Publications

Fabian Schneider, Helen Blank (2026). Sensory sharpening and semantic prediction errors unify competing models of predictive processing in human speech comprehension. PLOS Biology, 24(1), e3003588.

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S. Zhang, Helen Blank, I. Terzidis, G. Rosenblau, C. W. Korn (2026). Pupil dilation reflects prediction errors in learning about others' personality traits. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nsag060.

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Annika Garlichs, Mark Lustig, Matthias Gamer, Helen Blank (2025). Protocol to study how expectations guide predictive eye movements and information sampling in humans. STAR Protocols, 6, 103737.

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N. Haihambo, D.-M. Layiwola, Helen Blank, R. Hurlemann, D. Scheele (2025). Loneliness and social conformity: A predictive processing perspective. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1-3.

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Janika Becker, Marvin Viertler, Christoph Korn, Helen Blank (2024). The pupil dilation response as an indicator of visual cue uncertainty and auditory outcome surprise. European Journal of Neuroscience, 1-16.

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Janika Becker, Christoph Korn, Helen Blank (2024). Pupil diameter as an indicator of sound pair familiarity after statistically structured auditory sequence. Scientific Reports, 14, 8739.

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Annika Garlichs, Helen Blank (2024). Prediction error processing and sharpening of expected information across the face-processing hierarchy. Nature Communications, 15, 3407.

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Carina Ufer, Helen Blank (2024). Opposing serial effects of stimulus and choice in speech perception scale with context variability. iScience, 110611.

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Annika Garlichs, Mark Lustig, Matthias Gamer, Helen Blank (2024). Expectations Guide Predictive Eye Movements and Information Sampling During Face Recognition. iScience, 27, 110920.

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Helen Blank, Arjen Alink, Christian Büchel (2023). Multivariate functional neuroimaging analyses reveal that strength-dependent face expectations are represented in higher-level face-identity areas. Communications Biology, 6, 135.

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Carina Ufer, Helen Blank (2023). Multivariate analysis of brain activity patterns as a tool to understand predictive processes in speech perception. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.

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Julius Krumbiegel, Carina Ufer, Helen Blank (2022). Influence of voice properties on vowel perception depends on speaker context. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152, 820-834.

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Helen Blank, Janine Bayer (2022). Functional imaging analyses reveal prototype and exemplar representations in a perceptual single-category task. Communications Biology, 5, 896.

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M. Aller, H. Økland, L. MacGregor, Helen Blank, Matt Davis (2022). Differential auditory and visual phase-locking are observed during audio-visual benefit and silent lip-reading for speech perception. The Journal of Neuroscience.

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Arjen Alink, Helen Blank (2021). Can expectation suppression be explained by reduced attention to predictable stimuli?. NeuroImage, 231.

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Franziska Knolle, S. Garofalo, R. Viviani, A. Justicia, A. O. Ermakova, Helen Blank, G. B. Williams, G. Arrondo, P. Ramachandra, C. Tudor-Sfetea, N. Bunzeck, E. Duezel, T. W. Robbins, R. A. Barker, G. K. Murray (2020). Altered subcortical emotional salience processing differentiates Parkinson's patients with and without psychotic symptoms. NeuroImage: Clinical, 102277.

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N. Tschentscher, C. Müller-Axt, A. Ruisinger, Helen Blank, A. Anwander, Katharina von Kriegstein (2019). Structural connectivity between auditory thalamus and primary auditory cortex in developmental dyslexia. The Journal of Neuroscience.

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B. Diaz, Helen Blank, Katharina von Kriegstein (2018). Task-dependent modulation of the visual sensory thalamus assists visual-speech recognition. NeuroImage, 187, 721-734.

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Helen Blank, M. Spangenberg, Matt Davis (2018). Neural Prediction Errors Distinguish Perception and Misperception of Speech. The Journal of Neuroscience, 38(27), 6076-6089.

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Helen Blank, Matt Davis (2016). Prediction errors but not sharpened signals simulate multivoxel fMRI patterns during speech perception. PLOS Biology, 14(11).

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Helen Blank, S. J. Kiebel, Katharina von Kriegstein (2015). How the human brain exchanges information across sensory modalities to recognize other people. Human Brain Mapping, 36(1), 324-339.

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Helen Blank, N. Wieland, Katharina von Kriegstein (2014). A review on person-recognition and the brain: Merging evidence from patients and a brain imaging meta-analysis on healthy controls. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 47, 717-734.

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Helen Blank, G. Biele, H. Heekeren, M. Philiastides (2013). Temporal characteristics of the influence of punishment on perceptual decision making in the human brain. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(9), 3939-3952.

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Helen Blank, Katharina von Kriegstein (2013). Mechanisms of enhancing visual-speech recognition by prior auditory information. NeuroImage, 65, 109-118.

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Helen Blank, A. Anwander, Katharina von Kriegstein (2011). Direct structural connections between voice- and face-recognition areas. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(36), 12906-12915.

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H. Holling, Helen Blank, K. Kuchenbacker, J. T. Kuhn (2008). Rule-based item design of statistical word problems: A review and first implementation. Psychology Science Quarterly, 50(3), 363.