David Poeppel (born 1964 in Freiburg)[1] is Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University (NYU).

[2] From 2014 until the end of 2021, he was the Director of the Department of Neuroscience at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA).

[5] Poeppel grew up in Munich, Germany; Cambridge MA, USA; and Caracas, Venezuela.

He received his Abitur from the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich, obtained his bachelor's degree (1990) and doctorate (1995) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT.

He received training in functional brain imaging as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Medicine of the University of California, San Francisco.

From 2000 to 2008, Poeppel directed the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory at the University of Maryland College Park, where he was a professor of linguistics and biology.

[9] David Poeppel employs behavioral and cognitive neuroscience approaches to study the brain basis of auditory processing, speech perception, language comprehension, and sometimes music.

The research covers the range of questions ‘from vibrations in the ear to abstractions in the head.’ The major contributions of the Poeppel laboratory include the functional anatomic model of speech and language processing developed with Greg Hickok;,[10][11][12] the dual stream model; issues surrounding lateralization in auditory processing,[13][14] specifically a model known as asymmetric sampling in time; and experimental work on the role of neuronal oscillations in audition and speech perception.

Phase Patterns of Neuronal Responses Reliably Discriminate Speech in Human Auditory Cortex.

The analysis of speech in different temporal integration windows: cerebral lateralization as ‘asymmetric sampling in time’.

Krakauer J, Ghazanfar A, Maciver M, Gomez-Marin A, Poeppel D. (2017) Neuroscience needs behavior: Correcting a reductionist bias.