Publications

Bareither, I., Chaumon, M., Bernasconi, F., Villringer, A., & Busch, N. A. (2014a). Invisible visual stimuli elicit increases in alpha-band power. Journal of Neurophysiology, 112 (5), 1082–1090. doi

Bareither, I., Villringer, A., & Busch, N. A. (2014b). Decreased visual detection during subliminal stimulation.Journal of Vision, 14 (12). doi

Becker, R., Reinacher, M., Freyer, F., Villringer, A., & Ritter, P. (2011). How ongoing neuronal oscillations account for evoked fMRI variability. Journal of Neuroscience, 31 (30), 11016–11027. doi

Becker, R., Ritter, P., & Villringer, A. (2008). Influence of ongoing alpha rhythm on the visual evoked potential.NeuroImage, 39 (2), 707–716. doi

Blankenburg, F., Ruben, J., Meyer, R., Schwiemann, J., & Villringer, A. (2003a). Evidence for a rostral-to-caudal somatotopic organization in human primary somatosensory cortex with mirror-reversal in areas 3b and 1. Cerebral Cortex, 13 (9), 987–993.

Blankenburg, F., Taskin, B., Ruben, J., Moosmann, M., Ritter, P., Curio, G., & Villringer, A. (2003b). Imperceptible stimuli and sensory processing impediment. Science, 299 (5614), 1864–1864. doi

Deuchert, M., Ruben, J., Schwiemann, J., Meyer, R., Thees, S., Krause, T., et al. (2002). Event-related fMRI of the somatosensory system using electrical finger stimulation. NeuroReport, 13 (3), 365–369. doi

Freyer, F., Becker, R., Anami, K., Curio, G., Villringer, A., & Ritter, P. (2009). Ultrahigh-frequency EEG during fMRI: pushing the limits of imaging-artifact correction. NeuroImage, 48 (1), 94–108. doi

Goltz, D., Gundlach, C., Nierhaus, T., Villringer, A., Müller, M., & Pleger, B. (2015). Connections between Intraparietal Sulcus and a Sensorimotor Network Underpin Sustained Tactile Attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 35 (20), 7938–7949. doi

Goltz, D., Pleger, B., Thiel, S. D., Villringer, A., & Müller, M. M. (2013). Sustained Spatial Attention to Vibrotactile Stimulation in the Flutter Range: Relevant Brain Regions and Their Interaction. PLoS ONE, 8 (12), e84196. doi

Iliopoulos, F., Nierhaus, T., & Villringer, A. (2014). Electrical noise modulates perception of electrical pulses in humans: sensation enhancement via stochastic resonance. Journal of Neurophysiology, 111 (6), 1238–1248. doi

Jungehulsing, G. J., Israel, H., Safar, N., Taskin, B., Nolte, C. H., Brunecker, P., et al. (2013). Levetiracetam in patients with central neuropathic post-stroke pain--a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. European Journal of Neurology, 20 (2), 331–337. doi

Kalberlah, C., Villringer, A., & Pleger, B. (2013). Dynamic causal modeling suggests serial processing of tactile vibratory stimuli in the human somatosensory cortex--an fMRI study. NeuroImage, 74 , 164–171. doi

Koch, S. P., Habermehl, C., Mehnert, J., Schmitz, C. H., Holtze, S., Villringer, A., et al. (2010). High-resolution optical functional mapping of the human somatosensory cortex. Frontiers in Neuroenergetics, 2, 12. doi

Krause, T., Asseyer, S., Taskin, B., Floel, A., Witte, A. V., Mueller, K., et al. (2014). The Cortical Signature of Central Poststroke Pain: Gray Matter Decreases in Somatosensory, Insular, and Prefrontal Cortices. Cerebral Cortex. doi

Krause, T., Brunecker, P., Pittl, S., Taskin, B., Laubisch, D., Winter, B., et al. (2012). Thalamic sensory strokes with and without pain: differences in lesion patterns in the ventral posterior thalamus. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 83 (8), 776–784. doi

Krause, T., Kurth, R., Ruben, J., Schwiemann, J., Villringer, K., Deuchert, M., et al. (2001). Representational overlap of adjacent fingers in multiple areas of human primary somatosensory cortex depends on electrical stimulus intensity: an fMRI study. Brain Research, 899 (1-2), 36–46. doi

Kurth, R., Villringer, K., Curio, G., Wolf, K. J., Krause, T., Repenthin, J., et al. (2000). fMRI shows multiple somatotopic digit representations in human primary somatosensory cortex. NeuroReport, 11 (7), 1487–1491.

Kurth, R., Villringer, K., Mackert, B. M., Schwiemann, J., Braun, J., Curio, G., et al. (1998). fMRI assessment of somatotopy in human Brodmann area 3b by electrical finger stimulation. NeuroReport, 9 (2), 207–212.

Long, X., Goltz, D., Margulies, D. S., Nierhaus, T., & Villringer, A. (2014). Functional connectivity-based parcellation of the human sensorimotor cortex. The European Journal of Neuroscience, 39 (8), 1332–1342. doi

Moosmann, M., Ritter, P., Krastel, I., Brink, A., Thees, S., Blankenburg, F., et al. (2003). Correlates of alpha rhythm in functional magnetic resonance imaging and near infrared spectroscopy. Human Brain Mapping Journal, 20 (1), 145–158. doi

Nierhaus, T., Forschack, N., Piper, S. K., Holtze, S., Krause, T., Taskin, B., et al. (2015a). Imperceptible somatosensory stimulation alters sensorimotor background rhythm and connectivity. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(15), 5917–5925. doi

Nierhaus, T., Pach, D., Huang, W., Long, X., Napadow, V., Roll, S., et al. (2015b). Differential cerebral response to somatosensory stimulation of an acupuncture point vs. two non-acupuncture points measured with EEG and fMRI.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 74. doi

Nierhaus, T., Schön, T., Becker, R., Ritter, P., & Villringer, A. (2009). Background and evoked activity and their interaction in the human brain. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 27 (8), 1140–1150. doi

Pleger, B., & Villringer, A. (2013). The human somatosensory system: From perception to decision making.Progress in Neurobiology, 103, 76–97. doi

Preuschhof, C., Heekeren, H. R., Taskin, B., Schubert, T., & Villringer, A. (2006). Neural correlates of vibrotactile working memory in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 26 (51), 13231–13239. doi

Preuschhof, C., Schubert, T., Villringer, A., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Prior Information biases stimulus representations during vibrotactile decision making. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 (5), 875–887. doi

Preusser, S., Thiel, S. D., Rook, C., Roggenhofer, E., Kosatschek, A., Draganski, B., et al. (2015). The perception of touch and the ventral somatosensory pathway. Brain, 138 (Pt 3), 540–548. doi

Ragert, P., Nierhaus, T., Cohen, L. G., & Villringer, A. (2011). Interhemispheric Interactions between the Human Primary Somatosensory Cortices. PLoS ONE, 6 (2), e16150. doi

Reinacher, M., Becker, R., Villringer, A., & Ritter, P. (2009). Oscillatory brain states interact with late cognitive components of the somatosensory evoked potential. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 183 (1), 49–56. doi

Ritter, P., Freyer, F., Curio, G., & Villringer, A. (2008). High-frequency (600 Hz) population spikes in human EEG delineate thalamic and cortical fMRI activation sites. NeuroImage, 42 (2), 483–490. doi

Ritter, P., Moosmann, M., & Villringer, A. (2009). Rolandic alpha and beta EEG rhythms' strengths are inversely related to fMRI-BOLD signal in primary somatosensory and motor cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 30 (4), 1168–1187. doi

Ruben, J., Krause, T., Taskin, B., Blankenburg, F., Moosmann, M., & Villringer, A. (2006). Sub-area-specific Suppressive Interaction in the BOLD responses to simultaneous finger stimulation in human primary somatosensory cortex: evidence for increasing rostral-to-caudal convergence. Cerebral Cortex, 16 (6), 819–826.doi

Ruben, J., Schwiemann, J., Deuchert, M., Meyer, R., Krause, T., Curio, G., et al. (2001). Somatotopic organization of human secondary somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 11 (5), 463–473.

Schubert, R., Blankenburg, F., Lemm, S., Villringer, A., & Curio, G. (2006). Now you feel it-now you don't: ERP correlates of somatosensory awareness. Psychophysiology, 43 (1), 31–40. doi

Schubert, R., Haufe, S., Blankenburg, F., Villringer, A., & Curio, G. (2009). Now you“ll feel it, now you won”t: EEG rhythms predict the effectiveness of perceptual masking. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 (12), 2407–2419.doi

Schubert, R., Ritter, P., Wüstenberg, T., Preuschhof, C., Curio, G., Sommer, W., & Villringer, A. (2008). Spatial attention related SEP amplitude modulations covary with BOLD signal in S1--a simultaneous EEG--fMRI study.Cerebral Cortex, 18 (11), 2686–2700. doi

Sehm, B., Hoff, M., Gundlach, C., Taubert, M., Conde, V., Villringer, A., & Ragert, P. (2013). A novel ring electrode setup for the recording of somatosensory evoked potentials during transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 212 (2), 234–236. doi

Steinbrink, J., Kohl, M., Obrig, H., Curio, G., Syré, F., Thomas, F., et al. (2000). Somatosensory evoked fast optical intensity changes detected non-invasively in the adult human head. Neuroscience Letters, 291 (2), 105–108.

Striem-Amit, E., Ovadia-Caro, S., Caramazza, A., Margulies, D. S., Villringer, A., & Amedi, A. (2015). Functional connectivity of visual cortex in the blind follows retinotopic organization principles. Brain, 138 (Pt 6), 1679–1695.doi

Taskin, B., Holtze, S., Krause, T., & Villringer, A. (2008). Inhibitory impact of subliminal electrical finger stimulation on SI representation and perceptual sensitivity of an adjacent finger. NeuroImage, 39 (3), 1307–1313. doi

Taskin, B., Jungehulsing, G. J., Ruben, J., Brunecker, P., Krause, T., Blankenburg, F., & Villringer, A. (2006). Preserved responsiveness of secondary somatosensory cortex in patients with thalamic stroke. Cerebral Cortex, 16 (10), 1431–1439. doi

Thees, S., Blankenburg, F., Taskin, B., Curio, G., & Villringer, A. (2003). Dipole source localization and fMRI of simultaneously recorded data applied to somatosensory categorization. Human Brain Mapping Journal, 18 (3), 707–719. doi