Cooperating Researchers - Werner Sommer

POSITION AT CILS

PI

 

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Cognitive Psychophysiology: psychological significance of brain potentials

Language processing: language perception and production, emotions
Mental Chronometry: dual task processing, response preparation
Semantic Systems: language conceptualization, counterintuitive concepts
Face Processing: person recognition, facial affect processing, individual difference, aging
Emotions in Cognitive Conflicts

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Institute of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Dimigen, O., Valsecchi, M., Sommer, W., & Kliegl, R. (2009). Human Microsaccade-Related Visual Brain Responses. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(39), 12321–12331.
  • Sangals, J. & Sommer, W. (2010). The Impact of Intervening Tasks on Response Preparation. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, 36, 415-429.
  • Scheibe, C., Ullsperger, M., Sommer, W., & Heekeren,H.R. (in press). Effects of parametrical and trial-to-trial variation in prior probability processing revealed by simultaneous EEG/fMRI. Journal of Neuroscience.
  • Leuthold, H., Sommer, W. & Ulrich, R. (1996). Partial advance information and response preparation: Inferences from the lateralized readiness potential. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 125, 307-323.
  • Kao, C.-S., Dietrich,R., & Sommer,W. (2010). Processing Interrogative Sentence Mood at the Semantic-Syntactic Interface: An Electrophysiological Research in Chinese, German, and Polish. PLoSOne, 5(9): e13036.
  • Martín-Loeches,M., Schacht, A., Casado,P., Hohlfeld, A., Abdel Rahman, R., & Sommer, W. (2009). Rules and heuristics during sentence comprehension: evidences from a dual-task brain potential study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, (7), 1380–1395.
  • Schacht, A., Dimigen, O., & Sommer, W. (2010). Emotions in Cognitive Conflicts are not Aversive but are Task-Specific. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience., 10 (3), 349-356.
  • Schacht, A., & Sommer, W. (2009). Time Course and Task Dependence of Emotion Effects in Word Processing. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 9 (1), 28-43.
  • Wilhelm, O., Herzmann,G., Kunina, O., Danthiir, V., Schacht, A. & Sommer,W. (2010). Individual Differences in Perceiving and Recognizing Faces—One Element of Social Cognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(3), 530–548.
  • Herzmann,G., Kunina,O., Sommer,W., & Wilhelm,O. (2009). Individual Differences in Face Cognition: Brain-Behavior Relationships. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(3), 571–589.