Prof. Dr. Christian Kell
Cooperative Brain Imaging Center
Translational Neuroscience
Heinrich-Hoffmann-Strasse 9
60528 Frankfurt
Tel +49 (0) 69 6301 95650
E-Mail: c.kell@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Scientific Focus
The CoBIC’s Translational Neuroscience group investigates mechanisms that drive human behavior and their alterations in neurological diseases. Wherever possible, we try to use these insights to develop new therapeutic approaches for patients. We focus on the neural dynamics underlying action control, particularly speech production. Speech constitutes a highly social behavior that allows studying functional loops which integrate feedforward and feedback information. We are particularly interested in the dynamics of sensorimotor interactions and investigate potentially dysfunctional auditory-motor loops in people with developmental stuttering or developmental language disorder. The classical signal processing approach is complemented by newest machine learning algorithms to test our hypotheses.
Methods
Magnetoencephalography, Electrocorticography, functional MRI, Neuromodulation
Selected Publications
Floegel, M, Kasper J, Perrier, P, Kell CA (2023) How the conception of control influences our understanding of actions. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 24(5): 313-29.
Floegel M, Fuchs S, Kell CA (2020) Differential contributions of the two cerebral hemispheres to temporal and spectral speech feedback control. Nature Communications, 11(1): 2839 doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16743-2
Pflug A, Gompf F, Muthuraman M, Groppa S, Kell CA (2019) Differential contributions of the two human cerebral hemispheres to action timing. eLife, 8: 48404 doi: 10.7554/eLife.48404.
Cordani L, Tagliazucchi E, Vetter C, Hassemer C, Roenneberg T, Stehle JH, Kell CA (2018) Endogenous Modulation of Human Visual Cortex Activity Improves Perception at Twilight. Nature Communications, 9(1): 1274 doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03660-8.
Kell CA, Neumann K, von Kriegstein K, Posenenske C, von Gudenberg AW, Euler H, Giraud AL (2009) How the brain repairs stuttering. Brain, 132(10): 2747-60.