Kai Alter

5.4k total citations
80 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Kai Alter is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Alter has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 45 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 17 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kai Alter's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (33 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (29 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (24 papers). Kai Alter is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (33 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (29 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (24 papers). Kai Alter collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Kai Alter's co-authors include Angela D. Friederici, Martin Meyer, Karsten Steinhauer, D. Yves von Cramon, Mireille Besson, Sonja A. Kotz, Dirk Wildgruber, Gabriele Lohmann, Diana P. Szameitat and André J. Szameitat and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Kai Alter

75 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kai Alter Germany 30 2.9k 1.5k 1.1k 545 191 80 3.5k
Burkhard Maeß Germany 33 4.2k 1.5× 988 0.6× 759 0.7× 494 0.9× 71 0.4× 84 4.6k
Daniel E. Callan Japan 27 2.0k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 544 0.5× 542 1.0× 48 0.3× 59 2.7k
Bertram Opitz Germany 27 2.8k 1.0× 698 0.5× 758 0.7× 288 0.5× 81 0.4× 62 3.3k
Thomas P. Urbach United States 21 2.7k 0.9× 960 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 397 0.7× 211 1.1× 30 3.2k
Ingo Hertrich Germany 34 2.3k 0.8× 1.4k 0.9× 474 0.5× 310 0.6× 77 0.4× 105 3.5k
Vincent L. Gracco United States 41 2.8k 1.0× 2.1k 1.4× 1.0k 1.0× 388 0.7× 89 0.5× 121 4.2k
Leun J. Otten United Kingdom 30 4.4k 1.5× 914 0.6× 719 0.7× 450 0.8× 45 0.2× 43 4.8k
J. Richard Hanley United Kingdom 34 2.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 1.5k 1.4× 441 0.8× 131 0.7× 109 3.7k
Yury Shtyrov Denmark 45 5.5k 1.9× 2.7k 1.8× 2.3k 2.2× 1.6k 3.0× 242 1.3× 185 6.4k
Jefferson Provost United States 6 2.0k 0.7× 929 0.6× 986 0.9× 333 0.6× 184 1.0× 7 2.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Alter

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Alter

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Alter. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai Alter based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kai Alter. Kai Alter is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Silva, Susana, et al.. (2019). The Sense of Sounds: Brain Responses to Phonotactic Frequency, Phonological Grammar and Lexical Meaning. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 681–681. 7 indexed citations
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Roopun, Anita K., Mark O. Cunningham, Claudia Racca, et al.. (2008). Region-Specific Changes in Gamma and Beta2 Rhythms in NMDA Receptor Dysfunction Models of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 34(5). 962–973. 122 indexed citations
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Toepel, Ulrike, Ann Pannekamp, & Kai Alter. (2007). Catching the news: Processing strategies in listening to dialogs as measured by ERPs. Behavioral and Brain Functions. 3(1). 53–53. 41 indexed citations
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Meyer, Martin, Simon Baumann, Dirk Wildgruber, & Kai Alter. (2007). How the brain laughs. Behavioural Brain Research. 182(2). 245–260. 42 indexed citations
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Ischebeck, Anja, Angela D. Friederici, & Kai Alter. (2007). Processing Prosodic Boundaries in Natural and Hummed Speech: An fMRI Study. Cerebral Cortex. 18(3). 541–552. 33 indexed citations
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Stolterfoht, Britta, et al.. (2006). Processing focus structure and implicit prosody during reading: Differential ERP effects☆. Cognition. 104(3). 565–590. 58 indexed citations
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Tervaniemi, Mari, André J. Szameitat, Erich Schröger, et al.. (2006). From Air Oscillations to Music and Speech: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evidence for Fine-Tuned Neural Networks in Audition. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(34). 8647–8652. 48 indexed citations
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Knösche, Thomas R., Jens Haueisen, Kai Alter, et al.. (2005). Perception of phrase structure in music. Human Brain Mapping. 24(4). 259–273. 99 indexed citations
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Heinke, Wolfgang, Christian J. Fiebach, Christian Schwarzbauer, et al.. (2004). Sequential effects of propofol on functional brain activation induced by auditory language processing: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 92(5). 641–650. 66 indexed citations
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Herrmann, Christoph S., et al.. (2003). The brain generates its own sentence melody: A Gestalt phenomenon in speech perception. Brain and Language. 85(3). 396–401. 17 indexed citations
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Lattner, Sonja, Burkhard Maeß, Yunhua Wang, et al.. (2003). Dissociation of human and computer voices in the brain: Evidence for a preattentive gestalt‐like perception. Human Brain Mapping. 20(1). 13–21. 20 indexed citations
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Meyer, Martin, Karsten Steinhauer, Kai Alter, Angela D. Friederici, & D. Yves von Cramon. (2003). Brain activity varies with modulation of dynamic pitch variance in sentence melody. Brain and Language. 89(2). 277–289. 159 indexed citations
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Toepel, Ulrike & Kai Alter. (2002). Cerebral strategies in the segmentation and interpretation of speech. 71–76. 2 indexed citations
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Schirmer, Annett, et al.. (2001). Lateralization of Prosody during Language Production: A Lesion Study. Brain and Language. 76(1). 1–17. 56 indexed citations
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Alter, Kai, et al.. (2000). The Vienna Prosodic Speech Corpus: Purpose, Content and Encoding. 191–195. 1 indexed citations
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Alter, Kai, et al.. (2000). Can wrong prosodic information be mistaken by the brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 122. 8 indexed citations
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Steinhauer, Karsten, Kai Alter, & Angela D. Friederici. (1999). Brain potentials indicate immediate use of prosodic cues in natural speech processing. Nature Neuroscience. 2(2). 191–196. 362 indexed citations
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