Markus Kiefer

11.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
160 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Markus Kiefer is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Kiefer has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 50 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 48 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Markus Kiefer's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (72 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (39 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (37 papers). Markus Kiefer is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (72 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (39 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (37 papers). Markus Kiefer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Spain. Markus Kiefer's co-authors include Manfred Spitzer, Friedemann Pulvermüller, Natalie M. Trumpp, Martin Ruchsow, James W. Tanaka, Eun-Jin Sim, Ulla Martens, Bärbel Herrnberger, Matthias Weisbrod and Klaus Hoenig and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Academy of Management Journal.

In The Last Decade

Markus Kiefer

154 papers receiving 7.1k citations

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Conceptual representations in mind and brain: Theoretical developments, current evidence and future directions

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Markus Kiefer Germany	47	5.4k	2.5k	2.0k	1.5k	578	160	7.3k
Juan Lupiáñez Spain	47	6.6k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	739 0.5×	569 1.0×	237	8.1k
Étienne Koechlin France	38	7.7k 1.4×	1.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	792 1.4×	57	9.4k
Ingrid R. Olson United States	51	8.0k 1.5×	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	923 0.6×	985 1.7×	131	10.0k
Michael C. Anderson United Kingdom	50	8.3k 1.5×	2.9k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	2.0k 1.3×	502 0.9×	123	10.2k
J. P. Morris United States	26	4.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	553 0.4×	617 1.1×	55	6.3k
Moshe Naveh‐Benjamin United States	47	6.3k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	926 0.5×	2.2k 1.4×	731 1.3×	137	8.2k
Elizabeth A. Kensinger United States	61	9.4k 1.7×	3.2k 1.3×	2.2k 1.1×	2.6k 1.7×	946 1.6×	213	12.1k
Leonhard Schilbach Germany	43	5.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	2.9k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	951 1.6×	129	7.3k
Nash Unsworth United States	52	7.5k 1.4×	4.9k 2.0×	1.0k 0.5×	2.1k 1.4×	632 1.1×	133	10.2k
Gilles Pourtois Belgium	49	8.4k 1.6×	3.6k 1.4×	1.6k 0.8×	645 0.4×	602 1.0×	157	10.2k

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Wentura, Dirk, Michaela Rohr, & Markus Kiefer. (2024). Does affective processing require awareness? On the use of the Perceptual Awareness Scale in response priming research.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 154(1). 128–151. 2 indexed citations

Montag, Christian, et al.. (2024). Group differences in OXT methylation between patients with Major Depressive Disorder and healthy controls: A pre-registered replication study. Psychiatry Research. 335. 115855–115855.

Montag, Christian, et al.. (2023). Factors related to the development of executive functions: A cumulative dopamine genetic score and environmental factors predict performance of kindergarten children in a go/nogo task. Trends in Neuroscience and Education. 30. 100200–100200. 1 indexed citations

Montag, Christian, et al.. (2023). Association between parental separation, childhood trauma, neuroticism, and depression: a case control study. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14. 1112664–1112664. 1 indexed citations

Kiefer, Markus, et al.. (2023). Assessing subjective prime awareness on a trial-by-trial basis interferes with masked semantic priming effects.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 49(2). 269–283. 9 indexed citations

Ortells, Juan J., et al.. (2021). Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity Modulate Electrophysiological Correlates of Semantic Negative Priming From Single Words. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 15. 765290–765290. 3 indexed citations

Widenhorn‐Müller, Katharina, et al.. (2021). Correction to: Factors related to age at depression onset: the role of SLC6A4 methylation, sex, exposure to stressful life events and personality in a sample of inpatients suffering from major depression. BMC Psychiatry. 21(1). 4 indexed citations

Montag, Christian, et al.. (2020). Depressive Emotionality Moderates the Influence of the BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism on Executive Functions and on Unconscious Semantic Priming. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience. 70(5). 699–712. 10 indexed citations

Huckauf, Anke, et al.. (2020). Duration Estimation of Angry and Neutral Faces: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Correlates. Timing & Time Perception. 8(3-4). 254–278. 1 indexed citations

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Arndt, Petra A., et al.. (2020). Literacy Training of Kindergarten Children With Pencil, Keyboard or Tablet Stylus: The Influence of the Writing Tool on Reading and Writing Performance at the Letter and Word Level. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 3054–3054. 41 indexed citations

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Gahr, Maximilian, Katharina Widenhorn‐Müller, Carlos Schönfeldt‐Lecuona, et al.. (2019). Relation of Promoter Methylation of the Oxytocin Gene to Stressful Life Events and Depression Severity. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience. 70(2). 201–211. 17 indexed citations

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Trumpp, Natalie M. & Markus Kiefer. (2018). Functional reorganization of the conceptual brain system after deafness in early childhood. PLoS ONE. 13(7). e0198894–e0198894. 19 indexed citations

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Kiefer, Markus. (2018). Cognitive control over unconscious cognition: flexibility and generalizability of task set influences on subsequent masked semantic priming. Psychological Research. 83(7). 1556–1570. 15 indexed citations

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Kiefer, Markus, et al.. (2015). Boundary conditions for the influence of unfamiliar non-target primes in unconscious evaluative priming: The moderating role of attentional task sets. Consciousness and Cognition. 35. 342–356. 16 indexed citations

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Ansorge, Ulrich, Wilfried Kunde, & Markus Kiefer. (2014). Unconscious vision and executive control: How unconscious processing and conscious action control interact. Consciousness and Cognition. 27. 268–287. 72 indexed citations

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Trumpp, Natalie M., et al.. (2012). Losing the sound of concepts: Damage to auditory association cortex impairs the processing of sound-related concepts. Cortex. 49(2). 474–486. 87 indexed citations

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Stroth, Sanna, et al.. (2009). Physical fitness, but not acute exercise modulates event-related potential indices for executive control in healthy adolescents. Brain Research. 1269. 114–124. 182 indexed citations

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Kiefer, Markus, Stefanie Schuch, Wolfram Schenck, & Klaus Fiedler. (2006). Mood States Modulate Activity in Semantic Brain Areas during Emotional Word Encoding. Cerebral Cortex. 17(7). 1516–1530. 81 indexed citations

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Walter, Henrik, Markus Kiefer, & Susanne Erk. (2003). Content, context and cognitive style in mood–memory interactions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 7(10). 433–434. 5 indexed citations

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Kiefer, Markus, A Apel, & Matthias Weisbrod. (2002). Arithmetic fact retrieval and working memory in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 53(3). 219–227. 17 indexed citations

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