Nathan Weisz

Nathan Weisz

Full Professor

PLUS Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences

Department of Psychology

Research Interests

Fluctuating network states as predispositions of conscious perception
Interaction between brain oscillations and network-level states
Neural mechanisms of tinnitus
Online effects of neurostimulation

Publications

2025

Neural speech tracking contribution of lip movements predicts behavioral deterioration when the speaker's mouth is occluded: Patrick Reisinger, Marlies Gillis, Nina Suess, Jonas Vanthornhout, Chandra Leon Haider, Thomas Hartmann, Anne Hauswald, Konrad Schwarz, Tom Francart, Nathan Weisz; eNeuro

Cochlear implantation in adults with acquired single-sided deafness improves cortical processing and comprehension of speech presented to the non-implanted ears: a longitudinal EEG study: Ya-Ping Chen, Patrick Neff, Sabine Leske, Daniel D. E. Wong, Nicole Peter, Jonas Obleser, Tobias Kleinjung, Andrew Dimitrijevic, Sarang S. Dalal, Nathan Weisz; Brain Communications

Hemispheric asymmetries in the auditory cortex reflect discriminative responses to temporal details or summary statistics of stationary sounds: Martina Berto, Patrick Reisinger, Emiliano Ricciardi, Nathan Weisz, Davide Bottari; Cortex

2024

Aberrant auditory prediction patterns robustly characterize tinnitus: Lisa Reisinger, Gianpaolo Demarchi, Jonas Obleser, William Sedley, Marta Partyka, Juliane Schubert, Quirin Gehmacher, Sebastian Roesch, Nina Suess, Eugen Trinka, Winfried Schlee, Nathan Weisz; eLife

Chronic tinnitus is associated with aging but not dementia: Lisa Reisinger, Nathan Weisz; Hearing Research

Prediction tendency, eye movements, and attention in a unified framework of neural speech tracking: Juliane Schubert, Quirin Gehmacher, Fabian Schmidt, Thomas Hartmann, Nathan Weisz; eLife

Age-related changes in “cortical” 1/f dynamics are linked to cardiac activity: Fabian Schmidt, Sarah Katharina Danböck, Eugen Trinka, Dominic P. Klein, Gianpaolo Demarchi, Nathan Weisz; eLife

Carrier‐frequency specific omission‐related neural activity in ordered sound sequences is independent of omission‐predictability: Anne Hauswald, Kaja Rosa Benz, Thomas Hartmann, Gianpaolo Demarchi, Nathan Weisz; European Journal of Neuroscience

Eye movements track prioritized auditory features in selective attention to natural speech: Quirin Gehmacher, Juliane Schubert, Fabian Schmidt, Thomas Hartmann, Patrick Reisinger, Sebastian Rösch, Konrad Schwarz, Tzvetan Popov, Maria Chait, Nathan Weisz; Nature Communications

Neural Speech Tracking Highlights the Importance of Visual Speech in Multi-speaker Situations: Chandra Leon Haider, Hyojin Park, Anne Hauswald, Nathan Weisz; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Individual prediction tendencies do not generalize across modalities: Juliane Schubert, Nina Suess, Nathan Weisz; Psychophysiology

2023

Eavesdropping on Tinnitus Using MEG: Lessons Learned and Future Perspectives: Lisa Reisinger, Gianpaolo Demarchi, Nathan Weisz; JARO: Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Neural speech tracking shifts from the syllabic to the modulation rate of speech as intelligibility decreases: Fabian Schmidt, Ya-Ping Chen, Anne Keitel, Sebastian Rösch, Ronny Hannemann, Maja Serman, Anne Hauswald, Nathan Weisz; Psychophysiology

Distinguishing fine structure and summary representation of sound textures from neural activity: Martina Berto, Emiliano Ricciardi, Pietro Pietrini, Nathan Weisz, Davide Bottari; eNeuro

Involuntary shifts of spatial attention contribute to distraction-Evidence from oscillatory alpha power and reaction time data: Annekathrin Weise, Thomas Hartmann, Fabrice Parmentier, Nathan Weisz, Philipp Ruhnau; Psychophysiology

Network topology in brain tumor patients with and without structural epilepsy: a prospective MEG study: Barbara Ladisich, Stefan Rampp, Eugen Trinka, Nathan Weisz, Christoph Schwartz, Theo Kraus, Camillo Sherif, Franz Marhold, Gianpaolo Demarchi; Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders

Ageing as risk factor for tinnitus and its complex interplay with hearing loss—evidence from online and NHANES data: Lisa Reisinger, Fabian Schmidt, Kaja Benz, Lorenzo Vignali, Sebastian Roesch, Martin Kronbichler, Nathan Weisz; BMC Medicine

Cortical speech tracking is related to individual prediction tendencies: Juliane Schubert, Fabian Schmidt, Quirin Gehmacher, Annika Bresgen, Nathan Weisz; Cerebral Cortex

Brain areas associated with visual spatial attention display topographic organization during auditory spatial attention: Tzvetan Popov, Bart Gips, Nathan Weisz, Ole Jensen; Cerebral Cortex

Cochlear Theta Activity Oscillates in Phase Opposition during Interaural Attention: Moritz Herbert Albrecht Köhler, Nathan Weisz; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Speech intelligibility changes the temporal evolution of neural speech tracking: Ya-Ping Chen, Fabian Schmidt, Anne Keitel, Sebastian Rösch, Anne Hauswald, Nathan Weisz; NeuroImage

2022

Brain development: Viewing the world through infants’ eyes: Andreas Wutz, Nathan Weisz; Current Biology

Cortical Tracking of Formant Modulations Derived from Silently Presented Lip Movements and Its Decline with Age: Nina Suess, Anne Hauswald, Patrick Reisinger, Sebastian Rösch, Anne Keitel, Nathan Weisz; Cerebral Cortex

Influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception skills in the German language: Nina Suess, Anne Hauswald, Verena Zehentner, Jessica Depireux, Gudrun Herzog, Sebastian Rösch, Nathan Weisz; PLoS ONE

Degradation levels of continuous speech affect neural speech tracking and alpha power differently: Anne Hauswald, Anne Keitel, Ya-Ping Chen, Sebastian Rösch, Nathan Weisz; European Journal of Neuroscience

Efficient Prestimulus Network Integration of Fusiform Face Area Biases Face Perception during Binocular Rivalry: Elie Rassi, Andreas Wutz, Nicholas Peatfield, Nathan Weisz; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Pre-stimulus alpha-band power and phase fluctuations originate from different neural sources and exert distinct impact on stimulus-evoked responses: Agnese Zazio, Philipp Ruhnau, Nathan Weisz, Andreas Wutz; European Journal of Neuroscience

Masking of the mouth area impairs reconstruction of acoustic speech features and higher-level segmentational features in the presence of a distractor speaker: Chandra Leon Haider, Nina Suess, Anne Hauswald, Hyojin Park, Nathan Weisz; NeuroImage

Recommendations and publication guidelines for studies using frequency domain and time‐frequency domain analyses of neural time series: Andreas Keil, Edward M. Bernat, Michael X. Cohen, Mingzhou Ding, Monica Fabiani, Gabriele Gratton, Emily S. Kappenman, Eric Maris, Kyle E. Mathewson, Richard T. Ward, Nathan Weisz; Psychophysiology

Predisposition to domain-wide maladaptive changes in predictive coding in auditory phantom perception: Anusha Mohan, Alison Luckey, Nathan Weisz, Sven Vanneste; NeuroImage

Direct cochlear recordings in humans show a theta rhythmic modulation of auditory nerve activity by selective attention: Quirin Gehmacher, Patrick Reisinger, Thomas Hartmann, Thomas Keintzel, Sebastian Rösch, Konrad Schwarz, Nathan Weisz; Journal of Neuroscience