Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Rasha Abdel Rahman
Neurokognitive Psychologie (S)
2024
Baum, J., Frömer, R., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2024). Emotional content reduces the cognitive effort invested in processing the credibility of social (mis)information. Emotion.
Eiserbeck, A., Enge, A., Rabovsky, M., & Abdel Rahman, Rasha. (2024). Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces. Consciousness and Cognition, 117, 103629.
Kaube, H., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2024). Art perception is affected by negative knowledge about famous and unknown artists. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8143. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8143.
Maier, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2024). Transient and Long-term Linguistic Influences on Visual Perception: Shifting Brain Dynamics with Memory Consolidation. Language Learning.
2023
Eiserbeck, A., Maier, M., Baum, J., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2023). Deepfake smiles matter less—the psychological and neural impact of presumed AI-generated faces. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 16111.
Enge, A., Süß, F., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2023). Instant Effects of Semantic Information on Visual Perception. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43(26), 4896–4906.
Kaube, H., Eiserbeck, A., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2023). Separating art from the artist: The effect of negative affective knowledge on ERPs and aesthetic experience. PLOS ONE, 18(1), e0281082.
Kuhlen, A. K., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2023). Beyond speaking: neurocognitive perspectives on language production in social interaction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1875), 20210483.
2022
Aristei, S., Knoop, C. A., Lubrich, O., Nehrlich, T., Enge, A., Stark, K., Sommer, W., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2022). Affect as Anaesthetic: how emotional contexts modulate the processing of counterintuitive concepts. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–17.
Döring, A.-L., Abdel Rahman, R., Zwitserlood, P., & Lorenz, A. (2022). Cumulative semantic interference is blind to morphological complexity and originates at the conceptual level. PLOS ONE, 17(6), e0268915.
Döring, A.-L., Abdel Rahman, R., Zwitserlood, P., & Lorenz, A. (2022). On the lexical representation(s) of compounds: A continuous picture naming study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(1), 43–59.
Eiserbeck, A., Enge, A., Rabovsky, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2022). Electrophysiological Chronometry of Graded Consciousness during the Attentional Blink. Cerebral Cortex, 32(6), 1244–1259.
Hernández-Gutiérrez, D., Muñoz, F., Khosrowtaj, Z., Sommer, W., Jiménez-Ortega, L., Abdel Rahman, R., Sánchez-García, J., Casado, P., Fondevila, S., Espuny, J., & Martín-Loeches, M. (2022). How the speaker’s emotional facial expressions may affect language comprehension. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–14.
Kuhlen, A. K., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2022). Mental chronometry of speaking in dialogue: Semantic interference turns into facilitation. Cognition, 219, 104962.
Lin, H., Kuhlen, A. K., Melinger, A., Aristei, S., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2022). Concurrent semantic priming and lexical interference for close semantic relations in blocked‐cyclic picture naming: Electrophysiological signatures. Psychophysiology, 59(4).
Maier, M., Blume, F., Bideau, P., Hellwich, O., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2022). Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision. Consciousness and Cognition, 101, 103301.
Vogt, A., Kaup, B., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2022). Experience-driven meaning affects lexical choices during language production. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 174702182211254.
2021
Baum, J., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Emotional news affects social judgments independent of perceived media credibility. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(3), 280–291.
Baum, J., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Negative news dominates fast and slow brain responses and social judgments even after source credibility evaluation. NeuroImage, 244, 118572.
Enge, A., Abdel Rahman, R., & Skeide, M. A. (2021). A meta-analysis of fMRI studies of semantic cognition in children. NeuroImage, 241, 118436.
Hernández-Gutiérrez, D., Muñoz, F., Sánchez-García, J., Sommer, W., Abdel Rahman, R., Casado, P., Jiménez-Ortega, L., Espuny, J., Fondevila, S., & Martín-Loeches, M. (2021). Situating language in a minimal social context: how seeing a picture of the speaker’s face affects language comprehension. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(5), 502–511.
Kuhlen, A. K., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Joint language production: An electrophysiological investigation of simulated lexical access on behalf of a task partner. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(8), 1317–1337.
Lin, H.-P., Kuhlen, A. K., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Ad-hoc thematic relations form through communication: effects on lexical-semantic processing during language production. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36(9), 1057–1075.
Lin, H.-P., Kuhlen, A.K., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Ad-hoc thematic relations form through communication: effects on lexical-semantic processing during language production. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1900580
Lorenz, A., Zwitserlood, P., Bürki, A., Regel, S., Ouyang, G., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Morphological facilitation and semantic interference in compound production: An ERP study. Cognition, 209, 104518.
Rabovsky, M., Schad, D. J., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Semantic richness and density effects on language production: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(3), 508–517.
Stark, K., van Scherpenberg, C., Obrig, H., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Web-based language production experiments: Semantic interference assessment is robust for spoken and typed response modalities.
van Scherpenberg, C., Abdel Rahman, R., Regenbrecht, F., & Obrig, H. (2021). Semantic Interference through Multiple Distractors in Picture Naming in People with Aphasia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(8), 1612–1633.
Vogt, A., Hauber, R. C., Kuhlen, A. K., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Internet based language production research with overt articulation: Proof of concept, challenges, and practical advice.
Wudarczyk, O. A., Kirtay, M., Kuhlen, A. K., Abdel Rahman, R., Haynes, J.-D., Hafner, V. V., & Pischedda, D. (2021). Bringing Together Robotics, Neuroscience, and Psychology: Lessons Learned From an Interdisciplinary Project. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 630789.
Wudarczyk, O. A., Kirtay, M., Pischedda, D., Hafner, V. V., Haynes, J.-D., Kuhlen, A. K., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Robots facilitate human language production. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 16737.
Xu, J., Abdel Rahman, R., & Sommer, W. (2021). Sequential adaptation effects reveal proactive control in processing spoken sentences: Evidence from event-related potentials. Brain and Language, 214, 104904.
Xu, J., Abdel Rahman, R., & Sommer, W. (2021). Who speaks next? Adaptations to speaker identity in processing spoken sentences. Psychophysiology, e13948. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13948
2020
Baum, J., Rabovsky, M., Rose, S. B., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2020). Clear judgments based on unclear evidence: Person evaluation is strongly influenced by untrustworthy gossip. Emotion, 20(2), 248–260.
Eiserbeck, A., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2020). Visual consciousness of faces in the attentional blink: Knowledge-based effects of trustworthiness dominate over appearance-based impressions. Consciousness and Cognition, 83, 102977.
Kirtay, M., Wudarczyk, O. A., Pischedda, D., Kuhlen, A. K., Abdel Rahman, R., Haynes, J.-D., & Hafner, V. V. (2020). Modeling robot co-representation: state-of-the-art, open issues, and predictive learning as a possible framework. 2020 Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 1–8.
Lupyan, G., Abdel Rahman, R., Boroditsky, L., & Clark, A. (2020). Effects of Language on Visual Perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(11), 930–944.
van Scherpenberg, C., Abdel Rahman, R., & Obrig, H. (2020). A novel multi-word paradigm for investigating semantic context effects in language production. PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0230439.
Xu, J., Abdel Rahman, R., & Sommer, W. (2020). Perceived language competence modulates criteria for speech error processing: evidence from event-related potentials. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(6), 752–765.
2019
Abdel Rahman, R., & Melinger, A. (2019). Semantic processing during language production: an update of the swinging lexical network. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(9), 1176–1192.
Fieder, N., Wartenburger, I., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2019). A close call: Interference from semantic neighbourhood density and similarity in language production. Memory & Cognition, 47(1), 145–168.
Lorenz, A., Zwitserlood, P., Regel, S., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2019). Age-related effects in compound production: Evidence from a double-object picture naming task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(7), 1667–1681.
Maier, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2019). No matter how: Top-down effects of verbal and semantic category knowledge on early visual perception. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 19(4), 859–876.
Melinger, A., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2019). To re-tune or not to re-tune: Comments on the flexible criterion. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 36(5–6), 212–215.
RRose, S. B., Aristei, S., Melinger, A., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2019). The closer they are, the more they interfere: Semantic similarity of word distractors increases competition in language production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(4), 753–763.
Weller, P. D., Rabovsky, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2019). Semantic Knowledge Enhances Conscious Awareness of Visual Objects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(8), 1216–1226.
Zahedi, A., Abdel Rahman, R., Stürmer, B., & Sommer, W. (2019). Common and specific loci of Stroop effects in vocal and manual tasks, revealed by event-related brain potentials and posthypnotic suggestions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(9), 1575–1594.
2018
Frömer, R., Maier, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2018). Group-Level EEG-Processing Pipeline for Flexible Single Trial-Based Analyses Including Linear Mixed Models. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 48.
Hernández-Gutiérrez, D., Abdel Rahman, R., Martín-Loeches, M., Muñoz, F., Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2018). Does dynamic information about the speaker’s face contribute to semantic speech processing? ERP evidence. Cortex, 104, 12–25.
Maier, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2018). Native Language Promotes Access to Visual Consciousness. Psychological Science, 29(11), 1757–1772.
Rohr, L., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2018). Emotional language production: Time course, behavioral and electrophysiological correlates. Neuropsychologia, 117, 241–252.
Rohr, L., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2018). Loser! On the combined impact of emotional and person-descriptive word meanings in communicative situations. Psychophysiology, 55(7), e13067.
2017
Fieder, N., Wartenburger, I. & Abdel Rahman, R. (2017). Nearest but not dearest: Effects of semantic neighbourhood distance and density on word production. [Abstract]. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 22.
Kuhlen, A. K., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2017). Having a task partner affects lexical retrieval: Spoken word production in shared task settings. Cognition, 166, 94–106.
Kuhlen, A. K., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2017, June). Electrophysiological underpinnings of partner-elicited semantic interference.
Rose, S. B., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2017). Semantic similarity promotes interference in the continuous naming paradigm: behavioural and electrophysiological evidence. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32(1), 55–68.
2016
Kuhlen, A. K., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2016). Language processing in shared task settings: How a partner influences spoken word production. In F. Salfner & U. Sauerland (Eds.), Pre-proceedings of Trends in Experimental Pragmatics (pp. 82-86).
Ouyang, G., Sommer, W., Zhou, C., Aristei, S., Pinkpank, T., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2016). Articulation Artifacts During Overt Language Production in Event-Related Brain Potentials: Description and Correction. Brain Topography, 29(6), 791–813.
Rabovsky, M., Schad, D. J., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2016). Language production is facilitated by semantic richness but inhibited by semantic density: Evidence from picture naming. Cognition, 146, 240–244
Rabovsky, M., Stein, T., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2016). Access to Awareness for Faces during Continuous Flash Suppression Is Not Modulated by Affective Knowledge. PLOS ONE, 11(4), e0150931.
Rose, S. B., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2016). Cumulative semantic interference for associative relations in language production. Cognition, 152, 20–31.
2015
Rohr, L., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2015). Affective responses to emotional words are boosted in communicative situations. NeuroImage, 109, 273–282
Rose, S. B., Spalek, K., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2015). Listening to Puns Elicits the Co-Activation of Alternative Homophone Meanings during Language Production. PLOS ONE, 10(6), e0130853.
Suess, F., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2015). Mental imagery of emotions: Electrophysiological evidence. NeuroImage, 114, 147–157.
Suess, F., Rabovsky, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2015). Perceiving emotions in neutral faces: expression processing is biased by affective person knowledge. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(4), 531–536.
2014
Lamke, J.-P., Daniels, J. K., Dörfel, D., Gaebler, M., Abdel Rahman, R., Hummel, F., Erk, S., & Walter, H. (2014). The Impact of Stimulus Valence and Emotion Regulation on Sustained Brain Activation: Task-Rest Switching in Emotion. PLoS ONE, 9(3), e93098.
Maier, M., Glage, P., Hohlfeld, A., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2014). Does the semantic content of verbal categories influence categorical perception? An ERP study. Brain and Cognition, 91, 1–10.
2013
Aristei, S., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2013). Semantic interference in language production is due to graded similarity, not response relevance. Acta Psychologica, 144(3), 571–582.
Melinger, A., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2013). Lexical selection is competitive: Evidence from indirectly activated semantic associates during picture naming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(2), 348–364.
2012
Abdel Rahman, R., & Sommer, W. (2012). Knowledge scale effects in face recognition: An electrophysiological investigation. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 12(1), 161–174.
Aristei, S., Zwitserlood, P., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2012). Picture-Induced Semantic Interference Reflects Lexical Competition during Object Naming. Frontiers in Psychology, 3.
Ewald, A., Aristei, S., Nolte, G., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2012). Brain Oscillations and Functional Connectivity during Overt Language Production. Frontiers in Psychology, 3
Rabovsky, M., Sommer, W., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2012). Depth of Conceptual Knowledge Modulates Visual Processes during Word Reading. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(4), 990–1005.
Rabovsky, M., Sommer, W., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2012). Implicit word learning benefits from semantic richness: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(4), 1076–1083.
Rabovsky, M., Sommer, W., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2012). The time course of semantic richness effects in visual word recognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6.
2011
Abdel Rahman, R. (2011). Facing good and evil: Early brain signatures of affective biographical knowledge in face recognition. Emotion, 11(6), 1397–1405.
Abdel Rahman, R., & Melinger, A. (2011). The dynamic microstructure of speech production: Semantic interference built on the fly. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(1), 149–161.
Aristei, S., Melinger, A., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2011). Electrophysiological Chronometry of Semantic Context Effects in Language Production. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(7), 1567–1586.
Wirth, M., Abdel Rahman, R., Kuenecke, J., Koenig, T., Horn, H., Sommer, W., & Dierks, T. (2011). Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on behaviour and electrophysiology of language production. Neuropsychologia, 49(14), 3989–3998.
2010
Abdel Rahman, R., & Aristei, S. (2010). Now you see it … and now again: Semantic interference reflects lexical competition in speech production with and without articulation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17(5), 657–661.
Schacht, A., Martín-Loeches, M., Casado, P., Abdel Rahman, R., Sel, A., & Sommer, W. (2010). How Is Sentence Processing Affected by External Semantic and Syntactic Information? Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. PLoS ONE, 5(3), e9742.
2009
Abdel Rahman, R., & Melinger, A. (2009). Dismissing lexical competition does not make speaking any easier: A rejoinder to Mahon and Caramazza (2009). Language and Cognitive Processes, 24(5), 749–760.
Abdel Rahman, R., & Melinger, A. (2009). Semantic context effects in language production: A swinging lexical network proposal and a review. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24(5), 713–734.
2008
Abdel Rahman, R., & Melinger, A. (2008). Enhanced phonological facilitation and traces of concurrent word form activation in speech production: An object-naming study with multiple distractors. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(9), 1410–1440.
Abdel Rahman, R., & Sommer, W. (2008). Seeing what we know and understand: How knowledge shapes perception. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(6), 1055–1063.
2007
Abdel Rahman, R., & Melinger, A. (2007). When bees hamper the production of honey: Lexical interference from associates in speech production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33(3), 604–614.
2004
Abdel Rahman, R., Sommer, W., & Olada, E. (2004). I Recognize your Face, but I Can’t Remember your Name: A Question of Expertise? The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 57(5), 819–834.
Melinger, A., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2004). Investigating the interplay between semantic and phonological distractor effects in picture naming. Brain and Language, 90(1–3), 213–220.
2003
Abdel Rahman, R., & Sommer, W. (2003). Does phonological encoding in speech production always follow the retrieval of semantic knowledge? Electrophysiological evidence for parallel processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 16(3), 372-382. doi:10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00305-1
Abdel Rahman, R., van Turennout, M., & Levelt, W. J. M. (2003). Phonological encoding is not contingent on semantic feature retrieval: An electrophysiological study on object naming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29(5), 850–860.
Damian, M. F., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2003). Semantic priming in the name retrieval of objects and famous faces. British Journal of Psychology, 94(4), 517–527.
2002
Abdel Rahman, R., Sommer, W., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2002). Parallel or sequential access to semantic information and names of familiar persons? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 28(2), 366-373. DOI:10.1348/000712605X38378
Abdel Rahman, R., Sommer, W., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2002). Brain-potential evidence for the time course of access to biographical facts and names of familiar persons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 28(2), 366-373. DOI:10.1037/0278-7393.28.2.366
2001
Abdel Rahman, R. (2001). Organisation semantischer und phonologischer Repräsentationen in der Gesichtererkennung und Sprachproduktion: Elektrophysiologische Indikatoren paralleler Verarbeitung. Aachen: Shaker.
1997
Sommer, W., Leuthold, H., Abdel Rahman, R. & Pfütze, E.M. (1997). Die Lokalisierung des Gruppierungseffektes bei überlappenden Aufgaben. Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 44(1), 103-116.
