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Basil Preisig

PD Dr. Basil Preisig

Senior Researcher

Ambizione Project Leader

Ambizione Project Preisig

Research Interests

Attention
Speech perception
Hand gestures
Hearing impairment
Language disorders (aphasia)
Non-invasive brain stimulation

Academic Career

Since 03/2022	Project leader, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich
02/2019-02/2022	Postdoctoral scientist, Neurolinguistics, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich
02/2017-01/2019	Postdoctoral fellow, Donders Institute for Cognitive Neuroimaging and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
08/2012-05/2016	PhD in Neuroscience, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
09/2007-07/2012	MSc in Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland

Publications

Teaching

Links

Twitter @BasilPreisig

BlueSky @basilpreisig.bsky.social

ZORA Publication List

Publications

Preisig, Basil C; Meyer, Martin (2025). Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 172:106111.
Preisig, Basil C (2024). Das Potenzial der frequenzspezifischen Neuromodulation für die Untersuchung und Verbesserung der Sprachverarbeitung im Gehirn. Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, 35(1):a000386.
van Nispen, Karin; Sekine, Kazuki; van der Meulen, Ineke; Preisig, Basil C (2022). Gesture in the eye of the beholder: An eye-tracking study on factors determining the attention for gestures produced by people with aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 174:108315.
Preisig, Basil; Riecke, Lars; Hervais-Adelman, Alexis (2022). Speech sound categorization: The contribution of non-auditory and auditory cortical regions. NeuroImage, 258:119375.
Preisig, Basil C; Hervais-Adelman, Alexis (2022). The Predictive Value of Individual Electric Field Modeling for Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Induced Brain Modulation. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 16:818703.
Preisig, Basil C; Riecke, Lars; Sjerps, Matthias J; Kösem, Anne; Kop, Benjamin R; Bramson, Bob; Hagoort, Peter; Hervais-Adelman, Alexis (2021). Selective modulation of interhemispheric connectivity by transcranial alternating current stimulation influences binaural integration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(7):e2015488118.
Preisig, Basil C; Sjerps, Matthias J; Hervais-Adelman, Alexis; Kösem, Anne; Hagoort, Peter; Riecke, Lars (2020). Bilateral Gamma/Delta Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Affects Interhemispheric Speech Sound Integration. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(7):1242-1250.
Preisig, Basil C; Sjerps, Matthias J (2019). Hemispheric specializations affect interhemispheric speech sound integration during duplex perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(3):EL190.
Preisig, Basil C; Sjerps, Matthias J; Kösem, Anne; Riecke, Lars (2019). Dual-site high-density 4Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation applied over auditory and motor cortical speech areas does not influence auditory-motor mapping. Brain Stimulation, 12(3):775-777.
Preisig, Basil C; Eggenberger, Noëmi; Cazzoli, Dario; Nyffeler, Thomas; Gutbrod, Klemens; Annoni, Jean-Marie; Meichtry, Jurka R; Nef, Tobias; Müri, René M (2018). Multimodal Communication in Aphasia: Perception and Production of Co-speech Gestures During Face-to-Face Conversation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12:200.
Cazzoli, Dario; Hopfner, Simone; Preisig, Basil C; Zito, Giuseppe; Vanbellingen, Tim; Jäger, Michael; Nef, Tobias; Mosimann, Urs; Bohlhalter, Stephan; Müri, René M; Nyffeler, Thomas (2016). The influence of naturalistic, directionally non-specific motion on the spatial deployment of visual attention in right-hemispheric stroke. Neuropsychologia, 92:181-189.
Preisig, Basil C; Eggenberger, Noëmi; Zito, Giuseppe; Vanbellingen, Tim; Schumacher, Rahel; Hopfner, Simone; Gutbrod, Klemens; Nyffeler, Thomas; Cazzoli, Dario; Annoni, Jean-Marie; Bohlhalter, Stephan; Müri, René M (2016). Eye Gaze Behavior at Turn Transition: How Aphasic Patients Process Speakers' Turns during Video Observation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(10):1613-24.
De León Rodríguez, Diego; Buetler, Karin A; Eggenberger, Noëmi; Preisig, Basil C; Schumacher, Rahel; Laganaro, Marina; Nyffeler, Thomas; Annoni, Jean-Marie; Müri, René M (2016). The modulation of reading strategies by language opacity in early bilinguals: an eye movement study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(3):567-577.
Eggenberger, Noëmi; Preisig, Basil C; Schumacher, Rahel; Hopfner, Simone; Vanbellingen, Tim; Nyffeler, Thomas; Gutbrod, Klemens; Annoni, Jean-Marie; Bohlhalter, Stephan; Cazzoli, Dario; Müri, René M (2016). Comprehension of Co-Speech Gestures in Aphasic Patients: An Eye Movement Study. PLoS ONE, 11(1):e0146583.
Vanbellingen, Tim; Schumacher, Rahel; Eggenberger, Noëmi; Hopfner, Simone; Cazzoli, Dario; Preisig, Basil C; Bertschi, Manuel; Nyffeler, Thomas; Gutbrod, Klemens; Bassetti, Claudio L; Bohlhalter, Stephan; Müri, René M (2015). Different visual exploration of tool-related gestures in left hemisphere brain damaged patients is associated with poor gestural imitation. Neuropsychologia, 71:158-64.
Preisig, Basil C; Eggenberger, Noëmi; Zito, Giuseppe; Vanbellingen, Tim; Schumacher, Rahel; Hopfner, Simone; Nyffeler, Thomas; Gutbrod, Klemens; Annoni, Jean-Marie; Bohlhalter, Stephan; Müri, René M (2015). Perception of co-speech gestures in aphasic patients: a visual exploration study during the observation of dyadic conversations. Cortex, 64:157-68.
Schumacher, Rahel; Cazzoli, Dario; Eggenberger, Noëmi; Preisig, Basil C; Nef, Tobias; Nyffeler, Thomas; Gutbrod, Klemens; Annoni, Jean-Marie; Müri, René M (2015). Cue Recognition and Integration - Eye Tracking Evidence of Processing Differences in Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia. PLoS ONE, 10(11):e0142853.