PD Dr. Johanna Rimmele
Neural Computation for Sound and Recognition Team
Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology
Max Planck Institute for empirical Aesthetics
Grüneburgweg 14
60322 Frankfurt am Main
T +49 69 8300479-413
E-Mail:johanna.rimmele@ae.mpg.de
Scientific Focus
Our research interests lie in how the brain connects sensory information to recognition, involving auditory perception, particularly speech (and music), and understanding how malleable, trainable, or plastic the mechanisms are. Particularly, we investigate the role of brain rhythms and the motor system. Our current research areas are: (1) Neural computations of memory processing of speech and song; (2) Individual differences in predictive processing during speech (and music) perception; (3) Endogenous brain rhythms and neural oscillatory accounts of speech perception; (4) Neural oscillatory accounts of auditory-motor interactions and other top-down influences during speech perception; (4) Predictive coding in auditory perception in health and disorder
Methods
- Psychophysics
- electrophysiology and neuroimaging (particularly EEG, MEG, MRI)
- Furthermore, we are interested in computational modeling approaches.
Selected Publications
Atanasova, T., Gross, J., Rimmele, J. M.,* & Keitel, A.* (2026). The involvement of endogenous brain rhythms in speech processing. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 106568.
Kwon, S.*, Lubinus, C.*, Kell, C. A., Keitel, A.*, & Rimmele, J. M.* (2026). Effects of speech periodicity and speech rate on auditory-motor coupling during speech comprehension. Communications Biology.
Lubinus, C., Keitel, A., Obleser, J., Poeppel, D., & Rimmele, J. M. (2023). Explaining flexible continuous speech comprehension from individual motor rhythms. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(1994)
Assaneo, M. F.*, Rimmele, J. M.*, Sanz Perl, Y., & Poeppel, D. (2021). Speaking rhythmically can shape hearing. Nature human behaviour, 5(1), 71-82.
Rimmele, J. M., Morillon, B., Poeppel, D., & Arnal, L. H. (2018). Proactive sensing of periodic and aperiodic auditory patterns. Trends in cognitive sciences, 22(10), 870-882.