Publications of Tilman Stephani

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)

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)

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)

Al, E.; Stephani, T.; Engelhardt, M.; Haegens, S.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Cardiac activity impacts cortical motor excitability. PLoS Biology 21 (11), e3002393 (2023)

Cesnaite, E.; Steinfath, T. P.; Jamshidi Idaji, M.; Stephani, T.; Kumral, D.; Haufe, S.; Sander, C.; Hensch, T.; Hegerl, U.; Riedel-Heller, S. et al.; Röhr, S.; Schroeter, M. L.; Witte, A. V.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Alterations in rhythmic and non-rhythmic resting-state EEG activity and their link to cognition in older age. NeuroImage 268, 119810 (2023)

Stephani, T.; Nierula, B.; Villringer, A.; Eippert, F.; Nikulin, V. V.: Cortical response variability is driven by local excitability changes with somatotopic organization. NeuroImage 264, 119687 (2022)

Idaji, M. J.; Zhang, J.; Stephani, T.; Nolte, G.; Müller, K.-R.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Harmoni: A method for eliminating spurious interactions due to the harmonic components in neuronal data. NeuroImage 525, 119053 (2022)

Stephani, T.; Hodapp, A.; Jamshidi Idaji, M.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Neural excitability and sensory input determine intensity perception with opposing directions in initial cortical responses. eLife 10, e67838 (2021)

Stephani, T.; Waterstraat, G.; Haufe, S.; Curio, G.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Temporal signatures of criticality in human cortical excitability as probed by early somatosensory responses. The Journal of Neuroscience 40 (34), pp. 6572 - 6583 (2020)

Kapralov, N.; Jamshidi Idaji, M.; Stephani, T.; Studenova, A.; Vidaurre, C.; Ros, T.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Multiverse analysis of longitudinal changes in sensorimotor functional connectivity during brain-computer interface training. In Clinical Neurophysiology, 148, pp. e47 - e48. Elsevier, Amsterdam (2023)

Stephani, T.; Hodapp, A.; Jamshidi Idaji, M.; Nierula, B.; Eippert, F.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Cortical excitability shapes somatosensory perception with spatiotemporally structured dynamics. In Clinical Neurophysiology, 148, e9. Elsevier, Amsterdam (2023)

Chen, Y.; Stephani, T.; Bagdasarian, T. M.; Hilsman, 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. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2024, Aberdeen, United Kingdom (2024)

Bailey, E.; Nierula, B.; Stephani, T.; Nikulin, V. V.; Eippert, F.: Task-evoked high frequency oscillations in cortex and spinal cord. 11th MindBrainBody Symposium 2024, Berlin, Germany (2024)

Böke, A.; Enk, L.; Forster, C.; Panagoulas, E.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.; Stephani, T.: Can illusory percepts be affected by sensory interhemispheric inhibition? A somatosensory EEG study based on the cutaneous rabbit effect. 11th MindBrainBody Symposium 2024, Berlin, Germany (2024)

Stephani, T.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Excitability modulations of somatosensory perception do not depend on feedforward neuronal population spikes. 11th MindBrainBody Symposium 2024, Berlin, Germany (2024)

Kapralov, N.; Jamshidi Idaji, M.; Stephani, T.; Studenova, A.; Vidaurre, C.; Ros, T.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Sensorimotor BCI performance depends on signal-to-noise ratio but not phase synchronization of the mu rhythm: A multiverse analysis of longitudinal data. Cutting Gardens 2023 – EEG and MEG methods multi-hub meeting, Virtual (2023)

Forster, C.; Stephani, T.; Grund, M.; Panagoulas, E.; Al, E.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Implicit and explicit biases shape somatosensory perception and modulate prestimulus alpha and beta power. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CNN), Oxford, United Kingdom (2023)

Stephani, T.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Short-latency somatosensory evoked potentials, alpha oscillations and excitability: Linked via back-propagating membrane potentials? Salzburg Mind Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA), Salzburg, Austria (2023)