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65
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20456
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3078
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264

Wolfgang H. R. Miltner publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang H. R. Miltner sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 216 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Wolfgang H. R. Miltner D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang H. R. Miltner sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 65 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wolfgang H. R. Miltner is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines including neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. The work also intersects with psychiatry and mental health, neurology, and physiology.

The scientist's research addresses topics such as neural and behavioral psychology studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional areas include psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, pain management and placebo effects, face recognition and perception, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cortex

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Stimulus arousal drives amygdalar responses to emotional expressions across sensory modalities," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Suggested deafness during hypnosis and simulation of hypnosis compared to a distraction and control condition: A study on subjective experience and cortical brain responses," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Lateralized Deficits of Disgust Processing After Insula-Basal Ganglia Damage," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Suggested visual blockade during hypnosis: Top-down modulation of stimulus processing in a visual oddball task," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Lateralized deficits in arousal processing after insula lesions: Behavioral and autonomic evidence," 2022, Cortex

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Thomas Straube, Marcel Franz, Olga Holtmann, Wolfram Schwindt, and Nico Melzer.

Best Publications

  • Treatment-Induced Cortical Reorganization After Stroke in Humans

    Joachim Liepert;Heike Bauder;Wolfgang H. R. Miltner;Edward Taub

  • Event-related brain potentials following incorrect feedback in a time-estimation task: Evidence for a “generic” neural system for error detection

    Wolfgang H. R. Miltner;Christoph H. Braun;Michael G. H. Coles

  • Coherence of gamma-band EEG activity as a basis for associative learning.

    Wolfgang H. R. Miltner;Christoph Braun;Matthias Arnold;Herbert Witte

  • Motor cortex plasticity during constraint-induced movement therapy in stroke patients.

    J. Liepert;W.H.R. Miltner;H. Bauder;M. Sommer

  • Effects of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy on Patients With Chronic Motor Deficits After Stroke A Replication

    Wolfgang H. R. Miltner;Heike Bauder;Monika Sommer;Christian Dettmers

  • Psychobiology of altered states of Consciousness

    Dieter Vaitl;Niels Birbaumer;John Gruzelier;Graham A. Jamieson

  • Adaptive AR modeling of nonstationary time series by means of Kalman filtering

    M. Arnold;X.H.R. Milner;H. Witte;R. Bauer

  • Effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy on brain activation in specific phobia.

    Thomas Straube;Madlen Glauer;Stefan Dilger;Hans-Joachim Mentzel

  • Psychobiology of altered states of consciousness.

    Dieter Vaitl;Niels Birbaumer;John Gruzelier;Graham A. Jamieson

  • Waiting for spiders: brain activation during anticipatory anxiety in spider phobics.

    Thomas Straube;Hans-Joachim Mentzel;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

  • Effect of task conditions on brain responses to threatening faces in social phobics: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Thomas Straube;Iris-Tatjana Kolassa;Madlen Glauer;Hans-Joachim Mentzel

  • A Single-Trial Estimation of the Feedback-Related Negativity and Its Relation to BOLD Responses in a Time-Estimation Task

    Michael P. I. Becker;Alexander M. Nitsch;Wolfgang H. R. Miltner;Thomas Straube

  • Implementation of error-processing in the human anterior cingulate cortex: a source analysis of the magnetic equivalent of the error-related negativity

    Wolfgang H.R. Miltner;Ulrike Lemke;Thomas Weiss;Clay Holroyd

  • Objective Measurement of Functional Upper-Extremity Movement Using Accelerometer Recordings Transformed With a Threshold Filter

    Gitendra Uswatte;Wolfgang H. R. Miltner;Benjamin Foo;Maneesh Varma

  • Brain activation to phobia-related pictures in spider phobic humans: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Stefan Dilger;Thomas Straube;Hans-Joachim Mentzel;Clemens Fitzek

  • Neural Mechanisms of Automatic and Direct Processing of Phobogenic Stimuli in Specific Phobia

    Thomas Straube;Hans-Joachim Mentzel;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

  • Common and distinct brain activation to threat and safety signals in social phobia.

    Thomas Straube;Hans-Joachim Mentzel;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

  • Psychophysiological correlates of face processing in social phobia.

    Iris-Tatjana Kolassa;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

  • Why humans deviate from rational choice

    Johannes Hewig;Nora Kretschmer;Ralf H. Trippe;Holger Hecht

  • Emotional qualities of odors and their influence on the startle reflex in humans

    W. Miltner;M. Matjak;C. Braun;H. Diekmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Weiss
Thomas Weiss Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Thomas Straube
Thomas Straube University of Münster
Christoph Braun
Christoph Braun University of Tübingen
Iris-Tatjana Kolassa
Iris-Tatjana Kolassa University of Ulm
Michael G. H. Coles
Michael G. H. Coles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Johannes Hewig
Johannes Hewig University of Würzburg
Edward Taub
Edward Taub University of Alabama at Birmingham
Niels Birbaumer
Niels Birbaumer University of Tübingen
Otto W. Witte
Otto W. Witte Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Clay B. Holroyd
Clay B. Holroyd University of Victoria

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