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

2026

Tinnitus and tinnitus disorder: Genetic, neurobiological, and clinical differentiation: Dirk De Ridder, Tobias Kleinjung, Jae-Jin Song, Divya Adhia, Matt Hall, Anusha Yasoda-Mohan, Sven Vanneste, Alain Londero, Nathan Weisz, Winfred Schlee, Ana Belen Elgoyhen, Christopher Cederroth, Jose Antonio Lopez-Escamez, Silvano Gallus, Stefan Schoisswohl, William Sedley, Grant Searchfield, Shi Nae Park, Berthold Langguth; iScience

Reply to: "No evidence of neural feature-specific pre-activation during the prediction of an upcoming stimulus": Gianpaolo Demarchi, Thomas Hartmann, Anne Hauswald, Juliane Schubert, Lisa Reisinger, Pavlos Topalidis, Kaja Benz, Fabian Schmidt, Quirin Gehmacher, Nathan Weisz; Nature Communications

2025

Towards a better understanding of real-life hearing impairments via electrophysiology: Fabian Schmidt, Lisa Reisinger, Patrick Neff, Ronny Hannemann, Timothee Masquelier, Nathan Weisz; 2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)

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

PyRASA - Spectral parametrization in python based on IRASA: Fabian Schmidt, Nathan Weisz, Thomas Hartmann; Journal of Open Source Software

Selective preservation of prediction-related signals in human sleep: Pavlos I. Topalidis, Gianpaolo Demarchi, Lisa Reisinger, Juliane Schubert, Mohamed S. Ameen, Nathan Weisz, Manuel Schabus; Current Biology

Influence of visual analogue of speech envelope, formants, and word onsets on word recognition is not pronounced: Kaja Rosa Benz, Anne Hauswald, Nathan Weisz; Hearing Research

Eye Movements in Silent Visual Speech Track Unheard Acoustic Signals and Relate to Hearing Experience: Kaja Rosa Benz, Anne Hauswald, Nina Suess, Quirin Gehmacher, Gianpaolo Demarchi, Fabian Schmidt, Gudrun Herzog, Sebastian Rösch, Nathan Weisz; eNeuro

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

Spatio-Temporal Decoding of the Navon Task Challenges Rigid Hemispheric Asymmetries in Global-Local Processing: Tobias Hausinger, Patrick Reisinger, Nathan Weisz, Andrea Hansen, Ti-Anni Harris, Belinda Pletzer; Psychophysiology

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

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

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