Tobias Sommer

9.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Tobias Sommer is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Tobias Sommer has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 15 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Tobias Sommer's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (36 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (35 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (24 papers). Tobias Sommer is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (36 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (35 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (24 papers). Tobias Sommer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Tobias Sommer's co-authors include Michael I. Posner, Jin Fan, Bruce D. McCandliss, Amir Raz, Christian Büchel, Jan Gläscher, Dieter F. Braus, John Fossella, Juliana Yacubian and Katrin Schröder and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Tobias Sommer

107 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

Testing the Efficiency and Independence of Attentional Ne... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Testing the Efficiency and Independence of Attentional Networks
    2002 2.7k citations Tobias Sommer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tobias Sommer Germany 35 4.3k 1.4k 1.1k 737 690 109 6.8k
Christian K. Tamnes Norway 46 4.6k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 932 1.3× 448 0.6× 112 8.0k
Mónica Luciana United States 47 3.3k 0.8× 1.6k 1.1× 1.6k 1.5× 1.5k 2.0× 761 1.1× 124 7.7k
Philippe Fossati France 45 4.3k 1.0× 2.4k 1.7× 1.9k 1.7× 1.4k 1.9× 550 0.8× 123 7.7k
Florin Dolcos United States 43 5.7k 1.3× 2.2k 1.5× 687 0.6× 818 1.1× 787 1.1× 114 7.4k
Yasuyuki Taki Japan 48 3.9k 0.9× 2.1k 1.5× 1.2k 1.2× 688 0.9× 412 0.6× 269 8.0k
Mathias Pessiglione France 42 4.6k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 927 0.9× 715 1.0× 325 0.5× 97 6.9k
Stephan Hamann United States 38 5.2k 1.2× 2.1k 1.5× 871 0.8× 901 1.2× 683 1.0× 82 7.7k
Mario Beauregard Canada 35 3.5k 0.8× 1.7k 1.2× 1.4k 1.3× 1.3k 1.8× 442 0.6× 71 5.7k
Martin Lövdén Sweden 52 4.6k 1.1× 2.3k 1.6× 2.4k 2.2× 793 1.1× 890 1.3× 159 9.9k
Jan Gläscher Germany 31 3.8k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 673 0.6× 808 1.1× 324 0.5× 56 5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Tobias Sommer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tobias Sommer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tobias Sommer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tobias Sommer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tobias Sommer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Tobias Sommer. Tobias Sommer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Werner, Franziska, Naemi D. Brandt, Dirk Schümann, et al.. (2025). Assessing the Long-Term Stability of the Spielberger State-Trait Inventory Trait Scale over 3.5 Years. Journal of Personality Assessment. 108(1). 118–129. 1 indexed citations
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Achtzehn, Johannes, Scott D. Moffat, Nora Hennies, et al.. (2024). Effects of estrogen on spatial navigation and memory. Psychopharmacology. 241(5). 1037–1063. 3 indexed citations
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Rune, Gabriele M., et al.. (2023). Effects of 24-hour oral estradiol-valerate administration on hormone levels in men and pre-menopausal women. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 156. 106320–106320. 2 indexed citations
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Chakroun, Karima, Antonius Wiehler, David Mathar, et al.. (2023). Dopamine regulates decision thresholds in human reinforcement learning in males. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5369–5369. 17 indexed citations
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Schultz, Heidrun, Tobias Sommer, & Jan Peters. (2022). Category-sensitive incidental reinstatement in medial temporal lobe subregions during word recognition. Learning & Memory. 29(5). 126–135. 4 indexed citations
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Chakroun, Karima, Janine Bayer, Jan Gläscher, et al.. (2021). Sex Differences and Exogenous Estrogen Influence Learning and Brain Responses to Prediction Errors. Cerebral Cortex. 32(9). 2022–2036. 6 indexed citations
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Chakroun, Karima, Mareike Clos, Janine Bayer, et al.. (2020). Region-specific effects of acute haloperidol in the human midbrain, striatum and cortex. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 35. 126–135. 7 indexed citations
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Clos, Mareike, Nico Bunzeck, & Tobias Sommer. (2019). Dopamine Enhances Item Novelty Detection via Hippocampal and Associative Recall via Left Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Mechanisms. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(40). 7920–7933. 18 indexed citations
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Clos, Mareike, Nico Bunzeck, & Tobias Sommer. (2018). Dopamine is a double-edged sword: dopaminergic modulation enhances memory retrieval performance but impairs metacognition. Neuropsychopharmacology. 44(3). 555–563. 40 indexed citations
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Sommer, Tobias & Matthias Gamer. (2018). Einfluss traumatischer Ereignisse auf das Gedächtnis. 28(1). 97–120. 1 indexed citations
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Herweg, Nora A., Tobias Sommer, & Nico Bunzeck. (2017). Retrieval Demands Adaptively Change Striatal Old/New Signals and Boost Subsequent Long-Term Memory. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(3). 745–754. 16 indexed citations
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Böhmer, Wendelin, et al.. (2016). Interaction of Instrumental and Goal-Directed Learning Modulates Prediction Error Representations in the Ventral Striatum. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(50). 12650–12660. 7 indexed citations
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Sommer, Tobias, et al.. (2014). Die Achse Konflikt der Operationalisierten Psychodynamischen Diagnostik im Kindes- und Jugendalter: Reliabilität und klinische Validität. 22(1). 26–47. 3 indexed citations
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Sommer, Tobias, et al.. (2013). Energieeffiziente Lagerplatzzuordnung in Hochregallagern. 2013(10).
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Leupoldt, Andreas von, et al.. (2010). The unpleasantness of dyspnea is processed in the human anterior insula and amygdala. Biological Psychology. 83(1). 71–71. 1 indexed citations
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Leupoldt, Andreas von, Tobias Sommer, Sarah Kegat, et al.. (2009). Down-Regulation of Insular Cortex Responses to Dyspnea and Pain in Asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 180(3). 232–238. 90 indexed citations
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Leupoldt, Andreas von, Tobias Sommer, Sarah Kegat, et al.. (2009). Dyspnea and pain share emotion-related brain network. NeuroImage. 48(1). 200–206. 196 indexed citations
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Leupoldt, Andreas von, Tobias Sommer, Sarah Kegat, et al.. (2008). The Unpleasantness of Perceived Dyspnea Is Processed in the Anterior Insula and Amygdala. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 177(9). 1026–1032. 224 indexed citations
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Leupoldt, Andreas von, et al.. (2008). Breathlessness and pain: The same in the brain?. Psychophysiology. 45. 2 indexed citations
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Roeper, Jochen, Sabine Sewing, Ying Zhang, et al.. (1998). NIP domain prevents N-type inactivation in voltage-gated potassium channels. Nature. 391(6665). 390–393. 62 indexed citations

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