Benjamin Straube

Short info

As Professor for Translational Neuroimaging it is my aim to fill the need for translating basic research from experimental psychology and neuroimaging to clinical investigations in patients with mental disorders, in particular schizophrenia and anxiety disorders. In general, I’m interested in predictive neural mechanisms in a multisensory environment as well as adaptive behavior reflected in learning, memory and neuro-functional plasticity (e.g., in context of psychotherapy). Additionally, I’m concerned with interdisciplinary research questions of how the human brain gives rise to complex processes such as Theory of mind, social interactions and communication.

I combine fMRI, EEG or non-invasive brain stimulation techniques (tDCS) with a variety of experimental paradigms to understand the adaptive and maladaptive functions of the human brain.

Open Science

Hermann, A., Benke, C., Blecker, C., de Haas, B., He, Y., Hofmann, S., Iffland, J., Jengert-Stahl, J., Kircher, T., Leinweber, k., Linka, M., Mulert, C., Neudert, M.K., Noll, A.K, Melzig, C., Rief, W., Rothkopf, C., Schäfer, A., Schmitter, C., Schuster, V., Stark, R., Straube, B., Zimmer, R. & Kirchner, L. (2024).
Study Protocol TransTAM: Transdiagnostic Research into Emotional Disorders and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of the Adaptive Mind.
OSF preprint

Kirchner, L., Eckert, A., Berg, M., Endres, D., Straube, B., & Rief, W. (2022).
Better safe than sorry? - An active inference approach to biased inference on social contexts in depression.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Kufer, K., Schmitter, C. V., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2023).
Temporal recalibration in response to delayed visual feedback of active versus passive actions: An fMRI study.

Osorio, S., Straube, B., Meyer, L., & He, Y. (2022).
Co-speech gestures enhance lexical-semantic prediction: Naturalistic evidence from time-resolved regression ERPs.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Schmitter, C. V., & Straube, B. (2023).
Facilitation of sensorimotor temporal recalibration mechanisms by cerebellar tDCS in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder and healthy subjects.
bioRxiv, 2023-09.

Streiling, K., Schulke, R., van Dam, L. C., & Straube, B. (2024).
Choice-and trial-history effects on causality perception in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder.

Wroblewski, A., Hollandt, M., Yang, Y., Ridderbusch, I.C., Pietzner, A., Szeska, C., Lotze, M., Wittchen, H.-U., Heinig, I., Pittig, A., Arolt, V., Koelkebeck, K., Rothkopf, C.A., Adolph, D., Margraf, J., Lueken, U., Pauli, P., Herrmann, M.J., Winkler, M.H., Ströhle, A., Dannlowski, U., Kircher, T., Hamm, A.O., Straube, B.* & Richter, J.* (2022). *contributed equally
Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear: How Intolerance of Uncertainty and Trait Anxiety impact fear acquisition, extinction and the return of fear.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Articles

Arikan, B. E., van Kemenade, B. M., Fiehler, K., Kircher, T., Drewing, K., & Straube, B. (2021).
Different contributions of efferent and reafferent feedback to sensorimotor temporal recalibration.
Scientific Reports, 11(1).

Arikan, B. E., Voudouris, D., Straube, B., & Fiehler, K. (2024).
Distinct role of central predictive mechanisms in tactile suppression
iScience, 27 (8), 110582.

Cuevas, P., He, Y., Steines, M., & Straube, B.Cuevas, P., He, Y., Steines, M., & Straube, B. (2022).
Processing of Semantic Complexity and Cospeech Gestures in Schizophrenia: A Naturalistic, Multimodal fMRI Study.
Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 3(1), sgac026.

Hilbert, K., Böhnlein, J., Meinke, C., Chavanne, A., Langhammer, T., Stumpe, L., Winter, N., Kircher, T., Rief, W., Straube, B., Roesmann, K., Leehr, E.J., Dannlowski, U., & Lueken, U., (2024).
Lack of evidence for predictive utility from resting state fMRI data for individual exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy outcomes: A machine learning study in two large multi-site samples in anxiety disorders.
NeuroImage, 295, 120639.

Kavroulakis, E., van Kemenade, B. M., Arikan, B. E., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2022).
The effect of self- vs. externally generated actions on timing, duration and amplitude of BOLD response for visual feedback processing.
Human Brain Mapping, in press.

Kufer, K., Schmitter, C. V., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2023).
Temporal recalibration in response to delayed visual feedback of active versus passive actions: An fMRI study.

Lubinus, C., Einhäuser, W., Schiller, F., Kircher, T., Straube, B. & van Kemenade, B.M. (2022).
Action-based predictions affect visual perception, neural processing, and pupil size, regardless of temporal predictability.
NeuroImage, 263, 119601.

Ody, E., Kircher, T., Straube, B., & He, Y. (2023).
Pre-movement event-related potentials and multivariate pattern of EEG encode action outcome prediction. Human Brain Mapping.

Ody, E., Straube, B., He, Y., Kircher, T. (2023).
Perception of self-generated and externally-generated visual stimuli: Evidence from EEG and behavior.
Psychophysiology, e14295.

Osorio, S., Straube, B., Meyer, L., & He, Y. (2023).
The role of co-speech gestures in retrieval and prediction during naturalistic multimodal narrative processing.
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-16.

O’Leary, A., Fernàndez-Castillo, N., Gan, G., Yang, Y., Yotova, A. Y., Kranz, T. M., ... Kircher, T. …, Straube, B., ... Reif, A. (2022).
Behavioural and functional evidence revealing the role of RBFOX1 variation in multiple psychiatric disorders and traits.
Molecular Psychiatry, 1–10.

Ridderbusch, I. C., Wroblewski, A., Yang, Y., Richter, J., Hollandt, M. Hamm, A. O., Wittchen, H.-U., Ströhle, A., Arolt, V., Margraf, J., Lueken, U., Hermann, M. J., Kircher, T. & Straube, B. (2021).
Neural adaptation of cingulate and insular activity during delayed fear extinction: A replicable pattern across assessment sites and repeated measurements.
NeuroImage, 237, 118157.

Riedl, L., Nagels, A., Sammer, G., Choudhury, M., Nonnenmann, A., ... & Straube, B. (2022).
Changes in Neural Processing After Multimodal Speech-Gesture Training in Patients With Schizophrenia.
OHBM conference. 237, 118157.

Riedl, L., Nagels, A., Sammer, G., Choudhury, M., Nonnenmann, A., Sütterlin, A., Feise, C., Haslach, M., Bitsch, F., Kühne, H., Hartmann, T.H., Shvetsova, N. & Straube, B. (2022).
Multimodal speech-gesture training in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder: Effects on quality of life and neural processing.
Schizophrenia Research, 246, 112-125.

Rosenblum, L., Kreß, A., Ezgi Atikan, B., Straube, B., Bremmer, F. (2023).
Neural correlates of visual and tactile path integration and their task related modulation.
Scientific Reports, 13 (1), 9913.

Schmitter, C. V., & Straube, B. (2024).
Facilitation of sensorimotor temporal recalibration mechanisms by cerebellar tDCS in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and healthy individuals.
Scientific Reports, 14(1), 2627.

Schmitter, C.V. & Straube, B. (2022).
The impact of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on sensorimotor and inter-sensory temporal recalibration.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16:998843.

Schmitter, C.V., Kufer, K., Steinsträter, O., Sommer, J., Kircher, T., Straube, B. (2023).
Neural correlates of temporal recalibration to delayed auditory feedback of active and passive movements.
Human Brain Mapping.

Schülke, R., Schmitter, C., Straube, B. (2023).
Improving Causality Perception Judgments in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder via Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.
Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, 48(4), 245–254.

Straube, B., Kuehne, H., van Dam, L., Frey, K., van Kemenade, B.M., Kircher, T., & Ried, L. (2022).
Speech-gesture mismatch detection in individuals with high vs. low schizotypal traits.
International Consortium on Schizotypy Research, ICSR 2022.

Wroblewski, A., Hollandt, M., Yang, Y., Ridderbusch, I. C., Pietzner, A., Szeska, C., ... & Richter, J. (2022).
Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear: How Intolerance of Uncertainty and Trait Anxiety impact fear acquisition, extinction and the return of fear.