Publikationen
Biologische Psychologie / Psychophysiologie
in press
Niefind, F., & Dimigen, O. (in press). Dissociating parafoveal preview benefit and parafovea-on-fovea effects during reading: A combined eye tracking and EEG study. Psychophysiology.
Buonocore, A., Dimigen, O. & Melcher, D. (2020). Post-saccadic face processing is modulated by pre-saccadic preview: Evidence from fixation-related potentials. Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0861-19.202
Coco, M. I., Nuthmann, A., & Dimigen, O. (in press). Fixation-related Brain Potentials during Semantic Integration of Object–Scene Information. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
2023
2022
2021
Zhang, J., He, X., Sommer, W., & Yue, Z. (2021). Does gaze direction of fearful faces facilitate the processing of threat? An ERP study of spatial precuing effects. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00890-0
Sommer, W., Stapor, K., Kończak, G., Kotowski, K., Fabian, P., Ochab, J., Bereś, A., & Ślusarczyk, G. (2021). The N250 event-related potential as an index of face familiarity: a replication study. Royal Society Open Science, 8(6), 202356.
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
Stephani, T., Kirk Driller, K., Dimigen, O., & Sommer, W. (2020). Eye contact in active and passive viewing: Event-related brain potential evidence from a combined eye tracking and EEG study. Neuropsychologia, 107478. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107478
Nowparast Rostami, H., Hildebrandt, A., & Sommer, W. (2020). Sex-specific relationships between face memory and the N170 component in event-related potentials. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 587-597. doi:10.1093/scan/nsaa059
Zahedi, A., Luczak, A., & Sommer, W. (2020). Modification of food preferences by posthypnotic suggestions: An event-related brain potential study. APPETITE, 104713. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104713
Pajkert, A., Ploner, C. J., Lehmann, T. N., Witte, V. A., Oltmanns, F., Sommer, W., . . . Finke, C. (2020). Early volumetric changes of hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex following medial temporal lobe resection. European Journal of Neuroscience. doi:10.1111/ejn.14784
Kristanto, D., Liu, M., Liu, X., Sommer, W., & Zhou, C. (2020). Predicting reading ability from brain anatomy and function: From areas to connections. Neuroimage, 218, 116966. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116966
2019
Storbeck, F., Schlegelmilch, K., Streitberger, K.-J., Sommer, W., & Ploner, C. J. (2019). Delayed recognition of emotional facial expressions in Bell's palsy. Cortex, 120, 524-531. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2019.07.015
Yan, M., & Sommer, W. (2019). The effects of emotional significance of foveal words on the parafoveal processing of N + 2 words in reading Chinese sentences. Reading and Writing, 32(5), 1243–1256. doi:10.1007/s11145-018-9914-x
Dimigen, O. (2019). Optimizing the ICA-based removal of ocular EEG artifacts from free viewing experiments. NeuroImage, 116117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116117
Kirk Driller, K., Stephani, T., Dimigen, O., & Sommer, W. (2019). Large lateralized EDAN-like brain potentials in a gaze-shift detection task. Psychophysiology. doi:10.1111/psyp.13361
Li, X., Hildebrandt, A., Sommer, W., Wilhelm, O., Reuter, M., Montag, C., & Zhou, C. (2019). Cognitive Performance in Young APOE epsilon4 Carriers: A Latent Variable Approach for Assessing the Genotype-Phenotype Relationship. Behavior Genetics, 49, 455–468. doi:10.1007/s10519-019-09961-y
Kaur, Y., Ouyang, G., Junge, M., Sommer, W., Liu, M., Zhou, C., & Hildebrandt, A. (2019). The reliability and psychometric structure of Multi-Scale Entropy measured from EEG signals at rest and during face and object recognition tasks. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 326, 108343. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108343
Hohlfeld, A., Martin-Loeches, M., & Sommer, W. (2019). The nature of morphosyntactic processing during language perception. Evidence from an additional-task study in Spanish and German. International Journal of Psychophysiology. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.06.016
Liu, X., Hildebrandt, A., Meyer, K., Sommer, W., & Zhou, C. (2020). Patterns of individual differences in fiber tract integrity of the face processing brain network support neurofunctional models. Neuroimage, 204, 116229. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116229
Ehinger B.V. & Dimigen O. (2019). Unfold: an integrated toolbox for overlap correction, non-linear modeling, and regression-based EEG analysis. PeerJ, 7:e7838, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7838
Zhang, H., Liu, M., Li, W., & Sommer, W. (2019). Human voice attractiveness processing: Electrophysiological evidence. Biological Psychology, 107827. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107827
2018
Kashyap, R., Bhattacharjee, S., Sommer, W., & Zhou, C. (2018). Repetition priming effects for famous faces through dynamic causal modelling of latency-corrected event-related brain potentials. European Journal of Neuroscience. doi:10.1111/ejn.14303
Munoz, F., Hildebrandt, A., Schacht, A., Stürmer, B., Bröcker, F., Martin-Loeches, M., & Sommer, W. (2018). What makes the hedonic experience of a meal in a top restaurant special and retrievable in the long term? Meal-related, social and personality factors. Appetite, 125, 454-465. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2018.02.024
Petrakova, A., Sommer, W., Junge, M., & Hildebrandt, A. (2018). Configural face perception in childhood and adolescence: An individual differences approach. Acta Psychologica, 188, 148-176. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.06.005
Ćepulić, D.-B., Wilhelm, O., Sommer, W., & Hildebrandt, A. (2018). All categories are equal, but some categories are more equal than others: The psychometric structure of object and face cognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(8), 1254-1268. doi:10.1037/xlm0000511
Stürmer, B., Ouyang, G., Palazova, M., Schacht, A., Martín-Loeches, M., Rausch, P., & Sommer, W. (2018). Lunching for Relaxation or Cognitive Control? After-Effects of Social and Solitary Meals. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 14(1), 14-20. doi:10.5709/acp-0234-3
Recio, G., & Sommer, W. (2018). Copycat of dynamic facial expressions: Superior volitional motor control for expressions of disgust. Neuropsychologia, 119, 512–523. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.08.027
Benson, G., Hildebrandt, A., Lange, C., Schwarz, C., Köbe, T., Sommer, W., . . . Wirth, M. (2018). Functional connectivity in cognitive control networks mitigates the impact of white matter lesions in the elderly. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 10(1). doi:10.1186/s13195-018-0434-3
2017
Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., Wilhelm, O., & Sommer, W. (2017). On the Relationship of Emotional Abilities and Prosocial Behavior. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38, 298-308. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.10.011
Zahedi, A., Stürmer, B., Hatami, J., Rostami, R., & Sommer, W. (2017). Eliminating stroop effects with post-hypnotic instructions: Brain mechanisms inferred from EEG. Neuropsychologia, 96, 70-77. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.01.006
Recio, G., Wilhelm, O., Sommer, W., & Hildebrandt, A. (2017). Are event-related potentials to dynamic facial expressions of emotion related to individual differences in the accuracy of processing facial expressions and identity? Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 17(2), 364-380. doi:10.3758/s13415-016-0484-6
Meyberg, S., Sinn, P., Engbert, R., & Sommer, W. (2017). Revising the link between microsaccades and the spatial cueing of voluntary attention. Vision Research, 133, 47-60. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2017.01.001
Ouyang, G., Hildebrandt, A., Sommer, W., & Zhou, C. (2017). Exploiting the intra-subject latency variability from single-trial event-related potentials in the P3 time range: A review and comparative evaluation of methods. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 75, 1-21. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.01.023
Kornrumpf, B., Dimigen, O., & Sommer, W. (2017). Lateralization of posterior alpha EEG reflects the distribution of spatial attention during saccadic reading. Psychophysiology, 54(6), 809-823. doi:10.1111/psyp.12849
Meyberg, S., Sommer, W., & Dimigen, O. (2017). How microsaccades relate to lateralized ERP components of spatial attention: A co-registration study. Neuropsychologia, 99, 64-80. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.02.023
Valt, C., Stürmer, B., Sommer, W., & Boehm, S. (2017). Early response activation in repetition priming: an LRP study. Experimental Brain Research. doi:10.1007/s00221-017-5017-1
Künecke, J., Wilhelm, O., & Sommer, W. (2017). Emotion Recognition in Nonverbal Face-to-Face Communication. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 41, 221–238. doi:10.1007/s10919-017-0255-2
Kaltwasser, L., Moore, K., Weinreich, A., & Sommer, W. (2017). The influence of emotion type, social value orientation and processing focus on approach-avoidance tendencies to negative dynamic facial expressions. Motivation and Emotion, 41(4), 532–544. doi:10.1007/s11031-017-9624-8
Martín-Loeches, M., Ouyang, G., Rausch, P., Stürmer, B., Palazova, M., Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2017). Test–retest reliability of the N400 component in a sentence-reading paradigm. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32(10), 1261-1272. doi:10.1080/23273798.2017.1330485
Vicario, C. M., Sommer, W., Kuran, K. A., & Rafal, R. D. (2017). Salivary secretion and disgust: A pilot study. Acta Psychologica, 178, 18-24. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.05.007
Nowparast Rostami, H., Saville, C. W. N., Klein, C., Ouyang, G., Sommer, W., Zhou, C., & Hildebrandt, A. (2017). COMT genotype is differentially associated with single trial variability of ERPs as a function of memory type. Biological Psychology, 127, 209-219. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.06.002
Pajkert, A., Finke, C., Shing, Y.-L., Hoffmann, M., Sommer, W., Heekeren, H. R., & Ploner, C. J. (2017). Memory integration in humans with hippocampal lesions. Hippocampus, 27, 1230-1238. doi:10.1002/hipo.22766
Nowparast Rostami, H., Sommer, W., Zhou, C., Wilhelm, O., & Hildebrandt, A. (2017). Structural encoding processes contribute to individual differences in face and object cognition: Inferences from psychometric test performance and event-related brain potentials. Cortex, 95, 192-210. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.08.017
Pajkert, A., Finke, C., Shing, Y.-L., Hoffmann, M., Sommer, W., Heekeren, H. R., & Ploner, C. J. (2017). Memory integration in humans with hippocampal lesions. Hippocampus, 27, 1230-1238. doi:10.1002/hipo.22766
Liu, X., Hildebrandt, A., Recio, G., Sommer, W., Cai, X., & Wilhelm, O. (2017). Individual Differences in the Speed of Facial Emotion Recognition Show Little Specificity but Are Strongly Related with General Mental Speed: Psychometric, Neural and Genetic Evidence. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11(149). doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00149
Maruo, Y., Sommer, W., & Masaki, H. (2017). The effect of monetary punishment on error evaluation in a Go/No-go task. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 120, 54-59. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.07.002
2016
Frömer, R., Stürmer, B., & Sommer, W. (2016). The better, the bigger: The effect of graded positive performance feedback on the reward positivity. Biological Psychology, 114, 61-68. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.12.011
Maruo, Y., Schacht, A., Sommer, W., & Masaki, H. (2016). Impacts of motivational valence on the error-related negativity elicited by full and partial errors. Biological Psychology, 114, 108-116. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.12.004
Korinth, S. P., Dimigen, O., Sommer, W., & Breznitz, Z. (2016). Reading training by means of disappearing text: effects on reading performance and eye movements. Reading and Writing, 29(6), 1245-1268. doi:10.1007/s11145-016-9635-y
Rothmaler, K., Nigbur, R., & Ivanova, G. New Insights into Insight: Neurophysiological Correlates of the Difference Between the Intrinsic “Aha” and the Extrinsic “Oh Yes” Moment. Neuropsychologia. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.017
Fondevila, S., Aristei, S., Sommer, W., Jiménez-Ortega, L., Casado, P., & Martín-Loeches, M. (2016). Counterintuitive Religious Ideas and Metaphoric Thinking: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study. Cognitive Science, 40(4), 972-991. doi:10.1111/cogs.12263
Frömer, R., Stürmer, B., & Sommer, W. (2016). Come to think of it: Contributions of reasoning abilities and training schedule to skill acquisition in a virtual throwing task. Acta Psychologica, 170, 58-65. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.06.010
Nowparast Rostami, H., Ouyang, G., Bayer, M., Schacht, A., Zhou, C. & Sommer, W. (2016). Dissociating the Influence of Affective Word Content and Cognitive Processing Demands on the Late Positive Potential. Brain Topography, 29(1), 82-93. doi: 10.1007/s10548-015-0438-2
Kashyap, R., Ouyang, G., Sommer, W., & Zhou, C. (2016). Neuroanatomic localization of priming effects for famous faces with latency-corrected event-related potentials. Brain Research, 1632, 58-72. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2015.12.001
Kornrumpf, B., Niefind, F., Sommer, W., & Dimigen, O. (2016). Neural Correlates of Word Recognition: A Systematic Comparison of Natural Reading and Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(9), 1374-1391. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00977
Hildebrandt, A., Kiy, A., Reuter, M., Sommer, W., & Wilhelm, O. (2016). Face and emotion expression processing and the serotonin transporter polymorphism 5-HTTLPR/rs22531. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 15(5), 453-464. doi:10.1111/gbb.12295
Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., Wilhelm, O., & Sommer, W. (2016). Behavioral and neuronal determinants of negative reciprocity in the ultimatum game. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(10), 1608-1617. doi:10.1093/scan/nsw069
Frömer, R., Stürmer, B., & Sommer, W. (2016). (Don’t) Mind the effort: Effects of contextual interference on ERP indicators of motor preparation. Psychophysiology, 10, 1577-1586.
Schacht, A., Luczak, A., Pinkpank, T., Vilgis, T., & Sommer, W. (2016). The valence of food in pictures and on the plate: impacts on brain and body. International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, 5-6, 33-40. doi:10.1016/j.ijgfs.2016.11.002
Ouyang, G., Sommer, W., & Zhou, C. (2016). Reconstructing ERP amplitude effects after compensating for trial-to-trial latency jitter: A solution based on a novel application of residue iteration decomposition. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 109, 9-20. i:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.09.015
Mikac, U., Buško, V., Sommer, W., & Hildebrandt, A. (2016). Analysis of different sources of measurement error in determining second-to-fourth digit ratio, a potential indicator of perinatal sex hormones exposure. Review of Psychology, 23(1-2), 39-49. doi:10.21465/rp0023.0004
Kashyap, R., Ouyang, G., Sommer, W., & Zhou, C. (2016). Improved Source Localization of Priming Effect of Face Recognition Based on RIDE. In R. Wang & X. Pan (Eds.), Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (V): Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics - 2015 (pp. 533-539). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
Ouyang, G., Sommer, W., & Zhou, C. (2016). Restoring Latency-Variable ERP Components from Single Trials: A New Approach to ERP Analysis with Residue Iteration Decomposition (RIDE). In R. Wang & X. Pan (Eds.), Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (V): Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics - 2015 (pp. 519-525). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
2015
Hohlfeld, A., Martín-Loeches, M., & Sommer, W. (2015). Is Semantic Processing During Sentence Reading Autonomous or Controlled? Evidence from the N400 Component in a Dual Task Paradigm. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 11(2), 42-55. doi: 10.5709/acp-0170-2
Xu, L., Sommer, W., & Masaki, H. (2015). The structure of motor programming: Evidence from reaction times and lateralized readiness potentials. Psychophysiology, 52(1), 149-155. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12296
Ouyang, G., Sommer, W., & Zhou, C. (2015). A toolbox for residue iteration decomposition (RIDE)—A method for the decomposition, reconstruction, and single trial analysis of event related potentials. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 250, 7-21. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.10.009
Yan, M., & Sommer, W. (2015). Parafoveal-on-foveal effects of emotional word semantics in reading Chinese sentences: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41(4), 1237-1243. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000095
Nigbur, R., Schneider, J., Sommer, W., Dimigen, O., & Stürmer, B. (2015). Ad-hoc and context-dependent adjustments of selective attention in conflict control: An ERP study with visual probes. Neuroimage, 107(0), 76-84. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.052
Ouyang, G., Sommer, W., & Zhou, C. (2015). Updating and validating a new framework for restoring and analyzing latency-variable ERP components from single trials with residue iteration decomposition (RIDE). Psychophysiology, 52(6), 839-856. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12411
Hildebrandt, A., Sommer, W., Schacht, A., & Wilhelm, O. (2015). Perceiving and remembering emotional facial expressions — A basic facet of emotional intelligence. Intelligence, 50(0), 52-67. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2015.02.003
Wilhelm, O., Hildebrandt, A., & Sommer, W., 2015. Facial Perception. In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 8. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 676–682.
Frömer, R., Dimigen, O., Niefind, F., Krause, N., Kliegl, R., & Sommer, W. (2015). Are Individual Differences in Reading Speed Related to Extrafoveal Visual Acuity and Crowding? PLOS ONE, 10(3), e0121986. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0121986
Kornrumpf, B., & Sommer, W. (2015). Modulation of the attentional span by foveal and parafoveal task load: An ERP study using attentional probes. Psychophysiology, 52(9), 1218-1227. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12448
Li, N.*, Niefind, F.*, Wang, S., Sommer, W., & Dimigen, O. (2015). Parafoveal processing in reading Chinese sentences: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Psychophysiology, 52(10), 1361-1374. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12502. *equal contributions
Xu, L., Sommer, W., & Masaki, H. (2015). On the Structure of Movement Preparation: Inferences from Motor Schema Theory. In K. Kanosue, T. Nagami & J. Tsuchiya (Eds.), Sports Performance: Springer Japan.
Künecke, J., Sommer, W., Schacht, A., & Palazova, M. (2015). Embodied simulation of emotional valence: Facial muscle responses to abstract and concrete words. Psychophysiology, 52(12), 1590-1598. doi:10.1111/psyp.12555
Wilhelm, O., Hildebrandt, A., & Sommer, W. (2015). Facial Perception. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 676-682).
2014
Sommer W, Hildebrandt A, Schacht A (2014). Face Perception. In: Michalos AC (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, pp 2109-2112.
Wilhelm, O., Hildebrandt, A., Manske, K., Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2014). Test battery for measuring the perception and recognition of facial expressions of emotion. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00404
Sommer, W., Bröcker, F., Martín-Loeches, M., Schacht, A., & Stürmer, B. (2014). Understanding and Designing the Meal Experience and it’s Psychological Consequences. In P. Benz (Ed.): Experience Design: Concepts and Case Studies (p. 159-169). London: Bloomsbury Academic. (ISBN: 9781472569394 PB, 9781472571144 HB).
Kliegl, R., Dambacher, M., Dimigen, O., & Sommer, W. (2014). Oculomotor Control, Brain Potentials, and Timelines of Word Recognition during Natural Reading. In Horsley, M.; Eliot, M.; Knight, B.; Reilly, R. (Eds.): Current Trends in Eye Tracking Research (141-156). Heidelberg: Springer.
Olderbak, S., Hildebrandt, A., Pinkpank, T., Sommer, W., & Wilhelm, O. (2014). Psychometric challenges and proposed solutions when scoring facial emotion expression codes. Behavior Research Methods, 46(4), 992-1006. doi: 10.3758/s13428-013-0421-3
Künecke, J., Hildebrandt, A., Recio, G., Sommer, W., & Wilhelm, O. (2014). Facial EMG Responses to Emotional Expressions Are Related to Emotion Perception Ability. PLoS ONE, 9(1), e84053. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084053
Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., Recio, G., Wilhelm, O., & Sommer, W. (2014). Neurocognitive mechanisms of individual differences in face cognition: A replication and extension. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 861-878. doi: 10.3758/s13415-013-0234-y
Recio, G., Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2014). Recognizing dynamic facial expressions of emotion: Specificity and intensity effects in event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology, 96(0), 111-125. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.12.003 2)
Lorenz, R. C., Gleich, T., Beck, A., Pöhland, L., Raufelder, D., Sommer, W., Rapp, M. A., Kühn, S. Gallinat, J. (2014). Reward anticipation in the adolescent and aging brain. Human Brain Mapping, 35(10), 5153-5165. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22540
Schinkel, S., Ivanova, G., Kurths, J., & Sommer, W. (2014). Modulation of the N170 adaptation profile by higher level factors. Biological Psychology, 97, 27-34. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.01.003
Dolzycka, D., Herzmann, G., Sommer, W., & Wilhelm, O. (2014). Can Training Enhance Face Cognition Abilities in Middle-Aged Adults? PLoS ONE, 9(3), e90249. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090249
Schacht, A.*, Sommer, W.*, Shmuilovich, O., Casado, P., & Martín-Loeches, M. (2014). Differential Task Effects on N400 and P600 Elicited by Semantic and Syntactic Violations. PLoS ONE, 9(3), e91226. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091226 *Joint first-authorship
Recio, G., Shmuilovich, O., & Sommer, W. (2014). Should I smile or should I frown? An ERP study on the voluntary control of emotion-related facial expressions. Psychophysiology, 51, 789–799. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12220
Xu, L., Sommer, W., & Masaki, H. (2014). On the structure of motor programming: an additive factors approach. Sport Science Research, 11, 250-263.
2013
Wilhelm, O., Hildebrandt, A., & Oberauer, K. (2013). What is working memory capacity, and how can we measure it? Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences, 4:433. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00433
Boldt, A., Stürmer, B., Gaschler, R., Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2013). Get out of here, quick! Problems with transparent labels on glass doors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 19(3), 241-253. doi: 10.1037/a0034079
Ouyang, G., Schacht, A., Zhou, C., & Sommer, W. (2013). Overcoming limitations of the ERP method with Residue Iteration Decomposition (RIDE): A demonstration in go/no-go experiments. Psychophysiology, 50(3), 253–265. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12004
Rellecke, J., Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (2013). Emotion effects on the N170: A question of reference? Brain Topography, 26 (1), 62-71. Doi: 10.1007/s10548-012-0261-y
Kiy, A., Wilhelm, O., Hildebrandt, A., Reuter, M., & Sommer, W. (2013). On the genetic basis of face cognition and its relation to fluid cognitive abilities. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 12(4), 438-445. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12034
Stürmer, B., Ouyang, G., Zhou, C., Boldt, A., & Sommer, W. (2013). Separating stimulus-driven and response-related LRP components with Residue Iteration Decomposition (RIDE). Psychophysiology, 50(1), 70-73. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01479.x
Goerke, M., Cohrs, S., Rodenbeck, A., Grittner, U., Sommer, W., & Kunz, D. (2013). Declarative memory consolidation during the first night in a sleep lab: The role of REM sleep and cortisol. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(7), 1102-1111. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.10.019
Sommer, W., Hildebrandt, A., Kunina-Habenicht, O., Schacht, A., & Wilhelm, O. (2013). Sex differences in face cognition. Acta Psychologica, 142(1), 62-73. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.11.001
Hildebrandt, A., Wilhelm, O., Herzmann, G., & Sommer, W. (2013). Face and Object Cognition Across Adult Age. Psychology and Aging, 28, 243–248. doi: 10.1037/a0031490
Korinth, S. P., Sommer, W., & Breznitz, Z. (2013). Neuronal response specificity as a marker of reading proficiency: two-fold nature of the N170 revealed after massive repetition. Neuroreport, 24(2), 96-100. doi: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32835d20b1
Palazova, M., Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (2013). Interplay of emotional valence and concreteness in word processing: An event-related potential study with verbs. Brain & Language, 125(3), 264-271. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2013.02.008
Lehle, C., Stürmer, B., & Sommer, W. (2013). The influence of dimensional overlap on location-related priming in the Simon task. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2013.778303
Calé, M.H., Gellert, A., Katz, N., & Sommer, W. (2013). Can minor changes in the environment lower accident risk at level crossings? Results from a driving simulator based paradigm. Journal of Transportation Safety und Security, 5(4), 344-360.
Recio, G., Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2013). Classification of dynamic facial expressions of emotion presented briefly. Cognition & Emotion, 1-9. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2013.794128
Yuan W, Dimigen O, Sommer W and Zhou C(2013) A model of microsaccade-related neural responses induced by short-term depression in thalamocortical synapses. Frontiers in Compututational Neuroscience 7, 47. doi:10.3389/fncom.2013.00047
Kaltwasser, L., Ries, S., Sommer, W., Knight, R., & Willems, R. M. (2013). Independence of valence and reward in emotional word processing: Electrophysiological evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00168
Sommer W, Stürmer B, Shmuilovich O, Martin-Loeches M, Schacht A (2013) How about Lunch? Consequences of the Meal Context on Cognition and Emotion. PLoS ONE 8(7): e70314. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070314
2012
Hildebrandt, A., Schacht, A., Sommer, W., & Wilhelm, O. (2012). Measuring the speed of recognising facially expressed emotions. Cognition & Emotion, 26(4), 650-666. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2011.602046
Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2012). Emotions in Cognitive Conflicts. In N. M. Seel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning (pp. 1139-1141): Springer.
Bayer, M., Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (2012). Font Size Matters - Emotion and Attention in Cortical Responses to Written Words. PLoS ONE, 7(5), e36042. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036042
Kao, C.-S. & Sommer, W. (2012). Thinking and Speaking: The Language-Specific Relationship between Conceptualization and Grammatical Encoding from a Psycholinguistic Viewpoint. J. Domke & K. Spalek (Hrsg.). Sprachliche Variationen, Varietäten und Kontexte: Beiträge zu psycholinguistischen Schnittstellen. Festschrift für Rainer Dietrich (p. 125-142). Stauffenburg Verlag: Tübingen.
Korinth, S.P., Sommer, W., & Breznitz, Z (2012). Does Silent Reading Speed in Normal Adult Readers Depend on Early Visual Processes? Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials. Brain & Language, 120, 15–26.
Kliegl, R., Dambacher, M., Dimigen, O., Jacobs, A.M., & Sommer, W. (2012). Eye Movements and Brain Electric Potentials During Reading. Psychological Research. 76 (2), 145-158.
Frömer, R., Hafner, V., & Sommer, W. (2012). Aiming for the bull’s eye: Preparing for throwing investigated with event related brain potentials. Psychophysiology, 49(3), 335-344. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01317.x
Sangals, J., Dippel, G., & Sommer, W. (2012). Grouping Mechanisms in Response Preparation Investigated with Event-Related Brain Potentials. Psychophysiology, 49 (3), 421–426.
Schacht, A., Adler, N., Chen, P., Guo, T., & Sommer, W. (2012). Association with positive outcome induces early effects in event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology, 89(1), 130-136. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.10.001
Böhm, S.G. & Sommer, W., (2012). Independence of data-driven and conceptually driven priming: The case of person recognition. Psychological Science, 23(9), 961 - 966. Doi: 10.1177/0956797612440098.
Rellecke, J., Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (2012). Does Processing of Emotional Facial Expressions Depend on Intention? Time-Resolved Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials. Biological Psychology 90, 23– 32.
Jiménez-Ortega, L., Martín-Loeches, M., Casado, P., Sel, A., Fondevila, S., de Tejada, P. H., . . . Sommer, W. (2012). How the Emotional Content of Discourse Affects Language Comprehension. PLoS ONE, 7(3), e33718. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033718
Masaki, H., Sommer, W., Takasawa, N., & Yamazaki, K. (2012). Neural mechanisms of timing control in a coincident timing task. Experimental Brain Research, 218(2), 215-226. doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3052-5
Bayer, M., Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (2012). P1 and beyond: Functional Separation of multiple emotion effects in word recognition. Psychophysiology. 49, 959–969.
Dimigen, O., Kliegl, R., & Sommer, W. (2012). Trans-saccadic parafoveal preview benefits in fluent reading: A study with fixation-related brain potentials. Neuroimage, 62, 381–393. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.04.006
Masaki, H., Murphy, T.I., Kamijo; K., Yamazaki, K., & Sommer, W. (2012). Foreshadowing of performance accuracy by event-related potentials: Evidence from a minimal-conflict task. PLoS 1, 7 (5), e38006.
Masaki, H., & Sommer, W. (2012). Cognitive Neuroscience of Motor Learning and Motor Control. The Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine, 1(3), 369-380.
Martin-Loeches, M., Fernández, A., Schacht, A., Sommer, W., Casado, P., Jiménez-Ortega, L., & Fondevila, S. (2012). The influence of emotional words on sentence processing. Neuropsychologia, 50(14), 3262-3272. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.010
Schinkel, S., Zamora-López, G., Dimigen, O., Sommer, W., & Kurths, J. (2012). Order Patterns Networks (orpan) – a method to estimate time-evolving functional connectivity from multivariate time series. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 6:91. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00091
Dietrich, R. Kao, C.-S., & Sommer,W. (2012). Linguistic relativity… another turn to the screw. M. Watorek, S. Benazzo & M. Hickmann (Eds.) Comparative Perspectives to Language Acquisition: A tribute to Clive Perdue (p. 464-481). Multilingual Matters: Bristol.
2011
Schinkel, S., Zamora-Lopez, G., Dimigen, O., Sommer, W., & Kurths, J. (2011). Functional network analysis reveals differences in the semantic priming task. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 197, 333–339.
Dimigen, O., Sommer, W., Hohlfeld, A., Jacobs, A., & Kliegl, R. (2011). Co-registration of eye movements and EEG in natural reading: Analyses and review. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140 (4), 552–572.
Bayer, M., Sommer, W., & Schacht,A. (2011). Emotional Words Impact the Mind but not the Body: Evidence from Pupillary Responses. Psychophysiology, 48(11), 1554–1562.
Hildebrandt, A., Wilhelm, O., Schmiedek, F., Herzmann, G., & Sommer, W. (2011). On the specificity of face cognition compared to general cognitive functioning across adult age. Psychology and Aging, 26, 701-715.
Palazova, M., Mantwill, K., Sommer,W. & Schacht, A. (2011). Are Effects of Emotion in Single Words Non-Lexical? Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials. Neuropsychologia, 49, 2766-2775.
Ouyang, G., Herzmann, G., Zhou, C., & Sommer,W. (2011). Residue Iteration lecomposition (RIDE): a new method to separate ERP components on the basis of Latency variability in single trials. Psychophysiology, 48, 1631-1647.
Nigbur R, Cohen MX, Ridderinkhof KR, Stürmer B. (2011). Theta Dynamics Reveal Domain-specific Control over Stimulus and Response Conflict. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00128
Ogawa, K., Masaki,H., Yamazaki,K., & Sommer, W. (2011). The Influence of Emotions due to Verbal Admonishment and Encouragement on Performance Monitoring. Neuroreport, 22(7), 313-318.
Korinth, S.P., Sommer, W., & Breznitz, Z. (2011). Towards an ERP-Driven Diagnostic Approach for Reading Impairments. Developmental Neuropsychology, 36(7), 944–948.
Lehle, C., Cohen,A., Sangals, J., Sommer,W., & Stürmer, B. (2011). Differential dynamics of spatial and non-spatial stimulus-response compatibility effects: A dual task LRP study. Acta Psychologica, 136, 42-51.
Rellecke, J., Bakirtas, A.M. Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (2011). Decision on Automaticity in attractive face processing. Brain potentials from a dual task. Neuroreport, 22 (14), 707- 710.
Nigbur R, Ivanova G, Stürmer B. (2011). Theta power as a marker for cognitive interference. Clinical Neurophysiology;122(11): 2185-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.03.030
Stuermer, B., Nigbur, R., Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2011). Reward and punishment effects on error processing and conflict control. Frontiers in Psychology, 2. Retrieved from doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00335
Rellecke, J., Palazova, M., Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (2011). On the Automaticity of Emotion Processing in Words and Faces: Event-related Brain Potentials Evidence from a Superficial Task. Brain & Cognition, 77, 23–32.
Dörr, P., Herzmann, G. & Sommer,W. (2011). Multiple Contributions to Priming Effects for Familiar Faces: Analyses with Backward Masking and Event-Related Potentials. British Journal of Psychology, 102, 765-782.
Böckler, A., Alpay, G., Stürmer, B. (2011). Accessory stimuli affect the emergence of conflict, not conflict control: A Simon-task ERP study. Experimental Psychology, 58 (2), 102-109.
Recio, G., Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (2011). Electrophysiological correlates of perceiving and evaluating static and dynamic facial emotional expressions. Brain Research, 1376, 66–75.
Fondevila, S., Martín-Loeches, M., Jiménez-Ortega, L., Casado, P., Sel, A., Fernández-Hernández, A., & Sommer, W. (2011). The sacred and the absurd - an electrophysiological study of counterintuitive ideas (at sentence level). Social Neuroscience, 7(5), 445-457. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2011.641228
2010
Scheibe, C., Ullsperger, M., Sommer, W., & Heekeren,H.R. (2010). Effects of parametrical and trial-to-trial variation in prior probability processing revealed by simultaneous EEG/fMRI. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 16709 - 16717 .
Wilhelm, O., Hildebrandt, A., Herzmann, G., & Sommer, W. (2010). Computergestütztes Testverfahren zur Erfassung gesichterspezifischer Denkleistungen – Berlin Face Test (BeFaT). Diagnostica, 56, 119-122.
Bayer, M., Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (2010). Reading emotional words within sentences: The impact of arousal and valence on event-related potentials. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 78, 299–307.
Herzmann, G. & Sommer,W. (2010). Effects of previous experience and associated knowledge on retrieval processes of faces: An ERP investigation of newly learned faces. Brain Research, 1356, 54-72.
Hildebrandt, A., Sommer, W., Herzmann, G., & Wilhelm, O. (2010). Structural Invariance and Age-Related Performance Differences in Face Cognition. Psychology and Aging, 24(4), 794-810.
Kao, C.-S., Dietrich,R., & Sommer,W. (2010). Processing Interrogative Sentence Mood at the Semantic-Syntactic Interface: An Electrophysiological Research in Chinese, German, and Polish. PLoSOne, 5(9): e13036. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013036
Klostermann, F., Wahl, M., Marzinzik, F., Vesper, J., Sommer, W., & Curio, G. (2010). Speed effects of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease. Movement Disorders, 25(16), 2762–2768.
Sangals, J. & Sommer, W. (2010). The Impact of Intervening Tasks on Response Preparation. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, 36, 415-429.
Schacht, A., Dimigen, O., & Sommer, W. (2010). Emotions in Cognitive Conflicts are not Aversive but are Task-Specific. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience., 10 (3), 349-356. doi:10.3758/CABN.10.3.349
Wilhelm, O., Herzmann,G., Kunina, O., Danthiir, V., Schacht, A. & Sommer,W. (2010). Individual Differences in Perceiving and Recognizing Faces?One Element of Social Cognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(3), 530?548.
Wilhelm,O., Hildebrandt,A., Herzmann,G., & Sommer,W. (2010). Testinformation. Computergestütztes Testverfahren zur Erfassung gesichterspezifischer Denkleistungen ? Berlin Face Test (BeFaT). Diagnostica, 56, 119-122.
2009
Hildebrandt, A., Wilhelm, O., & Robitzsch, A. (2009). Complementary and competing factor analytic approaches for the investigation of measurement invariance. Review of Psychology, 16, 87-102.
Schmiedek, F., Hildebrandt, A., Lövdén, M., Wilhelm, O., & Lindenberger, U. (2009). Complex span versus updating tasks of working memory: The gap is not that deep. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 1089-1096.
Alpay, G., Goerke, M., & Stürmer, B. (2009). Precueing imminent conflict does not override sequence-dependent interference adaptation. Psychological Research, 73 (6), 803-816.
De Sanctis, P., & Sommer, W. (2009). Information Transmission for One-dimensional Stimuli: The Role of Strategies. Acta Psychologica, 131, 12-23.. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.02.001
Dietrich, R., Kao, C.-S., & Sommer, W. (2009). Is there a linear ordering of the semantic representation at the syntax-semantics interface? In M.-G. Pak (Ed.), Current Issues in unity and diversity of languages [CD]. Seoul: The Linguistic Society of Korea. ISBN 978-89-90696-71-7 98040.
Dimigen, O., Valsecchi, M., Sommer, W., & Kliegl, R. (2009). Human Microsaccade-Related Visual Brain Responses. The Journal of Neuroscience, 29(39), 12321-12331.
Hafner, V.V. and Sommer, W. (2009), Experimental setup for studying the development of tool-use on the example of object throwing, Proceedings of EpiRob09, Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, pp. 209-210, Lund University Cognitive Studies, 146, Editors: Lola Canamero, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Christian Balkenius.
Herzmann,G., Kunina,O., Sommer,W., & Wilhelm,O. (2009). Individual Differences in Face Cognition: Brain-Behavior Relationships. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(3), 571?589. doi:10.1162/jocn.2009.21249.
Recio, G., Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2009). Effects of Inter-Stimulus Interval on Skin Conductance Responses and Event-Related Potentials in a Go/NoGo Task. Biological Psychology. 80(2), 246-250. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.10.007
Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2009). Emotions in Word and Face Processing: Early and Late Cortical Responses. Brain & Cognition, 69, 538-550. DOI:10.1016/j.bandc.2008.11.005
Schacht, A. Nigbur,R., & Sommer, W. (2009). Emotions in Go/NoGo conflicts. Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung,73(6), 843-856 . DOI: 10.1007/s00426-008-0192-0
Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2009). Time Course and Task Dependence of Emotion Effects in Word Processing. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioural Neuroscience. 2009, 9 (1), 28-43. DOI: 10.3758/CABN.9.1.28.
Scheibe, C., Schubert, R., Sommer, W., & Heekeren, H.R. (2009). Electrophysiological evidence for the effect of prior probability on response preparation. Psychophysiology, 46, 758?770. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00825.x.
Schinkel, S., Marwan, N., Dimigen, O., Kurths, J. (2009) Confidence bounds of recurrence-based complexity measures, Physics Letters A, 273, 2245-2250.
Stürmer, B., Sommer, W., Frensch, P. (2009). Conflicts as Signals: Bridging the gap between conflict detection and cognitive control. Introduction to a special issue of Psychological Research, 73 (6), 741-743.
Valsecchi, M., Dimigen, O., Kliegl, R., Sommer, W., & Turatto, M. (2009). Microsaccadic inhibition and P300 enhancement in a visual oddball task. Psychophysiology, 46(3), 635-644
2008
Formazin, M., Wilhelm, O., Schroeders, U., Kunina,O., Hildebrandt, A., & Köller, O. (2008). Validitäts- und Nutzenüberlegungen zur Studierendenauswahl mit Präzisierungen für das Fach Psychologie. In H. Schuler & B. Hell (Hrsg.), Studierendenauswahl und Studienentscheidung. (pp. 204-214). Hogrefe Verlag.
Hohlfeld, A., Ullsperger, P., & Sommer, W. (2008). How does the incrementality of auditory word processing interplay with episodic and semantic memory? Journal of Neurolinguistics. 21, 279-293.
Herzmann,G., Danthiir,V., Schacht,A., Sommer,W., & Wilhelm,O. (2008). Towards a Comprehensive Test Battery for Face Processing: Assessment of the Tasks. Behaviour Research Methods., 40 (3), 840-857.
Schacht A, Werheid K, Sommer W (2008). The appraisal of facial beauty is rapid but not mandatory. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 132-142.
Schinkel, S.; Dimigen, O.; Marwan, N. Selection of Recurrence Threshold for Signal Detection (2008). The European Physical Journal - Special Topics, 164, 45-53.
Schubert,R., Ritter, P., Wüstenberg, T., Preuschhof, C., Curio, G., Sommer, W., & Villringer, A. (2008). Spatial attention related SEP amplitude modulations covary with BOLD signal in S1 - a simultaneous EEG-fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 2686 ? 2700.
Sommer, W., & Hohlfeld, A. (2008). Overlapping tasks methodology as a tool for investigating language perception (pp. 125-152). In Z. Breznitz (ed.), Brain Research in Language, Springer.
Võ, M. L.-H., Jacobs, A. M., Kuchinke, L., Conrad, M., Schacht, A., & Hutzler, F. (2008). The Coupling of Emotion and Cognition in the Eye: Old/New Effects in Pupil Dilations. Psychophysiology, 45 (1), 130-140.
Wild-Wall,N., Dimigen,O., & Sommer,W., (2008). Interaction of facial expressions and familiarity: ERP evidence. Biological Psychology, 77, 138-149.
2007
Deffke, I., Sander,T., Heidenreich,J., Sommer, W., Curio,G., Trahms, L., & Lüschow,A., (2007). MEG/EEG sources of the 170 ms response to faces are co-localized in the fusiform gyrus. Neuroimage, 35, 1495?1501.
Herzmann, G., Danthiir,V., Wilhelm. O. Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (2007). Face Memory: A Cognitive and Psychophysiological Approach to the Assessment of Antecedents of Emotional Intelligence (pp. 305-336). In G. Matthews, M. Zeidner, & R. Roberts, Emotional Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
Herzmann,G., & Sommer, W. (2007). Memory-related ERP components for experimentally learned faces and names: Characteristics and parallel-test reliabilities. Psychophysiology, 44, 262-276.
Masaki, H., Falkenstein,M., Stürmer,B., Pinkpank,T., & Sommer,W. (2007). Does the error negativity reflect response conflict strength? Evidence from a Simon task. Psychophysiology, 44, 579-585.
Sangals, J., Wilwer, M., & Sommer, W. (2007). Localising Practice Effects in Dual-Task Performance. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology., 60(6), 860-867
Stürmer, B., Redlich, M., Irlbacher, K., Brandt, S. A. (2007). Executive control over response priming and conflict: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Experimental Brain Research, 183 (3), 329-339.
Stürmer, B., Sommer, W., Frensch, P. (2007). Konflikte in intelligenten Systemen. Humboldt-Spektrum, 14, 32-38.
Werheid K, Schacht A, Sommer W (2007). Facial attractiveness modulates early and late event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology 76, 100-108.
2006
Böhm, S.G., Klostermann, E.C., Sommer, W., & Paller, K.A. (2006). Dissociating perceptual and representation-based contributions to priming of face recognition. Consciousness and Cognition, 15, 163-174.
Engst, F.M., Martín-Loeches, M., & Sommer, W. (2006). Memory systems for structural and semantic knowledge of faces and buildings. Brain Research, 1124 ( 1), 70-80.
Martín-Loeches, M., Nigbur, R., Casado, P., Hohlfeld, A. & Sommer,W. (2006). Semantics prevalence over syntax during sentence processing: A brain potential study of noun-adjective agreement in Spanish. Brain Research, 1093 (1), 178-189.
Sommer, W. (2006). Biologische Grundlagen. In J. Funke, und P. A. Frensch (Hrsg.) Handbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie - Kognition (S. 86-94). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
2005
Böhm, S.G., & Sommer, W. (2005). Neural correlates of intentional and incidental recognition of famous faces. Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 153-163.
Böhm, S.G., Sommer, W., & Lueschow,A. (2005). Correlates of implicit memory for words and faces in event-related brain potentials. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 55, 95-112
Danthiir, V., Wilhelm, O., & Schacht, a. (2005). Decision speed in intelligence tasks: Correctly an ability? Psychology Science, 47 (2), 200-229.
Martín-Loeches, M., Sommer, W., & Hinojosa, J.A. (2005). ERP components reflecting stimulus identification: Contrasting the recognition potential and the early repetition effect (N250r). International Journal of Psychophysiology , 55, 113-125
Stürmer, B., Seiss, E., Leuthold, H. (2005). Executive Control in the Simon Task: A Dual-Task Examination of Response Priming and its Suppression. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 17 (5), 590-618.
Werheid, K., Alpay,G., Jentzsch,I., & Sommer,W. (2005). Priming the processing of facial affect: Event-related potentials reveal early detection of emotional expression. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 55, 209-219.
2004
Hohlfeld, A., Sangals, J., & Sommer, W. (2004). Effects of additional tasks on language perception: An ERP investigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 30 , 1012-1025
Leuthold , H., Sommer,W., & Ulrich, R. (2004). Preparing for Action: Inferences from CNV and LRP. Journal of Psychophysiology, 18, 77-88.
Sommer, W. Hohlfeld, A. & Sangals , J. (2004). Task Load and the Microstructure of Cognition (pp. 101-107). In: The GIHRE Project and R. Dietrich with T. M. Childress (eds.) Group Interaction in High Risk Environments. Ashgate: Aldershot.
Herzmann, G., Schweinberger, S.R., Sommer, W., & Jentzsch, I. (2004). What?s special about personally familiar faces? A multimodal approach. Psychophysiology, 41, 688-701.
Hohlfeld, A., Fukuda, R., Neuper, S., Sangals, J., Sommer, W. & Sträter, O. (2004). Task Load Effects on Language Processing: Experimental Approaches (pp. 209-240). In: The GIHRE Project and R. Dietrich with T. M. Childress (eds.) Group Interaction in High Risk Environments. Ashgate: Aldershot.
Hohlfeld, A., Mierke, K. & Sommer, W. (2004). Is word perception in a second-language more vulnerable than in one?s native language? Evidence from brain potentials in a dual task setting. Brain & Language,89, 569-579.
Masaki, H., Wild-Wall, N., Sangals, J., & Sommer, W. (2004). The functional locus of the lateralized readiness potential. Psychophysiology, 41, 220-230.
Sangals, J., Roß, L. & Sommer, W. (2004). Time Pressure Effects on Information Processing in Overlapping Tasks: Evidence from the Lateralized Readiness Potential. Acta Psychologica, 117, 275-294.
Trenner M.U., Schweinberger S.R. , Jentzsch, I., & Sommer, W. (2004). Face repetition effects in direct and indirect tasks: An event-related brain potentials study. Cognitive Brain Research, 21, 388-400.
2003
Stürmer, B., Leuthold, H. (2003). Control over response priming in visuomotor processing: A lateralized event-related potential study. Experimental Brain Research, 153(1), 35-44.
Wild-Wall, N., Sangals, J., Sommer, W., & Leuthold, H. (2003). Are fingers special? Evidence about movement preparation from event-related brain potentials. Psychophysiology, 40(1), 7-17.
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
Jentzsch, I., & Sommer, W. (2002). The effect of intentional expectancy on mental processing: A chonopsychophysiological investigation. Acta Psychologia, 111, 265-282.
Jentzsch, I., & Sommer, W. (2002). Functional localization and mechanisms of sequential effects in serial reaction time tasks. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 1169-1188.
Pfütze, E.-M., Sommer, W., & Schweinberger,S.R. (2002) Age-Related Slowing in Face and Name Recognition: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials. Psychology and Aging, 17, 140-160.
Sangals, J., Sommer, W., & Leuthold, H. (2002). Influences of presentation mode and time pressure on the utilisation of advance information in response preparation. Acta Psychologica, 109, 1-24.
Scherer, K.R., Zentner, M.R. & Schacht, A. (2002). Emotional states generated by music: An exploratory study of music experts. Musicae Scientia. The Journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. Special Issue 2001-2002, 149-171.
Schweinberger, S.R., Klos, Th. & Sommer, W. (2002). Face and word recognition in patients with left and right hemispheric lesions: Evidence from reaction times and ERPs. Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, 13, 67-81.
Sommer, D., Jochmann, M., Schwan, G., Brauner, E., & Szameitat, S. (2002). Zusammenarbeit in Gruppen - Ein Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und Chile. Poster präsentiert auf dem 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie in Berlin.
Stürmer, B., Leuthold, H., Soetens, E., Schröter, H., & Sommer, W. (2002). Control over location-based response activation in the Simon Task: Behavioral and Electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 1345-1363.
2001
Jentzsch, I., & Sommer, W. (2001). Sequence-sensitive subcomponents of P300: Topographical analyses and dipole source localization. Psychophysiology, 38, 607-621.
2000
Schlaghecken, F., Stürmer, B., & Eimer, M. (2000). Chunking processes in the learning of event sequences: Electrophysiological indicators. Memory & Cognition, 28 (5), 821-831.
Sommer, W. (2000). Kognitive Psychophysiologie. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 208, 169-189.
Stürmer, B., Aschersleben, G., & Prinz, W. (2000). Correspondence effects with manual gestures and postures: A study of imitation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26 (6), 1746-1759.
Stürmer, B., Siggelkow, S., Dengler, R., & Leuthold, H. (2000). Response priming in the Simon paradigm: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Experimental Brain Research, 135, 353-359.
1999
Leuthold, H. & Sommer, W. (1999). ERP correlates of error processing in spatial S-R compatibility tasks. Clinical Neurophysiology, 110, 342-357.
Sommer, W., Leuthold, H., Soetens, E. (1999). Covert signs of expectancy in serial reaction time taks revealed by event-related potentials. Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 342-353.
1998
Eimer, M., Stürmer, B., Schlaghecken, F., Goschke, T. (1998). Explicit and implicit learning of event sequences: Evidence form a psychophysiological study. In H. J. Heinze, T. S. Münte & G. R. Mangun (Eds.), Mapping Cognition in Time and Space: Combining EEG and MEG with Functional Imaging. Boston: Birkhäuser.
Henke, K., Schweinberger, S., Grigo, A., Klos, T., & Sommer, W. (1998). Specificity of face recognition; Recognition of exemplars of non-face objects in prosopagnosia. Cortex, 34, 289-296.
Leuthold, H., & Sommer, W. (1998). P300 latency and post-perceptual processes. Psychophysiology, 35, 34-46.
Martín-Loeches, M. & Sommer, W. (1998). Testing two models of the irrelevant speech effect on working memory with event-related potentials reveals two different effects. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 206, 1-22.
Martin-Loeches, M., Schweinberger, S.R. & Sommer, W. (1998). The phonological similarity effect in working memory: An ERP study comparing auditory and visual input modalities. Journal of Psychophysiology, 12, 144-158.
Sommer, W. & Leuthold, H. (1998). Acute effects of alcohol revealed by event-related potentials. In J. Snell & M. M. Lorist, (Eds.), Nicotine, Caffeine and Social Drinking: Behaviour and Brain Function (pp. 275-288). London: Harwood.
Sommer, W., Leuthold, H., & Matt, J. (1998). The expectancies that govern the P300 amplitude are mostly automatic and unconscious. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 149-150.
Stief, V., Leuthold, H., Miller, J., Sommer, W., & Ulrich, R. (1998). The effect of response complexity on the lateralized readiness potential. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 206, 305-319.
Ulrich, R., Leuthold, H., & Sommer, W. (1998). Motor programming of response force and movement direction. Psychophysiology, 35, 721-728.
1997
Schweinberger, S., Herholz, A., & Sommer, W. (1997). Recognizing famous voices: Influences of stimulus duration and different types of retrieval cues. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 40, 453-463.
Sommer, W., Komoß, E., & Schweinberger, S. (1997). Dissociation of brain systems subserving memory for names and faces in normal subjects. Electroencephalography and clinical Neurophysiology, 102, 192-199.
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.
Martin-Loeches, M., Schweinberger, S.R. & Sommer, W. (1997). The phonological loop model of working memory: An ERP study of irrelevant speech and phonological similarity effects. Memory & Cognition, 25, 471-483.
Stürmer, B. (1997). Organisationsprinzipien an der Schnittstelle zwischen Wahrnehmung und Handlung: Kompatibilitätseffekte unter Verwendung dynamischer Reiz- und Reaktionseigenschaften. Shaker-Verlag: Aachen.
1996
Sommer, W., Ulrich, R., & Leuthold, H. (1996). Das Lateralisierte Bereitschaftspotential als psychophysiologischer Zugang bei der Untersuchung kognitiver Prozesse. Psychologische Rundschau, 37, 1-14.
Eimer, M., Goschke, T., Schlaghecken, F., Stürmer, B. (1996). Explicit and implicit learning of event sequences: Evidence from psychophysiological studies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 22 (4), 970-987.
Leuthold, H., Sommer, W. & Ulrich, R. (1996). Partial advance information and response preparation: Inferences from the lateralized readiness potential. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 125, 307-323.
1995
Schweinberger, S.R., Pfütze, E.-M., & Sommer, W. (1995). Repetition priming and associative priming of face recognition: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 722-736.
Schweinberger, S.R., Klos, T., & Sommer, W. (1995). Covert face recognition in prosopagnosia: A dissociable function? Cortex, 31, 517-529.
Sommer, W., Heinz, A., Leuthold, H., Matt, J., & Schweinberger, S. (1995). Metamemory, distinctiveness and event-related potentials in face recognition. Memory & Cognition, 23, 1-11.
1994
Schweinberger, S.R., Sommer, W. & Stiller, R.M. (1994). Event-related potentials and models of performance asymmetries in face and word recognition. Neuropsychologia, 32, 175-191.
Sommer, W., Leuthold, H., & Ulrich, R. (1994). The lateralized readiness potential preceding brief isometric force-pulses of different peak force and rate of force production. Psychophysiology, 31, 503-513.
1993
Leuthold, H., & Sommer, W. (1993). Stimulus presentation rate dissociates sequential effects in event-related potentials and reaction time. Psychophysiology, 30, 510-517.
Schweinberger, S., Buse, C., & Sommer, W. (1993). Reaction time improvements with practice in brain-damaged patients. Cortex, 29, 333-340.
Sommer, W., Leuthold, H., & Hermanutz, M. (1993). Covert effects of alcohol revealed by event-related potentials. Perception & Psychophysics, 54, 127-135.
1992
Matt, J., Leuthold, H., & Sommer, W. (1992). Differential effects of voluntary expectancies on reaction times and event-related potentials: Evidence for automatic and controlled expectancies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 810-822.
Schweinberger, S.R., Buse, Chr., Freeman, R.B., Jr., Schönle, P.W., & Sommer, W. (1992). Memory search for faces and digits in patients with unilateral cerebral lesions. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 14, 822-839.
Sommer, W. & Schweinberger, S. (1992). Operant conditioning of P300. Biological Psychology, 33, 37-49.
1991
Schweinberger, S. & Sommer, W. (1991). Contributions of stimulus encoding and memory search to right hemisphere superiority in face recognition: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence. Neuropsychologi, 29, 389-413a
Sommer, W., Schweinberger, S., & Matt, J. (1991) Human brain potential correlates of face encoding into memory. Electroencephalography and clinical Neurophysiology, 79, 457-463.
1990
Sommer, W. & Matt, J. (1990). Awareness of P300-related cognitive processes: A signal detection approach. Psychophysiology, 27, 575-585.
Sommer, W., Matt, J. & Leuthold, H. (1990). Consciousness of attention and expectancy as reflected in event-related potentials and reaction times. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 16, 902-915.
Sommer, W., Matt, J., & Leuthold, H. (1990). Practice and sequential effects in reaction times and event-related potentials. In C.H.M. Brunia, A.W.K. Gaillard, & A. Kok (Eds.), Psychophysiological brain research (pp. 26-31). Tilburg: Tilburg University Press.
1988
Stojan, L., Sperber, D., Dransfeld, K. & Sommer, W. (1988). Magnetic-field-induced changes in the human auditory evoked potentials. Naturwissenschaften, 75, 622-623.
1985
Sommer, W. (1985). Selective attention differentially affects brainstem auditory evoked potentials of electrodermal responders and nonresponders. Psychiatry Research, 16, 227-232.
1981
Hermanutz, M., Cohen, R., & Sommer, W. (1981). The effects of serial order in long sequences of auditory stimuli on event-related potentials. Psychophysiology, 18, 415-423.
Cohen, R., Sommer, W., & Hermanutz, M. (1981). Auditory event-related potentials in chronic schizophrenics: Effects of electrodermal response type and demands on selective attention. Advances in Biological Psychiatry, 6, 180-185