Publications of Birgit Nierula

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

Nierula, B., Spanlang, B., Martini, M., Borrell, M., Nikulin, V. V., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2021). Agency and responsibility over virtual movements controlled through different paradigms of brain-computer interface. Journal of Physiology, 599, 2419–2434.

Matamala-Gomez, M., Nierula, B., Donegan, T., Slater, M., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2020). Manipulating the perceived shape and color of a virtual limb can modulate pain responses. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9. doi:10.3390/jcm9020291

Spanlang, B., Nierula, B., Haffar, M., & Debruille, J. B. (2019). Mimicking schizophrenia: Reducing P300b by minimally fragmenting healthy participants’ selves using immersive virtual reality embodiment. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2018.00504

Nierula, B., Martini, M., Matamala-Gomez, M., Slater, M., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2017). Seeing an embodied virtual hand is analgesic contingent on colocation. The Journal of Pain, 18, 645–655.

Nierula, B., Hohlefeld, F. U., Curio, G., & Nikulin, V. V. (2013). No somatotopy of sensorimotor alpha-oscillation responses to differential finger stimulation. NeuroImage, 76, 294–303.

Sanchez-Vives, M. V., Slater, M., & Nierula, B. (2021). Agency and responsibility while controlling movement through brain-computer interfaces for neurorehabilitation. In D. Torricelli, M. Akay, & J. L. Pons (Eds.), Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation IV. ICNR 2020. Biosystems & Biorobotics (Vol. 28, pp. 557–561). Springer, Cham.

Nierula, B., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2019). Can BCI paradigms induce feelings of agency and responsibility over movements? In Brain-computer interface research: A state-of-the-art summary 7 (pp. 103–114). Cham: Springer.

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

Nierula, B., Trojan, J., Becker, S., Kleinböhl, D., & Hölzl, R. (2010). Experimentelle Veränderungen der Körperrepräsentation beeinflussen die Schmerzwahrnehmung. In Schmerz (Suppl. 1, Vol. 24, pp. 145–146). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Nierula, B. Body ownership and agency in immersive virtual environments. Talk_at_event presented at the International Research Training Group (IRTG) 1901 The Brain in Action, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Virtual. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-320A-2

Nierula, B. Can we experience agency and responsibility over virtual movements controlled by brain-computer-interfaces? Talk_at_event presented at the ISMAR2020. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. W2. Workshop on Combining Mixed Reality and Brain-Computer Interfaces: Challenges and Opportunities (MR&BCI), Virtual. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-320E-E

Nierula, B. Pain perception and agency in VR-embodiment. Talk_at_event presented at the Meetup, Mind Body Brain Institute Berlin, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-B50C-3

Nierula, B., Martini, M., Spanlang, B., Borrell , M., Guger , C., Nikulin, V. V., … Sanchez-Vives , M. V. Inducing agency over body movement through brain-computer interfaces. Talk_at_event presented at the European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology 2017, Bressanone, Italy. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-B517-6

Stephani, T., Hodapp, A., Jamshidi Idaji, M., Nierula, B., Eippert, F., Villringer, A., & Nikulin, V. V. Cortical excitability shapes somatosensory perception with spatiotemporally structured dynamics. Poster presented at the 10th MindBrainBody Symposium 2023, Berlin, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-E6EB-7

Stephani, T., Hodapp, A., Jamshidi Idaji, M., Nierula, B., Eippert, F., Villringer, A., & Nikulin, V. V. Cortical excitability shapes somatosensory perception with spatiotemporally structured dynamics. Poster presented at the Congress for Clinical Neuroscience with Advanced Training Academy (DGKN23), Hamburg, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-E6ED-5

Bailey, E., Nierula, B., Stephani, T., Nikulin, V. V., Maess, B., & Eippert, F. Cardiac artefact removal in non-invasive electrophysiology of the human spinal cord. Poster presented at the 11th IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School, Leipzig, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-33BA-A

Pohle, L.-M., Horn, U., Nierula, B., & Eippert, F. Expectation effects on repetition suppression in nociception. Poster presented at the 11th IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School, Leipzig, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-33B8-C

Stephani, T., Nierula, B., Villringer, A., Eippert, F., & Nikulin, V. V. Cortical response variability is driven by local excitability changes with somatotopic organization. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Glasgow, United Kingdom. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-1A3F-3

Nierula, B., Stephani, T., Kaptan, M., Mouraux, A., Maess, B., Curio, G., … Eippert, F. Cleaning electrophysiological spinal-cord data from artifacts. Poster presented at the CuttingEEG: 5th Symposium on Cutting-Edge Methods for EEG research, Aix-en-Provence, France. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-31F3-B