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Overview

Thomas Jacobsen is affiliated with Helmut Schmidt University in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and neuroscience, with notable contributions in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Color Perception and Design
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies

Among their recent papers are:

  • "The Effectiveness of Combat Tactical Breathing as Compared with Prolonged Exhalation," 2020, Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
  • "Aesthetic emotions are a key factor in aesthetic evaluation: Reply to Skov and Nadal (2020).", 2020, Psychological Review
  • "Electrophysiological correlates of proportion congruency manipulation in a temporal flanker task", 2022, Psychophysiology
  • "Beauty and the busy mind: Occupied working memory resources impair aesthetic experiences in everyday life", 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Classification of material substances: Introducing a standards-based approach", 2020, Materials & Design

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Acta Psychologica
  • Scientific Reports
  • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Thomas Jacobsen's common collaborators include:

  • Mike Wendt
  • Rosalie Weigand
  • Aquiles Luna-Rodriguez
  • Selina M. Weiler
  • Miriam Tomat

Their work spans the integration of multiple sensory modalities, the analysis of aesthetic experiences, and behavioral psychology studies rooted in neural mechanisms. The scientist's research often intersects cognitive and sensory psychology, with a strong emphasis on how perception influences aesthetic evaluation and body image understanding. The combination of these elements positions their scholarship within both theoretical and applied neuroscience contexts.

Best Publications

  • Brain correlates of aesthetic judgment of beauty.

    Thomas Jacobsen;Ricarda Ines Schubotz;L. Höfel;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Memory-based or afferent processes in mismatch negativity (MMN): a review of the evidence.

    Risto Näätänen;Thomas Jacobsen;István Winkler

  • Timed picture naming in seven languages

    Elizabeth Bates;Simona D'Amico;Simona D'Amico;Thomas Jacobsen;Anna Székely

  • A new on-line resource for psycholinguistic studies

    Anna Szekely;Thomas Jacobsen;Simona D'Amico;Simona D'Amico;Antonella Devescovi

  • Bridging the Arts and Sciences: A Framework for the Psychology of Aesthetics

    Thomas Jacobsen

  • The Distancing–Embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception

    Winfried Menninghaus;Valentin Wagner;Julian Hanich;Eugen Wassiliwizky

  • Descriptive and evaluative judgment processes: behavioral and electrophysiological indices of processing symmetry and aesthetics.

    Thomas Jacobsen;L. E. A. Höfel

  • Is there pre-attentive memory-based comparison of pitch?

    Thomas Jacobsen;Erich Schröger

  • Towards a Psychological Construct of Being Moved

    Winfried Menninghaus;Valentin Wagner;Julian Hanich;Eugen Wassiliwizky

  • A functional MRI study of happy and sad emotions in music with and without lyrics

    Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico;Vinoo Alluri;Brigitte Bogert;Brigitte Bogert;Thomas Jacobsen

  • What are aesthetic emotions

    Winfried Menninghaus;Valentin Wagner;Eugen Wassiliwizky;Ines Schindler

  • Aesthetic judgments of novel graphic patterns: analyses of individual judgments.

    Thomas Jacobsen;Lea Höfel

  • Suppression of the auditory N1 event-related potential component with unpredictable self-initiated tones: evidence for internal forward models with dynamic stimulation.

    Pamela Bäss;Thomas Jacobsen;Erich Schröger

  • Timed action and object naming

    Anna Szekely;Simonetta D'Amico;Simonetta D'Amico;Antonella Devescovi;Kara D Federmeier

  • Electrophysiological indices of processing aesthetics: Spontaneous or intentional processes?

    Lea Höfel;Thomas Jacobsen

  • Toward a Neural Chronometry for the Aesthetic Experience of Music

    Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico;Bogert Brigitte Bogert;Thomas Jacobsen

  • Measuring duration mismatch negativity.

    Thomas Jacobsen;Erich Schröger

  • Why We Like to Watch Sad Films: The Pleasure of Being Moved in Aesthetic Experiences

    Julian Hanich;Valentin Wagner;Mira Shah;Thomas Jacobsen

  • Beauty and the brain: culture, history and individual differences in aesthetic appreciation.

    Thomas Jacobsen

  • The emotional power of poetry: neural circuitry, psychophysiology and compositional principles.

    Eugen Wassiliwizky;Eugen Wassiliwizky;Stefan Koelsch;Stefan Koelsch;Valentin Wagner;Thomas Jacobsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Erich Schröger
Erich Schröger Leipzig University
Elvira Brattico
Elvira Brattico University of Helsinki
Mari Tervaniemi
Mari Tervaniemi University of Helsinki
Ricarda Ines Schubotz
Ricarda Ines Schubotz University of Münster
István Winkler
István Winkler Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Stefan Koelsch
Stefan Koelsch University of Bergen
Andreas Widmann
Andreas Widmann Leipzig University
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Kara D. Federmeier
Kara D. Federmeier University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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