Short CV
Josef P. Rauschecker studied at TUM and LMU Munich (Electrical Engineering and Medicine) and at the Universities of Sussex and Cambridge, England (Artificial Intelligence and Physiology). He received his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) from TUM in 1980 for work performed at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Psychiatry in Munich and habilitated in 1985 at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. After working as a staff scientist at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics from 1981-1989, he joined the National Institute of Mental Health (USA) as a senior investigator in the Laboratories of Neuropsychology and Neurophysiology in 1989. Since 1995, he has been a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Neurology, and Neuroscience at Georgetown University, where he has also served on the university’s Executive Council from 2006-2009 and on its Steering Committee from 2009-2012. Josef Rauschecker is the director of the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition (LINC) as well as of Georgetown University and Howard University’s international education and research program in Cognitive and Computational Systems (PICCS), which includes partnerships with nine institutions in four countries.
Josef P. Rauschecker has 35 years of experience in systems and cognitive neuroscience, >25 years of experience in animal electrophysiology, and >15 years of experience with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). At Georgetown University Medical Center, he helped create the first human fMRI research facility and participated in the implementation of the first 7-Tesla small-animal MRI. He has numerous pertinent publications in peer-reviewed journals and has been the mentor of >30 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Josef P. Rauschecker’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health (USA) and the National Science Foundation (USA). He has also held visiting appointments at several institutions, including Harvard Medical School, Rockefeller University, The Salk Institute, and Helsinki University of Technology.
Selected Awards
Honours and Awards
- 2013, Hans Fischer Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, TUM
- 2008-2013, Finland Distinguished Professor, Academy of Finland
- 2008, Friedrich-Merz-Foundation Professor, Frankfurt, Germany
- 2002, Humboldt Research Award, Federal Republic of Germany
- 1987, Attempto Prize, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany
- 1986, International C. & F. Demuth Young Investigator Award in Neuroscience, Swiss Medical Research Foundation
- 1986, Fellow in Residence, The Neurosciences Institute of the Neuroscience Research Program, Rockefeller University, New York
- 1976-1978, Pre-doctoral Fellowships, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and Max Planck Society
- 1973, Member, Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1971-1978, Scholarship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- 1970-1971, Scholarship, Cusanuswerk
- 1970, Valedictorian, Humanistisches Ignaz-Günther-Gymnasium Rosenheim, Nomination for Stiftung Maximilianeum
Keynote Lectures
- 2014, XIth International Tinnitus Seminar, Berlin, Germany
- 2013, BRAHE Lecture, Aalto and Helsinki Universities, Helsinki, Finland
- 2013, International Multisensory Forum, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- 2012, Guest of Honor, 19th Annual Conference on Management of Tinnitus, University of Iowa
- 2011, International Multisensory Forum, Fukuoka, Japan
Research Interests
- Central Nervous System
- Brain
- Cerebral Cortex
- Sensory Systems
- Plasticity
- Cognitive Control
- Language and Music
- Tinnitus
- Frontal Cortex
- Limbic System
Selected Publications
- Ahveninen, Jyrki; Huang, Samantha; Nummenmaa, Aapo; Belliveau, John W.; Hung, An-Yi; Jääskeläinen, Iiro P.; Rauschecker, Josef P.; Rossi, Stephanie; Tiitinen, Hannu; Raij, Tommi: Evidence for distinct human auditory cortex regions for sound location versus identity processing. Nature Communications 4, 2013.
- Tian, B.; Kusmierek, P.; Rauschecker, J. P.: Analogues of simple and complex cells in rhesus monkey auditory cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (19), 2013, 7892-7897.
- DeWitt, I.; Rauschecker, J. P.: Phoneme and word recognition in the auditory ventral stream. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (8), 2012, E505-E514.
- Leaver, Amber M.; Renier, Laurent; Chevillet, Mark A.; Morgan, Susan; Kim, Hung J.; Rauschecker, Josef P.: Dysregulation of Limbic and Auditory Networks in Tinnitus. Neuron 69 (1), 2011, 33-43.
- Renier, Laurent A.; Anurova, Irina; De Volder, Anne G.; Carlson, Synnöve; VanMeter, John; Rauschecker, Josef P.: Preserved Functional Specialization for Spatial Processing in the Middle Occipital Gyrus of the Early Blind. Neuron 68 (1), 2010, 138-148.
- Leaver, A. M.; Rauschecker, J. P.: Cortical Representation of Natural Complex Sounds: Effects of Acoustic Features and Auditory Object Category. Journal of Neuroscience 30 (22), 2010, 7604-7612.
- Rauschecker, Josef P.; Leaver, Amber M.; Mühlau, Mark: Tuning Out the Noise: Limbic-Auditory Interactions in Tinnitus. Neuron 66 (6), 2010, 819-826.
- Rauschecker, Josef P; Scott, Sophie K: Maps and streams in the auditory cortex: nonhuman primates illuminate human speech processing. Nature Neuroscience 12 (6), 2009, 718-724.
- Leaver, A. M.; Van Lare, J.; Zielinski, B.; Halpern, A. R.; Rauschecker, J. P.: Brain Activation during Anticipation of Sound Sequences. Journal of Neuroscience 29 (8), 2009, 2477-2485.
- Micheyl, Christophe; Tian, Biao; Carlyon, Robert P.; Rauschecker, Josef P.: Perceptual Organization of Tone Sequences in the Auditory Cortex of Awake Macaques. Neuron 48 (1), 2005, 139-148.
- Warren, Jason D.; Zielinski, Brandon A.; Green, Gary G.R.; Rauschecker, Josef P.; Griffiths, Timothy D.: Perception of Sound-Source Motion by the Human Brain. Neuron 34 (1), 2002, 139-148.
- Rauschecker, J. P.: Sending Sound to the Brain. Science 295 (5557), 2002, 1025-1029.
- Tian, B.: Functional Specialization in Rhesus Monkey Auditory Cortex. Science 292 (5515), 2001, 290-293.
- Rauschecker, J. P.; Tian, B.: Mechanisms and streams for processing of "what" and "where" in auditory cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97 (22), 2000, 11800-11806.
- Weeks, R.; Horwitz, B.; Aziz-Sultan A.; Tian, B.; Wessinger, C.M.; Cohen, L.; Hallett, M.; Rauschecker, J.P.: A positron emission tomographic study of auditory localization in the congenitally blind. The Journal of Neuroscience 20, 2000, 2664-2672.
- Romanski, L. M.; Tian, B.; Fritz, J.; Mishkin, M.; Goldman-Rakic, P. S.; Rauschecker, J. P.: Dual streams of auditory afferents target multiple domains in the primate prefrontal cortex. Nat. Neurosci. 2 (12), 1999, 1131-1136.
- Rauschecker, Josef P.: Auditory cortical plasticity: a comparison with other sensory systems. Trends in Neurosciences 22 (2), 1999, 74-80.
- Rauschecker, J.; Tian, B; Hauser, M: Processing of complex sounds in the macaque nonprimary auditory cortex. Science 268 (5207), 1995, 111-114.
- Rauschecker, Josef P.: Compensatory plasticity and sensory substitution in the cerebral cortex. Trends in Neurosciences 18 (1), 1995, 36-43.
- Lappe, Markus; Rauschecker, Josef P.: Heading detection from optic flow. Nature 369 (6483), 1994, 712-713.
- Rauschecker, J.P.; Korte, M.: Auditory compensation for early blindness in cat cerebral cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience 13, 1993, 4538-4548.
- Rauschecker, J.P.; Tian, B.; Korte, M.; Egert, U.: Crossmodal changes in the somatosensory vibrissa/barrel system of visually deprived animals. PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 89, 1992, 5063-5067.
- Rauschecker, Josef P.; Hahn, Sabine: Ketamine—xylazine anaesthesia blocks consolidation of ocular dominance changes in kitten visual cortex. Nature 326 (6109), 1987, 183-185.
- RAUSCHECKER, J. P.; SINGER, W.: Changes in the circuitry of the kitten visual cortex are gated by postsynaptic activity. Nature 280 (5717), 1979, 58-60.
- RAUSCHECKER, JOSEF P. J.; CAMPBELL, FERGUS W.; ATKINSON, JANETTE: Colour Opponent Neurones in the Human Visual System. Nature 245 (5419), 1973, 42-43.
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Publications as TUM-IAS-Fellow