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Ulrich Ansorge

Ulrich Ansorge

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
5387
World Ranking
8590
National Ranking
53

Psychology

D-Index
38
Citations
5386
World Ranking
8923
National Ranking
42

Overview

Ulrich Ansorge is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and conducts research primarily in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work focuses extensively on cognitive neuroscience, with contributions also spanning social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The research topics that Ulrich Ansorge has explored include

  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Color perception and design
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Face recognition and perception

Among recent publications, notable papers include

  • "Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance" (2021) published in Psychological Science
  • "Testing the top-down contingent capture of attention for abrupt-onset cues: Evidence from cue-elicited N2pc" (2020) published in Psychophysiology
  • "Tracking visual search demands and memory load through pupil dilation" (2020) published in Journal of Vision
  • "The mechanism of filler items in the response time concealed information test" (2021) published in Psychological Research
  • "The influence of hatha yoga on stress, anxiety, and suppression: A randomized controlled trial" (2023) published in Acta Psychologica

Ulrich Ansorge regularly collaborates with a set of frequent coauthors, including

  • Ulrich Pomper
  • M. Stolte
  • Bence Szaszkó
  • Rebecca Rosa Schmid
  • Christian Büsel

Their research has been published repeatedly in several venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Psychophysiology
  • Acta Psychologica
  • Psychological Research

Best Publications

  • A response-discrimination account of the Simon effect.

    Ulrich Ansorge;Peter Wuhr

  • Improving Methodological Standards in Behavioral Interventions for Cognitive Enhancement

    C. Shawn Green;Daphne Bavelier;Arthur F. Kramer;Arthur F. Kramer;Sophia Vinogradov

  • Exploring trial-by-trial modulations of the Simon effect.

    Peter Wühr;Ulrich Ansorge

  • Wahrnehmung und Aufmerksamkeit

    Ulrich Ansorge;Helmut Leder

  • It felt fluent, and I liked it: subjective feeling of fluency rather than objective fluency determines liking.

    Michael Forster;Helmut Leder;Ulrich Ansorge

  • Intentions Determine the Effect of Invisible Metacontrast-Masked Primes: Evidence for Top-Down Contingencies in a Peripheral Cuing Task

    Ulrich Ansorge;Odmar Neumann

  • Top-down contingencies in peripheral cuing: The roles of color and location.

    Ulrich Ansorge;Manfred Heumann

  • Manual and verbal responses to completely masked (unreportable) stimuli: exploring some conditions for the metacontrast dissociation.

    Ulrich Ansorge;Werner Klotz;Odmar Neumann

  • Unconscious vision and executive control: How unconscious processing and conscious action control interact

    Ulrich Ansorge;Ulrich Ansorge;Wilfried Kunde;Markus Kiefer

  • A body-related dot-probe task reveals distinct attentional patterns for bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa.

    Jens Blechert;Ulrich Ansorge;Brunna Tuschen-Caffier

  • Controlling the Unconscious Attentional Task Sets Modulate Subliminal Semantic and Visuomotor Processes Differentially

    Ulla Martens;Ulrich Ansorge;Markus Kiefer

  • Direct parameter specification of an attention shift: evidence from perceptual latency priming.

    Ingrid Scharlau;Ulrich Ansorge

  • Goal-driven attentional capture by invisible colors: evidence from event-related potentials.

    Ulrich Ansorge;Ulrich Ansorge;Ulrich Ansorge;Monika Kiss;Martin Eimer

  • The initial stage of visual selection is controlled by top-down task set: new ERP evidence.

    Ulrich Ansorge;Ulrich Ansorge;Ulrich Ansorge;Monika Kiss;Franziska Worschech;Martin Eimer

  • No conflict control in the absence of awareness.

    Ulrich Ansorge;Ulrich Ansorge;Isabella Fuchs;Shah Khalid;Wilfried Kunde

  • Spatial intention-response compatibility.

    Ulrich Ansorge

  • Testing the theory of embodied cognition with subliminal words.

    Ulrich Ansorge;Markus Kiefer;Shah Khalid;Sylvia Grassl

  • Using eye tracking to test for individual differences in attention to attractive faces.

    Christian Valuch;Lena S. Pflüger;Bernard Wallner;Bruno Laeng

  • More efficient rejection of happy than of angry face distractors in visual search

    Gernot Horstmann;Ingrid Scharlau;Ulrich Ansorge

  • Influences of visibility, intentions, and probability in a peripheral cuing task.

    Ulrich Ansorge;Manfred Heumann;Ingrid Scharlau

  • Preemptive control of attentional capture by colour: evidence from trial-by-trial analyses and orderings of onsets of capture effects in reaction time distributions.

    Ulrich Ansorge;Gernot Horstmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Helmut Leder
Helmut Leder University of Vienna
Gernot Horstmann
Gernot Horstmann Bielefeld University
Peter König
Peter König Osnabrück University
Martin Eimer
Martin Eimer Birkbeck, University of London
Dirk Kerzel
Dirk Kerzel University of Geneva
Markus Kiefer
Markus Kiefer University of Ulm
Bruno G. Breitmeyer
Bruno G. Breitmeyer University of Houston
Jan Theeuwes
Jan Theeuwes Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Claus Lamm
Claus Lamm University of Vienna
Markus Bühner
Markus Bühner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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