Background The mechanisms of action underlying acupuncture, including acupuncture
point specificity, are not well understood. In the previous decade, an increasing number of …

Understanding the rapidly developing building blocks of speech perception in infancy
requires a close look at the auditory prerequisites for speech sound processing. Pioneering …

We present a publicly available dataset of 227 healthy participants comprising a young (N=
153, 25.1±3.1 years, range 20–35 years, 45 female) and an elderly group (N= 74, 67.6±4.7 …

Even though humans are mostly not aware of their heartbeats, several heartbeat-related
effects have been reported to influence conscious perception. It is not clear whether these …

Previous studies have shown that timing of sensory stimulation during the cardiac cycle
interacts with perception. Given the natural coupling of respiration and cardiac activity, we …

Trance is an absorptive state of consciousness characterized by narrowed awareness of
external surroundings and has long been used—for example, by shamans—to gain insight. …

Speech perception requires rapid extraction of the linguistic content from the acoustic signal.
The ability to efficiently process rapid changes in auditory information is important for …

Variations in head and brain anatomy determine the strength and distribution of electrical
fields in humans and may account for inconsistent behavioral and neurophysiological results …

… Till Nierhaus studied medical engineering and medical neuroscience and received a PhD
degree at Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He currently holds a Lab-Manager position at …

During simultaneous EEG-fMRI acquisition, the EEG signal suffers from tremendous
artifacts caused by the scanner “environment”. Particularly, gradient artifacts and the …