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Overview

Markus Conrad is affiliated with the University of La Laguna in Spain. Their research contributions span several interconnected fields within psychology and neuroscience, with a particular focus on experimental and cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience.

Their work often explores topics that include:

  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Language, metaphor, and cognition
  • Color perception and design
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation studies
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Markus Conrad has published papers in diverse venues, such as:

  • Cognition
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Brain Sciences
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Selected recent publications include:

  • ERPs reveal an iconic relation between sublexical phonology and affective meaning, 2022, Cognition
  • The role of valence and arousal for phonological iconicity in the lexicon of German: a cross-validation study using pseudoword ratings, 2024, Cognition & Emotion
  • Light-Dependent Effects of Prefrontal rTMS on Emotional Working Memory, 2021, Brain Sciences
  • Conflict Detection In Affective Language Content: Affective Incongruency In Semantically Correct Sentences Describing Social Interactions Activates The Anterior Cingulate Cortex, 2021, Research Square (Research Square)
  • Conflict Detection in Language Processing: Using Affect Control Theory to Predict Neural Correlates of Affective Incongruency in Social Interactions, 2024, KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Frequent collaborators in Markus Conrad's work include:

  • David Schmidtke
  • Gesche Schauenburg
  • Arash Aryani
  • Chun-Ting Hsu
  • Tobias Schröder

The areas of specialization reflected in their work involve understanding brain mechanisms underlying language, emotion, and perception, often utilizing neuroimaging and noninvasive brain stimulation techniques. This multidisciplinary approach intersects psychology, neuroscience, and sociological aspects of language and affect.

Best Publications

  • The Berlin Affective Word List Reloaded (BAWL-R).

    Melissa L. H. Võ;Markus Conrad;Lars Kuchinke;Karolina Urton

  • The Word Frequency Effect A Review of Recent Developments and Implications for the Choice of Frequency Estimates in German

    Marc Brysbaert;Matthias Buchmeier;Markus Conrad;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Incidental effects of emotional valence in single word processing: an fMRI study.

    Lars Kuchinke;Arthur M. Jacobs;Claudia Grubich;Melissa L.-H. Võ

  • The coupling of emotion and cognition in the eye: introducing the pupil old/new effect.

    Melissa L.-H. Võ;Arthur M. Jacobs;Lars Kuchinke;Markus Hofmann

  • Can Harry Potter still put a spell on us in a second language? An fMRI study on reading emotion-laden literature in late bilinguals.

    Chun-Ting Hsu;Arthur M. Jacobs;Markus Conrad

  • The Time Course of Emotion Effects in First and Second Language Processing: A Cross Cultural ERP Study with German-Spanish Bilinguals.

    Markus Conrad;Guillermo Recio;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • ANGST: affective norms for German sentiment terms, derived from the affective norms for English words.

    David S. Schmidtke;Tobias Schröder;Tobias Schröder;Arthur M. Jacobs;Markus Conrad;Markus Conrad

  • Cross-validating the Berlin Affective Word List.

    Melissa L. H. Võ;Arthur M. Jacobs;Markus Conrad

  • Replicating syllable frequency effects in Spanish in German: One more challenge to computational models of visual word recognition

    Markus Conrad;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Fiction feelings in Harry Potter: haemodynamic response in the mid-cingulate cortex correlates with immersive reading experience.

    Chun-Ting Hsu;Markus Conrad;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Measuring the Basic Affective Tone of Poems via Phonological Saliency and Iconicity

    Arash Aryani;Maria Kraxenberger;Susann Ullrich;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • The emotion potential of words and passages in reading Harry Potter--an fMRI study.

    Chun-Ting Hsu;Arthur M. Jacobs;Francesca M.M. Citron;Francesca M.M. Citron;Markus Conrad;Markus Conrad

  • Syllables and bigrams: orthographic redundancy and syllabic units affect visual word recognition at different processing levels.

    Markus Conrad;Manuel Carreiras;Sascha Tamm;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • On pleasure and thrill: the interplay between arousal and valence during visual word recognition.

    Guillermo Recio;Markus Conrad;Laura B. Hansen;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Phonology as the source of syllable frequency effects in visual word recognition: evidence from French.

    Markus Conrad;Jonathan Grainger;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Inhibitory effects of first syllable-frequency in lexical decision: an event-related potential study.

    Florian Hutzler;Jürgen Bergmann;Markus Conrad;Martin Kronbichler

  • The time course of emotion effects in first and second language processing

    Markus Conrad;Guillermo Recio;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • When emotions are expressed figuratively: Psycholinguistic and affective norms of 619 idioms for German (PANIG).

    Francesca M. M. Citron;Francesca M. M. Citron;Cristina Cacciari;Michael Kucharski;Luna Beck;Luna Beck

  • 10 years of BAWLing into affective and aesthetic processes in reading: what are the echoes?

    Arthur M. Jacobs;Melissa L.-H. Võ;Benny B. Briesemeister;Markus Conrad

  • Why 'piss' is ruder than 'pee'? The role of sound in affective meaning making.

    Arash Aryani;Markus Conrad;David Schmidtke;Arthur Jacobs

  • Phonological iconicity

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Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur M. Jacobs
Arthur M. Jacobs Freie Universität Berlin
Lars Kuchinke
Lars Kuchinke International Psychoanalytic University Berlin
Manuel Carreiras
Manuel Carreiras Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Manfred Herrmann
Manfred Herrmann University of Bremen
Hauke R. Heekeren
Hauke R. Heekeren Universität Hamburg
Piotr Winkielman
Piotr Winkielman University of California, San Diego
Raffaella I. Rumiati
Raffaella I. Rumiati International School for Advanced Studies
Marc Brysbaert
Marc Brysbaert Ghent University
Jonathan Grainger
Jonathan Grainger Aix-Marseille University

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