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Overview

Marc Wittmann is affiliated with the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional subfields of their work include Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The topics that characterize Wittmann's research include:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues, including:

  • Timing & Time Perception
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of anomalistics
  • Scientific Reports

Some of the recent papers featuring their research include:

  • What happens while waiting? How self-regulation affects boredom and subjective time during a real waiting situation (2020) published in Acta Psychologica
  • Peripheral-physiological and neural correlates of the flow experience while playing video games: a comprehensive review (2020) published in PeerJ
  • Time Speeds Up During Flow States: A Study in Virtual Reality with the Video Game Thumper (2021) published in Timing & Time Perception
  • Time consciousness: the missing link in theories of consciousness (2021) published in Neuroscience of Consciousness
  • Content-Free Awareness: EEG-fcMRI Correlates of Consciousness as Such in an Expert Meditator (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent collaborators in their published work include:

  • Joanna Witowska
  • Federico Alvarez Igarzábal
  • Shiva Khoshnoud
  • Sebastian L. Kübel
  • Stefan Schmidt

Best Publications

  • Social Jetlag: Misalignment of Biological and Social Time

    Marc Wittmann;Jenny Dinich;Martha Merrow;Till Roenneberg

  • Decision making, impulsivity and time perception

    Marc Wittmann;Marc Wittmann;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus

  • The inner experience of time.

    Marc Wittmann

  • The inner sense of time: how the brain creates a representation of duration

    Marc Wittmann

  • Time and decision making: differential contribution of the posterior insular cortex and the striatum during a delay discounting task

    Marc Wittmann;Marc Wittmann;David S. Leland;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus

  • Effects of psilocybin on time perception and temporal control of behaviour in humans

    Marc Wittmann;Olivia Carter;Felix Hasler;B Rael Cahn

  • Impaired time perception and motor timing in stimulant-dependent subjects

    Marc Wittmann;Marc Wittmann;Marc Wittmann;David S. Leland;Jan Churan;Jan Churan;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus

  • Age Effects in Perception of Time

    Marc Wittmann;Sandra Lehnhoff

  • Effects of display position of a visual in-vehicle task on simulated driving

    Marc Wittmann;Miklós Kiss;Peter Gugg;Alexander Steffen

  • Decreased psychological well-being in late 'chronotypes' is mediated by smoking and alcohol consumption.

    Marc Wittmann;Martin Paulus;Till Roenneberg

  • Moments in time

    Marc Wittmann

  • Accumulation of neural activity in the posterior insula encodes the passage of time

    Marc Wittmann;Alan N. Simmons;Alan N. Simmons;Jennifer L. Aron;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus

  • The experience of time: neural mechanisms and the interplay of emotion, cognition and embodiment

    Marc Wittmann;Virginie van Wassenhove

  • Body signals, cardiac awareness, and the perception of time

    Karin Meissner;Karin Meissner;Marc Wittmann

  • Time perception and temporal processing levels of the brain

    Marc Wittmann

  • A Workplace Mindfulness Intervention May Be Associated With Improved Psychological Well-Being and Productivity. A Preliminary Field Study in a Company Setting.

    Wendy Kersemaekers;Silke Rupprecht;Marc Wittmann;Chris Tamdjidi

  • Modulations of the experience of self and time

    Marc Wittmann

  • Neural substrates of time perception and impulsivity.

    Marc Wittmann;Alan N. Simmons;Alan N. Simmons;Taru Flagan;Scott D. Lane

  • Cortical involvement in temporal reproduction: evidence for differential roles of the hemispheres.

    Florian A. Kagerer;Marc Wittmann;Elzbieta Szelag;Nicole v. Steinbüchel

  • The neural substrates of subjective time dilation.

    Marc Wittmann;Marc Wittmann;Virginie van Wassenhove;A D Bud Craig;Martin P Paulus;Martin P Paulus

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin P. Paulus
Martin P. Paulus Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Stefan Schmidt
Stefan Schmidt University of Freiburg
Susan F. Tapert
Susan F. Tapert University of California, San Diego
Alan N. Simmons
Alan N. Simmons University of California, San Diego
Anne Giersch
Anne Giersch University of Strasbourg
Scott D. Lane
Scott D. Lane The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Franz X. Vollenweider
Franz X. Vollenweider University of Zurich
Nicolas Franck
Nicolas Franck Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Anne E. M. Speckens
Anne E. M. Speckens Radboud University

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