Berlin School of Mind and Brain: Publications

Dziobek I., Bahnemann M., Convit A., Heekeren H.R. (2010)

Neuropsychological and Neuroanatomical Evidence for social perceptive and social cognitive impairments in adults with Asperger syndrome. Archives of General Psychiatry, in press.

Dziobek I., Bahnemann M., Convit A., Heekeren H.R. (2010)

The role of the fusiform-amygdala system in the pathophysiology of autism. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2010 Apr;67(4):397-405.

Topic 2: Decision-making
Topic 5: Brain disorders and mental dysfunction

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Heekeren H.R., Marrett S., Bandettini P.A., Ungerleider L.G. (2006)

Involvement of human left dorsolateral prefrontal crtex in perceptual decision-making is independent of response modality. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, in press.

Topic 2: Decision-making

Heekeren H.R., Marrett S., Bandettini P.A., Ungerleider L.G. (2004)

A general mechanism for perceptual decision-making in the human brain.
Nature 431 (7010):859-861.

Topic 2: Decision-making

Heekeren H.R., Marrett S., Ungerleider L.G. (2008)

Neural systems involved in human perceptual decision making. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2008 Jun;9(6):467-79.

Topic 1: Conscious and unconscious perception
Topic 2: Decision-making

Heekeren H.R., Wartenburger I., Marschner A., Mell T., Villringer A., Reischies F.M. (2007)

Role of ventral striatum in reward-based decision making. Neuroreport. 2007 Jul 2; 18(10): 951-5.

Topic 2: Decision-making

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Heekeren H.R., Wartenburger I., Schmidt H., Prehn K., Schwintowski H.P., Villringer A. (2005)

Influence of Bodily Harm on Neural Correlates of Semantic and Moral Decision-making. NeuroImage, 24(3), 887-897.

Topic 2: Decision-making

Heekeren H.R., Wartenburger I., Schmidt H., Schwintowski H.P., Villringer A. (2003)

An fMRI study of simple ethical decision-making. Neuroreport, 14(9), 1215-1219.

Topic 2: Decision-making

Krugel L.K., Biele G., Mohr P.N.C., Li S.C., Heekeren H.R. (2009)

Genetic variation in dopaminergic neuromodulation influences the ability to rapidly and flexibly adapt decisions. P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 106(42):17951-6. Epub 2009 Oct 12.

Topic 2: Decision-making

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Li S.-C., Chicherio C., Nyberg L., Papenberg G., von Oertzen T., Nagel I. E., Sander T., Heekeren H. R., Lindenberger U., Bäckman L. (2010)

Ebbinghaus revisited: Influences of the BDNF val66met polymorphism on backward serial recall are modulated by human aging. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (in press).

Topic 4: Brain plasticity and lifespan ontogeny

Lindenberger U., Nagel I. E., Chicherio C., Li, S.-C., Heekeren H. R., Bäckman L. (2008)

Age-related decline in brain resources modulates genetic effects on cognitive functioning. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2, 234-244.

Topic 4: Brain plasticity and lifespan ontogeny

Marschner A., Mell T., Wartenburger I., Villringer A., Reischies F.M., Heekeren H.R. (2005)

Reward-based decision-making and aging. Brain Research Bulletin 67:382-390.

Topic 4: Brain plasticity and lifespan ontogeny

Mell T., Heekeren H.R., Marschner A., Wartenburger I., Villringer A., Reischies F.M. (2005)

Effect of aging on stimulus-reward association learning. Neuropsychologia, 43(4), 554-563.

Topic 4: Brain plasticity and lifespan ontogeny

Mériau K., Wartenburger I., Kazzer P., Prehn K., Lammers C.H., van der Meer E., Villringer A, Heekeren H.R. (2006)

A neural network reflecting individual differences in cognitive processing of emotions during perceptual decision making. Neuroimage Nov 15; 33(3): 1016-27.

Topic 2: Decision-making

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Mohr P. N. C., Biele G., Krugel L. K., Li S.-C., Heekeren H. R. H. (2010)

Neural foundations of risk-return trade-off in investment decisions. NeuroImage (in press).

Mohr P.N.C., Biele G., Krugel L.K., Li S.C., Heekeren H.R. (2009)

Expected Reward, Risk, and Individual Risk Preferences during Investment Decisions. Neuroimage, in press.

Mohr P.N.C., Li S.C., Heekeren H.R. (2009)

Neuroeconomics and aging: Neuromodulation of economic decision making in old age. Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 2009 Jun 6. [Epub ahead of print].

Topic 2: Decision-making
Topic 4: Brain plasticity and lifespan ontogeny

Nagel I. E., Preuschhof C., Li S.-C., Nyberg L., Bäckman L., Lindenberger U., Heekeren H. R. (2010)

Performance level modulates adult age differences in brain activation during spatial working memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Dec 29;106(52):22552-7. Epub 2009 Dec 14.

Topic 4: Brain plasticity and lifespan ontogeny

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Prehn K., Blasek K., Lapschies K., Mews I., Heekeren H.R., van der Meer E. (2008)

Neuroticism influences pupillary responses during an emotional interference task. International Journal of Psychophysiology,70, 40-49.

Prehn K., Wartenburger I., Meriau K., Scheibe C., Goodenough O.R., Villringer A., van der Meer E., Heekeren H.R. (2008)

Individual differences in moral judgment competence influence neural correlates of socio-normative judgments. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3(1), 33-46.

Topic 2: Decision-making
Topic 3: Language

Preuschhof C., Taskin B., Heekeren H.R., Villringer A. (2006)

Neural correlates of vibrotactile working memory in the human brain. The Journal of Neuroscience, December 20, 2006, 26(51):13231-13239; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2767-06.2006

Topic 1: Conscious and unconscious perception

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Scheibe C., Wartenburger I., Wüstenberg T., Kathmann N., Villringer A., Heekeren H.R. (2006)

Neural correlates of the interaction between transient and sustained processes: a mixed blocked/event-related fMRI study. Hum Brain Mapp. Jul; 27(7): 545-51.

Topic 2: Decision-making

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van der Meer E., Beyer R., Horn J., Foth M., Bornemann B., Ries J., Kramer J., Warmuth E., Heekeren H., Wartenburger I. (2010)

Resource Allocation and Fluid Intelligence: Insights from Pupillometry. Psychophysiology, 47, 158-169.

Wartenburger I., Heekeren H.R., Abutalebi J., Cappa S.F., Villringer A., Perani D. (2003)

Early Setting of Grammatical Processing in the Bilingual Brain. Neuron 37:159-70.

Topic 3: Language

Wartenburger I., Heekeren H.R., Burchert F., De Bleser R., Villringer A. (2003)

Grammaticality judgments on sentences with and without movement of phrasal constituents - an event-related fMRI-study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 16, 301-314.

Topic 3: Language

Wartenburger I., Heekeren H.R., Burchert F., Heinemann S., De Bleser R., Villringer, A. (2004)

Neural Correlates of Syntactic Transformations. Human Brain Mapping, 22, 72-81.

Topic 3: Language

Wartenburger I., Heekeren H.R., Preusse F., Kramer J., van der Meer E. (2009)

Cerebral correlates of analogical processing and their modulation by training. Neuroreport,doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.06.025.

Topic 2: Decision-making
Topic 3: Language

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