Philipp Sterzer

14.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
197 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Philipp Sterzer is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Philipp Sterzer has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 47 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 30 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Philipp Sterzer's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (80 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (68 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (56 papers). Philipp Sterzer is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (80 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (68 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (56 papers). Philipp Sterzer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Philipp Sterzer's co-authors include Andreas Kleinschmidt, Timo Stein, Andreas Heinz, Geraint Rees, Evelyn Eger, Katharina Schmack, Florian Schlagenhauf, Marcus Rothkirch, Anne‐Lise Giraud and Christina Stadler and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Philipp Sterzer

191 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

Electroencephalographic signatures of attentional and cognitive default modes in spontaneous brain activity fluctuations at rest

2003 796 citations Philipp Sterzer, Andreas Kleinschmidt et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis

2018 484 citations Philipp Sterzer, Predrag Petrović et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philipp Sterzer Germany	54	7.4k	2.1k	1.5k	1.1k	925	197	9.8k
Patricia T. Michie Australia	57	7.9k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	470 0.4×	785 0.8×	179	10.3k
Richard J. Haier United States	52	5.9k 0.8×	2.9k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	932 0.8×	891 1.0×	108	10.3k
Mario Liotti United States	47	8.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	2.7k 1.8×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	101	11.8k
Brigitte Rockstroh Germany	57	9.8k 1.3×	1.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	246	13.6k
Manfred Spitzer Germany	54	4.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	948 1.0×	347	8.1k
Ayşenil Belger United States	47	5.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	2.0k 1.3×	872 0.8×	401 0.4×	152	8.6k
W. Kyle Simmons United States	42	6.0k 0.8×	2.9k 1.4×	2.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.4×	2.3k 2.5×	87	10.9k
Oliver Gruber Germany	46	4.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.4×	677 0.6×	571 0.6×	178	7.1k
Fabienne Collette Belgium	52	7.1k 1.0×	2.7k 1.3×	2.4k 1.6×	491 0.4×	826 0.9×	220	9.7k
Steven D. Forman United States	20	4.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	821 0.7×	579 0.6×	46	6.3k

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Schulze, Daniel, Philipp Sterzer, Stephan Köhler, et al.. (2025). Cognitive behavioural therapy plus Kiesler Circle Training (CBT+) versus CBT only for patients with interpersonal problems: study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial. BMJ Open. 15(2). e098466–e098466.

Weilnhammer, Veith, et al.. (2025). N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor hypofunction causes recurrent and transient failures of perceptual inference. Brain. 148(5). 1531–1539. 3 indexed citations

Schaub, Anna-Chiara, et al.. (2025). Reduced weighting of short-term perceptual priors during auditory perceptual decision-making in psychosis-prone individuals. BMC Biology. 23(1). 310–310.

Schad, Daniel J., Michael A. Rapp, Maria Garbusow, et al.. (2019). Dissociating neural learning signals in human sign- and goal-trackers. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(2). 201–214. 47 indexed citations

Rothkirch, Marcus, et al.. (2018). Access to awareness of direct gaze is related to autistic traits. Psychological Medicine. 49(6). 980–986. 13 indexed citations

Hägele, Claudia, Eva Friedel, Florian Schlagenhauf, et al.. (2016). Affective responses across psychiatric disorders—A dimensional approach. Neuroscience Letters. 623. 71–78. 33 indexed citations

Köhler, Stephan, Philipp Sterzer, Claus Normann, Thomas Berger, & Eva‐Lotta Brakemeier. (2015). Überwindung der Therapieresistenz bei chronischer Depression. Der Nervenarzt. 87(7). 701–707. 5 indexed citations

Wilbertz, Gregor, et al.. (2014). Reinforcement of perceptual inference: reward and punishment alter conscious visual perception during binocular rivalry. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 1377–1377. 27 indexed citations

Wang, Li, Christopher O. Leonards, Philipp Sterzer, & Martin Ebinger. (2014). White matter lesions and depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 56. 56–64. 116 indexed citations

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Rothkirch, Marcus, et al.. (2014). Making eye contact without awareness. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 209–209. 1 indexed citations

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Feeser, Melanie, Florian Schlagenhauf, Philipp Sterzer, et al.. (2013). Context insensitivity during positive and negative emotional expectancy in depression assessed with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 212(1). 28–35. 19 indexed citations

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Schmack, Katharina, Ana Gòmez-Carrillo de Castro, Marcus Rothkirch, et al.. (2013). Delusions and the Role of Beliefs in Perceptual Inference. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(34). 13701–13712. 143 indexed citations

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Rosenblau, Gabriela, Philipp Sterzer, Meline Stoy, et al.. (2012). Functional neuroanatomy of emotion processing in major depressive disorder is altered after successful antidepressant therapy. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 26(11). 1424–1433. 53 indexed citations

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Seymour, Kiley, et al.. (2012). BOLD evidence linking deficits in early vision to Schizophrenia. Perception. 41. 157–157. 1 indexed citations

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Deserno, Lorenz, Philipp Sterzer, Torsten Wüstenberg, Andreas Heinz, & Florian Schlagenhauf. (2012). Reduced Prefrontal-Parietal Effective Connectivity and Working Memory Deficits in Schizophrenia. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(1). 12–20. 182 indexed citations

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Cichy, Radoslaw Martin, et al.. (2012). Probing principles of large‐scale object representation: Category preference and location encoding. Human Brain Mapping. 34(7). 1636–1651. 29 indexed citations

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Stoy, Meline, Florian Schlagenhauf, Philipp Sterzer, et al.. (2011). Hyporeactivity of ventral striatum towards incentive stimuli in unmedicated depressed patients normalizes after treatment with escitalopram. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 26(5). 677–688. 200 indexed citations

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Friedel, Eva, Florian Schlagenhauf, Philipp Sterzer, et al.. (2009). 5-HTT genotype effect on prefrontal–amygdala coupling differs between major depression and controls. Psychopharmacology. 205(2). 261–271. 60 indexed citations

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Sterzer, Philipp, et al.. (2009). Electromagnetic responses to invisible face stimuli during binocular suppression. NeuroImage. 46(3). 803–808. 61 indexed citations

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Sterzer, Philipp & Andreas Kleinschmidt. (2006). A neural basis for inference in perceptual ambiguity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(1). 323–328. 153 indexed citations

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