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Susanne Weis is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work also spans radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, developmental and educational psychology, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their research topics include functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, neural dynamics and brain function, mental health research topics, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, and stress responses and cortisol.

Susanne Weis has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Executive functions predict verbal fluency scores in healthy participants, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Imaging evolution of the primate brain: the next frontier?, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Comprehensive verbal fluency features predict executive function performance, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Semantic and attentional networks in bilingual processing: fMRI connectivity signatures of translation directionality, 2020, Brain and Cognition
  • Towards increasing the clinical applicability of machine learning biomarkers in psychiatry, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour

The primary venues where Weis publishes include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, NeuroImage, Nature Communications, and Human Brain Mapping.

Frequent coauthors of Weis are:

  • Simon B. Eickhoff
  • Kaustubh R. Patil
  • Patrick Friedrich
  • Lisa Wiersch
  • Xuan Li

Best Publications

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

    Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Felix Holzmeister;Colin F. Camerer;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber

  • The effect of word concreteness on recognition memory.

    Klaus Fliessbach;Susanne Weis;Peter Klaver;Christian Erich Elger

  • Intrasubject reproducibility of presurgical language lateralization and mapping using fMRI

    G.S.E. Fernandez;K. Specht;S. Weis;I. Tendolkar

  • Menstrual cycle-dependent neural plasticity in the adult human brain is hormone, task, and region specific

    Guillen Fernández;Susanne Weis;Birgit Stoffel-Wagner;Indira Tendolkar

  • Hippocampal activation in patients with mild cognitive impairment is necessary for successful memory encoding

    Tilo T Kircher;Susanne Weis;Katrin Freymann;Michael Erb

  • Neural correlates of narrative shifts during auditory story comprehension.

    Carin Whitney;Walter Huber;Juliane Klann;Susanne Weis

  • Estradiol Modulates Functional Brain Organization during the Menstrual Cycle: An Analysis of Interhemispheric Inhibition

    Susanne Weis;Markus Hausmann;Barbara Stoffers;René Vohn

  • Neural Integration of Iconic and Unrelated Coverbal Gestures: A Functional MRI Study

    Antonia Green;Benjamin Straube;Susanne Weis;Andreas Jansen;Andreas Jansen

  • Network for auditory intrinsic alertness: a PET study.

    Walter Sturm;Francesca Longoni;Bruno Fimm;Thomas Dietrich

  • Temporal and Cerebellar Brain Regions that Support both Declarative Memory Formation and Retrieval

    Susanne Weis;Peter Klaver;Jürgen Reul;Christian E. Elger

  • Process dissociation between contextual retrieval and item recognition.

    Susanne Weis;Karsten Specht;Peter Klaver;Indira Tendolkar

  • Categorical and thematic knowledge representation in the brain: neural correlates of taxonomic and thematic conceptual relations.

    Olga Sachs;Susanne Weis;Timo Krings;Walter Huber

  • Left hippocampal pathology is associated with atypical language lateralization in patients with focal epilepsy

    Bernd Weber;Jörg Wellmer;Markus Reuber;Florian Mormann

  • Automatic processing of semantic relations in fMRI: neural activation during semantic priming of taxonomic and thematic categories.

    Olga Sachs;Susanne Weis;Nadia Zellagui;Walter Huber

  • Neural interaction of speech and gesture: differential activations of metaphoric co-verbal gestures.

    Tilo Kircher;Benjamin Straube;Dirk Leube;Susanne Weis

  • Executive functions predict verbal fluency scores in healthy participants

    Julia Amunts;Julia A. Camilleri;Simon B. Eickhoff;Stefan Heim

  • Processing of sub-syllabic speech units in the posterior temporal lobe: An fMRI study

    Lars M. Rimol;Karsten Specht;Susanne Weis;Robert Savoy

  • The brain’s conversation with itself: neural substrates of dialogic inner speech

    Ben Alderson-Day;Susanne Weis;Simon McCarthy-Jones;Peter Moseley

  • Neural correlates of verbal episodic memory in patients with MCI and Alzheimer's disease––a VBM study

    Dirk T. Leube;Susanne Weis;Kathrin Freymann;Michael Erb

  • Neurobiological Divergence of the Positive and Negative Schizophrenia Subtypes Identified on a New Factor Structure of Psychopathology Using Non-negative Factorization: An International Machine Learning Study

    Pharmacotherapy Monitoring;Ji Chen;Kaustubh R. Patil;Susanne Weis

  • Task-dependent modulations of prefrontal and hippocampal activity during intrinsic word production

    Carin Whitney;Susanne Weis;Timo Krings;Walter Huber

  • Memory effects of speech and gesture binding: Cortical and hippocampal activation in relation to subsequent memory performance

    Benjamin Straube;Antonia Green;Susanne Weis;Anjan Chatterjee

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Willmes
Klaus Willmes RWTH Aachen University
Guillén Fernández
Guillén Fernández Radboud University
Christian E. Elger
Christian E. Elger University Hospital Bonn
Tilo Kircher
Tilo Kircher Philipp University of Marburg
Walter Huber
Walter Huber RWTH Aachen University
Karsten Specht
Karsten Specht University of Bergen
Peter Klaver
Peter Klaver University of Zurich
Simon B. Eickhoff
Simon B. Eickhoff Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Markus Hausmann
Markus Hausmann Durham University
Bernd Weber
Bernd Weber University of Bonn

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