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35
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5320
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9180
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767

Nico Bunzeck 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 Nico Bunzeck sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 79 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nico Bunzeck 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 Nico Bunzeck sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Nico Bunzeck is affiliated with the University of Lübeck in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their research primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience, with significant work in memory and neural mechanisms, neural and behavioral psychology, and functional brain connectivity.

The scientist's publication record includes studies examining neural compensation in aging populations and the relationships between brain structure changes and cognitive functions. Their recent papers include:

  • Trajectories and contributing factors of neural compensation in healthy and pathological aging, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Structural degeneration of the nucleus basalis of Meynert in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease - Evidence from an MRI-based meta-analysis, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Age-related iron accumulation and demyelination in the basal ganglia are closely related to verbal memory and executive functioning, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • The gains of a 4-week cognitive training are not modulated by novelty, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Neural oscillations and event-related potentials reveal how semantic congruence drives long-term memory in both young and older humans, 2020, Scientific Reports

Bunzeck's work is published frequently in the following venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • NeuroImage
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Human Brain Mapping

Their frequent co-authors include Tineke K. Steiger, Alexandra Sobczak, Marthe Mieling, Mushfa Yousuf, and Pau A. Packard.

The scientist's research interests cover a broad spectrum of topics:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Their work delves into subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, psychiatry and mental health, physiology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Absolute Coding of Stimulus Novelty in the Human Substantia Nigra/VTA

    Nico Bunzeck;Emrah Düzel;Emrah Düzel

  • Reward Dependent Invigoration Relates to Theta Oscillations and Is Predicted by Dopaminergic Midbrain Integrity in Healthy Elderly.

    Tineke K. Steiger;Nico Bunzeck

  • Anticipation of novelty recruits reward system and hippocampus while promoting recollection

    Bianca C. Wittmann;Nico Bunzeck;Raymond J. Dolan;Emrah Düzel;Emrah Düzel

  • NOvelty-related motivation of anticipation and exploration by dopamine (NOMAD): implications for healthy aging.

    Emrah Düzel;Nico Bunzeck;Marc Guitart-Masip;Sandra Düzel

  • The dopaminergic midbrain participates in human episodic memory formation: evidence from genetic imaging.

    Björn H. Schott;Constanze I. Seidenbecher;Daniela B. Fenker;Corinna J. Lauer

  • Theta-Coupled Periodic Replay in Working Memory

    Lluís Fuentemilla;Will D. Penny;Nathan Cashdollar;Nico Bunzeck

  • Functional imaging of the human dopaminergic midbrain

    Emrah Düzel;Nico Bunzeck;Marc Guitart-Masip;Bianca Wittmann

  • Dopamine Modulates Episodic Memory Persistence in Old Age

    Rumana Chowdhury;Marc Guitart-Masip;Nico Bunzeck;Raymond J Dolan

  • Scanning silence: Mental imagery of complex sounds

    Nico Bunzeck;Torsten Wuestenberg;Kai Lutz;Hans-Jochen Heinze

  • Theta-Alpha Oscillations Bind the Hippocampus, Prefrontal Cortex, and Striatum during Recollection: Evidence from Simultaneous EEG–fMRI

    Nora A. Herweg;Thore Apitz;Gregor Leicht;Christioph Mulert

  • Contextual Novelty Changes Reward Representations in the Striatum

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Nico Bunzeck;Klaas E. Stephan;Klaas E. Stephan;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Contextual interaction between novelty and reward processing within the mesolimbic system

    Nico Bunzeck;Christian F. Doeller;Christian F. Doeller;Ray J. Dolan;Emrah Duzel;Emrah Duzel

  • A common mechanism for adaptive scaling of reward and novelty

    Nico Bunzeck;Peter Dayan;Raymond J. Dolan;Emrah Duzel;Emrah Duzel

  • Sex differences in conditioned stimulus discrimination during context-dependent fear learning and its retrieval in humans: the role of biological sex, contraceptives and menstrual cycle phases.

    Tina B. Lonsdorf;Jan Haaker;Dirk Schümann;Tobias Sommer

  • White noise improves learning by modulating activity in dopaminergic midbrain regions and right superior temporal sulcus

    Vanessa H. Rausch;Eva M. Bauch;Nico Bunzeck

  • Mesolimbic Novelty Processing in Older Adults

    Nico Bunzeck;Hartmut Schütze;Sabine Stallforth;Jörn Kaufmann

  • Deficient inhibitory processing in trait anxiety: Evidence from context-dependent fear learning, extinction recall and renewal.

    J. Haaker;T.B. Lonsdorf;D. Schümann;M. Menz

  • Pharmacological Dissociation of Novelty Responses in the Human Brain

    Nico Bunzeck;Marc Guitart-Masip;Marc Guitart-Masip;Raymond J. Dolan;Emrah Duzel;Emrah Duzel

  • Iron Level and Myelin Content in the Ventral Striatum Predict Memory Performance in the Aging Brain

    Tineke K. Steiger;Tineke K. Steiger;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Nico Bunzeck;Nico Bunzeck

  • Contextual Novelty Modulates the Neural Dynamics of Reward Anticipation

    Nico Bunzeck;Marc Guitart-Masip;Ray J. Dolan;Emrah Düzel

Frequent Co-Authors

Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Lluís Fuentemilla
Lluís Fuentemilla University of Barcelona
Graham K. Murray
Graham K. Murray University of Cambridge
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Tobias Sommer
Tobias Sommer Universität Hamburg
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Raffael Kalisch
Raffael Kalisch Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Paul C. Fletcher
Paul C. Fletcher University of Cambridge
Marc Guitart-Masip
Marc Guitart-Masip Karolinska Institute
Christian F. Doeller
Christian F. Doeller Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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