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Overview at: ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mathias-Scharinger

Books and book chapters

  • Hoffmeister, T., Kauschke, C., & Scharinger, M. (to appear). Repräsentationen aus linguistischer und interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Themenband Germanistische Linguistik. Nomos. 
  • Scharinger, M. (to appear). The Mismatch Negativity (MMN) as an index of (cognitive) language representations. In T. Hoffmeister, C. Kauschke, & M. 
  • Scharinger (Eds.), Repräsentationen aus linguistischer und interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Themenband Germanistische Linguistik. Nomos. 
    Scharinger, M., & Menninghaus, W. (to appear). Poetry and its link to music. In D. Sammler (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Music. Oxford University Press.
  • Scharinger, M.: Melody. In M. Scharinger & R. Wiese (Eds.): How Language Speaks to Music. Prosody from a Cross-domain Perspective (pp. 43-70). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Scharinger, M., & Wiese, R.: How Language Speaks to Music. Prosody from a Cross-domain Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Blohm, S., Kraxenberger, M., Knoop, C. A., & Scharinger, M.: Sound shape and sound effects of literary texts. In D. Kuiken & A. M. Jacobs (Eds.), Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies (pp. 7-38). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Scharinger, M.: Sprache und Musik aus der Sicht der Neurokognition: Sprechen, Singen und Melodie als verbindendes Element. In C. Philipsen & U. Omonsky (Eds.), Das Melodram in Geschichte und Aufführungspraxis (Vol. 87, pp. 335-374). Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag.
  • Scharinger, M.: Melodie. In P. Niklas (Ed.), Literatur und Musik im Künstevergleich. Empirische und Hermeneutische Methoden (pp. 35-57). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Scharinger, M.: Neural bases of phonological representations: Empirical approaches and methods. In C. Ulbrich, A. Werth, & R. Wiese (Eds.), Empirical Approaches to the Phonological Structure of Words (pp. 241-273). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Scharinger, M.: Are there brain bases for phonological markedness? In B. Samuels (Ed.), Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology (pp. 191-217). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Scharinger, M.: Ungestörte Lautverarbeitung. In U. Domahs & B. Primus (Eds.), Handbuch Laut, Gebärde, Buchstabe (Vol. 2, pp. 163-181). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Czepiel, A., Fink, L. K., Scharinger, M., Seibert, C., Wald-Fuhrmann, M., & Kotz, S. A. (2024). Audio-visual concert performances synchronize audience’s heart rates. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, to appear. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas. 15279 
  • Lavan, N., Rinke, P., & Scharinger, M. (2024). The time course of person perception from voices in the brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(26), e2318361121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318361121 
  • Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Schindler, I., Knoop, C. A., Blohm, S., Frieler, K., & Scharinger, M. (2023). Parallelisms and deviations: two fundamentals of an aesthetics of poetic diction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1895), 20220424. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0424 
  • Rinke, P., Lavan, N., & Scharinger, M. (2023). Interactions of speech and speaker processing in early evoked components. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 3992-3996). Guarant International. 
  • Czepiel, A., Fink, L. K., Seibert, C., Scharinger, M., & Kotz, S. A. (2023). Aesthetic and physiological effects of naturalistic multimodal music listening. Cognition, 239, 105537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105537 
  • Scharinger, M., & Domahs, U. (2023). Trochaic foot benefit in speech comprehension. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 481-485). Guarant International
  • Wei, H., Scharinger, M., & Domahs, U. (2023). Production and perception of vocal emotions: A comparison of Mandarin Chinese and German emotional prosody. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 4086-4090). Guarant International.
  • Thissen, B. A. K., Schlotz, W., Abel, C., Scharinger, M., Frieler, K., Merrill, J., Haider, T., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). At the Heart of Optimal Reading Experiences: Cardiovascular Activity and Flow Experiences in Fiction Reading. Reading Research Quarterly, 57(3), 831-845. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.448
  • Wei, H., He, Y., Kauschke, C., Scharinger, M., & Domahs, U. (2022). An EEG-study on L2 categorization of emotional prosody in German. In S. Frota, M. Cruz, & M. Vigario (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody (pp. 629-633). Lisbon University Press. https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-128 
  • Hestvik, A., Shafer, V. L., Lahiri, A., & Scharinger, M.: Phonological representations and Mismatch Negativity asymmetries. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16:916074, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.916074
  • Rinke, P., Schmidt, T., Beier, K., Kaul, R., & Scharinger, M.: Rapid pre-attentive processing of a famous speaker: Electrophysiological effects of Angela Merkel's voice. Neuropsychologia, 173, 108312.
  • Scharinger, M., & Erfurth, L.: Cultural evolution is not independent of linguistic evolution and social aspects of language use. Commentary to Robert Jagiello, Cecilia Heyes, Harvey Whitehouse: Tradition and Invention: The Bifocal Stance Theory of Cultural Evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-2, doi:10.1017/S0140525X22001285.
  • Scharinger, M., Knoop, C. A., Wagner, V., & Menninghaus, W.: Neural processing of poems and songs is based on melodic properties. Neuroimage, 257.
  • Scharinger, M., & Schmidt, J. E.: Echtzeit-MRT in der Phonetik: Einblicke in Details der Artikulation. Sprachspuren: Berichte aus dem Deutschen Sprachatlas, 2, https://doi.org/10.57712/2022–04
  • Scharinger, M., Wagner, V., Knoop, C. A., & Menninghaus, W.: Melody in songs and poems: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Advance online publication, doi:10.1037/aca0000465.
  • Blohm, S., Schlesewsky, M., Menninghaus, W., & Scharinger, M.: Text type attribution modulates pre-stimulus alpha power in sentence reading. Brain and Language, 214, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104894.
  • Gau, R., et al., & Scharinger, M.: Brainhack: Developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience. Neuron, 109, 1769-1775.
  • Henrich, K., & Scharinger, M.: Predictive processing in poetic language: Event-related potentials data on rhythmic omissions in metered speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:782765, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.782765.
  • Riedinger, M., Nagels, A., Werth, A., & Scharinger, M.: Asymmetries in Accessing Vowel Representations Are Driven by Phonological and Acoustic Properties: Neural and behavioral evidence from natural German minimal pairs. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 612345.
  • Auracher, J., Menninghaus, W., & Scharinger, M.: Sound Predicts Meaning: Cross-Modal Associations Between Formant Frequency and Emotional Tone in Stanzas. Cognitive Science, 44, e12906.
  • Frank, M., Muhlack, B., Zebe, F., & Scharinger, M.: Contributions of pitch and spectral information to cortical vowel categorization. Journal of Phonetics, 79, 1-13.
  • Scharinger, M.: Abstractions, predictions, and speech sound representations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e146.
  • Wagner, V., Scharinger, M., Knoop, C. A., & Menninghaus, W.: Effects of continuous self-reporting on aesthetic evaluation and emotional responses. Poetics, 85, 101497.
  • Auracher, J., Scharinger, M., & Menninghaus, W.: Contiguity-based sound iconicity: The Meaning of words resonates with phonetic properties of their immediate verbal contexts. PLoS ONE, 14(5), e021693
  • Zimmerer, F., Scharinger, M., Cornell, S. A., Reetz, H., & Eulitz, C.: Neural mechanisms for coping with acoustically reduced speech. Brain and Language, 191, 46-57.
  • Schuster, S., Scharinger, M., Brooks, C., Lahiri, A., & Hartwigsen, G.: The neural correlates of morphological complexity processing: Detecting structure in pseudowords. Human Brain Mapping, https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23975, 1-12.
  • Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Knoop, C. A., & Scharinger, M.: Poetic speech melody: A crucial link between music and language. PLoS ONE, 13(11), e0205980. 
  • Kraxenberger, M., Menninghaus, W., Roth, A., & Scharinger, M.: Prosody-based sound-emotion associations in poetry. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1284; doi: 1210.3389/fpsyg.2018.01284.
  • Hartwigsen, G., Scharinger, M., & Sammler, D.: Modulating cortical dynamics in language, speech and music. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 12(58), doi: 10.3389/fnint.2018.00058.
  • Scharinger, M., Steinberg, J., & Tavano, A.: Integrating speech in time depends on temporal expectancies and attention. Cortex, 93, 28-40. 
  • Scharinger, M., Monahan, P. J., Idsardi, W. J.: Linguistic category structure influences early auditory processing: Converging evidence from mismatch responses and cortical oscillations, NeuroImage, 128: 293-301.
  • Scharinger, M., Bendixen, A., Herrmann, B., Henry, M. J., Mildner, T., & Obleser, J.: Predictions interact with missing sensory evidence in semantic processing areas, Human Brain Mapping, 37(2): 704-716
  • Scharinger, M., Domahs, U., Klein, E., & Domahs, F.: Mental representations of vowel features asymmetrically modulate activity in superior temporal sulcus. Brain and Language, 163, 42-49.
  • Tavano, A., Scharinger, M.:  Prediction in speech and language processing. Cortex, 68, 1-7.
  • Strauß, A., Henry, M., Scharinger, M., Obleser, J.: Alpha phase determines successful lexical decision in noise, The Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 3256-3262.
  • Lago, S., Scharinger, M., Kronrod, Y., Idsardi, W.J.: Categorical effects in fricative perception are reflected in cortical source information. Brain and Language 143, 52–58.
  • Scharinger, M., Henry, M., Obleser, J.: Acoustic cue selection and discrimination under degradation: Differential contributions of inferior parietal and posterior temporal cortex, NeuroImage, 106, 373–381
  • Herrmann, B., Henry, M., Scharinger, M., Obleser, J.: Supplementary motor area activations predict individual differences in sensitivity to temporal change and its illusory distortions, Neuroimage, 101, 370-379
  • Zimmerer, F., Scharinger, M., Reetz, H.: Morphological constraints on German /t/-deletions are relatively weak, Journal of Phonetics, 45, 64–75
  • Scharinger, M., Herrmann, B., Obleser, J.: Neural dynamics of auditory cue utilization in simultaneous EEG-fMRI, Frontiers NeuroScience, 10.3389/fnins.2014.00137
  • Strauß, A., Scharinger, M., Kotz, S., Obleser, J.: Alpha and theta brain oscillations index parallel processes in spoken word recognition, NeuroImage, 97, 387-395
  • Scharinger, M., Henry, M.J., Erb, J., Meyer, L., and Obleser, J.: Thalamic and parietal brain morphology predicts auditory category learning. Neuropsychologia 53, 75–83
  • Scharinger, M., and Idsardi, W.J.: Sparseness of vowel category structure: Evidence from English dialect comparison. Lingua 140, 35-51
  • Bendixen, A., Scharinger, M., Strauss, A., and Obleser, J.: Prediction in the service of speech comprehension: Modulated early brain responses to omitted speech segments. Cortex 53C, 9-26
  • Scharinger, M., Henry, M., Obleser, M.: Prior experience with negative spectral correlations promotes information-integration during auditory category learning, Memory & Cognition, 41(5), 752-768
  • Herrmann, B., Henry, M., Scharinger, M., Obleser, J.: Cochlear filter width affects response magnitude but not frequency specificity in auditory cortex, Hearing Research 304, 128-136
  • Scharinger, M., Bendixen, A., Obleser, J.: A sparse neural code for some speech sounds but not for others: PloS One, 7, e40953. doi:40910.41371/journal.pone.0040953.
  • Scharinger, M., Monahan, P., Idsardi, W.: Asymmetries in the Processing of Vowel Height, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55, 903–918
  • Scharinger, M., Poe, S., Idsardi, W.: A comprehensive three-dimensional cortical map of vowel space, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(12), 3972–3982
  • Scharinger, M., Poe, S., Idsardi, W.: Neuromagnetic reflections of harmony and constraint violations in Turkish, Journal of Laboratory Phonology 2(1), 99-124
  • Scharinger, M., Monahan, P., Idsardi, W.: You had me at "Hello". Rapid dialect extraction from spoken words, NeuroImage 56(4), 2329-2338
  • Scharinger, M., Felder, V.: ERP signatures of cross-modal semantic fragment priming: Early context effects in speech perception, International Journal of Psychophysiology 80(1), 19-27
  • Zimmerer, F., Scharinger, M., Reetz, H.: When "beating" becomes "house": Factors of /t/-deletion in German, Speech Communication 53(6), 941-954
  • Scharinger, M., Riley, J., Merrickel, J., Idsardi, W.: Neuromagnetic evidence for a featural distinction of English consonants: Sensor- and source-space data, Brain & Language 116(2), 71-82
  • Scharinger, M., Lahiri, A., Eulitz, C.: Mismatch Negativity Effects of alternating vowels in morphologically complex word forms, Journal of Neurolinguistics, 23(4), 383-399
  • Scharinger, M., Lahiri, A.: Front vowel differences in English dialects: Consequences for processing and representation, Language and Speech, 53(2), 1-28.
  • Scharinger, M., Lahiri, A., Reetz, H.: Levels of regularity in inflected word form processing, The Mental Lexicon, 4(1), 77-114
  • Scharinger, M.: Minimal representations of alternating vowels. LINGUA 119(10), 1414-1425
  • Scharinger, M., Lahiri, A., Reetz, H.: Morphological encoding via phonological features. From phonetics to grammar. In J. Trouvain & W. Barry: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, (1933-1936), Saarbrücken
  • Scharinger, M.: The Representation of Vocalic Features in Vowel Alternations. Phonological, Morphological and Computational Aspects (Doctoral Thesis). Konstanz
  • Scharinger, M.: Featural representations of the New Zealand English short front vowels. Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (2006), University of Auckland