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Thomas C. Gunter

Thomas C. Gunter

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Neuroscience

D-Index
48
Citations
10848
World Ranking
6136
National Ranking
513

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
48
Citations
10825
World Ranking
3116
National Ranking
80

Overview

Thomas C. Gunter is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple domains within neuroscience and psychology, focusing predominantly on cognitive neuroscience and aspects of language and brain function.

The primary fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these areas, their work frequently addresses subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Social Psychology

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Thomas C. Gunter has contributed to a range of journal publications, with a concentration in notable venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Cortex
  • Cerebral Cortex Communications

Significant recent papers include:

  • "White matter plasticity during second language learning within and across hemispheres," 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The time course of speaker-specific language processing," 2021, Cortex
  • "Musical rhythm effects on visual attention are non-rhythmical: evidence against metrical entrainment," 2020, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • "Distinct Neural Networks Relate to Common and Speaker-Specific Language Priors," 2020, Cerebral Cortex Communications

Frequent collaborators in their research include Leon O. H. Kroczek, Angela D. Friederici, Gesa Hartwigsen, Xuehu Wei, and Helyne Adamson.

Best Publications

  • Musical syntax is processed in Broca's area: An MEG study.

    Burkhard Maess;Stefan Koelsch;Thomas C. Gunter;Angela D. Friederici

  • Music, language and meaning: brain signatures of semantic processing

    Stefan Koelsch;Elisabeth Kasper;Daniela Sammler;Katrin Schulze

  • Bach speaks: a cortical "language-network" serves the processing of music.

    Stefan Koelsch;Thomas C. Gunter;D. Yves von Cramon;Stefan Zysset

  • Syntactic Gender and Semantic Expectancy: ERPs Reveal Early Autonomy and Late Interaction

    Thomas C. Gunter;Angela D. Friederici;Herbert Schriefers

  • When syntax meets semantics

    Thomas C. Gunter;Laurie A. Stowe;Gijsbertus Mulder

  • Interaction between Syntax Processing in Language and in Music: An ERP Study

    Stefan Koelsch;Thomas C. Gunter;Matthias Wittfoth;Daniela Sammler

  • The Role of Iconic Gestures in Speech Disambiguation: ERP Evidence

    Henning Holle;Thomas C. Gunter

  • Isn't it ironic? an electrophysiological exploration of figurative language processing

    Stefanie Regel;Thomas C. Gunter;Angela D. Friederici

  • Zooming into L2: Global language context and adjustment affect processing of interlingual homographs in sentences

    Kerrie E. Elston-Güttler;Thomas C. Gunter;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Children Processing Music: Electric Brain Responses Reveal Musical Competence and Gender Differences

    Stefan Koelsch;Tobias Grossmann;Thomas C. Gunter;Anja Hahne

  • Working memory constraints on syntactic processing: an electrophysiological investigation.

    Sandra H. Vos;Sandra H. Vos;Thomas C. Gunter;Herman H.J. Kolk;Gijsbertus Mulder

  • Neural correlates of the processing of co-speech gestures.

    Henning Holle;Thomas C. Gunter;Shirley-Ann Rüschemeyer;Andreas Hennenlotter

  • Concerning the automaticity of syntactic processing.

    Thomas C. Gunter;Angela D. Friederici

  • Brain Responses to Segmentally and Tonally Induced Semantic Violations in Cantonese

    Annett Schirmer;Siu-Lam Tang;Trevor B. Penney;Thomas C. Gunter

  • The communicative style of a speaker can affect language comprehension? ERP evidence from the comprehension of irony

    Stefanie Regel;Seana Coulson;Thomas C. Gunter

  • Integration of iconic gestures and speech in left superior temporal areas boosts speech comprehension under adverse listening conditions

    Henning Holle;Jonas Obleser;Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer;Thomas C. Gunter

  • Music matters: Preattentive musicality of the human brain

    Stefan Koelsch;Erich Schröger;Thomas C. Gunter

  • The relative timing of syntactic and semantic processes in sentence comprehension.

    Angela D. Friederici;Thomas C. Gunter;Anja Hahne;K. Mauth

  • Differentiating ERAN and MMN: an ERP study.

    Stefan Koelsch;Thomas C. Gunter;Erich Schröger;Mari Tervaniemi

  • An electrophysiological study of semantic processing in young and middle-aged academics.

    Thomas C. Gunter;Janet L. Jackson;Gijsbertus Mulder

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Wolfgang Prinz
Wolfgang Prinz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Stefan Koelsch
Stefan Koelsch University of Bergen
Günther Knoblich
Günther Knoblich Central European University
Burkhard Maess
Burkhard Maess Max Planck Society
Erich Schröger
Erich Schröger Leipzig University
Annett Schirmer
Annett Schirmer University of Innsbruck
Gijsbertus Mulder
Gijsbertus Mulder University of Groningen
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University

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