Publications of Tilman Stephani

Stephani, T., Villringer, A., & Nikulin, V. V. (2025). Excitability modulations of somatosensory perception do not depend on feedforward neuronal population spikes. The Journal of Neuroscience. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2280-24.2025

Nierula, B., Stephani, T., Bailey, E., Kaptan, M., Pohle, L.-M., Horn, U., … Eippert, F. (2024). A multichannel electrophysiological approach to noninvasively and precisely record human spinal cord activity. PLOS Biology, 22. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002828

Kapralov, N., Idaji, M. J., Stephani, T., Studenova, A., Vidaurre, C., Ros, T., … Nikulin, V. V. (2024). Sensorimotor brain-computer interface performance depends on signal-to-noise ratio but not connectivity of the mu rhythm in a multiverse analysis of longitudinal data. Journal of Neural Engineering, 21. doi:10.1088/1741-2552/ad7a24

Chen, Y., Stephani, T., Bagdasarian, M. T., Hilsmann, A., Eisert, P., Villringer, A., … Nikulin, V. V. (2024). Realness of face images can be decoded from non-linear modulation of EEG responses. Scientific Reports, 14. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-56130-1

Al, E., Stephani, T., Engelhardt, M., Haegens, S., Villringer, A., & Nikulin, V. V. (2023). Cardiac activity impacts cortical motor excitability. PLoS Biology, 21. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002393

Bagherzadeh‐Azbari, S., Lion, C. J., Stephani, T., Dimigen, O., & Sommer, W. (2023). The impact of emotional facial expressions on reflexive attention depends on the aim of dynamic gaze changes: An ERP study. Psychophysiology, 60. doi:10.1111/psyp.14202

Cesnaite, E., Steinfath, T. P., Jamshidi Idaji, M., Stephani, T., Kumral, D., Haufe, S., … Nikulin, V. V. (2023). Alterations in rhythmic and non-rhythmic resting-state EEG activity and their link to cognition in older age. NeuroImage, 268. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119810

Stephani, T., Nierula, B., Villringer, A., Eippert, F., & Nikulin, V. V. (2022). Cortical response variability is driven by local excitability changes with somatotopic organization. NeuroImage, 264. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119687

Idaji, M. J., Zhang, J., Stephani, T., Nolte, G., Müller, K.-R., Villringer, A., & Nikulin, V. V. (2022). Harmoni: A method for eliminating spurious interactions due to the harmonic components in neuronal data. NeuroImage, 525. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119053

Grund, M., Al, E., Pabst, M., Dabbagh, A., Stephani, T., Nierhaus, T., … Villringer, A. (2022). Respiration, heartbeat, and conscious tactile perception. The Journal of Neuroscience, 42, 643–656.

Stephani, T., Hodapp, A., Jamshidi Idaji, M., Villringer, A., & Nikulin, V. V. (2021). Neural excitability and sensory input determine intensity perception with opposing directions in initial cortical responses. ELife, 10. doi:10.7554/eLife.67838

Stephani, T., Waterstraat, G., Haufe, S., Curio, G., Villringer, A., & Nikulin, V. V. (2020). Temporal signatures of criticality in human cortical excitability as probed by early somatosensory responses. The Journal of Neuroscience, 40, 6572–6583.

Stephani, T., Kirk Driller, K., Dimigen, O., & Sommer, W. (2020). Eye contact in active and passive viewing: Event-related brain potential evidence from a combined eye tracking and EEG study. Neuropsychologia, 143. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107478

Kirk Driller, K., Stephani, T., Dimigen, O., & Sommer, W. (2019). Large lateralized EDAN-like brain potentials in a gaze-shift detection task. Psychophysiology, 56. doi:10.1111/psyp.13361

Weinreich, A., Stephani, T., & Schubert, T. (2016). Emotion effects within frontal alpha oscillation in a picture oddball paradigm. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 110, 200–206.

Jürgensohn, T., Böhm, S., Gardas, D., & Stephani, T. (2018). Entwicklung der Fahr- und Verkehrskompetenz mit zunehmender Fahrerfahrung. Bergisch Gladbach: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-C4D0-3

Stephani, T. (2017). Sieht natürlich aus? Mag ich! Eine empirische Untersuchung zum Einfluss von Fraktalität in Liniendiagrammen auf Valenz und kognitive Verarbeitung. In Bewegen, übersetzen, anstoßen: Themenklasse 2016 (pp. 16–25). Berlin: Humboldt-Universität.

Kapralov, N., Jamshidi Idaji, M., Stephani, T., Studenova, A., Vidaurre, C., Ros, T., … Nikulin, V. V. (2023). Multiverse analysis of longitudinal changes in sensorimotor functional connectivity during brain-computer interface training. In Clinical Neurophysiology (Vol. 148, pp. e47–e48). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Stephani, T., Hodapp, A., Jamshidi Idaji, M., Nierula, B., Eippert, F., Villringer, A., & Nikulin, V. V. (2023). Cortical excitability shapes somatosensory perception with spatiotemporally structured dynamics. In Clinical Neurophysiology (Vol. 148). Amsterdam: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2023.02.018

Stephani, T. Temporally and spatially structured dynamics of neural excitability shape somatosensory perception from first cortical responses onwards. Talk_at_event presented at the 8th MindBrainBody Symposium, Virtual. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-1A43-D