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

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

The cortical organization of speech processing

2007 3.6k citations David Poeppel et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
Dorsal and ventral streams: a framework for understanding aspects of the functional anatomy of language

2004 1.6k citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
Cortical oscillations and speech processing: emerging computational principles and operations

2012 1.2k citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400

2008 1.2k citations David Poeppel et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
The analysis of speech in different temporal integration windows: cerebral lateralization as ‘asymmetric sampling in time’

2003 916 citations David Poeppel profile →
Towards a functional neuroanatomy of speech perception

2000 803 citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias

2017 751 citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
Phase Patterns of Neuronal Responses Reliably Discriminate Speech in Human Auditory Cortex

2007 703 citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
Visual speech speeds up the neural processing of auditory speech

2005 642 citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
Cortical tracking of hierarchical linguistic structures in connected speech

2015 622 citations Nai Ding, David Poeppel et al. profile →
Mechanisms Underlying Selective Neuronal Tracking of Attended Speech at a “Cocktail Party”

2013 595 citations Nai Ding, David Poeppel et al. profile →
Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Tracks Real-World Dynamic Group Interactions in the Classroom

2017 479 citations David Poeppel et al. profile →
Acoustic landmarks drive delta–theta oscillations to enable speech comprehension by facilitating perceptual parsing

2013 398 citations Oded Ghitza, David Poeppel et al. profile →
Temporal modulations in speech and music

2017 301 citations Nai Ding, David Poeppel et al. profile →
Speech rhythms and their neural foundations

2020 245 citations David Poeppel, M. Florencia Assaneo Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience as collections of practices 2025 ·Nature reviews. Neuroscience ·(unknown), David Poeppel	0
2	The human auditory system uses amplitude modulation to distinguish music from speech 2024 ·PLoS Biology ·Andrew Chang, Xiangbin Teng, M. Florencia Assaneo, David Poeppel	6
3	Elevator music as a tool for the quantitative characterization of reward 2024 ·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), David Poeppel, Pablo Ripollés	3
4	A Dataset of 108 Novel Noun-Noun Compound Words with Active and Passive Interpretation 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), David Poeppel, (unknown)	1
5	Introducing MEG-MASC a high-quality magneto-encephalography dataset for evaluating natural speech processing 2023 ·Scientific Data ·Laura Gwilliams, (unknown), Alec Marantz, Liina Pylkkänen, David Poeppel, Jean-Rémi King	4
6	Top-down information shapes lexical processing when listening to continuous speech 2023 ·Language Cognition and Neuroscience ·Laura Gwilliams, Alec Marantz, David Poeppel, Jean-Rémi King	7
7	The variably intense vocalizations of affect and emotion (VIVAE) corpus prompts new perspective on nonspeech perception. 2022 ·Emotion ·(unknown), Pauline Larrouy-Maestri, David Poeppel	14
8	Speech-to-Speech Synchronization protocol to classify human participants as high or low auditory-motor synchronizers 2022 ·STAR Protocols ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Pascal Wallisch, Joan Orpella, David Poeppel, Pablo Ripollés, M. Florencia Assaneo	16
9	Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content and order 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Laura Gwilliams, Jean-Rémi King, Alec Marantz, David Poeppel	45
10	Acoustically Driven Cortical δ Oscillations Underpin Prosodic Chunking 2021 ·eNeuro ·Johanna M. Rimmele, David Poeppel, Oded Ghitza	35
11	Understanding Requires Tracking: Noise and Knowledge Interact in Bilingual Comprehension 2020 ·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ·Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, Nai Ding, Liina Pylkkänen, David Poeppel	16
12	Modulation change detection in human auditory cortex: Evidence for asymmetric, non‐linear edge detection 2020 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·Seung‐Goo Kim, David Poeppel, Tobias Overath	1
13	Speaking rhythmically can shape hearing 2020 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·M. Florencia Assaneo, Johanna M. Rimmele, Yonatan Sanz Perl, David Poeppel	40
14	Modulation Spectra Capture EEG Responses to Speech Signals and Drive Distinct Temporal Response Functions 2020 ·eNeuro ·Xiangbin Teng, Qinglin Meng, David Poeppel	4
15	Speech rhythms and their neural foundations breakdown → 2020 ·Nature reviews. Neuroscience ·David Poeppel, M. Florencia Assaneo	245
16	Theta and Gamma Bands Encode Acoustic Dynamics over Wide-Ranging Timescales 2019 ·Cerebral Cortex ·Xiangbin Teng, David Poeppel	34
17	How can EEG/MEG and fMRI/PET data be combined? 2002 ·Human Brain Mapping ·Barry Horwitz, David Poeppel	95
18	Pure word deafness and the bilateral processing of the speech code 2001 ·Cognitive Science ·David Poeppel	113
19	New approaches to the neural basis of speech sound processing: introduction to special section on brain and speech 2001 ·Cognitive Science ·David Poeppel	8
20	Pure word deafness and the bilateral processing of the speech code 2001 ·Cognitive Science ·David Poeppel	122

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