Our neuroscience laboratory has published and achieved many successful papers and accomplishments which all made a significant impact on future research. Displayed below are recent research outputs and achievements of our current and past members, with names in bold, including preprints, peer-reviewed papers, and conference abstracts that dates all the way back to 2018. For PhD theses of students of our group, please see here. 

Preprints:

• Bruno Castellaro, Ka Wing Yip, Fei Peng, Muhammad Zeeshan, Shiyi Fang, Israel Nelken, Jan W.H. Schnupp. (under review) Evaluating Cochlear Implant Stimulation Strategies Through Wide-field Calcium Imaging of the Auditory Cortex. (preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.05.577161v1)
• Luo Dan, Ji Liu, Ryszard Auksztulewicz, Tony Yip, Patrick Kanold, Jan W. H. Schnupp. (under review) Hierarchical Deviant Processing in Auditory Cortex of Awake Mice. (preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.18.524413v1)
• Jan W Schnupp,  Sarah Buchholz,  Alexa N Buck, Henrike K Budig, Lakshay Khurana,  Nicole Rosskothen-Kuhl (2023) Is Inappropriate Pulse Timing Responsible for Poor Binaural Hearing with Cochlear Implants? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.04.551983v1

Peer-reviewed papers:

2024

• Sarah Buchholz,  Jan W Schnupp, Susan Arndt, Nicole Rosskothen-Kuhl (2025) Interaural level difference sensitivity in neonatally deafened rats fitted with bilateral cochlear implants. Scientific Reports, 14, 30515
• Rajendran, V. G.; Tsdaka, Y.; Keung, T. Y.; Schnupp, J. W. and Nelken, I. (2024). Rats synchronize predictively to metronomes, iScience 27 : 111053.
• Fei Peng, Nicol S. Harper, Ambika Prasad Mishra, Ryszard Auksztulewicz, Jan W.H. Schnupp. (2024) Dissociable roles of the auditory midbrain and cortex in processing the statistical features of natural sound textures. J Neurosci  e1115232023; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1115-23.2023
• D Eckhoff, J Schnupp, A Cassinelli (2024) Temporal precision and accuracy of audio-visual stimuli in mixed reality systems. Plos one 19 (1), e0295817

2023

• Drew Cappotto, Dan Luo, Lai Hiu Wai, Fei Peng, Lucia Melloni, Jan Schnupp, Ryszard Auksztulewicz (2023) "What" and "When" Predictions Modulate Auditory Processing in a Mutually Congruent Manner. Frontiers in Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1180066
• K Ma, JWH Schnupp (2023) The unity hypothesis revisited: can the male/female incongruent McGurk effect be disrupted by familiarization and priming? Frontiers in Psychology doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1106562 
• HJ Kang, R Auksztulewicz, CH Chan, D Cappotto, VG Rajendran, JWH Schnupp (2023) Cross-modal Implicit Learning of Random Time Patterns, Hearing Research, 108857 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2023.108857 (click here for shared data)
• R Auksztulewicz, V Rajendran, F Peng, J Schnupp, Nicol Harper (2023) Omission responses in local field potentials in rat auditory cortex. BMC Biol.  doi: 10.1186/s12915-023-01592-4.
• Alexa N Buck, Sarah Buchholz, Jan W Schnupp, Nicole Rosskothen-Kuhl. (2023) Interaural time difference sensitivity under binaural cochlear implant stimulation even at high pulse rates up to 900 pps. Scientific Reports 13:3785 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30569-0 )
• Fei Peng, Jennifer Bizley, Ryszard Auksztulewicz, Jan W. H. Schnupp. (2023) Dissociable neural correlates of multisensory coherence and selective attention. J Neurosci  https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1310-22.2023

2022

• X. Wang, Y. Mo, F. Kong, W Guo, H. Zhou, N. Zheng, JWH. Schnupp, Y. Zheng, Q. Meng (2022) Cochlear-implant Mandarin tone recognition with a disyllabic word corpus, Front. Psychol. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1026116
• Daniel Eckhoff, Christian Sandor, Gladys Cheing, Jan Schnupp, Alvaro Cassinelli. (2022) Thermal Pain and Detection Threshold Modulation in Augmented Reality. Front. Virtual Real. (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.952637/abstract)
• Drew Cappotto, HiJee Kang, Kongyan Li, Lucia Melloni, Jan Schnupp*, Ryszard Auksztulewicz*. (2022) Simultaneous Mnemonic and Predictive Representations in the Auditory Cortex, Current Biology (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.022)      
  (* co-corresponding authors)
• Kongyan Li, Ryszard Auksztulewicz, Chloe H. K. Chan, Ambika Prasad Mishra, Jan W. H. Schnupp. (2022) The precedence effect in spatial hearing manifests in cortical population responses. BMC Biology (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01228-z)

2021

• Oiwi Parker Jones & Jan W H Schnupp (2021), How Does the Brain Represent Speech?  The Handbook of Speech Perception, 2nd Ed, Jennifer S. Pardo, Lynne C. Nygaard, Robert E. Remez, David B. Pisoni Eds, Wiley, NY, doi:10.1002/9781119184096.ch3
• Kongyan Li *, Vani G. Rajendran *, Ambika Prasad Mishra, Chloe H.K. Chan, Jan W. H. Schnupp (2021) Interaural Time Difference Tuning in the Rat Inferior Colliculus is Predictive of Behavioral Sensitivity,   Hear Res. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2021.108331  (preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.21.432131v2) (* equal contributions)
• Luo, D., Li, K., An, H., Schnupp, JWH. *, Auksztulewicz, R. * (2021). Learning boosts the decoding of sound sequences in rat auditory cortex. Current Research in Neurobiology.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crneur.2021.100019. (* equal contributions)
• Buck, AN, Rosskothen-Kuhl, N, Schnupp, JWH (2021). Sensitivity to Interaural Time Differences in the Inferior Colliculus of Cochlear Implanted Rats With or Without Hearing Experience. Hear Res.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2021.108305
• Mishra, A. P.*,  Peng F.*, Li K., Harper, N. S., & Schnupp, J. W. (2021). Sensitivity of neural responses in the inferior colliculus to statistical features of sound textures. Hear Res.  412:108357.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2021.108357 (* equal contributions)
• Mishra, A. P., Harper, N. S., & Schnupp, J. W. (2021). Exploring the distribution of statistical feature parameters for natural sound textures. PLoS One.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238960
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• Vincent A. Billock, Micah J. Kinney, Jan W.H. Schnupp and M. Alex Meredith. (2021) A simple vector-like law for perceptual information combination is also followed by a class of cortical multisensory bimodal neurons. iScience  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102527
• An H, Shing Ho K, Auksztulewicz R*, Schnupp JWH*. Do Auditory Mismatch Responses Differ Between Acoustic Features? Front. Hum. Neurosci. Published 2021. Feb 1. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.613903 (* equal contributions)
• Kang, H., Auksztulewicz, R., An, H., Abi Chacra, N., Sutter, M. L., & Schnupp, J. W. H. (2021) Neural correlates of auditory pattern learning in the auditory cortex. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 261. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.610978 bioRxiv preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.24.311464.
  
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• D Cappotto, R Auksztulewicz, HJ Kang, D Poeppel, L Melloni, J Schnupp. (2021) Decoding the Content of Auditory Sensory Memory Across Species. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab002
• Rosskothen-Kuhl, N., Buck, A. N., Li, K., & Schnupp, J. W.  (2021) Microsecond Interaural Time Difference Discrimination Restored by Cochlear Implants After Neonatal Deafness, ELife, 498105; doi: DOI: 10.7554/eLife.59300
  
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• Najafabadi MS, Longtu C, Dutta K, Norris A, Feng B, Schnupp JW, Rosskothen-Kuhl N, Read H, Escabi M. (2021) Optimal Multichannel Artifact Prediction and Removal for Neural Stimulation and Brain Machine Interface. Front. Neurosci.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00709

2020

• An H, Auksztulewicz R, Kang H, Schnupp JWH. (2020) Cortical mapping of mismatch responses to independent acoustic features [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jan 18]. Hear Res. 2020;107894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2020.107894
• Barron HC, Auksztulewicz R, Friston K. Prediction and memory: A predictive coding account. Prog Neurobiol. 2020;192:101821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101821
• Cooke JE, Kahn MC, Mann EO, King AJ, Schnupp JWH, Willmore BDB. Contrast gain control occurs independently of both parvalbumin-positive interneuron activity and shunting inhibition in auditory cortex. J Neurophysiol. 2020;123(4):1536-1551. doi:10.1152/jn.00587.2019
• Rajendran VG, Harper NS, Schnupp JWH. Auditory cortical representation of music favours the perceived beat. R Soc Open Sci. 2020;7(3):191194. Published 2020 Mar 25. doi:10.1098/rsos.191194
• Retsa C, Matusz PJ, Schnupp JWH, Murray MM. Selective attention to sound features mediates cross-modal activation of visual cortices. Neuropsychologia. 2020;144:107498. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107498
• Zhai YY, Auksztulewicz R, Song PR, et al. Synaptic Adaptation Contributes to Stimulus-Specific Adaptation in the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 18]. Neurosci Bull. 2020;10.1007/s12264-020-00536-0. doi:10.1007/s12264-020-00536-0

2019

• Auksztulewicz R, Myers NE, Schnupp JW, Nobre AC. Rhythmic Temporal Expectation Boosts Neural Activity by Increasing Neural Gain. J Neurosci. 2019;39(49):9806-9817. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0925-19.2019
• Kumpik DP, Campbell C, Schnupp JWH, King AJ. Re-weighting of Sound Localization Cues by Audiovisual Training. Front Neurosci. 2019;13:1164. Published 2019 Nov 15. doi:10.3389/fnins.2019.01164
• Li K, Chan CH, Rajendran VG, Meng Q, Rosskothen-Kuhl N, Schnupp JW. Microsecond sensitivity to envelope interaural time differences in rats. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2019 May 2;145(5):EL341-7. doi.org/10.1121/1.5099164
• Meng Q, Wang X, Cai Y, Buck AN, Schnupp JW, et al. Time-compression thresholds for Mandarin sentences in normal-hearing and cochlear implant listeners. Hear Res. 2019;374:58-68. doi:10.1016/j.heares.2019.01.011
• Rajendran VG, Schnupp JWH. Frequency tagging cannot measure neural tracking of beat or meter. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019;116(8):2779-2780. doi:10.1073/pnas.1820020116
• Todorovic A, Auksztulewicz R. Dissociable neural effects of temporal expectations due to passage of time and contextual probability [published online ahead of print, 2019 Dec 19]. Hear Res. 2019;107871. doi:10.1016/j.heares.2019.107871

2018

• Auksztulewicz R, Schwiedrzik CM, Thesen T, et al. Not All Predictions Are Equal: "What" and "When" Predictions Modulate Activity in Auditory Cortex through Different Mechanisms. J Neurosci. 2018;38(40):8680-8693. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0369-18.2018
• Cooke JE, King AJ, Willmore BDB, Schnupp JWH. Contrast gain control in mouse auditory cortex. J Neurophysiol. 2018;120(4):1872-1884. doi:10.1152/jn.00847.2017
• Singer Y, Teramoto Y, Willmore BD, Schnupp JW, King AJ, Harper NS. Sensory cortex is optimized for prediction of future input. Elife. 2018;7:e31557. Published 2018 Jun 18. doi:10.7554/eLife.31557
• Rosskothen-Kuhl N, Birkenhäger R, Hildebrandt H, Illing RB. Astrocyte hypertrophy and microglia activation in the auditory midbrain of deaf rats induced by electrical intracochlear stimulation. Front Cell Neurosci. 12: 43. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00043
• Retsa C, Matusz PJ, Schnupp JWH, Murray MM. What's what in auditory cortices? Neuroimage. 1;176:29-40. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.028. 
• Higgins I, Stringer S, Schnupp J. A Computational Account of the Role of Cochlear Nucleus and Inferior Colliculus in Stabilizing Auditory Nerve Firing for Auditory Category Learning. Neural Comput. Jul;30(7):1801-1829. doi: 10.1162/neco_a_01085
• Doubell TP, Alsetrawi A, Bastawrous DAS, Bastawrous MAS, Daibes A, Jadalla A, Schnupp JWH. The effect of interaural timing on the posterior auricular muscle reflex in normal adult volunteers. PLoS One. 2018 Apr 4;13(4):e0194965. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194965
• Rajendran VG, Teki S, Schnupp JWH. Temporal Processing in Audition: Insights from Music. Neuroscience. 2018 Oct 1;389:4-18. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.10.041

2017

• Higgins I, Stringer S, Schnupp J. Unsupervised learning of temporal features for word categorization in a spiking neural network model of the auditory brain. PLoS One. 2017 Aug 10;12(8):e0180174. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0180174

Selected Conference Posters

• Buck, A. N., Rosskothen-Kuhl, N., Khurana, L., Mayer, S., Li, K., & Schnupp, J. W. Onset Weighting of Temporal Spatial Cues with Cochlear Implant Stimulation in Early Onset Deafness, ARO, San Jose, USA (poster).
• Rosskothen-Kuhl N, Buck AN , S Mayer, L Khurana, Li K, Knopf A, Schnupp JW.  Onset Weighting of Temporal Spatial Cues with bilateral Cochlear Implant Stimulation, 9st Annual Meeting of the German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Germany.
• Rosskothen-Kuhl N, Buck AN, Mayer S, Khurana L, Schnupp JW. Spatial Hearing with Two CIs: Pulse Rate and Envelope Shape Affect Interaural Time Difference Sensitivity of Hearing Inexperienced CI Users, ARO, San Jose, USA.
• Kang, H., Auksztulewicz, R., An, H., Sutter, M., & Schnupp, J. Neural activity in the auditory cortex during memory formation of auditory patterns. Society for Neuroscience 2019, Chicago, USA (poster).
• Auksztulewicz, R., Harper, N.S., Rajendran, V., Schnupp, J.W.H. Prediction error signalling in the auditory cortex: omission responses in anaesthetised rats. Society for Neuroscience 2019, Chicago, USA (poster).
• Li, K., Chan, C.H., Mishra, A.P., Stecker, G.C., Schnupp, J.W.H. Temporal weighting functions for binaural cues in rats. Society for Neuroscience 2019, Chicago, USA (poster).
• Cappotto, D., Xuan, W., Meng, Q., Zhang, C., & Schnupp, J. Dominant Melody Enhancement in Cochlear Implants. 2018 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Honolulu, HI, USA (poster).
• Li, K., Chan, C.H., Rosskothen-Kuhl, N., Schnupp, J.W.H. Sensitivity to Interaural Time Differences in Rats. Neuroplasticity of Sensory Systems, Gordon Research Conference 2018, Hong Kong, China (poster).