Olaf Hauk

12.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
90 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Olaf Hauk is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Olaf Hauk has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 papers in Social Psychology and 22 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Olaf Hauk's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (43 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (27 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (25 papers). Olaf Hauk is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (43 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (27 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (25 papers). Olaf Hauk collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Olaf Hauk's co-authors include Friedemann Pulvermüller, Ingrid S. Johnsrude, Yury Shtyrov, Matthew H. Davis, Vadim V. Nikulin, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Véronique Boulenger, Ferath Kherif, William D. Marslen‐Wilson and Thomas Elbert and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Olaf Hauk

86 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Somatotopic Representation of Action Words in Human Motor and Premotor Cortex

2004 1.4k citations Olaf Hauk, Friedemann Pulvermüller et al. profile →
Functional links between motor and language systems

2005 552 citations Friedemann Pulvermüller, Olaf Hauk et al. profile →
Large‐scale neural correlates of affective picture processing

2002 535 citations Olaf Hauk, Brigitte Rockstroh et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Olaf Hauk United Kingdom	43	6.3k	3.6k	3.2k	2.7k	293	90	8.3k
Yury Shtyrov Denmark	45	5.5k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	2.7k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	150 0.5×	185	6.4k
Sonja A. Kotz Germany	69	11.3k 1.8×	2.6k 0.7×	5.1k 1.6×	3.0k 1.1×	228 0.8×	349	13.9k
Tim Curran United States	60	11.8k 1.9×	2.6k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	211 0.7×	161	13.5k
Werner Sommer Germany	55	9.4k 1.5×	1.8k 0.5×	3.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	125 0.4×	291	10.7k
Shlomo Bentin Israel	59	13.8k 2.2×	2.3k 0.6×	4.5k 1.4×	3.7k 1.4×	603 2.1×	170	16.1k
Axel Mecklinger Germany	55	8.1k 1.3×	1.1k 0.3×	1.7k 0.5×	1.9k 0.7×	156 0.5×	192	8.9k
Rutvik H. Desai United States	30	6.1k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	179 0.6×	66	7.4k
Ricarda I. Schubotz Germany	38	4.9k 0.8×	2.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	110 0.4×	129	5.8k
Sharon L. Thompson‐Schill United States	52	9.8k 1.5×	2.3k 0.6×	3.1k 1.0×	3.7k 1.4×	146 0.5×	154	11.6k
Timothy T. Rogers United States	38	7.5k 1.2×	2.3k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	2.9k 1.1×	189 0.6×	98	9.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Hauk, Olaf, et al.. (2024). Word-selective EEG/MEG responses in the English language obtained with fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS). Imaging Neuroscience. 3.

Jackson, Rebecca L., et al.. (2023). Time-Lagged Multidimensional Pattern Connectivity (TL-MDPC): An EEG/MEG pattern transformation based functional connectivity metric. NeuroImage. 270. 119958–119958. 7 indexed citations

Hauk, Olaf, Matti Stenroos, & Matthias S. Treder. (2022). Towards an objective evaluation of EEG/MEG source estimation methods – The linear approach. NeuroImage. 255. 119177–119177. 44 indexed citations

Farahibozorg, Seyedeh-Rezvan, Richard N. Henson, Anna M. Woollams, & Olaf Hauk. (2021). Distinct roles for the anterior temporal lobe and angular gyrus in the spatiotemporal cortical semantic network. Cerebral Cortex. 32(20). 4549–4564. 18 indexed citations

Hauk, Olaf & Béla Weiss. (2020). The neuroscience of natural language processing. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 35(5). 541–542. 6 indexed citations

Basti, Alessio, Marieke Mur, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, et al.. (2019). Analysing linear multivariate pattern transformations in neuroimaging data. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0223660–e0223660. 13 indexed citations

Tschentscher, Nadja & Olaf Hauk. (2016). Frontal Cortex Supports the Early Structuring of Multiple Solution Steps in Symbolic Problem-solving. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 29(1). 114–124. 1 indexed citations

Tschentscher, Nadja & Olaf Hauk. (2016). Frontal and Parietal Cortices Show Different Spatiotemporal Dynamics across Problem-solving Stages. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 28(8). 1098–1110. 21 indexed citations

Mollo, Giovanna, Friedemann Pulvermüller, & Olaf Hauk. (2015). Movement priming of EEG/MEG brain responses for action-words characterizes the link between language and action. Cortex. 74. 262–276. 51 indexed citations

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Tschentscher, Nadja & Olaf Hauk. (2014). How are things adding up? Neural differences between arithmetic operations are due to general problem solving strategies. NeuroImage. 92. 369–380. 42 indexed citations

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Pulvermüller, Friedemann, Ferath Kherif, Olaf Hauk, Bettina Mohr, & Ian Nimmo‐Smith. (2009). Distributed cell assemblies for general lexical and category‐specific semantic processing as revealed by fMRI cluster analysis. Human Brain Mapping. 30(12). 3837–3850. 69 indexed citations

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Boudelaa, Sami, Friedemann Pulvermüller, Olaf Hauk, Yury Shtyrov, & William D. Marslen‐Wilson. (2009). Arabic Morphology in the Neural Language System. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 22(5). 998–1010. 54 indexed citations

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Hauk, Olaf, Yury Shtyrov, & Friedemann Pulvermüller. (2008). The time course of action comprehension in the brain as revealed by cortical neurophysiology.. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 102. 3 indexed citations

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Hauk, Olaf, Matthew H. Davis, & Friedemann Pulvermüller. (2008). Modulation of brain activity by multiple lexical and word form variables in visual word recognition: A parametric fMRI study. NeuroImage. 42(3). 1185–1195. 66 indexed citations

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Hauk, Olaf, Yury Shtyrov, & Friedemann Pulvermüller. (2008). The time course of action and action-word comprehension in the human brain as revealed by neurophysiology. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 102(1-3). 50–58. 139 indexed citations

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Hauk, Olaf, Matthew H. Davis, Michael A. Ford, Friedemann Pulvermüller, & William D. Marslen‐Wilson. (2006). The time course of visual word recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data. NeuroImage. 30(4). 1383–1400. 443 indexed citations

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Pulvermüller, Friedemann & Olaf Hauk. (2005). Category-specific Conceptual Processing of Color and Form in Left Fronto-temporal Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 16(8). 1193–1201. 92 indexed citations

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Fell, Jürgen, Olaf Hauk, & Hermann Hinrichs. (2000). Linear inverse filtering improves spatial separation of nonlinear brain dynamics: a simulation study. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 98(1). 49–56. 2 indexed citations

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Dobel, Christian, Olaf Hauk, Friedemann Pulvermüller, et al.. (1998). Monitoring brain activity of human subjects during delayed matching to sample tasks comparing verbal and pictorial stimuli with modal and cross-modal presentation: an event related potential study employing a source reconstruction method. Neuroscience Letters. 253(3). 179–182. 2 indexed citations

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Menéndez, Rolando Grave de Peralta, et al.. (1997). Linear inverse solutions with optimal resolution kernels applied to electromagnetic tomography. Human Brain Mapping. 5(6). 454–467. 101 indexed citations

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