Publications - Susanne Dietrich

Peer Reviewed Publications

Rolke, B., Kirsten, M., Seibold, V. C., Dietrich, S., & Hertrich, I.  (2023). Processing references in context: when the polar bear does not meet a polar bear. Cognitive Processing, Doi: 10.1007/s10339-023-01150-4

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Blum, C., Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, B.  (2023). The cortical dynamics of context-dependent language processing, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, DOI:  10.1080/23273798.2023.216512

Hertrich, I., Dietrich, S., Blum, C. & Ackermann, H. (2021). The Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex for Speech and Language Processing. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 15:645209. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.645209 

Hertrich, I., Dietrich, S., & Ackermann, H. (2020). The margins of the language network in the brain. Front. Commun., 5:519955. Doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2020519955

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Seibold, V.C., & Rolke, B. (2019). Discourse management during speech perception: a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study. NeuroImage. 202, 116047. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116047

Seibold, V.C., Dietrich, S., & Rolke, B. (2019). Multi-dimensional selection by temporal attention and feature-based attention: Evidence from event-related potentials. Brain Research. 1722:146340. Doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2019.146340

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Müller-Dahlhaus, F., Ackermann, H., Belardinelli, P., Desideri, D., Seibold, V.C., & Ziemann, U. (2018). Reduced performance during a sentence repetition task by continuous theta-burst magnetic stimulation of the pre-supplementary motor area.  
Frontiers in Neuroscience
, 12:361. DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00361

Hertrich, I., Dietrich, S., & Ackermann, H. (2018). Cortical phase locking to accelerated speech in blind and sighed listeners prior to and after training. Brain and Language, 185:19-29. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2018.07.002

Hertrich, I., Dietrich, S., & Ackermann, H. (2016). The role of the supplementary motor area for speech and language processing. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 68:602-610. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.06.030

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., & Ackermann, H. (2015). Network modeling for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) Signals during ultra-fast speech comprehension in late-blind listeners. PLoS ONE, 10(7):e0132196. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132196

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Kumar, V., & Ackermann, H. (2015). Experience-related structural changes of degenerated occipital white matter in late-blind humans – a diffusion tensor imaging study. PLoS ONE, 10(4):e0122863. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122863

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., & Ackermann, H. (2013). Training of ultra-fast speech comprehension induces functional reorganization of the central-visual system in late-blind humans. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:701. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00701

Hertrich, I., Dietrich, S., & Ackermann, H. (2013). How can audiovisual pathways enhance the temporal resolution of time-compressed speech in blind subjects? Frontiers in Psychology, 4:530. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00530

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., & Ackermann, H. (2013). Ultra-fast speech comprehension in blind subjects engages primary visual cortex, fusiform gyrus, and pulvinar – a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study. BMC Neuroscience, 14(1):74. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-74

Hertrich, I., Dietrich, S., & Ackermann, H. (2012). Tracking the speech signal - time-locked MEG signals during perception of ultra-fast and moderately fast speech in blind and in sighted listeners. Brain and Language, 124(1):9-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.10.006

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Riedel, A., & Ackermann, H. (2012). Brief Report: Impaired differentiation of vegetative/affective and intentional nonverbal vocalizations in a subject with Asperger syndrome (AS). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(10). DOI: 10.1007/s10803-012-1455-6

Hertrich, I., Dietrich, S., Trouvain, J., Moos, A., & Ackermann, H. (2011). Magnetic brain activity phase-locked to the envelope, the syllable onsets, and the fundamental frequency of a perceived speech signal. Psychophysiology, 49(3):322-34. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01314.x

Hertrich, I., Dietrich, S., & Ackermann, H. (2010). Cross-modal interactions during perception of audiovisual speech and nonspeech signals: an fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(1):221-37. DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21421

Szameitat, D.P., Alter, K., Szameitat, A.J., Darwin, C.J., Wildgruber, D., Dietrich, S., & Sterr, A. (2009). Differentiation of Emotions in Laughter at the Behavioral Level. Emotion, 9(3):397-405. DOI: 10.1037/a0015692

Hertrich, I., Dietrich, S., Moos, A., Trouvain, J., & Ackermann H. (2009). Enhanced speech perception capabilities in a blind listener are associated with activation of fusiform gyrus and primary visual cortex. Neurocase, 15(2):163-70. DOI: 10.1080/13554790802709054

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Alter, K., Ischebeck, A., & Ackermann, H. (2008). Understanding the emotional expression of verbal interjections: a functional MRI study. NeuroReport, 19(18):1751-5. DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283193e9e

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Alter, K., Ischebeck, A., & Ackermann, H. (2008). Semiotic aspects of human nonverbal vocalizations: a functional imaging study. NeuroReport, 18(18):1891-4. DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f290df

Dietrich, S., Ackermann, H., Szameitat, D.P., & Alter, K. (2006). Psychoacoustic studies on the processing of vocal interjections: how to disentangle lexical and prosodic information? Progress in Brain Research, 156:295-302. DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)56016-9

Dietrich, S., Szameitat, D.P., Kiefer, A., Schnitzler, H.-U., & Denzinger, A. (2006). Echolocation signals of the plecotine bat, Plecotus macrobullaris, Kuzyakin, 1965. Acta Chiropterologica, 8(2):465-475.

Book Chapters

Metcalfe, C., Grube, M., Gabriel, D., Dietrich, S., Ackermann, H., Cook, V., Hanson, A., & Alter, A. (2009). The processing of emotional utterances: Roles of prosodic and lexical information. In: Brain Talk Discourse with and in the brain, K. Alter, M. Horne, M. Lindgren, M. Roll, J. von Koss Torkildsen (Eds.), pp. 139-149. ISBN: 978-91-633-5561-5

Conference Proceedings

Dietrich, S., Achimova, A., Butz, M. V., & Rolke, B. (2023, 26-29 March). Was it the bear or the lion? Evaluating different disambiguation cues in pronoun interpretation. Poster presented at the 65st Conference of Experimental Psychologists / Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Trier, Germany.

Dietrich. S., Seibold, C. V., & Rolke, B. (2022). Competitive memory operations during discourse comprehension. Poster presented at the 15th Biannual Conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science. 5th – 7th September 2022, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

Dietrich, S., Seibold, V.C., & Rolke, B. (2022, 20-23 March).  Processing contextual information: The role of memory and plausibility. Poster presented at the 64st Conference of Experimental Psychologists / Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Cologne, Germany.

Dietrich, S., Seibold, V. & Rolke, B. (2021, 2-4 June). Cortical dynamics of context-dependent speech perception. Poster presented at the 46th annual Conference Psychology and the Brain online (PuG), Tübingen, Germany.

Seibold, V. & Dietrich, S. (2021, 2-4 June). The CNV reflects automatic temporal expectancy: Further evidence from the temporal oddball task. Poster presented at the 46th annual Conference Psychology and the Brain online (PuG), Tübingen, Germany.

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Seibold, V.C., & Rolke, B. (2020, 13-15 February). Cortical Dynamics of Context-Dependent Speech – Towards a Cognitive-Neuroanatomical Model. Poster presented at the Linguistic Evidence (LE), Tübingen, Germany.

Rolke, B., Kirsten, M., Seibold, V.C., Dietrich, S., & Hertrich, I.  (2019, 25-28 September). Processing references in context: When the polar bear does not meet a polar bear. Poster presented at the 21st Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Tenerife, Spain.

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Seibold, V.C., & Rolke, B. (2019, 20-22 August). Discourse management during speech perception – toward a cognitive-neuroanatomical model. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Helsinki, Finland.

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I. Seibold, V.C., & Rolke B. (2018, 18-19 October). Discourse management during speech perception – an fMRI study. Poster presented at the 2018 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium (SNS), Tübingen, Germany.

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I, & Ackermann, H. (2018, 11-14 March). Strategies of perceptual learning and cognitive control during ultra-fast speech comprehension – a comparison between blind with/without residual vision, and sighted. Talk presented at the 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Marburg, Germany.

Rolke, B. Dietrich, S., & Seibold, V.C. (2018, 11-14 March). Does temporal attention aid feature-based target selection? An ERP study. Poster presented at the 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Marburg, Germany.

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Ackermann, H. (2015, 25-28 November). 003. Überinterpretation der Intentionalität nonverbaler Laute beim Asperger Syndrom. Talk presented at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN), Berlin, Germany.

Dietrich, S., Müller-Dahlhaus F., Ziemann, U., Ackermann, H., & Hertrich, I. (2015, 10-14 August). The role of pre-SMA for time-critical speech perception – a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study. Talk presented at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Glasgow, Scotland. www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0238.pdf

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Ackermann, H., Ziemann, U., & Müller-Dahlhaus F. (2015, 18-21 March). P76. Transient suppression of speech comprehension by continuous theta-burst magnetic stimulation of the pre-SMA. Clinical Neurophysiology, 126(8):e131-e132. DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.04.209; Poster presented at the 59. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Klinische Neurophysiologie und Funktionelle Bildgebung (DGKN), Tübingen, Germany.

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Ackermann, H. (2015, 18-21 March). V10. Learning to comprehend time-compressed speech affects premotor and cerebellar regions in late-blind and normally sighted subjects. Talk presented at the 59. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Klinische Neurophysiologie und Funktionelle Bildgebung (DGKN), Tübingen, Germany. DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.04.088

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., & Ackermann, H. (2011, 31-4 October/November). Why do blind listeners use visual cortex for understanding ultra‐fast speech? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, DOI: 10.1121/1.3588234; Poster presented at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California.

Hertrich, I., Dietrich, S., & Ackermann, H. (2011, 31-4 October/November). Magnetic brain activity directly reflects syllable onsets and pitch periodicity of a perceived speech signal. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(4). DOI:10.1121/1.3588235; Poster presented at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California.

Moos, A., Hertrich, I., Dietrich, S., Trouvain, J., & Ackermann, H. (2008, 8-12 December). Perception of ultra-fast speech by a blind listener – Does he use his visual system? Poster presented at the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Strasbourg, France;

Dietrich, S., Ischebeck, A., Alter, K., & Ackermann, H. (2005, 25-27 February). Poster presented at the 8th Tübingen Perception Conference (TWK), Tübingen, Germany.