Hugo Weissbart

Research

Postdoctoral Researcher. ERC Advanced Fellow 2025-2028.

Keywords: M/EEG analysis, Speech processing, Cortical tracking, Phase-amplitude coupling, Auditory Attention, Composition, Predictive processing, Multivariate Temporal Response Function (mTRF) modeling.

Research group: Neurobiology of language

h.weissbart@bcbl.eu

+34 943 309 300

Publications

2024

Weissbart, H., & Martin, A.E. (2024). The structure and statistics of language jointly shape cross-frequency neural dynamics during spoken language comprehension. Nature Communications, 15(1). Doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53128-1

Zioga, I., Zhou, Y.J., Weissbart, H., Martin, A.E., & Haegens, S. (2024). Alpha and Beta Oscillations Differentially Support Word Production in a Rule-Switching Task. Eneuro, 11(4). Doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0312-23.2024

2023

Slaats, S., Weissbart, H., Schoffelen, J.M., Meyer, A.S., & Martin, A.E. (2023). Delta-Band Neural Responses to Individual Words Are Modulated by Sentence Processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(26), 4867-4883. Doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0964-22.2023

Tezcan, F., Weissbart, H., & Martin, A.E. (2023). A tradeoff between acoustic and linguistic feature encoding in spoken language comprehension. Elife, 12. Doi:10.7554/eLife.82386

Zioga, I., Weissbart, H., Lewis, A.G., Haegens, S., & Martin, A.E. (2023). Naturalistic Spoken Language Comprehension Is Supported by Alpha and Beta Oscillations. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(20), 3718-3732. Doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1500-22.2023

Coopmans, C.W., Mai, A., Slaats, S., Weissbart, H., & Martin, A.E. (2023). What oscillations can do for syntax depends on your theory of structure building. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 24(11), 723. Doi:10.1038/s41583-023-00734-5

2022

Kegler, M., Weissbart, H., & Reichenbach, T. (2022). The neural response at the fundamental frequency of speech is modulated by word-level acoustic and linguistic information. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16. Doi:10.3389/fnins.2022.915744

Wairagkar, M., Lima, M.R., Bazo, D., Craig, R., Weissbart, H., Etoundi, A.C., Reichenbach, T., Iyengar, P., Vaswani, S., James, C., Barnaghi, P., Melhuish, C., & Vaidyanathan, R. (2022). Emotive Response to a Hybrid-Face Robot and Translation to Consumer Social Robots. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 9(5), 3174-3188. Doi:10.1109/JIOT.2021.3097592

2020

Kadir, S., Kaza, C., Weissbart, H., & Reichenbach, T. (2020). Modulation of Speech-in-Noise Comprehension through Transcranial Current Stimulation with the Phase-Shifted Speech Envelope. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 28(1), 23-31. Doi:10.1109/TNSRE.2019.2939671

2019

Weissbart, H., Kandylaki, K.D., & Reichenbach, T. (2019). Cortical tracking of surprisal during continuous speech comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(1), 155-166. Doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01467