Cognitive Electrophysiology

 

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Research at the Section for Cognitive Electrophysiology at the Department of Psychiatry focuses on the investigation of cognitive processes and their psychopathology in psychiatric disorders using behavioral experiments, high-resolution event-related brain potentials (ERPs), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Within a cognitive neuroscience framework, we combine cognitive psychological experimental design with neurophysiological methods.

 

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Research group  Semantic Memory

Markus Kiefer, Ph.D. (principal investigator)

Klaus Hönig, Ph.D. (principal investigator)

Eun-Jin Sim, Ph.D. (principal investigator)

Sabrina Brückner (diploma student/research assistant)

Daniel Kliese (diploma student/research assistant)

Nicole Lutz (research assistant)

Lana Rohr (research assistant)

Hanna Schneegans (research assistant)

Andre Thielcke (research assistant)

Dipl.-Biol. Natalie Trumpp (doctoral student/research asociat)

Marius Raab (internship)

 

 

Research group  Unconscious visual perception

Markus Kiefer, Ph.D. (principal investigator)

Sarah Adams, M.Sc. (doctoral student)

Julia Meier (doctoral student)

Anna Morschett (doctoral student)

Lana Rohr (diploma student/research assistant)

Hanna Schneegans (research assistant)

 

 

Research group Semantic Ambiguity

Klaus Hönig, Ph.D. (principal investigator)

Dr. med. Dobrila Klein (research associate)

Norina Kahn (diploma student)

Elvira Greiner (doctoral student)

Hanna Schneegans (doctoral student)

 

Research group Emotion Regulation ( Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)

Anne-Katharina Fladung Ph.D. (principal investigator)

Dipl. Psych. Ingo Gunst (doctoral student)

Isabel Brosig (doctoral student)

Stefanie Müller (diploma student)

 

Research group Multilingualism

Dr. Tanja Rinker, M.A. (principal investigator)

Sarah Rabus (doctoral student)

Alexandra Aister (doctoral student)

Katrin Fröhlich (doctoral student)

Verena Gruber (doctoral student)

 

 

Research group Sports and Executive Function
 

Dr. Sabine Kubesch (principal investigator)

Dipl. Sport. Laura Walk (doctoral student)

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Journal Articles

 

2010 and articles in press

 

Fladung, A.-K., Baron, U., Gunst, I., & Kiefer, M. (2010). Cognitive reappraisal modulates performance following negative feedback in patients with major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine.

 

Helbig, H.B., Steinwender, J., Graf, M. & Kiefer, M. (2010). Action observation can prime visual object recognition. Experimental Brain Research, 200, 251-258.

 

Kiefer, M., & Martens (in press). Attentional sensitization of unconscious cognition. Task sets modulate subsequent masked semantic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

 

Rinker, T., Alku, P., Brosch, S., & Kiefer, M. (2010). Discrimination of native and non-native vowel contrasts in bilingual Turkish–German and monolingual German children: Insight from the Mismatch Negativity ERP component. Brain and Language

 

Videsott, G., Herrnberger, G., Schilly, E., Grothe, J., Hoenig, K., Wiater, W., Spitzer, M., & Kiefer, M. (2010). Speaking in multiple languges: Neural correlates of language proficiency in multilingual word production. Brain and Language

 

2009

Hoenig, K. & Scheef, L. (2009). Neural correlates of semantic ambiguity processing during context verification. NeuroImage, 45, 1009-1019.

 

Kiefer, M., Martens, U., Weisbrod, M., Hermle, L., & Spitzer, M. (2009). Increased unconscious semantic activation in schizophrenia patients with formal thought disorder. Schizophrenia Research, 114, 79-83.

 

Martens, U. & Kiefer, M. (2009). Specifying attentional top-down influences on subsequent unconscious semantic processing. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 5, 56-68.

 

Reuter, M., Montag, C., Peters, K., Kocher, A., & Kiefer, M. (2009). The modulatory influence of the functional COMT Val158Met polymorphism on lexical decisions and semantic priming. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 20 doi:10.3389/neuro.09.020.2009.

 

Stroth, S., Kubesch, S., Dieterle, K., Ruchsow, M., Heim, R., Kiefer, M. (2009). Physical fitness, but not acute exercise modulates event-related potential indices for executive control in healthy adolescents. Brain Research, 1269, 114-124.

 

2008

Hoenig, K., Sim, E-J., Bochev, V., Herrnberger, B. & Kiefer, M. (2008). Conceptual flexibility in the human brain: Dynamic recruitment of semantic maps from visual, motion and motor-related areas. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(10), 1799-1814.

 

Kiefer, M. (2008). Zusammenwirken kognitiver Systeme: Kognitionspsychologische und neurophysiologische Befunde zur Rolle des semantischen Gedächtnisses bei der Informationsverarbeitung. Psychologische Rundschau, 59, 87-97.

 

Kiefer, M., Sim, E.-J., Herrnberger, B., Grothe, J., & Hoenig, K. (2008). The sound of concepts: Four markers for a link between auditory and conceptual brain systems. The Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 12224-12230.

 

Ruchsow, M., Grön, G., Kiefer, M, Beschoner, P., Hermle L, Ebert, D., & Falkenstein, M. (2008). Electrophysiological evidence for reduced inhibitory control in depressed patients in partial remission: A Go/Nogo study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 68, 209-218.

 

Ruchsow, M., Grön, G., Kiefer, M., Buchheim, A., Walter, H., Martius, P., Reiter, M., Hermle, L., Spitzer, M., Ebert, D. & Falkenstein, M. (2008). Response inhibition in borderline personality disorder: Event-related potentials in a Go/Nogo task. Journal of Neural Transmission, 115, 127-133.

 

Ruchsow M, Groen, G. Kiefer, M., Hermle L, Spitzer, M., & Falkenstein, M. (2008). Impulsiveness and ERP components in a Go/Nogo task. Journal of Neural Transmission, 115, 909-915.

 

Ruchosw, M., Grön, G. Spitzer, M., Hermle, L., Buchheim, A. & Kiefer, M. (2008). Electrophysiological evidence for a syntactic but not semantic deficit in depressive patients. Journal of Psychophysiology, 22, 121-129.

 

v. Soden-Fraunhofen, R., Sim, E-J., Liebich, S., Frank, K. & Kiefer, M. (2008). Die Rolle der motorischen Interaktion beim Erwerb begrifflichen Wissens: Eine Trainingsstudie mit künstlichen Objekten. Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie, 22, 47-58.

2007

Bitz, U., Gust, K., Spitzer, & Kiefer, M. (2007). Phonological  deficit in school children is reflected in the mismatch negativity. NeuroReport, 18, 911-915.

Kiefer, M. (2007). Top-down modulation of unconscious 'automatic' processes: A gating framework. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 3, 289-306. Download article


Kiefer, M., Schuch, S., Schenck, W. & Fiedler, K. (2007). Mood states modulate activity in semantic brain areas during emotional word encoding. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 1560-1530.

Kiefer, M., Schuch, S., Schenck, W. & Fiedler, K. (2007). Emotion and memory: Event-related potential indices predictive for subsequent successful memory depend on the emotional mood state. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 3, 363-373. Download article

Kiefer, M., Sim, E.-J., Liebich, S., Hauk, O. & Tanaka, J. (2007). Experience-dependent plasticity of conceptual representations in human sensory-motor areas. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 525-542.


2006

Helbig, H.B., Graf, M., Kiefer, M. (2006). The role of action representations in object recognition. Experimental Brain Research.

Kaiser, S., Hill, H., Weiss, O., Markela-Lerenc, J., Kiefer, M., & Weisbrod, M. (2006). N2 event-related potential correlates of response inhibition in an auditory Go/Nogo task. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 61, 279-282.

Kiefer, M. & Brendel, D. (2006). Attentional modulation of unconscious 'automatic' processes: Evidence from event-related potentials in a masked priming paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 184-198.

Martens, E.U., Schweinberger, S.R., Kiefer, M., Burton,  A.M. (2006). Masked and unmasked electrophysiological repetition effects of famous faces. Brain Research, 1109, 146-157.

Ruchsow, M., Herrnberger, B., Beschoner, P., Grön, G., Spitzer, M. & Kiefer, M. (2006). Error processing in major depressive disorder. Evidence from even-related potentials. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 40, 37-46.

Ruchsow, M., Walter, H., Buchheim, A., Martius, P., Spitzer, M., Kächele, H., Grön, G. & Kiefer, M. (2006). Error-related negativity and response control in patients with borderline personality disorder. Biological Psychology, 72, 133-140.

2005

Hoenig, K., Kuhn, C. K. & Scheef, L. (2005). Functional 3.0-T MR assessment of higher cognitive function: Are there advantages over 1.5-T imaging? Radiology, 234, 860-868.

Hoenig, K., Hochrein, A., Quednow, B. B., Maier, W. & Wagner, M. (2005). Impaired prepulse inhibition in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 1153-1158.

Hoenig, K. & Scheef, L. (2005). Mediotemporal contributions to semantic processing: fMRI evidence from ambiguity processing during semantic context verification. Hippocampus, 15, 597-609.

Kiefer, M. (2005). Repetition priming modulates category-related effects on event-related potentials: Further evidence for multiple cortical semantic systems. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 199-211.

Kiefer, M., Ahlegian, M. & Spitzer, M. (2005). Working memory capacity, indirect semantic priming and Stroop interference: Pattern of interindividual prefrontal performance differences in healthy volunteers. Neuropsychology, 19, 332-344.

Kessler, K. & Kiefer, M. (2005). Disturbing visual working memory: Electrophysiological evidence for a role of prefrontal cortex in recovery from interference. Cerebral Cortex, 15, 1075-1087.

Ruchsow, M., Grön, G., Reuter, K., Spitzer, M., Hermle, L. & Kiefer, M. (2005). Error-related brain activity in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and in healthy controls. Journal of Psychophysiology, 19, 298-304.

Ruchsow, M., Spitzer, M., Grön, G., Grothe, J. & Kiefer, M. (2005). Error processing and impulsiveness in normals: Evidence from event-related potentials. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 317-325.

Sim, E.-J. & Kiefer, M. (2005). Category-related brain activity to natural categories is associated with the retrieval of visual features: Evidence from repetition effects during visual and functional judgments. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 260-273.


2004

Quednow, B. B., Kühn, K.-U., Hoenig, K., Maier, W. & Wagner, M. (2004). Prepulse inhibition and habituation of acoustic startle response in male MDMA (‘ecstacy’) users, cannabi users, and healthy controls. Neuropsychopharmacology 29, 982-990.

Quednow, B. B., Kühn, K.-U., Stelzenmueller, R., Hoenig, K., Maier, W. & Wagner, M. (2004). Effects of serotonergic and noradrenergic antidepressants on auditory startle response in patients with major depression. Psychopharmacology, 175, 399-406.

Ruchsow, M., Herrnberger, B., Wiesend, C., Spitzer, M. & Kiefer, M. (2004). The effect of erroneous responses on response evaluation in patients with major depression: A study with event related potentials. Psychophysiology, 41, 833-840.

Tanaka, J. W., Kiefer, M. & Bukach, C.M. (2004). A holistic account of the own-race effect in face recognition: Evidence from a cross-cultural study. Cognition, 93, B1-B9.

 

2003

Erk, S., Kiefer, M., Grothe, J., Wunderlich, A., Spitzer, M. & Walter, H. (2003). Emotional context modulates subsequent memory effect. NeuroImage,18, 439-447.

Scheef, L., Hoenig, K., Kuhl, C. K., Urbach, H., Schild, H. H. & Koenig, R. (2003). Curved-Surface-Projection (CSP): An alternative method to visualize fMRI results in patients. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 24, 1045-1048.

Kaiser, S., Unger, J., Kiefer, M., Markela, J., Mundt, C. & Weisbrod, M. (2003). Executive control deficit in depression: Event-related potentials in a Go/NoGo task. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 122, 169-184.

Ruchsow, M., Trippel, K., Grön, G., Spitzer, M. & Kiefer, M. (2003). Semantic and syntactic processes during sentence comprehension in patients with schizophrenia: Evidence from event-related potentials. Schizophrenia Research, 64, 147-156.

Walter, H., Kiefer, M. & Erk, S. (2003). Content, context and cognitive style in mood-memory interactions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 433-434.

 

2002

Hoenig, K., Hochrein, A., Müller, D. J. & Wagner, M. (2002). Different negative priming impairments in schizophrenia and subgroups of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychological Medicine, 32, 459-468.

Kiefer, M. (2002). The N400 is modulated by unconsciously perceived masked words: Further evidence for a spreading activation account of N400 priming effects. Cognitive Brain Research, 13, 27-39.

Kiefer, M. Apel, A., & Weisbrod, M. (2002). Arithmetic fact retrieval and working memory in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 53, 219-227.

Ruchsow, M., Grothe, J., Spitzer, M., Kiefer, M. (2002). Human anterior cingulate cortex is activated by negative feedback: Evidence from event-related potentials in a guessing task. Neuroscience Letters, 325, 203-206.


2001

Jessen, F., Fries, T., Kucharski, C., Nishimura, T., Hoenig, K., Maier, W., Falkai, P. & Heun, R. (2001). Amplitude reduction of the mismatch negativity in first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia. Neuroscience Letters, 309, 185-188.

Jessen, F., Kucharski, C., Fries, T., Papassotiropoulus, A., Hoenig, K., Maier, W. & Heun, R. (2001). Sensory gating deficit expressed by a disturbed supression of the P50 event-related potential in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. American Journal of Psychiatry, 158, 1319-1321.

Kiefer, M. (2001). Perceptual and semantic sources of category-specific effects in object categorization: Event-related potentials during picture and word categorization. Memory & Cognition, 29, 100-116.

Kiefer, M. & Spitzer, M. (2001). The limits of a distributed account of conceptual knowledge Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 469-471.

Scheider, F., Habel, U., Wagner, M., Franke, P., Salloum, J., Shah, N., Toni, I., Sulzbach, C., Hönig, K., Maier, W., Gaebel, W. & Zilles, K. (2001). Subcortical correlates of craving in recently abstinent alcoholic patients. American Journal of Psychiatry, 158, 1075-1083.


2000

Kiefer, M. & Spitzer, M. (2000). Time course of conscious and unconscious semantic brain activation. NeuroReport, 11, 2401-2407.

Weisbrod, M., Kiefer, M., Marzinzik, F. & Spitzer, M. (2000). Executive control is disturbed in schizophrenia: Evidence from event-related potentials in a Go/Nogo task. Biological Psychiatry, 47, 51-60.


1999

Kiefer, M. & Spitzer, M. (1999). Kognitive Defizite schizophrener Patienten. Nervenheilkunde, 18, 332-337.

Tanaka, J. W., Luu, P., Weisbrod, M. & Kiefer, M. (1999). Tracking the time course of object categorization using event-related potentials. NeuroReport, 10, 829-835.

Weisbrod, M., Kiefer, M., Hill, H. & Spitzer, M. (1999). Der Einsatz evozierter Potentiale zur Untersuchung von Störungen der auditorischen Informationsverarbeitung schizophrener Patienten. Nervenheilkunde, 18, 79-83.

Weisbrod, M., Kiefer, M., Winkler, S., Maier, S., Hill, H., Roesch-Ely, D. & Spitzer, M. (1999). Electrophysiological correlates of direct versus indirect semantic priming in normal volunteers. Cognitive Brain Research, 8, 289-298.

Weisbrod, M., Trage, J., Hill, H., Sattler, H., Maier, S., Kiefer, M., Grothe, J. & Spitzer, M. (1999). Emotional priming in depressed patients. German Journal of Psychiatry, 2, 19-47.


1998

Kiefer, M., Marzinzik, F., Weisbrod, M., Scherg, M. & Spitzer, M. (1998). The time course of brain activations during response inhibition: Evidence from event-related potentials in a Go/Nogo task. NeuroReport, 9, 765-770.

Kiefer, M., Weisbrod, M., Kern, I., Maier, S. & Spitzer, M. (1998). Right hemisphere activation during indirect semantic priming: Evidence from event-related potentials. Brain and Language, 64, 377-408.

Kiefer, M., Weisbrod, M. & Spitzer, M. (1998). Zur funktionellen Neuroanatomie und Psychopathologie des semantischen Gedächtnisses. Psychologische Rundschau, 49, 132-143.


1997-1995

Kiefer, M. & Dehaene, S. (1997). The time course of parietal activation in single-digit multiplication. Mathematical Cognition, 3, 1-30.

Kiefer, M., Mangold-Allwinn, R. & Barattelli, S. (1995). Vom generierten Konzept bis zum enkodierten Wort. Zur Determination der lexikalischen Spezifität von Objektbenennungen. Linguistische Berichte, 159, 381-411.

 

 

Books and Book Chapters

Hönig, K. (2009) Die Integration von natur- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Psychologie. In: W. Kempf & M. Kiefer (Hrsg.). Forschungsmethoden der Psychologie. Zwischen naturwissenschaftlichem Experiment und sozialwissenschaftlicher Hermeneutik. Bd. 3: Natur und Kultur (pp. 271-323). Berlin: Regener.

Kempf, W. & Kiefer, M. (Hrsg.)( 2009). Forschungsmethoden der Psychologie. Zwischen naturwissenschaftlichem Experiment und sozialwissenschaftlicher Hermeneutik. Bd. 3: Natur und Kultur. Berlin: Regener.

Kiefer, M. (2009). Neurowissenschaftliche Methoden. In W. Kempf & M. Kiefer, M. (Hrsg.). Forschungsmethoden der Psychologie. Zwischen naturwissenschaftlichem Experiment und sozialwissenschaftlicher Hermeneutik. Bd. 3: Natur und Kultur (pp. 205-267). Berlin: Regener.

Kiefer, M. (2008). Bewusstsein. In J. Müsseler (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie. 2. völlig neu überarbeitete Auflage (pp. 154-188). Heidelberg: Spektrum, Akademischer Verlag.

Kiefer, M. (2004). Neuropsychologie und Elektrophysiologie kognitiver Defiziter schizophrener Patienten. In Hippius (Hrsg.), Universitätskolloquiuen zur Schizophrenie, Bd II (pp. 102-108). Darmstadt: Steinkopf.

Kiefer, M. (2002). Bewußtsein (Consciousness). In Müsseler, J., Maasen, S. & Prinz, W. (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie (pp. 178-222). Heidelberg: Spektrum, Akademischer Verlag.

Kiefer, M. (1999). Die Organisation des semantischen Gedächtnisses(The organization of semantic memory). Bern: Huber.

Kiefer, M. (1998). Zur kortikalen Organisation semantischer Informationsverarbeitung (Cortical organization of semantic information processing). In U. Kotkamp & W. Krause (Hrsg.), Intelligente Informationsverarbeitung (pp. 201-208). Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag.

Kiefer, M., Weisbrod, M., Kern, I., Maier, S., & Spitzer, M. (1997). The effect of semantic distance on event-related potentials in normal subjects and schizophrenic patients. In H. Witte, U. Zwiener, B. Schack & A. Doering (Eds.), Quantitative and Topological EEG and MEG Analysis (pp. 169-171). Jena: Druckhaus Mayer GmbH.

Mangold-Allwinn, R., Barattelli, S., Kiefer, M., & Koelbing, H.G. (1995). Wörter für Dinge. Von flexiblen Konzepten zu variablen Benennungen (Words for objects. From flexible concepts to variable object names. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.

Ruchsow, M . & Kiefer, M. (2004). Elektrophysiologische Korrelate von Semantik und Grammatik bei schizophrenen und depressiven Patienten. In H. M. Müller & G. Rickheit (Hrsg.), Neurokognition der Sprache (pp. 143-165). Tübingen: Stauffenburg.

Weisbrod, M., Kiefer, M., Maier, S., Winkler, S., Hill, H., & Spitzer, M. (1997). Difficulty of the Auditory Oddball Paradigm Determines P300 Topography in Schizophrenic Patients. In H. Witte, U. Zwiener, B. Schack & A. Doering (Eds.), Quantitative and Topological EEG and MEG Analysis (pp. 158-160). Jena: Druckhaus Mayer GmbH.

Wietasch, A.K., Kiefer, M. & Spitzer, M. (2007). Neuropsychologie. In: A. Rohde & A. Marneros (Hrsg.), Geschlechtsspezifische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Ein Handbuch. (pp. 305-323) Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

 

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