Martin Meyer

Martin Meyer is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Zurich. The focus of his research is on language-brain relationships. His research activities touch on basic questions of the evolution of prosody and syntax, as well as application-oriented aspects (the relationship between age-related hearing loss, central hearing disorders and neuroanatomical plasticity). Martin Meyer studied Psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin (diploma 1996) and received his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Neuropsychological Research in 2000. Since 2003, Martin Meyer has been at the University of Zurich, where he has worked on the following topics, among others: the evolution of language and communication, the functional neuroanatomy of language and hearing, the neuropsychology of language over the life span, the neuroplasticity of tinnitus, and the neurocognitive aspects of hearing loss and hearing impairment.

He is the (co-)author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in international journals and textbook contributions. In 2010, he received the UBS Habilitation Award from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Zurich (“Functions of the left and right posterior temporal lobes during segmental and suprasegmental speech perception”) and in 2012 the CS Best Teaching Award at the University of Zurich.

Relevant publications:

  • Neuschwander, Pia, Hänggi, Jürgen, Zekveld, Adriana A. & Meyer, Martin (2019a). Cortical thickness of left Heschl’s gyrus correlates with hearing acuity in adults–A surface-based morphometry study. Hearing Research 38(107823). DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2019.107823.
  • Giroud, Nathalie, Keller, Matthias, Hirsiger, Sarah, Dellwo, Volker & Meyer, Martin (2019b). Bridging the brain structure-brain function-behavior gap on prosodic speech processing in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging 80, 116-126. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2019.04.017.
  • Keller, Matthias, Neuschwander, Pia & Meyer, Martin (2019c). When right becomes less right: Neural dedifferentiation during suprasegmental speech processing in the aging brain. NeuroImage 189, 886-895. DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2019.107823.
  • Giroud, Nathalie, Lemke, Ulrike, Reich, Philip, Bauer, Julia, Widmer, Susanne & Meyer, Martin (2018a). Are you surprised to hear this? Longitudinal spectral speech exposure in older compared to middle-aged normal hearing adults. European Journal of Neuroscience 47, 58-68. DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13772.
  • Giroud, Nathalie, Hirsiger, Sarah, Muri, Raphaela, Kegel, Andrea, Dillier, Norbert & Meyer, Martin (2018b). Neuroanatomical and resting state EEG power correlates of central hearing loss in older adults. Brain Structure and Function 223(1), 145-163. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-017-1477-0.
  • Giroud, Nathalie, Lemke, Ulrike, Reich, Philip, Matthes, Katharina L. & Meyer, Martin (2017a). The impact of hearing aids and age-related hearing loss on auditory plasticity across three months - an electrical neuroimaging study. Hearing Research 353, 162-175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2017.06.012.
  • Meyer, Martin, Neff. Patrick, Grest, Angelina, Hemsley, Colette, Weidt, Steffi & Kleinjung, Tobias (2017b). EEG oscillatory power dissociates between distress- and depression related psychopathology in subjective tinnitus. Brain Research 1663, 194-204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2017.03.007.
  • Giroud, Nathalie, Lemke, Ulrike, Reich, Patrick, Matthes, Katharina L. & Meyer, Martin (2017c). Longitudinal auditory learning facilitates auditory cognition as revealed by microstate analysis. Biological Psychology 123, 25-36.
  • Sandmann, Pascale, Kegel, Andrea, Eichele, Tom, Dillier, Norbert, Lai, Waikong, Bendixen, Alexandra, Debener, Stefan, Jäncke, Lutz & Meyer, Martin (2010). Neurophysiological evidence of impaired musical sound perception in cochlear-implant users. Clinical Neurophysiology 121, 2070-2082. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2010.04.032.
  • Sandmann, Pascale, Eichele, Tom, Buechler, Michael, Debener, Stefan, Jäncke, Lutz, Dillier, Norbert, Hughdahl, Kenneth & Meyer, Martin (2009). Evaluation of evoked potentials to dyadic tones after cochlear implantation. Brain 132(7), 1967-1979. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awp034.