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Jörg Lewald

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RUB: 0049 234 32 25137
IfADo: 0049 231 1084 263

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0049 231 1084 308

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joerg.lewald@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Multimodale Mechanismen der Raumwahrnehmung
  • Neurowissenschaftliche Grundlagen des räumlichen Hörens
  • Methoden: Psychophysik, TMS, fMRI, tDCS, EEG, Labor mit Reflexionsfreiem Raum

Aktuelle Projekte

  • Selektive auditive räumliche Aufmerksamkeit in akustisch komplexen Situationen (gefördert durch die DFG)
  • Alterungsprozesse der auditiven und multisensorischen Raumwahrnehmung (gefördert durch die DFG)
  • Untersuchungen zur neuralen Integration multisensorischer Raum- und Objektinformation mittels transkranieller Magnetstimulation (gefördert durch die DFG)
  • Untersuchungen zum räumlichen Hören mittels transkranieller Gleichstromstimulation (tDCS)
  • Raumwahrnehmung bei Blinden [Artikel in mundo 3 / 04]
  • Räumliches Hören bei Patienten mit Hirnläsionen
  • Auditiv-visuelle Integration bei Patienten mit M. Parkinson
  • Auditive Lokalisation bei bilateral versorgten CI-Patienten
  • Korrelate des räumlichen Hörens in Mittelhirn und Cortex des Menschen (funktionelle Magnetresonanztomographie)

Kooperationen

Lehre

Es werden ständig Versuchspersonen für psychophysische und neurophysiologische Experimente gesucht
(Anrechnung von Versuchspersonenstunden für Psychologiestudierende oder gegen Bezahlung).

Ehrenamtliche Gutachtertätigkeiten

  • Wissenschaftliche Zeitschriften: Acta Oto-Laryngologica; Attention, Perception & Psychophysics; Behavioural Brain Research; Brain; Brain Research; Brain Structure and Function; Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology; Cognition; Experimental Brain Research; International Journal of  Psychophysiology; Journal of Neuroscience; Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience Letters; PLOS One
  • Forschungsorganisationen: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); University Grants Committee Hong Kong; Wellcome Trust

Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen

  • Lewald J (1987a) The acuity of sound localization in the pigeon (Columba livia). Naturwissenschaften 74, 296-297
  • Lewald J (1987b) Interaural time and intensity difference thresholds of the pigeon (Columba livia). Naturwissenschaften 74, 449-451
  • Lewald J (1988) Neuronal coding of azimuthal sound direction in the auditory midbrain of the pigeon. Naturwissenschaften 75, 470-472
  • Lewald J (1989) Verhaltensphysiologische und neurophysiologische Untersuchungen zum Richtungshören der Taube (Columba livia). Dissertation, Fakultät für Biologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Herne: Kasper, Schröer, Wand-Wittkowski
  • Lewald J (1990a) The directionality of the ear of the pigeon (Columba livia). J Comp Physiol A 167, 533-543
  • Lewald J (1990b) Neural mechanisms of directional hearing in the pigeon. Exp Brain Res 82, 423-436
  • 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
  • Lewald J, Petrasch-Parwez EW, Veh RW (1994) GABA-like and glutamate-like immunoreactivity in the pretecto-olivary pathway in the rat. J Brain Res 35, 279-294
  • 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
  • Lewald J, Ehrenstein WH (1996a) The effect of eye position on auditory lateralization. Exp Brain Res 108, 473-485, (Erratum) 110, 322
  • Lewald J, Ehrenstein WH (1996b) Auditory-visual shift in localization depending on gaze direction. NeuroReport 7, 1929-1932
  • Lewald J (1997) Eye-position effects in directional hearing. Behav Brain Res 87, 35-48
  • Lewald J (1998) The effect of gaze eccentricity on perceived sound direction and its relation to visual localization. Hear Res 115, 206-216
  • Lewald J, Dörrscheidt GJ (1998) Spatial-tuning properties of auditory neurons in the optic tectum of the pigeon. Brain Res 790, 339-342
  • Lewald J, Ehrenstein WH (1998a) Auditory-visual spatial integration: A new psychophysical approach using laser pointing to acoustic targets. J Acoust Soc Am 104, 1586-1597
  • Lewald J, Ehrenstein WH (1998b) Influence of head-to-trunk position on sound lateralization. Exp Brain Res 121, 230-238
  • Lewald J, Karnath H-O, Ehrenstein WH (1999) Neck-proprioceptive influence on auditory lateralization. Exp Brain Res 125, 389-396
  • Lewald J, Dörrscheidt GJ, Ehrenstein WH (2000) Sound localization with eccentric head position. Behav Brain Res 108, 105-125
  • Lewald J, Ehrenstein WH (2000) Visual and proprioceptive shifts in perceived egocentric direction induced by eye position. Vision Res 40, 549-557
  • Lewald J, Karnath H-O (2000) Vestibular influence on human auditory space perception. J Neurophysiol 84, 1107-1111
  • Lewald J, Ehrenstein WH (2001a) Effect of gaze direction on sound localization in rear space. Neurosci Res 39, 253-257
  • Lewald J, Ehrenstein WH (2001b) Spatial coordinates of human auditory working memory. Cogn Brain Res 12, 153-159
  • Lewald J, Ehrenstein WH, Guski R (2001) Spatio-temporal constraints for auditory-visual integration. Behav Brain Res 121, 69-79
  • Lewald J, Karnath H-O (2001) Sound lateralization during passive whole-body rotation. Eur J Neurosci 13, 2268-2272
  • Lewald J (2002a) Opposing effects of head position on sound localization in blind and sighted human subjects. Eur J Neurosci 15, 1219-1224
  • Lewald J (2002b) Vertical sound localization in blind humans. Neuropsychologia 40, 1868-1872
  • Lewald J (2002c) Rapid adaptation to auditory-visual spatial disparity. Learn Memory 9, 268-278
  • Lewald J (2002d) Perzeptuelle Korrelate multisensorischer Interaktion bei der auditiven Raumwahrnehmung. Habilitationsschrift, Fakultät für Psychologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  • Lewald J, Foltys H, Töpper R (2002) Role of the posterior parietal cortex in spatial hearing. J Neurosci 22, RC207 (1-5)
  • Lewald J, Karnath H-O (2002) The effect of whole-body tilt on sound lateralization. Eur J Neurosci 16, 761-766
  • Karnath H-O, Zimmer U, Lewald J (2002) Impaired perception of temporal order in auditory extinction. Neuropsychologia 40, 1777-1782
  • Lewald J (2003) Auditives Orientieren im Raum und seine Störungen. In: Neuropsychologie (Karnath H-O, Thier P, eds). Berlin: Springer, pp 185-197
  • Zimmer U, Lewald J, Karnath H-O (2003) Disturbed sound lateralization in patients with spatial neglect. J Cogn Neurosci 15, 694-703
  • Lewald J, Guski R (2003) Cross-modal perceptual integration of spatially and temporally disparate auditory and visual stimuli. Cogn Brain Res 16, 468-478
  • Lewald J (2004) Gender-specific hemispheric asymmetry in auditory space perception. Cogn Brain Res 19, 92-99
  • Lewald J, Guski R (2004) Auditory-visual temporal integration as a function of distance: No compensation for sound-transmission time in human perception. Neurosci Lett 357, 119-122
  • Lewald J, Meister IG, Weidemann J, Töpper R (2004) Involvement of the superior temporal cortex and the occipital cortex in spatial hearing: evidence from repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. J Cogn Neurosci 16, 828-838
  • Getzmann S, Lewald J, Guski R (2004) Representational momentum in spatial hearing. Perception 33, 591-599
  • Lewald J, Schirm SN, Schwarz M (2004) Sound lateralization in Parkinson´s disease. Cogn Brain Res 21, 335-341
  • Lewald J, Wienemann M, Boroojerdi B (2004) Shift in sound localization induced by rTMS of the posterior parietal lobe. Neuropsychologia, 42, 1598-1607
  • Zimmer U, Lewald J, Erb M, Grodd W, Karnath H-O (2004) Is there a role of visual cortex in spatial hearing? Eur J Neurosci 20, 3148-3156
  • Hausmann M, Corballis MC, Fabri M, Paggi A, Lewald J (2005) Sound lateralization in subjects with callosotomy, callosal agenesis, or hemispherectomy. Cogn Brain Res 25, 537-546
  • Lewald J, Getzmann S (2006) Horizontal and vertical effects of eye-position on sound localization. Hear Res 213, 99-106
  • Zimmer U, Lewald J, Erb M, Karnath H-O (2006) Processing of auditory spatial cues in human cortex: an fMRI study. Neuropsychologia 44, 454-461
  • Lewald J (2007) More accurate sound localization induced by short-term light deprivation. Neuropsychologia 45, 1215-1222
  • Getzmann S, Lewald J (2007) Localization of moving sound. Percept Psychophys 69, 1022-1034
  • Hirnstein M, Hausmann M, Lewald J (2007) Functional cerebral asymmetry in auditory motion perception. Laterality 12, 87-99
  • Lewald J, Riederer KAJ, Lentz T, Meister IG (2008) Processing of sound location in human cortex. Eur J Neurosci 27, 1261-1270
  • Lewald J, Peters S, Corballis MC, Hausmann M (2009) Perception of stationary and moving sound following unilateral cortectomy. Neuropsychologia 47, 962-971
  • Getzmann S, Lewald J (2009) Constancy of target velocity as a critical factor in the emergence of auditory and visual representational momentum. Exp Brain Res 193, 437-443
  • Lewald J, Peters S, Tegenthoff M, Hausmann M (2009) Dissociation of auditory and visual straight ahead in hemianopia. Brain Res 1287, 111-117 
  • Lewald J, Peters S, Tegenthoff M, Hausmann M (2009) Distortion of auditory space in hemianopia. Eur J Neurosci 30, 1401-1411
  • Getzmann S, Lewald J (2010a) Effects of natural versus artificial spatial cues on electrophysiological correlates of auditory motion. Hear Res 259, 44-54
  • Ocklenburg S, Hirnstein M, Hausmann M, Lewald J (2010) Auditory space perception in left- and right-handers. Brain Cogn 72, 210-217
  • Getzmann S, Lewald J (2010b) Shared cortical systems for processing of horizontal and vertical sound motion. J Neurophysiol 103, 1896-1904
  • Zündorf IC, Karnath H-O, Lewald J (2011) Male advantage in sound localization at cocktail parties. Cortex 47, 741-749
  • Getzmann S, Lewald J (2011) The effect of spatial adaptation on auditory motion processing. Hear Res 272, 21-29
  • Lewald J, Staedtgen M, Sparing R,  Meister IG (2011) Processing of auditory motion in inferior parietal lobule: evidence from transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neuropsychologia 49, 209-215
  • Kreitewolf J, Lewald J, Getzmann S (2011) Effect of attention on cortical processing of sound motion: an EEG study. NeuroImage 54, 2340-2349
  • Lewald J, Getzmann S (2011) When and where of auditory spatial processing in cortex: A novel approach using electrotomography. PLoS ONE 6, e25146. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025146
  • Lewald J, Tegenthoff M, Peters S, Hausmann M (2012) Passive auditory stimulation improves vision in hemianopia. PLoS ONE, in press. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031603