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Andreas Widmann

Andreas Widmann

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Neuroscience

D-Index
36
Citations
4656
World Ranking
9052
National Ranking
760

Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
4632
World Ranking
9605
National Ranking
455

Overview

Andreas Widmann is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and focuses on the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their research mainly spans cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and speech and hearing.

Their work explores several main topics, including:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Widmann has published extensively in prominent venues such as:

  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychophysiology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Widmann include:

  • "A tutorial on the use of temporal principal component analysis in developmental ERP research - Opportunities and challenges," published in 2022 in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "The impact of novelty and emotion on attention-related neuronal and pupil responses in children," published in 2020 in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "The quest for the genuine visual mismatch negativity (vMMN): Event-related potential indications of deviance detection for low-level visual features," published in 2020 in Psychophysiology
  • "Omission related brain responses reflect specific and unspecific action-effect couplings," published in 2020 in NeuroImage
  • "The auditory brain in action: Intention determines predictive processing in the auditory system-A review of current paradigms and findings," published in 2021 in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Widmann often collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Nicole Wetzel
  • Erich Schröger
  • Florian Scharf
  • Tjerk T. Dercksen
  • Betina Korka

Best Publications

  • Digital filter design for electrophysiological data--a practical approach.

    Andreas Widmann;Erich Schröger;Burkhard Maess

  • Pitch discrimination accuracy in musicians vs nonmusicians: an event-related potential and behavioral study.

    Mari Tervaniemi;Mari Tervaniemi;Viola Just;Stefan Koelsch;Andreas Widmann

  • Filter Effects and Filter Artifacts in the Analysis of Electrophysiological Data

    Andreas Widmann;Erich Schröger

  • Speeded responses to audiovisual signal changes result from bimodal integration

    Erich Schröger;Andreas Widmann

  • Hearing Silences: Human Auditory Processing Relies on Preactivation of Sound-Specific Brain Activity Patterns

    Iria SanMiguel;Andreas Widmann;Alexandra Bendixen;Nelson Trujillo-Barreto

  • The development of involuntary and voluntary attention from childhood to adulthood: a combined behavioral and event-related potential study.

    Nicole Wetzel;Andreas Widmann;Stefan Berti;Erich Schröger

  • Infant and adult pupil dilation in response to unexpected sounds

    Nicole Wetzel;David Buttelmann;Andy Schieler;Andreas Widmann

  • Attenuated human auditory middle latency response and evoked 40-Hz response to self-initiated sounds

    Pamela Baess;Pamela Baess;Andreas Widmann;Anja Roye;Erich Schröger

  • Auditory distraction by duration and location deviants: a behavioral and event-related potential study.

    Urte Roeber;Andreas Widmann;Erich Schröger

  • Pre-attentive auditory processing of lexicality.

    Thomas Jacobsen;János Horváth;Erich Schröger;Sonja Lattner

  • Selective tuning of cortical sound-feature processing by language experience.

    M. Tervaniemi;M. Tervaniemi;T. Jacobsen;S. Röttger;T. Kujala

  • The dissociation between the P3a event-related potential and behavioral distraction

    Nicole Wetzel;Erich Schröger;Andreas Widmann

  • Sensorial suppression of self-generated sounds and its dependence on attention.

    Katja Saupe;Andreas Widmann;Nelson J. Trujillo-Barreto;Erich Schröger

  • Distraction and Facilitation--Two Faces of the Same Coin?.

    Nicole Wetzel;Andreas Widmann;Erich Schröger

  • From symbols to sounds: visual symbolic information activates sound representations.

    Andreas Widmann;Teija Kujala;Mari Tervaniemi;Mari Tervaniemi;Anu Kujala

  • Emotion lies in the eye of the listener: Emotional arousal to novel sounds is reflected in the sympathetic contribution to the pupil dilation response and the P3.

    Andreas Widmann;Erich Schröger;Nicole Wetzel

  • The modulation of auditory novelty processing by working memory load in school age children and adults: a combined behavioral and event-related potential study

    Philipp Ruhnau;Nicole Wetzel;Andreas Widmann;Erich Schröger

  • Binding Symbols and Sounds: Evidence from Event-Related Oscillatory Gamma-Band Activity

    Andreas Widmann;Thomas Gruber;Teija Kujala;Mari Tervaniemi

  • Differential processing of duration changes within short and long sounds in humans.

    Sabine Grimm;Andreas Widmann;Erich Schröger

  • Effects of intermodal attention on the auditory steady-state response and the event-related potential.

    Katja Saupe;Andreas Widmann;Alexandra Bendixen;Matthias M. Müller

  • SHORT COMMUNICATION Selective tuning of cortical sound-feature processing by language experience

    M. Tervaniemi;T. Jacobzen;T. Kujala;A. Widmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Erich Schröger
Erich Schröger Leipzig University
Mari Tervaniemi
Mari Tervaniemi University of Helsinki
Alexandra Bendixen
Alexandra Bendixen Chemnitz University of Technology
Thomas Jacobsen
Thomas Jacobsen Helmut Schmidt University
István Winkler
István Winkler Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Martin Walter
Martin Walter Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Teija Kujala
Teija Kujala University of Helsinki
Cornelia Exner
Cornelia Exner Leipzig University
Burkhard Maess
Burkhard Maess Max Planck Society

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