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Friedemann Pulvermüller

Friedemann Pulvermüller

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
104
Citations
40873
World Ranking
523
National Ranking
17

Neuroscience

D-Index
104
Citations
41128
World Ranking
663
National Ranking
46

Friedemann Pulvermüller publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Friedemann Pulvermüller sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 328 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Friedemann Pulvermüller D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Friedemann Pulvermüller sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

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

  • Brain mechanisms linking language and action.

    Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • Words in the brain's language.

    Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language

    Friedemann Pulvermüller;Luciano Fadiga

  • Constraint-Induced Therapy of Chronic Aphasia After Stroke

    Friedemann Pulvermüller;Bettina Neininger;Thomas Elbert;Bettina Mohr

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

    Markus Kiefer;Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • Functional links between motor and language systems.

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

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

    Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • Motor cortex maps articulatory features of speech sounds

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

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

    Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • 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

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

    Véronique Boulenger;Olaf Hauk;Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • Reading cinnamon activates olfactory brain regions

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

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

    Friedemann Pulvermüller;Markus Härle;Friedhelm Hummel

  • The Motor Somatotopy of Speech Perception

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

  • Brain reflections of words and their meaning

    Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • Brain Signatures of Meaning Access in Action Word Recognition

    Friedemann Pulvermu¨ller;Yury Shtyrov;Risto Ilmoniemi

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

    Friedemann Pulvermüller;Werner Lutzenberger;Hubert Preissl

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

    Friedemann Pulvermüller;Yury Shtyrov

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

    O Hauk;F Pulvermüller

Frequent Co-Authors

Yury Shtyrov
Yury Shtyrov Aarhus University
Olaf Hauk
Olaf Hauk MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Niels Birbaumer
Niels Birbaumer University of Tübingen
Werner Lutzenberger
Werner Lutzenberger University of Tübingen
Karalyn Patterson
Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Thomas Elbert
Thomas Elbert University of Konstanz
Brigitte Rockstroh
Brigitte Rockstroh University of Konstanz
Matthew H. Davis
Matthew H. Davis University of Cambridge
Marcelo L. Berthier
Marcelo L. Berthier University of Malaga
Risto J. Ilmoniemi
Risto J. Ilmoniemi Aalto University

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