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Overview

Werner Sommer is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on fields within neuroscience and psychology, with an emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental cognitive psychology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Reading and Literacy Development

Werner Sommer's publication record spans several journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychophysiology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Biological Psychology

Some recent notable papers include:

  • "Response-based outcome predictions and confidence regulate feedback processing and learning," 2021, eLife
  • "Predicting reading ability from brain anatomy and function: From areas to connections," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "The N250 event-related potential as an index of face familiarity: a replication study," 2021, Royal Society Open Science
  • "Modification of food preferences by posthypnotic suggestions: An event-related brain potential study," 2020, Appetite
  • "Can hypnotic susceptibility be explained by bifactor models? Structural equation modeling of the Harvard group scale of hypnotic susceptibility - Form A," 2022, Consciousness and Cognition

Werner Sommer has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Andrea Hildebrandt
  • Changsong Zhou
  • Anoushiravan Zahedi
  • Olaf Dimigen
  • Urs Maurer

Their work integrates approaches from multiple subfields, such as developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, and clinical psychology, further spreading their research reach within the cognitive and behavioral sciences.

Best Publications

  • Coregistration of eye movements and EEG in natural reading: analyses and review.

    Olaf Dimigen;Werner Sommer;Annette Hohlfeld;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Control over location-based response activation in the Simon task: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence.

    Birgit Stürmer;Hartmut Leuthold;Eric Soetens;Hannes Schröter

  • Emotions in word and face processing: Early and late cortical responses

    Annekathrin Schacht;Werner Sommer

  • Time course and task dependence of emotion effects in word processing

    Annekathrin Schacht;Werner Sommer

  • Repetition priming and associative priming of face recognition: Evidence from event-related potentials.

    Stefan R. Schweinberger;Eva-Maria Pfütze;Werner Sommer

  • MEG/EEG sources of the 170-ms response to faces are co-localized in the fusiform gyrus.

    Iris Deffke;Tilmann Heinrich Sander;Jens Heidenreich;Werner Sommer

  • Does processing of emotional facial expressions depend on intention? Time-resolved evidence from event-related brain potentials.

    Julian Rellecke;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht

  • Individual Differences in Perceiving and Recognizing Faces—One Element of Social Cognition

    Oliver Wilhelm;Grit Herzmann;Olga Kunina;Vanessa Danthiir

  • What's special about personally familiar faces? A multimodal approach.

    Grit Herzmann;Stefan R. Schweinberger;Werner Sommer;Ines Jentzsch

  • Partial advance information and response preparation: Inferences from the lateralized readiness potential.

    Hartmut Leuthold;Werner Sommer;Rolf Ulrich

  • Age-related slowing in face and name recognition: evidence from event-related brain potentials.

    Eva-Maria Pfütze;Werner Sommer;Stefan R Schweinberger

  • ERP correlates of error processing in spatial S-R compatibility tasks.

    Hartmut Leuthold;Werner Sommer

  • Preparing for Action: Inferences from CNV and LRP

    Hartmut Leuthold;Werner Sommer;Rolf Ulrich

  • Human Microsaccade-Related Visual Brain Responses

    Olaf Dimigen;Matteo Valsecchi;Werner Sommer;Reinhold Kliegl

  • Residue iteration decomposition (RIDE): A new method to separate ERP components on the basis of latency variability in single trials.

    Guang Ouyang;Grit Herzmann;Changsong Zhou;Werner Sommer

  • On the automaticity of emotion processing in words and faces: event-related brain potentials evidence from a superficial task

    Julian Rellecke;Marina Palazova;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht

  • Are effects of emotion in single words non-lexical? Evidence from event-related brain potentials.

    Marina Palazova;Katharina Mantwill;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht;Annekathrin Schacht

  • Facial EMG responses to emotional expressions are related to emotion perception ability.

    Janina Künecke;Andrea Hildebrandt;Guillermo Recio;Werner Sommer

  • Facial attractiveness modulates early and late event-related brain potentials.

    Katja Werheid;Annekathrin Schacht;Werner Sommer

  • Electrophysiological correlates of perceiving and evaluating static and dynamic facial emotional expressions

    Guillermo Recio;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht;Annekathrin Schacht

  • P1 and beyond: Functional separation of multiple emotion effects in word recognition

    Mareike Bayer;Werner Sommer;Annekathrin Schacht

Frequent Co-Authors

Annekathrin Schacht
Annekathrin Schacht University of Göttingen
Oliver Wilhelm
Oliver Wilhelm University of Ulm
Rasha Abdel Rahman
Rasha Abdel Rahman Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Manuel Martín-Loeches
Manuel Martín-Loeches Complutense University of Madrid
Hartmut Leuthold
Hartmut Leuthold University of Tübingen
Stefan R. Schweinberger
Stefan R. Schweinberger Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Reinhold Kliegl
Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam
Jürgen Kurths
Jürgen Kurths Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Gabriel Curio
Gabriel Curio Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Christian Montag
Christian Montag University of Macau

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