Sackler Institute _{for Developmental Psychobiology}

Publications

• Maurer, U., Brem S, Kranz F, Bucher K, Benz R, Steinhausen H-C, Brandeis D. (in press): Impaired tuning of a fast occipito-temporal response for print in dyslexic children learning to read. Brain.
• Maurer, U., & McCandliss BD. 2007. The development of visual expertise for words: the contribution of electrophysiology. In: Grigorenko EL, Naples AJ, editors. Single-word reading: biological and behavioral perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Blau VC, Maurer, U., Tottenham N, McCandliss BD. (2007): The face-specific N170 component is modulated by emotional facial expression. Behav Brain Funct, 3(7).
• Maurer, U., Brem S, Kranz F, Bucher K, Benz R, Halder P, Steinhausen H-C, Brandeis D. (2006): Coarse neural tuning for print peaks when children learn to read. Neuroimage, 33(2), 749-758.
• Maurer, U., Brandeis, D., McCandliss, B. D. (2005). Fast visual specialization for reading in English revealed by the topography of the N170 ERP response. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 1(1), 13.
• Maurer, U., Brem S, Bucher K, Brandeis D. (2005): Emerging neurophysiological specialization for letter strings. J Cogn Neurosci , 17(10), 1532-1552.
• Brem, S., Lang-Dullenkopf, A., Maurer, U., Halder, P., Bucher, K., & Brandeis, D. (2005). Neurophysiological signs of rapidly emerging visual expertise for symbol strings. Neuroreport, 16(1), 45-48.
• Maurer, U., Bucher, K., Brem, S., & Brandeis, D. (2003). Altered responses to tone and phoneme mismatch in kindergartners at familial dyslexia risk. Neuroreport, 14(17), 2245-2250.
• Maurer, U., Bucher, K., Brem, S., & Brandeis, D. (2003). Development of the automatic mismatch response: from frontal positivity in kindergarten children to the mismatch negativity. Clinical Neurophysiology, 114(5), 808-817.

Ph.D. thesis

• Maurer, U. (2003). Functional brain mapping of development and familial risk for dyslexia in kindergarten children. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Zurich.