Prof. Dr. Jörg Lewald

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Institute

Faculty of Psychology

Department of Cognitive Psychology

Room

GAFO 04/428

Post address

IB 6/61 - Postfach 51

D-44780 Bochum

Phone:

RUB: +49 234 32 25137

Fax:

+49 234 32 05137

E-Mail:

joerg.lewald@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Academic Background

  • Study of biology (focus on zoology and neurobiology), Ruhr University Bochum
  • 1985 Diploma degree in biology (Dipl.-Biol.), Department of General Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Ruhr University Bochum; diploma thesis on insect acoustic communication (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johann Schwartzkopff)
  • 1989 Doctoral degree in biology (Dr. rer. nat.), Department of General Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Ruhr University Bochum; doctoral dissertation on neural mechanisms of sound localization in birds (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johann Schwartzkopff)
  • 2004 Habilitation, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum; habilitation thesis on multisensory interaction in human space perception
  • 2015 Adjunct Professor (apl. Prof.) of the Ruhr University Bochum
  • Since 1996 head of the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Faculty of Psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum

Main Interests

  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Multisensory mechanisms of space perception
  • Spatial hearing
  • Sound localization
  • Auditory-visual integration
  • Space perception in the blind
  • Methods: psychophysics, TMS, fMRI, tDCS, EEG, Anechoic Room

Research

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Teaching

Ad Hoc Reviewer

  • Peer-Reviewed Journals: Acta Oto-Laryngologica; Attention, Perception & Psychophysics; Behavioural Brain Research; Brain; Brain Research; Brain Structure and Function; Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology; Cognition; Complexity; Cortex; Current Biology; Developmental Psychology; Experimental Brain Research; Frontiers in Neuroscience; Hearing Research; International Journal of  Psychophysiology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Neuroscience; Laterality; NeuroImage; Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience Letters; Perspectives on Psychological Science; PLoS ONE; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; Psychology of Sport & Exercise; Psychophysiology
  • Research Organisations: German Research Foundation (DFG); German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); University Grants Committee Hong Kong; Wellcome Trust

Selected Publications

2021

  • Hanenberg C, Schlüter M-C, Getzmann S, Lewald J (2021) Short-term audiovisual spatial training enhances electrophysiological correlates of auditory selective spatial attention. Front Neurosci 15, 645702. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.645702

2020

  • Klatt LI, Schneider D, Schubert AL, Hanenberg C, Lewald J, Wascher E, Getzmann S (2020) Unraveling the relation between EEG-correlates of attentional orienting and sound localization performance: a diffusion model approach. J Cogn Neurosci 32, 945-962. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01525

2019

  • Feierabend M, Karnath H-O, Lewald J (2019) Auditory space perception in the blind: horizontal sound localization in acoustically simple and complex situations. Perception 48, 1039-1057. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006619872062
  • Hanenberg C, Getzmann S, Lewald J (2019) Transcranial direct current stimulation of posterior temporal cortex modulates electrophysiological correlates of auditory selective spatial attention in posterior parietal cortex. Neuropsychologia 131, 160-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.05.023
  • Hausmann M, Brysbaert M, van der Haegen L, Lewald J, Specht K, Hirnstein M, Willemin J, Barton J, Buchilly D, Chmetz F, Roch M, Brederoo S, Dael N, Mohr C (2019) Language lateralisation measured across linguistic and national boundaries. Cortex 111, 134-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.10.020
  • Lewald J (2019) Bihemispheric anodal transcranial direct-current stimulation over temporal cortex enhances auditory selective spatial attention. Exp Brain Res 237, 1539-1549. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-019-05525-y

2018

  • Lewald J, Schlüter M-C, Getzmann S (2018) Cortical processing of location changes in a “cocktail-party” situation: Spatial oddball effects on electrophysiological correlates of auditory selective attention. Hear Res 365, 49-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2018.04.009

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  • Getzmann S, Lewald J (2014) Modulation of auditory motion processing by visual motion: Early crossmodal interactions in human auditory cortices. J Psychophysiol 28, 82-100. https://doi.org/10.1027/0269-8803/a000113
  • Getzmann S, Lewald J, Falkenstein M (2014) Using auditory pre-information to solve the cocktail-party problem: electrophysiological evidence for age-specific differences. Front Neurosci 8, 413. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00413
  • Zündorf IC, Karnath H-O, Lewald J (2014) The effect of brain lesions on sound localization in complex acoustic environments. Brain 137, 1410-1418. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awu044

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  • Lewald J, Petrasch-Parwez EW, Veh RW (1994) GABA-like and glutamate-like immunoreactivity in the pretecto-olivary pathway in the rat. J Hirnforsch 35, 279-294. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7914903
  • Schmidt M, Lewald J, van der Togt C, Hoffmann K-P (1994) The contribution of GABA-mediated inhibition to response properties of neurons in the nucleus of the optic tract in the rat. Eur J Neurosci 6, 1656-1661. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.1994.tb00557.x
  • Römer H, Lewald J (1992) High-frequency sound transmission in natural habitats: implications for the evolution of insect acoustic communication. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 29, 437-444. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00170174
  • Lewald J (1990b) Neural mechanisms of directional hearing in the pigeon. Exp Brain Res 82, 423-436. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00231262
  • Lewald J (1990a) The directionality of the ear of the pigeon (Columba livia). J Comp Physiol A 167, 533-543. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00190824
  • Lewald J (1989) Verhaltensphysiologische und neurophysiologische Untersuchungen zum Richtungshören der Taube (Columba livia). Dissertation, Fakultät für Biologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Herne: Verl. für Wiss. u. Kunst. ISBN 9783924670139
  • Lewald J (1988) Neuronal coding of azimuthal sound direction in the auditory midbrain of the pigeon. Science of Nature 75, 470-472. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00364033
  • Lewald J (1987b) Interaural time and intensity difference thresholds of the pigeon (Columba livia). Science of Nature 74, 449-451. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00446106
  • Lewald J (1987a) The acuity of sound localization in the pigeon (Columba livia). Science of Nature 74, 296-297. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00366421

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