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Dr Olaf Hauk

University Position
Senior Investigator Scientist

Interests

Methods: I evaluate and develop EEG/MEG source estimation procedures for connectivity and pattern analysis as well as multi-modal imaging, and apply novel approaches to EEG/MEG analysis to study cognitive variables and tasks. My recent focus has been on developing multidimensional connectivity methods for EEG/MEG analysis, and the co-registration of eye-tracking and EEG to study natural reading behaviour. Reading and semantics: How are the complex computations underlying reading behaviour implemented so efficiently and flexibly in our brains? I address this question using EEG, MEG and fMRI to study effects of psycholinguistic variables/tasks on the human brain response, in combination with behavioural measures (such as eye movements) and in the context of computational models of reading. In particular, I attempt to characterise the spatiotemporal dynamics of brain activity in networks underlying semantic cognition.

Key Publications

Transforming the neuroscience of language: estimating pattern-to-pattern transformations of brain activity

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2226268
Journal: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
E-pub date: 1 Jan 2023
Authors: O Hauk, RL Jackson, S Rahimi

An eye on semantics: a study on the influence of concreteness and predictability on early fixation durations

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2274558
Journal: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
E-pub date: 1 Jan 2023
Authors: F Magnabosco, O Hauk

Distinct roles for the anterior temporal lobe and angular gyrus in the spatiotemporal cortical semantic network.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab501
Journal: Cereb Cortex
E-pub date: 8 Oct 2022
Authors: S-R Farahibozorg, RN Henson, AM Woollams, O Hauk

Task modulation of spatiotemporal dynamics in semantic brain networks: An EEG/MEG study.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118768
Journal: Neuroimage
E-pub date: 1 Feb 2022
Authors: S Rahimi, S-R Farahibozorg, R Jackson, O Hauk

Multi-dimensional connectivity: a conceptual and mathematical review.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117179
Journal: Neuroimage
E-pub date: 1 Nov 2020
Authors: A Basti, H Nili, O Hauk, L Marzetti, RN Henson

Publications

Can we separate semantic representations from computations? A commentary on Calzavarini (2023)

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2226269
Journal: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
E-pub date: 1 Jan 2023
Authors: O Hauk, F Magnabosco, R Law

Brain correlates of action word memory revealed by fMRI.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19416-w
Journal: Sci Rep
E-pub date: 26 Sep 2022
Authors: Z Shebani, F Carota, O Hauk, JB Rowe, LW Barsalou, R Tomasello, F Pulvermüller

Face-selective responses in combined EEG/MEG recordings with fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS).

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118460
Journal: Neuroimage
E-pub date: 15 Nov 2021
Authors: O Hauk, GE Rice, A Volfart, F Magnabosco, MAL Ralph, B Rossion

Increased Recruitment of Domain-General Neural Networks in Language Processing Following Intensive Language-Action Therapy: fMRI Evidence From People With Chronic Aphasia.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00150
Journal: Am J Speech Lang Pathol
E-pub date: 11 Feb 2021
Authors: FR Dreyer, L Doppelbauer, V Büscher, V Arndt, B Stahl, G Lucchese, O Hauk, B Mohr, F Pulvermüller

Human Cognitive Neuroscience as It Is Taught.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.587922
Journal: Front Psychol
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2020
Authors: O Hauk

The neuroscience of natural language processing

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1761989
Journal: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
E-pub date: 21 May 2020
Authors: O Hauk, B Weiss

The Neural Time Course of Semantic Ambiguity Resolution in Speech Comprehension.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01493
Journal: J Cogn Neurosci
E-pub date: 1 Mar 2020
Authors: LJ MacGregor, JM Rodd, RA Gilbert, O Hauk, E Sohoglu, MH Davis

EEG/MEG source estimation and spatial filtering: The linear toolkit

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00087-5_85
Journal:
E-pub date: 17 Oct 2019
Authors: O Hauk, M Stenroos, M Treder

Adaptive Cortical Parcellations for Source Reconstructed EEG/MEG Connectomes

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/097774
Journal:
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2017
Authors: S-R Farahibozorg, R Henson, O Hauk

Brain oscillations in language comprehension

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1297842
Journal: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
E-pub date: 28 May 2017
Authors: O Hauk, AL Giraud, A Clarke

Commentary on Strijkers and Costa: the cortical dynamics of speaking

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2015.1109130
Journal: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
E-pub date: 20 Apr 2016
Authors: O Hauk

Preface to special issue “prediction in language comprehension and production”

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2015.1102300
Journal: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
E-pub date: 2 Jan 2016
Authors: O Hauk

Early Visual Word Processing Is Flexible: Evidence from Spatiotemporal Brain Dynamics.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00815
Journal: J Cogn Neurosci
E-pub date: 1 Sep 2015
Authors: Y Chen, MH Davis, F Pulvermüller, O Hauk

Concurrent brain responses to separate auditory and visual targets.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1152/jn.01050.2014
Journal: J Neurophysiol
E-pub date: 31 Aug 2015
Authors: P Finoia, DJ Mitchell, O Hauk, C Beste, V Pizzella, J Duncan

Task modulation of brain responses in visual word recognition as studied using EEG/MEG and fMRI.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00376
Journal: Front Hum Neurosci
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2013
Authors: Y Chen, MH Davis, F Pulvermüller, O Hauk

Brain and behavioral correlates of action semantic deficits in autism.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00725
Journal: Front Hum Neurosci
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2013
Authors: RL Moseley, B Mohr, MV Lombardo, S Baron-Cohen, O Hauk, F Pulvermüller

The Body of Evidence: What Can Neuroscience Tell Us about Embodied Semantics?

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00050
Journal: Front Psychol
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2013
Authors: O Hauk, N Tschentscher

The time-course of single-word reading: evidence from fast behavioral and brain responses.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.061
Journal: Neuroimage
E-pub date: 2 Apr 2012
Authors: O Hauk, C Coutout, A Holden, Y Chen

You can count on the motor cortex: finger counting habits modulate motor cortex activation evoked by numbers.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.037
Journal: Neuroimage
E-pub date: 15 Feb 2012
Authors: N Tschentscher, O Hauk, MH Fischer, F Pulvermüller

The lateralization of motor cortex activation to action-words.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00149
Journal: Front Hum Neurosci
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2011
Authors: O Hauk, F Pulvermüller

The word processing deficit in semantic dementia: all categories are equal, but some categories are more equal than others.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21339
Journal: J Cogn Neurosci
E-pub date: 1 Sep 2010
Authors: F Pulvermüller, E Cooper-Pye, C Dine, O Hauk, PJ Nestor, K Patterson

Grasping ideas with the motor system: semantic somatotopy in idiom comprehension.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhn217
Journal: Cereb Cortex
E-pub date: 31 Aug 2009
Authors: V Boulenger, O Hauk, F Pulvermüller

The role of sensory-motor systems for language understanding. Foreword.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphysparis.2008.03.010
Journal: J Physiol Paris
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2008
Authors: TA Nazir, M Jeannerod, O Hauk

Imagery or meaning? Evidence for a semantic origin of category-specific brain activity in metabolic imaging.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06143.x
Journal: Eur J Neurosci
E-pub date: 1 Apr 2008
Authors: O Hauk, MH Davis, F Kherif, F Pulvermüller

How the camel lost its hump: the impact of object typicality on event-related potential signals in object decision.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2007.19.8.1338
Journal: J Cogn Neurosci
E-pub date: 31 Aug 2007
Authors: O Hauk, K Patterson, A Woollams, E Cooper-Pye, F Pulvermüller, TT Rogers

Experience-dependent plasticity of conceptual representations in human sensory-motor areas.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2007.19.3.525
Journal: J Cogn Neurosci
E-pub date: 1 Mar 2007
Authors: M Kiefer, E-J Sim, S Liebich, O Hauk, J Tanaka

[Q:] When would you prefer a SOSSAGE to a SAUSAGE? [A:] At about 100 msec. ERP correlates of orthographic typicality and lexicality in written word recognition.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.5.818
Journal: J Cogn Neurosci
E-pub date: 1 May 2006
Authors: O Hauk, K Patterson, A Woollams, L Watling, F Pulvermüller, TT Rogers

Category specificity in the processing of color-related and form-related words: an ERP study.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.07.055
Journal: Neuroimage
E-pub date: 1 Jan 2006
Authors: F Moscoso del Prado Martín, O Hauk, F Pulvermüller

Therapy-related reorganization of language in both hemispheres of patients with chronic aphasia.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.06.038
Journal: Neuroimage
E-pub date: 1 Nov 2005
Authors: F Pulvermüller, O Hauk, K Zohsel, B Neininger, B Mohr

Functional links between motor and language systems.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.03900.x
Journal: Eur J Neurosci
E-pub date: 1 Feb 2005
Authors: F Pulvermüller, O Hauk, VV Nikulin, RJ Ilmoniemi

Effects of word length and frequency on the human event-related potential.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2003.12.020
Journal: Clin Neurophysiol
E-pub date: 1 May 2004
Authors: O Hauk, F Pulvermüller

Somatotopic representation of action words in human motor and premotor cortex.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/s0896-6273(03)00838-9
Journal: Neuron
E-pub date: 22 Jan 2004
Authors: O Hauk, I Johnsrude, F Pulvermüller