Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle):
Rauschecker, Josef P.
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NAME
POSITION TITLE
RAUSCHECKER, Josef Peter
eRA COMMONS USER NAME
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Neurology
and Psychology
JRAUSCHECKER
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
University of Cambridge, England
Munich Institute of Technology, Germany
Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich
Eberhard Karl University, Tübingen, Germany
DEGREE
(if applicable)
N/A
M.S.
Preclinical
Ph.D.
D.Sc.
YEAR(s)
1973
1976
1976-1978
1980
1985
FIELD OF STUDY
Physiology
Biological Cybernetics
Medical School
Neurophysiology
Neurophysiology (habil.)
A. Positions and Honors
Positions and Employment
1973
Visiting Research Worker, Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, England
1979-1981
Research Associate, Max Planck Institute, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Munich, Germany
1981-1989
Staff Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
1983
Visiting Scientist, Harvard University Medical School, Boston
1986
Visiting Scientist, Rockefeller University, New York
1988
Visiting Scientist, Salk Institute, La Jolla, California
1989-1995
Senior Investigator, Laboratories of Neuropsychology and Neurophysiology, NIMH/NIH
1995- date
Professor of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
1998- date
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University Medical Center
2006
Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, Georgetown University
Honors
1987
1987
2000
2001
2002
2003
2005
2006
Attempto Award, University of Tübingen
International C. and F. Demuth Award, Swiss Medical Research Foundation
Helmholtz Lecture, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Schmitt Lecture, University of Rochester
Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Award, Federal Republic of Germany
Servier Lecture, Université de Montreal, Canada
Visiting Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland
Finland Distinguished Professor, Academy of Finland, 2006
B. Publications (in chronological order) (selected from >200 publications)
Rauschecker, J.P., Campbell, F.W. and Atkinson, J.A. (1973). Colour opponent neurones in the human visual
system. Nature 235, 42-43
Rauschecker, J.P. and Singer, W. (1979). Changes in the circuitry of the kitten visual cortex are gated by
postsynaptic activity. Nature 280, 58-60
Rauschecker, J.P. and Singer, W. (1981). The effects of early visual experience on the cat's visual cortex and
their possible explanation by Hebb synapses. J. Physiol. 310, 215-239
Rauschecker, J.P. and Hahn, S. (1987) Ketamine-xylazine anaesthesia blocks consolidation of ocular
dominance changes in kitten visual cortex. Nature 326, 183-185
Rauschecker, J.P., von Grünau, M.W. and Poulin, C. (1987) Centrifugal organization of direction preferences
in the cat's lateral suprasylvian visual cortex and its relation to flow field processing. J. Neurosci. 7, 943958
Brenner, E. and Rauschecker, J.P. (1990) Centrifugal motion bias in the cat's lateral suprasylvian visual
cortex is independent of early flow field exposure. J. Physiol. 423, 641-660
Rauschecker, J.P., Tian, B., Korte, M., Egert, U. (1992) Crossmodal changes in the somatosensory
vibrissa/barrel system of visually deprived animals. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 5063-5067
Rauschecker, J.P., Korte, M. (1993) Auditory compensation for early blindness in cat cerebral cortex. J.
Neurosci. 13 (10), 4538-4548
Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle):
Rauschecker, Josef P.
Tian, B., Rauschecker, J.P. (1994) Processing of frequency-modulated sounds in the cat's anterior auditory
field. J. Neurophysiol. 71 (5), 1959-1975
Rauschecker, J.P., Sejnowski, T. (1994) Processing of visual and auditory space and its modification by
experience. NIPS 6, 1186-1187
Lappe, M., Rauschecker, J.P. (1994) On heading detection from optic flow. Nature 369, 712-713
Rauschecker, J.P. (1995) Compensatory plasticity and sensory substitution in the cerebral cortex. TINS 18
(1), 36-43
Rauschecker, J.P., Tian, B., Hauser, M. (1995) Processing of complex sounds in nonprimary auditory cortex
of the rhesus monkey. Science 268, 111-114
Neville, H.J., Bavelier, D., Corina, D., Rauschecker, J.P, Karni, A., Lalwani, A., Braun, A., Clark, V., Jezzard,
P., Turner, R. (1998) Cerebral organization for language in deaf and hearing subjects: Biological
constraints and effects of experience. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 922-929
Tian, B., Rauschecker, J.P. (1998) Processing of frequency-modulated sounds in the cat's posterior auditory
field. J. Neurophysiol. 79, 2629-2642
Rauschecker, J.P. (1998) Cortical control of thalamus: top down processing and plasticity. Nature Neurosci. 1,
179-180
Rauschecker, J.P. (1998) Cortical processing of complex sounds. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 8. 516-521
Rauschecker, J.P. (1999) Auditory cortical plasticity. Trends Neurosci. 22, 74-80
Rauschecker, J.P. (1999) Auditory physiology. M.I.T. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, pp. 52-56
Bushara, K.O., Weeks R.A., Ishii K., Catalan M.-J., Rauschecker J.P., Hallett M. (1999) Evidence for modalityspecific frontal and parietal areas for auditory and visual spatial localization in humans. Nature Neurosci. 2,
759-766
Rauschecker J.P. (1999) Making brain circuits listen. Science 285, 1686-1687
Romanski, L. M., Tian, B., Fritz, J., Mishkin, M., Goldman-Rakic, P.S., Rauschecker, J.P. (1999) Dual streams
of auditory afferents target multiple domains in the primate prefrontal cortex. Nature Neurosci. 2, 11311136
Weeks, R., Horwitz, B., Aziz-Sultan, A., Tian, B., Wessinger, C. M., Cohen, L., Hallett, M., Rauschecker, J.P.
(2000) A positron emission tomographic study of auditory localization in the congenitally blind. J. Neurosci.
20 (7):2664-2672
Rauschecker, J.P., Tian, B. (2000) Mechanisms and streams for processing of “what” and “where” in auditory
cortex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 11800-11806
Tian, B., Reser, D., Durham, A., Kustov, A. and Rauschecker, J.P. (2001) Functional specialization in rhesus
monkey auditory cortex. Science 292, 290-293
Warren, J.D., Zielinski, B.A., Green, G.G.R., Rauschecker, J.P., Griffiths, T.D. (2002) Analysis of sound
source motion by the human brain. Neuron 34, 1-20
Rauschecker, J.P. and Shannon, R.V. (2002) Sending sound to the brain. Science 295, 1025-1029
Rauschecker, J. P. (2002) Beethoven’s anvil. Book review. Science 296, 1032
Rauschecker, J. P. (2003) Tales of a Hobbesian Cynic. Book review of “The Blank Slate” by Steven Pinker. Nature
Medicine 9(7), 816
Rauschecker, J. P. and Tian, B. (2004) Processing of band-passed noise in the lateral auditory belt cortex of
the rhesus monkey. Journal of Neurophysiology 91(6), 2578-2589
Tian, B. and Rauschecker, J. P. (2004) Processing of frequency-modulated sounds in the lateral auditory belt
cortex of the rhesus monkey. Journal of Neurophysiology 92(5), 2993-3013
Drzezga, A., Grimmer, T., Peller, M., Wermke, M., Schwaiger, M., Rauschecker, J.P., Kurz, A. (2005)
Impaired suppression of irrelevant cerebral input in Alzheimer’s disease. PLoS Medicine 2(10), e288.
Micheyl, C., Tian, B. Carlyon, R.P., Rauschecker, J.P. (2005) Perceptual organization of tone sequences in
the auditory cortex of awake macaques. Neuron 48, 139-148
Rauschecker, J.P. (2005) Neural encoding and retrieval of sound sequences. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1060,125135
Obleser, J., Boecker, H., Drzezga, A., Haslinger, B., Hennenlotter, A., Roettinger, M., Eulitz, C., Rauschecker,
J.P. (2006) Vowel sound extraction in anterior superior temporal cortex. Human Brain Mapping 27(7), 562571
Mühlau, M., Rauschecker, J.P., Oestreicher, E., Gaser, C., Röttinger, M., Simon, F., Etgen, T., Conrad, B.,
Sander, D. (2006) Structural brain changes in tinnitus. Cerebral Cortex 16(9), 1283-1288
Obleser, J., Zimmermann, J., Van Meter, J., Rauschecker, J.P. (2006) Multiple stages of auditory speech
perception reflected in event-related fMRI. Cerebral Cortex epub. Dec. 5
Micheyl, C., Carlyon, R., Gutschalk, A., Melcher, J., Oxenham, A.J., Rauschecker, J.P., Tian, B., Wilson, E.C.
(2007) The role of the auditory cortex in the formation of auditory streams. Hearing Res. Jan 16; [Epub
ahead of print]
Kanwal, J.S., Rauschecker, J.P., 2007. Auditory cortex of bats and primates: managing species-specific calls
for social communication. Front Biosci 12, 4621-4640.
Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle):
Rauschecker, Josef P.
C. Research Support
Ongoing Research Support
BCS-0519127
(PI: Rauschecker, Josef)
NSF, Cognitive Neuroscience Initiative
Neural Bases of Speech Perception in Human Auditory Cortex
FMRI studies of auditory and language cortex in humans
Total costs: $795,485.00
07/01/05 – 06/30/09
NIH R01 NS052494
(PI: Rauschecker, Josef)
Visual and Auditory Processing Streams in Cerebral Cortex
Neurophysiological studies of rhesus monkey auditory cortex
Total costs: $1,539,230.00
08/01/06 – 07/31/11
German Research Foundation (DFG)
10/01/06 – 04/30/11
(Co-PIs: Konnerth, Technical University Munich and Rauschecker, Josef Georgetown University)
International Research Training Group “Brain Signaling: From Cells to Behavior”
Total costs: $2.300.000
Volkswagen Foundation I/80 722
01/01/06 -12/31/08
(PI: W. Ziegler, Munich, Germany)
Audio-visual processing of speech and non-speech oral gestures: Plasticity of cross-modal integration.
Total costs: $251,189.00
Role: Co-PI
Tinnitus Research Initiative
(PI: Rauschecker, Josef)
Magnetic Resonance imaging of tinnitus in humans and rats.
Total costs: €70,000.00
06/01/07-05/31/09
NSF, Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)
(PI: Rauschecker, Josef)
International Research Program in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
Total costs: $2,473,640
10/01/07-09/30/12
Pending Research Support
NIH, R01
(PI: Rauschecker, Josef)
Sensory Cortical Organization and Cross-Modal Plasticity in Blind Humans
Total costs: $1,746,000
10/01/07-09/30/12
Completed Research Support (last 5 years)
R01 DC03489
(PI: Rauschecker, Josef)
NIH/NIDCD
Functional Organization of Nonprimary Auditory Cortex in Primates
Mapping of lateral belt areas in anesthetized rhesus monkeys
Total direct costs: $1,000,000.00
98-70 EE-GLO.04
(PI: Rauschecker, Josef)
08/01/97 – 11/30/05
01/01/99 – 12/31/02
Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle):
Rauschecker, Josef P.
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Neurobehavioral and Neuroanatomical Studies of the Auditory System.
Total direct costs: $300,000.00
R03DC03845-01A2
(PI: Tian)
NIH/NIDCD
Optical Imaging of Functional Organization in Auditory Cortex
Optical imaging of cat auditory cortex
Role: Co-PI
NSF BCS-0350041
(PI: Rauschecker, Josef)
Neural Bases of Speech Perception in Human Auditory Cortex
FMRI studies of auditory and language cortex in humans
Total costs: $136,000.00
01/01/00 – 12/31/02
04/01/04 – 09/30/06
Tinnitus Research Consortium (TRC)
(PI: Rauschecker, Josef)
09/15/02 – 12/14/06
Functional Imaging of Tinnitus-Related Activity in the Cerebral Cortex of Rats and Humans
FMRI of auditory cortex in human tinnitus patients and rats with artificially induced tinnitus
Total direct costs: $300,000.00