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Annekathrin Schacht

Annekathrin Schacht

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
6118
World Ranking
8589
National Ranking
399

Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
6118
World Ranking
8329
National Ranking
705

Annekathrin Schacht publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Annekathrin Schacht sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 94 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Annekathrin Schacht D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Annekathrin Schacht sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Annekathrin Schacht is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work also spans social psychology, sociology and political science, and behavioral neuroscience.

The main topics covered in Schacht's research include face recognition and perception, neural and behavioral psychology studies, visual perception and processing mechanisms, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, neural dynamics and brain function, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, as well as social and intergroup psychology.

Frequent coauthors in Schacht's work include Arezoo Pooresmaeili, Ronja Demel, Louisa Kulke, Yasaman Rafiee, and Annika Ziereis.

Schacht has published in several venues, with multiple papers appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other notable publication venues include Psychophysiology, Frontiers in Psychology, Psychoneuroendocrinology, and PLoS ONE.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Schacht include:

  • A Comparison of the Affectiva iMotions Facial Expression Analysis Software With EMG for Identifying Facial Expressions of Emotion (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Finding an Emotional Face" Revisited: Differences in Own-Age Bias and the Happiness Superiority Effect in Children and Young Adults (2021), Frontiers in Psychology
  • Hormonal and modality specific effects on males' emotion recognition ability (2020), Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Sex differences in emotion recognition: investigating the moderating effects of stimulus features (2023), Cognition & Emotion
  • Overt and covert attention shifts to emotional faces: Combining EEG, eye tracking, and a go/no-go paradigm (2021), Psychophysiology

Best Publications

  • Emotions in word and face processing: Early and late cortical responses

    Annekathrin Schacht;Werner Sommer

  • Time course and task dependence of emotion effects in word processing

    Annekathrin Schacht;Werner Sommer

  • Does processing of emotional facial expressions depend on intention? Time-resolved evidence from event-related brain potentials.

    Julian Rellecke;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht

  • The coupling of emotion and cognition in the eye: introducing the pupil old/new effect.

    Melissa L.-H. Võ;Arthur M. Jacobs;Lars Kuchinke;Markus Hofmann

  • Individual Differences in Perceiving and Recognizing Faces—One Element of Social Cognition

    Oliver Wilhelm;Grit Herzmann;Olga Kunina;Vanessa Danthiir

  • On the automaticity of emotion processing in words and faces: event-related brain potentials evidence from a superficial task

    Julian Rellecke;Marina Palazova;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht

  • Are effects of emotion in single words non-lexical? Evidence from event-related brain potentials.

    Marina Palazova;Katharina Mantwill;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht;Annekathrin Schacht

  • A Comparison of the Affectiva iMotions Facial Expression Analysis Software With EMG for Identifying Facial Expressions of Emotion.

    Louisa Kulke;Dennis Feyerabend;Annekathrin Schacht

  • Facial attractiveness modulates early and late event-related brain potentials.

    Katja Werheid;Annekathrin Schacht;Werner Sommer

  • Electrophysiological correlates of perceiving and evaluating static and dynamic facial emotional expressions

    Guillermo Recio;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht;Annekathrin Schacht

  • P1 and beyond: Functional separation of multiple emotion effects in word recognition

    Mareike Bayer;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht

  • Event-related brain responses to emotional words, pictures, and faces - a cross-domain comparison

    Mareike Bayer;Annekathrin Schacht

  • Reading emotional words within sentences: The impact of arousal and valence on event-related potentials

    Mareike Bayer;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht

  • Emotion Effects on the N170: A Question of Reference?

    Julian Rellecke;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht

  • Reward and punishment effects on error processing and conflict control.

    Birgit Stürmer;Roland Nigbur;Annekathrin Schacht;Werner Sommer

  • The appraisal of facial beauty is rapid but not mandatory.

    Annekathrin Schacht;Katja Werheid;Werner Sommer

  • Emotional states generated by music: An exploratory study of music experts:

    Klaus R. Scherer;Marcel Robert Zentner;Annekathrin Schacht

  • Toward a comprehensive test battery for face cognition: assessment of the tasks.

    Grit Herzmann;Vanessa Danthiir;Vanessa Danthiir;Annekathrin Schacht;Werner Sommer

  • Test battery for measuring the perception and recognition of facial expressions of emotion

    Oliver Wilhelm;Andrea Hildebrandt;Karsten Manske;Annekathrin Schacht

  • Perceiving and remembering emotional facial expressions — A basic facet of emotional intelligence

    Andrea Hildebrandt;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht;Oliver Wilhelm

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Sommer
Werner Sommer Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Manuel Martín-Loeches
Manuel Martín-Loeches Complutense University of Madrid
Oliver Wilhelm
Oliver Wilhelm University of Ulm
Changsong Zhou
Changsong Zhou Hong Kong Baptist University
Lars Penke
Lars Penke University of Göttingen
Rasha Abdel Rahman
Rasha Abdel Rahman Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Andrea Antal
Andrea Antal University of Göttingen
Walter Paulus
Walter Paulus University of Göttingen
Gilles Pourtois
Gilles Pourtois Ghent University
Markus Conrad
Markus Conrad University of La Laguna

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