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Rasha Abdel Rahman is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a specialization in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work also spans areas such as social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's recent publications reflect a strong orientation toward the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, language, metaphor, and cognition, as well as face recognition and perception. They have contributed to studies on action observation and synchronization, neural and behavioral psychology, visual perception and processing mechanisms, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Among recent notable papers are:

  • Negative news dominates fast and slow brain responses and social judgments even after source credibility evaluation (2021, NeuroImage)
  • A meta-analysis of fMRI studies of semantic cognition in children (2021, NeuroImage)
  • Electrophysiological Chronometry of Graded Consciousness during the Attentional Blink (2021, Cerebral Cortex)
  • Semantic richness and density effects on language production: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition)
  • Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision (2022, Consciousness and Cognition)

Rasha Abdel Rahman frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Language Cognition and Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, Consciousness and Cognition, and Scientific Reports.

The scientist collaborates regularly with a group of coauthors including Alexander Enge, Martin Maier, Anna K. Kuhlen, Anna Eiserbeck, and Milena Rabovsky.

Best Publications

  • Semantic context effects in language production: A swinging lexical network proposal and a review

    Rasha Abdel Rahman;Alissa Melinger

  • When bees hamper the production of honey: lexical interference from associates in speech production.

    Rasha Abdel Rahman;Alissa Melinger

  • Effects of language on visual perception

    Gary Lupyan;Rasha Abdel Rahman;Lera Boroditsky;Andy Clark;Andy Clark

  • Electrophysiological chronometry of semantic context effects in language production

    Sabrina Aristei;Alissa Melinger;Rasha Abdel Rahman

  • Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on behaviour and electrophysiology of language production

    Miranka Wirth;Rasha Abdel Rahman;Janina Kuenecke;Thomas Koenig

  • When Bees Hamper the Production of Honey

    Rasha Abdel Rahman;Alissa Melinger

  • Seeing what we know and understand: How knowledge shapes perception

    Rasha Abdel Rahman;Werner Sommer

  • Perceiving emotions in neutral faces: expression processing is biased by affective person knowledge

    Franziska Suess;Milena Rabovsky;Rasha Abdel Rahman

  • The dynamic microstructure of speech production: semantic interference built on the fly.

    Rasha Abdel Rahman;Alissa Melinger

  • The time course of semantic richness effects in visual word recognition

    Milena Rabovsky;Werner Sommer;Rasha Abdel Rahman

  • Facing Good and Evil: Early Brain Signatures of Affective Biographical Knowledge in Face Recognition

    Rasha Abdel Rahman

  • Does phonological encoding in speech production always follow the retrieval of semantic knowledge? Electrophysiological evidence for parallel processing.

    Rasha Abdel Rahman;Werner Sommer

  • Phonological encoding is not contingent on semantic feature retrieval: an electrophysiological study on object naming.

    Rasha Abdel Rahman;Miranda Van Turennout;Willem J. M. Levelt

  • Now you see it … and now again: Semantic interference reflects lexical competition in speech production with and without articulation

    Rasha Abdel Rahman;Sabrina Aristei

  • Native Language Promotes Access to Visual Consciousness.

    Martin Maier;Rasha Abdel Rahman

  • Seeing what we know and understand

    Rasha Abdel Rahman;Werner Sommer

  • The closer they are, the more they interfere: Semantic similarity of word distractors increases competition in language production.

    Sebastian Benjamin Rose;Sabrina Aristei;Alissa Melinger;Rasha Abdel Rahman

  • Dismissing lexical competition does not make speaking any easier: a rejoinder to Mahon and Caramazza (2009)

    Rasha Abdel Rahman;Alissa Melinger

  • Semantic processing during language production: an update of the swinging lexical network

    Rasha Abdel Rahman;Alissa Melinger

  • Language production is facilitated by semantic richness but inhibited by semantic density: Evidence from picture naming

    Milena Rabovsky;Daniel J. Schad;Rasha Abdel Rahman

  • Picture-Induced Semantic Interference Reflects Lexical Competition during Object Naming

    Sabrina Aristei;Pienie Zwitserlood;Rasha Abdel Rahman

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Sommer
Werner Sommer Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Pienie Zwitserlood
Pienie Zwitserlood University of Münster
Manuel Martín-Loeches
Manuel Martín-Loeches Complutense University of Madrid
Isabell Wartenburger
Isabell Wartenburger University of Potsdam
Annekathrin Schacht
Annekathrin Schacht University of Göttingen
Willem J. M. Levelt
Willem J. M. Levelt Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Gary Lupyan
Gary Lupyan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
andrew g clark
andrew g clark Cornell University
Timo Stein
Timo Stein University of Amsterdam

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