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Overview

Kai Alter is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and specializes in neuroscience with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, sensory systems, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work spans several subfields including neurology and psychiatry and mental health, contributing to a total of 26 publications within the broader field of neuroscience.

Their research primarily investigates topics related to hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, and genetics, accounting for 18 publications. Other main topics include hearing loss and rehabilitation, multisensory perception and integration, neuroscience and music perception, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, vestibular and auditory disorders, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Frequent publication venues for Kai Alter include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Hearing Research
  • Alzheimer s Research & Therapy
  • PLoS ONE
  • eLife

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, most notably:

  • William Sedley (9 joint publications)
  • Ekaterina A Yukhnovich (6 joint publications)
  • Abishek Umashankar (4 joint publications)
  • Phillip E. Gander (4 joint publications)
  • Jack Jennings (2 joint publications)

Kai Alter's recent papers include:

  • Investigating the power of eyes open resting state EEG for assisting in dementia diagnosis, 2022, Alzheimer s Research & Therapy
  • Nuances in intensity deviant asymmetric responses as a biomarker for tinnitus, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Effects of the overall paradigm context on intensity deviant responses in healthy subjects, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Distinct profiles of tinnitus and hyperacusis in intensity deviant responses and auditory evoked potentials, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Short- and long-term changes in auditory sensitivity and tinnitus distress between acute and chronic tinnitus: Longitudinal observation in a community-based sample, 2025, Hearing Research

Best Publications

  • Brain potentials indicate immediate use of prosodic cues in natural speech processing

    Karsten Steinhauer;Kai Alter;Angela D. Friederici

  • Lateralization of auditory language functions: A dynamic dual pathway model

    Angela D Friederici;Kai Alter

  • FMRI reveals brain regions mediating slow prosodic modulations in spoken sentences.

    Martin Meyer;Kai Alter;Angela D. Friederici;Gabriele Lohmann

  • On the lateralization of emotional prosody: an event-related functional MR investigation.

    Sonja A Kotz;Martin Meyer;Kai Alter;Mireille Besson

  • Brain activity varies with modulation of dynamic pitch variance in sentence melody

    Martin Meyer;Karsten Steinhauer;Karsten Steinhauer;Kai Alter;Angela D. Friederici

  • Prosody-driven Sentence Processing: An Event-related Brain Potential Study

    Ann Pannekamp;Ulrike Toepel;Kai Alter;Anja Hahne

  • Perception of phrase structure in music

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

  • The role of the left Brodmann's areas 44 and 45 in reading words and pseudowords

    Stefan Heim;Kai Alter;Anja K. Ischebeck;Katrin Amunts

  • Region-Specific Changes in Gamma and Beta2 Rhythms in NMDA Receptor Dysfunction Models of Schizophrenia

    Anita K. Roopun;Mark O. Cunningham;Claudia Racca;Kai Alter

  • Sequential effects of propofol on functional brain activation induced by auditory language processing: an event‐related functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Wolfgang Heinke;Christian J. Fiebach;Christian Schwarzbauer;Martin Meyer

  • Brain potentials during semantic and prosodic processing in French

    Corine Astésano;Mireille Besson;Kai Alter

  • Distinct fMRI responses to laughter, speech, and sounds along the human peri-sylvian cortex

    Martin Meyer;Stefan Zysset;D. Yves von Cramon;Kai Alter

  • Differentiation of emotions in laughter at the behavioral level.

    Diana P. Szameitat;Kai Alter;André J. Szameitat;Chris J. Darwin

  • Top-down modulation of auditory processing: effects of sound context, musical expertise and attentional focus

    Mari Tervaniemi;S Kruck;W De Baene;E Schröger

  • High frequency localised "hot spots" in temporal lobes of patients with intractable tinnitus: a quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) study.

    Heather Ashton;Keith Reid;Richard Marsh;Ian Johnson

  • Acoustic profiles of distinct emotional expressions in laughter

    Diana P. Szameitat;Kai Alter;André J. Szameitat;Dirk Wildgruber

  • Processing focus structure and implicit prosody during reading: differential ERP effects.

    Britta Stolterfoht;Angela D. Friederici;Kai Alter;Anita Steube

  • On-line Processing of Pop-Out Words in Spoken French Dialogues

    Cyrille Magne;Corine Astésano;Anne Lacheret-dujour;Michel Morel

  • It is not always tickling: distinct cerebral responses during perception of different laughter types.

    Diana P. Szameitat;Benjamin Kreifelts;Kai Alter;André J. Szameitat

  • From Air Oscillations to Music and Speech: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evidence for Fine-Tuned Neural Networks in Audition

    Mari Tervaniemi;André J. Szameitat;Stefanie Kruck;Erich Schröger

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Martin Meyer
Martin Meyer University of Zurich
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Dirk Wildgruber
Dirk Wildgruber University of Tübingen
Mireille Besson
Mireille Besson Aix-Marseille University
D. Yves von Cramon
D. Yves von Cramon Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Burkhard Maess
Burkhard Maess Max Planck Society
Anja Ischebeck
Anja Ischebeck University of Graz
Annett Schirmer
Annett Schirmer University of Innsbruck
Annette Sterr
Annette Sterr University of Surrey

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