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Overview

Josef P. Rauschecker is affiliated with Georgetown University Medical Center in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Neuroscience, with a significant focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sensory Systems, Neurology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including Neuroscience and Music Perception, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Multisensory Perception and Integration, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus and Genetics, Vestibular and Auditory Disorders, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

Recent publications by Josef P. Rauschecker include:

  • An energy costly architecture of neuromodulators for human brain evolution and cognition, 2023, Science Advances
  • Auditory representation of learned sound sequences in motor regions of the macaque brain, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Auditory cortical connectivity in humans, 2022, Cerebral Cortex
  • Inter-subject Similarity of Brain Activity in Expert Musicians After Multimodal Learning: A Behavioral and Neuroimaging Study on Learning to Play a Piano Sonata, 2020, Neuroscience
  • Neuroanatomical alterations in middle frontal gyrus and the precuneus related to tinnitus and tinnitus distress, 2022, Hearing Research

Frequent coauthors in their research include Stephanie Rosemann, Maximilian Riesenhuber, Peirun Song, Yuying Zhai, and Hangting Ye.

Publication venues where Josef P. Rauschecker has frequently published include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Hearing Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • eLife
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Maps and streams in the auditory cortex: nonhuman primates illuminate human speech processing.

    Josef P Rauschecker;Sophie K Scott

  • Mechanisms and streams for processing of “what” and “where” in auditory cortex

    Josef P. Rauschecker;Biao Tian

  • Dual streams of auditory afferents target multiple domains in the primate prefrontal cortex.

    L. M. Romanski;B. Tian;J. Fritz;M. Mishkin

  • Processing of complex sounds in the Macaque nonprimary auditory cortex

    Josef P. Rauschecker;Biao Tian;Marc Hauser

  • Tuning out the noise: limbic-auditory interactions in tinnitus.

    Josef P. Rauschecker;Amber M. Leaver;Mark Mühlau

  • Functional Specialization in Rhesus Monkey Auditory Cortex

    Biao Tian;David Henry Reser;Amy Durham;Alexander Kustov

  • Cerebral organization for language in deaf and hearing subjects: Biological constraints and effects of experience

    Helen J. Neville;Daphne Bavelier;David Corina;Josef Rauschecker

  • Compensatory plasticity and sensory substitution in the cerebral cortex

    Josef P. Rauschecker

  • Cortical processing of complex sounds

    Josef P Rauschecker

  • A Positron Emission Tomographic Study of Auditory Localization in the Congenitally Blind

    Robert Weeks;Barry Horwitz;Ali Aziz-Sultan;Biao Tian

  • Phoneme and word recognition in the auditory ventral stream

    Iain DeWitt;Josef P. Rauschecker

  • Modality-specific frontal and parietal areas for auditory and visual spatial localization in humans.

    Khalafalla O. Bushara;Robert A. Weeks;Kenji Ishii;Maria-Jose Catalan

  • Dysregulation of Limbic and Auditory Networks in Tinnitus

    Amber M. Leaver;Laurent Renier;Mark A. Chevillet;Susan Morgan

  • Hierarchical Organization of the Human Auditory Cortex Revealed by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    C. M. Wessinger;J. Vanmeter;B. Tian;J. Van Lare

  • Structural Brain Changes in Tinnitus

    M. Mühlau;J. P. Rauschecker;E. Oestreicher;C. Gaser

  • Cortical representation of natural complex sounds: effects of acoustic features and auditory object category.

    Amber M. Leaver;Josef P. Rauschecker

  • Serial and parallel processing in rhesus monkey auditory cortex.

    Josef P. Rauschecker;Biao Tian;Timothy Pons;Mortimer Mishkin

  • Parallel processing in the auditory cortex of primates.

    Josef P. Rauschecker

  • Mechanisms of visual plasticity: Hebb synapses, NMDA receptors, and beyond

    J. P. Rauschecker

  • Consensus for tinnitus patient assessment and treatment outcome measurement: Tinnitus Research Initiative meeting, Regensburg, July 2006.

    B. Langguth;R. Goodey;A. Azevedo;A. Bjorne

  • Auditory cortical plasticity: a comparison with other sensory systems

    Josef P. Rauschecker

Frequent Co-Authors

Amber M. Leaver
Amber M. Leaver Northwestern University
Wolf Singer
Wolf Singer Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience
Peter E. Turkeltaub
Peter E. Turkeltaub Georgetown University
Synnöve Carlson
Synnöve Carlson Aalto University
Anne De Volder
Anne De Volder Université Catholique de Louvain
Mikko Sams
Mikko Sams Aalto University
Iiro P. Jääskeläinen
Iiro P. Jääskeläinen Aalto University
Peter Jezzard
Peter Jezzard University of Oxford
Mortimer Mishkin
Mortimer Mishkin National Institutes of Health
John W. VanMeter
John W. VanMeter Georgetown University Medical Center

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