Tobias Overath

PhD

New York University

Department of Psychology

6 Washington Place, rm 275-276

New York NY 10003

Telephone: +1 (212) 988-8072 (ext. 88072)

 

E-mail: t.overath_at_nyu.edu

 

 


Research Interests

 

Auditory neuroscience

Auditory perception and cognition

Information theoretic properties of sounds

Pitch pattern processing

Functional imaging of music

fMRI, MEG

 


Academic Career (extended CV)

 

Postdoc with Prof. David Poeppel, Department of Psychology, New York University, 2008 -

 

PhD, Representation of Statistical Sound Properties in Human Auditory Cortex

Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, 2004-2008

Supervisors: Prof. Tim D. Griffiths, Prof. Cathy J. Price

 

MSc in Neuroscience, University of Oxford, 2003-2004

 

Psychology (Vordiplom), Humboldt University Berlin, 2001-2003

 

MA in Musicology, Humboldt University Berlin, 1997-2003

 


Publications

 

Poeppel D, Overath T, Popper AN, Fay RR (eds) (forthcoming) The Human Auditory Cortex. In Popper AN & Fay RR (series editors), Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Springer, Berlin.

 

Griffiths TD, Kumar S, von Kriegstein K, Overath T, Stephan KE, Friston KJ (2009) Auditory object analysis. In MS Gazzaniga (ed.) The Cognitive Neurosciences, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

 

Overath T, Kumar S, von Kriegstein K, Griffiths TD (2008) Encoding of spectral correlation over time in auditory cortex. J Neurosci, 28(49): 13268-13273.

(supplementary information, example stimuli)

 

Stewart S, Overath T (joint first authors), Warren JD, Foxton JM, Griffiths TD (2008) fMRI evidence for a cortical hierarchy of pitch pattern processing. PLoS ONE, 3(1): e1470.

(supplementary figures)

 

Overath T, Cusack R, Kumar S, Warren JD, von Kriegstein K, Grube M, Carlyon RP, Griffiths TD (2007) An information theoretic characterisation of auditory encoding. PLoS Biology, 5(11): e288.

(supplementary information, example stimuli)

 


Miscellanea

 

The homepage of my wife Lillian Pierce

 

 

 

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