Ulrich Ott

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Ulrich Ott is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ulrich Ott has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Clinical Psychology and 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ulrich Ott's work include Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (11 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (5 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (5 papers). Ulrich Ott is often cited by papers focused on Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (11 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (5 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (5 papers). Ulrich Ott collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Ulrich Ott's co-authors include Britta K. Hölzel, Tim Gard, Sara W. Lazar, David R. Vago, Zev Schuman‐Olivier, Dieter Vaitl, Rudolf Stark, Gebhard Sammer, Bertram Walter and Peter Kirsch and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Ulrich Ott

25 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective

2011 1.9k citations Britta K. Hölzel, Sara W. Lazar et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ulrich Ott Germany	18	2.7k	1.6k	1.6k	952	717	29	4.3k
Yi-Yuan Tang United States	19	2.5k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	745 0.8×	500 0.7×	27	4.0k
Norman A. S. Farb Canada	32	3.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	2.0k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	69	5.0k
Miquel À. Fullana Spain	38	2.7k 1.0×	2.4k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	576 0.6×	587 0.8×	111	4.9k
Joseph A. Himle United States	42	3.2k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	746 0.8×	669 0.9×	155	5.4k
Nicholas T. Van Dam United States	27	2.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	944 1.0×	444 0.6×	57	4.4k
Erin B. Tone United States	28	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	780 0.8×	627 0.9×	66	4.0k
Josh M. Cisler United States	34	3.2k 1.2×	2.8k 1.7×	2.8k 1.7×	1.0k 1.1×	621 0.9×	121	6.4k
Jennifer A. Silvers United States	24	2.0k 0.7×	2.3k 1.4×	2.0k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	567 0.8×	63	4.8k
Jennifer C. Britton United States	39	2.1k 0.8×	3.2k 1.9×	2.8k 1.7×	735 0.8×	732 1.0×	77	5.6k
Kate L. Harkness Canada	38	2.9k 1.1×	804 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	615 0.9×	109	5.2k

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Ott, Ulrich, et al.. (2021). What Do Meditators Do When They Meditate? Proposing a Novel Basis for Future Meditation Research. Mindfulness. 12(7). 1791–1811. 33 indexed citations

Sparby, Terje & Ulrich Ott. (2018). A qualitative study of motivations for meditation in anthroposophic practitioners. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0203184–e0203184. 10 indexed citations

Stark, Rudolf, et al.. (2018). fMRI BOLD Correlates of EEG Independent Components: Spatial Correspondence With the Default Mode Network. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 12. 478–478. 17 indexed citations

Schuster, Verena, et al.. (2016). Effects of Long-Term Mindfulness Meditation on Brain's White Matter Microstructure and its Aging. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 7. 254–254. 42 indexed citations

Vaitl, Dieter, Niels Birbaumer, John Gruzelier, et al.. (2013). Psychobiology of altered states of consciousness.. Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice. 1(S). 2–47. 24 indexed citations

Passie, Torsten, et al.. (2012). Neurotheologie. Der Nervenarzt. 84(3). 283–293. 2 indexed citations

Ott, Ulrich & H Sperschneider. (2012). Ansprüche des Nephrologen an den guten Dialysezugang. Der Chirurg. 83(9). 775–778. 1 indexed citations

Wehrum, Sina, Franziska Degé, Ulrich Ott, et al.. (2011). Can you hear a difference? Neuronal correlates of melodic deviance processing in children. Brain Research. 1402. 80–92. 18 indexed citations

Gard, Tim, Britta K. Hölzel, Alexander T. Sack, et al.. (2011). Pain Attenuation through Mindfulness is Associated with Decreased Cognitive Control and Increased Sensory Processing in the Brain. Cerebral Cortex. 22(11). 2692–2702. 193 indexed citations

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Ott, Ulrich, Jiřı́ Wackermann, Carsten Allefeld, et al.. (2010). Global EEG descriptors and default-mode network during daydreaming and meditation. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 77(3). 217–217. 1 indexed citations

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Hölzel, Britta K., Ulrich Ott, Andrea M. Hackl, et al.. (2007). Differential engagement of anterior cingulate and adjacent medial frontal cortex in adept meditators and non-meditators. Neuroscience Letters. 421(1). 16–21. 395 indexed citations

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Reuter, Martin, Ulrich Ott, Dieter Vaitl, & Jürgen Hennig. (2007). Impaired Executive Control Is Associated with a Variation in the Promoter Region of the Tryptophan Hydroxylase 2 Gene. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 19(3). 401–408. 73 indexed citations

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Hölzel, Britta K. & Ulrich Ott. (2006). Relationships between Meditation Depth, Absorption, Meditation Practice, and Mindfulness: A Latent Variable Approach. 38(2). 179. 42 indexed citations

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Vaitl, Dieter, Niels Birbaumer, John Gruzelier, et al.. (2005). Psychobiology of Altered States of Consciousness.. Psychological Bulletin. 131(1). 98–127. 237 indexed citations

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Ott, Ulrich, Martin Reuter, Juergen Hennig, & Dieter Vaitl. (2005). Evidence for a common biological basis of the absorption trait, hallucinogen effects, and positive symptoms: Epistasis between 5-HT2a and COMT polymorphisms. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 137B(1). 29–32. 68 indexed citations

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Stark, Rudolf, Anne Schienle, Catherine Girod, et al.. (2005). Erotic and disgust-inducing pictures—Differences in the hemodynamic responses of the brain. Biological Psychology. 70(1). 19–29. 100 indexed citations

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Stark, Rudolf, Anne Schienle, Bertram Walter, et al.. (2004). Hemodynamic Effects of Negative Emotional Pictures – A Test-Retest Analysis. Neuropsychobiology. 50(1). 108–118. 58 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Peter, Anne Schienle, Rudolf Stark, et al.. (2003). Anticipation of reward in a nonaversive differential conditioning paradigm and the brain reward system:. NeuroImage. 20(2). 1086–1095. 205 indexed citations

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Schienle, Anne, Rudolf Stark, Bertram Walter, et al.. (2002). The insula is not specifically involved in disgust processing: an fMRI study. Neuroreport. 13(16). 2023–2026. 180 indexed citations

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Ott, Ulrich, et al.. (1989). Harry Graf Kessler. Tagebuch eines Weltmannes. The German Quarterly. 62(3). 399–399. 2 indexed citations

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