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Michael Falkenstein

Michael Falkenstein

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Neuroscience

D-Index
71
Citations
20573
World Ranking
2394
National Ranking
218

Psychology

D-Index
70
Citations
20023
World Ranking
2267
National Ranking
89

Overview

Michael Falkenstein is affiliated with TU Dortmund University in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their work spans various subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, General Health Professions, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The research topics frequently addressed by Michael Falkenstein include EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Older Adults Driving Studies, Diet and metabolism studies, and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet.

Michael Falkenstein has contributed to research published in several scientific venues with repeated publications particularly in:

  • Nutrients
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Children
  • European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Recent papers featuring Michael Falkenstein or co-authors are:

  • Water Consumption during a School Day and Children's Short-Term Cognitive Performance: The CogniDROP Randomized Intervention Trial (2020) - Nutrients
  • Age-Related Diseases and Driving Safety (2020) - Geriatrics
  • Aging-related changes in motor response-related theta activity (2020) - International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Multidomain Cognitive Training Transfers to Attentional and Executive Functions in Healthy Older Adults (2020) - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • To Mask or Not to Mask-Evaluation of Cognitive Performance in Children Wearing Face Masks during School Lessons (MasKids) (2022) - Children

Michael Falkenstein frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Juliana Yordanova
  • Vasil Kolev
  • Thomas Lücke
  • Kathrin Sinningen
  • Alina Drozdowska

Best Publications

  • Effects of crossmodal divided attention on late ERP components. II. Error processing in choice reaction tasks.

    M. Falkenstein;J. Hohnsbein;J. Hoormann;L. Blanke

  • ERP components on reaction errors and their functional significance: a tutorial

    Michael Falkenstein;Jörg Hoormann;Stefan Christ;Joachim Hohnsbein

  • Control and interference in task switching--a review.

    Andrea Kiesel;Marco Steinhauser;Mike Wendt;Michael Falkenstein

  • ERP components in Go/Nogo tasks and their relation to inhibition.

    M Falkenstein;J Hoormann;J Hohnsbein

  • Electroencephalography of response inhibition tasks: Functional networks and cognitive contributions

    René J. Huster;Stefanie Enriquez-Geppert;Christina F. Lavallee;Michael Falkenstein

  • The Correction of Eye Blink Artefacts in the EEG: A Comparison of Two Prominent Methods

    Sven Hoffmann;Michael Falkenstein

  • Sensorimotor slowing with ageing is mediated by a functional dysregulation of motor-generation processes: evidence from high-resolution event-related potentials

    Juliana Yordanova;Vasil Kolev;Joachim Hohnsbein;Michael Falkenstein

  • Inhibition-related ERP components: Variation with modality, age, and time-on-task.

    Michael Falkenstein;Jörg Hoormann;Joachim Hohnsbein

  • Late ERP components in visual and auditory Go/Nogo tasks.

    M. Falkenstein;N.A. Koshlykova;V.N. Kiroj;J. Hoormann

  • Event-related potential correlates of errors in reaction tasks

    M Falkenstein;J Hohnsbein;J Hoormann

  • Parallel systems of error processing in the brain.

    Juliana Yordanova;Michael Falkenstein;Joachim Hohnsbein;Vasil Kolev

  • Effects of task complexity on ERP components in Go/Nogo tasks.

    Patrick D. Gajewski;Michael Falkenstein

  • ERP--correlates of response selection in a response conflict paradigm.

    Patrick D. Gajewski;Petra Stoerig;Michael Falkenstein

  • Action monitoring, error detection, and the basal ganglia: an ERP study.

    M Falkenstein;H Hielscher;I Dziobek;P Schwarzenau

  • Effects of choice complexity on different subcomponents of the late positive complex of the event-related potential

    M. Falkenstein;J. Hohnsbein;J. Hoormann

  • Response inhibition subprocesses and dopaminergic pathways: Basal ganglia disease effects

    Christian Beste;Rita Willemssen;Carsten Saft;Michael Falkenstein

  • Changes of error-related ERPs with age

    Michael Falkenstein;Jörg Hoormann;Joachim Hohnsbein

  • Functional Changes and Driving Performance in Older Drivers: Assessment and Interventions

    Melanie Karthaus;Michael Falkenstein

  • Errors, Conflicts, and the Brain

    Markus Ullsperger;Michael Falkenstein

  • ERP indices for response inhibition are related to anxiety-related personality traits

    C. Sehlmeyer;C. Konrad;C. Konrad;P. Zwitserlood;V. Arolt

  • Neuroeconomics: The Consilience of Brain and Decision

    W. J. Gehring;B. Goss;M. G. H. Coles;D. E. Meyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Edmund Wascher
Edmund Wascher TU Dortmund University
Carsten Saft
Carsten Saft Ruhr University Bochum
Vasil Kolev
Vasil Kolev Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Juliana Yordanova
Juliana Yordanova Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Onur Güntürkün
Onur Güntürkün Ruhr University Bochum
Jörg T. Epplen
Jörg T. Epplen Ruhr University Bochum
Sebastian Ocklenburg
Sebastian Ocklenburg Ruhr University Bochum
Guy G. Potter
Guy G. Potter Duke University
Markus Ullsperger
Markus Ullsperger Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

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