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Martin Heil is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a pronounced focus on several subfields including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Urology, and Surgery.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, notably Sexual Differentiation and Disorders, Urological Disorders and Treatments, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Anesthesia and Pain Management, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, and Congenital limb and hand anomalies.

Recent publications by Martin Heil include:

  • Perioperative anxiety and length of hospital stay after caesarean section - A cohort study, 2020, European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
  • Investigating the reliability and sex differences of digit lengths, ratios, and hand measures in infants, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Parent-Reports of Sex-Typed Play Preference in Preschool Children: Relationships to 2D:4D Digit Ratio and Older Siblings' Sex, 2020, Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Health-related quality of life after heart surgery - Identification of high-risk patients: A cohort study, 2020, International Journal of Surgery
  • The association of prenatal amniotic sex hormones and digit ratio (2D:4D) in children aged 5 to 70 months: A longitudinal study, 2023, PLoS ONE

Martin Heil works frequently with several coauthors, including Nora K. Schaal, Lisa M. Körner, Luisa Ernsten, Gareth Richards, and Oliver T. Wolf.

The scientist's articles have appeared in specific venues multiple times, especially in Scientific Reports, as well as in European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Archives of Sexual Behavior, PLoS ONE, and International Journal of Surgery.

Best Publications

  • Missed prime words within the attentional blink evoke an N400 semantic priming effect.

    Bettina Rolke;Martin Heil;Judith Streb;Erwin Hennighausen

  • Slow negative brain potentials as reflections of specific modular resources of cognition

    Frank Rösler;Martin Heil;Brigitte Röder

  • Expertise in dance modulates alpha/beta event-related desynchronization during action observation

    Guido Orgs;Jan-Henryk Dombrowski;Martin Heil;Petra Jansen-Osmann

  • N200 in the Eriksen-Task: Inhibitory Executive Processes?

    Martin Heil;Allen Osman;Juliane Wiegelmann;Bettina Rolke

  • The functional significance of ERP effects during mental rotation

    Martin Heil

  • Suitable stimuli to obtain (no) gender differences in the speed of cognitive processes involved in mental rotation.

    Petra Jansen-Osmann;Martin Heil

  • Sex Differences in Mental Rotation with Polygons of Different Complexity: Do Men Utilize Holistic Processes whereas Women Prefer Piecemeal Ones?:

    Martin Heil;Petra Jansen-Osmann

  • A correction method for DC drift artifacts

    Erwin Hennighausen;Martin Heil;Frank Rösler

  • Distinct cortical activation patterns during long-term memory retrieval of verbal, spatial, and color information

    Frank Rösler;Martin Heil;Erwin Hennighausen

  • Toward a chronopsychophysiology of mental rotation.

    Martin Heil;Bettina Rolke

  • Gender differences in pre-adolescents’ mental-rotation performance: Do they depend on grade and stimulus type?

    Sarah Neuburger;Petra Jansen;Martin Heil;Claudia Quaiser-Pohl

  • Automatic Semantic Activation Is No Myth Semantic Context Effects on the N400 in the Letter-Search Task in the Absence of Response Time Effects

    Martin Heil;Bettina Rolke;Anna Pecchinenda

  • What is improved if a mental rotation task is repeated--the efficiency of memory access, or the speed of a transformation routine?

    Martin Heil;Frank Rösler;Michael Link;Jasmin Bajric

  • Topographic differences of slow event-related brain potentials in blind and sighted adult human subjects during haptic mental rotation

    Frank Ro¨sler;Brigitte Ro¨der;Martin Heil;Erwin Hennighausen

  • Toward a Functional Categorization of Slow Waves: Taking into Account Past and Future Events

    Frank Rösler;Martin Heil

  • Mental rotation in female fraternal twins: Evidence for intra-uterine hormone transfer?

    Martin Heil;Michael Kavšek;Bettina Rolke;Christian Beste

  • Monitoring retrieval from long-term memory by slow event-related brain potentials

    Frank Rösler;Martin Heil;Ulrich Glowalla

  • Mental rotation performance and the effect of gender in fourth graders and adults

    Corinna Titze;Petra Jansen;Martin Heil

  • Spatial knowledge acquisition in younger and elderly adults: a study in a virtual environment.

    Petra Jansen;Andrea Schmelter;Martin Heil

  • Conceptual priming for environmental sounds and words: an ERP study.

    Guido Orgs;Kathrin Lange;Jan-Henryk Dombrowski;Martin Heil

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Rösler
Frank Rösler Universität Hamburg
Petra Jansen
Petra Jansen University of Regensburg
Gunther Meinlschmidt
Gunther Meinlschmidt University Hospital of Basel
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Bettina M. Pause
Bettina M. Pause Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg
Scott P. Johnson
Scott P. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles

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