About me
I am a cognitive neuroscientist at Philipps University Marburg, based in the Translational Neuroimaging Lab, where I lead externally funded research projects as principal investigator. My research focuses on how predictions and contextual information shape language comprehension, multimodal communication and action perception. I also study social cognition and decision-making.
My research interests include:
- Language processing: speech perception and sentence comprehension.
- Multimodal communication: the interaction between gestures and spoken language.
- Action and perception: sensory prediction and the processing of action outcomes.
- Social cognition and decision-making: including social exclusion and its behavioural consequences.
- Clinical research: cognitive and neural alterations in psychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia, depression and tic disorders.
I combine behavioural experiments and computational modelling with EEG, fMRI, simultaneous EEG–fMRI, and non-invasive brain stimulation, including transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).
My current projects are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the von Behring-Röntgen-Stiftung.
Recent publications
Leinweber, K., He, Y., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2026). Dysfunctional neural processing of object-related speech with semantically unrelated vs related co-verbal gesture in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Neuropsychologia, 233, 109586. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109586
Trujillo, J., Straube, B., & He, Y. (2026). Discourse context and co-speech gestures jointly shape hierarchical prediction during the processing of a multimodal narrative. Neurobiology of Language, 7, NOL.a.276. doi:10.1162/nol.a.276
Ody, E., Kircher, T., He, Y.*, & Straube, B.* (2025). Differential effects of self-initiated, externally triggered, and passive movements on action-outcome processing: Insights from sensory and motor-preparatory ERPs. European Journal of Neuroscience, 62(5), e70236. (* shared senior authorship) doi:10.1111/ejn.70236