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2005 and in press

  • Pulvermüller, F. 2005: Brain mechanisms linking language and action. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6(7), 576-82.
  • Kozou, H., Kujala, T., Shtyrov, Y., Toppila, E., Starck, J., Alku, P., Näätänen, R. 2005: The effect of different noise types on the speech and non-speech elicited mismatch negativity. Hearing Research, 199, 31-39
  • Shtyrov Y., Pihko E. & Pulvermüller F. 2005: Determinants of dominance: Is language laterality explained by physical or linguistic features of speech? NeuroImage, 27(1), 37-47
  • Pulvermüller F., Shtyrov Y., & Ilmoniemi R.J. 2005: Brain Signatures Of Meaning Access In Action Word Recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 884-892.
  • Pulvermüller, F. 2005: From babbling to articulatory echo neurons and unsolved questions of syntax. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in press.
  • Pulvermüller, F., Hauk, O., Nikulin, V. & Ilmoniemi, R.J. 2005: Functional interaction of language and action: a TMS study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 21 (3), 793-797.
  • Pulvermüller, F., Hauk, O., Zohsel, K., Neininger, B. & Mohr, B. 2005: Therapy-related reorganization of language in both hemispheres of patients with chronic aphasia. Neuroimage, in press.
  • Moscoso del Prado Martin, F., Hauk, O., & Pulvermüller, F. 2005: Category-specificity in the processing of color-related and form-related words: An ERP study. Neuroimage, in press.
  • Knoblauch, A. & Pulvermüller, F. 2005: Sequence detector networks and associative learning of grammatical categories. In: Wermter, S. & Palm, G. (eds.): Biomimetic neural learning for intelligent robots. Springer, Heidelberg, in press.
  • Wermter, S., Weber, C., Elshaw, M., Gallese, V. & Pulvermüller, F. 2005: Neural grounding of robot language in action. In: Wermter, S. & Palm, G. (eds.): Biomimetic neural learning for intelligent robots. Springer, Heidelberg, in press.

2004

  • Pulvermüller, F., Shtyrov, Y., Kujala, T., Näätänen, R. 2004: Word-specific cortical activity as revealed by the mismatch negativity (MNN). Psychophysiology , 41, 106-112.
  • Shtyrov, Y., Hauk, O., Pulvermüller, F. 2004: Distributed neuronal networks encoding category-specific semantic information as shown by the mismatch negativity to action words. European Journal of Neuroscience, 19:4, 1083-1092.
  • Kujala, T., Shtyrov Y., I. Winkler, M. Saher, M. Tervaniemi, M. Sallinen, W. Teder-Salejärvi, K. Alho, K. Reinikainen, R. Näätänen. Detrimental effects of long-term noise exposure on the central auditory processing in the brain. Psychophysiology 41, 875-881.
  • Hauk O., Johnsrude I., Pulvermüller F. 2004: Somatotopic Representation Of Action Words In Human Motor And Premotor Cortex Neuron, 41:301-307
  • Hauk O. 2004: Keep it simple: A case for using classical minimum norm estimates in the analysis of EEG and MEG data. Neuroimage, 21 1612-1621.
  • Hauk O., Pulvermüller F. 2004: Neurophysiological distinction of action words in fronto-central cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 21:3 191-201.
  • Hauk O., Pulvermüller F. 2004: Effects of word length and frequency on the human ERP. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115:5 1090-1103.
  • Endrass, T., Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F. 2004: Enhanced mismatch negativity brain response after binaural word presentation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 19:6, 1653-1660.
  • Pulvermüller, 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, 584-591.
  • Pulvermüller, F. 2004: Lexical access as a brain mechanism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 297-298.
  • Pulvermüller, F. & Mohr, B. 2004: Determinants of ignition times: Topographies of cell assemblies and activation delays they imply. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 308-311.
  • Neininger, B., Pulvermüller, F., Elbert, T., Rockstroh, B. & Mohr, B. 2004: Intensivierung, Fokussierung und Verhaltensrelevanz als Prinzipien der Neuropsychologischen Rehabilitation und ihre Implementation in der Therapie chronischer Aphasie eine †bersichtsarbeit. [Constraint, focussing, behavioral relevance: Principles of neuropsychological rehabilitation and their implementation in aphasia therapy after chronic stroke: A review.] Zeitschrift fŸr Neuropsychologie, 15, 219-232.
  • Wermter, S., Weber, C., Elshaw, M., Panchev, C., Erwin, H. & Pulvermüller, F. 2004: Towards multimodal neural robot learning. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 47, 171-175.

2003

  • Pulvermüller, F., Shtyrov, Y. 2003: Automatic processing of grammar in the human brain as revealed by the mismatch negativity. Neuroimage 20, 159-172.
  • Assadollahi, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2003: Early influences of word length and frequency: a group study in the MEG. Neuroreport, 14:8, 1183-7.
  • Micheyl,C., Carlyon, R.P., Shtyrov, Y., Hauk, O., Dodson, T., Pulvermüller, F. 2003: Neurophysiological correlates of a perceptual illusion: A Mismatch Negativity study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15:5, 747-758.
  • Müller, V., Lutzenberger, W., Preißl, H., Pulvermüller, F., Birbaumer, N. 2003: Complexity of visual stimuli and non-linear EEG dynamics in humans. Cognitive Brain Research, 16, 104-110.
  • Neininger, B., Pulvermüller, F. 2003: Word category specific deficits after right-hemispheric lesions. Neuropsychologia, 41(1), 53-70.
  • Shtyrov, Y., Pulvermüller, F., Näätänen, R., Ilmoniemi, R. 2003: Grammar processing outside the focus of attention: an MEG study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15:8, 1195-1206
  • Kujala, A., Huotilainen, M., Uther, M., Shtyrov Y., Monto, S., Ilmoniemi, R.J., & NŠŠtŠnen R. 2003: Plastic cortical changes induced by learning to communicate with non-speech sounds. NeuroReport, 14:13, 1683-1687.
  • Pulvermüller, F., Shtyrov, Y., Ilmoniemi R.J. 2003: Spatiotemporal Dynamics Of Neural Language Processing: An MEG study using Minimum-Norm Current Estimates. Neuroimage 20:2, 1020-5.
  • Pulvermüller, F. 2003: Sequence detectors as a basis of grammar in the brain. Theory in Biosciences, 122, 87-103.

2002

  • Pulvermüller, F. 2002: A brain perspective on language mechanisms: from discrete neuronal ensembles to serial order. Progress in Neurobiology, 67, 85-111.
  • Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F. 2002: Redundancy gains and costs in cognitive processing: the effect of short SOAs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28(6), 1200-1223.
  • Shtyrov, Y., Pulvermüller, F. 2002: Processing of an inflectional affix by the human brain as revealed by the Mismatch Negativity (MMN). European Journal of Neuroscience, 15, 1085-1091.
  • Shtyrov, Y., Pulvermüller, F. 2002: Neurophysiological evidence for memory traces for words in the human brain. Neuroreport, 13, 521-525.
  • Müller, M.M., Pulvermüller, F. 2002: Gamma-Band-Aktivität als Indikator kognitiver Prozesse im menschlichen Gehirn (Gamma band activity as an indicator of cognitive processes in the human brain). In: Elbert, T. (ed.): Enzyclopädie der Psychologie, Band 6, Biologische Grundlagen der Psychologie (Encyclopedia of psychology, Vol 6, Biological foundations of psychology). Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen, 87-124.
  • Hauk, O., Keil, A., Elbert, T., Müller 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.
  • Keil, A., Bradley, M.M., Hauk, O., Rockstroh, B., Elbert, T., Lang, P.J. 2002: Large-scale neural correlates of affective picture processing. Psychophysiology, 39(5), 641-9.
  • Palva, S., Palva, J.M., Shtyrov, Y., Kujala, T., Ilmoniemi, R., Kaila, K., Näätänen R. 2002: Distinct gamma-band evoked responses to speech and non-speech sounds in humans. The Journal of Neuroscience 22(RC211), 1-5.

2001

  • Pulvermüller, F. 2001: Brain reflections of words and their meaning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 517-524.
  • Pulvermüller, F. 2001: Mutual access and mutual dependence of conceptual components. (Commentary on Humphreys and Forde.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 490-492.
  • Pulvermüller, F. 2001: Connectionist models of language processing. In Baltes, P.B., Smelser, N.J. (eds.): International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier: New York.
  • Pulvermüller, F. 2001: Imaging language in the brain. In: Amit, D. (ed.): Frontiers in Neurobiology. An international handbook. Volume 5: Intelligence systems. Rome: Encyclopaedia Italiana Press.
  • Pulvermüller, F. 2001: How and where are words represented and processed in the brain? In: Argente, J.A. (ed.): Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on language, brain and verbal behavior. New York: Academic Press.
  • Pulvermüller, F., Assadollahi, R., Elbert, T. 2001: Neuromagnetic evidence for early semantic access in word recognition. European Journal of Neuroscience, 13, 201-205.
  • Pulvermüller, F., Genkinger, B., Elbert, T., Mohr, B., Rockstroh, B., Koebbel, P., Taub, E. 2001: Constraint-induced therapy of chronic aphasia following stroke. Stroke, 32, 1621-1626.
  • Pulvermüller, F., Härle, M., Hummel, F. 2001: Walking or talking?: Behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of action verb processing. Brain and Language, 78, 143-168.
  • Pulvermüller, F., Kujala, T., Shtyrov, Y., Simola.J., Tiitinen, H., Alku, P., Alho, K., Martinkauppi, S., Ilmoniemi, R. J., Näätänen, R. 2001: Memory traces for words as revealed by the Mismatch Negativity (MMN). NeuroImage, 14, 107-616.
  • Assadollahi, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2001: Neuromagnetic evidence for early access to cognitive representations. Neuroreport, 12, 207-213.
  • Dobel, C., Pulvermüller, F., Härle, M., Cohen, R., Koebbel, P., Schönle, P.W., Rockstroh, B. 2001: Syntactic and semantic processing in the healthy and aphasic human brain. Experimental Brain Research, 140, 77-85.
  • Mohr, B., Heim, S., Pulvermüller, F., Rockstroh, B. 2001: Functional asymmetry in schizophrenic patients during auditory speech processing. Schizophrenia Research, 52, 69-78.
  • Müller, V., Lutzenberger, W., Pulvermüller, 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., Pulvermüller, F. 2001: The right hemisphereâs role in action verb processing: A double case study. Neurocase, 7, 103-317.
  • Hauk, O., Rockstroh, B., Eulitz, C 2001: Grapheme Monitoring in Picture Naming: An Electrophysiological Study of Language Production. Brain Topography, 14(1), 3-13.

2000

  • Pulvermüller, F. 2000: Syntactic circuits: How does the brain create serial order in sentences? Brain and Language, 71, 194-199.
  • Pulvermüller, F., Härle, M., Hummel, F. 2000: Neurophysiological distinction of semantic verb categories. NeuroReport, 11, 2789-2793.
  • Pulvermüller, 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.
  • Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Cohen, R., Rockstroh, B. 2000: Interhemispheric cooperation during word processing: evidence for callosal dysfunction in schizophrenic patients. Schizophrenia Research, 46, 231-239.
  • Pulvermüller, F. 2000: On distributed cell assemblies, high frequencies, and the significance of EEG/MEG recordings. In: Miller, R. (ed.): Time and the brain. Harwood Academic Publishers: Amsterdam, 241-249.
  • Eulitz, C., Hauk, O., Cohen, R 2000: Electroencephalographic activity over temporal brain areas during phonological encoding in picture naming. Clinical Neurophysiology, 111, 2088-2097.
  • Fell, J., Hauk, O., Hinrichs, H 2000: Linear inverse filtering improves spatial separation of nonlinear brain dynamics: a simulation study. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 98, 49-56.
  • Shtyrov, Y., Kujala, T., Lyytinen, H., Kujala, J., Ilmoniemi, R.J., Näätänen, R. 2000: Lateralization of speech processing in the brain as indicated by the mismatch negativity and dichotic listening. Brain and Cognition, 43(1-3), 392-398.
  • Shtyrov, Y., Kujala, T., Lyytinen, H., Ilmoniemi, R.J., Näätänen, R. 2000: Auditory-cortex evoked magnetic fields and lateralization of speech processing. NeuroReport 11(13), 2893-2896.
  • Shtyrov, Y., Kujala, T., Palva, S., Ilmoniemi, R.J., Näätänen, R. 2000: Discrimination of speech and of complex nonspeech sounds of different temporal structure in the left and right cerebral hemispheres. NeuroImage 12(6), 657-663.