Publications

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• Ufer C, Schneider F, Blank H. The Influence of Prior Precision on the Inference of Hidden Causes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.10.731404v1
• Alink A, J Becker J, Blank H. Human vision sequentially prioritizes expected and unexpected information bioRxiv, 2026.03. 23.713176 https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.23.713176

2026

• Schneider, F. & Blank, H., (2026). Sensory sharpening and semantic prediction errors unify competing models of predictive processing in human speech comprehension. PLoS Biology 24 (1), e3003588 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003588

2025

• Garlichs, A., Lustig, M, Gamer, M., Blank, H. (2025). Protocol to study how expectations guide predictive eye movements and information sampling in humans. STAR Protocols, 6:103737. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2025.103737

• Haihambo, N., Layiwola, D.-M., Blank, H., Hurlemann, R., Scheele D. (2025). Loneliness and social conformity: A predictive processing perspective. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15324

2024

• Garlichs, A., Lustig, M, Gamer, M., & Blank, H. (2024).  Expectations Guide Predictive Eye Movements and Information Sampling During Face Recognition. iScience. 27:110920. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110920 Preregistration + Open Code + Open Data on OSF Experiment 1 and Experiment 2

• Ufer, C. & Blank, H. (2024) Opposing serial effects of stimulus and choice in speech perception scale with context variability. iScience:110611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110611

• Garlichs, A. & Blank, H. (2024). Prediction error processing and sharpening of expected information across the face-processing hierarchy. Nature Communications, 15, 3407. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47749-9 Preregistration + Open Code + Open Data on OSF

• Becker, J., Korn, C.W. & Blank, H. (2024) Pupil diameter as an indicator of sound pair familiarity after statistically structured auditory sequence. Scientific Reports, 14, 8739. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59302-1 Preregistration Exp 1 + Preregistration Exp 2 + Open Data on OSF

• Becker, J., Viertler, M., Korn, C., & Blank, H., (2024) The pupil dilation response as an indicator of visual cue uncertainty and auditory outcome surprise. European Journal of Neuroscience, 1-16. doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16306 Open Data & Open Code on OSF

2023

• Blank, H., Alink, A., & Büchel, C. (2023). Multivariate functional neuroimaging analyses reveal that strength-dependent face expectations are represented in higher-level face-identity areas. Communications Biology, 6, 135. doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04508-8 Open Data & Open Code on OSF

• Ufer, C. & Blank, H., (2023). Multivariate analysis of brain activity patterns as a tool to understand predictive processes in speech perception. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2166679 Preprint

2022

• Blank, H. & Bayer, J. (2022). Functional imaging analyses reveal prototype and exemplar representations in a perceptual single-category task. Communications Biology, 5, 896 (2022). doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03858-z Open Data & Open Code on OSF

• Krumbiegel, J., Ufer, C., & Blank, H. (2022). Influence of voice properties on vowel perception depends on speaker context. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152:820–834. doi.org/10.1121/10.0013363 Preregistration & Open Data & Open Code on OSF

• Aller, M., Økland, H., MacGregor, L., Blank, H., & Davis, M. (2022). Differential auditory and visual phase-locking are observed during audio-visual benefit and silent lip-reading for speech perception. The Journal of Neuroscience. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2476-21.2022 Preprint

before 2021

• Alink, A., & Blank, H. (2021). Can expectation suppression be explained by reduced attention to predictable stimuli? Neuroimage, 231. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117824 Preprint

• Knolle, F., Garofalo, S., Viviani, R., Justicia, A., Ermakova, A. O., Blank, H., Williams, G. B., Arrondo, G., Ramachandra, P., Tudor-Sfetea, C., Bunzeck, N., Duezel, E., Robbins, T. W., Barker, R. A., & Murray, G. K. (2020). Altered subcortical emotional salience processing differentiates Parkinson’s patients with and without psychotic symptoms. NeuroImage: Clinical, 102277. doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102277

• Tschentscher, N., Müller-Axt, C., Ruisinger, A., Blank, H., Anwander, A., & von Kriegstein, K. (2019). Structural connectivity between auditory thalamus and primary auditory cortex in developmental dyslexia. The Journal of Neuroscience, 1435-18. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1435-18.2018

• Blank, H., Spangenberg, M., & Davis, M. (2018). Neural Prediction Errors Distinguish Perception and Misperception of Speech. The Journal of Neuroscience, 38 (27) 6076-6089. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3258-17.2018

• Diaz, B., Blank, H. & von Kriegstein, K. (2018). Task-dependent modulation of the visual sensory thalamus assists visual-speech recognition. Neuroimage, 187, 721-734. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.05.032

• Blank, H. & Davis, M. (2016). Prediction errors but not sharpened signals simulate multivoxel fMRI patterns during speech perception, PLOS Biology, 14(11). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002577 Open Data & Open Code on OSF

• Blank, H., Kiebel, S. J. & von Kriegstein, K. (2015). How the human brain exchanges information across sensory modalities to recognize other people. Human Brain Mapping, 36(1), 324-39. doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22631

• Blank, H., Wieland, N., & von Kriegstein, K. (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. doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.10.022

• Blank, H., Biele, G., Heekeren, H. & Philiastides, M. (2013). Temporal characteristics of the influence of punishment on perceptual decision making in the human brain. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(9), 3939-3952. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4151-12.2013

• Blank, H. & von Kriegstein, K. (2013). Mechanisms of enhancing visual-speech recognition by prior auditory information. Neuroimage, 65, 109-118. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.047

• Blank, H., Anwander, A., & von Kriegstein, K. (2011). Direct structural connections between voice- and face-recognition areas. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(36), 12906-12915. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2091-11.2011

• Holling, H., Blank, H., Kuchenbacker, K., & Kuhn, J.T. (2008). Rule-based item design of statistical word problems: A review and first implementation. Psychology Science Quarterly, 50 (3), 363
• The Influence of Prior Precision on the Inference of Hidden Causes
• C Ufer, F Schneider, H Blank
• bioRxiv, 2026.06. 10.731404