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Benjamin Becker

Benjamin Becker

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
58
Citations
11137
World Ranking
4191
National Ranking
57

Psychology

D-Index
56
Citations
10877
World Ranking
4241
National Ranking
35

Overview

Benjamin Becker is affiliated with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. They also work extensively in Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, and Imaging.

The scientist's work has contributed to a variety of topics, including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Mental Health Research, and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications.

Recent publications from Becker highlight diverse research interests and international collaboration. Notable papers include:

  • Prevalence and Psychosocial Correlates of Mental Health Outcomes Among Chinese College Students During the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Assessing the Attitude Towards Artificial Intelligence: Introduction of a Short Measure in German, Chinese, and English Language, 2020, KI - Künstliche Intelligenz
  • Advances in the field of intranasal oxytocin research: lessons learned and future directions for clinical research, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • A distributed fMRI-based signature for the subjective experience of fear, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Empathic pain evoked by sensory and emotional-communicative cues share common and process-specific neural representations, 2020, eLife

Becker collaborates often with several researchers, including Keith M. Kendrick, Shuxia Yao, Xinqi Zhou, Feng Zhou, and Weihua Zhao. These collaborations reflect an extensive network within neuroscience and psychology research communities.

Their research appears frequently in prominent scientific journals and venues. The most common publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Psychoradiology
  • Translational Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Oxytocin enhances brain reward system responses in men viewing the face of their female partner

    Dirk Scheele;Andrea Wille;Keith M. Kendrick;Birgit Stoffel-Wagner

  • Neural, electrophysiological and anatomical basis of brain-network variability and its characteristic changes in mental disorders

    Jie Zhang;Jie Zhang;Wei Cheng;Zhaowen Liu;Zhaowen Liu;Kai Zhang

  • Oxytocin facilitates protective responses to aversive social stimuli in males.

    Nadine Striepens;Dirk Scheele;Keith M. Kendrick;Benjamin Becker

  • Prevalence and Psychosocial Correlates of Mental Health Outcomes Among Chinese College Students During the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic

    Xinli Chi;Benjamin Becker;Qian Yu;Peter Willeit

  • Measurement and Conceptualization of Gaming Disorder According to the World Health Organization Framework: the Development of the Gaming Disorder Test

    Halley M. Pontes;Bruno Schivinski;Cornelia Sindermann;Mei Li

  • Oxytocin Facilitates the Extinction of Conditioned Fear in Humans

    Monika Eckstein;Benjamin Becker;Dirk Scheele;Claudia Scholz

  • The Multipurpose Application WeChat: A Review on Recent Research.

    Christian Montag;Benjamin Becker;Chunmei Gan

  • Assessing the Attitude Towards Artificial Intelligence: Introduction of a Short Measure in German, Chinese, and English Language

    Cornelia Sindermann;Peng Sha;Min Zhou;Jennifer Wernicke

  • Advances in the field of intranasal oxytocin research: lessons learned and future directions for clinical research

    Daniel S. Quintana;Alexander Lischke;Sally Grace;Dirk Scheele;Dirk Scheele

  • The Role of Empathy and Life Satisfaction in Internet and Smartphone Use Disorder.

    Bernd Lachmann;Cornelia Sindermann;Rayna Y. Sariyska;Ruixue Luo

  • Fear Processing and Social Networking in the Absence of a Functional Amygdala

    Benjamin Becker;Yoan Mihov;Dirk Scheele;Keith Kendrick

  • Oxytocin, the peptide that bonds the sexes also divides them

    Shan Gao;Benjamin Becker;Lizhu Luo;Yayuan Geng

  • A distributed fMRI-based signature for the subjective experience of fear.

    Feng Zhou;Feng Zhou;Feng Zhou;Weihua Zhao;Ziyu Qi;Yayuan Geng

  • The impact of early-onset cannabis use on functional brain correlates of working memory

    Benjamin Becker;Daniel Wagner;Euphrosyne Gouzoulis-Mayfrank;Elmar Spuentrup

  • Oxytocin enhances attractiveness of unfamiliar female faces independent of the dopamine reward system.

    Nadine Striepens;Andreas Matusch;Keith M. Kendrick;Yoan Mihov

  • Correspondent functional topography of the human left inferior parietal lobule at rest and under task revealed using resting-state fMRI and coactivation based parcellation

    Jiaojian Wang;Sangma Xie;Xin Guo;Benjamin Becker

  • Empathic pain evoked by sensory and emotional-communicative cues share common and process-specific neural representations.

    Feng Zhou;Feng Zhou;Jialin Li;Weihua Zhao;Lei Xu

  • Overview of Human Oxytocin Research

    Keith M. Kendrick;Adam J. Guastella;Benjamin Becker

  • Internet Communication Disorder and the structure of the human brain: initial insights on WeChat addiction.

    Christian Montag;Zhiying Zhao;Cornelia Sindermann;Lei Xu

  • Oxytocin selectively facilitates learning with social feedback and increases activity and functional connectivity in emotional memory and reward processing regions.

    Jiehui Hu;Song Qi;Benjamin Becker;Lizhu Luo

  • Electroconvulsive therapy selectively enhanced feedforward connectivity from fusiform face area to amygdala in major depressive disorder.

    Jiaojian Wang;Qiang Wei;Tongjian Bai;Xiaoqin Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith M. Kendrick
Keith M. Kendrick University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Christian Montag
Christian Montag University of Macau
René Hurlemann
René Hurlemann Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Bharat B. Biswal
Bharat B. Biswal New Jersey Institute of Technology
Bernd Weber
Bernd Weber University of Bonn
Euphrosyne Gouzoulis-Mayfrank
Euphrosyne Gouzoulis-Mayfrank University of Cologne
Richard P. Ebstein
Richard P. Ebstein Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Jiaojian Wang
Jiaojian Wang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Martin Reuter
Martin Reuter University of Bonn
Arthur F. Kramer
Arthur F. Kramer Northeastern University

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