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Overview

Markus Ullsperger is affiliated with Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany. Their research primarily lies within the field of neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and related subfields including neurology, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology.

The scientist's work extensively covers a variety of topics related to neural and behavioral psychology studies, neural dynamics and brain function, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces. Other prominent areas of research include functional brain connectivity, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, memory and neural mechanisms, and behavioral and psychological studies.

They have published in a range of venues, frequently appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Psychophysiology
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Markus Ullsperger include:

  • "Neural and behavioral traces of error awareness," 2020, published in Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • "Conflict- and error-related theta activities are coupled to BOLD signals in different brain regions," 2022, published in NeuroImage
  • "Motor cortical signals reflecting decision making and action preparation," 2022, published in NeuroImage
  • "Decreased transfer of value to action in Tourette syndrome," 2020, published in Cortex
  • "Disentangling performance-monitoring signals encoded in feedback-related EEG dynamics," 2022, published in NeuroImage

Markus Ullsperger frequently collaborates with a set of coauthors, demonstrating ongoing partnerships in research. Key coauthors include:

  • Hans Kirschner
  • Adrian G. Fischer
  • Claudia Danielmeier
  • Tilmann A. Klein
  • Thomas Schüller

Best Publications

  • The Role of the Medial Frontal Cortex in Cognitive Control.

    K. Richard Ridderinkhof;Markus Ullsperger;Eveline A. Crone;Sander Nieuwenhuis

  • Trial-by-Trial Coupling of Concurrent Electroencephalogram and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Identifies the Dynamics of Performance Monitoring

    Stefan Debener;Markus Ullsperger;Markus Siegel;Katja Fiehler

  • Subprocesses of Performance Monitoring: A Dissociation of Error Processing and Response Competition Revealed by Event-Related fMRI and ERPs

    Markus Ullsperger;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Neurophysiology of Performance Monitoring and Adaptive Behavior

    Markus Ullsperger;Claudia Danielmeier;Gerhard Jocham

  • Error monitoring using external feedback: Specific roles of the habenular complex, the reward system, and the cingulate motor area revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Markus Ullsperger;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Conscious perception of errors and its relation to the anterior insula

    Markus Ullsperger;Helga A. Harsay;Jan R. Wessel;K. Richard Ridderinkhof

  • Prediction of human errors by maladaptive changes in event-related brain networks.

    Tom Eichele;Stefan Debener;Vince D. Calhoun;Vince D. Calhoun;Vince D. Calhoun;Karsten Specht;Karsten Specht

  • Post-error adjustments.

    Claudia Danielmeier;Markus Ullsperger;Markus Ullsperger

  • Single-trial EEG–fMRI reveals the dynamics of cognitive function

    Stefan Debener;Markus Ullsperger;Markus Siegel;Andreas K. Engel

  • Genetically determined differences in learning from errors

    Tilmann A. Klein;Jane Neumann;Martin Reuter;Jürgen Hennig

  • Neural correlates of error awareness

    Tilmann A. Klein;Tanja Endrass;Norbert Kathmann;Jane Neumann

  • Neural mechanisms and temporal dynamics of performance monitoring

    Markus Ullsperger;Markus Ullsperger;Adrian G. Fischer;Roland Nigbur;Tanja Endrass

  • The conflict adaptation effect: it's not just priming.

    Markus Ullsperger;Lauren M. Bylsma;Matthew M. Botvinick

  • Posterior medial frontal cortex activity predicts post-error adaptations in task-related visual and motor areas

    Claudia Danielmeier;Tom Eichele;Birte U. Forstmann;Marc Tittgemeyer

  • Who Comes First? The Role of the Prefrontal and Parietal Cortex in Cognitive Control

    Marcel Brass;Markus Ullsperger;Thomas R. Knoesche;D. Yves Von Cramon

  • Surprise and Error: Common Neuronal Architecture for the Processing of Errors and Novelty

    Jan R. Wessel;Claudia Danielmeier;J. Bruce Morton;Markus Ullsperger

  • Dopamine-Mediated Reinforcement Learning Signals in the Striatum and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Underlie Value-Based Choices

    Gerhard Jocham;Tilmann Alexander Klein;Markus Ullsperger

  • Error awareness revisited: Accumulation of multimodal evidence from central and autonomic nervous systems

    Jan R. Wessel;Claudia Danielmeier;Markus Ullsperger

  • Neuroimaging of performance monitoring: error detection and beyond.

    Markus Ullsperger;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Deep brain stimulation of the nucleus basalis of Meynert in Alzheimer's dementia.

    J Kuhn;K Hardenacke;D Lenartz;T Gruendler

Frequent Co-Authors

D. Yves von Cramon
D. Yves von Cramon Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Jens Kuhn
Jens Kuhn University of Cologne
Jane Neumann
Jane Neumann Max Planck Society
Jan R. Wessel
Jan R. Wessel University of Iowa
Stefan Debener
Stefan Debener Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Tanja Endrass
Tanja Endrass TU Dresden
Andreas K. Engel
Andreas K. Engel Universität Hamburg
Martin Reuter
Martin Reuter University of Bonn
Tom Eichele
Tom Eichele Haukeland University Hospital
Ellen R.A. de Bruijn
Ellen R.A. de Bruijn Leiden University

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