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2026

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Citations
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World Ranking
737
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Peter Lang is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and conducts research primarily within Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work spans several specialized areas including Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Language and Linguistics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of psychological and neural mechanisms. Key areas of focus include:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Memory Processes and Influences

Frequent publication venues for Peter Lang include:

  • Biological Psychology
  • Psychophysiology
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Optics Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Lang include the following titles:

  • "Common circuit or paradigm shift? The functional brain in emotional scene perception and emotional imagery," 2020, Psychophysiology
  • "Narrative imagery: Emotional modulation in the default mode network," 2021, Neuropsychologia
  • "Trauma-related dysfunction in the fronto-striatal reward circuit," 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Imagery, emotion, and bioinformational theory: From body to brain," 2023, Biological Psychology
  • "Hippocampal and amygdala volumes vary with transdiagnostic psychopathological dimensions of distress, anxious arousal, and trauma," 2023, Biological Psychology

Among the scientist's frequent co-authors are:

  • Margaret M. Bradley
  • Nicola Sambuco
  • Laura Auteri
  • Natascia Barrale
  • a cura di

Peter Lang has also contributed to book publications, notably through the publisher bearing the same name, Peter Lang. Titles include multiple editions of "Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive" from 2022 and 2023, as well as "Ludwig Loewe, the Forgotten Pioneer Industrialist of Imperial Berlin" published in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Measuring emotion: The self-assessment manikin and the semantic differential

    Margaret M. Bradley;Peter J. Lang

  • Looking at pictures: affective, facial, visceral, and behavioral reactions

    Peter J. Lang;Mark K. Greenwald;Margaret M. Bradley;Alfons O. Hamm

  • The emotion probe. Studies of motivation and attention.

    Peter J. Lang

  • Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW): Instruction Manual and Affective Ratings

    Margaret M. Bradley;Peter J. Lang

  • International Affective Picture System (IAPS) : Technical Manual and Affective Ratings

    P. J. Lang

  • Emotion, attention, and the startle reflex.

    Peter J. Lang;Margaret M. Bradley;Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • Emotion and motivation I: defensive and appetitive reactions in picture processing.

    Margaret M. Bradley;Maurizio Codispoti;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Peter J. Lang

  • A Bio‐Informational Theory of Emotional Imagery

    Peter J. Lang

  • Brain potentials in affective picture processing: Covariation with autonomic arousal and affective report

    Bruce N. Cuthbert;Harald Thomas Schupp;Margaret M. Bradley;Niels Birbaumer

  • The pupil as a measure of emotional arousal and autonomic activation

    Margaret M. Bradley;Laura Miccoli;Miguel A. Escrig;Peter J. Lang

  • Motivated attention : affect, activation, and action

    Peter J. Lang;Margaret M. Bradley;Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • Fear reduction and fear behavior: Problems in treating a construct.

    Peter J. Lang

  • Remembering pictures: pleasure and arousal in memory

    Margaret M. Bradley;Mark K. Greenwald;Margaret C. Petry;Peter J. Lang

  • Affective picture processing : The late positive potential is modulated by motivational relevance

    Harald Thomas Schupp;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Margaret M. Bradley;John T. Cacioppo

  • Fear and anxiety: animal models and human cognitive psychophysiology.

    Peter J Lang;Michael Davis;Arne Öhman

  • PLACEBO-CONTROLLED STUDY OF MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL COMBINED WITH CYCLOSPORINE AND CORTICOSTEROIDS FOR PREVENTION OF ACUTE REJECTION

    J Grinyo;C Groth;R Pichlmayr;Sa Sadek

  • Emotion and motivation.

    Margaret M. Bradley;Peter J. Lang

  • Chapter 4: Power and particle control

    A. Loarte;B. Lipschultz;A.S. Kukushkin;G.F. Matthews

  • A FEAR SURVEY SCHEDULE FOR USE IN BEHAVIOUR THERAPY.

    Joseph Wolpe;Peter J. Lang

  • Emotion and motivation II: sex differences in picture processing.

    Margaret M. Bradley;Maurizio Codispoti;Dean Sabatinelli;Peter J. Lang

Frequent Co-Authors

Rupert Handgretinger
Rupert Handgretinger University of Tübingen
Margaret M. Bradley
Margaret M. Bradley University of Florida
Dietrich Niethammer
Dietrich Niethammer University of Tübingen
Peter Bader
Peter Bader Goethe University Frankfurt
A. Kallenbach
A. Kallenbach Max Planck Society
H. Zohm
H. Zohm Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
R. Dux
R. Dux Max Planck Society
R. Neu
R. Neu Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Bruce N. Cuthbert
Bruce N. Cuthbert National Institutes of Health
Thomas Klingebiel
Thomas Klingebiel Goethe University Frankfurt

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