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Olaf Hauk is affiliated with the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in the United Kingdom. Their research is situated primarily within the field of Neuroscience, with a specialized focus on Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional subfields in which they have contributed include Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, General Health Professions, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics explored in Olaf Hauk's work encompass EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Neural dynamics and brain function, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Reading and Literacy Development, and Action Observation and Synchronization.

Olaf Hauk has contributed to a number of research publications across various venues. The most frequent publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), NeuroImage, Language Cognition and Neuroscience, Imaging Neuroscience, and Cerebral Cortex.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Olaf Hauk include:

  • Towards an objective evaluation of EEG/MEG source estimation methods - The linear approach, 2022, NeuroImage
  • Face-selective responses in combined EEG/MEG recordings with fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS), 2021, NeuroImage

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Rebecca L. Jackson
  • Setareh Rahimi
  • Matthew A. Lambon Ralph
  • Seyedeh-Rezvan Farahibozorg
  • Angélique Volfart

Their publications reflect investigations into brain connectivity and neural mechanisms underlying cognitive and linguistic functions, often employing EEG and MEG methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Somatotopic Representation of Action Words in Human Motor and Premotor Cortex

    Olaf Hauk;Ingrid Johnsrude;Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • Functional links between motor and language systems.

    Friedemann Pulvermüller;Olaf Hauk;Vadim V. Nikulin;Risto J. Ilmoniemi

  • Large‐scale neural correlates of affective picture processing

    Andreas Keil;Margaret M. Bradley;Olaf Hauk;Brigitte Rockstroh

  • Motor cortex maps articulatory features of speech sounds

    Friedemann Pulvermüller;Martina Huss;Ferath Kherif;Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin

  • The time course of visual word recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data.

    Olaf Hauk;Matthew H. Davis;M. Ford;Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • Grasping Ideas with the Motor System: Semantic Somatotopy in Idiom Comprehension

    Véronique Boulenger;Olaf Hauk;Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • Effects of word length and frequency on the human event-related potential

    O Hauk;F Pulvermüller

  • Neurophysiological distinction of action words in the fronto-central cortex.

    Olaf Hauk;Friedman Pulvermüller

  • Recurrence is required to capture the representational dynamics of the human visual system

    Tim C. Kietzmann;Tim C. Kietzmann;Courtney J. Spoerer;Lynn K. A. Sörensen;Radoslaw M. Cichy

  • Keep it simple: a case for using classical minimum norm estimation in the analysis of EEG and MEG data.

    Olaf Hauk

  • Understanding in an instant: Neurophysiological evidence for mechanistic language circuits in the brain

    Friedemann Pulvermüller;Yury Shtyrov;Olaf Hauk

  • Distributed neuronal networks for encoding category‐specific semantic information: the mismatch negativity to action words

    Yury Shtyrov;Olaf Hauk;Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • Early semantic context integration and lexical access as revealed by event-related brain potentials.

    Barbara Penolazzi;Olaf Hauk;Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • A Role for the Motor System in Binding Abstract Emotional Meaning

    Rachel Moseley;Francesca Carota;Olaf Hauk;Bettina Mohr;Bettina Mohr

  • Experience-dependent Plasticity of Conceptual Representations in Human Sensory-Motor Areas

    Markus Kiefer;Eun-Jin Sim;Sarah Liebich;Olaf Hauk

  • Comparison of noise-normalized minimum norm estimates for MEG analysis using multiple resolution metrics

    Olaf Hauk;Daniel G. Wakeman;Richard N. Henson

  • You can count on the motor cortex finger counting habits modulate motor cortex activation evoked by numbers

    Nadja Tschentscher;Olaf Hauk;Martin H. Fischer;Martin H. Fischer;Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • The time course of action and action-word comprehension in the human brain as revealed by neurophysiology

    O. Hauk;Y. Shtyrov;F. Pulvermüller

  • Early Parallel Activation of Semantics and Phonology in Picture Naming: Evidence from a Multiple Linear Regression MEG Study

    Michele Miozzo;Friedemann Pulvermüller;Olaf Hauk

  • The time-course of single-word reading: Evidence from fast behavioral and brain responses

    Olaf Hauk;Caroline Coutout;Anneka Holden;Anneka Holden;Yuanyuan Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Friedemann Pulvermüller
Friedemann Pulvermüller Freie Universität Berlin
Yury Shtyrov
Yury Shtyrov Aarhus University
Matthew H. Davis
Matthew H. Davis University of Cambridge
Richard N. Henson
Richard N. Henson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte Columbia University
Brigitte Rockstroh
Brigitte Rockstroh University of Konstanz
Thomas Elbert
Thomas Elbert University of Konstanz
Anna M. Woollams
Anna M. Woollams University of Manchester
William D. Marslen-Wilson
William D. Marslen-Wilson University of Cambridge
Karalyn Patterson
Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

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