Publications of Kai Alter

Ischebeck, A., Friederici, A. D., & Alter, K. (2008). Processing prosodic boundaries in natural and hummed speech. An fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 541–552.

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Alter, K., Ischebeck, A., & Ackermann, H. (2008). Understanding the emotional expression of verbal interjections: A functional MRI study. NeuroReport, 19, 1751–1755.

Mietz, A., Toepel, U., Ischebeck, A., & Alter, K. (2008). Inadequate and infrequent are not alike: ERPs to deviant prosodic patterns in spoken sentence comprehension. Brain and Language, 104, 159–169.

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Alter, K., Ischebeck, A., & Ackermann, H. (2007). Semiotic aspects of human nonverbal vocalizations: A functional imaging study. NeuroReport, 18, 1891–1894.

Stolterfoht, B., Friederici, A. D., Alter, K., & Steube, A. (2007). Processing focus structure and implicit prosody during reading: Differential ERP effects. Cognition, 104, 565–590.

Tervaniemi, M., Szameitat, A. J., Kruck, S., Schröger, E., Alter, K., De Baene, W., & Friederici, A. D. (2006). From air oscillations to music and speech: Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for fine-tuned neural networks in audition. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 8647–8652.

Heim, S., Alter, K., & Friederici, A. D. (2005). A dual-route account for access to grammatical gender: Evidence from functional MRI. Anatomy and Embryology, 210, 473–483.

Heim, S., Alter, K., Ischebeck, A. K., Amunts, K., Eickhoff, S. B., Mohlberg, H., … Friederici, A. D. (2005). The role of the left Brodmann's areas 44 and 45 in reading words and pseudowords. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 982–993.

Isel, F., Alter, K., & Friederici, A. D. (2005). Influence of prosodic information on the processing of split particles: ERP evidence from spoken German. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 154–167.

Knösche, T. R., Neuhaus, C., Haueisen, J., Alter, K., Maess, B., Witte, O. W., & Friederici, A. D. (2005). Perception of phrase structure in music. Human Brain Mapping, 24, 259–273.

Magne, C., Astésano, C., Lacheret-Dujour, A., Morel, M., Alter, K., & Besson, M. (2005). On-line processing of "pop-out'' words in spoken French dialogues. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 740–756.

Meyer, M., Zysset, S., von Cramon, D. Y., & Alter, K. (2005). Distinct fMRI responses to laughter, speech, and sounds along the human peri-sylvian cortex. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 291–306.

Pannekamp, A., Toepel, U., Alter, K., Hahne, A., & Friederici, A. D. (2005). Prosody-driven sentence processing: An event-related brain potential study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 407–421.

Astesano, C., Besson, M., & Alter, K. (2004). Brain potentials during semantic and prosodic processing in French. Cognitive Brain Research, 18, 172–184.

Friederici, A. D., & Alter, K. (2004). Lateralization of auditory language functions: A dynamic dual pathway model. Brain and Language, 89, 267–276.

Friedrich, C. K., Kotz, S. A., Friederici, A. D., & Alter, K. (2004). Pitch modulates lexical identification in spoken word recognition: ERP and behavioral evidence. Cognitive Brain Research, 20, 300–308.

Heinke, W., Fiebach, C. J., Schwarzbauer, C., Meyer, M., Olthoff, D., & Alter, K. (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, 641–650.

Jacobsen, T., Schroeger, E., & Alter, K. (2004). Pre-attentive perception of vowel phonemes from variable speech stimuli. Psychophysiology, 41, 654–659.

Meyer, M., Steinhauer, K., Alter, K., Friederici, A. D., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2004). Brain activity varies with modulation of dynamic pitch variance in sentence melody. Brain and Language, 89, 277–289.

Alter, K., Rank, E., Kotz, S. A., Toepel, U., Besson, M., Schirmer, A., & Friederici, A. D. (2003). Affective encoding in the speech signal and in event-related brain potentials. Speech Communication, 40, 61–70.