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Overview

Klaus Kessler is affiliated with Aston University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology.

Their research focuses on various topics such as neural and behavioral psychology studies, autism spectrum disorder research, child and animal learning development, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, action observation and synchronization, neural dynamics and brain function, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Hongfang Wang, Daniel J. Shaw, Carol Holland, Samantha Gregory, and Eleanor Huizeling.

Kessler has published papers in several notable venues, with repeated publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), European Journal of Neuroscience, Brain Sciences, Cognition, and Frontiers in Virtual Reality.

Recent papers by Klaus Kessler include:

  • The Right Temporoparietal Junction Is Causally Associated with Embodied Perspective-taking, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Reduced auditory steady state responses in autism spectrum disorder, 2020, Molecular Autism
  • EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality, 2021, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • A proof-of-concept study exploring the effects of impulsivity on a gamified version of the stop-signal task in children, 2023, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Changes in theta and alpha oscillatory signatures of attentional control in older and middle age, 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Modulation of long-range neural synchrony reflects temporal limitations of visual attention in humans.

    Joachim Gross;Frank Schmitz;Irmtraud Schnitzler;Klaus Kessler

  • The embodied nature of spatial perspective taking: embodied transformation versus sensorimotor interference

    Klaus Kessler;Lindsey Anne Thomson

  • The two forms of visuo-spatial perspective taking are differently embodied and subserve different spatial prepositions

    Klaus Kessler;Hannah Rutherford

  • Long-Term Inhibition of Return of Attention

    Steven P. Tipper;Sarah Grison;Klaus Kessler

  • Attentional Inhibition Has Social-Emotional Consequences for Unfamiliar Faces

    Mark J. Fenske;Jane E. Raymond;Klaus Kessler;Nikki Westoby

  • Spatial perspective taking is an embodied process, but not for everyone in the same way: differences predicted by sex and social skills score

    Klaus Kessler;Hongfang Wang

  • How the brain blinks: Towards a neurocognitive model of the attentional blink

    Bernhard Hommel;Klaus Kessler;Frank Schmitz;Joachim Gross

  • Towards OPM-MEG in a virtual reality environment

    Gillian Roberts;Niall Holmes;Nicholas Alexander;Elena Boto

  • Investigating the human mirror neuron system by means of cortical synchronization during the imitation of biological movements.

    Klaus Kessler;Katja Biermann-Ruben;Melanie Jonas;Melanie Jonas;Hartwig R. Roman Siebner;Hartwig R. Roman Siebner

  • TEST: A Tropic, Embodied, and Situated Theory of Cognition

    Andriy Myachykov;Christoph Scheepers;Martin H. Fischer;Klaus Kessler

  • Rhythm makes the world go round: An MEG-TMS study on the role of right TPJ theta oscillations in embodied perspective taking.

    Hongfang Wang;Eleanor Callaghan;Gerard Gooding-Williams;Craig McAllister

  • The role of working memory in compulsive checking and OCD: a systematic classification of 58 experimental findings.

    Ben Harkin;Klaus Kessler

  • Do simple intransitive finger movements consistently activate frontoparietal mirror neuron areas in humans

    M. Jonas;H.R. Siebner;K. Biermann-Ruben;K. Kessler;K. Kessler

  • Role of the cerebellum in visuomotor coordination. I. Delayed eye and arm initiation in patients with mild cerebellar ataxia.

    S. H. Brown;K. R. Kessler;H. Hefter;J. D. Cooke

  • The right temporoparietal junction is causally associated with embodied perspective-taking

    Andrew K. Martin;Klaus Kessler;Shena Cooke;Jasmine Huang

  • Dysregulated oscillatory connectivity in the visual system in autism spectrum disorder

    Robert Seymour;Robert Seymour;Georgina M Rippon;Gerard Gooding-Williams;JM Schoffelen

  • A cross-culture, cross-gender comparison of perspective taking mechanisms

    Klaus Kessler;Liyu Cao;Kieran J. O'Shea;Hong Fang Wang;Hong Fang Wang

  • Reduced auditory steady state responses in autism spectrum disorder.

    R. A. Seymour;R. A. Seymour;R. A. Seymour;G. Rippon;G. Gooding-Williams;P. F. Sowman

  • Brain oscillations and connectivity in autism spectrum disorders (ASD): new approaches to methodology, measurement and modelling.

    Klaus Kessler;R.A. Seymour;G. Rippon

  • Conversational Interaction in the Scanner: Mentalizing during Language Processing as Revealed by MEG

    Sara Bögels;Sara Bögels;Dale J. Barr;Simon Garrod;Klaus Kessler;Klaus Kessler

  • Anticipatory control of long‐range phase synchronization

    Joachim Gross;Frank Schmitz;Irmtraud Schnitzler;Klaus Kessler

  • Target consolidation under high temporal processing demands as revealed by MEG

    Klaus Kessler;Frank Schmitz;Joachim Gross;Bernhard Hommel

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven P. Tipper
Steven P. Tipper University of York
Bernhard Hommel
Bernhard Hommel Shandong Normal University
Kimron L. Shapiro
Kimron L. Shapiro University of Birmingham
Simon Garrod
Simon Garrod University of Glasgow
Peter C. Hansen
Peter C. Hansen University of Birmingham
Tad T. Brunyé
Tad T. Brunyé Tufts University
Caroline R. Mahoney
Caroline R. Mahoney Tufts University
Ian A. Apperly
Ian A. Apperly University of Birmingham
Derrick G. Watson
Derrick G. Watson University of Warwick
Joanna M. Wardlaw
Joanna M. Wardlaw University of Edinburgh

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