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Profile
| Research fields | Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology,Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience |
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| Keywords | cerebral cortex, crossmodal plasticity, functional magnetic resonance imaging, higher auditory processing, neural basis of language |
| Honours and awards | 2021: Associação Brasileira de Linguística, Invited Lecture on “Where did language come from?” 2020: Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOS): Functional and Neural Perspectives, Rovereto, Italy 2019: Invited speaker, 12th International Tinnitus Research Initiative Conference, Taipei, Taiwan 2017: Keynote speaker, Neuromusic Boston 2017, Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School 2016: TEDx talk, “The Power of One”, Charlottesville, VA, USA 2014: Hans-Fischer Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München 2013: Keynote Speaker, Int. Multisensory Research Forum, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 2011: Faculty, SERC School on Systems & Cognitive Neuroscience, NBRC, Manesar, Delhi, India 2010: Francis Crick Symposium in Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Asia, Suzhou, China 2008: Friedrich Merz Foundation Visiting Professor, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main 2008: Keynote Lecture, Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neurophysiology, Soc. for Neuroscience 2007: Finland Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro), Academy of Finland 2003: Servier Lecture, Université de Montreal, Canada 2002: Humboldt Research Award, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Federal Republic of Germany 2001: Schmitt Lecture, University of Rochester, USA 2000: Helmholtz Lecture, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands 1987: Attempto Prize, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany 1986: C. & F. Demuth Young Investigator Award in Neuroscience, Swiss Medical Research Foundation 1986: Fellow in Residence, Neurosciences Institute of the NRP, Rockefeller University, New York 1986: Habilitation, Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany 1978: Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Society 1973: Member, Darwin College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 1971: German National Merit Foundation and Kusanuswerk 1970: Nomination for Stiftung Maximilianeum : Selected Presentations: |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Washington |
| Institution | Georgetown University |
| Institute | Medical Center, Department of Neuroscience |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pohl | Physiologisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München |
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| Prof. Dr. med. Markus Schwaiger | Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, München |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2002 |
Programme(s)
| 2002 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Rauschecker is an excellent and internationally renowned physiologist. He has made outstanding contributions to two research areas: firstly, he and his colleagues have much improved our understanding of how signals from the inner ear are processed in higher centres of the brain and secondly, they have made important observations of how neuronal cells and even brain areas can acquire new functions when the input to the brain is chronically altered, a phenomenon called neuronal plasticity. Many of these new findings have been obtained by combining modern physiological with imaging techniques. In particular, the pioneering work on functional spin resonance tomography has delivered new insights in neuronal processes with impact not only on classical neurophysiology but also evolution biology, biophysics and linguistics. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2006 | M. Mühlau, Josef Rauschecker, E. Oestreicher, C. Gaser, M. Röttinger, A. M. Wohlschläger, F. Simon, T. Etgen, B. Conrad, D. Sander: Structural Brain Changes in Tinnitus. In: Cerebral Contex, 2006, 1283-1288 |
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| 2006 | Jonas Obleser, Henning Boecker, Alexander Drzezga, Bernhard Haslinger, Andreas Hennenlotter, Michael Roettinger, Carsten Eulitz, Josef Rauschecker: Vowel Sound Extraction in Anterior Superior Temporal Cortex. In: Human Brain Mapping, 2006, 562-571 |
| 2005 | Alexander Drzezga, Timo Grimmer, Martin Peller, Marc Wermke, Hartwig Siebner, Josef Rauschecker, Markus Schwaiger, Alexander Kurz: Impaired Cross-Modal Inhibition in Alzheimer Disease. In: PLoS Medicine, 2005, 0986-0995 |