Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Former Minerva Research Group Brain Modes
Selected Publications
Kringelbach, M. L., McIntosh, A. R., Ritter, P., Jirsa, V. K., & Deco, G. (2015). The rediscovery of slowness: Exploring the timing of cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19(10), 616-628. doi
Becker, R., Knock, S., Ritter, P., & Jirsa, V. (in press). Relating alpha power and phase to population firing and hemodynamic activity using a thalamo-cortical neural mass model. PLoS Computational Biology.
Kovacevic, N., Ritter, P., Tays, W., Moreno, S., & McIntosh, A. R. (in press). My Virtual Dream: Collective neurofeedback in an immersive art environment. PLoS One.
Schirner, M., Rothmeier, S., Jirsa, V. K., McIntosh, A. R., & Ritter, P. (in press). An automated pipeline for constructing personalised virtual brains from multimodal neuroimaging data. NeuroImage.
Ritter, P., Born, J., Brecht, M., Dinse, H., Heinemann, U., Pleger, B., Schmitz, D., Schreiber, S., Villringer, A., & Kempter, R. (2015). State-dependencies of learning across brain scales. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 9: 1.
Roy D, Sigala, R., Breakspear, M., McIntosh, A.R., Jirsa, V., Deco, G., Ritter, P. (2014). The Virtual Brain reveals how local plasticity shapes the brain´s dynamical landscape and the role of oscillations in this. Brain Connectivity
Front Comput Neurosci. 2014 Apr 4;8:36. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2014.00036.
eCollection 2014. The role of alpha-rhythm states in perceptual learning: insights from experiments and computational models. Sigala R 1 , Haufe S 1 , Roy D 1 , Dinse HR 2 , Ritter P 3 .
Ritter, P., Schirner, M., McIntosh, A. R., & Jirsa, V. K. (2013). The Virtual Brain integrates computational modeling and multimodal neuroimaging. Brain Connectivity, 3(2), 121-145. doi:10.1089/brain.2012.0120.
Frank Freyer, Robert Becker, Hubert Dinse, and Petra Ritter. State-dependent perceptual learning. Journal of Neuroscience. 2013 Feb 13;33(7):2900-7. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4039-12.2013.
Freyer, F., Reinacher, M., Nolte, G., Dinse, H. R., & Ritter, P. (2012). Repetitive tactile stimulation changes resting-state functional connectivity – implications for treatment of sensorimotor decline. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6:144.
Freyer, F., Roberts, J. A., Ritter, P., & Breakspear, M. (2012). A canonical model of multistability and scale-invariance in biological systems. PLoS Computational Biology, 8(8): e1002634.
Becker R, Reinacher M, Freyer F, Villringer A, Ritter P, (2011) How ongoing neuronal oscillations account for variability of evoked fMRI responses Journal of Neuroscience 32(30):11016-27
Freyer F, Roberts JA, Becker R, Robinson P, Ritter P, Breakspear M, (2011) Biophysical mechanisms of multistability in resting-state cortical rhythms Journal of Neuroscience 31(17):6353-61
Schultze-Kraft M, Becker F, Breakspear M, Ritter P, (2011) Exploiting the potential of three dimensional spatial wavelet analysis to explore the nesting of oscillations and spatial variance in simultaneous EEG-fMRI data. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 105(1-2):67-79
Freyer F, Aquino K, Robinson P, Ritter P, Breakspear M. (2009) Non-Gaussian statistics in temporal fluctuations of spontaneous cortical activity. Journal of Neuroscience 29(26): 8512-24
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
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):1168-87
Ritter P, Freyer F, Curio G, Villringer A. (2008) High frequency (600Hz) population spikes in human EEG delineate thalamic and cortical fMRI activation sites. Neuroimage, 8/2008, 483-90 42(2)
Schubert R, Ritter P, Wüstenberg T, Preuschhof C, Curio G, Sommer W, Villringer A. (2008) Simultaneous EEG-fMRI reveals correlation of SEPs with BOLD signal in S1 during spatial attention. Cerebral Cortex 18(11):2686-700.
Becker R, Ritter P°, Villringer A° (2008) Influence of Ongoing Alpha Rhythm on the Visual Evoked Potential. Neuroimage. 39(2):707-16 ° Shared senior authorship
Selected Reviews, Editorials, Controversies
Terry, JR, Ritter P, Daffertshofer A, (2010) Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. Editorial. BrainModes: The role of neuronal oscillations in health and disease. 105(1-2):1-4
Breakspear M., Daffertshofer A, Ritter P, (2009) Editorial. Brain Modes: A principled approach to modelling and measuring large-scale neuronal activity. J. Neurosci Methods. 183(1):1-4
Ritter P & Becker R, (2009) Detecting Alpha Rhythm Phase Reset by Phase Sorting: Caveats to Consider, Neuroimage 47(1):1-4
Ritter P, Villringer A (2006) Simultaneous EEG-fMRI, Neuroscience Biobehav R 30(6):823-38