Lutz Jäncke

Lutz Jäncke (born July 16, 1957 in Wuppertal ) is a neuropsychologist and cognitive neuroscientist .

Life

Lutz Jäncke studied psychology , neurophysiology and brain research at the Ruhr University in Bochum , at the Technical University of Braunschweig and at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . In 1984 he completed his diploma in psychology in Düsseldorf. In 1995 he was at the Mathematics and Science Faculty of the University of Düsseldorf with a thesis on the importance of audiophonatorischen coupling for the speech control to Dr. rer. nat. PhD . In 1995 he completed his habilitation at the same faculty with a thesis on anatomical and functional hemispheric asymmetries . The habilitation thesis was awarded by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Düsseldorf.

In 1996 he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation . After a research stay at the Beth Israel Hospital of Harvard Medical School , he worked as a senior researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich .

In 1997 he accepted a call to a C4 professorship in general psychology at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg . Since April 2002 he has been full professor of neuropsychology at the University of Zurich .

Services

In his scientific work, Jäncke mainly deals with the functional plasticity of the human brain. For this he often uses professional musicians as a model group to investigate brain plasticity. He has also dealt with the neural basis of synesthesia. For this purpose, he uses modern imaging methods ( functional magnetic resonance tomography , electroencephalography ) and brain stimulation methods ( transcranial magnetic stimulation , transcranial direct current stimulation).

So far, Lutz Jäncke has published more than 400 original papers in scientific journals. His work is listed in the Essential Science Indicator. He is currently one of the 1% of the most frequently cited scientists. In addition to the original work, he has published more than 50 book chapters and several books.

In 2009, together with Mike Martin (geriatric psychologist) at the University of Zurich, he founded “The International Normal Aging and Plasticity Imaging Center” for research into the cognitive and neuroscientific basis of aging. In 2012, Jäncke and Martin founded the university research focus “Dynamics of Healthy Aging” at the University of Zurich.

In 2007 he was awarded the “Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching” at the University of Zurich, endowed with 10,000 Swiss francs, for his free lecture series “Fundamentals of Biological Psychology”. In 2006 and 2008 he received the " Golden Owl " from the Association of Students at ETH (VSETH) . This is a sympathy award from the students to the lecturers at ETH Zurich . In 2011 he was again awarded a teaching award from the University of Zurich (honoring the lecturers who have been nominated several times for the “Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching”).

Fonts

Books

• Methods of imaging in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005.
• with Bärbel Hüsing, Brigitte Tag : Impact Assessment of Neuroimaging. Vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 2006.
• ed. with Fred W. Mast: Spatial Processing in Navigation, Imagery and Perception. Springer, New York 2007.
• Does music make you smart? New insights from neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Huber, Bern 2008.
• Textbook Cognitive Neuroscience. Huber, Bern 2013.
• Is Our Mind Sane? Findings from a neuropsychologist. Huber, Bern 2015.

Articles (selection)

• Jäncke, L., Wüstenberg, T., Scheich, H., & Heinze, HJ (2002). Phonetic perception and the temporal lobe. Neuroimage, 15, 733-746.
• Jäncke, L., & Steinmetz, H. (2002). Anatomical brain asymmetries and their relevance for functional asymmetries. In: K. Hugdahl & RJ Davidson (Eds.), Brain asymmetry. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Münte, TF, Altenmüller, E. , Jäncke, L. (2002). The musician's brain as a model for neuroplasticity. Nature Neuroscience Reviews, 3, 473-478.
• Beeli G., Esslen M., Jäncke L. (2005). When colored sounds taste sweet: An extraordinary type of gustatory synesthesia. Nature , 434, 38.
• Jäncke, L. (2006). From cognition to action. In: E. Altenmüller, J. Kesselring & M. Wiesendanger (Eds.), Music, Motor Control and the Brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Jancke, L. (2009). The plastic human brain. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 27 (5), 521-538.
• Jancke, L., Cheetham, M., & Baumgartner, T. (2009). Virtual reality and the role of the prefrontal cortex in adults and children. Front Neurosci, 3 (1), 52-59.
• Hanggi, J., Wotruba, D., & Jancke, L. (2011). Globally altered structural brain network topology in grapheme-color synesthesia. J Neurosci, 31, 5816-5828.
• Bezzola, L., Merillat, S., Gaser, C., & Jancke, L. (2011). Training-induced neural plasticity in golf novices. J Neurosci, 31 (35), 12444-12448.
• Jäncke, L., Langer, N., & Hänggi, J. (2012). Diminished Whole-brain but Enhanced Peri-sylvian Connectivity in Absolute Pitch Musicians. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 1447-1461.
• Langer, N., Hanggi, J., Muller, NA, Simmen, HP, & Jancke, L. (2012). Effects of limb immobilization on brain plasticity. Neurology, 78, 182-188.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lutz Jäncke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lutz Jäncke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website of Lutz Jäncke (University of Zurich)
• Interview in Weltwoche, issue 41, 2006
• Interview in Weltwoche, issue 38, 2006
• Music is balm for the brain - interview in the television program “Sternstunde Philosophie”, April 9, 2006 - entire program (55 minutes) as 78.8 MB QuickTime movie (.mov)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Department of Neuropsychology [1]
2. ↑ Department of Gerontopsychology - UZH Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ INAPIC [2]
4. ↑ Dynamic of Healthy Aging Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.