Michaela Esslen

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Michaela Esslen is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michaela Esslen has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 4 papers in Social Psychology and 4 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michaela Esslen's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (4 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (4 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (3 papers). Michaela Esslen is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (4 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (4 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (3 papers). Michaela Esslen collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Michaela Esslen's co-authors include Lutz Jäncke, Roberto D. Pascual‐Marqui, Kieko Kochi, Dietrich Lehmann, Thomas Baumgärtner, Gian Beeli, Daniel Hell, Lilian Valko, Daniel Lehmann and Sibylle Metzler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, NeuroImage and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Michaela Esslen

13 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Functional imaging with low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA): a review.

2002 625 citations Roberto D. Pascual‐Marqui, Michaela Esslen et al. PubMed profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michaela Esslen Switzerland	13	1.3k	579	418	198	194	13	1.9k
Barry Giesbrecht United States	30	2.5k 1.9×	522 0.9×	383 0.9×	134 0.7×	98 0.5×	105	3.0k
Sylvain Sirois United Kingdom	16	1.1k 0.9×	440 0.8×	405 1.0×	135 0.7×	82 0.4×	42	2.1k
André Dufour France	26	1.4k 1.1×	465 0.8×	274 0.7×	95 0.5×	319 1.6×	90	2.6k
Stephan Getzmann Germany	27	1.5k 1.1×	804 1.4×	261 0.6×	120 0.6×	87 0.4×	125	1.9k
Merle T. Fairhurst Germany	20	1.1k 0.8×	338 0.6×	682 1.6×	74 0.4×	188 1.0×	49	1.7k
Bruno Nazarian France	29	2.3k 1.7×	625 1.1×	603 1.4×	71 0.4×	209 1.1×	73	3.0k
Marta Olivetti Belardinelli Italy	33	2.0k 1.5×	976 1.7×	555 1.3×	198 1.0×	318 1.6×	113	3.0k
Kai Lutz Switzerland	31	2.6k 1.9×	676 1.2×	728 1.7×	87 0.4×	232 1.2×	60	3.5k
Hiroki C. Tanabe Japan	27	1.9k 1.4×	456 0.8×	653 1.6×	202 1.0×	273 1.4×	81	3.2k
Paul M. Corballis United States	34	2.2k 1.6×	587 1.0×	377 0.9×	98 0.5×	104 0.5×	95	3.0k

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Jäncke, Lutz, et al.. (2008). Brain activation during fast driving in a driving simulator: the role of the lateral prefrontal cortex. Neuroreport. 19(11). 1127–1130. 43 indexed citations

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Esslen, Michaela, Sibylle Metzler, Roberto D. Pascual‐Marqui, & Lutz Jäncke. (2008). Pre-reflective and reflective self-reference: A spatiotemporal EEG analysis. NeuroImage. 42(1). 437–449. 73 indexed citations

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Beeli, Gian, Michaela Esslen, & Lutz Jäncke. (2007). Time Course of Neural Activity Correlated with Colored-Hearing Synesthesia. Cerebral Cortex. 18(2). 379–385. 52 indexed citations

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Mast, Marianne Schmid, et al.. (2007). Masculinity causes speeding in young men. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 40(2). 840–842. 68 indexed citations

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Beeli, Gian, Michaela Esslen, & Lutz Jäncke. (2007). Frequency Correlates in Grapheme-Color Synaesthesia. Psychological Science. 18(9). 788–792. 64 indexed citations

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Baumgärtner, Thomas, Lilian Valko, Michaela Esslen, & Lutz Jäncke. (2006). Neural Correlate of Spatial Presence in an Arousing and Noninteractive Virtual Reality: An EEG and Psychophysiology Study. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 9(1). 30–45. 154 indexed citations

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Koeneke, Susan, Kai Lutz, Michaela Esslen, & Lutz Jäncke. (2006). How finger tapping practice enhances efficiency of motor control. Neuroreport. 17(15). 1565–1569. 31 indexed citations

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Esslen, Michaela, et al.. (2006). Neuronal Modifications During Visuomotor Association Learning Assessed by Electric Brain Tomography. Brain Topography. 19(1-2). 61–75. 15 indexed citations

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Baumgärtner, Thomas, Michaela Esslen, & Lutz Jäncke. (2005). From emotion perception to emotion experience: Emotions evoked by pictures and classical music. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 60(1). 34–43. 367 indexed citations

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Beeli, Gian, Michaela Esslen, & Lutz Jäncke. (2005). When coloured sounds taste sweet. Nature. 434(7029). 38–38. 81 indexed citations

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Esslen, Michaela, Roberto D. Pascual‐Marqui, Daniel Hell, Kieko Kochi, & Dietrich Lehmann. (2004). Brain areas and time course of emotional processing. NeuroImage. 21(4). 1189–1203. 207 indexed citations

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Pascual‐Marqui, Roberto D., Michaela Esslen, Kieko Kochi, & Daniel Lehmann. (2002). Functional imaging with low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) : review, new comparisons, and new validation. 30(2). 81–94. 120 indexed citations

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Pascual‐Marqui, Roberto D., Michaela Esslen, Kieko Kochi, & Dietrich Lehmann. (2002). Functional imaging with low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA): a review.. PubMed. 24 Suppl C. 91–5. 625 indexed citations breakdown →

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