Academic Education

Articles (in peer-reviewed journals)

Scharinger, M., Knoop, C. A., Wagner, V., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). Neural processing of poems and songs is based on melodic properties. Neuroimage, 257, Article 119310. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119310 

Scharinger, M., Wagner, V., Knoop, C. A., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/aca0000465 

Henrich, K., & Scharinger, M. (2022). Predictive Processing in Poetic Language: Event-Related Potentials Data on Rhythmic Omissions in Metered Speech. Frontiers in Psychology,12, Article 782765. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.782765.

Franz, I., Knoop, C. A., Kentner, G., Rothbart, S., Kegel, V., Vasilieva, J., Methner, S., Scharinger, M., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). Prosodic Phrasing and Syllable Prominence in Spoken Prose. A Validated Coding Manual. OSF Preprints.doi:10.31219/osf.io/h4sd5 

Riedinger, M., Nagels, A., Werth, A., & Scharinger, M. (2021). Asymmetries in Accessing Vowel Representations Are Driven by Phonological and Acoustic Properties: Neural and Behavioral Evidence From Natural German Minimal Pairs. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, Article 612345. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2021.612345

Thissen, B. A. K., Schlotz, W., Abel, C., Scharinger, M., Frieler, K., Merrill, J., Haider, T., & Menninghaus, W. (2021). At the Heart of Optimal Reading Experiences: Cardiovascular Activity and Flow Experiences in Fiction Reading. Reading Research Quarterly.  10.1002/rrq.448 

Wagner, V., Scharinger, M., Knoop, C. A., & Menninghaus, W. (2021). Effects of continuous self-reporting on aesthetic evaluation and emotional responses. Poetics, 85, Article 101497. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101497 

Blohm, S., Schlesewsky, M., Menninghaus, W., & Scharinger, M. (2021). Text type attribution modulates pre-stimulus alpha power in sentence reading. Brain and Language, 214, e104894.  doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104894

Tavano, A., Blohm, S., Knoop, C. A., Muralikrishnan, R., Scharinger, M., Wagner, V., et al. (2020). Neural harmonics reflect grammaticality. bioRxiv - The Preprint Server for Biology, Preprint. Retrieved from Neural harmonics reflect grammaticality | bioRxiv

Auracher, J., Menninghaus, W., & Scharinger, M. (2020). Sound Predicts Meaning: Cross-Modal Associations Between Formant Frequency and Emotional Tone in Stanzas. Cognitive Science,44(10), Article e12906.  doi:10.1111/cogs.12906

Frank, M., Muhlack, B., Zebe, F., & Scharinger, M. (2020). Contributions of pitch and spectral information to cortical vowel categorization. Journal of Phonetics, 79, 1–13.  doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2020.100963

Scharinger, M. (2019). Abstractions, predictions, and speech sound representations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, accepted commentary, forthcoming.

Auracher, J., Scharinger, M., & Menninghaus, W. (2019). Contiguity-based sound iconicity: The meaning of words resonates with phonetic properties of their immediate verbal contexts. Plos One14(5), Article e0216930. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0216930

Zimmerer, F., Scharinger, M., Cornell, S., Reetz, H., & Eulitz, C. (2019). Neural mechanisms for coping with acoustically reduced speech. Brain and Language, 191, 46–57.  doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2019.02.001

Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Knoop, C. A., & Scharinger, M. (2018). Poetic speech melody: A crucial link between music and language. Plos One, 13(11), Article e0205980.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0205980

Kraxenberger, M., Menninghaus, W., Roth, A., & Scharinger, M. (2018). Prosody-Based Sound-Emotion Associations in Poetry. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 1284. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01284

Schuster, S., Scharinger, M., Brooks, C., Lahiri, A., & Hartwigsen, G. (2018). The neural correlates of morphological complexity processing: Detecting structure in pseudowords. Human Brain Mapping, 39(6), 2317–2328. doi:10.1002/hbm.23975 

Scharinger, M., Steinberg, J., & Tavano, A. (2017). Integrating speech in time depends on temporal expectancies and attention. Cortex, 93, 28–40. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2017.05.001

Scharinger, M., Domahs, U., Klein, E., & Domahs, F. (2016). Mental representations of vowel features asymmetrically modulate activity in superior temporal sulcus. Brain and Language, 163, 42–49. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2016.09.002

Scharinger, M., Monahan, P. J., & Idsardi, W. J. (2016). Linguistic category structure influences early auditory processing: Converging evidence from mismatch responses and cortical oscillations. NeuroImage, 128, 293–301. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.01.003

Scharinger, M., Bendixen, A., Herrmann, B., Henry, M.J., Mildner, T. & Obleser, J. (2016). Predictions interact with missing sensory evidence in semantic processing areas. Human Brain Mapping, 37(2), 704–716. doi:10.1002/hbm.23060

Tavano, A., & Scharinger, M. (2015). Prediction in speech and language processing. Cortex, 68(0), 1–7. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.001

Lago, S., Scharinger, M., Kronrod, Y., & Idsardi, W. J. (2015). Categorical effects in fricative perception are reflected in cortical source information. Brain and Language, 143, 52–58. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2015.02.003

Strauß, A., Henry, M. J., Scharinger, M., & Obleser, J. (2015). Alpha Phase Determines Successful Lexical Decision in Noise. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 3256–3262. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.3357-14.2015

Scharinger, M., Henry, M.J., & Obleser, J. (2015). Acoustic cue selection and discrimination under degradation: Differential contributions of inferior parietal and posterior temporal cortex. NeuroImage, 106, 373–381. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.050

Herrmann, B., Henry, M. J., Scharinger, M., & Obleser, J. (2014). Supplementary motor area activations predict individual differences in temporal-change sensitivity and its illusory distortions. NeuroImage, 101, 370–379. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.026

Scharinger, M., Herrmann, B., Nierhaus, T., & Obleser, J. (2014). Simultaneous EEG-fMRI brain signatures of auditory cue utilization. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8, Article 137.  doi:10.3389/fnins.2014.00137

Strauss, A., Kotz, S. A., Scharinger, M., & Obleser, J. (2014). Alpha and theta brain oscillations index dissociable processes in spoken word recognition. NeuroImage, 97, 387–395. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.005

Zimmerer, F., Scharinger, M., & Reetz, H. (2014). Phonological and morphological constraints on German /t/-deletions. Journal of Phonetics, 45(0), 64–75. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2014.03.006

Scharinger, M. & Idsardi, W. (2014). Sparseness of vowel category structure: Evidence from English dialect comparison. Lingua, 140, 35–51. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.11.007

Scharinger, M., Henry, M., Meyer, L., Erb, J. & Obleser, J. (2014). Thalamic and parietal brain morphology predicts auditory category learning. Neuropsychologia, 53, 75–83. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.012

Bendixen, A., Scharinger, M., Strauss, A., & Obleser, J. (2014). Prediction in the service of comprehension: modulated early brain responses to omitted speech segments. Cortex, 53, 9–26. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.001

Herrmann, B., Henry, M., Scharinger, M. & Obleser, J. (2013). Auditory filter width affects response magnitude but not frequency specificity in auditory cortex. Hearing Research, 304, 128–136. doi:10.1016/j.heares.2013.07.005

Scharinger, M., Henry, M. & Obleser, J. (2013). Prior experience with negative spectral correlations promotes information-integration during auditory category learning. Memory & Cognition,41(5), 752–768. doi:10.3758/s13421-013-0294-9

Book Chapters

Blohm, S., Kraxenberger, M., Knoop, C. A., & Scharinger, M. (2021). Sound Shape and Sound Effects of Literary Texts. In D. Kuiken, & A. M. Jacobs (Eds.), Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies (pp. 7-38). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110645958-002

Scharinger, M. (2020). Sprache und Musik aus der Sicht der Neurokognition: Sprechen, Singen und Melodie als verbindendes Element. In C. Philipsen & U. Omonsky (Eds.), Das Melodram in Geschichte und Aufführungspraxis (pp. 335–374). Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag.

Scharinger, M. (2019). Melodie. In P. Nicklas (Ed.), Literatur und Musik im Künstevergleich. Empirische und hermeneutische Methoden (pp. 35–57). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

Scharinger, M. (2018). Neural bases of phonological representations: Empirical approaches and methods. In C. Ulbrich, A. Werth & R. Wiese (Eds.), Empirical approaches to the phonological structure of words (pp. 241–272). Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH.

Scharinger, M. (2017). Are there brain bases for phonological markedness? In B. D. Samuels (Ed.), Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology (pp. 191–218). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Scharinger, M. (2016). Ungestörte Lautverarbeitung. In U. Domahs & B. Primus (Eds.), Handbuch Laut, Gebärde, Buchstabe (Vol. 2, pp. 163–181). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.