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Neuroscience
Netherlands
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
117
Citations
46279
World Ranking
422
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2017 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 2014 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Rainer Goebel is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands and has a research focus spanning multiple areas within neuroscience and medicine. Their work addresses advanced neuroimaging techniques, cognitive neuroscience, and brain connectivity studies.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these broader fields, their subfields of specialization cover:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Neurology
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Biomedical Engineering

Goebel's principal research topics encompass:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Goebel include:

  • Contextual encoder-decoder network for visual saliency prediction, 2020, Neural Networks
  • LayNii: A software suite for layer-fMRI, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Layer-dependent functional connectivity methods, 2020, Progress in Neurobiology
  • Cortical hierarchy, dual counterstream architecture and the importance of top-down generative networks, 2020, NeuroImage
  • A Probabilistic Functional Atlas of Human Occipito-Temporal Visual Cortex, 2020, Cerebral Cortex

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • NeuroImage
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Scientific Reports

Rainer Goebel collaborates regularly with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Laurentius Huber
  • Michael Lührs
  • Ömer Faruk Gülban
  • Benedikt A. Poser
  • Judith Peters

Among the recognitions received by Goebel are membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for contributions to Psychology and Cognitive Sciences in 2017, and election to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Information-based functional brain mapping

    Nikolaus Kriegeskorte;Rainer Goebel;Peter Bandettini

  • Mapping directed influence over the brain using Granger causality and fMRI.

    Alard Roebroeck;Elia Formisano;Rainer Goebel

  • 7T vs. 4T: RF power, homogeneity, and signal-to-noise comparison in head images.

    J. T Vaughan;Michael Garwood;C. M. Collins;W. Liu

  • Analysis of functional image analysis contest (FIAC) data with brainvoyager QX: From single-subject to cortically aligned group general linear model analysis and self-organizing group independent component analysis.

    Rainer Goebel;Fabrizio Esposito;Elia Formisano

  • Activation of Heschl’s Gyrus during Auditory Hallucinations

    Thomas Dierks;David Edmund Johannes Linden;David Edmund Johannes Linden;Martin Jandl;Elia Formisano

  • Investigating directed cortical interactions in time-resolved fMRI data using vector autoregressive modeling and Granger causality mapping.

    Rainer Goebel;Alard Roebroeck;Dae-Shik Kim;Elia Formisano

  • Localizing P300 Generators in Visual Target and Distractor Processing: A Combined Event-Related Potential and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Christoph Bledowski;David Prvulovic;Karsten Hoechstetter;Michael Scherg

  • "Who" Is Saying "What"? Brain-Based Decoding of Human Voice and Speech

    Elia Formisano;Federico De Martino;Milene Bonte;Rainer Goebel

  • Integration of letters and speech sounds in the human brain.

    Nienke van Atteveldt;Elia Formisano;Rainer Goebel;Rainer Goebel;Leo Blomert

  • The Functional Neuroanatomy of Target Detection: An fMRI Study of Visual and Auditory Oddball Tasks

    David E.J. Linden;David Prvulovic;Elia Formisano;Martin Völlinger

  • Combining multivariate voxel selection and support vector machines for mapping and classification of fMRI spatial patterns.

    Federico De Martino;Giancarlo Valente;Noël Staeren;John Ashburner

  • Individual faces elicit distinct response patterns in human anterior temporal cortex

    Nikolaus Kriegeskorte;Elia Formisano;Bettina Sorger;Rainer Goebel

  • The constructive nature of vision: direct evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of apparent motion and motion imagery.

    Rainer Goebel;Darius Khorram-Sefat;Lars Muckli;Hans Hacker

  • Principles of a brain-computer interface (BCI) based on real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

    N. Weiskopf;K. Mathiak;S.W. Bock;F. Scharnowski

  • Mirror-symmetric tonotopic maps in human primary auditory cortex

    Elia Formisano;Dae Shik Kim;Francesco Di Salle;Pierre Francois van de Moortele

  • Real-time fMRI neurofeedback: Progress and challenges

    J. Sulzer;S. Haller;F. Scharnowski;F. Scharnowski;N. Weiskopf

  • Physiological self-regulation of regional brain activity using real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): methodology and exemplary data.

    Nikolaus Weiskopf;Ralf Veit;Michael Erb;Klaus Mathiak

  • Optimizing functional accuracy of tms in cognitive studies: A comparison of methods

    Alexander T. Sack;Roi Cohen Kadosh;Teresa Schuhmann;Michelle Moerel

  • Contextual Feedback to Superficial Layers of V1.

    Lars Muckli;Federico De Martino;Federico De Martino;Luca Vizioli;Lucy S. Petro

  • Structural and functional asymmetry of lateral Heschl's gyrus reflects pitch perception preference

    Peter Schneider;Vanessa Sluming;Vanessa Sluming;Neil Roberts;Michael Scherg

  • Rapid feature selective neuronal synchronization through correlated latency shifting

    Pascal Fries;Sergio Neuenschwander;Andreas K. Engel;Rainer Goebel;Rainer Goebel

Frequent Co-Authors

Elia Formisano
Elia Formisano Maastricht University
David Edmund Johannes Linden
David Edmund Johannes Linden Maastricht University
Bettina Sorger
Bettina Sorger Maastricht University
Federico De Martino
Federico De Martino Maastricht University
Fabrizio Esposito
Fabrizio Esposito University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Wolf Singer
Wolf Singer Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience
Francesco Di Salle
Francesco Di Salle University of Salerno
Alexander T. Sack
Alexander T. Sack Maastricht University
Lars Muckli
Lars Muckli University of Glasgow
Alard Roebroeck
Alard Roebroeck Maastricht University

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