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Overview

Bettina Sorger is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands and has an extensive research profile grounded primarily in neuroscience and medicine. Their work encompasses a range of studies within cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, biomedical engineering, as well as cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist has contributed notably to fields involving EEG and brain-computer interfaces, optical imaging and spectroscopy techniques, functional brain connectivity studies, heart rate variability and autonomic control, non-invasive vital sign monitoring, neuroscience and neural engineering, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Frequent co-authors include Michael Lührs, Rainer Goebel, Amaia Benitez-Andonegui, Lars Riecke, and Frank Scharnowski.

The main publication venues where Bettina Sorger's research frequently appears are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurophotonics
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • NeuroImage
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Bettina Sorger include:

  • Consensus on the reporting and experimental design of clinical and cognitive-behavioural neurofeedback studies (CRED-nf checklist), 2020, Brain
  • The Potential of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy-Based Neurofeedback-A Systematic Review and Recommendations for Best Practice, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Predictors of real-time fMRI neurofeedback performance and improvement - A machine learning mega-analysis, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Real-time fMRI for brain-computer interfacing, 2020, Handbook of clinical neurology
  • Can we predict real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning success from pretraining brain activity?, 2020, Human Brain Mapping

Best Publications

  • Individual faces elicit distinct response patterns in human anterior temporal cortex

    Nikolaus Kriegeskorte;Elia Formisano;Bettina Sorger;Rainer Goebel

  • Real-Time Self-Regulation of Emotion Networks in Patients with Depression

    David Edmund Johannes Linden;David Edmund Johannes Linden;David Edmund Johannes Linden;Isabelle Habes;Isabelle Habes;Stephen J. Johnston;Stefanie Linden

  • Consensus on the reporting and experimental design of clinical and cognitive-behavioural neurofeedback studies (CRED-nf checklist)

    Tomas Ros;Stefanie Enriquez-Geppert;Stefanie Enriquez-Geppert;Vadim Zotev;Kymberly D Young

  • Impaired Face Discrimination in Acquired Prosopagnosia Is Associated with Abnormal Response to Individual Faces in the Right Middle Fusiform Gyrus

    Christine Schiltz;Bettina Sorger;Roberto Caldara;Fatima Ahmed

  • Neural Entrainment to Speech Modulates Speech Intelligibility.

    Lars Riecke;Elia Formisano;Bettina Sorger;Deniz Başkent

  • Improved quality of auditory event-related potentials recorded simultaneously with 3-T fMRI: removal of the ballistocardiogram artefact.

    Stefan Debener;Stefan Debener;Alexander Strobel;Bettina Sorger;Judith C. Peters

  • Understanding the functional neuroanatomy of acquired prosopagnosia.

    Bettina Sorger;Rainer Goebel;Rainer Goebel;Christine Schiltz;Bruno Rossion

  • Control freaks: Towards optimal selection of control conditions for fMRI neurofeedback studies.

    Bettina Sorger;Frank Scharnowski;David E.J. Linden;David E.J. Linden;Michelle Hampson

  • Cortico-subcortical visual, somatosensory, and motor activations for perceiving dynamic whole-body emotional expressions with and without striate cortex (V1)

    Jan Van den Stock;Marco Tamietto;Bettina Sorger;Swann Pichon

  • Another kind of 'BOLD Response': answering multiple-choice questions via online decoded single-trial brain signals.

    Bettina Sorger;Brigitte Dahmen;Joel Reithler;Olivia Gosseries

  • Brain-computer interfaces for communication with nonresponsive patients.

    Lorina Naci;Martin M. Monti;Damian Cruse;Andrea Kübler

  • A real-time fMRI-based spelling device immediately enabling robust motor-independent communication

    Bettina Sorger;Joel Reithler;Joel Reithler;Brigitte Dahmen;Rainer Goebel;Rainer Goebel

  • fMRI neurofeedback facilitates anxiety regulation in females with spider phobia

    Anna Zilverstand;Bettina Sorger;Pegah Sarkheil;Rainer Goebel

  • The Potential of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy-Based Neurofeedback-A Systematic Review and Recommendations for Best Practice.

    Simon H. Kohl;David M. A. Mehler;Michael Lührs;Robert T. Thibault

  • Tease or threat? Judging social interactions from bodily expressions.

    C.B.A. Sinke;B. Sorger;R. Goebel;B. de Gelder;B. de Gelder

  • Novelty and target processing during an auditory novelty oddball: a simultaneous event-related potential and functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Alexander Strobel;Alexander Strobel;Stefan Debener;Bettina Sorger;Judith C. Peters

  • Propofol attenuates responses of the auditory cortex to acoustic stimulation in a dose‐dependent manner: A FMRI study

    M H Dueck;F Petzke;H J Gerbershagen;M Paul

  • The roles of "face" and "non-face" areas during individual face perception : evidence by fMRI adaptation in a brain-damaged prosopagnosic patient

    Laurence Dricot;Bettina Sorger;Christine Schiltz;Rainer Goebel

  • fMRI Neurofeedback Training for Increasing Anterior Cingulate Cortex Activation in Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. An Exploratory Randomized, Single-Blinded Study

    Anna Zilverstand;Bettina Sorger;Dorine Slaats-Willemse;Cornelis C. Kan

  • Human cortical object recognition from a visual motion flowfield

    Nikolaus Kriegeskorte;Bettina Sorger;Bettina Sorger;Marcus Naumer;Jens Schwarzbach;Jens Schwarzbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer Goebel
Rainer Goebel Maastricht University
David Edmund Johannes Linden
David Edmund Johannes Linden Maastricht University
Bruno Rossion
Bruno Rossion University of Lorraine
Dimitri Van De Ville
Dimitri Van De Ville École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Elia Formisano
Elia Formisano Maastricht University
Stefan Debener
Stefan Debener Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Nikolaus Weiskopf
Nikolaus Weiskopf Max Planck Society
Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University

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