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Thomas Rammsayer

Thomas Rammsayer

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Psychology

D-Index
55
Citations
8384
World Ranking
4470
National Ranking
43

Overview

Thomas Rammsayer is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields, chiefly within neuroscience, social sciences, and psychology. The scientist has contributed extensively to cognitive neuroscience, gender studies, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics of Rammsayer's work include neuroscience and music perception, gender roles and identity studies, and neural and behavioral psychology studies. Additional topics they explore include media, gender, and advertising, gender, feminism, and media, sociology and education studies, as well as feminism, gender, and social issues.

Rammsayer has published in several academic venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Journal of Homosexuality
  • Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)
  • The Journal of Sex Research
  • Journal of Intelligence

Their recent publications cover diverse themes ranging from gender role orientation and sociosexuality to cognitive processes underpinning psychometric intelligence. Notable papers include:

  • Eine Revision des deutschsprachigen Bem Sex-Role Inventory, 2023, Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)
  • The Interactions Among Sexual Orientation, Masculine and Feminine Gender Role Orientation, and Facets of Sociosexuality in Young Heterosexual and Homosexual Men, 2020, Journal of Homosexuality
  • On the Functional Relationships Among Sexual Orientation, Masculine and Feminine Gender Role Orientation, and Sociosexual Orientation in Young Heterosexual and Lesbian Women, 2020, The Journal of Sex Research
  • Do Executive Attentional Processes Uniquely or Commonly Explain Psychometric g and Correlations in the Positive Manifold? A Structural Equation Modeling and Network-Analysis Approach to Investigate the Process Overlap Theory, 2021, Journal of Intelligence
  • Inductive Reasoning and its Underlying Structure: Support for Difficulty and Item Position Effects, 2021, Advances in Cognitive Psychology

Collaboration is a visible element in Rammsayer's career, with frequent coauthors including Stefan J. Troche, Lea Waldis, Natalie Borter, Olivier Pahud, and Lisa M. Makowski. These partnerships reflect a network of research interest aligning with Rammsayer's main fields.

The scientist's work involves a focus on cognitive neuroscience mechanisms as well as social and gender-specific psychological phenomena. Their interdisciplinary approach links neurological underpinnings with social identities and behaviors, providing insights across both natural and social science domains.

Best Publications

  • Neuropharmacological evidence for different timing mechanisms in humans.

    Thomas H. Rammsayer

  • TEMPORAL INFORMATION PROCESSING IN MUSICIANS AND NONMUSICIANS

    Thomas Rammsayer;Eckart Altenmüller

  • Duration discrimination of filled and empty auditory intervals: Cognitive and perceptual factors

    Thomas H. Rammsayer;Susan D. Lima

  • Differences in Mental Abilities between Musicians and Non-Musicians:

    Susanne Brandler;Thomas H. Rammsayer

  • Processing of temporal information and the basal ganglia: new evidence from fMRI

    Igor Nenadic;Christian Gaser;Hans-Peter Volz;Thomas Rammsayer

  • On dopaminergic modulation of temporal information processing.

    Thomas H. Rammsayer

  • Are There Dissociable Roles of the Mesostriatal and Mesolimbocortical Dopamine Systems on Temporal Information Processing in Humans

    Thomas H. Rammsayer

  • Time estimation in schizophrenia: an fMRI study at adjusted levels of difficulty.

    Hans-Peter Volz;Igor Nenadic;Christian Gaser;Thomas Rammsayer

  • Perceived duration of expected and unexpected stimuli

    Rolf Ulrich;Judith Nitschke;Thomas Rammsayer

  • Sex differences in self-estimates of different aspects of intelligence

    Beatrice Rammstedt;Thomas H Rammsayer

  • Counting models of temporal discrimination

    Thomas Rammsayer;Rolf Ulrich

  • Performance on temporal information processing as an index of general intelligence

    Thomas H. Rammsayer;Susanne Brandler

  • Differences in Primary Mental Abilities Between Musicians and Nonmusicians

    Nadine Helmbold;Thomas Rammsayer;Eckart Altenmüller

  • On estimating the difference limen in duration discrimination tasks: A comparison of the 2AFC and the reminder task

    Einat Lapid;Rolf Ulrich;Thomas Rammsayer

  • Temporal discrimination in schizophrenic and affective disorders: evidence for a dopamine-dependent internal clock.

    Thomas Rammsayer

  • Impaired Temporal Discrimination in Parkinson's Disease: Temporal Processing of Brief Durations as an Indicator of Degeneration of Dopaminergic Neurons in the Basal Ganglia

    Thomas Rammsayer;Wilhelm Classen

  • Crossmodal temporal discrimination: assessing the predictions of a general pacemaker-counter model.

    Rolf Ulrich;Judith Nitschke;Thomas Rammsayer

  • Variable foreperiods and temporal discrimination.

    Simon Grondin;Thomas Rammsayer

  • Self-estimated intelligence: Gender differences, relationship to psychometric intelligence and moderating effects of level of education.

    Beatrice Rammstedt;Thomas H. Rammsayer

  • Effects of noradrenergic activity on temporal information processing in humans.

    Thomas H. Rammsayer;Jürgen Hennig;Anja Haag;Natalie Lange

  • Learning and Individual Differences

    Robert Miller;Thomas H. Rammsayer;Karl Schweizer;Stefan J. Troche

Frequent Co-Authors

Vikram K. Yeragani
Vikram K. Yeragani Wayne State University

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