event-related potential, Clinical Neurophysiology, 115(5), 1090-1103 #
  • HAUK, O., JOHNSRUDE, I. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2004) Somatotopic representation of action words in human motor and premotor cortex, Neuron, 41(2), 301-307 #
  • Neininger, B., PULVERMULLER, F., Elbert, T., Rockstroh, B. & Mohr, B. (2004) Intensivierung, Fokussierung und Verhaltensrelevanz als Prinzipien der Neuropsychologischen Rehabilitation und ihre Implementierung in der Therapie chronischer Aphasie - eine Uebersichtsarbeit. (Constraint,focussing, behavioral relevance: Principles of neuropsychological rehabilitation and their implementation in aphasia therapy after chronic stroke: a review.), Zeitschrift fuer Neuropsychologie, 15(3), 219-232 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2004) Lexical access as a brain mechanism, Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 27(2), 297-299 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & Mohr, B. (2004) Determinants of ignition times: Topographies of cell assemblies and the activation delays they imply, Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 27(2), 308-311 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Mohr, B & Lutzenberger, W (2004) Neurophysiological correlates of word and pseudo-word processing in well-recovered aphasics and patients with right-hemispheric stroke, Psychophysiology, 41(4), 584-591 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., SHTYROV, Y., Kujala, T. & Naatanen, R. (2004) Word-specific cortical activity as revealed by the mismatch negativity, Psychophysiology, 4(1), 106-112 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2004) Early Category-Specific Semantic Processing In The Brain As Shown By Somatotopic Event-Related Responses To Auditorily Presented Action Words: ERP And L2 Minimum-Norm Source Analysis, NeuroImage 22, Suppl 1 (CD-ROM), #MO100, Budapest, Hungary, 2004 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2004) Spatio-Temporal Pattern Of Word-Elicited Activity In The Human Neocortex., NeuroImage 22, Suppl 1 (CD-ROM), #MO101, Budapest, Hungary, 2004 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2004) Left hemisphere's dominance in speech determined by long-term memory traces not by physical sound features: an MEG study, Society for Psychophysiological Research, Abstracts of the 44rd Annual Meeting, Psychophysiology 41: s1, Santa Fe, USA, 2004 #
  • SHTYROV, Y., HAUK, O. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2004) Distributed neuronal networks for encoding category-specific semantic information: the mismatch negativity to action words, European Journal of Neuroscience, 19(4), 1083-1092 #
  • Wermter, S., Weber, C., Elshaw, M., Panchev, C., Erwin, H. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2004) Towards multimodal neural robot learning, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 47(2-3), 171-175 #
  • Assadollahi, R. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2003) Early influences of word length and frequency: a group study using MEG, Neuroreport, Jun 2003, 14(8), 1183-1187 #
  • HAUK, O., PULVERMULLER, F. & JOHNSRUDE, I. (2003) Brain areas activated by action words: ERP and efMRI evidence (Poster), NeuroImage 19(2) Suppl1, S57 #
  • HAUK, O., SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2003) Localising the average or averaging the localisations? It does not matter for the early left-anterior Mismatch Negativity! (Poster), NeuroImage 19(2) part 2, S57, June 2003 #
  • MICHEYL, C., CARLYON, R.P., SHTYROV, Y., HAUK, O., DODSON, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2003) The neurophysiological basis of the continuity illusion: A Mismatch Negativity Study, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15(5), 747-758 #
  • Muller, V., Lutzenberger, W., Preissl, H., PULVERMULLER, F. & Birbaumer, N. (2003) Complexity of visual stimuli and non-linear EEG dynamics in humans, Cognitive Brain Research, 16(1), 104-110 #
  • Neininger, B. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2003) Word-category specific deficits after lesions in the right hemisphere, Neuropsychologia, 41(1), 53 - 70 #
  • Pulvermuller, F. (2003) The Neuroscience Of Language: On Brain Circuits Of Words and Serial Order, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2003) Neurophysiology of language. (Introduction to the symposium at the Annual Conference of the Society for Psychophysiology Research, Montreal), Psychophysiology, Supplement #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2003) Sequence detectors as a basis of grammar in the brain, Theory in Biosciences, 122(1), 87-103 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2003) The Mismatch Negativity as an Index of Higher Language Processes: From Lexical to Syntactic and Semantic Processing, In: Society for Psychophysiological Research, Abstracts of the 43rd Annual Meeting, Psychophysiology 40: supplement 1, S14, Chicago, USA, Oct 2003 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & SHTYROV, Y. (2003) Automatic processing of grammar in the human brain as revealed by the mismatch negativity, NeuroImage, Nov 2003, 20(1), 159-172 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & SHTYROV, Y. (2003) The MMN to action words: a step towards a neurophysiology of word meaning?, In: MMN03, Third International Workshop on Mismatch Negativity and Auditory Functions and Dysfunctions, Lyon, France, p. 29 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., HAUK, O., SHTYROV, Y., JOHNSRUDE, I., Nikulin, V. & Ilmoniemi, R.J. (2003) Interactions of language and actions (Poster), In: Society for Psychophysiological Research, Abstracts of the 43rd Annual Meeting, Psychophysiology 40: supplement 1, S70, Chicago, USA, Oct 2003. #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., SHTYROV, Y. & Ilmoniemi, R.J. (2003) Spatiotemporal Dynamics Of Neural Language Processing: An MEG study using Minimum-Norm Current Estimates., NeuroImage, Nov 2003, 20(2), 1020-1025 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., SHTYROV, Y. & Ilmoniemi, R.J. (2003) Spatio-temporal pattern of language processing in the brain: minimum-norm current estimates of magnetic MMN to spoken word. (Poster), In: MMN03, Third International Workshop on Mismatch Negativity and Auditory Functions and Dysfunctions, Lyon, France, p. 104, 2003. #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2003) Is grammar processing automatic?: MMN(m) modulation by grammaticality (Talk), In: MMN03, Third International Workshop on Mismatch Negativity and Auditory Functions and Dysfunctions, May 2003. Lyon, France, p. 28, 2003. #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2003) Grammar processing in the brain outside the focus of attention: evidence from two studies (Poster), In: MMN03, Third International Workshop on Mismatch Negativity and Auditory Functions and Dysfunctions, Lyon, France, p. 103, 2003. #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2003) Early grammar processing in the brain outside the focus of attention: across languages, across methods (Poster), In: 9th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, NeuroImage 19:2 (CD-ROM supplement), #1351, New York, USA, 2003. #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2003) Distributed neuronal networks for semantic information: mismatch negativity to action words (Poster), In: Society for Psychophysiological Research, Abstracts of the 43rd Annual Meeting, Psychophysiology 40: supplement 1, S79, Chicago, USA, 2003. #
  • SHTYROV, Y., PULVERMULLER, F. & Ilmoniemi, R.J (2003) Actions coming to mind: Time course of the processing of action word semantics as revealed by magnetoencephalography. (Poster), In: 9th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, NeuroImage 19:2 (CD-ROM supplement), #1335, New York, USA, 2003. #
  • SHTYROV, Y., PULVERMULLER, F. & Ilmoniemi, R.J. (2003) Spatio-Temporal Dynamics Of Neural Language Processing: Minimum-Norm Analysis of Magnetic Mismatch Negativity Response to Spoken Word. (Poster), In: 9th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, NeuroImage 19:2 (CD-ROM supplement), #1352, New York, USA, 2003. #
  • SHTYROV, Y., PULVERMULLER, F., Naatanen, R. & Ilmoniemi, R.J. (2003) Grammar processing outside the focus of attention: an MEG study, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15(8), 1195-1206 #
  • HAUK, O., & PULVERMULLER, F. (2002) Effects of word length and frequency on the human ERP., 8th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Porquelles, France, 107,34 #
  • HAUK, O., Holz, G., & PULVERMULLER, F. (2002) ERPs in action: Electrophysiological distinction of different types of action words, 8th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Porquerolles, France, 107, 33 #
  • Muller, M.M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2002) Hochfrequente Oszillatorische Aktivitaet als Indikator kognitiver Prozesse im Gehirn [High frequency oscillatory activity as indicator of cognitive processes in the brain], Enzyklopdie der Psychologie, Biologische Grundlagen der Psychologie [Encyclopedia of Psychology, Biological Foundations of Psychology 87 - 124 Hogrefe #
  • Pulvermuller, F. (2002) A brain perspective on language mechanisms: from discrete neuronal ensembles to serial order., Progress in Neurobiology, 67, 85-111. #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2002) Neuronal correlation learning and it's implications for the brain mechanisms of language., Proceedings of the 2002 meeting of the Rodin Remediation Academy #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2002) Word categories in the brain: from actions and animals to foot and mouth., Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Meeting of the World Federation of Neurology, Research Group on Aphasia and Cognitive Disorders, Villefranche-sur-Mer, 28. - 30.5.2002 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & MOHR, B (2002) Neurophysiological reflections of language recovery after stroke, Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Meeting of the World Federation of Neurology, Research Group on Aphasia and Cognitive Disorders, Villefranche-sur-Mer, 28.-30.5.02 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. & MOHR, B. (2002) Redundancy gains and costs in cognitive processing: Effects of short stimulus onset asynchronies., Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning, Memory and Cognition Dec 2002, 28, 1200-1223 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., & SHTYROV, Y (2002) Matching Languages and the Brain using the Mismatch Negativity, Proceedings of the 8th International Cognitive Neuroscience Conference #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., SHTYROV, Y., HAUK, O., & Ilmoniemi, R (2002) Word recognition as reflected by the Mismatch Negativity, Proceedings of the 8th International Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Poster #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2002) Neurophysiological evidence of memory traces for words in the human brain, Neuroreport, 13 (4), 521-525 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2002) Memory traces for inflectional affixes as shown by the mismatch negativity., The European Journal of Neuroscience, 15 (6), 1085-1091 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2002) Memory traces for inflectional affixes as shown by the mismatch negativity, ICON8, 8th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, September 9-15, 2002, Porquerolles Island, France, p 111 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2002) Neurophysiological evidence of memory traces for words in the human brain, ICON8, 8th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, September 9-15, 2002, Porquerolles Island, France, p 111 #
  • SHTYROV, Y., PULVERMULLER, F., Naatanen, R. & Ilmoniemi, R.J. (2002) Automatic grammar processing in the brain, ICON8, 8th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, September 9-15, 2002, Porquerolles Island, France, p 65. #
  • Assadollahi, R. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) Neuromagnetic evidence for early access to cognitive representations, Neuroreport, 12 (2), 207-213 #
  • Assadollahi, R. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) Word length and frequency in early lexical access: neuromagnetic evidence., Society for Psychophysiological Research, Abstracts of the 41st Annual Meeting, Psychophysiology 38: suppl 1, S21 #
  • Assadollahi, R. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) Reading words in the MEG response., Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, New York, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,12, S123 #
  • Genkinger, B., PULVERMULLER, F., Elbert, T.R., Mohr, B., Rockstroh, B., Koebbel, P. & Taub, E. (2001) Constraint-induced therapy of aphasia following stroke., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, Suppl, 127-128 #
  • HAUK, O., HOLZ, G. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) Foot and mouth in the human word-evoked brain potential., Society for Psychophysiological Research, Abstracts of the 41st Annual Meeting, Psychophysiology 38: suppl 1, S49 #
  • MOHR, B & PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) Modulation of word processing by lateralized slow cortical potential feedback: Implications for the rehabilitation of language disorders, Journal of the Interantional Neuropsychological Society, 7, 410 #
  • Mohr, B., Heim, S., PULVERMULLER, F. & Rockstroh, B. (2001) Functional asymmetry in schizophrenic patients during auditory speech processing, Schizophrenia Research, 52(1-2), 69-78 #
  • Muller, V., Lutzenberger, W., PULVERMULLER, F. & Mohr, B. (2001) Investigation of brain dynamics in Parkinson's Disease by methods derived from nonlinear dynamics, Experimental Brain Research, 137, 103-110 #
  • Neininger, B. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) The right hemisphere's role in action word processing: A double case study, Neurocase, 7, 303-317 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) Imaging language in the brain, Frontiers in Neurobiology. An international handbook. Volume 5: Intelligence systems, Encyclopaedia Italiana Press, Rome #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) Connectionist models of language processing, In: International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Baltes, P.B. & Smelser, N.J. (eds.), Elsevier, New York. #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) Mutual access and mutual dependence of conceptual components (Comment on Humphreys and Forde), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2001, 24(3), 490-492 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) Brain reflections of words and their meaning, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(12), 517-524 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) Neurophysiological correlates of grammatical and semantic word categories, Journal of the International Neurophysiological Society, 7, 426 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Assadollahi R, SHTYROV, Y. & HAUK, O. (2001) Neurophysiologic indicators of word types and serial order, 1st Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Psychophysiology, 38, Suppl 1, S17 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Assadollahi, R. & Elbert, T. (2001) Neuromagnetic evidence for early semantic access in word recognition, European Journal of Neuroscience, 13, 201-205 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Haerle, M. & Hummel, F. (2001) Walking or talking?: Behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of action verb processing, Brain and Language, 78, 143-168 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Kujala, T., SHTYROV, Y., Simola, J., Tiitinen, H., Alku, P., Alho, K., Martinkauppi, S., Ilmoniemi, R.I. & Naatanen, R. (2001) Memory Traces For Words As Revealed By The Mismatch Negativity (MMN), NeuroImage, 14, 606-616 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Neininger, B., Elbert, T.E., Mohr, B., Rockstroh, B., Koebbel, P. & Taub, E. (2001) Constraint-Induced Therapy Of Chronic Aphasia Following Stroke, Stroke, 32, 1621-1626 #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) Processing of inflectional affix in the human brain as shown by mismatch negativity., Society for Psychophysiological Research, Abstracts of the 41st Annual Meeting, Psychophysiology 38: suppl 1, S88, 2001. #
  • SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2001) Processing of words and pseudowords in the human brain as shown by mismatch negativity: the role of lexical status of the deviant, Society for Psychophysiological Research, Abstracts of the 41st Annual Meeting, Psychophysiology 38: supplement 1, S89, Montreal, Canada, 2001. #
  • Dobel, C., PULVERMULLER, F., Haerle, M., Cohen, R., Koebbel, P., Schoenle, P.W. & Rockstroh, B. (2000) Syntactic and semantic processing in the healthy and aphasic human brain, Experimental Brain Research, (2001), 140, 77-85 #
  • Mohr, B., PULVERMULLER, F., Cohen, R. & Rockstroh, B. (2000) Interhemispheric cooperation during word processing: evidence for callosal dysfunction in schizophrenic patients, Schizophrenia Research, 46(2-3), 231-239 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2000) Syntactic circuits: How does the brain create serial order in sentences?, Brain and Language, 71(1), 194-199 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2000) On distributed cell assemblies, high frequencies, and the significance of EEG/MEG recordings, In: Time and the brain, Harwood Academic Publishers, R Miller (Ed), Amsterdam, 241 - 249 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F. (2000) How and where are words represented and processed in the brain?, Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on language, brain and verbal behavior, Academic Press, New York. #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Haerle, M. & Hummel, F. (2000) Neurophysiological distinction of verb categories, Neuroreport, 11, 2789-2793 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Kujala, T., Shtyrov, Y., Simola, J., Tiitinen, H., Alku, P., Alho, K., Martinkauppi, S., Ilmoniemi, R. & Naatanen, R. (2000) Neuromagnetic and neuroelectric signs of pre-attentive word processing, In: Abstracts of 2nd International Congress on Mismatch Negativity and its Clinical Applications, (Eds: Elena Yago, Mari Tervaniemi, and Carles Escera), Barcelona: University of Barcelona, 57, June 2000. #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Mohr, B., Schleichert, H. & Veit, R. (2000) Operant conditioning of left-hemispheric slow cortical potentials and its effect on word processing., Biological Psychology, 53, 177-215 #
  • Dobel, C., HAUK, O., Zobel, E., Eulitz, C., PULVERMULLER, F., Cohen, R., Schoenle, P.W., Elbert, T. & Rockstroh, B. (1999) Monitoring brain activity of human subjects during delayed matching to sample tasks comparing verbal and pictorial stimuli with modal and cross-modal presentation: an event related potential study employing a source reconstruction method, Neuroscience Letters, 1998, 253, 179-182 #
  • Muller, M.M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (1999) Gamma-Band-Aktivität als Indikator kognitiver Prozesse im menschlichen Gehirn (Gamma band activity as an indicator of cognitive processes in the human brain), Jan 1999 Enzyclopädie der Psychologie, Band 6, Biologische Grundlagen der Psychologie (Encyclopedia of psychology, Vol 6, Biological foundations of psychology). 87 - 124 Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen #