2026 Roman Liepelt: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	31	11201	10481	540	531	101	3905

Overview

Roman Liepelt is affiliated with the University of Hagen in Germany. Their research spans neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, neurology, cardiology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

Action Observation and Synchronization
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Among their recent papers are:

Evidence for a modulating effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) on salivary alpha-amylase as indirect noradrenergic marker: A pooled mega-analysis, 2022, Brain Stimulation
The effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) on cognitive control in multitasking, 2023, Neuropsychologia
Action prediction modulates self-other integration in joint action, 2022, Psychological Research
Perceptual target discriminability modulates the Simon effect beyond the fading of distractor-based activation: Insights from delta plots and diffusion model analyses, 2024, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
Motor cognition in schizophrenia: Control of automatic imitation and mapping of action context are reduced, 2022, Schizophrenia Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Liepelt include:

Rico Fischer
Aldo Sommer
Ruben Ellinghaus
Laura Sperl
Manon Giraudier

Liepelt's publications frequently appear in the following venues:

Psychological Research
Brain Stimulation
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Neuropsychologia

Their research includes studies in cognitive control, action prediction, neural modulation via non-invasive stimulation, social and experimental psychology, alongside investigations into neurological disorders such as schizophrenia.

Best Publications

The joint Simon effect: A review and theoretical integration

Thomas Dolk;Thomas Dolk;Bernhard Hommel;Lorenza S. Colzato;Simone Schütz-Bosbach

245
Citations
The (not so) social Simon effect: a referential coding account.

Thomas Dolk;Bernhard Hommel;Wolfgang Prinz;Roman Liepelt

232
Citations
Through the looking glass: counter‐mirror activation following incompatible sensorimotor learning

Caroline Catmur;Helge Gillmeister;Helge Gillmeister;Geoffrey Bird;Roman Liepelt

228
Citations
When humanoid robots become human-like interaction partners: corepresentation of robotic actions.

Anna Stenzel;Eris Chinellato;Maria A Tirado Bou;Ángel P Del Pobil

191
Citations
How “Social” is the social Simon effect?

Thomas Dolk;Bernhard Hommel;Lorenza S. Colzato;Simone Schütz-Bosbach

188
Citations
Robotic movement preferentially engages the action observation network

Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross;Roman Liepelt;Antonia F. de C. Hamilton;Jim Parkinson

186
Citations
What is shared in joint action? Issues of co-representation, response conflict, and agent identification

Dorit Wenke;Dorit Wenke;Silke Atmaca;Antje Holländer;Roman Liepelt;Roman Liepelt

164
Citations
What is matched in direct matching? Intention attribution modulates motor priming.

Roman Liepelt;D. Yves von Cramon;Marcel Brass

162
Citations
Experience-based priming of body parts: A study of action imitation

Helge Gillmeister;Caroline Catmur;Roman Liepelt;Marcel Brass

144
Citations
Task switching: effects of practice on switch and mixing costs

Tilo Strobach;Tilo Strobach;Roman Liepelt;Torsten Schubert;Torsten Schubert;Andrea Kiesel

142
Citations
Top-Down Modulation of Motor Priming by Belief About Animacy

Roman Liepelt;Marcel Brass

142
Citations
Improved intertask coordination after extensive dual-task practice.

Roman Liepelt;Roman Liepelt;Roman Liepelt;Tilo Strobach;Tilo Strobach;Peter Frensch;Torsten Schubert;Torsten Schubert

132
Citations
Rethinking ‘rational imitation’ in 14-month-old infants: a perceptual distraction approach

Miriam Beisert;Norbert Zmyj;Roman Liepelt;Franziska Jung

116
Citations
How do we infer others' goals from non-stereotypic actions? The outcome of context-sensitive inferential processing in right inferior parietal and posterior temporal cortex

Roman Liepelt;D. Yves von Cramon;Marcel Brass

111
Citations
The Virtual Co-Actor: The Social Simon Effect does not Rely on Online Feedback from the Other.

Elize Vlainic;Roman Liepelt;Lorenza S. Colzato;Wolfgang Prinz

99
Citations
Trial-to-trial sequential dependencies in a social and non-social Simon task

Roman Liepelt;Dorit Wenke;Dorit Wenke;Rico Fischer;Wolfgang Prinz

96
Citations
When Do We Simulate Non-Human Agents? Dissociating Communicative and Non-Communicative Actions.

Roman Liepelt;Wolfgang Prinz;Marcel Brass

93
Citations
The shaping of social perception by stimulus and knowledge cues to human animacy

Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross;Richard Ramsey;Roman Liepelt;Wolfgang Prinz

82
Citations
Effects of extensive dual-task practice on processing stages in simultaneous choice tasks

Tilo Strobach;Tilo Strobach;Roman Liepelt;Harold Pashler;Peter A. Frensch

78
Citations
Processing of fair and unfair offers in the ultimatum game under social observation

Jutta Peterburs;Rolf Voegler;Roman Liepelt;Anna Schulze

77
Citations
What Is Matched in Direct Matching? Intention Attribution Modulates

Roman Liepelt;D. Yves Von Cramon;Marcel Brass;Max Planck

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Prinz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Bernhard Hommel Shandong Normal University

Marcel Brass Ghent University

Lorenza S. Colzato TU Dresden

Torsten Schubert Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Rico Fischer University of Greifswald

Emily S. Cross University of Glasgow

Markus Raab German Sport University Cologne

Roberta Sellaro University of Padua

Peter A. Frensch Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

External Links

Personal website of Roman Liepelt

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