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Johanna Kissler

Johanna Kissler

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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
6993
World Ranking
8509
National Ranking
722

Psychology

D-Index
37
Citations
6943
World Ranking
9130
National Ranking
428

Overview

Johanna Kissler is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and specializes primarily in neuroscience. Their research encompasses various aspects of cognitive neuroscience, with significant emphasis on neural and behavioral psychology studies, face recognition and perception, and functional brain connectivity.

Their research contributions are documented across several prominent publication venues, including:

  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Language Cognition and Neuroscience
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their main fields of study cover:

  • Neuroscience

Within this broad field, their subfields of study include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Epidemiology

The key topics they explore in their work are:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Epilepsy research and treatment

Prominent recent papers authored or co-authored by Johanna Kissler include:

  • Negative content enhances stimulus-specific cerebral activity during free viewing of pictures, faces, and words, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Mood Induction Differently Affects Early Neural Correlates of Evaluative Word Processing in L1 and L2, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Right medial temporal lobe structures particularly impact early stages of affective picture processing, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Investigating the roles of age, sex, depression, and anxiety for valence and arousal ratings of words: a population-based study, 2020, BMC Psychology
  • Whole-brain functional correlates of memory formation in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, 2021, NeuroImage Clinical

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Christian G. Bien
  • Martin Wegrzyn
  • Friedrich G. Woermann
  • Sebastian Schindler
  • Lea Marie Reisch

Best Publications

  • Emotion and attention in visual word processing - An ERP study

    Johanna Kissler;Cornelia Herbert;Irene Winkler;Markus Junghofer

  • Buzzwords Early Cortical Responses to Emotional Words During Reading

    Johanna Kissler;Cornelia Herbert;Peter Peyk;Markus Junghofer

  • Event related potentials to emotional adjectives during reading.

    Cornelia Herbert;Markus Junghofer;Johanna Kissler

  • Emotional and semantic networks in visual word processing: insights from ERP studies.

    Johanna Kissler;Ramin Assadollahi;Cornelia Herbert

  • Processing of emotional adjectives: Evidence from startle EMG and ERPs

    Cornelia Herbert;Johanna Kissler;Markus Junghöfer;Markus Junghöfer;Peter Peyk

  • Mapping the emotional face. How individual face parts contribute to successful emotion recognition.

    Martin Wegrzyn;Maria Vogt;Berna Kireclioglu;Julia Schneider

  • Cerebral pathways in processing of affective prosody: a dynamic causal modeling study.

    Thomas Ethofer;Silke Anders;Michael Erb;Cornelia Herbert

  • Amygdala activation during reading of emotional adjectives—an advantage for pleasant content

    Cornelia Herbert;Thomas Ethofer;Silke Anders;Markus Junghofer

  • MEG gamma band activity in schizophrenia patients and healthy subjects in a mental arithmetic task and at rest.

    Johanna Kissler;Matthias M Müller;Thorsten Fehr;Brigitte Rockstroh

  • Emotion, Etmnooi, or Emitoon? - Faster lexical access to emotional than to neutral words during reading

    Johanna Kissler;Cornelia Herbert

  • ERP dynamics underlying successful directed forgetting of neutral but not negative pictures

    Anne Hauswald;Hannah Schulz;Todor Iordanov;Johanna Kissler

  • N400 predicts recovery from disorders of consciousness.

    Inga Steppacher;Inga Steppacher;Simon Eickhoff;Todor Jordanov;Michael Kaps

  • Shaping Memory Accuracy by Left Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

    Bastian Zwissler;Christoph Sperber;Sina Aigeldinger;Sebastian Schindler

  • Source distribution of neuromagnetic slow waves and MEG-delta activity in schizophrenic patients

    Thorsten Fehr;Johanna Kissler;Stephan Moratti;Christian Wienbruch

  • Rapid and highly resolving: Affective evaluation of olfactorily conditioned faces

    Christian Steinberg;Christian Dobel;Harald T. Schupp;Johanna Kissler

  • Emotionally positive stimuli facilitate lexical decisions—An ERP study

    Johanna Kissler;Susanne Koessler

  • Electroencephalography/magnetoencephalography study of cortical activities preceding prosaccades and antisaccades.

    Jennifer E McDowell;Johanna M Kissler;Patrick Berg;Kara A Dyckman

  • Investigating the brain basis of facial expression perception using multi-voxel pattern analysis.

    Martin Wegrzyn;Martin Wegrzyn;Marcel Riehle;Kirsten Labudda;Friedrich Woermann

  • Source distribution of neuromagnetic slow wave activity in schizophrenic and depressive patients.

    Christian Wienbruch;Stephan Moratti;Thomas Elbert;Ulrike Vogel

  • Amygdala responsiveness to emotional words is modulated by subclinical anxiety and depression.

    Inga Laeger;Christian Dobel;Udo Dannlowski;Udo Dannlowski;Harald Kugel

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Junghöfer
Markus Junghöfer University of Münster
Brigitte Rockstroh
Brigitte Rockstroh University of Konstanz
Thomas Elbert
Thomas Elbert University of Konstanz
Brett A. Clementz
Brett A. Clementz University of Georgia
Christian Wienbruch
Christian Wienbruch University of Konstanz
Karl-Heinz T. Bäuml
Karl-Heinz T. Bäuml University of Regensburg
Pienie Zwitserlood
Pienie Zwitserlood University of Münster
Udo Dannlowski
Udo Dannlowski University of Münster
Andreas Keil
Andreas Keil University of Florida
Christian G. Bien
Christian G. Bien Bielefeld University

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