Journal Articles

2025/Articles in press

Berger, A., & Kiefer, M. (2025). Task set reconfiguration following masked and unmasked task cues. Consciousness and Cognition, 130, 103850.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2025.103850

Jimenez, M., Prieto, A., Montoro, P. R., Hinojosa, J. A., & Kiefer, M. (2025). New methods, old questions: advancing the study of unconscious perception. Frontiers in Psychology, Volume 16 - 2025. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1626223

Kuhnke, P., Numssen, O., Voeller, J., Cheung, V. K. M., Weise, K., Kiefer, M., & Hartwigsen, G. (2025). Left inferior parietal lobe and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval. Brain Stimulation, 18(4), 1037-1047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.113

Reilly, J., Shain, C., Borghesani, V., Kuhnke, P., Vigliocco, G., Peelle, J. E., . . . Kiefer, M., . .. .Vinson, D. (2025). What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32, 243-280. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02556-7.

Strecker, K., Sim, E. J., Woike, K., Schönfeldt-Lecuona, C., Radermacher, P., Karabatsiakis, A., & Kiefer, M. (2025). Association of the biopsychosocial factors adverse childhood experiences, adult attachment style, emotion regulation, and mitochondrial density in immune cells with major depressive disorder. Neuroimmunomodulation, 32(1), 110-123. https://doi.org/10.1159/000544833

Trumpp, N. M., & Kiefer, M. (2025). Spatio-temporal activity of brain electrical sources during processing of abstract social concepts. Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience, 20(1), nsaf078. doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf078

Wentura, D., Rohr, M., & Kiefer, M. (2025). Does affective processing require awareness? On the use of the perceptual awareness scale in response priming research. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(1), 128-151. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001648

2024

Berger, A., Kunde, W., & Kiefer, M. (2024). Dynamics of task preparation processes revealed by effect course analysis on response times and error rates. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 4249. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54823-1.

Berger, A., Koch, I., & Kiefer, M. (2024). Inhibition of cued but not executed task sets depends on cue-task compatibility and practice. Psychological Research, 88(7), 2036-2058. doi.org/10.1007/s00426-024-02013-z.

Kiefer, M. (2024). Verkörperte Begriffe: Neuronale Mechanismen, aktuelle Befunde und Bedeutung für Psychopathologie. Nervenheilkunde, 43, 499-505. doi.org/10.1055/a-2313-3608.

Kiefer, M., & Kammer, T. (2024). The relation between subjective and objective measures of visual awareness: Current evidence, attempt of a synthesis and future research directions. Journal of Cognition, 7(1), 59. doi.org/10.5334/joc.381.

Trumpp, N. M., Ulrich, M., & Kiefer, M. (2024). Experiential grounding of abstract concepts: Processing of abstract mental state concepts engages brain regions involved in mentalizing, automatic speech, and lip movements. NeuroImage, 288, 120539. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120539.

Sanwald, S., GenEmo research group, Montag, C., & Kiefer, M. (2024). Group differences in OXT methylation between patients with Major Depressive Disorder and healthy controls: A pre-registered replication study. Psychiatry Research, 335, 115855. doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115855.

2023

Berger, A., & Kiefer, M. (2023). Electrophysiological correlates of response time outliers: Outlier related potentials. Psychophysiology, 60(4), e14305. doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14305.

Däschle, J., Hofmann, C., Wernicke, J., Ziegenhain, U., Montag, C., & Kiefer, M. (2023). The relationship between parenting behavior and the personality of kindergarten children. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1048391, doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1048391

Fiedler, M., Hofmann, C., Montag, C, & Kiefer, M. (2023). Factors related to the development of executive functions: A cumulative dopamine genetic score and environmental factors predict performance of kindergarten children in a go/nogo task. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 30: 100200, doi.org/10.1016/j.tine.2023.100200

Kiefer, M., Harpaintner, M., Rohr, M., & Wentura, D. (2023). Assessing subjective prime awareness on a trial-by-trial basis interferes with masked semantic priming effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(2), 269-283, doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001228

Kiefer, M., Fruehauf, V., & Kammer, T. (2023). Subjective and objective measures of visual awareness converge. Plos One, 18(10). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292438

Kiefer, M., Kuhnke, P., & Hartwigsen, G. (2023). Distinguishing modality-specificity at the representational and input level: a commentary on Calzavarini (2023). Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2209928

Kuhnke, P., Beaupain, M. C., Arola, J., Kiefer, M., & Hartwigsen, G. (2023). Meta-analytic evidence for a novel hierarchical modal of conceptual processing. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 144, 104994, doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104994.

Kuhnke, P., Kiefer, M., & Hartwigsen, G. (2023). Conceptual representations in the default, control and attention networks are task-dependent and cross-modal. Brain and Language, 244, 105313, doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105313

Sanwald, S., Kammer, T., Montag, C., Kiefer, M. (2023). Die Rolle des Oxytocinsystems für die Entstehung der Depression. Nervenheilkunde, 42, 153-160, doi.org/10.1055/a-1986-5990

Sanwald, S., GenEmo Research Group, Montag, C., & Kiefer, M. (2023). Association between parental separation, childhood trauma, neuroticism, and depression: A case control study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1112664. doi.org/10.3389/Fpsyt.2023.1112664

Ulrich, M., Harpaintner, M., Trumpp, N. M., Berger, A., & Kiefer, M. (2023). Academic training increases grounding of scientific concepts in experiential brain systems. Cerebral Cortex, 9, 5646-5657, doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac449

2022

Berger, A., Kunde, W., & Kiefer, M. (2022). Task cue influences on lexical decision performance and masked semantic priming effects: The role of cue-task compatibility. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics. 84:2684–2701, doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02568-2

Harpaintner, M., Trumpp, N. M., & Kiefer, M. (2022). Time course of brain activity during the processing of motor- and vision-related abstract concepts: Flexibility and task-dependency. Psychological Research, 86(8), 2560-2582 doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01374-5.

Kiefer, M., Pielke, L., & Trumpp, N. M. (2022). Differential temporo-spatial pattern of electrical brain activity during the processing of abstract concepts related to mental states and verbal associations. NeuroImage, 252:119036, doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119036.

Kühnel, J., Bledow, R., & Kiefer, M. (2022). There is a time to be creative: The alignment between chronotype and time of day. Academy of Management Journal, 65(1), 218-247, doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.0020.

Montag, C., Sanwald, S., Widenhorn-Müller, K., Group, G. R., & Kiefer, M. (2022). Investigating Primary Emotional Systems and the Big Five of Personality including their relations in patients with major depression and healthy control persons. Neuropsychoanalysis, 24:2, 149-158, doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2022.2140694

Sanwald, S., Widenhorn-Müller, K., GenEmo Research Group, Montag, C., and Kiefer, M. (2022). Primary emotions as predictors for fear of COVID-19 in former inpatients with Major Depressive Disorder and healthy control participants BMC Psychiatry, 22:94, doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03677-2.

Sanwald, S., Montag, C., and Kiefer, M. (2022). Cumulative genetic score of DRD2 polymorphisms is associated with impulsivity and masked semantic priming. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 72,  1682–1694, doi.org/10.1007/s12031-022-02019-5

2021

Berger, A., & Kiefer, M. (2021). Comparison of different response time outlier exclusion methods: A simulation study. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:675558, doi 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.675558

Berger, A., Sanwald, S. Montag, C., & Kiefer, M. (2021). The influence of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on mechanisms of semantic priming: Analyses with drift-diffusion models of masked and unmasked priming. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 17(1), 70-87, doi 10.5709/acp-0318-z.

Fernández, S. Ortells, J. J., Kiefer, M., Noguera, C., De Fockert, J. W. (2021). Working memory capacity modulates expectancy-based strategic processing: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Biological Psychology, 159: 108023. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108023

Klaiber, I., & Kiefer, M. (2021). Neuronale Oszillationen als elektrophysiologischer Marker für Defizite der kognitiven Kontrolle bei psychischen Erkrankungen. Nervenheilkunde. 40(2), 13-26, doi 10.1055/a-1300-3619

Kiefer, M., Baumann, M., Huckauf, A., Ernst, M., Herbert, M., & Sauter, M. (2021). Advances in Experimental Psychology. Open Psychology, 3(1), 64-65, doi https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2020-0116

Kuhnke, P., Kiefer, M., & Hartwigsen, G. (2021). Task-dependent functional and effective connectivity during conceptual processing. Cerebral Cortex, 31(7), 3475–3493, doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhab026.

Megías, M., Ortells, J. J., Carmona, I., Noguera, C., & Kiefer, M. (2021). Individual differences in working memory capacity modulate electrophysiological correlates of semantic negative priming from single words. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15:765290 doi 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.765290

Sanwald, S., Widenhorn-Müller, K., Schönfeldt-Lecuona, C., GenEmo Research Group, Montag, C., & Kiefer , M. (2021). Factors related to age at depression onset: The role of SLC6A4 methylation, sex, exposure to stressful life events and personality in a sample of inpatients suffering from major depression. BMC Psychiatry, 21:167. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03166-6.
 

2020

Carmona, I., Ortells, J. J., Fuentes, L. J., Kiefer , M., & Estévez, A. F. (2020). Implicit outcome expectancies shape memory process: Electrophysiological evidence. Biological Psychology, 157:107987, doi 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107987. 

Carmona, I., Ortells, J. J., Kiefer , M., & Estévez, A. F. (2020). Electrophysiological correlates of the differential outcomes effect in visual short-term memory. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 155, 184-193, doi 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.06.010.

Eberhardt, L. V., Pittino, F., Scheins, A., Huckauf, A., Kiefer, M., Kliegl, K. M. (2020). Duration estimation of angry and neutral faces: Behavioral and electrophysiological correlates. Timing & Time Perception, 8(3-4), 254-278, doi 10.1163/22134468-bja10020.

Harpaintner, M., Sim, E.-J., Trumpp, N. M., Ulrich, M. & Kiefer, M. (2020). The grounding of abstract concepts in the motor and visual system: An fMRI study. Cortex, 124, 1-22. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.10.014.

Kiefer, M., & Harpaintner, M. (2020). Varieties of abstract concepts and their grounding in perception or action. Open Psychology, 2, 119-137, doi: 10.1515/psych-2020-0104.

Kuhnke, P., Kiefer, M., & Hartwigsen, G. (2020). Task-dependent recruitment of modality-specific and multimodal regions during conceptual processing. Cerebral Cortex, 30(7), 3938-3959. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa010.

Kuhnke, P., Beaupain, M. C., Cheung, V. K. M., Weise, K., Kiefer, M., & Hartwigsen, G. (2020). Left posterior inferior parietal cortex causally supports the retrieval of action knowledge. NeuroImage, 219:117041, doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117041.

Mayer, C., Waller, S., Budde-Sprengler, N., Braunert, S., Arndt, P. A., Kiefer, M. (2020). Literacy training of kindergarten children with pencil, keyboard or tablet stylus: The influence of the writing tool on reading and writing performance at the letter and word level. Frontiers in Psychology. 10:3054, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03054.

Sanwald, S, Montag, C., & Kiefer, M. (2020). Depressive emotionality moderates the influence of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on executive functions and on unconscious semantic priming. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 70(5), 699-712, doi: 10.1007/s12031-020-01479-x.

Sanwald, S., Gahr, M., Widenhorn-Müller, K., Schönfeldt-Lecuona, C., Richter, K., Connemann, B. J., Kammer, T., Montag, C., & Kiefer, M. (2020). Relation of promoter methylation of the oxytocin gene to stressful life events and depression severity. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 70(2), 201-211. doi: 10.1007/s12031-019-01446-1.

Sanwald, S., Widenhorn-Müller, K., GenEmo Research Group, Montag, C., & Kiefer , M. (2020). Relation of promoter methylation of the structural oxytocin gene to critical life events in Major Depression: A case control study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 276, 829-838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.07.068.

Sim, E. J., Harpaintner, M., & Kiefer , M. (2020). Is subliminal face processing modulated by attentional task sets? Evidence from masked priming effects in a gender decision task Open Psychology, 2, 76-89, doi: 10.1515/psych-2020-0006.
 

2019

Kiefer, M. (2019). Cognitive control over unconscious cognition: Flexibility and generalizability of task set influences on subsequent masked semantic priming. Psychological Research, 83(7), 1556-1570. doi:10.1007/s00426-018-1011-x.

Kiefer, M., Trumpp, N. M., Schaitz, C., Reuss, H., & Kunde, W. (2019). Attentional modulation of masked semantic priming by visible and masked task cues. Cognition, 187, 62-77, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.02.013.

Popp, M., Trumpp, N. M., & Kiefer, M. (2019). Processing of action and sound verbs in context: An fMRI study. Translational Neuroscience, 10, 200-222, doi 10.1515/tnsci-2019-0035.

Popp, M., Trumpp, N. M., Sim, E.-J., & Kiefer, M. 2019). Brain activation during conceptual processing of action and sound verbs. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 15(4), 236-255, doi 0.5709/acp-0272-4.

Sanwald, S., Widenhorn-Müller, K., Wernicke, J., Sindermann, C., Kiefer, M., Montag, C. (2019). Depression is associated with the absence of sex differences in the 2D:4D ratio of the right hand. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10:483, doi 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00483.

Woike, K., Sim, E-J., Keller, F., Schönfeldt-Lecuona, C., Sosic-Vasic, Z., & Kiefer, M. (2019). Common factors of psychotherapy in inpatients with major depressive disorder: A pilot study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10:463, doi 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00463.

2018

 Harpaintner, M., Trumpp, N. M., & Kiefer, M.. (2018). The semantic content of abstract concepts: A property listing study of 296 abstract words. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1748. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01748

 Sanwald, S., Montag, C., & Kiefer, M. (2018). Epigenetik der Depression. Nervenheilkunde, 37, 792-798.

 Schneegans, H., Hoenig, K., Ruchsow, M., Spitzer, M., Connemann, B. J., & Kiefer, M. (2018). Semantic ambiguity resolution in patients with bipolar disorder-An event-related potential study. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:270, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00270.

 Trumpp, N. M., & Kiefer, M. (2018). Functional reorganization of the conceptual brain system after deafness in early childhood. PLoS ONE 13(7): e0198894. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198894.

2017

Kiefer , M., & Kammer, T. (2017). The emergence of visual awareness: Temporal dynamics in relation to task and mask type. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8:315. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00315.

Kiefer , M., Liegel, N., Zovko, M., & Wentura, D. (2017). Mechanisms of masked evaluative priming: Task sets modulate behavioral and electrophysiological priming for picture and words differentially. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi10.1093/scan/nsw167.

Kiefer, M., Neff, U., Schmid, M. M., Spitzer, M., Connemann, B. J., & Schönfeldt-Lecuona, C. (2017). Brain activity to transitional objects in patients with borderline personality disorder. Scientific Reports, 7: 13121, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-13508-8.

Rinker, T., Shafer, V. L., Kiefer, M., Vidal, N., & Yu, Y. H. (2017). T-complex measures in bilingual Spanish-English and Turkish-German children and monolingual peers. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0171992. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0171992.

2016

Fladung, A. K., & Kiefer, M. (2016). Keep calm! Gender differences in mental rotation performance are modulated by habitual expressive suppression. Psychological Research, 80, 985-996, doi 10.1007/s00426-015-0704-7.

Montag, C., Widenhorn-Müller, K., Panksepp, J., & Kiefer, M. (2016). Individual differences in Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale (ANPS) primary emotional traits and depressive tendencies. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 73, 136-142.

Kiefer , M., & Velay, J. L. (2016). Writing in the digital age. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 5, 77-81.

Ortells, J. J., Kiefer, M., Castillo, A., Megias, M., & Morillas, A. (2016). The semantic origin of unconscious priming: Behavioral and event-related potential evidence during category congruency priming from strongly and weakly related masked words. Cognition, 146, 143-157.

Popp, M., Trumpp, N., & Kiefer , M. (2016). Feature-specific event-related potential effects to action- and sound-related verbs during visual word recognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10:637. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00637.

Schneider-Hassloff, H., Zwönitzer, A., Künster, A. K., Mayer, C., Ziegenhain, U., & Kiefer, M. (2016). Emotional availability modulates electrophysiological correlates of executive functions in preschool children. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10:299, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00299.

Ulrich M, Kiefer M. (2016). The neural signature of subliminal visuomotor priming: Brain activity and functional connectivity profiles. Cerebral Cortex, 26, 2471-2482.

Zupp, K., Sim., E-J., & Kiefer, M. (2016). Psychobiologische Marker von Depression – Ein kurzer Überblick und Ausblick. Nervenheilkunde, 35, 585-589

2015

Breitmeyer, B. G., Kiefer, M., & Niedeggen, M. (2015). Exploring the visual (un)conscious. Consciousness and Cognition, 35, 178-184.

Hogan, M. J., O’Hora, D., Kiefer, M., Kubesch, S., Kilmartin, L., Collins, P., & Dimitrova, J. (2015). The effects of cardiorespiratory fitness and acute aerobic exercise on executive functioning and EEG entropy in adolescents. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:538, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00538.

Kiefer, M., Schuler, S., Mayer, C., Trumpp, N. M., Hille, K., & Sachse, S. (2015). Handwriting or typewriting? The influence of pen- or keyboard-based writing training on reading and writing performance in preschool children. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 11, 136-146.

Kiefer, M., Sim, E. J., & Wentura, D. (2015). Boundary conditions for the influence of unfamiliar non-target primes in unconscious evaluative priming: The moderating role of attentional task sets. Consciousness and Cognition, 35, 342-356.

Schönfeldt-Lecuona, C, Keller, F., Kiefer, M., Gahr, M., Plener, P. L., Spitzer, M., Gunst, I. M., Fischer, T, Connemann, B. J., Schmidt, M., M. (2015). Relationship between transitional objects and personality disorder in female psychiatric inpatients – A prospective study. Journal of Personality Disorders, 29, 215-230.

Sim, E. J., Helbig, H. B., Graf, M., & Kiefer, M. (2015). When action observation facilitates visual perception: Activation in visuo-motor areas contributes to object recognition. Cerebral Cortex, 25, 2907-2918. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhu087.

Ulrich, M., Kiefer, M., Bongartz, W., Grön, G., & Hoenig, K. (2015) Suggestion-induced modulation of semantic priming during functional magnetic resonance imaging. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0123686. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123686.

Waller, C., Wittfoth, M., Fritzsche, K., Timm, L., Wittfoth-Schardt, D., Rottler, E., Heinrichs, M., Buchheim, A., Kiefer, M., & Gündel, H. (2015). Attachment representation modulates oxytocin effects on the processing of own child faces in fathers. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 62, 27-35, doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.07.003.

2014

Ansorge, U., Kunde, W., & Kiefer , M. (2014). Unconscious vision and executive control: How unconscious processing and conscious action control interact. Consciousness and Cognition, 27, 268-287.

Rinker, T., Hartmann, K., Smith, E., Reiter, R., Alku, P., Kiefer, M., & Brosch, S. (2014). Kinder mit Spezifischer Sprachentwicklungsstörung: Elektrophysiologische und pädaudiologische Befunde. Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie, 93, 521-527.

Trumpp, N. M., Traub, F., Pulvermüller, F., & Kiefer, M. (2014). Unconscious automatic brain activation of acoustic and action-related conceptual features during masked repetition priming. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 352-364.

Ulrich, M., Adams, S. C., & Kiefer, M. (2014). Flexible establishment of functional brain networks supports attentional modulation of unconscious cognition. Human Brain Mapping, 35, 5500-5516.

2013

Brückner, S., & Kiefer, M., & Kammer, T. (2013). Comparing the after-effects of continuous theta burst stimulation and conventional 1Hz rTMS on semantic processing. Neuroscience, 233, 64-71.

Hogan, M., Kiefer, M., Kubesch, S., Collins, P., Kilmartin, L., & Brosnan, M. (2013). The interactive effects of physical fitness and acute aerobic exercise on electrophysiological coherence and cognitive performance in adolescents. Experimental Brain Research, 229, 85-96. DOI 10.1007/s00221-013-3595-0.

Kiefer, M., Morschett, A., Schönfeldt-Lecuona, C., Spitzer, M., & Kammer, T. (2013). Altered time course of unconscious response priming in schizophrenia patients. Schizophrenia Research, 150, 590-591.

Trumpp, N. M., Kliese, D., Hoenig, K., Haarmaier, T., & Kiefer , M. (2013). Loosing the sound of concepts: Damage to auditory association cortex impairs the processing of sound-related concepts. Cortex, 49, 474-486.

Trumpp, N. M., Traub, F., & Kiefer, M. (2013). Masked priming of conceptual features reveals differential brain activation during unconscious access to conceptual action and sound information. PLoS ONE 8(5): e65910. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065910.

Ulrich, M., Hoenig, K., Groen, G., & Kiefer M. (2013). Brain activation during masked and unmasked semantic priming: Commonalities and differences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 2216-2229.

Zovko, M., & Kiefer, M., (2013). Do different perceptual task sets modulate electrophysiological correlates of masked visuo-motor priming? Attention to shape and color put to the test. Psychophysiology, 50, 149-157.

2012

Adams, S. C., & Kiefer, M. (2012). Testing the attentional boundary conditions of subliminal semantic priming: The influence of semantic and phonological task sets. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6:241. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00241.

Kiefer, M. (2012). Executive control over unconscious cognition: Attentional sensitization of unconscious information processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6:61, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00061.

Kiefer, M., Adams, S. C., & Zovko, M. (2012). Attentional sensitization of unconscious visual processing: Top-down influences on masked priming. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 8, 50-61.

Kiefer, M., & Pulvermüller, F. (2012). Conceptual representations in mind and brain: Theoretical developments, current evidence and future directions. Cortex, 48, 805-825.

Kiefer , M., & Trumpp, N. M. (2012). Embodiment theory and education: The foundations of cognition in perception and action. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 1, 15-20.

Kiefer , M., Trumpp, N. M., Herrnberger, B., Sim, E.-J., Hoenig, K., & Pulvermüller, F. (2012). Dissociating the representation of action- and sound-related concepts in middle temporal cortex. Brain and Language, 122, 120-125.

Michael, L., Kiefer, M., & Niedeggen, M. (2012). The influence of distracter and target features on distracter induced blindness. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 8, 62-69.

2011

Hoenig, K., Müller, C., Herrnberger, B., Spitzer, M., Ehret, G., & Kiefer, M. (2011). Neuroplasticity of semantic maps for musical instruments in professional musicians. NeuroImage, 56, 1714–1725.

Kiefer, M., Ansorge, U., Haynes, J. D., Hamker, F., Mattler, U., Verleger, R., & Niedeggen, M. (2011). Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of conscious and unconscious visual perception: From a plethora of phenomena to general principles. Advances in Cognitive Psychology , 7, 55-67.

Kiefer, M., Sim, E.-J., Helbig, H. B., & Graf, M. (2011). Tracking the time course of action priming on object recognition: Evidence for fast and slow influences of action on perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1864–1874.

Martens, U., Ansorge, U., & Kiefer, M. (2011). Controlling the unconscious: Attentional task sets modulate subliminal semantic and visuo-motor processes differentially. Psychological Science, 22, 282-291.

Michael, L., Hesselmann, G., Kiefer, M., & Niedeggen, M. (2011). Distractor-induced blindness for orientation changes and coherent motion. Vision Research, 51, 1781-1787.

Zurawska vel Grajewska, B., Sim, E.-J., Hoenig, K., Herrnberger, B., & Kiefer, M. (2011). Mechanisms underlying flexible adaptation of cognitive control: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence in a flanker task. Brain Research, 1421, 52-65.

2010

Ansorge, U., Kiefer, M., Khalid, S., Grassl, S., & König, P. (2010). Testing the theory of embodied cognition with subliminal words. Cognition, 116, 303-320.

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, 40, 1703-1710.

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 (2010). Attentional sensitization of unconscious cognition. Task sets modulate subsequent masked semantic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139, 464-489.

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, 113, 90-95.

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, 113, 103-112.

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

Bermeitinger, C., & Kiefer, M. (2012). Embodied concepts. In S. C. Koch, Th. Fuchs, M. Sumna & C. Müller (Eds.), Body memory, metaphor and movement (pp. 121-140). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

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

Kempf, W. & Kiefer, M. (2009). Einleitung. In W. Kempf & M. Kiefer, M. (Hrsg.). Forschungsmethoden der Psychologie. Zwischen naturwissenschaftlichem Experiment und sozialwissenschaftlicher Hermeneutik. Bd. 3: Natur und Kultur. (pp. 7-13). Berlin: Regener.

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

Kiefer, M. (1999). Die Organisation des semantischen Gedächtnisses. Bern: Huber.

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

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

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. (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. 207-267). Berlin: Regener.

Kiefer, M. (2017). Bewusstsein. In J. Müsseler & M. Rieger (Eds.), Lehrbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie. 3. völlig neu überarbeitete Auflage (pp. 153-182). Berlin: Springer.

Kiefer, M. (2018). Verkörperte Kognition. Die Verankerung von Denken und Sprache in Wahrnehmungs- und Handlungserfahrung. In H. Böttger & M. Sambanis (Eds.), Focus on Evidence II – Netzwerke zwischen Fremdsprachendidaktik und Neurowissenschaften (pp. 31-43). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.

Kiefer, M., & Barsalou, L. W. (2013). Grounding the human conceptual system in perception, action, and internal states. In W. Prinz, M. Beisert & A. Herwig (Eds.), Tutorials in action science (pp. 381-407). Cambridge: MIT Press.

Kiefer, M. & Hönig, K. (2012). Die Vision einer integrativen Psychologie im Spannungsfeld zwischen Natur- und Kulturwissenschaft. In W. Baros & M. Rost (Hrsg.). Natur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven in der Psychologie (pp. 187-199). Berlin: Regener.

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. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.

Moseley, R., Kiefer , M., & Pulvermüller, F. (2016). Grounding and embodiment of concepts and meaning: A neurobiological perspective. In Y. Coello & M. H. Fischer (Eds.), Foundations of embodied cognition, Volume 1: Perceptual and emotional embodiment. Oxon, U.K: Routledge.

Rinker, T. & Kiefer, M. (2011). The cognitive neuroscience of multilingualism. In W. Wiater & G. Videsott (eds.), New theoretical perspectives in multilingualism research (pp. 43-62). Frankfurt: Peter Lang

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.

Videsott, G., Herrnberger, B., Schilly, E., Grothe, J., Hoenig, K., Wiater, W., Spitzer, M. & Kiefer, M. (2011). The complex measurement of language(s). In W. Wiater & G. Videsott (eds.), New theoretical perspectives in multilingualism research (pp. 35-41). Frankfurt: Peter Lang

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.