Prof. David Poeppel, PhD
Main Research Areas
- Brain basis of speech perception and language comprehension
- Auditory cognition and music
- Multisensory perception
- The temporal structure of perceptual experience
- Cognitive neuroscience and its foundations
Vita
Academic Education
| 1990–1995 | PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1987–1990 | Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1984–1986 | Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine |
| 1974–1984 | Maximiliansgymnasium, München, Germany |
Career
| Since 04/2021 | Managing Director, Ernst Strüngmann Institute |
| Since 2019 | Principal Investigator at the Max Planck — NYU Center for Language, Music and Emotion (CLaME) |
| Since 2014 | Director at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics |
| Since 2009 | Professor, Department of Psychology, NYU |
| 2006–2009 | Professor, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 2004 (fall) | DaimlerChrysler Berlin Prize, American Academy Berlin |
| 2003–2004 | Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Studies) |
| 2003–2005 | Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 11/2001–2005 | Visiting Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan |
| 1998–2002 | Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics & Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 08/1995–12/1997 | Post-Doc, Department of Radiology, UCSF School of Medicine |
Publications
Selected publications
Teng X, Poeppel D (in press). Theta and Gamma Bands Encode Acoustic Dynamics over Wide-ranging Timescales. Cerebral Cortex.
Tavano A, Poeppel D (2019). A division of labor between power and phase coherence in encoding attention to stimulus streams. NeuroImage 193, 146-156.
Lewis, G.A. Poeppel, D. Murphy, G.L. (2019) Contrasting Semantic versus Inhibitory Processing in the Angular Gyrus: An fMRI Study. Cerebral Cortex
Rowland, J., Kasdan, A., Poeppel, D. (2019)There is music in repetition: Looped segments of speech and nonspeech induce the perception of music in a time-dependent manner. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 1-8
Assaneo, M.F., Ripollés, P. Orpella, J., Lin, W.M., de Diego-Balaguer, R., Poeppel, D. (2019) Spontaneous synchronization to speech reveals neural mechanisms facilitating language learning- Nature neuroscience, 10.1038/s41593-019-0353-z
Flinker, A., Doyle, W.K., Mehta, A.D., Devinsky, O., Poeppel, D. (2019) Spectrotemporal modulation provides a unifying framework for auditory cortical asymmetries. Nature human behaviour 3 (4) 10.1038/s41562-019-0548-z
Doelling, K. B., Assaneo, M. F., Bevilacqua, D., Pesaran, B., & Poeppel, D. (2019). An oscillator model better predicts cortical entrainment to music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(20), 10113-10121.
Assaneo MF, Rimmele J, Orpella J, Ripolles R, De Diego-Balaguer R, Poeppel D (2019). The lateralization of speech-brain coupling is differentially modulated by intrinsic auditory and top-down mechanisms. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. Accepted 02 Jul 2019. Doi: 10.3389/fnint.2019.00028
Teng X, Cogan G, Poeppel D. (2019). Speech Fine Structure Contains Critical Temporal Cues to Support Speech Segmentation. NeuroImage. 202, 116-152.
Grabenhorst, M., Michalareas, G., Maloney, L.T., Poeppel D (2019). The anticipation of events in time. Nat Commun 10, 5802 doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13849-0.
Teng, X., Sun, Y., Poeppel, D. (2018) Temporal order judgment reveals local-global auditory processes, Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 104 (5) 817-820, S. Hirzel Verlag
Rimmele, J. M, Morillon, B., Poeppel, D., Arnal, L. H. (2018) Proactive sensing of periodic and aperiodic auditory patterns, Trends in cognitive sciences,22 (10), 870-882, Elsevier Current Trends
Rowland, J., Kasdan, A., Poeppel, D. (2018) There is music in repetition: Looped segments of speech and nonspeech induce the perception of music in a time-dependent manner, Psychonomic bulletin & review, Springer US
Getz, H., Ding, N., Newport, E. L., Poeppel, D. (2018) Cortical tracking of constituent structure in language acquisition. Cognition,181, 135-140, Elsevier
Belfi, A. M., Kasdan, A., Rowland, J., Vessel, E. A., Starr, G. G., Poeppel, D. (2018) ,Rapid timing of musical aesthetic judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, American Psychological Association, p. 147, 1531-1543.
Lewis, G. A; Poeppel, D.; Murphy, G. L. (2018) ,Contrasting Semantic versus Inhibitory Processing in the Angular Gyrus: An fMRI Study, Cerebral Cortex
Bevilacqua, D., Davidesco, I., Wan, L., Oostrik, M., Chaloner, K., Rowland, J., Ding, M., Poeppel, D., Dikker, S. (2018) Brain-to-Brain Synchrony and Learning Outcomes Vary by Student Teacher Dynamics: Evidence from a Real-world Classroom Electroencephalography Study, Journal of cognitive neuroscience, MIT Press One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209
Tian, X., Ding, N.,Teng, X., Bai, F., Poeppel, D. (2018) Imagined speech influences perceived loudness of sound,Nature Human Behaviour,2(3), 225, Nature Publishing Group
Assaneo, M. F., Poeppel, D. (2018). The coupling between auditory and motor cortices is rate-restricted: Evidence for an intrinsic speech-motor rhythm, Science advances, 4(2) 3842, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Teng, X., Tian, X., Doelling, K. Poeppel, D. (2018).Theta band oscillations reflect more than entrainment: behavioral and neural evidence demonstrates an active chunking process, European Journal of Neuroscience, 48 (8), 2770-2782.
Gwilliams, L., Linzen, T., Poeppel, D., & Marantz, A. (2018). In spoken word recognition, the future predicts the past. Journal of Neuroscience, 38 (35), 7585-7599. Society for Neuroscience doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0065-18.2018
Teng, X., Tian, X. Rowland, J., Poeppel, D. (2017) Concurrent temporal channels for auditory processing: Oscillatory neural entrainment reveals segregation of function at different scales. PLoS biology 15 (11), e2000812
Ding, N. , Patel, A.D., Chen, L., Butler, H., Luo, C., Poeppel, D. (2017) Temporal modulations in speech and music. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 81, 181-187
Ding, N., Melloni, L., Tian, X., Poeppel, D. (2017) Rule-based and word-level statistics-based processing of language: insights from neuroscience Language, cognition and neuroscience 32 (5), 570-575
Ten Oever, S. Schroeder, C.E. Poeppel, D. Van Atteveldt, N. Mehta, A.D.(2017) Low-frequency cortical oscillations entrain to subthreshold rhythmic auditory stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience 37 (19), 4903-4912
Kraukauer, J.W., Gomez-Marin , A.A., MacIver, M.A., Poeppel, D. (2017) Neuroscience needs behavior: correcting a reductionist bias. Neuron 93 (3), 480-490
Arnal, L. H., Flinker, A., Kleinschmidt, A., Giraud, A.-L., & Poeppel, D. (2015). Human Screams Occupy a Privileged Niche in the Communication Soundscape. Current Biology. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.043
Rimmele, J. M., Zion Golumbic, E., Schröger, E., & Poeppel, D. (2015). The effects of selective attention and speech acoustics on neural speech-tracking in a multi-talker scene. Cortex, 68(0), 144-154. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.12.014
Embick D. & Poeppel D. (2015). Towards a computational(ist) neurobiology of language: Correlational, integrated, and explanatory neurolinguistics. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30(4):357-366. PMID: 25914888
Farbood M. M., Rowland J., Marcus G., Ghitza O. & Poeppel D. (2015). Decoding time for the identification of musical key. Attention Perception Psychophyics, 77(1):28-35. doi: 10.3758/s13414-014-0806-0. PMID: 25487869.
Overath, T., McDermott, J. H., Zarate, J. M., & Poeppel, D. (2015). The cortical analysis of speech-specific temporal structure revealed by responses to sound quilts. Nature Neuroscience, 18(6), 903-11. doi: 10.1038/nn.4021
Poeppel, D. (2014). The neuroanatomic and neurophysiological infrastructure for speech and language. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 28c, 142-149. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.07.005
Luo, H., Tian, X., Song, K., Zhou, K., & Poeppel, D. (2013). Neural response phase tracks how listeners learn new acoustic representations. Current Biology, 23(11), 968-974. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.031
Giraud, A. L., & Poeppel, D. (2012). Cortical oscillations and speech processing: emerging computational principles and operations. Nature Neuroscience, 15(4), 511-517. doi: 10.1038/nn.3063
Lau, E. F., Phillips, C., & Poeppel, D. (2008). A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9(12), 920-933. doi: 10.1038/nrn2532
Luo, H., & Poeppel, D. (2007). Phase patterns of neuronal responses reliably discriminate speech in human auditory cortex. Neuron, 54(6), 1001-1010. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.06.004
Hickok, G., & Poeppel, D. (2007). The cortical organization of speech processing. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8(5), 393-402. doi: 10.1038/nrn2113
van Wassenhove, V., Grant, K. W., & Poeppel, D. (2005). Visual speech speeds up the neural processing of auditory speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(4), 1181-1186. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408949102
Boemio, A., Fromm, S., Braun, A., & Poeppel, D. (2005). Hierarchical and asymmetric temporal sensitivity in human auditory cortices. Nature Neuroscience, 8(3), 389-395. doi: 10.1038/nn1409
Awards & Grants
Awards & Grants
| 2004 | DaimlerChrysler Berlin Prize, American Academy |
| 2003–2004 | Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg) |
| 2006 | Cognitive Science Distinguished Lectureship, Michigan State Univ. |
| 2006, May | Guest Professorship, École Normale Supérieure, Paris |
| 2007 | Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science |