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Martin H. Fischer

Martin H. Fischer

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Psychology

D-Index
60
Citations
17154
World Ranking
3494
National Ranking
159

Overview

Martin H. Fischer is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and neuroscience, focusing extensively on experimental and cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology. Their work reflects a strong interdisciplinary approach combining psychology with neuroscience.

The main fields of study in Fischer's research include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Key subfields of study encompass:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Social Psychology

The primary topics covered in their work are:

  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function

Frequent publication venues indicate the outlets where Fischer's research is commonly disseminated:

  • Psychological Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Cognition
  • Acta Psychologica

Martin H. Fischer has coauthored numerous papers with several regular collaborators. The most frequent coauthors include:

  • Samuel Shaki
  • Arianna Felisatti
  • Katharina Kühne
  • Yuefang Zhou
  • Oliver Lindemann

Recent published papers illustrate the range and focus of Fischer's research, featuring studies in cognition, numerical abilities, and perception:

  • The Human Takes It All: Humanlike Synthesized Voices Are Perceived as Less Eerie and More Likable. Evidence From a Subjective Ratings Study, 2020, Frontiers in Neurorobotics
  • A biological foundation for spatial-numerical associations: the brain's asymmetric frequency tuning, 2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • A sensorimotor perspective on numerical cognition, 2023, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Abstract concepts: external influences, internal constraints, and methodological issues, 2022, Psychological Research
  • Nothing to dance about: unclear evidence for symbolic representations and numerical competence in honeybees. A Comment on: Symbolic representation of numerosity by honeybees ( Apis mellifera ): matching characters to small quantities, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Identifying the Best Machine Learning Algorithms for Brain Tumor Segmentation, Progression Assessment, and Overall Survival Prediction in the BRATS Challenge

    Spyridon Bakas;Mauricio Reyes;Andras Jakab;Stefan Bauer

  • Embodied language: A review of the role of the motor system in language comprehension

    Martin H. Fischer;Rolf A. Zwaan

  • Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention

    Martin H Fischer;Alan D Castel;Michael D Dodd;Jay Pratt

  • On the cognitive link between space and number: a meta-analysis of the SNARC effect

    Guilherme Wood;Klaus Willmes;Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Martin H. Fischer

  • Reading habits for both words and numbers contribute to the SNARC effect

    Samuel Shaki;Martin H. Fischer;William M. Petrusic

  • Unspaced Text Interferes with Both Word Identification and Eye Movement Control

    Keith Rayner;Martin H. Fischer;Alexander Pollatsek

  • Spatial representation of numbers.

    Wim Fias;Martin H. Fischer

  • Mindless reading revisited: eye movements during reading and scanning are different.

    Keith Rayner;Martin H. Fischer

  • When digits help digits: spatial-numerical associations point to finger counting as prime example of embodied cognition.

    Martin H. Fischer;Peter Brugger

  • Finger counting habits modulate spatial-numerical associations.

    Martin H. Fischer

  • Reading space into numbers: a cross-linguistic comparison of the SNARC effect.

    Samuel Shaki;Martin H. Fischer

  • Number processing induces spatial performance biases

    Martin H. Fischer

  • The mechanics of embodiment: a dialog on embodiment and computational modeling.

    Giovanni Pezzulo;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Angelo Cangelosi;Martin H. Fischer

  • Eye movements: A window on mind and brain.

    Roger P. G. van Gompel;Martin H. Fischer;Wayne S. Murray;Robin L. Hill

  • Computational Grounded Cognition: a new alliance between grounded cognition and computational modeling.

    Giovanni Pezzulo;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Angelo Cangelosi;Martin H. Fischer

  • The Cultural Number Line: A Review of Cultural and Linguistic Influences on the Development of Number Processing:

    Silke M. Göbel;Samuel Shaki;Martin H. Fischer

  • Spatial Associations in Numerical Cognition—From Single Digits to Arithmetic:

    Martin H. Fischer;Samuel Shaki

  • Spatial representations in number processing--evidence from a pointing task

    Martin H. Fischer

  • A hierarchical view of grounded, embodied, and situated numerical cognition

    Martin H. Fischer

  • Mental movements without magnitude?: A study of spatial biases in symbolic arithmetic

    Michal Pinhas;Martin H. Fischer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jos J. Adam
Jos J. Adam Maastricht University
Jay Pratt
Jay Pratt University of Toronto
Korbinian Moeller
Korbinian Moeller University of Tübingen
Hans-Christoph Nuerk
Hans-Christoph Nuerk University of Tübingen
Klaus Willmes
Klaus Willmes RWTH Aachen University
Jelle Jolles
Jelle Jolles Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Fred W. Mast
Fred W. Mast University of Bern
Daniel Algom
Daniel Algom Tel Aviv University
Keith Rayner
Keith Rayner University of California, San Diego
Wolfgang Bleck
Wolfgang Bleck RWTH Aachen University

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