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Pienie Zwitserlood

Pienie Zwitserlood

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Neuroscience

D-Index
56
Citations
12558
World Ranking
4490
National Ranking
380

Psychology

D-Index
56
Citations
12544
World Ranking
4207
National Ranking
190

Overview

Pienie Zwitserlood is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields within neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology. The main fields of study encompass neuroscience, psychology, and various subfields such as language and linguistics and social psychology.

Their scientific work covers several topics, notably:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Sex and Gender in Healthcare
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Zwitserlood has contributed to publications in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication forums include Neuropsychopharmacology and Language Cognition and Neuroscience, each with two publications, as well as Brain and Language, Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, and PLoS ONE.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Zwitserlood include:

  • "Biological sex classification with structural MRI data shows increased misclassification in transgender women," 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging," 2021, Brain and Language
  • "Brain structural correlates of alexithymia in patients with major depressive disorder," 2020, Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
  • "Cumulative semantic interference is blind to morphological complexity and originates at the conceptual level," 2022, PLoS ONE
  • "Morphological facilitation and semantic interference in compound production: An ERP study," 2021, Cognition

Zwitserlood frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Katharina Förster, Katharina Dohm, Ronny Redlich, Udo Dannlowski, and Dominik Grotegerd, each co-authoring multiple papers with them.

Best Publications

  • Anticipating upcoming words in discourse: Evidence from ERPs and reading times

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Colin M. Brown;Pienie Zwitserlood;Valesca Kooijman

  • Accessing Spoken Words: The Importance of Word Onsets

    William Marslen-Wilson;Pienie Zwitserlood

  • Human Fear Conditioning and Extinction in Neuroimaging: A Systematic Review

    Christina Sehlmeyer;Sonja Schöning;Pienie Zwitserlood;Bettina Pfleiderer

  • The locus of the effects of sentential-semantic context in spoken-word processing

    Pienie Zwitserlood

  • Automatic mood-congruent amygdala responses to masked facial expressions in major depression.

    Thomas Suslow;Carsten Konrad;Harald Kugel;Daniel Rumstadt

  • The role of semantic transparency in the processing and representation of Dutch compounds

    Pienie Zwitserlood

  • When and how do listeners relate a sentence to the wider discourse? Evidence from the N400 effect

    Jos J.A. van Berkum;Pienie Zwitserlood;Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown

  • Native language influences on word recognition in a second language: a megastudy.

    Kristin Lemhöfer;Ton Dijkstra;Herbert Schriefers;R. Harald Baayen

  • Levodopa: faster and better word learning in normal humans.

    Stefan Knecht;Caterina Breitenstein;Stefan Bushuven;Stefanie Wailke

  • Morphological and orthographic similarity in visual word recognition.

    Etta Drews;Pienie Zwitserlood

  • Childhood maltreatment is associated with an automatic negative emotion processing bias in the amygdala.

    Udo Dannlowski;Udo Dannlowski;Harald Kugel;Franziska Huber;Anja Stuhrmann

  • Reduced amygdala-prefrontal coupling in major depression: association with MAOA genotype and illness severity.

    Udo Dannlowski;Patricia Ohrmann;Carsten Konrad;Katharina Domschke

  • Functional anatomy of visuo-spatial working memory during mental rotation is influenced by sex, menstrual cycle, and sex steroid hormones.

    S. Schöning;A. Engelien;A. Engelien;H. Kugel;S. Schäfer

  • Electrical stimulation of broca's area enhances implicit learning of an artificial grammar

    Meinou H. de Vries;Meinou H. de Vries;Andre C. R. Barth;Sandra Maiworm;Stefan Knecht

  • Event-related brain potentials reflect discourse-referential ambiguity in spoken-language comprehension

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Colin M. Brown;Peter Hagoort;Pienie Zwitserlood

  • Neural correlates of trait anxiety in fear extinction.

    C. Sehlmeyer;U. Dannlowski;S. Schöning;H. Kugel

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

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

  • Reward Processing in Unipolar and Bipolar Depression: A Functional MRI Study.

    Ronny Redlich;Katharina Dohm;Dominik Grotegerd;Nils Opel

  • Syntactic structure and artificial grammar learning: the learnability of embedded hierarchical structures.

    Meinou H. de Vries;Padraic Monaghan;Stefan Knecht;Pienie Zwitserlood

  • Emotion Regulation and Trait Anxiety Are Predicted by the Microstructure of Fibers between Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex

    Annuschka Salima Eden;Jan Schreiber;Alfred Anwander;Katharina Keuper

Frequent Co-Authors

Udo Dannlowski
Udo Dannlowski University of Münster
Volker Arolt
Volker Arolt University of Münster
Bernhard T. Baune
Bernhard T. Baune University of Münster
Thomas Suslow
Thomas Suslow Leipzig University
Ronny Redlich
Ronny Redlich University of Münster
Markus Junghöfer
Markus Junghöfer University of Münster
Dominik Grotegerd
Dominik Grotegerd University of Münster
Stefan Knecht
Stefan Knecht Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Peter Zwanzger
Peter Zwanzger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Thomas Straube
Thomas Straube University of Münster

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