2026 Friedemann Pulvermüller: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	104	663	46	340	41128
Psychology	104	523	17	328	40873

Overview

Friedemann Pulvermüller is affiliated with the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and focuses on research primarily within the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Rehabilitation.

The scientist's research encompasses a range of topics, notably:

Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Action Observation and Synchronization
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Child and Animal Learning Development
Multisensory Perception and Integration
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Their recent published papers include:

Biological constraints on neural network models of cognitive function, 2021, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
Correlated Brain Indexes of Semantic Prediction and Prediction Error: Brain Localization and Category Specificity, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
Distinct fronto-temporal substrates of distributional and taxonomic similarity among words: evidence from RSA of BOLD signals, 2020, NeuroImage
Semantic Prediction in Brain and Mind, 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Modelling concrete and abstract concepts using brain-constrained deep neural networks, 2021, Psychological Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Friedemann Pulvermüller include:

Rosario Tomasello
Luigi Grisoni
Bettina Mohr
Felix R. Dreyer
Malte R. Henningsen-Schomers

Publications have appeared regularly in multiple scientific venues, including:

Cortex
Cerebral Cortex
Language Cognition and Neuroscience
Neuropsychologia
Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Best Publications

Somatotopic Representation of Action Words in Human Motor and Premotor Cortex

Olaf Hauk;Ingrid Johnsrude;Friedemann Pulvermüller

2761
Citations
Brain mechanisms linking language and action.

Friedemann Pulvermüller

2139
Citations
Words in the brain's language.

Friedemann Pulvermüller

1694
Citations
Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language

Friedemann Pulvermüller;Luciano Fadiga

1200
Citations
Constraint-Induced Therapy of Chronic Aphasia After Stroke

Friedemann Pulvermüller;Bettina Neininger;Thomas Elbert;Bettina Mohr

1059
Citations
Conceptual representations in mind and brain: theoretical developments, current evidence and future directions.

Markus Kiefer;Friedemann Pulvermüller

1025
Citations
Functional links between motor and language systems.

Friedemann Pulvermüller;Olaf Hauk;Vadim V. Nikulin;Risto J. Ilmoniemi

963
Citations
The Neuroscience of Language: On Brain Circuits of Words and Serial Order

Friedemann Pulvermüller

873
Citations
Motor cortex maps articulatory features of speech sounds

Friedemann Pulvermüller;Martina Huss;Ferath Kherif;Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin

839
Citations
How neurons make meaning: brain mechanisms for embodied and abstract-symbolic semantics

Friedemann Pulvermüller

727
Citations
The time course of visual word recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data.

Olaf Hauk;Matthew H. Davis;M. Ford;Friedemann Pulvermüller

702
Citations
Grasping Ideas with the Motor System: Semantic Somatotopy in Idiom Comprehension

Véronique Boulenger;Olaf Hauk;Friedemann Pulvermüller

694
Citations
Reading cinnamon activates olfactory brain regions

Julio González;Alfonso Barros-Loscertales;Friedemann Pulvermüller;Vanessa Meseguer

690
Citations
Walking or talking? Behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of action verb processing.

Friedemann Pulvermüller;Markus Härle;Friedhelm Hummel

626
Citations
The Motor Somatotopy of Speech Perception

Alessandro D'Ausilio;Friedemann Pulvermüller;Paola Salmas;Ilaria Bufalari

617
Citations
Brain reflections of words and their meaning

Friedemann Pulvermüller

567
Citations
Brain Signatures of Meaning Access in Action Word Recognition

Friedemann Pulvermu¨ller;Yury Shtyrov;Risto Ilmoniemi

565
Citations
Nouns and Verbs in the Intact Brain: Evidence from Event-related Potentials and High-frequency Cortical Responses

Friedemann Pulvermüller;Werner Lutzenberger;Hubert Preissl

525
Citations
Language outside the focus of attention: the mismatch negativity as a tool for studying higher cognitive processes.

Friedemann Pulvermüller;Yury Shtyrov

493
Citations
Effects of word length and frequency on the human event-related potential

O Hauk;F Pulvermüller

490
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yury Shtyrov Aarhus University

Olaf Hauk MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Niels Birbaumer University of Tübingen

Werner Lutzenberger University of Tübingen

Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Thomas Elbert University of Konstanz

Brigitte Rockstroh University of Konstanz

Matthew H. Davis University of Cambridge

Marcelo L. Berthier University of Malaga

Risto J. Ilmoniemi Aalto University

External Links

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