Publications

Edited volumes

1. Poeppel, D. (ed.), Special Issue: Brain and Speech, Cognitive Science. 21 (5), 2001. 

2. Hickok, G. and Poeppel, D. (eds.), Special issue: Towards a new functional anatomy of language. Cognition Vol 92 (1-2), 2004. 

Book chapters

1. Phillips, C., Marantz, A., McGinnis, M., Pesetsky, D., Wexler, K., Yellin, E., Poeppel, D., Roberts, T.P.L., Rowley, H. (1995). Brain mechanisms of speech perception: A preliminary report. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 26: 153-192. 

2. Poeppel, D. (1996). What genetics can and can’t learn from PET studies of phonological processing. In Towards a Genetics of Language, Mabel Rice (ed.), p. 341-370, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. 

3. Poeppel, D. (1996). The acquisition of Inuktitut: comments on Crago and Allen. In Towards a Genetics of Language, Mabel Rice (ed.), p. 291-296, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. 

4. Poeppel, D. (1997). The relevance of temporal resolution for functional neuroimaging studies of speech and language processing. Proceedings of 5th International Congress on Phonetic and Linguistic Sciences, W. Ziegler and K. Deger (eds.), p. 229-239, London: Whurr. 

5. Greenberg, S., Poeppel. D. and Roberts, T. (1998) A space-time theory of pitch and timbre based on cortical expansion of the cochlear traveling wave delay , in Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing, A. Palmer, Q. Summerfield, A. Rees, R. Meddis (eds.) London: Whurr Publishers, pp. 293-300. 

6. Poeppel, D. and Marantz, A. (2000). Cognitive neuroscience of speech sound processing. In Miyashita, Marantz, O’Neil (eds). Image, language, brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. PDF

7. Poeppel, D. (2005). The interdisciplinary study of language and its challenges. In D. Grimm (Ed.), Jahrbuch des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin, Germany. PDF

8. Poeppel, D. and Hackl, M. (in press). The architecture of speech perception. In J. Pomerantz (Ed.), Topics in Integrative Neuroscience: From Cells to Cognition, Cambridge University Press. 

9. Embick, D. and Poeppel, D (2005). Mapping syntax using imaging: prospects and problems for the study of neurolinguistic computation. In K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd ,Oxford: Elsevier. PDF

10. Poeppel, D. and Embick, D. (2005). The relation between linguistics and neuroscience. In A. Cutler (ed.), Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones. Lawrence Erlbaum. PDF

11. Poeppel, D & Stroud C (2006). The nature of face recognition: a perspective from the cognitive neurosciences. In Wulf & Hüppauf (Eds.): Image and Imagination.

12. Poeppel, D. & Omaki, A. (in press). Language acquisition and ERP approaches: prospects and challenges. In Friederici, A. & Thierry, G. (Eds.), Early Language Development: Bridging Brain and Behaviour. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Journal articles

1. Poeppel, E. and Poeppel, D. (1985). Kurzfristige und langfristige VerÉnderungen der Reaktionszeit und des Konzentrationsvermûgens bei Squashspielern, Leistungssport 15 (4): 51-54. [Short-term and long-term changes in reaction time and concentration ability in squash players] 

2. Poeppel D. and Wexler K. (1993). The full competence hypothesis of clause structure in early German. Language 69

3. Roberts, T.P.L. and Poeppel, D (1996). Latency of auditory evoked M100 as a function of tone frequency. NeuroReport 7(6): 1138-1140. 

4. Poeppel, D. (1996). A critical review of PET studies of phonological processing. Brain and Language 55 (3): 317-351.  Response

5. Poeppel, D. (1996). Some remaining questions about studying phonological processing with PET. A response to Demonet, Fiez, Paulesu, Petersen, and Zatorre. Brain and Language 55 (3): 380-385. 

6. Poeppel, D., Yellin, E., Phillips, C., Roberts, T.P.L., Rowley, H., Wexler, K., Marantz, A. (1996). Task-induced asymmetry of the auditory evoked M100 neuromagnetic field elicited by speech sounds. Cognitive Brain Research 4: 231-242. PDF 

7. Poeppel, D. and Roberts TPL. (1996). Effects of vowel pitch and task demands on latency and amplitude of the auditory evoked M100. Brain & Cognition 32 (2): 156-158. 

8. Poeppel, D., Phillips, C., Yellin, E., Rowley, H.A., Roberts, T.P.L., and Marantz, A. (1997). Processing of vowels in supratemporal auditory cortex. Neuroscience Letters 221: 145-148.  PDF

9. Sekihara, K., Poeppel, D., Marantz, A., Koizumi, H., Miyashita, Y. (1997). Noise covariance incorporated MEG-MUSIC algorithm: a method for multiple-dipole estimation tolerant of the influence of background brain activity. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 44(9): 839-847. PDF 

10. Spengler, F., Roberts, T.P.L., Poeppel, D., Byl, N., Rowley, H., and Merzenich, M. (1997). Learning transfer and neuronal plasticity in humans trained in tactile discrimination. Neuroscience Letters.232: 151-154.  PDF

11. Hickok, G., Poeppel, D., Clark, K., Buxton, R. Rowley, H.A., Roberts, T.P.L. (1997). Sensory Mapping in a Congenitally Deaf Subject: MEG and fMRI Studies of Cross-Modal Non-Plasticity. Human Brain Mapping 5(6): 437-444. 

12. Sekihara, K., Poeppel, D., Marantz, A., Phillips, C., Koizumi, H., Miyashita, Y. (1997). MEG covariance difference analysis: a method to extract target source activities by using task and control measurements. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 45 (1): 87-97.  PDF

13. Stufflebeam, S., Poeppel, D., Rowley, H.A., Roberts, T.P.L. (1998). Peri-threshold encoding of stimulus frequency and intensity in the M100 latency. Neuroreport 9(1): 91-94.  PDF

14. Roberts, T.P.L., Poeppel, D., Rowley, H.A. (1998) Magnetoencephalography and magnetic source imaging. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology 11(2): 49-64. 

15. Roberts, T.P.L., Ferrari, P., Poeppel, D. (1998). The M100 Latency of the auditory evoked neuromagnetic field reflects perceptual as well as acoustic stimulus attributes. Neuroreport 9(14): 3265-9. 

16. Gage, N., Poeppel, D., Roberts, T.P.L., Hickok, G. (1998). Auditory evoked M100 reflects onset dynamics of speech sounds. Brain Research 814: 236-239. 

17. Sekihara, K., Poeppel, D., Marantz, A., Miyashita, Y. (1998). Comparison of Covariance-Based and Waveform-Based Subtraction Methods in Removing the Interference from Button-Pressing Finger Movements. Brain Topography . 11(2):95-102. 

18. Sekihara, K., Nagarajan, S., Poeppel, D., Miyashita, Y. (1999). Time-Frequency MEG-MUSIC Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 18 (1): 92-97.  

19. Sekihara, K., Poeppel, D., Miyauchi, S., Takino, R., Fujimaki, N., Miyashita, Y. (1999). MEG Spatio-Temporal Analysis Using a Covariance Matrix Calculated from Non-Averaged Multiple-Epoch Data. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 46(5): 515-521.  PDF

20. Hickok, G. and Poeppel, D. (2000). Towards a Functional Anatomy of Speech Perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4:131-138.  PDF

21. Roberts, TPLR, Ferrari, P., Stufflebeam, S., Poeppel, D. (2000). Latency of the auditory evoked neuromagnetic field components:stimulus dependence and insights towards perception. J Clinical Neurophysiology 17: 114-129. PDF

22. Sekihara, K., Nagarajan, S., Poeppel, D., Miyauchi, S., Fujimaki, N., Koizumi, H., Miyashita, Y. Estimating Neural Sources from Each Time-Frequency Component of Magnetoencephalographic Data (2000). IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 47 (5): 642-653. PDF

23. Stufflebeam SM, Poeppel D, Roberts TPL (2000). Temporal encoding in auditory evoked neuromagnetic fields: stochastic resonance. Neuroreport 11(18): 4081-4085. 

24. Phillips, C., Pellathy, T., Marantz, A., Yellin, E., Wexler, K., Poeppel, D., McGinnis, M. and Roberts, TPL (2000). Auditory Cortex Accesses Phonological Categories: An MEG Mismatch Study. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 12: 1038-1055. 

25. Disbrow, E., Roberts, T, Poeppel, D., Krubitzer, L. (2001). Evidence for interhemispheric processing of inputs from the hands in the human S2 and PV. Journal of Neurophysiology. 85(5): 2236-2244. PDF

26. Sekihara, K., Nagarajan, S., Poeppel, D., Marantz, A., Miyashita, Y. (2001). Reconstructing spatio-temporal activities of neural sources using an MEG vector beamformer technique. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 48 (7): 760-771.  PDF

27. Poeppel, D. (2001).New approaches to the neural basis of speech sound processing: Introduction to special issue on Brain and Speech. Cognitive Science. 21 (5): 659-661. PDF

28. Poeppel, D. (2001). Pure word deafness and the bilateral processing of the speech code. Cognitive Science. 21 (5): 679-693.  PDF

29. Gordon, M. & Poeppel, D. (2002). Inequality in identification of direction of frequency change (up vs. down) for rapid frequency modulated sweeps. ARLO/J. Acoust. Soc. Am 3(1).  PDF

30. Sekihara, K., Nagarajan, S., Poeppel, D., Marantz, A., Miyashita, Y. (2002). Application of an MEG eigenspace beamformer to reconstructing spatio-temporal activities of neural sources. Human Brain Mapping 15: 199-215. 

31. Lakshminarayanan K, Ben Shalom D, van Wassenhove V, Orbelo D, Houde J, Poeppel D. (2003). The effect of spectral manipulations on the identification of affective and linguistic prosody. Brain and Language 84: 250-263. PDF

32. Poeppel, D. (2003). The analysis of speech in different temporal integration windows: cerebral lateralization as ‘asymmetric sampling in time’. Speech Communication 41: 245-255. PDF

33. Gennari, S. and Poeppel, D. (2003) Processing correlates of lexical semantic complexity. Cognition. 89 (1): 27-41. PDF

34. Poeppel, D., Wharton, C., Fritz, J., Guillemin, A., San Jose, L., Thompson, J., Bavelier, D., and Braun, A. (2004). FM sweeps, syllables, and word stimuli differentially modulate left and right non-primary auditory areas. Neuropsychologia 42 (2), 183-200. PDF

35. Poeppel, D. and Hickok, G. (2004). Towards a new functional anatomy of language. Cognition 92, 1-12. PDF

36. Hickok, G. and Poeppel, D. (2004). Dorsal and ventral streams: a framework for understanding aspects of the functional anatomy of language. Cognition 92, 67-99. PDF

37. Flöel, A., Poeppel, D., Buffalo, E., Braun, A., Wu, C., Seo, HJ, Stefan, K., Knecht, S., Cohen, L. (2004). Frontal cortex asymmetry for memory encoding of words and pictures. Cerebral Cortex 14, 404-409.  PDF

38. Salajegheh, A., Link, A., Elster, C., Burghoff, M., Sander, T., Trahms, L, Poeppel, D (2004). Systematic latency variation of the auditory evoked M100: from average to single-trial data. NeuroImage 23: 288-95. PDF

39. Sekihara K, Nagarajan SS, Poeppel D, Marantz A. (2004). Performance of an MEG adaptive-beamformer source reconstruction technique in the presence of additive low-rank interference. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 51:90-9. 

40. Chait, M., Simon, J., Poeppel, D. (2004). Auditory M50 and M100 responses to broadband noise: functional implications. Neuroreport, 15(16), 2455-2458. PDF

41. Sekihara K, Nagarajan SS, Poeppel D, Marantz A. (2004). Asymptotic SNR of scalar and vector minimum-variance beamformers for neuromagnetic source reconstruction. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 51:1726-34. 

42. Ken W. Grant, Steven Greenberg, David Poeppel, Virginie van Wassenhove (2004). Effects of Spectro-Temporal Asynchrony in Auditory and Auditory-Visual Speech Processing. Seminars in Hearing. 25, 241-256. PDF

43. KW Grant, V. van Wassenhove, and D. Poeppel (2004). Detection of auditory (cross-spectral) and auditory-visual (cross-modal) synchrony. Speech Communication 44/1-4: 43-53. PDF

44. van Wassenhove V, Grant K, and Poeppel D (2005). Visual speech speeds up the neural processing of auditory speech. Proc National Acad Sci 102 (4), 1181-1186. PDF

45. Burghoff, M., Link, A., Salajegheh, A., Elster, C., Poeppel, D., Trahms, L. (2005). A template-free approach for determining the latency of single events of auditory evoked M100. Phys Biol Med 50, N43-48. 

46. Boemio, A., Fromm, S., Braun, A., Poeppel, D. (2005). Hierarchical and asymmetric temporal sensitivity in human auditory cortices. Nature Neuroscience 8, 389-395. PDF Supp Fig 1 Supp Fig 2

47. Beretta, A., Fiorentino, R., Poeppel, D (2005). The effects of homonymy and polysemy on lexical access: an MEG study. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 57-65. PDF

48. Luo, H., Husain, F., Horwitz, B. Poeppel, D. (2005). Categorization of speech and non-speech sounds: an MEG study. Neuroimag .28(1):59-71. PDF

49. Chait M, Poeppel D, de Cheveigne A, Simon JZ. (2005). Human auditory cortical processing of changes in interaural correlation. J Neurosci 25, 8518-27. PDF

50. Chait M, Poeppel D, Simon JZ. (2006) Neural Response Correlates of Detection of Monaurally and Binaurally Created Pitches in Humans. Cereb Cortex. Advance Access published on September 8, 2005. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhj027 PDF

51. Luo, H., Wang, Y., Poeppel, D., Simon, J. (2006). Concurrent Encoding of Frequency and Amplitude Modulation in Human Auditory Cortex: MEG Evidence. J Neurophysiol (March 1, 2006). doi:10.1152/jn.01256.2005

52. Poeppel, D. (2006). Language: Specifying the Site of Modality-Independent Meaning. Current Biology 16: 930-932.

53. van Wassenhove, V., Grant, K. W., Poeppel, D. (2007). Temporal window of integration in auditory-visual speech perception. Neuropsychologia. 45(3): 598-607.

54. Chait, M., Eden, G., Poeppel, D., Simon, J. Z., Hill, D. F., Flowers, D. L. (2007). Delayed detection of tonal targets in background noise in dyslexia. Brain and Language 102(1): 80-90.

55. Luo H, Boemio A, Gordon M, Poeppel D. (2007). The perception of FM sweeps by Chinese and English listeners. Hear Res 224(1-2): 75-83.

56. Sanders, L., & Poeppel, D. (2007). Attention in time: Local and global processing of auditory stimuli. Neuropsychologia. 45(6): 1172-86.

57. Link A, Burghoff M, Salajegheh A, Poeppel D, Trahms L, Elster C. (2007). Comparing a template approach and complex bandpass filtering for single-trial analysis of auditory evoked M100. Biomed Tech 52(1): 106-10.

58. Hickok, G., & Poeppel, D. (2007). The cortical organization of speech perception. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8: 393-402.

59. Chait, M., Poeppel, D., de Cheveigne, A, Simon, JZ (2007). Processing asymmetry of transitions between order and disorder in human auditory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 27(19): 5207-5214.

60. Chait M, Poeppel D, Simon JZ. (2007). Stimulus context affects auditory cortical responses to changes in interaural correlation. J Neurophysiol. 2007 May 9; [Epub ahead of print; PMID: 17493921]

61. Luo, H. and Poeppel, D. (2007). Phase Patterns of Neuronal Responses Reliably Discriminate Speech in Human Auditory Cortex, Neuron 54, 1001-1010.

62. Fiorentino, R. & Poeppel, D. (2007). Compound Words and Structure in the Lexicon. (2007). Language and Cognitive Processes. DOI: 10.1080/01690960701190215.

63. Poeppel, D., Idsardi, W. van Wassenhove, V. (in press). Speech perception at the interface of neurobiology and linguistics: prospects and problems. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2007 Sep 21; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17890189.

64. Poeppel, D & Monahan, PJ. (in press). Speech perception: Cognitive foundations and cortical implementation. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

65. Prasada, S., Salajegheh, A., Bowles, A., Poeppel, D. (in press). Characterizing kinds and instances of kinds: ERP reflections. Language and Cognitive Processes.

66. Giraud, AL, Kleinschmidt, A, Poeppel, D, Lund, TE, Frackowiak RSJ, Laufs, H. (in press). Endogenous cortical rhythms determine cerebral specialisation for speech perception and production. Neuron.

67. Luo H, Wang Y, Poeppel D, Simon JZ. (in press). Concurrent Encoding of Frequency and Amplitude Modulation in Human Auditory Cortex: An Encoding Transition. Journal of Neurophsyiology.

68. Ben Shalom, D. & Poeppel, D. (2007). Functional anatomic models of language: assembling the pieces. Neuroscientist. Oct 2; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17911215.

Other stuff

1. Poeppel, D. (1994). Good bone stories but no good theory. Review of C. Wills, The Runaway Brain: The Evolution of Human Uniqueness. Boston Book Review, 1(2), 21. 

2. Poeppel, D. and Johnson, S. (1995).Neuroimaging studies of language must connect with (psycho)linguistic theories. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18(2): 369-370. 

3. Poeppel, D. (1995). In defense of Pinker. Response to Sean Greenberg, Language: Hardware & Software. Boston Book Review, 2 (3), 3. 

4. Poeppel, D. (1995). Verso una biologia della parola e del linguaggio. KOS, 119/120, 34-37. [Towards a biology of speech and language] 

5. Poeppel, D. and Rowley, H.A. (1996). Magnetic source imaging and the neural basis of dyslexia. Editorial, Annals of Neurology 40 (2): 137-138. 

6. Poeppel, D. (1996). Neurobiology and linguistics are not yet unifiable. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19(4): 642-643. 

7. Poeppel, D. (1997). Mind over chatter. Review of T. Deacon, The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain, Nature 388: 734. PDF  

8. Poeppel, D. (1999). Review of R. Ivry and L. Robertson, The Two Sides of Perception, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1998. J Cognitive Neuroscience 11:130-132. 

9. Poeppel, D. (2000). An instinct for the past tense. Review of S. Pinker, Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, Nature 403: 361-362.  PDF

10. Horwitz B & Poeppel D (2002). How can EEG/MEG and fMRI/PET data be combined? Human Brain Mapping 17:1-3. 

11. David Poeppel, "Ihr Heulsusen - Die Deutsche Depresssion und Ihre Folgen", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Vol 183 p31, 9. August 2005). A brief piece disussing what American universities have to offer that German universities lack. FAZPoeppel.pdf