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Overview

Nikolaus Steinbeis is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience.

The scientist's work focuses on several subfields, including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Education

Key topics explored in their research consist of:

  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Nikolaus Steinbeis include:

  • "Toward a Science of Effective Cognitive Training," 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • "Sensitive periods in executive function development," 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "Two systems for thinking about others' thoughts in the developing brain," 2020, Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
  • "Age-related decreases in global metacognition are independent of local metacognition and task performance," 2023, Cognition
  • "I know better! Emerging metacognition allows adolescents to ignore false advice," 2021, Developmental Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Steinbeis include:

  • Claire Rosalie Smid
  • Abigail Thompson
  • Keertana Ganesan
  • Roser Cañigueral
  • Tobias U. Hauser

They have often published in the following venues:

  • Developmental Science
  • Cognition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • The Role of Harmonic Expectancy Violations in Musical Emotions: Evidence from Subjective, Physiological, and Neural Responses

    Nikolaus Steinbeis;Stefan Koelsch;John A. Sloboda

  • Impulse Control and Underlying Functions of the Left DLPFC Mediate Age-Related and Age-Independent Individual Differences in Strategic Social Behavior

    Nikolaus Steinbeis;Boris C. Bernhardt;Tania Singer;Tania Singer

  • The developmental foundations of human fairness

    Katherine McAuliffe;Peter R. Blake;Nikolaus Steinbeis;Nikolaus Steinbeis;Felix Warneken

  • Shared Neural Resources between Music and Language Indicate Semantic Processing of Musical Tension-Resolution Patterns

    Nikolaus Steinbeis;Stefan Koelsch

  • Neural Perspectives on Cognitive Control Development during Childhood and Adolescence

    Eveline A. Crone;Nikolaus Steinbeis

  • Effects of unexpected chords and of performer's expression on brain responses and electrodermal activity

    Stefan Koelsch;Simone Kilches;Nikolaus Steinbeis;Stefanie Schelinski

  • Affective priming effects of musical sounds on the processing of word meaning

    Nikolaus Steinbeis;Stefan Koelsch

  • The role of self–other distinction in understanding others' mental and emotional states: neurocognitive mechanisms in children and adults

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  • Comparing the processing of music and language meaning using EEG and FMRI provides evidence for similar and distinct neural representations.

    Nikolaus Steinbeis;Stefan Koelsch

  • Implicit and explicit false belief development in preschool children

    Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann;Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann;Angela D. Friederici;Tania Singer;Nikolaus Steinbeis;Nikolaus Steinbeis

  • Understanding the Intentions Behind Man-Made Products Elicits Neural Activity in Areas Dedicated to Mental State Attribution

    Nikolaus Steinbeis;Stefan Koelsch

  • The effects of social comparison on social emotions and behavior during childhood: the ontogeny of envy and Schadenfreude predicts developmental changes in equity-related decisions.

    Nikolaus Steinbeis;Tania Singer;Tania Singer

  • White matter maturation is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood

    Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann;Jan Schreiber;Tania Singer;Nikolaus Steinbeis

  • Differential roles of fairness- and compassion-based motivations for cooperation, defection, and punishment.

    Tania Singer;Nikolaus Steinbeis

  • Development of Behavioral Control and Associated vmPFC–DLPFC Connectivity Explains Children's Increased Resistance to Temptation in Intertemporal Choice

    Nikolaus Steinbeis;Johannes Haushofer;Ernst Fehr;Tania Singer;Tania Singer

  • Preserved self-other distinction during empathy in autism is linked to network integrity of right supramarginal gyrus

    Ferdinand Hoffmann;Svenja Koehne;Svenja Koehne;Nikolaus Steinbeis;Isabel Dziobek;Isabel Dziobek

  • The effects of stress and affiliation on social decision-making: Investigating the tend-and-befriend pattern.

    Nikolaus Steinbeis;Veronika Engert;Roman Linz;Tania Singer

  • Medial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortical thickness predicts shared individual differences in self-generated thought and temporal discounting.

    Boris C. Bernhardt;Jonathan Smallwood;Jonathan Smallwood;Anita Tusche;Florence J. M. Ruby;Florence J. M. Ruby

  • Sensitive periods in executive function development

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  • Age-related Differences in Function and Structure of rSMG and Reduced Functional Connectivity with DLPFC Explains Heightened Emotional Egocentricity Bias in Childhood

    Nikolaus Steinbeis;Boris C. Bernhardt;Tania Singer

  • Toward a Science of Effective Cognitive Training

    Claire R. Smid;Julia Karbach;Nikolaus Steinbeis

  • Compassion meditators show less anger, less punishment, and more compensation of victims in response to fairness violations

    Cade McCall;Nikolaus Steinbeis;Matthieu Ricard;Tania Singer

Frequent Co-Authors

Tania Singer
Tania Singer Max Planck Society
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Julia Karbach
Julia Karbach Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Sonja Perren
Sonja Perren University of Konstanz
Jean Decety
Jean Decety University of Chicago

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