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Olaf Hauk

Research Staff, Hearing, Speech and Language Group and Methods Group

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Olaf Hauk

Contact details

E-mail address: olaf.hauk@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 355294 (extension 810)
Direct line: +44 (0)1223 273702
Fax: +44 (0)1223 359062
Address: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15 Chaucer Road,
Cambridge,
CB2 7EF

Research areas

Current research interests:

I use a multi-modal imaging approach to problems in the neuroscience of language and cognition.

Reading:

How are the complex computations underlying reading behaviour implemented efficiently and flexibly in our brains? I address this question using EEG, MEG and fMRI to study effects of psycholinguistic variables/tasks on the human brain response. I focus on the relationship between neuroimaging methods and behavioural measures (such as button presses and eye movements) in the context of computational models of reading.

Embodied Cognition:

How much do high-level cognitive processes still depend on processes at a lower level? "Embodied cognition" theory assumes that cognition makes use of basic perceptual and motor processes. I test preditions of this theory using EEG, MEG and fMRI, focussing on word meaning and arithmetic processing. Are motor areas activated when we read an action-related word? Or when we multiply two numbers?

Methods:

I evaluate and develop EEG/MEG source estimation procedures for connectivity and pattern analysis as well as multi-modal imaging, and apply novel approaches to EEG/MEG analysis to study cognitive variables and tasks, such as multiple linear regression or linear mixed-effects modelling.

Phd Projects

I would be happy to talk to prospective PhD students who are interested in EEG/MEG/fMRI and eye-tracking research on reading, or methods research in multi-modal imaging.

CBU publications

Selected publications

Complete list of publications

  • MOSELEY, R., PULVERMULLER, F.P., CAROTA, F., Mohr, B., HAUK, O. (In Press) A role for the motor system in binding abstract emotional meaning, Cerebral Cortex #
  • HAUK, O., PULVERMULLER, F. (2011) The Lateralization of Motor Cortex Activation to Action-Words, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:149 #
  • HAUK, O., WAKEMAN, D.G., HENSON, R. (2011) Comparison of noise-normalized minimum norm estimates for MEG analysis using multiple resolution metrics, NeuroImage, 54(3), 1966-1974 #
  • BOUDELAA, S., PULVERMULLER, F., HAUK, O., SHTYROV, Y. & MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D. (2010) Arabic morphology in the neural language system: A mismatch negativity study, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(5), 998-1010 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Cooper-Pye, E., DINE, C., HAUK, O., Nestor, P.J., PATTERSON, K. (2010) The Word Processing Deficit in semantic dementia: All catgeories are equal, but some categories are more equal than others, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(9), 2027-2041 #
  • Bediou, B., Eimer, M., d'Amato, T., HAUK, O. & CALDER, A.J. (2009) In the eye of the beholder: Individual differences in reward-drive modulate early frontocentral ERPs to angry faces, Neuropsychologia, 47(3), 825-834 #
  • Boulenger, V., HAUK, O. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Grasping ideas with the motor system: Semantic somatotopy in idiom comprehension, Cerebral Cortex, 19(8), 1905-1914 #
  • CARLYON, R.P., DEEKS, J., SHTYROV, Y., GRAHN, J., GOCKEL, H.E., HAUK, O. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) 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, 35(6), 1898-1912 #
  • Grave De Peralta, R., HAUK, O., Gonzalez, S.L. (2009) The Neuroelectromagnetic Inverse Problem and the Zero Dipole Localization Error, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience # PDF file (825.2 KB)
  • HAUK, O., PULVERMULLER, F., Ford, M., MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D & 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 Psychology, 80(1), 64-74. #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Kherif, F, HAUK, O. & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (2009) Cortical cell assemblies for lexical and category-specific semantic processing as revealed by fMRI cluster analysis, Human Brain Mapping, 30(12), 3837-3850 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., SHEBANI, V., Boulenger, M, GARAGNANI, M., HAUK, O., SHTYROV, Y., PATTERSON, K. (2009) Somatotopic Motor Systems Are Critical For Catgory-Specific Semantic Processes, Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC 2009), October 2009, p92, Chicago, 2009 #
  • 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 #
  • 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 #
  • Nazir, T.A., HAUK, O. & Jeannerod, M. (2008) The role of sensory motor systems for language understanding, Journal of Physiology-Paris, 102(1-3), 1-3 #
  • 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 #
  • Kiefer, M., Sim, E.J., Liebich, S., HAUK, O. & Tanaka, J. (2007) Experience-dependent plasticity of conceptual representations in human sensory-motor areas, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(3), 525-542 #
  • 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 #
  • 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 #
  • 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., 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 #
  • HAUK, O., FORD M.A., DAVIS, M.H. , MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D., PULVERMüLLER, F. (2005) Multiple regression analysis of ERPs reveals early processing stages in visual word recognition, Society for Psychophysiological Research, Abstracts of the 45th Annual Meeting, Psychophysiology 42: , Lisbon, 2005 #
  • 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 #
  • JOHNSRUDE, I. & HAUK, O. (2005) Neuroimaging: techniques for examining human brain function, In Cognitive Psychology: A Methods Companion by Nick Braisby, OUP, 105-137 #
  • 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., 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 #
  • 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 #
  • HAUK, O. (2004) Keep it simple: A case for using classical minimum norm estimates in the analysis of EEG and MEG data, Neuroimage, 21(4), 1612-1621 #
  • 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 #
  • 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 #
  • 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 #
  • Keil, A., Bradley, M.M., HAUK, O., Rockstroh, B., Elbert, T. & Lang, P.J. (2003) Large-scale neural correlates of affective picture processing, Psychophysiology 395(5), 641-649 #
  • 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 #
  • 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. #
  • 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 #
  • Hauk, O., Keil, A., Elbert, T. & Mueller, M.M. (2002) Comparison of data transformation procedures to enhance topographical accuracy in time-series analysis of the human EEG, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 113, 111-122 #
  • HAUK, O., Rockstroh, B., & Eulitz, C (2002) Grapheme monitoring in picture naming: an electrophysiological study of language production, 8th International Conference on Cogntiive Neuroscience, porquelles, France, 108,35 #
  • 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 #
  • HAUK, O. & PULVERMÜLLER, F. (2001) Effects of word length and frequency of the human ERP., Society for Psychophysiological Research, Abstracts of the 41st Annual Meeting, Psychophysiology 38: suppl 1, S49 #
  • 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 #
  • HAUK, O., Rockstroh, B. & Eulitz, C. (2001) Grapheme Monitoring in Picture Naming: An Electrophysiological Study of Language Production, Brain Topography, 14 (1) 3-13 #
  • 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 #
  • Eulitz, E., HAUK, O. & Cohen, R. (2000) Electroencephalographic activity over temporal brain areas during phonological encoding in picture naming, Clinical Neurophysiology, 2000, 111, 2088-2097 #
  • HAUK, O. (2000) Linear inverse filtering improves spatial separation of nonlinear brain dynamics: a simulation study, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 98, 49-56 #
  • 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 #
  • HAUK, O., Roeschke, J. & Fell, J. (1999) Topographic focusing of nonlinear scalp EEG estimates through inverse filtering, in Nonlinear dynamics and brain functioning, Rapp, P.E (Ed), Commack, NY, Nova Science #
  • Loew, A., Rockstroh, B., Cohen, R., HAUK, O., Berg, P. & Maier, W. (1999) Determining working memory from ERP topography, Brain Topography, 12(1), 39-47 #
  • Rockstroh, B., Cohen, R., HAUK, O., Dobel, C., Berg, P., Horvath, J. & Elbert, T. (1999) Topography of the Postimperative Negative Variation in schizophrenic patients and controls obtained from high-resolution ERP-maps, Clinical Neurophysiology, 49(suppl) 210-214 #