Background
- Research scientist at MIT
- Post-doctoral researcher at MIT
- PhD in Neuroscience at the UZH and the ETH Zurich
- MSc in Psychology at University of Zurich (UZH)
Research interests and methods
I investigate the brain organization of high-level auditory perception. Specifically, I am interested in the neural mechanisms of auditory global timing perception and their influence on general perception and cognition across the human life span.
Depending on the research question at hand I apply neuroimaging such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Electroencephalography (EEG) as well as behavioral research paradigms (psychoacoustics).
Project
Neural correlates of auditory timing perception
Links
Nipype, Nipype Beginners guide, SPM, Freesurfer, FSL, EEGLAB, ERPLAB, Cartool, MIT, LINE
Forthcoming Publications
Key Publications (full list)
Notter, M., Hanke, M., Murray, M.M., & Geiser, E. (in press). Where the rhythm plays: Machine learning decodes rhythm-sensitive cortices. Cerebral Cortex. link
Geiser, E., Retsa, C., Knebel, J.-F., Ferrari, C., Clarke, S., Conus, Ph., Do, K.Q., & Murray, M.M. (in press). The coupling of low-level auditory dysfunction and oxidative stress in psychosis patients. Schizophrenia Research. link
Sameiro-Barbosa, C. & Geiser, E. (2016). Sensory entrainment mechanisms in auditory perception: neural synchronization and cortico-striatal activation. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 10:361. pubmed
Clarke, S. & Geiser, E. (2015). Roaring lions and chirruping lemurs: how the brain encodes sound objects in space. Neuropsychologia. 75, 304-313. pubmed
Geiser, E., Walker, K. & Bendor, D. (2014). Global timing: a conceptual framework to investigate the neural basis of rhythm perception in humans and non-human species. Frontiers in Psychology. pubmed
Geiser, E., Kjelgaard Rockcastle, M, & Gabrieli J.D.E. (2013). Auditory temporal structure processing in dyslexia: Processing of prosodic phrase boundaries is not impaired in children with dyslexia. Annals in Dyslexia. 64(1):77-90. pubmed
Geiser, E. & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2013). Influence of rhythmic grouping on duration perception: A novel auditory illusion. PLoS One, 8(1): e54273. pubmed
Geiser, E., Notter, M., & Gabrieli J.D.E. (2012). A cortico-striatal neural system enhances auditory perception through temporal context processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(18), 6177-82. pubmed
Geiser, E., Gabrieli, J.D.E. & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2012). Temporal regularity in speech perception: Is regularity beneficial or detrimental? Proceedings of Meetings in Acoustics. 14. pubmed
Geiser, E. & Kaelin-Lang, A. (2011). The function of dopaminergic neural signal transmission in auditory pulse perception: Evidence from dopaminergic treatment in Parkinson’s Patients. Behavioral Brain Research, 225, 270-275. pubmed
Geiser, E., Sandmann, P., Meyer, M., & Jancke, L. (2010). Refinement of meter perception – training increases hierarchical metre processing. European Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 1979-1985. pubmed Erratum in: Eur J Neurosci. 2011 Dec;34(12):2064. correction
Geiser, E., Ziegler, E., Jancke, L., & Meyer, M. (2009). Early electrophysiological correlates of meter and rhythm processing in music perception. Cortex, 45(1), 93-102. pubmed
Geiser, E., Zaehle, T., Jancke, L., & Meyer, M. (2008). The neural correlate of speech rhythm as evidenced by meter processing: an fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 20(3). 541-552. pubmed
Schmidt, C.F., Meyer, M., Zaehle, T., Geiser, E., Boesiger, P., & Jancke, L. (2008). Silent and continuous scanning differentially modulate activation in an auditory language comprehension task. Human Brain Mapping. 29(1), 46ff. pubmed
Zaehle T., Geiser E., Alter K., Jancke L., Meyer M. (2008). Segmental processing in the human auditory dorsal stream. Brain Research, 1220, 179-90. pubmed
Scientific Services
Reviewer: National Science Foundation (NSF, USA); Experimental Brain Research; Brain; Music Perception; Neuroimage; Hearing Research; Neuropsychologia; Behavioral Brain Functions; Journal of Neuroscience Methods; Neuropsychology; Brain Topography; Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research; Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain; Acta Psychologica; European Journal of Neuroscience; Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews; Journal of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA); Cogent Psychology; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; Frontiers in Psychology; PLOSOne; Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience and Behavioral Reviews; Journal of Neuroscience Methods; Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
Journal Editor: Associate Editor for Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience (Frontiers in Neuroscience and Psychology); editor for Advances in Parkinson’s Disease; review editor for Frontiers in psychology and neuroscience; review editor Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; reviewer editor for Speech Language and Hearing Research
Awards and Grants
Department of Radiology, CHUV – Research funding 2013-2017 Swiss National Science Foundation – Award for own research group 2013-2017
McGovern Institute at MIT – Fellowship 2012-2013
Swiss National Science Foundation – Career fellowship 2010-2012
SAGW – Conference grant 2010
Swiss National Science Foundation – Career Fellowship 2008-2010
Janggen-Pöhn-Stiftung – Offer of PhD-sponsorship 2008
University of Zurich – Fellowship 2007
Current Classroom Teaching (fall -spring 2017/18)
- Neurosciences: système auditive (UNIL, école de médecine B2.3)
- Neurosciences: Auditory system (UNIL, Master de Neuroscience module 2)
