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Overview

Arthur M. Jacobs is a researcher affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Their work primarily centers around psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, with notable contributions across these intersecting fields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Computer Science

Within these areas, Jacobs has explored several subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Jacobs's research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Reading and Literacy Development

Their recent publications include:

  • Sentiment Analysis of Children and Youth Literature: Is There a Pollyanna Effect? (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Following in Jakobson and Lévi-Strauss' footsteps: A neurocognitive poetics investigation of eye movements during the reading of Baudelaire's 'Les Chats' (2020), published in Journal of Eye Movement Research
  • Eye movements and mental imagery during reading of literary texts with different narrative styles (2020), published in Journal of Eye Movement Research
  • Neural processing of vision and language in kindergarten is associated with prereading skills and predicts future literacy (2021), published in Human Brain Mapping
  • From Abstract Symbols to Emotional (In-)Sights: An Eye Tracking Study on the Effects of Emotional Vignettes and Pictures (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology

Jacobs has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Jana Lüdtke
  • Teresa Sylvester
  • Annette Kinder
  • Johanna Liebig
  • Gerhard Lauer

Their work has appeared in multiple academic venues, the most frequent being:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Eye Movement Research
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics

In book publications, Jacobs has published at least one title with Anthem Press eBooks entitled Neurocomputational Poetics in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Orthographic Processing in Visual Word Recognition: A Multiple Read-Out Model

    Jonathan Grainger;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Coregistration of eye movements and EEG in natural reading: analyses and review.

    Olaf Dimigen;Werner Sommer;Annette Hohlfeld;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • The Berlin Affective Word List Reloaded (BAWL-R).

    Melissa L. H. Võ;Markus Conrad;Lars Kuchinke;Karolina Urton

  • The physiological origin of task-evoked systemic artefacts in functional near infrared spectroscopy

    Evgeniya Kirilina;Alexander Jelzow;Angela Heine;Michael Niessing

  • The Word Frequency Effect A Review of Recent Developments and Implications for the Choice of Frequency Estimates in German

    Marc Brysbaert;Matthias Buchmeier;Markus Conrad;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • On the role of competing word units in visual word recognition: the neighborhood frequency effect.

    Jonathan Grainger;J. Kevin O’regan;Arthur M. Jacobs;Juan Segui

  • Models of visual word recognition: Sampling the state of the art.

    Arthur M. Jacobs;Jonathan Grainger

  • Incidental effects of emotional valence in single word processing: an fMRI study.

    Lars Kuchinke;Arthur M. Jacobs;Claudia Grubich;Melissa L.-H. Võ

  • Optimal viewing position effect in word recognition: A challenge to current theory.

    J. K. O'Regan;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • What is the pronunciation for -ough and the spelling for /u/? A database for computing feedforward and feedback consistency in English

    Johannes C. Ziegler;Gregory O. Stone;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Localist connectionist approaches to human cognition

    Jonathan Grainger;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Eye movement control during reading: II. Frequency of refixating a word

    George W. McConkie;Paul W. Kerr;Michael D. Reddix;David Zola

  • Frequency and predictability effects on event-related potentials during reading

    Michael Dambacher;Reinhold Kliegl;Markus Hofmann;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Neurocognitive poetics: methods and models for investigating the neuronal and cognitive-affective bases of literature reception.

    Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Looking at the brains behind figurative language--a quantitative meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on metaphor, idiom, and irony processing.

    Isabel C. Bohrn;Ulrike Altmann;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Statistical analysis of the bidirectional inconsistency of spelling and sound in French

    Johannes C. Ziegler;Arthur M. Jacobs;Gregory O. Stone

  • Identical Words are Read Differently in Different Languages

    Johannes C. Ziegler;Conrad Perry;Arthur M. Jacobs;Mario Braun

  • Affective processing within 1/10th of a second: High arousal is necessary for early facilitative processing of negative but not positive words

    Markus J. Hofmann;Lars Kuchinke;Sascha Tamm;Melissa L. H. Võ

  • OGAMA (Open Gaze and Mouse Analyzer): open-source software designed to analyze eye and mouse movements in slideshow study designs.

    Adrian Voßkühler;Volkhard Nordmeier;Lars Kuchinke;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Conrad
Markus Conrad University of La Laguna
Lars Kuchinke
Lars Kuchinke International Psychoanalytic University Berlin
Johannes C. Ziegler
Johannes C. Ziegler Aix-Marseille University
Jonathan Grainger
Jonathan Grainger Aix-Marseille University
Hauke R. Heekeren
Hauke R. Heekeren Universität Hamburg
Malek Bajbouj
Malek Bajbouj Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Tatjana A. Nazir
Tatjana A. Nazir Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Reinhold Kliegl
Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam
Stefan Koelsch
Stefan Koelsch University of Bergen
J. Kevin O'Regan
J. Kevin O'Regan Université Paris Cité

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