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Burkhard Maess

Burkhard Maess

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Neuroscience

D-Index
42
Citations
8251
World Ranking
7591
National Ranking
638

Overview

Burkhard Maess is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and several related subfields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, experimental and cognitive psychology, signal processing, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics within neuroscience, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and music perception
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Advanced MRI techniques and applications
  • Hearing loss and rehabilitation
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Maess has published extensively, contributing to multiple scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Neurobiology of Aging

Recent papers by Maess include:

  • "Orienting auditory attention in time: Lateralized alpha power reflects spatio-temporal filtering" (2020, NeuroImage)
  • "A neural signature of regularity in sound is reduced in older adults" (2021, Neurobiology of Aging)
  • "Sustained responses and neural synchronization to amplitude and frequency modulation in sound change with age" (2022, Hearing Research)
  • "Musical rhythm effects on visual attention are non-rhythmical: evidence against metrical entrainment" (2020, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience)
  • "Alpha power during task performance predicts individual language comprehension" (2022, NeuroImage)

Frequent collaborators in Maess's work include Thomas R. Knösche, Jens Haueisen, Sergey N Makaroff, Guillermo Nuñez Ponasso, and Gregory M. Noetscher.

Best Publications

  • Musical syntax is processed in Broca's area: An MEG study.

    Burkhard Maess;Stefan Koelsch;Thomas C. Gunter;Angela D. Friederici

  • Good practice for conducting and reporting MEG research

    Joachim Gross;Sylvain Baillet;Gareth R. Barnes;Richard N. A. Henson

  • Digital filter design for electrophysiological data--a practical approach.

    Andreas Widmann;Erich Schröger;Burkhard Maess

  • Localization of early syntactic processes in frontal and temporal cortical areas: A magnetoencephalographic study

    Angela D. Friederici;Yunhua Wang;Christoph S. Herrmann;Burkhard Maess

  • Gamma amplitudes are coupled to theta phase in human EEG during visual perception.

    Tamer Demiralp;Zubeyir Bayraktaroglu;Daniel Lenz;Stefanie Junge

  • Semantic Category Interference in Overt Picture Naming: Sharpening Current Density Localization by PCA

    Burkhard Maess;Angela D. Friederici;Markus Damian;Antje S. Meyer

  • Adverse listening conditions and memory load drive a common alpha oscillatory network

    Jonas Obleser;Malte Wöstmann;Nele Hellbernd;Anna Wilsch

  • Spatiotemporal dynamics of auditory attention synchronize with speech

    Malte Wöstmann;Malte Wöstmann;Björn Herrmann;Burkhard Maess;Jonas Obleser;Jonas Obleser

  • Memory-matches evoke human gamma-responses.

    Christoph S Herrmann;Christoph S Herrmann;Daniel Lenz;Stefanie Junge;Niko A Busch;Niko A Busch

  • Perception of phrase structure in music

    Thomas R. Knösche;Christiane Neuhaus;Jens Haueisen;Kai Alter

  • Localizing pre-attentive auditory memory-based comparison: magnetic mismatch negativity to pitch change.

    Burkhard Maess;Thomas Jacobsen;Erich Schröger;Angela D. Friederici

  • MMN or no MMN: No magnitude of deviance effect on the MMN amplitude

    János Horváth;János Horváth;István Czigler;Thomas Jacobsen;Burkhard Maess

  • Electric brain responses reveal gender differences in music processing.

    Stefan Koelsch;CA Burkhard Maess;Tobias Grossmann;Angela D. Friederici

  • Localizing the distributed language network responsible for the N400 measured by MEG during auditory sentence processing

    Burkhard Maess;Christoph S. Herrmann;Anja Hahne;Akinori Nakamura

  • Magnetoencephalography for epileptic focus localization in a series of 1000 cases.

    Stefan Rampp;Hermann Stefan;Xintong Wu;Martin Kaltenhäuser

  • Musical syntax is processed in the area of Broca: an MEG study

    Stefan Koelsch;Burkhard Maess;Angela D. Friederici

  • Alpha Oscillatory Dynamics Index Temporal Expectation Benefits in Working Memory

    Anna Wilsch;Molly J Henry;Björn Herrmann;Burkhard Maess

  • A MEG analysis of the P300 in visual discrimination tasks

    Axel Mecklinger;Burkhard Maess;Bertram Opitz;Erdmut Pfeifer

  • Oscillatory neuromagnetic activity induced by language and non-language stimuli

    Carsten Eulitz;Carsten Eulitz;Burkhard Maess;Christo Pantev;Angela D. Friederici

  • Action-sound coincidences suppress evoked responses of the human auditory cortex in eeg and meg

    János Horváth;Burkhard Maess;Pamela Baess;Annamária Tóth

  • Processing of Syntactic Information Monitored by Brain Surface Current Density Mapping Based on MEG

    Thomas R. Knösche;Burkhard Maess;Angela D. Friederici

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Jonas Obleser
Jonas Obleser University of Lübeck
Vadim V. Nikulin
Vadim V. Nikulin Max Planck Society
Christoph Herrmann
Christoph Herrmann Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Erich Schröger
Erich Schröger Leipzig University
Carsten Eulitz
Carsten Eulitz University of Konstanz
Axel Mecklinger
Axel Mecklinger Saarland University
Jane Neumann
Jane Neumann Max Planck Society
Thomas C. Gunter
Thomas C. Gunter Max Planck Society

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