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Markus Kiefer

Markus Kiefer

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
67
Citations
14059
World Ranking
2910
National Ranking
251

Psychology

D-Index
65
Citations
13833
World Ranking
2865
National Ranking
119

Overview

Markus Kiefer is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, focusing on diverse subfields including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their work addresses various topics, notably action observation and synchronization, neural and behavioral psychology studies, the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, neural dynamics and brain function, language, metaphor, and cognition, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, along with child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Markus Kiefer's publication record includes contributions to journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Open Psychology, NeuroImage, Cerebral Cortex, and BMC Psychiatry. Frequent co-authors include Christian Montag, Philipp Kuhnke, Gesa Hartwigsen, Simon Sanwald, and Alexander Berger, indicating collaborative efforts in related research areas.

Some recent papers authored by Markus Kiefer include:

  • Advances in Experimental Psychology, 2021, Open Psychology
  • Varieties of abstract concepts and their grounding in perception or action, 2020, Open Psychology

Other notable works, although authored by their frequent collaborators, contextualize the broader research environment in which Kiefer operates:

  • Comparison of Different Response Time Outlier Exclusion Methods: A Simulation Study, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Literacy Training of Kindergarten Children With Pencil, Keyboard or Tablet Stylus: The Influence of the Writing Tool on Reading and Writing Performance at the Letter and Word Level, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Left posterior inferior parietal cortex causally supports the retrieval of action knowledge, 2020, NeuroImage

The scientific contributions of Markus Kiefer largely emphasize experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, reflecting in both the scope of research topics and the venues of publication. Their work often investigates neural correlates underlying psychological processes such as language, cognition, and action observation.

Best Publications

  • Conceptual representations in mind and brain: theoretical developments, current evidence and future directions.

    Markus Kiefer;Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • A holistic account of the own-race effect in face recognition: evidence from a cross-cultural study.

    James W Tanaka;Markus Kiefer;Cindy M Bukach

  • The N400 is modulated by unconsciously perceived masked words: further evidence for an automatic spreading activation account of N400 priming effects.

    Markus Kiefer

  • The Sound of Concepts: Four Markers for a Link between Auditory and Conceptual Brain Systems

    Markus Kiefer;Eun-Jin Sim;Bärbel Herrnberger;Jo Grothe

  • Emotional context modulates subsequent memory effect

    Susanne Erk;Markus Kiefer;J.o Grothe;Arthur P Wunderlich

  • The time course of brain activations during response inhibition: evidence from event-related potentials in a go/no go task.

    Markus Kiefer;Frank Marzinzik;Matthias Weisbrod;Michael Scherg

  • Physical fitness, but not acute exercise modulates event-related potential indices for executive control in healthy adolescents.

    Sanna Stroth;Sabine Kubesch;Katrin Dieterle;Martin Ruchsow

  • Attentional Modulation of Unconscious Automatic Processes: Evidence from Event-related Potentials in a Masked Priming Paradigm

    Markus Kiefer;Doreen Brendel

  • Attentional Sensitization of Unconscious Cognition: Task Sets Modulate Subsequent Masked Semantic Priming.

    Markus Kiefer;Ulla Martens

  • Executive control deficit in depression: event-related potentials in a Go/Nogo task.

    Stefan Kaiser;Joerg Unger;Markus Kiefer;Jaana Markela

  • Time course of conscious and unconscious semantic brain activation.

    Markus Kiefer;Manfred Spitzer

  • Conceptual flexibility in the human brain: Dynamic recruitment of semantic maps from visual, motor, and motion-related areas

    Klaus Hoenig;Eun-Jin Sim;Viktor Bochev;Bärbel Herrnberger

  • Embodiment theory and education: The foundations of cognition in perception and action

    Markus Kiefer;Natalie M. Trumpp

  • Perceptual and semantic sources of category-specific effects: event-related potentials during picture and word categorization.

    Markus Kiefer

  • The role of action representations in visual object recognition

    Hannah Barbara Helbig;Markus Graf;Markus Kiefer

  • Comparison of Different Response Time Outlier Exclusion Methods: A Simulation Study.

    Alexander Berger;Markus Kiefer

  • Executive control is disturbed in schizophrenia: evidence from event-related potentials in a Go/NoGo task.

    Matthias Weisbrod;Markus Kiefer;Frank Marzinzik;Manfred Spitzer

  • Experience-dependent Plasticity of Conceptual Representations in Human Sensory-Motor Areas

    Markus Kiefer;Eun-Jin Sim;Sarah Liebich;Olaf Hauk

  • The effect of erroneous responses on response monitoring in patients with major depressive disorder: a study with event-related potentials.

    Martin Ruchsow;Bärbel Herrnberger;Christiane Wiesend;Georg Grön

  • Right Hemisphere Activation during Indirect Semantic Priming: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials

    Markus Kiefer;Markus Kiefer;Matthias Weisbrod;Isabel Kern;Sabine Maier

  • Genome evolution among cruciferous plants: a lecture from the comparison of the genetic maps of three diploid species--Capsella rubella, Arabidopsis lyrata subsp. petraea, and A. thaliana.

    Marcus A. Koch;Markus Kiefer

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred Spitzer
Manfred Spitzer University of Ulm
Matthias Weisbrod
Matthias Weisbrod Heidelberg University
Christian Montag
Christian Montag University of Macau
Georg Grön
Georg Grön University of Ulm
Ulrich Ansorge
Ulrich Ansorge University of Vienna
Thomas Kammer
Thomas Kammer University of Ulm
Friedemann Pulvermüller
Friedemann Pulvermüller Freie Universität Berlin
Gesa Hartwigsen
Gesa Hartwigsen Max Planck Society
James W. Tanaka
James W. Tanaka University of Victoria
Anna Buchheim
Anna Buchheim University of Innsbruck

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