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Hans J. Markowitsch

Hans J. Markowitsch

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Neuroscience

D-Index
91
Citations
30075
World Ranking
1065
National Ranking
84

Overview

Hans J. Markowitsch is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and has a research profile centered around memory and its cognitive and neural mechanisms. Their work spans neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to understanding memory processes and related cognitive functions.

Their research fields primarily include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within these broader fields, subfields of study Markowitsch has contributed to are:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The main research topics explored in their publications cover:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Markowitsch has coauthored extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Angelica Staniloiu
  • Andreas Kordon
  • Andreas Wahl-Kordon
  • E. Kalbe
  • Matthias Brand

Their recent papers include studies on episodic memory, trauma-related memory blockade, and dissociative amnesia published in various journals:

  • "Quo vadis 'episodic memory'? - Past, present, and perspective" (2020, Neuropsychologia)
  • "Stress- and trauma-related blockade of episodic-autobiographical memory processing" (2020, Neuropsychologia)
  • "Behavioral, neurological, and psychiatric frailty of autobiographical memory" (2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science)
  • "Dissociative Amnesia: Remembrances Under Cover" (2024, Topics in Cognitive Science)
  • "Dissociative amnesia - A valid construct for repressed memories" (2025, Legal and Criminological Psychology)

The frequent publication venues where Markowitsch's work appears include:

  • Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • Psychological applications and trends
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Der Nervenarzt
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Markowitsch has also contributed to book literature, notably with a title published by Psychology Press eBooks:

  • Neurocase (2020)

Best Publications

  • Episodic and declarative memory: role of the hippocampus.

    Endel Tulving;Hans J. Markowitsch

  • The amygdala and emotional memory.

    Larry Cahill;Ralf Babinsky;Hans J. Markowitsch;James L. McGaugh

  • Cerebral Representation of One’s Own Past: Neural Networks Involved in Autobiographical Memory

    Gereon R. Fink;Hans J. Markowitsch;Mechthild Reinkemeier;Thomas Bruckbauer

  • Novelty and Familiarity Activations in PET Studies of Memory Encoding and Retrieval

    Endel Tulving;Hans J. Markowitsch;Fergus I. M. Craik;Reza Habib

  • Mirror Neuron and Theory of Mind Mechanisms Involved in Face-to-Face Interactions: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Approach to Empathy

    Martin Schulte-Rüther;Hans J. Markowitsch;Gereon R. Fink;Martina Piefke

  • Vestibular loss causes hippocampal atrophy and impaired spatial memory in humans

    Thomas Brandt;Franz Schautzer;Derek A. Hamilton;Roland Brüning

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of retrieval in episodic memory: auditory sentence recognition

    Endel Tulving;Shitij Kapur;Hans J. Markowitsch;Fergus I. M. Craik

  • Gender differences in brain networks supporting empathy.

    Martin Schulte-Rüther;Hans J. Markowitsch;N. Jon Shah;Gereon R. Fink

  • Decision-making deficits of Korsakoff patients in a new gambling task with explicit rules: Associations with executive functions

    Matthias Brand;Esther Fujiwara;Sabine Borsutzky;Elke Kalbe

  • Neuropsychological correlates of decision-making in ambiguous and risky situations

    Matthias Brand;Kirsten Labudda;Hans J. Markowitsch

  • Differential remoteness and emotional tone modulate the neural correlates of autobiographical memory.

    Martina Piefke;Peter H. Weiss;Karl Zilles;Hans J. Markowitsch

  • Decision-making impairments in patients with pathological gambling.

    Matthias Brand;Elke Kalbe;Kirsten Labudda;Esther Fujiwara

  • Novelty encoding networks in the human brain: positron emission tomography data

    Endel Tulving;Hans J. Markowitsch;Shitij Kapur;Reza Habib

  • The neural correlates of person familiarity. A functional magnetic resonance imaging study with clinical implications.

    Nadim J. Shah;John C. Marshall;Oliver Zafiris;Anna Schwab

  • Anticipatory stress influences decision making under explicit risk conditions.

    Katrin Starcke;Oliver T. Wolf;Hans J. Markowitsch;Matthias Brand

  • Thalamic mediodorsal nucleus and memory: A critical evaluation of studies in animals and man

    Hans J. Markowitsch

  • Which brain regions are critically involved in the retrieval of old episodic memory

    Hans J. Markowitsch

  • Decision-making impairments in patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Matthias Brand;Kirsten Labudda;Elke Kalbe;Rüdiger Hilker

  • A verbal long term memory deficit in frontal lobe damaged patients.

    Wolfgang Jetter;Ulrich Poser;Robert B. Freeman;Hans J. Markowitsch

  • Cognitive neuroscience of memory

    Hans J. Markowitsch

  • COMMENTARY Episodic and Declarative Memory: Role of the Hippocampus

    Endel Tulving;Hans J. Markowitsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Brand
Matthias Brand University of Duisburg-Essen
Josef Kessler
Josef Kessler University of Cologne
Friedrich G. Woermann
Friedrich G. Woermann Bethel University
Gereon R. Fink
Gereon R. Fink University of Cologne
Elke Kalbe
Elke Kalbe University of Vechta
Martin Driessen
Martin Driessen Bielefeld University
Endel Tulving
Endel Tulving University of Toronto
Roger Walz
Roger Walz Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Martin Sarter
Martin Sarter University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alois Ebner
Alois Ebner Bethel University

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