Latest Publications
2012
Schmeisser, M.J., Ey, E., Wegener, S., Bockmann, J., Stempel, A.V., Kuebler, A., Janssen, A.-L., Udvardi, P.T., Shiban, E., Spilker, C., Balschun, D., Skryabin, B.V., tom Dieck, S. Smalla, K.-H., Montag, D., Leblond, C.S., Faure, P., Torquet, N., Le Sourd, A.-M., Toro, R., Grabrucker, A.M., Shoichet, S.A., Schmitz, D., Kreutz, M.R., Bourgeron, T., Gundelfinger, E.D., and Boeckers, T.M.: Autistic-like behaviours and hyperactivity in mice lacking ProSAP1/Shank2. Nature (published online April, 29 2012) Press release (from the University of Ulm) Link (May 16, 2012)
Cajigas, I.J., Tushev, G., Will, T.J., tom Dieck, S., Fuerst, N., and Schuman, E.M.: The Local Transcriptome in the Synaptic Neuropil Revealed by Deep Sequencing and High-Resolution Imaging. Neuron 74: 453-466 (2012).
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Müller, N.G., Strumpf, H., Scholz, M., Baier, B., Melloni, L.: Repetition Suppression versus Enhancement--It's Quantity That Matters. Cereb Cortex. 2012 Feb 13. [Epub ahead of print]
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Melloni, L., van Leeuwen, S., Alink, A., Müller, N.G..: Interaction between Bottom-up Saliency and Top-down Control: How Saliency Maps Are Created in the Human Brain. Cereb Cortex. 2012 Jan 16. [Epub ahead of print]
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Alink, A., F. Euler, N. Kriegeskorte, W. Singer and A. Kohler: Auditory motion direction encoding in auditory cortex and high-level visual cortex. Human Brain Mapping 33(4): 969-978 (2012). (April 13, 2012)
Cho, K.-H., H.-J. Jang, Y.-H. Jo, W. Singer and D.-J. Rhie: Cholinergic induction of input-specific late-phase LTP via localized Ca2+ release in the visual cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience 32(13): 4520-4530 (2012). (April 13, 2012)
Jürgens, U.M. and D. Nikolic: Ideaesthesia: Conceptual processes assign similar colours to similar shapes. Translation Neuroscience 3(1): 22-27 (2012). (April 13, 2012)
Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften und Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften (Hrsg.). Koordinator: M.J. Lohse. (u.a. - unter Mitarbeit von W. Singer): Ad-hoc-Stellungnahme. Tierversuche in der Forschung. Empfehlungen zur Umsetzung der EU-Richtlinie 2010/63/EU in deutsches Recht. Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e.V. – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften –, Halle (Saale) 2012, pp. 44. (Weißbuch). (April 13, 2012)
Rivolta, D., R. Palermo, L. Schmalzl and M.A. Williams: Investigating the features of the M170 in congenital prosopagnosia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6: 45 (1-13) (2012). (April 13, 2012)
Womelsdorf, T., B. Lima, M. Vinck, R. Oostenveld, W. Singer, S. Neuenschwander and P. Fries: Orientation selectivity and noise correlation in awake monkey area V1 are modulated by the gamma cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 109(11): 4302-4307 (2012). (April 13, 2012)
Nikolic, D., R.C. Muresan, W. Feng and W. Singer: Scaled correlation analysis: a better way to compute a cross-correlogram. European Journal of Neuroscience 35(5): 742-762 (2012). (March 9, 2012)
Singer, W.: What binds it all together? Synchronized oscillatory activity in normal and pathological cognition. In: F.G. Barth, P. Giampieri-Deutsch, H.-D. Klein (eds.). Sensory Perception. Mind and Matter. Springer-Verlag, Wien 2012, 57-70. (March 9, 2012)
Turi, G., S. Gotthardt, W. Singer, T. Anh Vuong, M. Munk and M. Wibral: Quantifying additive evoked contributions to the event-related potential. NeuroImage 59(3): 2607-2624 (2012). (March 9, 2012)
Scheller, B., M. Castellano, R. Vicente and G. Pipa: Spike train auto-structure impacts post-synaptic firing and timing-based plasticity. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 5: 60 (1-16) (2011). (March 9, 2012)
Ito, H. and Schuman, E.M. Functional division of hippocampal area CA1 via modulatory gating of entorhinal cortical inputs. Hippocampus, 22:2, 372-387 (2012). (February 26, 2012)
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Hinz, F.I., Dieterich, D.C., Tirrell, D.A., and Schuman, E.M. Non-canonical amino acid labeling in vivo to visualize and affinity purify newly synthesized proteins in larval zebrafish. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 3 (1), 40-49 (2012). (February 26, 2012)
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Aru, J., T. Bachmann, W. Singer and L. Melloni. Distilling the neural correlates of consciousness. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 36(2): 737-746 (2012). (February 15, 2012)
Weigelt, S., K. Limbach, W. Singer and A. Kohler: Orientation-selective functional magnetic resonance imaging adaptation in primary visual cortex revisited. Human Brain Mapping 33(3): 707-714 (2012). (February 15, 2012)
Cassenaer, S. and Laurent, G. Conditional modulation of spike-timing-dependent plasticity for olfactory learning. Nature (published online January, 25 2012) (February 12, 2012)
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Alink, A., F. Euler, E. Galeano, A. Krugliak, W. Singer and A. Kohler. Auditory motion capturing ambiguous visual motion. Frontiers in Psychology 2: 391 (1-8) (2012). (January 20, 2012)
Knöchel, C., V. Oertel-Knöchel, R. Schönmeyer, A. Rotarska-Jagiela, V. van de Ven, D. Prvulovic, C. Haenschel, P. Uhlhaas, J. Pantel, H. Hampel, D.E.J. Linden. Interhemispheric hypoconnectivity in schizophrenia: Fiber integrity and volume differences of the corpus callosum in patients and unaffected relatives. Neuroimage 59: 926-934 (2012). (January 20, 2012)
2011
Lindner, M., R. Vicente, V. Priesemann and M. Wibral: TRENTOOL: A matlab open source toolbox to analyse information flow in time series data with transfer entropy. BioMedCentral Neuroscience 12: 119 (1-22) (2011). (April 13, 2012)
Yu, S., H. Yang, H. Nakahara, G.S. Santos, D. Nikolic and D. Plenz: Higher-order interactions characterized in cortical activity. The Journal of Neuroscience 31(48): 17514-17526 (2011). (February 15, 2012)
Genc, E., J. Bergmann, F. Tong, R. Blake, W. Singer and A. Kohler. Callosal connections of primary visual cortex predict the spatial spreading of binocular rivalry across the visual hemifields. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5: 161 (1-12) (2011). (January 20, 2012)
Reiff, T., Huber, L., Kramer, M., Delattre, O., Janoueix-Lerosey, I., Rohrer, H. Midkine and A signaling in sympathetic neuron proliferation and neuroblastoma predisposition. Development 138:4699-708 (2011). (December 12, 2011)
Stubbusch, M., Majdazari, A., Schmidt, M., Schütz, G., Deller, T., Rohrer, H. Generation of the tamoxifen-inducible DBH-Cre transgenic mouse line DBH-CT. Genesis 49:4699-4708 (2011). (December 12, 2011)
Schmidt, M., Huber. L., Majdazari, A., Schütz, G., Williams, T., Rohrer, H. The transcription factors AP-2b and AP-2a are required for survival of sympathetic progenitors and differentiated sympathetic neurons. Dev Biol 355:89-100 (2011). (December 12, 2011)
Rohrer. H. Transcriptional control of differentiation and neurogenesis in autonomic ganglia. Eur J Neurosci 34:1563-1573 (2011). (December 12, 2011)
Bischof, H.-J., Nießner, C., Peichl, L., Wiltschko, R., Wiltschko, W. Avian UV/violet cones as magnetoreceptors: The problem of separating visual and magnetic information. Communicative & Integrative Biology 4(6): 713-716 (2011). (December 6, 2011)
Kallenborn-Gerhardt, W., Lu ,R., Lorenz, J., Gao, W., Weiland, J., Del Turco, D., Deller, T., Laube, B., Betz, H., Geisslinger, G., Schmidtko, A.. Prolonged zymosan-induced inflammatory pain hypersensitivity in mice lacking glycine receptor alpha2. Behavioural Brain Research 226: 106-11 (2012). Epub (November 21, 2011)
Puthussery, T., Gayet-Primo, J., Taylor, W.R., Haverkamp, S. Immunohistochemical identification and synaptic inputs to the diffuse bipolar cell type DB1 in macaque retina. Journal of Computational Neurology 519: 3640-3656 (2011). (November 21, 2011)
Breuninger, T., Puller, C., Haverkamp, S., Euler, T. Chromatic Bipolar Cell Pathways in the Mouse Retina. Journal of Neuroscience 31: 6504-6517 (2011). (November 21, 2011)
Lazar, A., G. Pipa, and J. Triesch: Emerging Bayesian priors in a self-organizing recurrent network. Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2011, Espoo, Finland, 14-17 June 2011, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6792: 127–134 (2011). (September 16, 2011)
Melloni, L. and W. Singer: The explanatory gap in neuroscience. The Scientific Legacy of the 20th Century. The Proceedings of the Plenary Session 28. Oct. – 1. Nov. 2010. Vatican City 2011. Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarvm Acta 21: 61-73 (2011). (September 16, 2011)
Naumer, M.J., J.J.F. van den Bosch, M. Wibral, A. Kohler, W. Singer, J. Kaiser, V. van de Ven and L. Muckli: Investigating human audio-visual object perception with a combination of hypothesis-generating and hypothesis-testing fMRI analysis tools. Experimental Brain Research 213(2-3): 309-320 (2011). (September 16, 2011)
Pipa, G. and M.H.J. Munk: Higher order spike synchrony in prefrontal cortex during visual memory. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 5: 23 (1-13) (2011). (September 16, 2011)
Wu, W., D.W. Wheeler and G. Pipa: Bivariate and multivariate NeuroXidence: A robust and reliable method to detect modulations of spike-spike synchronization across experimental conditions. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 5: 14 (1-11) (2011). (September 16, 2011)
del Pino, I., Paarmann, I., Karas, M., Kilimann, M. and Betz, H. The trafficking proteins Vacuolar Protein Sorting subunit 35 and Neurobeachin interact with the glycine receptor β-subunit. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 412 (2011) 435-440. (September 6, 2011)
Genç, E., Bergmann, J., Singer, W., and Kohler, A. Interhemispheric Connections Shape Subjective Experience of Bistable Motion, Current Biology 21 (2011), 1494-1499. (September 2, 2011)
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Havenith M.N., S. Yu, J. Biederlack, N-H. Chen, W. Singer and D. Nikolić (2011) Synchrony makes neurons fire in sequence—and stimulus properties determine who is ahead. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(23): 8570-8584. (August 31, 2011)
Jurjuţ O.F., D. Nikolić, W. Singer, S. Yu, M. N. Havenith, R. C. Mureşan (2011) Timescales of multineuronal activity patterns reflect temporal structure of visual stimuli, PLoS ONE, 6(2): e16758. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016758 (August 31, 2011)
D. Nikolić, und U. M. Jürgens (2011) Sinfonie in Rot. Gehirn&Geist, 6/2011: 58-63. (August 31, 2011)
Echtermeyer, C., C.E. Han, A. Rotarska-Jagiela, H. Mohr, P.J. Uhlhaas and M. Kaiser: Integrating temporal and spatial scales: human structural network motifs across age and region of interest size. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 5: 10 (1-14) (August 21, 2011).
Wang, P. and D. Nikolic: An LCD monitor with sufficiently precise timing for research in vision. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5: 85 (1-10) (August 21. 2011).
Ruffert, K., Himmel, B., Lall, D., Bamann, C., Bamberg, E., Betz, H. and Eulenburg, V. Glutamate residue 90 in the predicted transmembrane domain 2 is crucial for cation flux through channelrhodopsin 2. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 410 (2011) 737-43. (August 12, 2011)
Jedlicka, P., Hoon, M., Papadopoulos, T., Vlachos, A., Winkels, R., Pouopoulos, A., Betz, H., Deller, T., Brose, N., Varoqueaux, F. and Schwarzacher, S.W. Increased dentate gyrus excitability in neuroligin-2-deficient mice in vivo. Cereb. Cortex. 21 (2011) 357-67. (August 12, 2011)
Luck, S.J., D.H. Mathalon, B.F. O’Donnell, M.S. Hämäläinen, K.M. Spencer, D.C. Javitt and P.J. Uhlhaas: A roadmap for the development and validation of event-related potential biomarkers in schizophrenia research. Biological Psychiatry 70(1): 28-34 (2011). (August 10, 2011)
Mohr, H.M., N.S. Linder, H. Dennis and R. Sireteanu: Orientation-specific aftereffects to mentally generated lines. Perception 40(3): 272-290 (2011). (August 10, 2011)
Nida-Rümelin, J. und W. Singer: Erregungsmuster und gute Gründe. Über Bewusstsein und freien Willen. In: T. Bonhoeffer, P. Gruss (Hrsg.). Zukunft Gehirn. Neue Erkenntnisse, neue Herausforderungen. Ein Report der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, München 2011, 253-277. (August 10, 2011)
Nikolic, D., U.M. Jürgens, N. Rothen, B. Meier and A. Mroczko: Swimming-style synesthesia. Cortex 47: 874-879 (2011). (August 10, 2011)
Singer, W.: Time matters. In: L.M. Chalupa, N. Berardi, M. Caleo, L. Galli-Resta, T. Pizzorusso (Eds.). Cerebral Plasticity. New Perspectives. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 2011, 247-258. (August 10, 2011)
Singer, W.: Ich denke, also bin ich Ich? Philosophische Implikationen der Hirnforschung. In: T. Müller, T.M. Schmidt (Hrsg.). Ich denke also bin ich Ich? Das Selbst zwischen Neurobiologie, Philosophie und Religion. Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft. Bd. 14. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen 2011, 15-28. (August 10, 2011)
Moca, V.V., Ţincaş, I., Melloni, L., Mureşan, R.C. (2011).Visual Exploration and Object Recognition by Lattice Deformation. PLoS ONE 6(7): e22831. Link (August 8, 2011)
Eriksson, D., Vicente, R. and Schmidt, K. (2011) A linear model of phase-dependent power correlations in neuronal oscillations. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 5:34. Abstract (August 8, 2011)
Kim, S.A., Tai, Chin-Yin, Mok, Lee-Peng, Mosser, E.A. and Schuman, E.M. (2011). "Calcium-dependent dynamics of cadherin interactions at cell-cell junctions." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108(24): 9857-9862.
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Aizenberg, M. and Schuman, E.M. (2011). "Cerebellar-dependent associative learning in larval zebrafish." J Neurosci 31(24): 8708-8712.
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