2026 Tobias Sommer: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	40	7970	7363	667	634	101	11646

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Overview

Tobias Sommer is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and focuses primarily on the field of Neuroscience. Their work largely spans Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Clinical Psychology.

The research topics associated with Tobias Sommer include:

Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Neural dynamics and brain function
Memory Processes and Influences
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Stress Responses and Cortisol

Among the recent publications, the following papers stand out:

Dopaminergic Modulation of Human Intertemporal Choice: A Diffusion Model Analysis Using the D2-Receptor Antagonist Haloperidol, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
Noradrenergic arousal after encoding reverses the course of systems consolidation in humans, 2021, Nature Communications
Verbal insight revisited - dissociable neurocognitive processes underlying solutions accompanied by an AHA! experience with and without prior restructuring, 2020, Journal of Cognitive Psychology
Time-dependent memory transformation in hippocampus and neocortex is semantic in nature, 2023, Nature Communications
Dopamine regulates decision thresholds in human reinforcement learning in males, 2023, Nature Communications

Tobias Sommer frequently collaborates with several researchers, with notable coauthors including Jan Peters, Gina Joue, Ben Wagner, Mareike Clos, and Nora Hennies.

In terms of publication venues, Tobias Sommer has contributed extensively to:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Nature Communications
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Journal of Neuroscience

Best Publications

Testing the Efficiency and Independence of Attentional Networks

Jin Fan;Bruce D. McCandliss;Tobias Sommer;Amir Raz

4857
Citations
Dissociable Systems for Gain- and Loss-Related Value Predictions and Errors of Prediction in the Human Brain

Juliana Yacubian;Jan Gläscher;Katrin Schroeder;Tobias Sommer

641
Citations
Mapping the genetic variation of executive attention onto brain activity

Jin Fan;John Fossella;Tobias Sommer;Yanghong Wu

620
Citations
Assessing the molecular genetics of attention networks

John Fossella;Tobias Sommer;Jin Fan;Yanhong Wu

496
Citations
Evidence of Developmental Differences in Implicit Sequence Learning: An fMRI Study of Children and Adults

Kathleen M. Thomas;Ruskin H. Hunt;Nathalie Vizueta;Tobias Sommer

337
Citations
The unpleasantness of perceived dyspnea is processed in the anterior insula and amygdala.

Andreas von Leupoldt;Tobias Sommer;Sarah Kegat;Hans Jörg Baumann

327
Citations
Gene–gene interaction associated with neural reward sensitivity

Juliana Yacubian;Tobias Sommer;Katrin Schroeder;Jan Gläscher

312
Citations
Dyspnea and pain share emotion-related brain network

Andreas von Leupoldt;Tobias Sommer;Sarah Kegat;Hans Jörg Baumann

281
Citations
The Neural Substrate of Reward Anticipation in Health: A Meta-Analysis of fMRI Findings in the Monetary Incentive Delay Task

Robin Paul Wilson;Marco Colizzi;Matthijs Geert Bossong;Matthijs Geert Bossong;Paul Allen;Paul Allen

198
Citations
Effective Connectivity between Hippocampus and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Controls Preferential Choices from Memory.

Sebastian Gluth;Sebastian Gluth;Tobias Sommer;Jörg Rieskamp;Christian Büchel

168
Citations
Dissociable contributions within the medial temporal lobe to encoding of object-location associations

Tobias Sommer;Michael Rose;Jan Gläscher;Thomas Wolbers

137
Citations
Neural correlates of memory confidence.

Steffen Moritz;Jan Gläscher;Tobias Sommer;Christian Büchel

134
Citations
Contributions of occipital, parietal and parahippocampal cortex to encoding of object-location associations

Tobias Sommer;Michael Rose;Cornelius Weiller;Christian Büchel

132
Citations
Risk-sensitive reinforcement learning

Yun Shen;Michael J. Tobia;Tobias Sommer;Klaus Obermayer

128
Citations
Down-regulation of insular cortex responses to dyspnea and pain in asthma

Andreas von Leupoldt;Tobias Sommer;Sarah Kegat;Falk Eippert

122
Citations
The Emergence of Knowledge and How it Supports the Memory for Novel Related Information

Tobias Sommer

116
Citations
Event-Related Nociceptive Arousal Enhances Memory Consolidation for Neutral Scenes

Ulrike Schwarze;Ulrike Bingel;Tobias Sommer

109
Citations
Direct evidence for domain-sensitive functional subregions in human entorhinal cortex.

Heidrun Schultz;Tobias Sommer;Jan Peters

106
Citations
Subregions of the ventral striatum show preferential coding of reward magnitude and probability.

Juliana Yacubian;Tobias Sommer;Katrin Schroeder;Jan Gläscher

104
Citations
Sex differences in conditioned stimulus discrimination during context-dependent fear learning and its retrieval in humans: the role of biological sex, contraceptives and menstrual cycle phases.

Tina B. Lonsdorf;Jan Haaker;Dirk Schümann;Tobias Sommer

97
Citations
NIP domain prevents N-type inactivation in voltage-gated potassium channels

Jochen Roeper;Sabine Sewing;Ying Zhang;Tobias Sommer

92
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