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Erich Schröger

Erich Schröger

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Psychology

D-Index
90
Citations
26460
World Ranking
968
National Ranking
30

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Erich Schröger is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and specializes primarily in the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a specific focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their publication record includes 91 works in neuroscience and 28 in psychology, demonstrating a concentrated research interest in brain function and behavior.

The scientist has explored various topics within neuroscience, including:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Erich Schröger has contributed publications to several academic journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Psychophysiology
  • European Journal of Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • People and Nature

A selection of recent papers includes:

  • The quest for the genuine visual mismatch negativity (vMMN): Event-related potential indications of deviance detection for low-level visual features, 2020, Psychophysiology
  • Omission related brain responses reflect specific and unspecific action-effect couplings, 2020, NeuroImage
  • The auditory brain in action: Intention determines predictive processing in the auditory system-A review of current paradigms and findings, 2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • The posterior auditory field is the chief generator of prediction error signals in the auditory cortex, 2021, NeuroImage
  • The more the merrier? Perceived forest biodiversity promotes short-term mental health and well-being-A multicentre study, 2023, People and Nature

Erich Schröger frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their common coauthors include:

  • Andreas Widmann
  • Sabine Grimm
  • Urte Roeber
  • Dagmar Müller
  • Gesa Hartwigsen

In addition to journal publications, Schröger has authored books published by Basiswissen Psychologie and Springer Nature, both titled Biologische Psychologie, released in 2022 and 2024 respectively.

Recognition for their work includes the award of Member of Academia Europaea in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Involuntary attention and distractibility as evaluated with event-related brain potentials.

    Carles Escera;Kimmo Alho;Erich Schröger;István Winkler Winkler

  • Brain Indices of Music Processing: Nonmusicians are Musical

    Stefan Koelsch;Tomas Gunter;Angela D. Friederici;Erich Schröger

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

    Andreas Widmann;Erich Schröger;Burkhard Maess

  • Differential contribution of frontal and temporal cortices to auditory change detection: fMRI and ERP results.

    Bertram Opitz;Teemu Rinne;Axel Mecklinger;D.Yves von Cramon

  • The mismatch negativity in cognitive and clinical neuroscience: theoretical and methodological considerations.

    Teija Kujala;Mari Tervaniemi;Erich Schröger

  • Superior Pre-Attentive Auditory Processing in Musicians

    Stefan Koelsch;Erich Schröger;Mari Tervaniemi

  • Development of a memory trace for a complex sound in the human brain

    Risto Näätänen;Erich Schröger;Sirel Karakas;Mari Tervaniemi

  • On the detection of auditory deviations: A pre-attentive activation model

    Erich Schröger

  • Prefrontal cortex involvement in preattentive auditory deviance detection: neuroimaging and electrophysiological evidence.

    Christian F. Doeller;Bertram Opitz;Axel Mecklinger;Christoph M. Krick

  • Pitch discrimination accuracy in musicians vs nonmusicians: an event-related potential and behavioral study.

    Mari Tervaniemi;Mari Tervaniemi;Viola Just;Stefan Koelsch;Andreas Widmann

  • Behavioral and electrophysiological effects of task-irrelevant sound change: a new distraction paradigm

    Erich Schröger;Christian Wolff

  • Early electrophysiological indicators for predictive processing in audition: a review.

    Alexandra Bendixen;Iria SanMiguel;Erich Schröger

  • Attentional orienting and reorienting is indicated by human event-related brain potentials

    Erich Schröger;Christian Wolff

  • Is there pre-attentive memory-based comparison of pitch?

    Thomas Jacobsen;Erich Schröger

  • A neural mechanism for involuntary attention shifts to changes in auditory stimulation

    Erich Schröger

  • Mismatch response of the human brain to changes in sound location

    Erich Schröger;Christian Wolff

  • Superior Formation of Cortical Memory Traces for Melodic Patterns in Musicians

    Mari Tervaniemi;Mika Rytkönen;Erich Schröger;Risto J. Ilmoniemi

  • Working memory controls involuntary attention switching: evidence from an auditory distraction paradigm.

    Stefan Berti;Erich Schröger

  • Suppression of the auditory N1 event-related potential component with unpredictable self-initiated tones: evidence for internal forward models with dynamic stimulation.

    Pamela Bäss;Thomas Jacobsen;Erich Schröger

  • Auditory distraction: event-related potential and behavioral indices

    Erich Schröger;M.-H Giard;Ch Wolff

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Widmann
Andreas Widmann Leipzig University
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Alexandra Bendixen
Alexandra Bendixen Chemnitz University of Technology
Thomas Jacobsen
Thomas Jacobsen Helmut Schmidt University
István Winkler
István Winkler Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Mari Tervaniemi
Mari Tervaniemi University of Helsinki
Risto Näätänen
Risto Näätänen University of Tartu
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Carles Escera
Carles Escera University of Barcelona
Elyse Sussman
Elyse Sussman Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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