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Neuroscience

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Psychology

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Citations
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World Ranking
378
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in China Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2012 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Overview

Bernhard Hommel is affiliated with Shandong Normal University in China and has a substantial body of research primarily situated in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's research covers main topics such as neural and behavioral psychology studies, neural dynamics and brain function, action observation and synchronization, functional brain connectivity studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, memory and neural mechanisms, and creativity in education and neuroscience.

Bernhard Hommel's recent papers include:

  • Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC), 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Metacontrol of human creativity: The neurocognitive mechanisms of convergent and divergent thinking, 2020, NeuroImage
  • The neurocognitive underpinnings of the Simon effect: An integrative review of current research, 2020, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • A probabilistic atlas of the human ventral tegmental area (VTA) based on 7 Tesla MRI data, 2021, Brain Structure and Function
  • The Downsides of Cognitive Enhancement, 2020, The Neuroscientist

Frequent co-authors working alongside Bernhard Hommel include:

  • Christian Beste
  • Lorenza S. Colzato
  • Ke Ma
  • Veit Roessner
  • Moritz Mückschel

Regarding publication venues, Bernhard Hommel has contributed multiple papers to the following journals:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychological Research
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • NeuroImage
  • Scientific Reports

In addition to journal articles, Bernhard Hommel has contributed to book publications, including a book published by Frontiers Media titled The Mechanisms Underlying the Human Minimal Self released in 2022.

Their academic recognition includes election to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften) in 2012, specifically in the domain of psychology and cognitive sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Theory of Event Coding (TEC): a framework for perception and action planning.

    Bernhard Hommel;Jochen Müsseler;Gisa Aschersleben;Wolfgang Prinz

  • Codes and their vicissitudes

    Bernhard Hommel;Jochen Müsseler;Gisa Aschersleben;Wolfgang Prinz

  • Event files: feature binding in and across perception and action

    Bernhard Hommel

  • Event Files: Evidence for Automatic Integration of Stimulus-Response Episodes

    Bernhard Hommel

  • Effect anticipation and action control

    Birgit Elsner;Bernhard Hommel

  • Transformations in the Couplings Among Intellectual Abilities and Constituent Cognitive Processes Across the Life Span

    Shu-Chen Li;Ulman Lindenberger;Bernhard Hommel;Gisa Aschersleben

  • A feature-integration account of sequential effects in the Simon task.

    Bernhard Hommel;Bernhard Hommel;Robert W. Proctor;Kim-Phuong L. Vu

  • Action control according to TEC (theory of event coding)

    Bernhard Hommel

  • Task-switching and long-term priming: Role of episodic stimulus-task bindings in task-shift costs.

    Florian Waszak;Bernhard Hommel;Alan Allport

  • Modulation of long-range neural synchrony reflects temporal limitations of visual attention in humans.

    Joachim Gross;Frank Schmitz;Irmtraud Schnitzler;Klaus Kessler

  • The Simon effect as tool and heuristic.

    Bernhard Hommel

  • Inverting the Simon effect intention: Determinants of direction and extent of effects of irrelevant spatial information.

    Bernhard Hommel

  • Meditate to Create: The Impact of Focused-Attention and Open-Monitoring Training on Convergent and Divergent Thinking

    Lorenza S. Colzato;Ayca Ozturk;Bernhard Hommel

  • Symbolic Control of Visual Attention

    Bernhard Hommel;Jay Pratt;Lorenza Colzato;Richard Godijn;Richard Godijn

  • How does bilingualism improve executive control? A comparison of active and reactive inhibition mechanisms

    Lorenza S. Colzato;Maria Teresa Bajo;Wery van den Wildenberg;Daniela Paolieri

  • The (b)link between creativity and dopamine: Spontaneous eye blink rates predict and dissociate divergent and convergent thinking

    Soghra Akbari Chermahini;Bernhard Hommel

  • Automatic Stimulus-Response Translation in Dual-Task Performance

    Bernhard Hommel

  • Spontaneous decay of response-code activation

    Bernhard Hommel

  • Blindness to response-compatible stimuli.

    Jochen Müsseler;Bernhard Hommel

  • The relationship between stimulus processing and response selection in the Simon task: Evidence for a temporal overlap

    Bernhard Hommel

  • Effect anticipation and action control.

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  • No One Knows What Attention Is

    Bernhard Hommel;Craig S. Chapman;Paul Cisek;Heather F. Neyedli

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberta Sellaro
Roberta Sellaro University of Padua
Wolfgang Prinz
Wolfgang Prinz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg
Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg University of Amsterdam
Roman Liepelt
Roman Liepelt University of Hagen
Guido P. H. Band
Guido P. H. Band Leiden University
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Florian Waszak
Florian Waszak Université Paris Cité
Kimron L. Shapiro
Kimron L. Shapiro University of Birmingham
Simone Kühn
Simone Kühn Max Planck Institute for Human Development

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