Prof. Dr. Mathias Scharinger
Research Interests
- Categorization of acoustic information
- Neural bases of speech sound representation
- Predictive mechanisms in speech and language
Vita
Academic Education
| 2016 | Habilitation in Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany |
| 2007 | Ph.D. Psycho/Neurolinguistic, University of Konstanz, Germany |
Professional Experience | |
| since 04/2017 | Professor of Phonetics in the Institute for German Linguistics at the University of Marburg, Germany |
| 10/2015-03/2017 | Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 07/2014-09/2015 | Senior Research Fellow, University of Leipzig, Cognitive and Biological Psychology |
| 01/2014-06/2014 | Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2014 | Projecet leader DFG-Project (University of Leipzig): Global and local aspects of temporal and lexical predictions for speech processing |
| 2011-2013 | Post-Doc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2009-2010 | Post-Doc, University of Maryland, USA |
| 2008 | Research Fellow/Lecturer, University of Konstanz, Germany |
Publications
Articles (in peer-reviewed journals)
Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Knoop, C. A., & Scharinger, M. (2018). Poetic speech melody: A crucial link between music and language. Plos One, 13(11), 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, 9:1284. 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, 8:137. 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
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.
Projects
- Prose Rhythm
Latin rhetoric considered the artistic treatment of linguistic rhythm as a potent rhetorical feature not only of verse, but also of literary, philosophical and oratorical prose. However, it failed to push the analysis of prose rhythm beyond ...
- Lyrical speech melody
Since antiquity, poets have been likened to singers. The Romantic understanding of poetry has further reinforced the analogies between music and poetry. Our project investigates the extent to which this analogy can be pushed beyond meter and rhyme to ...