Werner Sommer

This study investigates how reading direction affects parafoveal processing using EEG/eye-tracking in participants from different regions with varying reading directions.

This study investigates automatic change detection of facial and vocal attractiveness using ERPs in 19 female participants, finding differences in neural responses between face and voice conditions.

This study uses EEG and immersive VR to show that facial expressions can be decoded reliably in 3D space, with depth cues having a distinct neural signature but not affecting expression decoding.

The paper compares neural effects of masked priming and boundary paradigms in visual word processing using eye-tracking/EEG, finding similar N1 and N250 repetition effects but stronger N250 effects in the boundary paradigm.

The paper investigates semantic processing during reading by analyzing fixation-related potentials and eye movements, finding parafoveal and foveal N400 effects that suggest semantic information is processed parafoveally.

The paper investigates how visual memory array eccentricity affects EEG markers of visual short-term memory in a virtual reality setup, finding that CDA amplitude varies with memory load at certain eccentricities while alpha lateralization does not.

The paper investigates how parafoveal word preview influences sentence meaning processing using ERPs in an RSVP-with-flanker task, finding that congruent previews affect N400 responses.

The paper investigates whether magnocellular facilitation influences early neural processes in visual word recognition using masked repetition priming and ERP components.

The paper investigates how saccadic eye movements affect auditory language comprehension using the N400 ERP component, finding no detrimental effect but a facilitatory effect on subsequent visual processing.

The paper uses structural equation modeling to analyze the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility - Form A, finding a bifactor model best explains the data, with a general factor and three correlated minor factors.

This study examines how APOE e4 genotype affects brain signal complexity in young adults and its relationship with fluid intelligence.

The paper compares brain responses to gaze direction during passive viewing and active eye contact, finding similar N170 and P300 effects, and shows emotional expressions influence N170 but not early posterior negativity.

The paper shows that conceptual knowledge influences early visual processing during both object perception and mental imagery, revealing shared top-down mechanisms in low-level visual processing.

The paper investigates whether word reading is automatic by examining N400 amplitudes in a PRP paradigm, finding attentional modulation of orthographic neighborhood effects.