Die Forschung der Universitätsabteilung für Klinische Audiologie beschäftigt sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten zum auditorischen System. Wichtige Schwerpunkte sind:

• Kortikale Plastizität bei Patienten mit einem Cochlea-Implantat:
  
  Sandmann, P., Plotz, K., Hauthal, N., de Vos, M., Schönfeld, R., & Debener, S. (2015). Rapid bilateral improvement in auditory cortex activity in postlingually deafened adults following cochlear implantation. Clinical Neurophysiology, 126(3), 594-607.
  
  Sandmann, P., Dillier, N., Eichele, T., Meyer, M., Kegel, A., Pascual-Marqui, R. D., Marcar, V. L., Jäncke, L., & Debener, S. (2012). Visual activation of auditory cortex reflects maladaptive plasticity in cochlear implant users. Brain, 135, 555 - 568.
  
  Sandmann, P., Eichele, T., Büchler, M., Debener, S., Jäncke, L., Dillier, N., Hugdahl, K., & Meyer, M. (2009). Evaluation of evoked potentials to dyadic tones after cochlear implantation. Brain, 132(7), 1967 - 1979.
   
• Objektive Evaluation des Versorgungsergebnisses bei Patienten, die mit einem Hörsystem versorgt sind:
  
  Weglage, A., Müller, V., Layer, N., Abdel-Latif, K. H., Lang-Roth, R., Walger, M., & Sandmann, P. (2022). Side-of-implantation effect on functional asymmetry in the auditory cortex of single-sided deaf cochlear-implant users. Brain Topography, 35(4), 431-452.
  
  Kessler, M., Schierholz, I., Mamach, M., Wilke, F., Hahne, A., Büchner, A., Geworski, L., Bengel, F., Sandmann, P.* & Berding, G.* (2020). Combined Brain-Perfusion SPECT and EEG measurements suggest distinct strategies for speech comprehension in CI users with higher and lower performance. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, 787
  
  Sandmann, P., Kegel, A., Eichele, T., Dillier, N., Lai, W., Bendixen, A., Debener, S., Jäncke, L., & Meyer, M. (2010). Neurophysiological evidence of impaired musical sound perception in cochlear-implant users. Clinical Neurophysiology, 121(12), 2070 - 2082.
   
• Multisensorische Interaktion und Kognition bei Patienten mit Cochlea-Implantat:
  
  Layer, N., Weglage, A., Müller, V., Meister, H., Lang-Roth, R., Walger, M., Murray, M. M., & Sandmann, P. (2022). Electrophysiological differences and similarities in audiovisual speech processing in CI users with unilateral and bilateral hearing loss. Current Research in Neurobiology, 3, 100059.
  
  Layer, N., Weglage, A., Müller, V., Meister, H., Lang-Roth, R., Walger, M., Murray, M. M., & Sandmann, P. (2022). The timecourse of multisensory speech processing in unilaterally stimulated cochlear implant users revealed by ERPs. NeuroImage: Clinical, 34, 102982.
  
  Radecke, J. O., Schierholz, I., Kral, A., Lenarz, T., Murray, M. M., & Sandmann, P. (2022). Distinct multisensory perceptual processes guide enhanced auditory recognition memory in older cochlear implant users. NeuroImage: Clinical, 33, 102942.
  
  Schierholz, I., Finke, M., Kral, A., Büchner, A., Rach, S., Lenarz, T., Dengler, R., & Sandmann, P. (2017). Auditory and audio–visual processing in patients with cochlear, auditory brainstem, and auditory midbrain implants: An EEG study. Human Brain Mapping, 38(4), 2206-2225.
  
  Schierholz, I., Finke, M., Schulte, S., Hauthal, N., Kantzke, C., Rach, S., Büchner, A., Dengler, R., & Sandmann, P. (2015). Enhanced audio-visual interactions in the auditory cortex of elderly cochlear-implant users. Hearing Research, 328, 133-147.
  
  Finke, M., Büchner, A., Ruigendijk, E., Meyer, M., & Sandmann, P. (2016). On the relationship between auditory cognition and speech intelligibility in cochlear implant users: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 87, 169-181.
   
• Subkortikale auditorische Informationsverarbeitung:
  
  Beck, A. K.*, Sandmann, P.*, Dürschmid, S., Schwabe, K., Saryyeva, A., Krauss, J. K. (2020). Neuronal activation in the human centromedian-parafascicular complex predicts cortical responses to behaviourally significant auditory events. NeuroImage, 116583.
  
  Beck, A. K., Lütjens, G., Schwabe, K., Dengler, R., Krauss, J. K., & Sandmann, P. (2018). Thalamic and basal ganglia regions are involved in attentional processing of behaviorally significant events: evidence from simultaneous depth and scalp EEG. Brain Structure and Function, 223(1), 461-474.

* = geteilte Erst-/Letztautorenschaft