Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedemann Pulvermüller
Friedemann Pulvermüller studied Biology and Linguistics, took PhD degrees in Linguistics and Psychology at the Universities of Tübingen and Konstanz and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki.
After some time as a Heisenberg Professor at the University of Konstanz, he moved to Cambridge, UK, to take on the position of Program Leader in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.
Since 2011, he is Professor of Neuroscience of Language and Pragmatics and Head of the Brain Language Laboratory of the Freie Universität Berlin; he also contributes to the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, where he serves as Faculty Member.
Friedemann Pulvermüller’s main interest is in the neurobiological mechanisms enabling humans to use and understand language. His research addresses the material brain basis of symbols and constructions by performing neurobiologically founded network simulations and by conducting neuroimaging and neuropsychological experiments, with a focus on »active«, action-related mechanisms crucial for symbol understanding.
He authored over 300 scientific publications. In the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, he is involved in the projects Cutting and Symbolic Material.
Freie Universität Berlin
Brain Language Laboratory
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14195 Berlin
Room JK 31/232
Monographs & Books
Pulvermüller, F. 2002. The Neuroscience of Language: On Brain Circuits of Words and Serial Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Articles
Wang, Z., Dreyer, F., Pulvermüller, F., Ntemou, E., Vajkoczy, P., Fekonja, L., Picht, T. 2021. »Support vector machine based aphasia classification of transcranial magnetic stimulation language mapping in brain tumor patients.« NeuroImage: Clinical, 29, 102536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102536
Grisoni, L., Tomasello, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2020. »Correlated Brain Indexes of Semantic Prediction and Prediction Error: Brain Localization and Category Specificity.« Cerebral Cortex, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa308
Grechuta, K., Rubio Ballester, B., Espín Munne, R., Usabiaga Bernal, T., Molina Hervás, B., Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., San Segundo, R., Verschure, P. 2019. »Augmented Dyadic Therapy Boosts Recovery of Language Function in Patients With Nonfluent Aphasia.« A Randomized Controlled Trial. Stroke, 50, (5): 1270-1274. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.023729
Grisoni, L., Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. »Prediction mechanisms in motor and auditory areas and their role in sound perception and language understanding.« NeuroImage, 199, 206-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.05.071
Grisoni, L., Moseley, R. L., Motlagh, S., Kandia, D., Sener, N., Pulvermüller, F., Roepke, S., Mohr, B. 2019. »Prediction and mismatch negativity responses reflect impairments in action semantic processing in adults with autism spectrum disorders.« Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, (395): https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00395
Margiotoudi, K., Allritz, M., Bohn, M., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. »Sound symbolic congruency detection in humans but not in great apes.« Scientific Reports, 9, (1): 12705. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49101-4
Schmidt, T. T., Miller, T. M., Blankenburg, F., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. »Neuronal correlates of label facilitated tactile perception.« Scientific Reports, 9, (1): 1606. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37877-w
Tomasello, R., Kim, C., Dreyer, F. R., Grisoni, L., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. »Neurophysiological evidence for rapid processing of verbal and gestural information in understanding communicative actions.« Scientific Reports, 9, (1): 16285. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52158-w
Tomasello, R., Wennekers, T., Garagnani, M., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. »Visual cortex recruitment during language processing in blind individuals is explained by Hebbian learning.« Scientific Reports, 9, (1): 3579. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39864-1
Shebani, Z., Carota, F., Hauk, O., Rowe, J. B., Barsalou, L. B., Tomasello, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2018. »Brain correlates of action word memory.« bioRxiv, 412676. https://doi.org/10.1101/412676
Tomasello, R., Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T., Pulvermüller, F. 2018. »A Neurobiologically Constrained Cortex Model of Semantic Grounding With Spiking Neurons and Brain-Like Connectivity.« Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 12, 88. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2018.00088
Garagnani, M., Lucchese, G., Tomasello, R., Wennekers, T., Pulvermüller, F. 2017. »A Spiking Neurocomputational Model of High-Frequency Oscillatory Brain Responses to Words and Pseudowords.« Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2016.00145
Tomasello, R., Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T., Pulvermüller, F. 2017. »Brain connections of words, perceptions and actions: A neurobiological model of spatio-temporal semantic activation in the human cortex.« Neuropsychologia, 98, 111-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.07.004
Dreyer, F., Frey, D., Arana, S., Saldern, S., Picht, T., Vajkoczy, P., Pulvermüller, F. 2015. »Is the motor system necessary for processing action and abstract emotion words? Evidence from focal brain lesions.« Frontiers in Psychology, 6, (Nov): https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01661