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Felix Blankenburg is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Their research spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with significant contributions also in subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Statistics and Probability.

Their scientific output focuses on several main topics in neuroscience and psychology, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Blankenburg's work has been published extensively in prominent venues, frequently contributing to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Scientific Reports
  • eNeuro
  • NeuroImage

Recent papers highlight a range of topics including neural surprise in somatosensory Bayesian learning and the neural mechanisms behind perceptual awareness and sensory expectation violation. Notable publications include:

  • Neural surprise in somatosensory Bayesian learning, 2021, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Dissociating Perceptual Awareness and Postperceptual Processing: The P300 Is Not a Reliable Marker of Somatosensory Target Detection, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • EEG mismatch responses in a multimodal roving stimulus paradigm provide evidence for probabilistic inference across audition, somatosensation, and vision, 2023, Human Brain Mapping
  • A multimodal cortical network of sensory expectation violation revealed by fMRI, 2023, Human Brain Mapping
  • Content Representation of Tactile Mental Imagery in Primary Somatosensory Cortex, 2023, eNeuro

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Blankenburg's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Timo Torsten Schmidt
  • Till Nierhaus
  • Miro Grundei
  • Pia Schröder
  • Sam Gijsen

Best Publications

  • Correlates of alpha rhythm in functional magnetic resonance imaging and near infrared spectroscopy.

    Matthias Moosmann;Petra Ritter;Ina Krastel;Andrea Brink

  • Concurrent TMS-fMRI and psychophysics reveal frontal influences on human retinotopic visual cortex

    Christian C. Ruff;Felix Blankenburg;Otto Bjoertomt;Sven Bestmann

  • The structural–functional connectome and the default mode network of the human brain

    Andreas Horn;Dirk Ostwald;Marco Reisert;Felix Blankenburg

  • Distinct Causal Influences of Parietal Versus Frontal Areas on Human Visual Cortex: Evidence from Concurrent TMS–fMRI

    Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff;Sven Bestmann;Sven Bestmann;Felix Blankenburg;Felix Blankenburg;Otto Bjoertomt;Otto Bjoertomt

  • Minimal self-models and the free energy principle

    Jakub Limanowski;Felix Blankenburg

  • The role of contralesional dorsal premotor cortex after stroke as studied with concurrent TMS-fMRI

    Sven Bestmann;Orlando Swayne;Felix Blankenburg;Felix Blankenburg;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff

  • Mapping causal interregional influences with concurrent TMS–fMRI

    Sven Bestmann;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff;Felix Blankenburg;Nikolaus Weiskopf

  • Causal role of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in human perceptual decision making

    Marios G. Philiastides;Ryszard Auksztulewicz;Hauke R. Heekeren;Felix Blankenburg

  • Dorsal Premotor Cortex Exerts State-Dependent Causal Influences on Activity in Contralateral Primary Motor and Dorsal Premotor Cortex

    Sven Bestmann;Sven Bestmann;Orlando Swayne;Felix Blankenburg;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff

  • Now you feel it--now you don't: ERP correlates of somatosensory awareness.

    Ruth Schubert;Felix Blankenburg;Steven Lemm;Arno Villringer

  • Influence of uncertainty and surprise on human corticospinal excitability during preparation for action

    Sven Bestmann;Sven Bestmann;Lee M. Harrison;Felix Blankenburg;Felix Blankenburg;Rogier B. Mars

  • Perceptual decision making: drift-diffusion model is equivalent to a Bayesian model

    Sebastian Bitzer;Hame Park;Felix Blankenburg;Stefan J. Kiebel

  • Integration of Visual and Proprioceptive Limb Position Information in Human Posterior Parietal, Premotor, and Extrastriate Cortex.

    Jakub Limanowski;Felix Blankenburg

  • Studying the Role of Human Parietal Cortex in Visuospatial Attention with Concurrent TMS–fMRI

    Felix Blankenburg;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff;Sven Bestmann;Sven Bestmann;Otto Bjoertomt

  • Hemispheric differences in frontal and parietal influences on human occipital cortex: Direct confirmation with concurrent tms-fmri

    Christian C. Ruff;Felix Blankenburg;Otto Bjoertomt;Sven Bestmann

  • The cutaneous rabbit illusion affects human primary sensory cortex somatotopically.

    Felix Blankenburg;Christian C Ruff;Ralf Deichmann;Geraint Rees

  • Concurrent brain-stimulation and neuroimaging for studies of cognition

    Jon Driver;Felix Blankenburg;Felix Blankenburg;Sven Bestmann;Wim Vanduffel;Wim Vanduffel

  • Neural Coding of Tactile Decisions in the Human Prefrontal Cortex

    Burkhard Pleger;Christian C. Ruff;Felix Blankenburg;Sven Bestmann

  • Evidence for neural encoding of Bayesian surprise in human somatosensation.

    Dirk Ostwald;Bernhard Spitzer;Matthias Guggenmos;Thorsten T. Schmidt

  • Interhemispheric Effect of Parietal TMS on Somatosensory Response Confirmed Directly with Concurrent TMS–fMRI

    Felix Blankenburg;Felix Blankenburg;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff;Sven Bestmann;Sven Bestmann;Otto Bjoertomt

  • Reward facilitates tactile judgments and modulates hemodynamic responses in human primary somatosensory cortex

    B Pleger;F Blankenburg;C Ruff;J Driver

  • Report Influence of Uncertainty and Surprise on Human Corticospinal Excitability during Preparation for Action

    Sven Bestmann;Felix Blankenburg;Rogier B. Mars;Patrick Haggard

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian C. Ruff
Christian C. Ruff University of Zurich
Sven Bestmann
Sven Bestmann University College London
Arno Villringer
Arno Villringer Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Nikolaus Weiskopf
Nikolaus Weiskopf Max Planck Society
Burkhard Pleger
Burkhard Pleger Ruhr University Bochum
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Oliver Josephs
Oliver Josephs Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
Gabriel Curio
Gabriel Curio Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Andreas Horn
Andreas Horn Harvard University
John C. Rothwell
John C. Rothwell University College London

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