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David Poeppel

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
91
Citations
47526
World Ranking
902
National Ranking
573

Neuroscience

D-Index
96
Citations
49612
World Ranking
844
National Ranking
455

David Poeppel publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Poeppel sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 361 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

David Poeppel D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Poeppel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David Poeppel is affiliated with the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience.

Their scholarly work covers various subfields including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, artificial intelligence, and signal processing. Main research topics addressed include neuroscience and music perception, neural dynamics and brain function, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, multisensory perception and integration, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, reading and literacy development, as well as music and audio processing.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Speech rhythms and their neural foundations, 2020, Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
  • Crowdsourcing neuroscience: Inter-brain coupling during face-to-face interactions outside the laboratory, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content and order, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Asymmetric sampling in human auditory cortex reveals spectral processing hierarchy, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • Categorical Rhythms Are Shared between Songbirds and Humans, 2020, Current Biology

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), PLoS Biology, Scientific Reports, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Collaborations are a significant part of their work, with regular coauthors including M. Florencia Assaneo, Pauline Larrouy-Maestri, Laura Gwilliams, Johanna M. Rimmele, and Joan Orpella.

David Poeppel was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • The cortical organization of speech processing

    Gregory Hickok;David Poeppel

  • Dorsal and ventral streams: a framework for understanding aspects of the functional anatomy of language.

    Gregory Hickok;David Poeppel

  • Cortical oscillations and speech processing: emerging computational principles and operations.

    Anne Lise Giraud;David Poeppel

  • A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400.

    Ellen F. Lau;Colin Phillips;David Poeppel;David Poeppel

  • The analysis of speech in different temporal integration windows: cerebral lateralization as 'asymmetric sampling in time'

    David Poeppel

  • Towards a functional neuroanatomy of speech perception

    Gregory Hickok;David Poeppel

  • Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias

    John W. Krakauer;Asif A. Ghazanfar;Alex Gomez-Marin;Malcolm A. MacIver

  • Cortical tracking of hierarchical linguistic structures in connected speech

    Nai Ding;Lucia Melloni;Lucia Melloni;Lucia Melloni;Hang Zhang;Xing Tian

  • Phase patterns of neuronal responses reliably discriminate speech in human auditory cortex.

    Huan Luo;David Poeppel

  • Visual speech speeds up the neural processing of auditory speech

    Virginie van Wassenhove;Ken W. Grant;David Poeppel

  • Mechanisms Underlying Selective Neuronal Tracking of Attended Speech at a “Cocktail Party”

    Elana M. Zion Golumbic;Elana M. Zion Golumbic;Nai Ding;Stephan Bickel;Stephan Bickel;Peter Lakatos

  • The full competence hypothesis of clause structure in early German

    David Poeppel;Kenneth Wexler

  • Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Tracks Real-World Dynamic Group Interactions in the Classroom

    Suzanne Dikker;Suzanne Dikker;Lu Wan;Ido Davidesco;Lisa Kaggen

  • Temporal window of integration in auditory-visual speech perception.

    Virginie van Wassenhove;Ken W. Grant;David Poeppel

  • Hierarchical and asymmetric temporal sensitivity in human auditory cortices

    Anthony Boemio;Stephen Fromm;Allen Braun;David Poeppel

  • Acoustic landmarks drive delta-theta oscillations to enable speech comprehension by facilitating perceptual parsing.

    Keith B. Doelling;Luc H. Arnal;Oded Ghitza;David Poeppel;David Poeppel

  • Speech perception at the interface of neurobiology and linguistics

    David Poeppel;William J Idsardi;Virginie van Wassenhove

  • Endogenous cortical rhythms determine cerebral specialization for speech perception and production.

    Anne Lise Giraud;Andreas Kleinschmidt;Andreas Kleinschmidt;David Poeppel;Torben E. Lund

  • Temporal modulations in speech and music.

    Nai Ding;Aniruddh D. Patel;Lin Chen;Henry Butler

  • Towards a new functional anatomy of language.

    David Poeppel;Gregory Hickok

  • Speech rhythms and their neural foundations

    David Poeppel;David Poeppel;M. Florencia Assaneo;M. Florencia Assaneo

Frequent Co-Authors

Alec Marantz
Alec Marantz New York University
Timothy P.L. Roberts
Timothy P.L. Roberts Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Jonathan Z. Simon
Jonathan Z. Simon University of Maryland, College Park
Yasushi Miyashita
Yasushi Miyashita Juntendo University
Srikantan S. Nagarajan
Srikantan S. Nagarajan University of California, San Francisco
Charles E. Schroeder
Charles E. Schroeder Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Gregory Hickok
Gregory Hickok University of California, Irvine
Lucia Melloni
Lucia Melloni Max Planck Society
Colin Phillips
Colin Phillips University of Maryland, College Park
Anne-Lise Giraud
Anne-Lise Giraud University of Geneva

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