Wilfried Kunde

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
281 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Wilfried Kunde is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wilfried Kunde has authored 281 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 225 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 137 papers in Social Psychology and 68 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Wilfried Kunde's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (146 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (110 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (61 papers). Wilfried Kunde is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (146 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (110 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (61 papers). Wilfried Kunde collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Wilfried Kunde's co-authors include Roland Pfister, Andrea Kiesel, Joachim Hoffmann, Markus Janczyk, Matthias Weigelt, Iring Koch, Wladimir Kirsch, Robert Wirth, Peter Wühr and David Dignath and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, PLoS ONE and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Wilfried Kunde

268 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC) 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200
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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.

  1. Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC)
    2020 244 citations David Dignath, Andrea Kiesel 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
Wilfried Kunde Germany 43 5.4k 3.0k 1.5k 1.1k 497 281 6.5k
Andrea Kiesel Germany 36 4.8k 0.9× 1.5k 0.5× 888 0.6× 1.3k 1.2× 640 1.3× 169 5.9k
Iring Koch Germany 49 8.1k 1.5× 2.3k 0.7× 2.1k 1.4× 2.2k 2.1× 919 1.8× 266 9.1k
Werner Sommer Germany 55 9.4k 1.7× 1.8k 0.6× 1.5k 1.0× 3.1k 2.9× 255 0.5× 291 10.7k
Christian Frings Germany 37 4.2k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 853 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 241 0.5× 321 5.2k
Xiaolin Zhou China 39 3.9k 0.7× 955 0.3× 1.1k 0.7× 1.3k 1.2× 421 0.8× 231 5.2k
Roland Pfister Germany 34 2.7k 0.5× 1.7k 0.6× 572 0.4× 517 0.5× 233 0.5× 172 3.5k
Nachshon Meiran Israel 44 5.1k 0.9× 1.3k 0.4× 889 0.6× 2.2k 2.1× 714 1.4× 160 7.1k
Markus Kiefer Germany 47 5.4k 1.0× 2.0k 0.7× 1.5k 1.0× 2.5k 2.3× 117 0.2× 160 7.3k
Juan Lupiáñez Spain 47 6.6k 1.2× 1.2k 0.4× 739 0.5× 2.5k 2.3× 246 0.5× 237 8.1k
Hartmut Leuthold Germany 39 4.1k 0.7× 994 0.3× 786 0.5× 1.1k 1.1× 287 0.6× 108 4.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wilfried Kunde

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wilfried Kunde

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wilfried Kunde. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wilfried Kunde 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 Wilfried Kunde. Wilfried Kunde 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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Schwarz, Katharina A., et al.. (2025). Goals rather than predictions determine the sense of agency. iScience. 28(6). 112583–112583.
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Metz, Barbara, et al.. (2025). Sick of being driven? – Prevalence and modulating factors of carsickness in the European population in context of automated driving. Applied Ergonomics. 129. 104590–104590. 2 indexed citations
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Schwarz, Katharina A., et al.. (2025). Evidence for transitional coding of human motor representations.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 155(2). 549–554.
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Kunde, Wilfried, et al.. (2025). The role of compatibility in long-term action-effect binding and effect memory. Memory & Cognition. 54(1). 109–129.
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Metz, Barbara, et al.. (2024). Too sick to take over? − Impact of car sickness on cognitive performance related to driving in the context of automated driving. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 109. 480–500. 1 indexed citations
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Kunde, Wilfried, et al.. (2024). You do you: susceptibility of temporal binding to self-relevance. Psychological Research. 88(3). 1007–1022.
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Herbort, Oliver, et al.. (2024). Where scrollbars are clicked, and why. Cognitive Research Principles and Implications. 9(1). 23–23.
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Metz, Barbara, et al.. (2024). Does the visual input matter? Influence of non-driving related tasks on car sickness in an open road setting. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 104. 234–248. 9 indexed citations
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Kunde, Wilfried, et al.. (2024). Linking actions and memories: Probing the interplay of action-effect congruency, agency experience, and recognition memory. Memory & Cognition. 53(4). 1187–1206. 2 indexed citations
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Pfister, Roland, et al.. (2023). Creative thinking does not promote dishonesty. Royal Society Open Science. 10(12). 230879–230879. 4 indexed citations
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Weis, Patrick P. & Wilfried Kunde. (2023). Primacy Effects in Extended Cognitive Strategy Choice: Initial Speed Benefits Outweigh Later Speed Benefits. Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 66(7). 1860–1878. 2 indexed citations
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Kirsch, Wladimir & Wilfried Kunde. (2023). Human perception of spatial frequency varies with stimulus orientation and location in the visual field. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 17656–17656. 2 indexed citations
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Weis, Patrick P. & Wilfried Kunde. (2023). Perseveration on cognitive strategies. Memory & Cognition. 52(3). 459–475. 3 indexed citations
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Schwarz, Katharina A., et al.. (2023). Sense of agency in social hierarchies.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(10). 2957–2976. 7 indexed citations
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Pfister, Roland, et al.. (2022). Binding of Task-Irrelevant Action Features and Auditory Action Effects. Journal of Cognition. 5(1). 35–35. 4 indexed citations
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Wirth, Robert & Wilfried Kunde. (2020). Feature binding contributions to effect monitoring. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 82(6). 3144–3157. 2 indexed citations
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Dignath, David, et al.. (2019). Motivation drives conflict adaptation.. Motivation Science. 6(1). 84–89. 8 indexed citations
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Schwarz, Katharina A., et al.. (2017). Feeling watched: What determines perceived observation?. Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice. 4(3). 298–309. 5 indexed citations
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Schwarz, Katharina A., et al.. (2017). Do we see it or not? Sensory attenuation in the visual domain.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 147(3). 418–430. 42 indexed citations
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Weigelt, Matthias, Thomas Schack, & Wilfried Kunde. (2007). Attentional focus effects highlight the role of mental representations in motor control. ACS Synthetic Biology. 1(2). 52–937. 4 indexed citations

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