David Poeppel

43.3k total citations · 15 hit papers
273 papers, 26.7k citations indexed

About

David Poeppel is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, David Poeppel has authored 273 papers receiving a total of 26.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 220 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 93 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 55 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in David Poeppel's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (135 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (107 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (62 papers). David Poeppel is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (135 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (107 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (62 papers). David Poeppel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. David Poeppel's co-authors include Gregory Hickok, Anne-Lise Giraud, Virginie van Wassenhove, Huan Luo, Colin Phillips, Ellen Lau, Ken W. Grant, Gregory Hickok, Xing Tian and Keith B. Doelling and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David Poeppel

261 papers receiving 26.1k citations

Hit Papers

The cortical organization... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2007 2004 2012 2008 2003 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The cortical organization of speech processing
    2007 3.6k citations David Poeppel et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
  2. Dorsal and ventral streams: a framework for understanding aspects of the functional anatomy of language
    2004 1.6k citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
  3. Cortical oscillations and speech processing: emerging computational principles and operations
    2012 1.2k citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
  4. A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400
    2008 1.2k citations David Poeppel et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
  5. The analysis of speech in different temporal integration windows: cerebral lateralization as ‘asymmetric sampling in time’
    2003 916 citations David Poeppel profile →
  6. Towards a functional neuroanatomy of speech perception
    2000 803 citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
  7. Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias
    2017 751 citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
  8. Phase Patterns of Neuronal Responses Reliably Discriminate Speech in Human Auditory Cortex
    2007 703 citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
  9. Visual speech speeds up the neural processing of auditory speech
    2005 642 citations David Poeppel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  10. Cortical tracking of hierarchical linguistic structures in connected speech
    2015 622 citations Nai Ding, David Poeppel et al. profile →
  11. Mechanisms Underlying Selective Neuronal Tracking of Attended Speech at a “Cocktail Party”
    2013 595 citations Nai Ding, Ashesh D. Mehta et al. profile →
  12. Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Tracks Real-World Dynamic Group Interactions in the Classroom
    2017 479 citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
  13. Acoustic landmarks drive delta–theta oscillations to enable speech comprehension by facilitating perceptual parsing
    2013 398 citations Keith B. Doelling, Oded Ghitza et al. profile →
  14. Temporal modulations in speech and music
    2017 301 citations Nai Ding, David Poeppel et al. profile →
  15. Speech rhythms and their neural foundations
    2020 245 citations David Poeppel, M. Florencia Assaneo Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
David Poeppel 22.6k 8.5k 5.9k 2.9k 2.1k 273 26.7k
Steven A. Hillyard 41.6k 1.8× 12.1k 1.4× 5.4k 0.9× 3.6k 1.2× 745 0.4× 225 45.3k
Gregory Hickok 13.7k 0.6× 5.0k 0.6× 5.5k 0.9× 2.9k 1.0× 465 0.2× 186 16.0k
Angela D. Friederici 33.8k 1.5× 9.8k 1.1× 19.9k 3.4× 5.5k 1.9× 1.3k 0.6× 598 41.2k
Emanuel Donchin 37.7k 1.7× 7.5k 0.9× 4.2k 0.7× 4.9k 1.7× 1.7k 0.8× 220 42.9k
Robert J. Zatorre 32.1k 1.4× 11.7k 1.4× 3.9k 0.7× 7.6k 2.6× 2.6k 1.2× 325 39.0k
Riitta Hari 27.0k 1.2× 5.7k 0.7× 3.0k 0.5× 5.6k 1.9× 1.8k 0.8× 415 33.9k
Richard Ν. Aslin 10.4k 0.5× 7.8k 0.9× 12.9k 2.2× 1.5k 0.5× 1.4k 0.7× 242 22.4k
Risto Näätänen 41.5k 1.8× 16.5k 1.9× 5.8k 1.0× 2.5k 0.9× 3.9k 1.9× 402 45.5k
Nancy Kanwisher 39.0k 1.7× 9.3k 1.1× 4.9k 0.8× 6.8k 2.3× 300 0.1× 284 44.4k
Marta Kutas 30.3k 1.3× 8.7k 1.0× 14.3k 2.4× 4.0k 1.4× 683 0.3× 239 34.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Poeppel

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Poeppel, David, et al.. (2025). Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience as collections of practices. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 27(1). 79–79.
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Poeppel, David, et al.. (2024). Elevator music as a tool for the quantitative characterization of reward. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1535(1). 121–136. 3 indexed citations
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Chang, Andrew, Xiangbin Teng, M. Florencia Assaneo, & David Poeppel. (2024). The human auditory system uses amplitude modulation to distinguish music from speech. PLoS Biology. 22(5). e3002631–e3002631. 6 indexed citations
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Gwilliams, Laura, et al.. (2023). Introducing MEG-MASC a high-quality magneto-encephalography dataset for evaluating natural speech processing. Scientific Data. 10(1). 862–862. 4 indexed citations
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Tavano, Alessandro, Burkhard Maeß, David Poeppel, & Erich Schröger. (2022). Neural entrainment via perceptual inferences. European Journal of Neuroscience. 55(11-12). 3277–3287. 3 indexed citations
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Larrouy-Maestri, Pauline, et al.. (2022). The variably intense vocalizations of affect and emotion (VIVAE) corpus prompts new perspective on nonspeech perception.. Emotion. 22(1). 213–225. 14 indexed citations
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Wallisch, Pascal, et al.. (2022). Speech-to-Speech Synchronization protocol to classify human participants as high or low auditory-motor synchronizers. STAR Protocols. 3(2). 101248–101248. 16 indexed citations
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Gwilliams, Laura, Jean-Rémi King, Alec Marantz, & David Poeppel. (2022). Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content and order. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6606–6606. 45 indexed citations
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Rimmele, Johanna M., David Poeppel, & Oded Ghitza. (2021). Acoustically Driven Cortical δ Oscillations Underpin Prosodic Chunking. eNeuro. 8(4). ENEURO.0562–20.2021. 35 indexed citations
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Kim, Seung‐Goo, David Poeppel, & Tobias Overath. (2020). Modulation change detection in human auditory cortex: Evidence for asymmetric, non‐linear edge detection. European Journal of Neuroscience. 52(2). 2889–2904. 1 indexed citations
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Blanco-Elorrieta, Esti, Nai Ding, Liina Pylkkänen, & David Poeppel. (2020). Understanding Requires Tracking: Noise and Knowledge Interact in Bilingual Comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 32(10). 1975–1983. 16 indexed citations
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Giroud, J.P., Agnès Trébuchon, Daniele Schön, et al.. (2020). Asymmetric sampling in human auditory cortex reveals spectral processing hierarchy. PLoS Biology. 18(3). e3000207–e3000207. 31 indexed citations
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Teng, Xiangbin, Qinglin Meng, & David Poeppel. (2020). Modulation Spectra Capture EEG Responses to Speech Signals and Drive Distinct Temporal Response Functions. eNeuro. 8(1). ENEURO.0399–20.2020. 4 indexed citations
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Teng, Xiangbin & David Poeppel. (2019). Theta and Gamma Bands Encode Acoustic Dynamics over Wide-Ranging Timescales. Cerebral Cortex. 30(4). 2600–2614. 34 indexed citations
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Doelling, Keith B., et al.. (2019). An oscillator model better predicts cortical entrainment to music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(20). 10113–10121. 109 indexed citations
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Oever, Sanne ten, Charles M. Schroeder, David Poeppel, et al.. (2017). Low-Frequency Cortical Oscillations Entrain to Subthreshold Rhythmic Auditory Stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(19). 4903–4912. 53 indexed citations
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Horwitz, Barry & David Poeppel. (2002). How can EEG/MEG and fMRI/PET data be combined?. Human Brain Mapping. 17(1). 1–3. 95 indexed citations
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Poeppel, David. (2001). Pure word deafness and the bilateral processing of the speech code. Cognitive Science. 25(5). 679–693. 113 indexed citations
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Poeppel, David. (2001). New approaches to the neural basis of speech sound processing: introduction to special section on brain and speech. Cognitive Science. 25(5). 659–661. 8 indexed citations
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Poeppel, David. (2001). Pure word deafness and the bilateral processing of the speech code. Cognitive Science. 25(5). 679–693. 122 indexed citations

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