Born Dec 4 1952 in Moscow Region, USSR. Graduated the1st Moscow Medical Academy (Master of Medicine, 1975) and the Institute for General and Educational Psychology, Russian Academy of Educational Sciences (PhD in Psychology, 1983). Title of Thesis: Effects of hereditary and environmental factors on individual differences in human orienting response.

After research work at the Russian Academy of Educational Sciences (1980-1985) and the Institute of Psychology, USSR Academy of Sciences (1986-1991) moved to Germany in 1992. Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Ulm (1992-1993), research associate at the Medical University of Lübeck (1994), and research assistant (assistant professor since 1997) at the University of Tübingen. Habilitation (post-doctoral thesis) in Medical Psychology in 2001 under the title The relationship between event-related brain potentials and cognitive processes: A critical reevaluation.

Married, 2 children

 

Electrocortical processes and behavior;

Cognitive psychology and psychophysiology;

Psychophysiology of perception and action; sensorimotor coordinations;

Self-regulation of the brain;

Learning processes in the development and treatment of neurological diseases; applied psychophysiology;

Neurophysiological foundations of consciousness; altered states of consciousness (particularly the state of minimal consciousness).

 

To the above domains of behavioral neuroscience, a number of subjects to diploma studies and doctoral studies (in medicine, biology, or psychology) are permanently offered! The concrete topics will not be listed in the homepage because of their diversity and continuous updating. Please contact per email above. Every diploma or doctoral study gets published.

1986	Award from the Journal ?Voprosy Psychologii? ("Psychological Issues") for the best article of the year ('Some trends in modern psychophysiology').
1989	Award from the ?Russian Society for the Dissemination of Knowledge" for the book 'Emotional stability in schoolchildren' (with E.V.Novikova).
1990	Prize of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences for the contribution (two chapters) to the monograph 'The role of environment and heredity in the development of human individuality'.
1997	Award of the British Psychophysiological Society for the best poster of the BPPS annual meeting.
1999	The Great Prize of the German TV "DigiGlobe" for the project (N. Birbaumer, A. Kübler, T. Hinterberger, B. Kotchoubey, N. Ghanayim, and J. Perelmouter) "Self-regulation of Slow Cortical Potentials as a communication channel for completely paralyzed patients"
1999	Bibliographical Record in Marquis' "Who's Who in the World", 16th Ed.
2003	The prize of the Lions-Clubs Stuttgart and Colmar for the contribution to German-French scientific collaboration (for the project "Investigation of the remaining cognitive processing in acute coma", together with the University of Strasbourg).

 

 

in press 2005

• Kotchoubey B., Jetter U., Lang S., Semmler A., Mezger G., Schmalohr D., Schneck M., Birbaumer N. Evidence of cortical learning in vegetative state. Journal of Neurology

• Kotchoubey B., Daltrozzo J., Wioland N., Mutschler V., Lutun J, Jaeger A. Semantic processing in a coma patient. Grand Rounds: A Journal for Case Studies, 2005, 5, 37-41.

• Kotchoubey B., Event-related potentials, cognition, and behavior: A biological approach. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2006, 30, 42-65.

• Kotchoubey B., Lang S., Mezger G., Schmalohr D., Schneck M., Semmler A., Bostanov V., Birbaumer N. Information processing in severe disorders of consciousness: Persistent vegetative state and minimally conscious state. Clinical Neurophysiology, 2005, 116, 2441-2453.

• Kotchoubey B. Seeing and talking: Whorf wouldn't be satisfied. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2005, 28, 502-503.

• Kotchoubey B. Two equations with three unknown: Event-related potential markers of conscious awareness. Progress in Brain Research.

• Kotchoubey B., Lotze M. Instrumentelle Methoden in der Diagnostik von Locked-in-Syndrom. (Instrumental techniques in the diagnosis of locked-in syndrome) In: L. Gutjahr & K.-H.Pantke (Hsg.) Locked-in-Syndrom.

 

2005

• Kotchoubey B. Pragmatics, prosody, and evolution: Language is more than a symbolic system. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2005, 28, 136-147.

• Kotchoubey B. Neuroscience through the looking glass. Review on
  M.R.Bennett & P.M.S.Hacker, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience. Journal of Psychophysiology, 2005, 19 (3), 234-237.

• Kotchoubey B. Apallic syndrome is not apallic - is vegetative state vegetative? Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2005, 15, 333-356.

• Strehl U., Kotchoubey B., Trevorrow T., Birbaumer N. Predictors of seizure reduction after self-regulation of slow cortical potentials as a treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy. Epilepsy and Behavior, 2005, 6, 156-166.

• Kotchoubey B., Lang S., Herb E., Maurer P., Schmalohr DA., Bostanov V., Birbaumer N. Braucht ein "einfaches Gehirn" einfache Reize? Einfluss der Soundkomplexität auf kortikale Reaktionen bei schwerhirnverletzten Patienten.
  (Does a ?simple brain? need simple stimuli?) In: S. Jochims (Hsg.)
  Musiktherapie in Neurologie und Neurorehabilitation, Hamburg, Prometheus, pp.83-94.

• Hinterberger T., Wilhelm B., Mellinger J., Kotchoubey B., Birbaumer N. A tool for detection of cognitive brain functions in severely brain injured patients integrated in the thought-translation-device. IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering, 2005, 52, 211-220.

• Vaitl D., Gruzelier J., Miltner W., Ott U., Lehmann D., Sammer G., Kotchoubey B., Kübler A., Strehl U., Wackermann J., Weiss J., Birbaumer N. Psychobiology of altered states of consciousness. Psychological Bulletin, 2005, 131, 98-127 .

 

2004

• Neumann N., Kotchoubey B. Assessment of cognitive functions in severely paralysed and severely brain damaged patients: Neuropsychological and electrophysiological methods. Brain Research Protocols, 2004, 14 , 25-36.

• Kotchoubey B. Persistent vegetative state: Should we generalize? Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry , 2004, 21 April (letter to the Editor), jnnp.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/74/11/ 1571#122.

• Bostanov V., Kotchoubey B. Recognition of affective prosody: Continuous wavelet measures of event-related brain potentials to emotional exclamations. Psychophysiology, 2004, 41 , 259-268.

• Kotchoubey B., Lang S., Herb E, Maurer P, Birbaumer N. Reliability of brain responses to the own name in healthy subjects and patients with brain damage. In: N. C. Moore, M. K. Arikan, (Eds.). Brainwaves and Mind: Recent Advances . New York: Kjellberg, Inc, 2004, 75-80.

 

2003

• Kotchoubey B., Lang S., Herb E., Maurer P., Schmalohr D., Bostanov V., Birbaumer N. Stimulus complexity enhances auditory discrimination in patients with extremely severe brain injuries. Neuroscience Letters , 2003, 352 , 129-132.

• Kotchoubey B., Lang S., Winter S., Birbaumer N. Cognitive processing in completely paralyzed patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. European Journal of Neurology , 2003, 10 , 551-558.

• Kotchoubey B., Dubischar A., Mack H., Kaiser J., Birbaumer N. Electrocortical and behavioral effects of chronic immobility on word processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 2003, 17 , 188-199.

• Kotchoubey B., Lang S., Bostanov V., Birbaumer N. Cortical processing in Guillain-Barré syndrome after years of total immobility. Journal of Neurology , 2003, 250 (3), 1121-1123.

• Hinterberger T., Veit R., Strehl U., Trevorrow T., Erb M., Kotchoubey B., Flor H., Birbaumer N. Brain areas activated during self-regulation of slow cortical potentials (SCPs). Experimental Brain Research , 2003, 152 , 113-122.

• Kotchoubey B., Schneck M., Lang S., Birbaumer N. Event-related potentials in akinetic mutism. Neurophysiologie Clinique, 2003, 33 , 23-30.

• Kotchoubey B., Lang S. Parallel processing of physical and lexical auditory information in humans. Neuroscience Research, 2003, 45 , 369-374.

 

2002

• Kotchoubey B. Do event-related brain potentials manifest mental (cognitive) processes? Journal of Psychophysiology, 2002, 16 , No 3, 129-149.

• Müller, V., Kotchoubey, B., & Birbaumer, N. Visual-motor coordination of younger and older subjects in a time-to-passage task. Cognitive Processes , 2002, 3 , 61-76

• Lang S., Kotchoubey B. Brain responses to number sequences with and without active task requirement. Clinical Neurophysiology, 2002, 113 , 1734-1741.

• Kotchoubey B., Strehl, U., Kübler A., Flor H., Birbaumer N. Can humans perceive their brain states? Consciousness and Cognition, 2002, 11 , 98-113.

• Kotchoubey B., Lang S., Bostanov V., Birbaumer N. Is there a mind? Electrophysiology of unconscious patients. News in Physiological Sciences, 2002, 17 , 38-44.

 

2001

• Kübler A, Neumann N., Kaiser J., Kotchoubey B., Hinterberger T., Birbaumer N. Brain-computer communication: Self-regulation of slow cortical potentials for verbal communication. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , 2001, 82 , 1533-1539.

• Kotchoubey B., Lang S. Event-related potentials in a semantic auditory oddball task in humans. Neuroscience Letters, 2001, 310 , 93-96.

• Kübler A., Kotchoubey B., Kaiser J., Perelmouter J., Wolpaw J., Birbaumer N. Brain-computer interface: Unlocking the locked-in. Psychological Bulletin, 2001, 127 (3), 358-375.

• Müller V., Kotchoubey B., Perelmouter J., Schick A., Reckhardt C., Lutzenberger W., Birbaumer N. Effects of disturbing noise on the complexity of the electrocortical activity. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 2001, 11 , 1159-1167.

• Kaiser J., Perelmouter J., Iversen I., Neumann N., Ghanayim N., Hinterberger T., Kübler A., Kotchoubey B., Birbaumer N. Self-initiation of EEG-based communication in paralyzed patients. Clinical Neurophysiology, 2001, 112 , 551-554.

• Kotchoubey B., Strehl U., Uhlmann C., Holzapfel S., König M., Fröscher W., Blankenhorn V., Birbaumer N. Modulation of slow cortical potentials in patients with intractable epilepsy. Epilepsia, 2001, 42 (3), 406-416.

• Kotchoubey B., Lang S., Baales R., Herb E., Maurer P., Metzger G., Schmalohr D., Bostanov V., Birbaumer N. Brain potentials in human patients with extremely severe diffuse brain damage. Neuroscience Letters, 2001, 301 (1), 37-40.

• Kotchoubey B. About hens and eggs - Perception and action, psychology and neuroscience. Ecological Psychology, 2001, 13 (2), 123-134.

• Birbaumer N., Strehl U., Kübler A., Kotchoubey B., Flor H. Verhaltensmedizin neurologischer Erkrankungen. (Behavioral medicine of neurological diseases.) In: Enzyklopädie der Psychologie . Hogrefe: Göttingen-Bern-Toronto-Seattle, 2001, 45-96.

 

2000

• Hinterberger T., Kotchoubey B., Kaiser J., Kübler A., Neumann N., Perelmouter J., Strehl U., Birbaumer N. Anwendungen der Selbstkontrolle langsamer kortikaler Potentiale. (Applications of self-control ober slow cortical potentials.) Verhaltenstherapie , 2000, 10 , 219-227.

• Lang S., Kotchoubey B. Learning effects on event-related brain potentials. Neuroreport, 2000, 11 (15), 3327-3331.

• Birbaumer N., Kübler A., Ghanayim N., Hinterberger T., Perelmouter J., Kaiser J., Iversen I., Kotchoubey B., Neumann N., Flor H. The Thought Translation Device (TTD) for completely paralyzed patients. IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering, 2000, 8 (2), 190-193.

• Kotchoubey B., Haist S., Daum I., Schugens M., Birbaumer N. Learning and self-regulation of slow cortical potentials in older adults. Experimental Aging Research, 2000, 26 (1), 15-36.

• Strehl U., Kotchoubey B., Birbaumer N. Biofeedback-Therapie bei medikamentresistenten Epilepsien. (Biofeedback therapy of pharmacaresistent epilepsy.) In: W. Rief, N. Birbaumer (Hsgb.) Angewandte Biofeedback-Therapie . Schattauer: Stuttgart, 2000, 190-208.

• Müller V., Schick A., Kotchoubey B., Perelmouter J., Reckhardt C., Lutzenberger W., Birbaumer N. Disturbing noise effects and the complexity of cortical processes. In: A. Schick, M. Meis, C. Reckhardt (Eds.) Contributions to Psychological Acoustics . Oldenburg, 2000, 323-336.

 

1999

• Kotchoubey B., Bosch S., Strehl U., Birbaumer N. Changes in EEG power spectra during biofeedback of slow cortical potentials in epilepsy. Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback, 1999, 24 (4), 213-233.

• Kotchoubey B., Strehl U., Holzapfel S., Blankenhorn V., Fröscher W., Birbaumer N. Negative potential shifts and the prediction of the outcome of neurofeedback therapy in epilepsy. Clinical Neurophysiology , 1999, 110 , 683-686.

• Perelmouter J., Kotchoubey B., Kübler A., Taub E., Birbaumer N. Language support program for thought translation devices. Automedica , 1999, 18 , 67-84.

• Birbaumer N., Ghanayim N., Hinterberger T., Iversen I., Kotchoubey B., Kübler A., Perelmouter J., Taub E., Flor H. A spelling device for the paralyzed. Nature, 25 March 1999, 398 , 297-298.

• Kübler A., Kotchoubey B., Hinterberger T., Ghanayim N., Perelmouter J., Schauer M., Fritsch C., Taub E., Birbaumer N. The thought translation device: A neurophysiological approach to communication in total motor paralysis. Experimental Brain Research , 1999, 124 , 223-232.

• Kotchoubey B., Strehl U., Schneider D., Holzapfel S., Blankenhorn V., Birbaumer N. Control of cortical excitability in epilepsy. In: H. Stephan, P. Chauvel, F. Andermann, S. D. Shovron (eds.) Plasticity in Epilepsy: Dynamic Aspects of Brain Function. ( Advances in Neurology , Vol. 81). Philadelphia: Raven Press , 1999, 281-290.

 

1998

• Kübler A., Kotchoubey B., Salzmann H.P., Ghanayim N., Perelmouter J., Hömberg V., Birbaumer N. Operant conditioning of slow cortical potentials in completely paralyzed patients. Neuroscience Letters, 1998, 252 , 171-174.

• Holzapfel S., Strehl U., Kotchoubey B., Birbaumer N. Behavioral psychophysiological intervention in a mentally retarded epileptic patient with brain lesion. Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback , 1998, 23 (3), 189-202.

• Westphal K.P., Heinemann H.A., Grözinger B., Kotchoubey B., Diekmann V., Becker W., Kornhuber H.H. Bereitschaftspotential in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): Lower amplitudes in patients with hyperreflexia (spasticity). Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 1998, 98 (1), 15-21.

• Kübler A., Kotchoubey B., Ghanayim N., Hinterberger T., Perelmouter J., Schauer M., Fritsch C., Birbaumer N. A thought translation device for brain-computer communicatuion. Studia Psychologica, 1998, 40 (1-2), 17-31.

• Kotchoubey B. What do event related brain potentials tell us about the organization of action? In: J. S. Jordan (ed.) Systems Theories and A Priori Aspects of Perception ( Advances in Psychology , Vol. 126). North-Holland: Elsevier, 1998, 209-256.

 

1997

• Kotchoubey B., Schneider D., Uhlmann C., Schleichert H., Birbaumer N. Beyond habituation: Long-term repetition effects on visual event-related potentials in epileptic patients. EEG & Clinical Neurophysiology, 1997, 103 , 450-456.

• Lang S., Kotchoubey B., Lutz A., Birbaumer N. Was tut man, wenn man nichts tut? Kognitive EKP-Komponenten ohne kognitive Aufgabe. (What are you doing when you are doing nothing? Cognitive ERP components without a cognitive task.) Zeitschrift für experimentelle Psychologie , 1997, XLIV (1), 138-162.

• Kotchoubey B., Grözinger B., Kornhuber A.W., Kornhuber H.H. Electrophysiological analysis of expectancy: P3 in informed guessing. International Journal of Neuroscience , 1997, 91 , 105-122.

• Kotchoubey B., Schleichert H., Lutzenberger W., Birbaumer N. A new method for self-regulation of slow cortical potentilas in a timed paradigm. Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback , 1997, 22 (2), 77-93.

• Kotchoubey B., Blankenhorn V., Fröscher W., Strehl U., Birbaumer N. Stability of cortical self-regulation in epilepsy patients. Neuroreport , 1997, 8 , 1867-1870.

• Kotchoubey B., Wascher E., Verleger R. Shifting attention between global features and small details: An event-related potential study. Biological Psychology , 1997, 46 , 25-50.

• Kotchubey B. (sic!). The rise and fall of social man. In: E. Grigorenko, P. Ruzgis, R. J. Sternberg (Eds.). Russian psycholoogy: Past, present and future. ( Horizons in Psychology , Series Editor J. Wertsch) . Hauppauge NY: Nova Science Publishers, 1997.

 

1996

• Kotchoubey B., Schneider D., Strehl U., Uhlmann C., Blankenhorn V., Fröscher W., Birbaumer N. Self-regulation of slow cortical potentials in epilepsy: A retrial with analysis of influencing factors. Epilepsy Research , 1996, 25 , 269-276.

• Kotchoubey B., Jordan J.S., Grözinger B., Westphal K.P., Kornhuber H.H. Event-related potentials in a variable-set memory scanning task: A reconsideration. Psychophysiology , 1996, 33 , 530-540.

• Kotchoubey B., Schleichert H., Lutzenberger W., Anokhin A.P., Birbaumer N. Self-regulation of interhemispheric asymmetry in humans. Neuroscience Letters, 1996, 214 , 91-94.

 

1994-95

• Jordan J.S., Kotchoubey B., Grözinger B., Westphal K.P. Evoked brain potentials and memory: More positivity in response to forgotten items. Neuroreport, 1995, 6 (14), 1913-1916.

• Kotchoubey B., Grözinger B., Kornhuber A., End H., Kornhuber H.H. Individual differences in slow brain potentials in a guessing paradigm. Archives Italiennes de Biologie, 1995, 133 , 99-115.

• Kotchoubey B., Grözinger B., End H., Kornhuber H.H. Atypisches Bereitschaftspotential bei Normalpersonen: Regelmäßigkeiten in einem nicht-regelmäßigen Phänomen. In: W. Lang, L. Deecke, & H.C.Hopf (Hsgb.) Topographische Diagnostik des Gehirns . Wien-New York: Springer, 1995, 175-179.

• Kotchoubey B., End H., Grözinger B., Jordan J.S., Kornhuber A., Kornhuber H.H. Pre- and post-movement potentials in an informed guessing task. Journal of Psychophysiology , 1994, 8 , 142-156.

 

earlier publications

• Grigorenko E.L., Kotchoubey B. A method for assessment the generalized cognitive rigidity. In: L. Dikaya (Ed.) Methods and techniques in engineering psychology and psychology of labor. Moscow, 1992. (in Russian)

• Kotchoubey B. Personal Psychophysiology. Moscow: VINITI Press, 1990. (in Russian)

• Kotchoubey B. On the place of I.P.Pavlov's theory in contemporary psychology. The answer to Prof. N.Chuprikova's letter. Vopr. Psychologii (Psychological. Issues) , 1989, No 5, .96-99. (in Russian)

• Kotchoubey B. Psychological and social aspects of the "total equality". Soviet Journal of Psychology , 1989, 10 (6), p.98-110.

• Kotchoubey B., Novikova E.V. Emotional stability in schoolchildren. Moscow: Znanie, 1988. (in Russian)

• Kotchoubey B. Quantitative analysis in human behavioral genetics. In: I.V.Ravich-Scherbo (Ed.) The role of environment and heredity in the development of human individuality. Moscow: Pedagogika, 1988, 15-53. (in Russian)

• Kotchoubey B., Rutman E.M. A psychogenetic study of system processes. In: I.V.Ravich-Scherbo (Ed.) The role of environment and heredity in the development of human individuality (ed.). Moscow: Pedagogika, 1988, 138-157. (in Russian)

• Kotchoubey B., Rutman E.M., Snezhnevsky P.B. A very early potential shift related to auditory selective attention: A serendipitous fact. In: V. Shvyrkov & R. Näätänen (Eds.) Psychophysiology of cognitive processes. Moscow, 1988, 66-71.

• Kotchoubey B. Human orienting reaction: The role of genetic and environmental factors in the variability of autonomic components and evoked potentials. Activitas Nervosa Superior , 1987, 29 (2), p.103-107.

• Kotchoubey B. The main branches of cognitive psychophysiology. Vopr. Psychologii (Psychological Issues) , 1987, No 4, 151-159. (in Russian)

• Rutman E.M., Kotchoubey B. Mechanisms of individual differences in the habituation to neutral and aversive stimuli. Vopr. Psychologii (Psychological Issues) , 1986, No 3, 143-150. (in Russian)

• Kotchoubey B. Some trends in modern psychophysiology. Vopr. Psychologii (Psychological. Issues) , 1986, No 5, 31-37. (in Russian)

• Kotchoubey B. An analysis of phenotypical correlations of human psychophysiological data. Genetika (Genetics) , 1986, No 10, 2519-2525. (in Russian)

• Kotchoubey B. Hereditary and environmental effects on individual differences in human orienting response. Zhurn. vyssh. nerv. deyat. (Journal of Higher Nervous Activity) , 1985, 35 , 428-434. (in Russian)

• Semionov V.V., Kotchoubey B. Twins: Their development and education. Moscow: Znanie, 1985. (in Russian)

• Rutman E.M., Kotchoubey B., Shevariov Y. Individual differences in responses to indifferent and aversive stimuli. Vopr. Psychologii (Psychological. Issues) , 1984, No 1, 95-101. (in Russian)

• Kotchoubey B. Hereditary and environmental influences on brain evoked potentials in the orienting and defensive paradigms. Vopr. Psychologii (Psychological. Issues) , 1983, No 1, 141-144. (in Russian)

• Kotchoubey B., Shevariov Y. Blink artifacts and their effects on the relationship between the amplitude of evoked responses and stimulus intensity. Fiziologia cheloveka (Human Physiology) , 1981, 7 (6), 1082-1086. (in Russian).

• Kotchoubey B. About the definition of the orienting response concept. Vopr. Psychologii (Psychological. Issues) , 1979, No 3, 35-46. (in Russian).

• Kotchoubey B. Heredity and neuroses: A review. Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psihiatrii (Journal of Neuropathology and Psychiatry), 1978, 78 (11), 1716-1723. (in Russian)

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