Carsten Mehring (PhD)

Address: Institute for Biology I Albert-Ludwigs-University Hauptstr. 1 D-79104 Freiburg i.Br. Germany Phone: +49 (0)761 203-2543 Fax: +49 (0)761 203-2921 E-mail:

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

• Braun D, Waldert S, Aertsen A, Wolpert D, Mehring C (2010), Structure learning in a sensorimotor association task, PLoS One (in press)
• Braun D, Mehring C, Wolpert D (2009), Structure learning in action, Behav Brain Res. (in press)
• Waldert S and Pistohl T, Braun C, Ball T, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), A Review on Directional Information in Neural Signals for Brain-Machine Interfaces, Journal of Physiology Paris (accepted)
• Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), Differential representation of arm movement direction in relation to cortical anatomy and function, Journal of Neural Engineering 6(1):016006
• Braun D, Aertsen A, Wolpert DM, Mehring C (2009), Learning optimal adaptation strategies in unpredictable motor tasks, Journal of Neuroscience 29(20):6472-8
• Braun D, Aertsen A, Wolpert DM, Mehring C (2009), Motor task variation induces structural learning, Current Biology 19(4):352-7
• Schulz J, Redgrave P, Mehring C, Aertsen A, Clements K, Wickens J, and Reynolds J (2009), Short latency activation of striatal spiny neurons via subcortical visual pathways, Journal of Neuroscience 29(19):6336-47
• Pistohl T, Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008), Prediction of Arm Movement Trajectories from ECoG-Recordings in Humans, J Neurosci Methods, 167/1 pp. 105-115
• Waldert S, Preissl H, Demandt E, Braun C, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008), Hand movement direction decoded from MEG and EEG. Journal of Neuroscience 28(4):1000-1008 (PDF). Also available at: The Journal of Neuroscience, copyright: The Society for Neuroscience.
• Ball T, Demandt E, Mutschler I, Neitzel E, Mehring C, Vogt K, Ad Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A (2008), Movement Related Activity in the High Gamma Range of the Human EEG, NeuroImage 2008 Jun;41(2):302-10.
• Morrison A, Mehring C, Geisel T, Aertsen A, Diesmann M (2005) Advancing the boundaries of high connectivity network simulation with distributed computing. Neural Computation 17(8):1776-1801 (PDF)
• Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Vaadia E, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Ball T (2005) Comparing information about arm movement direction in single channels of local and epicortical field potentials from monkey and human motor cortex. J.Physiol. (Paris) 98:498-506 (PDF)
• Rickert J, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Vaadia E, Aertsen A, Rotter S, Mehring C (2005) Encoding of movement direction in different frequency ranges of motor cortical local field potentials. Journal of Neuroscience Sep 28;25(39):8815-24 (PDF). Also available at: The Journal of Neuroscience, copyright: The Society for Neuroscience.
• Mehring C, Hehl U, Kubo M, Diesmann M, Aertsen A (2003) Activity dynamics and propagation of synchronous spiking in locally connected random networks. Biol Cybern 88: 395-408
• Mehring C*, Rickert J*, Vaadia E, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Aertsen A, Rotter S (2003) Inference of hand movements from local field potentials in monkey motor cortex. Nature Neurosci 6(12): 1253-1254 (PDF)
• Aviel Y, Mehring C, Abeles M, Horn D (2003) On embedding synfire chains in a balanced network. Neural Computation 15(6): 1321-1340
• Münkel C, Eils R, Dietzel S, Zink D, Mehring C, Wedemann G, Cremer T, Langowski J (1999) Compartmentalization of interphase chromosomes observed in simulation and experiment. Journal of Molecular Biology, 285:1053-1065

• Rickert J, Ball T, Henle C, Huetz C, Fischer J, Liao X, Meier W, Schuettler M, Milekovic T, Pistohl T, Raab M, Vogt K, Schulze-Bonhage A, Stieglitz T, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008) Development of a neuronal motor prosthesis for the restoration of movement in paralyzed people. Biomed. Eng. (Berlin) 53 (Suppl.1), 191-193
• Huetz C, Milekovic T, Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008) Discriminating sounds from the human electrocorticogram for brain-computer interfaces. 13th Annual Conference of the International FES Society (Germany, Freiburg) (PDF)
• Milekovic T, Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008) Performance and control error related neuronal signals in human ECoG recordings.13th Annual Conference of the International FES Society (Germany, Freiburg)
• Blumberg J, Rickert J, Waldert S, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2007) Adaptive Classification for Brain Computer Interfaces. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007;1:2536-9.
• Waldert S, Braun C, Preissl H, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2007) Decoding Performance for Hand Movements: EEG vs. MEG. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007;1:5346-5348. (PDF)
• Blumberg J, Schulze-Bonhage A, Mehring C, Aertsen A, Ball T (2006) Movement onset related changes in ECoG recordings. Proceedings of the 3rd International Brain-Computer Interface Workshop and Training Course 2006 (PDF)
• Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Ball T Human brain-machine interfacing based on epicortical field potentials: Comparison of different decoding methods (2005) Biomed. Eng. (Berlin) Vol.50 ,Supp.Vol 1(1):536-537
• Ball T, Nawrot MP, Pistohl T, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A, Mehring C (2004) Towards a brain-machine interface based on epicortical field potentials. Biomed. Eng. (Berlin), 49 (Suppl. 2), 756-759 (PDF)
• Mehring C, Rickert J, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Vaadia E, Aertsen A, Rotter S (2003) Hints for a topographic map of tuning properties in primate motor cortex. In: Proc 1st Internat IEEE EMBS Conf on Neural Engineering, pp 28-31. Capri (Italy)

• Ball T, Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Weiskopf N (2003), Neuronale Kodierung von Bewegung bei Affe und Mensch: Von Einzelzellen und Zellenensembles zum Brain-Computer-Interface. In: Jahrbuch der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften für 2002: 261-64
• Langowski J, Mehring C, Hammermann M, Klenin K, Münkel C, Toth K, Wedemann G (2000), The genome as a flexible polymer chain: recent results from simulations and experiments. In: Genomics and Proteomics - functional and computational aspects pp 121-131. Suhai S (ed). Plenum Press, New York

• Mehring C (2003), Neuronal encoding of movement in motor cortical networks. Doctoral Thesis, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg
• Mehring C (1999), Simulation von Chromosomen. Diploma Thesis. Faculty of Physics, University of Heidelberg

• Mehring C (2003), Neuronal encoding of movement in motor cortical networks. B.I.F. Futura 18(4):273-277

• Waldert S, Kobak D, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), Extrapolation of a motor skill after structural motor learning, 19th NCM Conference on Neural Control of Movement, Hawaii
• Kobak D, Waldert S, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), Learning visuomotor rotations in three dimensions, 19th NCM Conference on Neural Control of Movement, Hawaii
• Rickert J, Schalk G, Brunner P, Ritaccio A, Mehring C (2009), Neural coding of arm movement direction under different behavioral contexts, Neuroscience 2009 Abstract Number 770.3
• Rickert J, Ball T, Stieglitz T, Henle C, Fischer J, Galan F, Hammer J, Liao X, Meier W, Milekovic T, Pistohl T, Raab M, Waldert S, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), Towards an electrocorticogram based brain-computer interface using the neural correlates of natural hand movements: research and development at the Bernstein center in Freiburg. BBCI Workshop 2009, Berlin
• Milekovic T, Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008), Control- and performance-error signals in the human electrocorticogram (ECoG). AREADNE 2008 Research in Encoding And Decoding of Neural Ensembles (Greece, Santorini)
• Milekovic T, Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008), Performance- and control error-related neuronal signals in human ECoG recordings during a continuous task. 4th Bernstein Symposium for Computational Neuroscience (Germany, Munchen)
• Blumberg J, Rickert J, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2007), Adaptive Classifiers for the use in Brain Computer Interfaces. Neurex BCCN Meeting 2007, pp. 65-66.
• Braun DA, Wolpert DM, Aertsen A, Rotter S, Paz R, Vaadia E, Mehring C (2007) Adaptive Optimal Control Approaches to Sensorimotor Learning. Advances in Computational Motor Control Workshop, Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2007, San Diego.
• Waldert S, Braun C, Preissl H, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Mehring C (2007) Applicability of hand movement decoding in MEG-based Brain-Machine-Interfaces; 37th Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
• Waldert S, Preissl H, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2007), Decoding of Hand Movement Directions from Human MEG-Signals. Neurex BCCN Meeting 2007, 163-164.
• Mehring C, Rickert J, Ball T, Pistohl T, Blumberg J, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A, Stieglitz T, Vogt, K (2007) Entwicklung eines Brain-Machine Interface zur Wiederherstellung der Bewegungsfähigkeit schwerstgelähmter Menschen. Biofuture Symposium 2007, pp.26; Berlin
• Pistohl T, Ball T, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A, Mehring C (2007), Identification of Natural Grasps in Human ECoG Signals. Neuroscience 2007
• Pistohl T, Ball T, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2007), Prediction of Movement Trajectories from Epicortical Field Potentials in Humans. Neurex BCCN Meeting 2007, pp. 58-59.
• Demandt E, Ball T, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A, Vogt K, Mehring C (2007), Representation of arm movement parameters in the EEG. Neurex BCCN Meeting 2007, pp. 78-80
• Braun DA, Aertsen A, Paz R, Vaadia E, Rotter S, Mehring C (2007) Sensorimotor learning is self-optimizing feedback control. Annual meeting of the Neural Control of Movement Society, Sevilla, Spain 2007.
• Braun D, Aertsen A, Wolpert D, Mehring C (2007), Structural Learning in Motor Control. Neurex BCCN Meeting 2007, pp. 47-49
• Braun DA, Aertsen A, Wolpert DM, Mehring C (2007) Structural Learning in Visuomotor Tasks with Randomly Changing Task Parameters. Annual meeting of the Neural Control of Movement Society, Sevilla, Spain 2007.
• Rickert J, Braun D, Mehring C (2007), Unsupervised adaptive kalman-filter for decoding non-stationary brain-signals. Neuroscience 2007, Presentation Number:414.13
• Blumberg J, Schulze-Bonhage A, Mehring C, Aertsen A, Ball T (2006) Arm Movement Direction Unspecific Epicortical Field Potentials in Human Frontal and Parietal Cortex. Human Brain Mapping 2006, Florenz.
• Blumberg J, Schulze-Bonhage A, Ball T, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2006) Brain-Computer-Interface: Maschinen per Gedanken steuern. Deutsche Physikerinnentagung 2006, Berlin.
• Rickert J, Ball T, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Schulze-Bonhage A, Vaadia E, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2006), Correlations between motor cortical population signals (LFP, ECoG) improve the decoding of movement direction. Dynamic principles for neuroscience and intelligent biomimetic devices, EPFL LATSIS Symposium 2006, page127-8.
• Waldert S, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Preissl H, Mehring C (2006) Encoding of Movement Direction in Motor Cortical MEG-Signals, 15th International BIOMAG Conference on Biomagnetism, Vancouver, Canada
• Braun DA, Aertsen A, Paz R, Vaadia E, Rotter S, Mehring C (2006) Optimal feedback control adapted to explain sensorimotor learning phenomena. In: Dynamical principles for neuroscience and intelligent biomimetic devices, EPFL LATSIS Symposium 2006: 27-28.
• Braun D, Aertsen A, Rotter S, Mehring C (2005) Adaptive Optimal Control Methods Elucidate Sensorimotor Learning Phenomena. In: Proceedings of the 6th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference of the German Neuroscience Society (Germany)
• Rickert J, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Vaadia E, Aertsen A, Rotter S, Mehring C (2005) Encoding of movement direction in different frequency ranges of motor cortical local field potentials. In: Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2005, Prog 707.1.
• Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Rickert J, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A, Ball T (2005) Epicortical field potentials as a basis for human brain-machine interfaces. In: Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2005, Prog 707.2.
• Nawrot MP, Pistohl T, Aertsen A, Mehring C, Schulze-Bonhage A, Ball T (2005) Evidence for global brain-state dynamics in the human cortex. In: Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2005, Prog 276.6.
• Mehring C, Ball T, Nawrot MP, Aertsen A, Schulze-Bonhage A (2005) Human brain-machine interfacing based on epicortical field potentials: I. Inference of arm movement direction. In: Proceedings of the 4th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference of the German Neuroscience Society (in press)
• Ball T, Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A (2005) Human brain-machine interfacing based on epicortical field potentials: II. Topography of directional information in frontal cortex. In: Proceedings of the 4th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference of the German Neuroscience Society (in press)
• Nawrot MP, Mehring C, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Ball T (2005) Human brain-machine interfacing based on epicortical field potentials: III. Spatial resolution of directional information gain and implications for the design of intracranial electrode arrays. In: Proceedings of the 4th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference of the German Neuroscience Society (in press)
• Braun DA, Aertsen A, Paz R, Vaadia E, Rotter S, Mehring C (2005) Interpreting sensorimotor learning by adaptive optimal control. In: Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2005, Prog 822.4.
• Braun DA, Aertsen A, Paz R, Vaadia E, Rotter S, Mehring C (2005) Interpreting Sensorimotor Learning by Adaptive Optimal Control Program No. 822.4. 2005. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience (USA)
• Pistohl T, Ball T, Nawrot MP, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2005) Phase-synchrony of the cortical μ-rhythm and higher-frequency oscillations. In: Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2005, Prog 274.16.
• Nawrot MP, Boucsein C, Seamari Y, Mehring C, Aertsen A, Rotter S (2005) Serial spiking statistics of cortical neurons in vivo and in vitro. In: Proceedings of the 4th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference of the German Neuroscience Society (in press)
• Demandt E, Mehring C; Nawrot MP, Vogt K, Ball T (2005) Spatiotemporal mapping of information about arm movement direction using high-resolution EEG. In: Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2005, Prog 520.3.
• Rickert J, Mehring C, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Vaadia E, Aertsen A, Rotter S (2003) Characteristics of directional tuning in local field potentials from monkey motor cortex. In: Decoding and Interfacing the Brain: From Neuronal Assemblies to Cyborgs, Ladislav Tauc Conference in Neurobiology, p 54. Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 2003
• Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Rickert J, Riehle A, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Vaadia E, Aertsen A, Rotter S (2003) Decoding Neuronal Population Activity Associated with Arm Movements. In: The Neurociences from Basic Research to Therapy, p 185. Elsner N, Zimmermann H (eds). Proc 5th Meeting German Neurosci Soc., 29th Göottingen Neurobiology Conf. Stuttgart, New York: Thieme
• Mehring C, Nawrot MP, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Ball T (2003) Decoding of movement from electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings in human sensorimotor cortex - a potential basis for a brain-machine interface. In: Decoding and interfacing the brain: From neuronal assemblies to cyborgs: P49, Abstr. Ladislav Tauc Conf. in Neurobiology, Gif sur Yvette (France)
• Kumar A, Mehring C, Aertsen A (2003) Dynamics of random networks - current-based vs. conductance-based synapses. Proceedings of the 5th meeting of the German Neuroscience Society.
• Nawrot MP, Mehring C, Rodriguez V, Heck D, Aertsen A, Rotter S (2003) How renewal-like are cortical neurons? Investigation of serial interval statistics in vitro and in vivo. 6th IBRO world congress of neuroscience: 4 Nawrot MP, Hehll U, Pistohl T, Schrader S, Brandt A, Heck D, Rotter S, Aertsen A (2002) Embedding living neurons into virtual networks. FENS Abstr. Vol 1 A081.9
• Rickert J, Mehring C, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Vaadia E, Aertsen A, Rotter S (2003) Inference of Hand Movement Direction from Local Field Potentials in Monkey Motor Cortex I: Tuning Properties of Single Channels. In: The Neurociences from Basic Research to Therapy, p 653-54. Elsner N, Zimmermann H (eds). Proc 5th Meeting German Neurosci Soc., 29th Göttingen Neurobiology Conf. Stuttgart, New York: Thieme
• Mehring C, Rickert J, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Vaadia E, Aertsen A, Rotter S (2003) Inference of Hand Movement Direction from Local Field Potentials in Monkey Motor Cortex II: Decoding from multiple channels. In: The Neurociences from Basic Research to Therapy, p 656-57. Elsner N, Zimmermann H (eds). Proc 5th Meeting German Neurosci Soc., 29th Göttingen Neurobiology Conf. Stuttgart, New York: Thieme
• Mehring C, Rickert J, Vaadia E, Cardoso de Oliviera S, Aertsen A, Rotter S (2003) Inference of hand movements from local field potentials in monkey motor cortex. In: 'Decoding and Interfacing the Brain: From Neuronal Assemblies to Cyborgs', Ladislav Tauc Conference in Neurobiology, p 49. Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 2003
• Rickert J, Mehring C, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Vaadia E, Aertsen A, Rotter S (2003) Neural coding of hand movment direction: comparison of local field potentials, single neurons, and multi-unit activity in monkey motor cortex. 6th IBRO World Congress, Poster No. 2244, 2003
• Rickert J, Mehring C, Aertsen A, Vaadia E, Rotter S (2002) Predicting the direction of arm movements in single-trials from multi-channel local field potentials (LFP) in monkey MI. FENS Abstr. vol 1, A021.27, 2002
• Mehring C, Kümmell F, Rodriguez V, Nawrot MP, Aertsen A, Heck D (2001) Non-linear electrical properties of sharp microelectrodes and patch pipettes: Relevance for experiments using intracellular current injection. In: Göttingen Neurobiology Report 2001, p 618. Elsner N, Kreutzberg GW (eds). Proc 4th Meeting German Neurosci Soc; Vol II, 28th Göttingen Neurobiology Conf. Stuttgart, New York: Thieme
• Rodriguez VM, Diesmann M, Kampa B, Mehring C, Aertsen A, Heck D (2001) Reliability and precision of cortical spike responses to synchronous input: Dependence on shape and temporal distribution of EPSCs. Soc Neurosci Abstracts 27: 501.8
• Mehring C, Ben-Shaul Y, Drori R, Nadasdy Z, Abeles M, Aedrtsen A, Rotter S (2001) Representation of multiple movement parameters in neuronal activity during voluntary movement. In: Cortical Dynamics: Physiology, Theory, and Applications, P-12. Aertsen A, Hauske G, Tsukada M (eds). Proc 6th Tamagawa Dynamic Brain Forum, Breisach (Germany)
• Mehring C, Aertsen A, Vaadia E, Rotter S (2001) Tuning profiles of motor cortical neurons for unimanual and bimanual movements. Soc Neurosci Abstracts 27: 931.9
• Rotter S, Mehring C, Nawrot M, Rickert J, Aertsen A (2001) Variability and reliability of neuronal population activity in the motor cortex: From single-trial analysis to neuronal prostheses. In: Cortical Dynamics: Physiology, Theory, and Applications. Aertsen A, Hauske G, Tsukada M (eds). Proc 6th Tamagawa Dynamic Brain Forum, Breisach (Germany)
• Mehring C, Kuemmell F, Rodriguez V, Nawrot M, Aertsen A, Heck D (2000) Dynamic properties of sharp microelectrodes and patch pipettes: Relevance for experiments using current injection. Soc Neurosci Abstracts 26: 2203