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 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
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
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
Hickok, G., & Poeppel, D. (2007). The cortical organization of speech processing. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8(5), 393-402. doi: 10.1038/nrn2113
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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 |