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Christian Frings

Christian Frings

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Neuroscience

D-Index
40
Citations
6940
World Ranking
8061
National Ranking
677

Overview

Christian Frings is affiliated with the University of Trier in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work focuses extensively on cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as developmental and educational psychology and neurology.

Their research covers a range of topics including neural and behavioral psychology studies, action observation and synchronization, neural dynamics and brain function, visual perception and processing mechanisms, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, multisensory perception and integration, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Christian Frings include:

  • Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC), 2020, published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Towards a systematization of brain oscillatory activity in actions, 2023, published in Communications Biology
  • Effective Gamification of the Stop-Signal Task: Two Controlled Laboratory Experiments, 2020, published in JMIR Serious Games
  • Perturbation of the right prefrontal cortex disrupts interference control, 2020, published in NeuroImage
  • Effects of single-session transcranial direct current stimulation on reactive response inhibition, 2021, published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Christian Frings collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Christian Beste
  • Alexander Münchau
  • Birte Moeller
  • Bernhard Pastötter
  • Philip Schmalbrock

The scientist's work has been published in multiple prominent venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie)
  • Journal of Cognition
  • Psychology Archives

Best Publications

  • Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC).

    Christian Frings;Bernhard Hommel;Iring Koch;Klaus Rothermund

  • Stimulus–response bindings in priming

    Richard N. Henson;Doris Eckstein;Florian Waszak;Christian Frings

  • Distractor repetitions retrieve previous responses to targets

    Christian Frings;Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura

  • The negative priming paradigm: An update and implications for selective attention

    Christian Frings;Katja Kerstin Schneider;Elaine Fox

  • Who will win Wimbledon? The recognition heuristic in predicting sports events

    Sascha Serwe;Christian Frings

  • For whom the bell (curve) tolls: Cortisol rapidly affects memory retrieval by an inverted U-shaped dose–response relationship

    Thomas M. Schilling;Monika Kölsch;Mauro F. Larra;Carina M. Zech

  • Decomposing the emotional Stroop effect

    Christian Frings;Julia Englert;Dirk Wentura;Christina Bermeitinger

  • Towards a systematization of brain oscillatory activity in actions

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  • To be or not to be...included in an event file: integration and retrieval of distractors in stimulus-response episodes is influenced by perceptual grouping.

    Christian Frings;Klaus Rothermund

  • Self-priorization processes in action and perception.

    Christian Frings;Dirk Wentura

  • A case for inhibition: visual attention suppresses the processing of irrelevant objects.

    Peter Wühr;Christian Frings

  • Attention meets binding: only attended distractors are used for the retrieval of event files.

    Birte Moeller;Christian Frings

  • Differences in the strength of distractor inhibition do not affect distractor–response bindings

    Carina Giesen;Christian Frings;Klaus Rothermund

  • Repeated masked category primes interfere with related exemplars: new evidence for negative semantic priming.

    Dirk Wentura;Christian Frings

  • On the decay of distractor-response episodes.

    Christian Frings

  • Effective Gamification of the Stop-Signal Task: Two Controlled Laboratory Experiments

    Maximilian Achim Friehs;Martin Dechant;Sarah Vedress;Christian Frings

  • Trial-by-trial effects in the affective priming paradigm

    Christian Frings;Dirk Wentura

  • Perturbation of the right prefrontal cortex disrupts interference control.

    Maximilian A. Friehs;Jana Klaus;Tarini Singh;Christian Frings

  • Offline beats online: transcranial direct current stimulation timing influences on working memory

    Maximilian A Friehs;Christian Frings

  • Strategy effects counteract distractor inhibition: negative priming with constantly absent probe distractors.

    Christian Frings;Dirk Wentura

  • On distractor-repetition benefits in the negative-priming paradigm

    Christian Frings;Peter Wühr

  • Self-prioritization in vision, audition, and touch.

    Sarah Schäfer;Ann-Katrin Wesslein;Ann-Katrin Wesslein;Charles Spence;Dirk Wentura

  • Pimping inhibition: Anodal tDCS enhances stop-signal reaction time.

    Maximilian A Friehs;Christian Frings

  • Self-Prioritization Beyond Perception.

    Sarah Schäfer;Dirk Wentura;Christian Frings

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Wentura
Dirk Wentura Saarland University
Charles Spence
Charles Spence University of Oxford
Klaus Rothermund
Klaus Rothermund Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Wilfried Kunde
Wilfried Kunde University of Würzburg
Hartmut Schächinger
Hartmut Schächinger University of Trier
Gregor Domes
Gregor Domes University of Trier
Iring Koch
Iring Koch RWTH Aachen University
Bernhard Hommel
Bernhard Hommel Shandong Normal University
Andrea Kiesel
Andrea Kiesel University of Freiburg
Axel Mecklinger
Axel Mecklinger Saarland University

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