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Hubert D. Zimmer

Hubert D. Zimmer

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Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
5260
World Ranking
8376
National Ranking
711

Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
5292
World Ranking
8649
National Ranking
407

Overview

Hubert D. Zimmer is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany and specializes in neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, neurology, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their work addresses a variety of topics within neural and behavioral psychology studies, face recognition and perception, visual and cognitive learning processes, language, metaphor, and cognition, memory processes and influences, visual perception and processing mechanisms, as well as EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Zimmer's recent publications cover diverse aspects of cognitive and visual neuroscience. Key papers include:

  • "Visual Working Memory of Chinese Characters and Expertise: The Expert's Memory Advantage Is Based on Long-Term Knowledge of Visual Word Forms" (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Unitization of internal and external features contributes to associative recognition for faces: Evidence from modulations of the FN400" (2020) published in Brain Research
  • "Task Demands Differentially Affect Processing of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Object Features in Working Memory" (2022) published in Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie)
  • "Enactment and bizarreness modulate familiarity and recollection in associative recognition: Evidence from FN400 and LPC" (2025) published in Neuropsychologia

Collaborations are an important aspect of their research. Frequent co-authors include Min-Fang Zhao, who has collaborated on multiple works, as well as S. Ghosh, Xiaolan Fu, Zhiwei Zheng, and Alexander Kirmsse.

The scientist has contributed to reputable journals, reflecting the scope of their research interests and findings. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Brain Research
  • Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie)
  • Neuropsychologia

Best Publications

  • Computer-assisted navigation and the acquisition of route and survey knowledge

    Stefan Münzer;Hubert D. Zimmer;Maximilian Schwalm;Jörg Baus

  • Visual and spatial working memory: From boxes to networks

    Hubert D. Zimmer

  • Handbook of Binding and Memory: Perspectives From Cognitive Neuroscience

    Hubert D. Zimmer;Axel Mecklinger;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Motor programme information as a separable memory unit.

    Johannes Engelkamp;Hubert D. Zimmer

  • Memory for action events: A new field of research

    Johannes Engelkamp;Hubert D. Zimmer

  • Memory for action : a distinct form of episodic memory?

    H. D. Zimmer

  • Memory of self-performed tasks: Self-performing during recognition

    Johannes Engelkamp;Hubert D. Zimmer;Gilbert Mohr;Odmar Sellen

  • Sensory factors in memory for subject-performed tasks

    Johannes Engelkamp;Hubert D. Zimmer

  • Motor programs and their relation to semantic memory.

    Johannes Engelkamp;Hubert D. Zimmer

  • What people believe about memory

    Svein Magnussen;Jan Andersson;Cesare Cornoldi;Rossana De Beni

  • Color and context: An ERP study on intrinsic and extrinsic feature binding in episodic memory

    Ullrich K. H. Ecker;Hubert D. Zimmer;Hubert D. Zimmer;Christian Groh-Bordin

  • Navigation assistance: A trade-off between wayfinding support and configural learning support

    Stefan Münzer;Hubert D. Zimmer;Jörg Baus

  • Has the butcher on the bus dyed his hair? When color changes modulate ERP correlates of familiarity and recollection.

    Christian Groh-Bordin;Hubert D. Zimmer;Ullrich K.H. Ecker

  • Binding of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Features in Working Memory

    Ullrich K. H. Ecker;Murray Maybery;Hubert D. Zimmer

  • The Effects of Mobile Pedestrian Navigation Systems on the Concurrent Acquisition of Route and Survey Knowledge

    Antonio Krüger;Ilhan Aslan;Hubert D. Zimmer

  • Spatio-temporal working-memory and short-term object-location tasks use different memory mechanisms

    Hubert D Zimmer;Harry R Speiser;Beate Seidler

  • Recall and recognition of self-performed acts

    Gilbert Mohr;Johannes Engelkamp;Hubert D. Zimmer

  • Pop-out into memory: a retrieval mechanism that is enhanced with the recall of subject-performed tasks.

    Hubert D. Zimmer;Tore Helstrup;Johannes Engelkamp

  • Feature binding in perceptual priming and in episodic object recognition: evidence from event-related brain potentials.

    Christian Groh-Bordin;Hubert D. Zimmer;Axel Mecklinger

  • Fast and careless or careful and slow? Apparent holistic processing in mental rotation is explained by speed-accuracy trade-offs

    Heinrich René Liesefeld;Xiaolan Fu;Hubert D. Zimmer

  • Remembering perceptual features unequally bound in object and episodic tokens: Neural mechanisms and their electrophysiological correlates.

    Hubert D. Zimmer;Ullrich K.H. Ecker

Frequent Co-Authors

Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Ullrich K. H. Ecker University of Western Australia
Xiaolan Fu
Xiaolan Fu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Axel Mecklinger
Axel Mecklinger Saarland University
Frank M. Spinath
Frank M. Spinath Saarland University
Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Gisa Aschersleben
Gisa Aschersleben Saarland University
Dirk Wentura
Dirk Wentura Saarland University
Jutta Kray
Jutta Kray Saarland University
Lars-Göran Nilsson
Lars-Göran Nilsson Stockholm University
Svein Magnussen
Svein Magnussen University of Oslo

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