Publications of Birgit Nierula

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

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

Bailey, E., Nierula, B., Stephani, T., Nikulin, V. V., & Eippert, F. Task-evoked high frequency oscillations in cortex and spinal cord. Poster presented at the 11th MindBrainBody Symposium 2024, Berlin, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-F717-1

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