Basil Preisig
PD Dr. Basil Preisig
Senior Researcher
Evolutionary Neuroscience of Language
Ambizione Project Leader
Research Interests
- Attention
- Speech perception
- Hand gestures
- Hearing impairment
- Language disorders (aphasia)
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
Academic Career
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Since 03/2022 |
Project leader, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich |
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02/2019-02/2022 |
Postdoctoral scientist, Neurolinguistics, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich |
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02/2017-01/2019 |
Postdoctoral fellow, Donders Institute for Cognitive Neuroimaging and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
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08/2012-05/2016 |
PhD in Neuroscience, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland |
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09/2007-07/2012 |
MSc in Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland |
Publications
Teaching
Links
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Publications
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Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 172, 106111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106111
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Das Potenzial der frequenzspezifischen Neuromodulation für die Untersuchung und Verbesserung der Sprachverarbeitung im Gehirn Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, 35, a000386. https://doi.org/10.1024/1016-264X/a000386
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Gesture in the eye of the beholder: An eye-tracking study on factors determining the attention for gestures produced by people with aphasia Neuropsychologia, 174, 108315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108315
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The Predictive Value of Individual Electric Field Modeling for Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Induced Brain Modulation Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 16, 818703. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2022.818703
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Selective modulation of interhemispheric connectivity by transcranial alternating current stimulation influences binaural integration Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, e2015488118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2015488118
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Bilateral Gamma/Delta Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Affects Interhemispheric Speech Sound Integration Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 1242–1250. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01498
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Hemispheric specializations affect interhemispheric speech sound integration during duplex perception Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145, EL190. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5092829
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Dual-site high-density 4Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation applied over auditory and motor cortical speech areas does not influence auditory-motor mapping Brain Stimulation, 12, 775–777. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2019.01.007
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Multimodal Communication in Aphasia: Perception and Production of Co-speech Gestures During Face-to-Face Conversation Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 200. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00200
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The influence of naturalistic, directionally non-specific motion on the spatial deployment of visual attention in right-hemispheric stroke Neuropsychologia, 92, 181–189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.04.017
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The modulation of reading strategies by language opacity in early bilinguals: an eye movement study Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19, 567–577. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728915000310
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Comprehension of Co-Speech Gestures in Aphasic Patients: An Eye Movement Study PLoS ONE, 11, e0146583. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146583
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Different visual exploration of tool-related gestures in left hemisphere brain damaged patients is associated with poor gestural imitation Neuropsychologia, 71, 158–164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.04.001
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Perception of co-speech gestures in aphasic patients: a visual exploration study during the observation of dyadic conversations Cortex, 64, 157–168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.10.013
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Cue Recognition and Integration - Eye Tracking Evidence of Processing Differences in Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia PLoS ONE, 10, e0142853. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142853