Publications

Möller, M.; Nieweler, J. A.; Nikulin, V. V.; van Riesen, C.: Network mechanisms in rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism. Experimental Neurology 395, 115491 (2026)

Gerster, M.; Waterstraat, G.; Binns, T. S.; Darcy, N.; Wiest, C.; Köhler, R. M.; Vanhoecke, J.; West, T. O.; Sure, M.; Todorov, D. et al.; Radzinski, L.; Habets, J.; Busch, J. L.; Feldmann, L. K.; Krause, P.; Faust, K.; Schneider, G.-H.; Ashkan, K.; Pereira, E.; Akram, H.; Zrinzo, L.; Blankertz, B.; Villringer, A.; Tan, H.; Hirschmann, J.; Kühn, A. A.; Florin, E.; Schnitzler, A.; Oswal, A.; Litvak, V.; Neumann, W.-J.; Curio, G.; Nikulin, V. V.: Beyond beta rhythms: Subthalamic aperiodic broadband power scales with Parkinson's disease severity: A cross-sectional multicentre study. EBioMedicine 122, 105988 (2025)

Jäger, A.-T.; Steele, C.; Dreyer, F. R.; Osterloh, M. R.; Sadlon, A.; Nikulin, V. V.; Mohr, B.; Pulvermüller, F.: BOLD long-range temporal correlations reflect changes in language and depression across intensive aphasia therapy. Stroke 56 (11), pp. 3138 - 3152 (2025)

Bailey, E.; Nierula, B.; Stephani, T.; Maess, B.; Nikulin, V. V.; Eippert, F.: Evaluating cardiac noise correction approaches for non-invasive electrophysiology of the human spinal cord. Imaging Neuroscience 3, IMAG.a.938 (2025)

Haslacher, D.; Reber, P.; Cavallo, A.; Rosenthal, A.; Pangratz, E.; Beck, A.; Romanczuk-Seiferth, N.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.; Soekadar, S. R.: Heartbeat perception is causally linked to frontal delta oscillations. Communications Biology 8 (1), 1466 (2025)

Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.; Gaebler, M.: Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health. Trends in Neurosciences 48 (10), pp. 766 - 779 (2025)

Pomelova, E.; Feurra, M.; Nikulin, V. V.; Grankina, A.; Solodkov, R.; Banjevich, T.; Blagovechtchenski, E.: Is there a link between motor learning and mirror neuron system: TMS study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 19, 1650152 (2025)

Forster, C.; Stephani, T.; Grund, M.; Panagoulas, E.; Al, E.; Hofmann, S.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas. Communications Psychology 3 (1), 93 (2025)

Steinfath, T. P.; Herzog, N.; Fourcade, A.; Sander, C.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Validating genuine changes in heartbeat-evoked potentials using pseudotrials and surrogate procedures. Imaging Neuroscience 3, IMAG.a.30 (2025)

Stephani, T.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Excitability modulations of somatosensory perception do not depend on feedforward neuronal population spikes. The Journal of Neuroscience 45 (23), e2280242025 (2025)

Gippert, M.; Shih, P.-C.; Heed, T.; Howard, I. S.; Jamshidi Idaji, M.; Villringer, A.; Sehm, B.; Nikulin, V. V.: Motor imagery enhances performance beyond the imagined action. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (20), e2423642122 (2025)

Ivanova, M.; Germanova, K.; Petelin, D. S.; Ragimova, A.; Kopytin, G.; Volel, B. A.; Nikulin, V. V.; Ruiz, M. H.: Frequency-specific changes in prefrontal activity associated with maladaptive belief updating in volatile environments in euthymic bipolar disorder. Translational Psychiatry 15 (1), 13 (2025)

Herzog, N.; Cesnaite, E.; Steinfath, T. P.; Kapralov, N.; Fallon, S. J.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.; Janssen, L.; Horstmann, A.: Balancing excitation and inhibition: The role of neural network dynamics in working memory gating. Imaging Neuroscience 2, imag-2-00380 (2024)

Fourcade, A.; Klotzsche, F.; Hofmann, S.; Mariola, A.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.; Gaebler, M.: Linking brain-heart interactions to emotional arousal in immersive virtual reality. Psychophysiology 61 (12), e14696 (2024)

Nierula, B.; Stephani, T.; Bailey, E.; Kaptan, M.; Pohle, L.-M.; Horn, U.; Mouraux, A.; Maess, B.; Villringer, A.; Curio, G. et al.; Nikulin, V. V.; Eippert, F.: A multichannel electrophysiological approach to noninvasively and precisely record human spinal cord activity. PLOS Biology 22 (10), e3002828 (2024)

Kapralov, N.; Idaji, M. J.; Stephani, T.; Studenova, A.; Vidaurre, C.; Ros, T.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Sensorimotor brain-computer interface performance depends on signal-to-noise ratio but not connectivity of the mu rhythm in a multiverse analysis of longitudinal data. Journal of Neural Engineering 21 (5) (2024)

Chen, Y.; Stephani, T.; Bagdasarian, M. T.; Hilsmann, A.; Eisert, P.; Villringer, A.; Bosse, S.; Gaebler, M.; Nikulin, V. V.: Realness of face images can be decoded from non-linear modulation of EEG responses. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 5683 (2024)

Jäger, A.-T.; Bailey, A.; Huntenburg, J. M.; Tardif, C. L.; Villringer, A.; Gauthier, C. J.; Nikulin, V. V.; Bazin, P.-L.; Steele, C.: Decreased long‐range temporal correlations in the resting‐state functional magentic resonance imaging blood‐oxygen‐level‐dependentsignal reflect motor sequence learning up to 2 weeks following training. Human Brain Mapping 45 (4), e26539 (2024)

Jorajuría, T.; Nikulin, V. V.; Kapralov, N.; Gómez, M.; Vidaurre, C.: MEANSP: How many channels are needed to predict the performance of a SMR-based BCI? IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 31, p. 4931 - 4931 (2023)

Studenova, A.; Forster, C.; Engemann, D. A.; Hensch, T.; Sanders, C.; Mauche, N.; Hegerl, U.; Loeffler, M.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Event-related modulation of alpha rhythm explains the auditory P300-evoked response in EEG. eLife 12, RP88367 (2023)