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Michael Erb publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Erb sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 335 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Michael Erb D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Erb sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 83 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael Erb is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a considerable body of work in cognitive neuroscience and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. Additional subfields include psychiatry and mental health, epidemiology, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's main research topics cover a variety of areas within brain function and imaging. These include functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, neural dynamics and brain function, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, infective endocarditis diagnosis and management, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and advanced MRI techniques and applications.

Michael Erb has coauthored publications with a number of frequent collaborators. These include Klaus Scheffler, Roya Ostovar, Thomas Ethofer, Benjamin Kreifelts, and Edyta Charyasz.

Their work has been published in various scientific venues. Frequently appearing journals and platforms include The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Data, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Michael Erb include:

  • Evidence for modulation of EEG microstate sequence by vigilance level, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Brain circuits signaling the absence of emotion in body language, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Volume of subcortical brain regions in social anxiety disorder: mega-analytic results from 37 samples in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group, 2023, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Functional mapping of sensorimotor activation in the human thalamus at 9.4 Tesla, 2023, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Activation of Cortical and Cerebellar Motor Areas during Executed and Imagined Hand Movements: An fMRI Study

    Martin Lotze;Pedro Montoya;Michael Erb;Ernst Hülsmann

  • Deficient Fear Conditioning in Psychopathy A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Niels Birbaumer;Ralf Veit;Martin Lotze;Michael Erb

  • Are emotions contagious? Evoked emotions while viewing emotionally expressive faces: quality, quantity, time course and gender differences.

    Barbara Wild;Michael Erb;Mathias Bartels

  • Sensorimotor mapping of the human cerebellum: fMRI evidence of somatotopic organization

    Wolfgang Grodd;Ernst Hülsmann;Martin Lotze;Dirk Wildgruber

  • Regulation of emotional responses elicited by threat-related stimuli

    Falk Eippert;Ralf Veit;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Michael Erb

  • fMRI reveals amygdala activation to human faces in social phobics.

    Niels Birbaumer;Wolfgang Grodd;Oliver Diedrich;Uwe Klose

  • Brain circuits involved in emotional learning in antisocial behavior and social phobia in humans.

    Ralf Veit;Herta Flor;Michael Erb;Christiane Hermann

  • Physiological self-regulation of regional brain activity using real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): methodology and exemplary data.

    Nikolaus Weiskopf;Ralf Veit;Michael Erb;Klaus Mathiak

  • Does use of a myoelectric prosthesis prevent cortical reorganization and phantom limb pain

    M. Lotze;W. Grodd;N. Birbaumer;N. Birbaumer;M. Erb

  • Identification of emotional intonation evaluated by fMRI.

    Dirk Wildgruber;Axel Riecker;Ingo Hertrich;Michael Erb

  • Neural correlates of metaphor processing.

    Alexander M Rapp;Dirk T Leube;Michael Erb;Wolfgang Grodd

  • Brain activity underlying emotional valence and arousal: A response-related fMRI study

    Silke Anders;Martin Lotze;Michael Erb;Wolfgang Grodd

  • Two types of ipsilateral reorganization in congenital hemiparesis: a TMS and fMRI study.

    Martin Staudt;Wolfgang Grodd;Christian Gerloff;Michael Erb

  • fMRI reveals two distinct cerebral networks subserving speech motor control.

    A. Riecker;K. Mathiak;D. Wildgruber;M. Erb

  • Audiovisual integration of emotional signals in voice and face: an event-related fMRI study.

    Benjamin Kreifelts;Thomas Ethofer;Wolfgang Grodd;Michael Erb

  • fMRI evaluation of somatotopic representation in human primary motor cortex.

    M. Lotze;M. Erb;H. Flor;E. Huelsmann

  • The neural correlates of perceiving one's own movements.

    Dirk T Leube;Günther Knoblich;Michael Erb;Wolfgang Grodd

  • Cerebral pathways in processing of affective prosody: a dynamic causal modeling study.

    Thomas Ethofer;Silke Anders;Michael Erb;Cornelia Herbert

  • The concreteness effect: evidence for dual coding and context availability.

    Frank Jessen;R. Heun;M. Erb;D.-O. Granath

  • Self-regulation of regional cortical activity using real-time fMRI: the right inferior frontal gyrus and linguistic processing.

    Giuseppina Rota;Giuseppina Rota;Ranganatha Sitaram;Ralf Veit;Ralf Veit;Michael Erb

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Grodd
Wolfgang Grodd Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Klaus Scheffler
Klaus Scheffler Max Planck Society
Dirk Wildgruber
Dirk Wildgruber University of Tübingen
Thomas Ethofer
Thomas Ethofer University of Tübingen
Martin Lotze
Martin Lotze University of Greifswald
Niels Birbaumer
Niels Birbaumer University of Tübingen
Tilo Kircher
Tilo Kircher Philipp University of Marburg
Marina Pavlova
Marina Pavlova University of Tübingen
Hermann Ackermann
Hermann Ackermann University of Tübingen
Martin Staudt
Martin Staudt University Children’s Hospital Basel

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