THEMATIC AREA B

Publications Research Area B
Project B1
2. Funding period
Schubert JTW, Badde S, Röder B, Heed T (2017) Task demands affect spatial reference frame weighting during tactile localization in sighted and congenitally blind adults. PLOS ONE 12(12): e0189067

Finger H, Bönstrup M, Cheng B, Messé A, Hilgetag C, Thomalla G, Gerloff C, König P (2016) Modeling of large-scale functional brain networks based on structural connectivity from DTI: comparison with EEG derived phase coupling networks and evaluation of alternative methods along the modeling path. PLoS Comput Biol 12: e1005025

Juravle G, Heed T, Spence C, Röder B (2016) Neural correlates of tactile perception during pre-, peri-, and post-movement. Experimental Brain Research 234: 1293-1305

Heed T, Backhaus J, Röder B, Badde S (2016) Disentangling the external reference frames relevant to tactile localization. PLOS ONE 11: e0158829
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Schubert JTW, Buchholz VN, Föcker J, Engel AK, Röder B, Heed T (2019) Alpha-band oscillations reflect external spatial coding for tactile stimuli in sighted, but not in congenitally blind humans. Sci Rep 9: 9215

Heed T, Buchholz VN, Engel AK, Röder B (2015) Tactile remapping: from coordinate transformation to integration in sensorimotor processing. Trends Cogn Sci 19:251-258

Heed T, Möller J, Röder B (2015) Movement induces the use of external spatial coordinates for tactile localization in congenitally blind humans. Multisens Res 28: 173-194

Ossandón JP, König P, Heed T (2015) Irrelevant tactile stimulation biases visual exploration in external coordinates. Sci Rep 5: 10664

Schubert JT, Buchholz VN, Föcker J, Engel AK, Röder B, Heed T (2015) Oscillatory activity reflects differential use of spatial reference frames by sighted and blind individuals in tactile attention. NeuroImage 117: 417-428

Badde S, Röder B, Heed T (2014) Flexibly weighted integration of tactile reference frames. Neuropsychologia pii: S0028-3932(14)00361-3

Badde S, Röder B, Heed T (2014) Multiple spatial representations determine touch localization on the fingers. J Exp Psychol 40: 784-801

Ehinger BV, Fischer P, Gert AL, Kaufhold L, Weber F, Pipa G, König P (2014) Kinesthetic and vestibular information modulate alpha activity during spatial navigation: a mobile EEG study. Front Hum Neurosci 8: 71

Heed T, Röder B (2014) Motor coordination uses external spatial coordinates independent of developmental vision. Cognition 132: 1-15

Ossandón JP, Onat S, König P (2014) Spatial biases in viewing behavior. J Vis 14: 1-26

Ossandón JP, Onat S, Cazzoli D, Nyffeler T, Müri R, König P (2012) Unmasking the contribution of low-level features to the guidance of attention. Neuropsychologia 50: 3478-3487
Project B2
2. Funding period
Rimmele JM, Gudi-Mindermann H, Nolte G, Röder B, Engel AK (2019) Working memory training integrates visual cortex into beta-band networks in congenitally blind individuals. Neuroimage: pii: S1053-8119(19)30170-3

Gudi-Mindermann H, Rimmele JM, Nolte G, Bruns P, Engel AK, Röder B (2018) Working memory training in congenitally blind individuals results in an integration of occipital cortex of in functional networks. Behavioral Brain Research 348: 31-41
1. Funding period
Schubert JTW, Buchholz VN, Föcker J, Engel AK, Röder B, Heed T (2019) Alpha-band oscillations reflect external spatial coding for tactile stimuli in sighted, but not in congenitally blind humans. Sci Rep 9: 9215

Ley P, Steinberg U, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Röder B (2015) Event-related potential evidence for a dynamic (re-)weighting of somatotopic and external coordinates of touch during visual-tactile interactions. Eur J Neurosci 41: 1466-1474

Föcker J, Best A, Hölig C, Röder B (2015) Neural plasticity of voice processing: Evidence from event-related potentials in late-onset blind and sighted individuals. Restor Neurol Neurosci 33: 15-30

Heed T, Buchholz VN, Engel AK, Röder B (2015) Tactile remapping: from coordinate transformation to integration in sensorimotor processing. Trends Cogn Sci 19:251-258

Schubert JT, Buchholz VN, Föcker J, Engel AK, Röder B, Heed T (2015) Oscillatory activity reflects differential use of spatial reference frames by sighted and blind individuals in tactile attention. NeuroImage 117: 417-428

Sieben K*, Bieler M*, Röder B, Hanganu-Opatz I (2015) Neonatal restriction of tactile inputs leads to long-lasting impairments of cross-modal processing. PLOS Biology 13: e1002304 (* shared authorship)

Hölig C, Föcker J, Best A, Röder B, Büchel C (2014) Crossmodal plasticity in the fusiform gyrus of late blind individuals during voice recognition. NeuroImage 103C: 374-382

Hölig C, Föcker J, Best A, Röder B, Büchel C. (2014) Brain systems mediating voice identity processing in blind humans. Human Brain Mapping 35: 4607-4619

Hawellek DJ, Schepers IM, Roeder B, Engel AK, Siegel M, Hipp JF (2013) Altered intrinsic neuronal interactions in the visual cortex of the blind. J Neurosci 33: 17072-17080

Renzi C, Bruns P, Heise KF, Zimerman M, Feldheim JF, Hummel FC, Röder B (2013) Spatial remapping in the audio-tactile ventriloquism effect: a TMS investigation on the role of the ventral intraparietal area. J Cogn Neurosci. 25: 790-801

Sieben K, Röder B, Hanganu-Opatz I (2013) Oscillatory entrainment of primary somatosensory cortex encodes visual control of tactile processing. Journal of Neuroscience 33: 5736-5749

Föcker J, Best A, Hölig C, Röder B (2012) The superiority in voice processing of the blind arises from neural plasticity at sensory processing stages. Neuropsychologia 50: 2056-2057
Project B3
1. Funding period
Marguet SL, Le-Schulte VT, Merseburg A, Neu A, Eichler R, Jakovcevski I, Ivanov A, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Bernard C, Morellini F, Isbrandt D (2015) Treatment during a vulnerable developmental period rescues a genetic epilepsy. Nat Med 21: 1436-1444

Fellini L, Morellini F (2013) Mice create what-where-when hippocampus-dependent memories of unique experiences. J Neurosci 33: 1038-1043

Morellini F (2013) Spatial memory tasks in rodents: What do they model? Cell Tissue Res 354: 273-286
Project B4
1. Funding period
Gao X*, Castro-Gomez S*, Grendel J*, Graf S, Süsens U, Binkle L, Mensching D, Isbrandt D, Kuhl D, Ohana O (2018) Arc/Arg3.1 mediates a critical period for spatial learning and hippocampal networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115: 12531-12536 (*shared authorship)

Ohana O, Portner H Martin KAC (2012) Fast recruitment of recurrent inhibition in the cat visual cortex. Plos One 7: e40601
Project B5
3. Funding period
Schepanski S, Chini M, Sternemann V, Urbschat C, Thiele K, Sun T, Zhao Y, Poburski M, Woestemeier A, Thieme MT, Zazara DE, Alawi M, Fischer N, Heeren J, Vladimirov N, Woehler A, Puelles VG, Bonn S, Gagliani N, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Arck PC (2022) Pregnancy-induced maternal microchimerism shapes neurodevelopment and behavior in mice. Nat Commun 13: 4571

Song L*, Xu X*, Putthoff P, Fleck D, Spehr M, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2022) Sparser and less efficient hippocampal-prefrontal projections account for developmental network dysfunction in a model of psychiatric risk mediated by gene-environment interaction. J Neurosci 42: 601-618 (*These authors contributed equally to this work)

Xu X, Song L, Kringel R, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2021) Developmental decrease of entorhinal-hippocampal communication in immune-challenged DISC1 knockdown mice. Nat Commun 12: 6810 doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27114-w

Chini M, Pöpplau JA, Lindemann C, Carol-Perdiguer L, Hnida M, Oberländer V, Xu X, Ahlbeck J, Bitzenhofer SH, Mulert C,
Hanganu-Opatz IL (2020) Resolving and Rescuing Developmental Miswiring in a Mouse Model of Cognitive Impairment Neuron 105, 60–74
2. Funding period
Chini M, Gretenkord S, Kostka JK, Pöpplau JA, Cornelissen L, Berde CB, Hanganu-Opatz IL*, Bitzenhofer SH* (2019) Neural Correlates of Anesthesia in Newborn Mice and Humans. Front Neural Circuits 13:38.

Oberlaender VC, Xu X, Chini M, Hanganu-opatz IL (2019) Developmental dysfunction of prefrontal-hippocampal networks in mouse models of mental illness. Eur J Neurosci 50(6): 3072-3084.

Schob V, Morellini F, Ohana O, Bakota L, Hrynchak MV, Brandt R, Brockmann MD, Cichon N, Hartung H, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Kraus V, Scharf S, Herrmans-Borgmeyer I, Schweizer M, Kuhl D, Wöhr M, Vörckel KJ, Calzada-Wack J, Fuchs H, Gailus-Durner V, HrabÄ› de Angelis M, Garner CC, Kreienkamp HJ, Kindler S (2019) Cognitive impairment and autistic-like behaviour in SAPAP4-deficient mice. Translational Psychiatry 9: 7

Xu X, Chini M, Bitzenhofer SH, Marquardt A, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2019) Transient knock-down of prefrontal DISC1 in immune-challenged mice causes abnormal long-range coupling and cognitive dysfunction throughout development. J Neurosci 39(7):1222–1235

Gretenkord S, Kostka JK, Hartung H, Watznauer K, Fleck D, Minier-Toribio A, Spehr M, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2019) Coordinated electrical activity in the olfactory bulb gates the oscillatory entrainment of entorhinal networks in neonatal mice. PLoS Biol 17(1): e2006994

Ahlbeck J, Song L, Chini M, Bitzenhofer SH, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2018) Glutamatergic drive along the septo-temporal axis of hippocampus boosts prelimbic oscillations in the neonatal mouse. eLlife 7: e33158

Bieler M, Sieben K, Cichon N, Schildt S, Röder B, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2017) Rate and temporal coding convey multisensory information in primary sensory cortices. eNeuro 4: ENEURO.0037-17.2017

Reincke SA, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2017) Early-life stress impairs recognition memory and perturbs the functional maturation of prefrontal-hippocampal-perirhinal networks. Sci Rep 7: 42042

Bieler M, Sieben K, Schildt S, Röder B, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2017) Visual-tactile processing in primary somatosensory cortex emerges before cross-modal experience. Synapse doi: 10.1002/syn.21958. Epub 2017 Feb 21

Thiebes S, Leicht G, Curic S, Steinmann S, Polomac N, Andreou C, Eichler I, Eichler L, Zöllner C, Gallinat J, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Mulert C. (2017) Glutamatergic deficit and schizophrenia-like negative symptoms: new evidence from ketamine-induced mismatch negativity alterations in healthy male humans. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 42: 273-283

Bitzenhofer S*, Ahlbeck J*, Wolff A, Wiegert JS, Gee CE, Oertner TG, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2017) Layer-specific optogenetic activation of pyramidal neurons causes beta–gamma entrainment of neonatal networks. Nat Commun 8: 14563, doi:  10.1038/ncomms14563 (* shared authorship)

Bitzenhofer SH, Ahlbeck J, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2017) Methodological approach for optogenetic manipulation of neonatal neuronal networks. Front Cell Neurosci 11: 239

Hanganu-Opatz IL, Reincke S (2017) Early-life stress impairs recognition memory and perturbs the functional maturation of prefrontalhippocampal-perirhinal networks. Scientific Reports 7, 42042

Hartung H, Cichon N, De Feo V, Riemann S, Schildt S, Lindemann C, Mulert C, Gogos JA, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2016) From shortage to surge: a developmental switch in hippocampal-prefrontal coupling in a gene-environment model of neuropsychiatric disorders. Cereb Cortex 26: 4265-4281

Hartung H, Brockmann M, Poeschel B, De Feo V, Hanganu-Opatz I (2016) Thalamic and entorhinal network activity differently modulates the functional development of prefrontal-hippocampal interactions. J Neurosci 36: 3676-3690

Domnick, N.K., Gretenkord, S., De Feo, V., Sedlacik, J., Brockmann, M.D., Hanganu-Opatz, I.L. (2015) Neonatal hypoxia-ischemia impairs juvenile recognition memory by disrupting the maturation of prefrontal-hippocampal networks. Exp Neurol 273: 202-214
1. Funding period
Hanganu-Opatz IL, Rowland BA, Bieler M, Sieben K (2015) Unraveling cross-modal development in animals: neural substrate, functional coding and behavioral readout. Multisens Res 28: 33-69

Ley P, Steinberg U, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Röder B (2015) Event-related potential evidence for a dynamic (re-)weighting of somatotopic and external coordinates of touch during visual-tactile interactions. Eur J Neurosci 41: 1466-1474

Andreou C, Leicht G, Nolte G, Polomac N, Moritz S, Karow A, Hanganu-Opatz I, Engel AK, Mulert C (2015) Resting theta-band connectivity and verbal memory in schizophrenia and in the high-risk state. Schizophrenia Res 161: 299-307

Bitzenhofer S, Sieben K, Siebert K, Spehr M, Hanganu-Opatz I (2015) Oscillatory activity in developing prefrontal networks results from theta gamma modulated synaptic inputs. Cell Reports 11: 486-497

Sieben K*, Bieler M*, Röder B, Hanganu-Opatz I (2015) Neonatal restriction of tactile inputs leads to long-lasting impairments of cross-modal processing. PLOS Biology 13: e1002304 (* shared authorship)

Andreou C, Faber PL, Leicht G, Schoettle D, Polomac N, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Lehmann D, Mulert C (2014) Resting-state connectivity in the prodromal phase of schizophrenia: Insights from EEG microstates. Schizophr Res 152: 513-520

Andreou C, Nolte G, Leicht G, Polomac N, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Lambert M, Engel AK, Mulert C (2014) Increased resting-state gamma-band connectivity in first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull 41: 930-939

Bitzenhofer SH, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2014) Oscillatory coupling within neonatal prefrontal-hippocampal networks is independent of selective removal of GABAergic neurons in the hippocampus. Neuropharmacology 77: 57-67

Cichon NB, Denker M, Grün S, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2014) Unsupervised classification of neocortical activity patterns in neonatal and pre-juvenile rodents. Front Neural Circuits 8: 50

Krüger H-S, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2013) Neonatal cholinergic lesion alters the sonic structure of infant vocalization but not the early cognitive development. Dev Psychobiol. 55: 294-308

Sieben K, Röder B, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2013) Oscillatory entrainment of primary somatosensory cortex encodes visual control of tactile processing. J Neurosci. 33: 5736-5749

Krüger H-S, Brockmann MD, Salamon J, Ittrich H, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2012) Neonatal hippocampal lesion alters the functional maturation of the prefrontal cortex and the early cognitive development in pre-juvenile rats. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 97: 470-481
Project B6
2. Funding period
Friese U*, Daume J*, Göschl F, König P, Peng Wang P, Engel AK (2016) Oscillatory brain activity during multisensory attention reflects activation, disinhibition, and cognitive control. Scientific Reports | 6:32775 | DOI: 10.1038/srep32775 (* shared authorship)

Göschl F, Friese U, Daume J, König P, Engel AK (2015) Oscillatory signatures of crossmodal congruence effects: An EEG investigation employing a visuotactile pattern matching paradigm. Neuroimage 116: 177-186

Hollensteiner KJ, Pieper F, Engler G, König P, Engel AK (2015) Crossmodal integration improves sensory detection thresholds in the ferret. Plos One 10: e0124952

Messé A, Hütt MT, König P, Hilgetag CC (2015) A closer look at the apparent correlation of structural and functional connectivity in excitable networks. Sci Rep 5: 7870

Ossandón JP, König P, Heed T (2015) Irrelevant tactile stimulation biases visual exploration in external coordinates. Sci Rep 5: 10664
Finger H, König P (2014) Phase synchrony facilitates binding and segmentation of natural images in a coupled neural oscillator network. Front Comput Neurosci 7: 195

Engel AK, Maye A, Kurthen M, König P (2013) Where‘s the action? The pragmatic turn in cognitive science. Trends Cogn Sci 17: 8-15
1. Funding period
Friese U*, Daume J*, Göschl F, König P, Peng Wang P, Engel AK (2016) Oscillatory brain activity during multisensory attention reflects activation, disinhibition, and cognitive control. Scientific Reports | 6:32775 | DOI: 10.1038/srep32775 (* shared authorship)

Göschl F, Friese U, Daume J, König P, Engel AK (2015) Oscillatory signatures of crossmodal congruence effects: An EEG investigation employing a visuotactile pattern matching paradigm. Neuroimage 116: 177-186

Hollensteiner KJ, Pieper F, Engler G, König P, Engel AK (2015) Crossmodal integration improves sensory detection thresholds in the ferret. Plos One 10: e0124952

Messé A, Hütt MT, König P, Hilgetag CC (2015) A closer look at the apparent correlation of structural and functional connectivity in excitable networks. Sci Rep 5: 7870

Ossandón JP, König P, Heed T (2015) Irrelevant tactile stimulation biases visual exploration in external coordinates. Sci Rep 5: 10664
Finger H, König P (2014) Phase synchrony facilitates binding and segmentation of natural images in a coupled neural oscillator network. Front Comput Neurosci 7: 195

Engel AK, Maye A, Kurthen M, König P (2013) Where‘s the action? The pragmatic turn in cognitive science. Trends Cogn Sci 17: 8-15
Project B7
3. Funding period
Perez-Alvarez A, Huhn F, Dürst CD, Franzelin A, Lamothe-Molina PJ and Oertner TG (2021) Freeze-frame imaging of dendritic calcium signals with TubuTag. Front Mol Neurosci 14:635820. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2021.635820

Perez-Alvarez A*, Fearey BC*, O’Toole RJ, Yang W, Arganda-Carreras I, Lamothe-Molina PJ, Moeyaert B, Mohr MA,
Panzera LC,  Schulze C, Schreiter ER, Wiegert JS, Gee CE, Hoppa MB, Oertner TG (2020) Freeze-frame imaging of synaptic activity using SynTagMA. Nat Commun 11: 2464
2. Funding period
Helassa N*, Dürst CD*, Coates C, Kerruth S, Arif U, Schulze C, Wiegert JS, Geeves M, Oertner TG, Török K (2018) Ultrafast glutamate sensors resolve high-frequency release at Schaffer collateral synapses. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115: 5594-5599 (* shared authorship)

Moeyaert B, Holt G, Madangopal R, Perez-Alvarez A, Fearey BC, Trojanowski NF, Ledderose J, Zolnik TA, Das A, Patel D, Brown TA, Sachdev RNS, Eickholt BJ, Larkum ME, Turrigiano GG, Dana H, Gee CE, Oertner TG, Hope BT, Schreiter ER (2018) Improved methods for marking active neuron populations. Nat Commun 9: 4440

Richter M*, Murtaza N*, Scharrenberg R, White SH, Johanns O, Walker S, Yuen RKC, Schwanke B, Bedürftig B, Henis M, Scharf S, Kraus V, Dörk R, Hellmann J, Lindenmaier Z, Ellegood J, Hartung H, Kwan V, Sedlacik J, Fiehler J, Schweizer M, Lerch JP, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Morellini F, Scherer SW*, Singh KK*, Calderon de Anda F* (2018) Altered TAOK2 activity causes autism-related neurodevelopmental and cognitive abnormalities through RhoA signaling. Mol Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1038/s41380-018-0025-5 (* shared authorship)

Wiegert JS, Pulin M, Gee CE, Oertner TG (2018) The fate of hippocampal synapses depends on the sequence of plasticity-inducing events. eLife 7: e39151

Bitzenhofer S*, Ahlbeck J*, Wolff A, Wiegert JS, Gee CE, Oertner TG, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2017) Layer-specific optogenetic activation of pyramidal neurons causes beta–gamma entrainment of neonatal networks. Nat Commun 8: 14563, doi:  10.1038/ncomms14563 (* shared authorship)
Project B8
3. Funding period
Yang W, Chini M, Pöpplau JA, Formozov A, Dieter A, Piechocinski P, Rais C, Morellini F, Sporns O, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Simon Wiegert JS (2021) Anesthetics fragment hippocampal network activity, alter spine dynamics and affect memory consolidation. PLOS Biology 19: e3001146
Project B10
3. Funding period
Heinbockel H, Quaedflieg CWEM, Schneider TR, Engel AK, Schwabe L (2021) Stress enhances emotional memory-related theta oscillations in the medial temporal lobe. Neurobiology of Stress 15: 100383
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