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Overview

Klaus Willmes is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology. Their work also covers areas such as statistics and probability, rehabilitation, and epidemiology.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management

Recent publications by Klaus Willmes encompass several journal articles published between 2020 and 2024. Notable papers include:

  • "Professional mathematicians do not differ from others in the symbolic numerical distance and size effects," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Segmental Bioelectrical Impedance Spectroscopy to Monitor Fluid Status in Heart Failure," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Operationalising treatment success in aphasia rehabilitation," 2022, Aphasiology
  • "The prevalence of apraxia of speech in chronic aphasia after stroke: A bayesian hierarchical analysis," 2022, Cortex
  • "Don't SNARC me now! Intraindividual variability of cognitive phenomena - Insights from the Ironman paradigm," 2024, Cognition

Klaus Willmes frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Aphasiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cortex
  • Journal of Neurology
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

The researcher collaborates often with several co-authors, including:

  • Ferdinand Binkofski
  • Walter Huber
  • Stefanie Bruehl
  • Iring Koch
  • Hans-Christoph Nuerk

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of language reorganization after stroke

    Dorothee Saur;Rüdiger Lange;Annette Baumgaertner;Valeska Schraknepper

  • On the Functional Neuroanatomy of Intrinsic and Phasic Alertness

    Walter Sturm;Klaus Willmes

  • Evidence of abnormal amygdala functioning in borderline personality disorder: a functional MRI study

    Sabine C Herpertz;Thomas M Dietrich;Britta Wenning;Timo Krings

  • On the cognitive link between space and number: a meta-analysis of the SNARC effect

    Guilherme Wood;Klaus Willmes;Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Martin H. Fischer

  • Functional anatomy of intrinsic alertness: evidence for a fronto-parietal-thalamic-brainstem network in the right hemisphere

    W Sturm;A de Simone;B J Krause;K Specht

  • Decade breaks in the mental number line? Putting the tens and units back in different bins.

    Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Ulrich Weger;Klaus Willmes

  • Intensive speech and language therapy in patients with chronic aphasia after stroke: a randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint, controlled trial in a health-care setting

    Caterina Breitenstein;Tanja Grewe;Agnes Flöel;Wolfram Ziegler

  • Cortical activation patterns during complex motor tasks in piano players and control subjects. A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Timo Krings;Rudolf Töpper;Henrik Foltys;Stephan Erberich

  • Math Anxiety and Math Ability in Early Primary School Years

    Helga Krinzinger;Liane Kaufmann;Klaus Willmes

  • The universal SNARC effect: the association between number magnitude and space is amodal.

    Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Guilherme Wood;Klaus Willmes

  • Notational modulation of the SNARC and the MARC (linguistic markedness of response codes) effect.

    Hans–Christoph Nuerk;Wiebke Iversen;Klaus Willmes

  • Embodied numerosity: Implicit hand-based representations influence symbolic number processing across cultures

    Frank Domahs;Korbinian Moeller;Stefan Huber;Klaus Willmes

  • Do Specific Attention Deficits Need Specific Training

    Walter Sturm;Klaus Willmes;Bernt Orgass;Wolfgang Hartje

  • Effects of blood estrogen level on cortical activation patterns during cognitive activation as measured by functional MRI.

    T. Dietrich;T. Krings;J. Neulen;K. Willmes

  • Regional cerebral blood flow patterns in visual imagery.

    Georg Goldenberg;Ivo Podreka;Margarete Steiner;Klaus Willmes

  • Detection of intracranial aneurysms with multislice CT: comparison with conventional angiography.

    S. Dammert;T. Krings;W. Moller-Hartmann;E. Ueffing

  • Mental fatigue and temporal preparation in simple reaction-time performance.

    Robert Langner;Michael B. Steinborn;Anjan Chatterjee;Walter Sturm

  • The case of aphasia or neglect after striatocapsular infarction

    C Weiller;K Willmes;W Reiche;A Thron

  • Subjective experience in brain-injured patients and their close relatives : A European Brain Injury Questionnaire study

    Thomas W. Teasdale;Anne-Lise Christensen;Klaus Willmes;Gérard Deloche

  • Functional MRI for presurgical planning: problems, artefacts, and solution strategies.

    T Krings;M H T Reinges;S Erberich;S Kemeny

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Christoph Nuerk
Hans-Christoph Nuerk University of Tübingen
Walter Huber
Walter Huber RWTH Aachen University
Korbinian Moeller
Korbinian Moeller University of Tübingen
Susanne Weis
Susanne Weis Forschungszentrum Jülich
Guilherme Wood
Guilherme Wood University of Graz
Karsten Specht
Karsten Specht University of Bergen
Kerstin Konrad
Kerstin Konrad RWTH Aachen University
Liane Kaufmann
Liane Kaufmann Health Science University
Roland Zahn
Roland Zahn King's College London
Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer University of Potsdam

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