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2026

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Neuroscience

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122
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48243
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368
National Ranking
4

Psychology

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122
Citations
47429
World Ranking
243
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Lutz Jäncke is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Neurology.

The scientist's research interests cover broad topics, particularly focusing on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, and Traumatic Brain Injury Research.

Selected recent publications illustrate the range and depth of their research contributions:

  • Single-dose psilocybin-assisted therapy in major depressive disorder: a placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised clinical trial (2022), published in EClinicalMedicine
  • Functional dedifferentiation of associative resting state networks in older adults - A longitudinal study (2020), published in NeuroImage
  • Laterality indices consensus initiative (LICI): A Delphi expert survey report on recommendations to record, assess, and report asymmetry in human behavioural and brain research (2023), published in Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition
  • Age-related decline in the brain: a longitudinal study on inter-individual variability of cortical thickness, area, volume, and cognition (2021), published in NeuroImage
  • Longitudinal functional brain network reconfiguration in healthy aging (2020), published in Human Brain Mapping

Collaborations play a significant role in their research, with frequent co-authors including Susan Mérillat, Franziskus Liem, Brigitta Malagurski, Yolanda R. Schlumpf, and Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis.

Publication venues that regularly feature their work include:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • NeuroImage
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychological Medicine

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications. One notable book is "Von der Steinzeit ins Internet," published in 2021 by Hogrefe Verlag.

Best Publications

  • The musician's brain as a model of neuroplasticity.

    Thomas F. Münte;Eckart Altenmüller;Lutz Jäncke

  • Increased corpus callosum size in musicians

    Gottfried Schlaug;Lutz Jäncke;Yanxiong Huang;Jochen F. Staiger

  • In vivo evidence of structural brain asymmetry in musicians

    Gottfried Schlaug;Lutz Jäncke;Yanxiong Huang;Helmuth Steinmetz

  • A Process Model of the Formation of Spatial Presence Experiences

    Werner Wirth;Thomas Hartmann;Saskia Böcking;Peter Vorderer

  • From emotion perception to emotion experience: Emotions evoked by pictures and classical music

    Thomas Baumgartner;Michaela Esslen;Lutz Jäncke

  • Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic

    Daphna Joel;Zohar Berman;Ido Tavor;Nadav Wexler

  • Recognition of emotional prosody and verbal components of spoken language: an fMRI study.

    Tony W Buchanan;Kai Lutz;Shahram Mirzazade;Karsten Specht

  • Motor cortex and hand motor skills: structural compliance in the human brain.

    Katrin Amunts;Gottfried Schlaug;Lutz Jäncke;Helmuth Steinmetz

  • Women and men exhibit different cortical activation patterns during mental rotation tasks.

    Kirsten Jordan;Torsten Wüstenberg;Hans Jochen Heinze;Michael Peters

  • Plaque Ulceration and Lumen Thrombus Are the Main Sources of Cerebral Microemboli in High-grade Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis

    M. Sitzer;W. Müller;M. Siebler;W. Hort

  • Anatomical left-right asymmetry of language-related temporal cortex is different in left- and right-handers

    Helmuth Steinmetz;Jens Volkmann;Lutz Jäncke;Hans‐Joachim Freund

  • Interhemispheric asymmetry of the human motor cortex related to handedness and gender

    Katrin Amunts;Lutz Jäncke;Hartmut Mohlberg;Helmuth Steinmetz

  • The emotional power of music: How music enhances the feeling of affective pictures

    Thomas Baumgartner;Kai Lutz;Conny F. Schmidt;Conny F. Schmidt;Lutz Jäncke

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation of the prefrontal cortex modulates working memory performance: combined behavioural and electrophysiological evidence.

    Tino Zaehle;Tino Zaehle;Pascale Sandmann;Jeremy D Thorne;Lutz Jäncke

  • Cortical activations in primary and secondary motor areas for complex bimanual movements in professional pianists.

    L Jäncke;N.J Shah;M Peters

  • Cortical activations during the mental rotation of different visual objects.

    K. Jordan;H.-J. Heinze;K. Lutz;M. Kanowski

  • Mindfulness and emotion regulation—an fMRI study

    Jacqueline Lutz;Uwe Herwig;Sarah Opialla;Anna Hittmeyer

  • Functional anatomy of pitch memory--an fMRI study with sparse temporal sampling.

    Nadine Gaab;Christian Gaser;Tino Zaehle;Lutz Jancke

  • A curvature-based approach to estimate local gyrification on the cortical surface

    Eileen Luders;Paul M. Thompson;Katherine Narr;Arthur W. Toga

  • Phonetic perception and the temporal cortex.

    Lutz Jäncke;Torsten Wüstenberg;Henning Scheich;Hans-Jochen Heinze

  • Cortical activations during paced finger-tapping applying visual and auditory pacing stimuli.

    L Jäncke;R Loose;K Lutz;K Specht

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Meyer
Martin Meyer University of Zurich
Jürgen Hänggi
Jürgen Hänggi University of Zurich
Uwe Herwig
Uwe Herwig University of Zurich
Gottfried Schlaug
Gottfried Schlaug University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Karsten Specht
Karsten Specht University of Bergen
Tino Zaehle
Tino Zaehle Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Torsten Wüstenberg
Torsten Wüstenberg Heidelberg University
Helmuth Steinmetz
Helmuth Steinmetz Goethe University Frankfurt
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
N. Jon Shah
N. Jon Shah Forschungszentrum Jülich

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