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Isabell Wartenburger

Isabell Wartenburger

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
33
Citations
5083
World Ranking
9440
National Ranking
793

Psychology

D-Index
33
Citations
5091
World Ranking
10501
National Ranking
501

Overview

Isabell Wartenburger is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines, prominently within psychology and neuroscience, with specific focus on cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work also intersects language and linguistics, as well as social psychology.

The main topics of research covered by Wartenburger include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Linguistic research and analysis

Wartenburger has published extensively in several journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • publish.UP (University of Potsdam)
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Recent representative papers authored by Wartenburger cover various aspects of cognitive science and developmental psychology, such as:

  • "Sustained Attention as Measured by Reaction Time Variability Is a Strong Modulator for the P600, but Not the N400," 2022, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "Linguistic and non-linguistic non-adjacent dependency learning in early development," 2020, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "Attentional Bias to Facial Expressions of Different Emotions - A Cross-Cultural Comparison of ≠Akhoe Hai

Best Publications

  • Early Setting of Grammatical Processing in the Bilingual Brain

    Isabell Wartenburger;Hauke R. Heekeren;Hauke R. Heekeren;Jubin Abutalebi;Stefano F. Cappa

  • An fMRI study of simple ethical decision-making.

    Hauke R Heekeren;Isabell Wartenburger;Helge Schmidt;Hans-Peter Schwintowski

  • Sensitivity of newborn auditory cortex to the temporal structure of sounds.

    Silke Telkemeyer;Silke Telkemeyer;Sonja Rossi;Stefan P. Koch;Till Nierhaus

  • Individual differences in moral judgment competence influence neural correlates of socio-normative judgments

    Kristin Prehn;Isabell Wartenburger;Katja Mériau;Christina Scheibe

  • Resource allocation and fluid intelligence: insights from pupillometry.

    Elke van der Meer;Reinhard Beyer;Judith Horn;Manja Foth

  • Influence of bodily harm on neural correlates of semantic and moral decision-making.

    Hauke R. Heekeren;Isabell Wartenburger;Helge Schmidt;Kristin Prehn

  • Effect of aging on stimulus-reward association learning

    Thomas Mell;Hauke R. Heekeren;Alexander Marschner;Isabell Wartenburger

  • Reward-based decision-making and aging.

    Alexander Marschner;Thomas Mell;Isabell Wartenburger;Isabell Wartenburger;Arno Villringer

  • A neural network reflecting individual differences in cognitive processing of emotions during perceptual decision making

    Katja Mériau;Isabell Wartenburger;Philipp Kazzer;Kristin Prehn

  • The processing of prosody: Evidence of interhemispheric specialization at the age of four.

    Isabell Wartenburger;Jens Steinbrink;Silke Telkemeyer;Manuela Friedrich

  • Acoustic Processing of Temporally Modulated Sounds in Infants: Evidence from a Combined Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and EEG Study

    Silke Telkemeyer;Sonja Rossi;Sonja Rossi;Till Nierhaus;Till Nierhaus;Jens Steinbrink

  • Altered function of ventral striatum during reward-based decision making in old age.

    Thomas Mell;Thomas Mell;Isabell Wartenburger;Isabell Wartenburger;Alexander Marschner;Arno Villringer;Arno Villringer

  • Fluid Intelligence Allows Flexible Recruitment of the Parieto-Frontal Network in Analogical Reasoning

    Franziska Preusse;van der Meer Elke;Gopikrishna Deshpande;Frank Krueger

  • Developmental changes in brain activation and functional connectivity during response inhibition in the early childhood brain.

    Jan Mehnert;Atae Akhrif;Silke Telkemeyer;Silke Telkemeyer;Silke Telkemeyer;Sonja Rossi;Sonja Rossi

  • German norms for semantic typicality, age of acquisition, and concept familiarity

    Astrid Schröder;Teresa Gemballa;Steffie Ruppin;Isabell Wartenburger

  • Shedding light on words and sentences: near-infrared spectroscopy in language research

    Sonja Rossi;Sonja Rossi;Silke Telkemeyer;Silke Telkemeyer;Silke Telkemeyer;Isabelle Wartenburger;Isabelle Wartenburger;Isabelle Wartenburger;Hellmuth Obrig;Hellmuth Obrig;Hellmuth Obrig

  • Role of ventral striatum in reward-based decision making.

    Hauke R. Heekeren;Isabell Wartenburger;Alexander Marschner;Thomas Mell

  • Implicit processing of phonotactic cues: Evidence from electrophysiological and vascular responses

    Sonja Rossi;Ina B. Jürgenson;Adriana Hanulíková;Silke Telkemeyer

  • Human aging compromises attentional control of auditory perception.

    Susanne Passow;René Westerhausen;Isabell Wartenburger;Kenneth Hugdahl

  • From acoustic segmentation to language processing: evidence from optical imaging.

    Hellmuth Obrig;Hellmuth Obrig;Sonja Rossi;Sonja Rossi;Silke Telkemeyer;Silke Telkemeyer;Silke Telkemeyer;Isabell Wartenburger;Isabell Wartenburger;Isabell Wartenburger

  • How each prosodic boundary cue matters: Evidence from German infants

    Caroline Wellmann;Julia Holzgrefe;Hubert Truckenbrodt;Isabell Wartenburger

  • Not only the apples: Focus sensitive particles improve memory for information-structural alternatives

    Katharina Spalek;Nicole Gotzner;Isabell Wartenburger

Frequent Co-Authors

Hauke R. Heekeren
Hauke R. Heekeren Universität Hamburg
Arno Villringer
Arno Villringer Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Hellmuth Obrig
Hellmuth Obrig Max Planck Society
Roelien Bastiaanse
Roelien Bastiaanse University of Groningen
Kenneth Hugdahl
Kenneth Hugdahl University of Bergen
Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Shu-Chen Li
Shu-Chen Li TU Dresden
Rasha Abdel Rahman
Rasha Abdel Rahman Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
René Westerhausen
René Westerhausen University of Oslo

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