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Hauke Heekeren

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Forschungsinteressen: 
  • Neurobiologie perzeptueller und belohnungs-basierter Entscheidungsfindung
  • Einfluß von Kognition und Emotion auf Entscheidungsfindung im sozialen Kontext
  • Multimodales Neuroimaging

Ausgewählte Literatur: 
  • Age-related decline in brain resources modulates genetic effects on cognitive functioning. Lindenberger U, Nagel IE, Chicherio C, Li SC, Heekeren HR, Bäckman L. Front Neurosci. 2008 Dec;2(2):234-44. Epub 2008 Dec 15.
  • The neural systems that mediate human perceptual decision making. Heekeren HR, Marrett S, Ungerleider LG. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 Jun;9(6):467-79. Epub 2008 May 9. Review.
  • Heekeren, H. R., Marrett, S., Ruff, D. A., Bandettini, P. A., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2006). Involvement of human left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in perceptual decision making is independent of response modality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS 2006 103: 10023-10028; published online before print as 10.1073/pnas.0603949103).
  • Mériau, K., Wartenburger, I., Kazzer, P., Prehn, K., Lammers, C. H., van der Meer, E., Villringer, A., & Heekeren, H. R. (2006). A neural network reflecting individual differences in cognitive processing of emotions during perceptual decision making. Neuroimage, 33 (3), 1016-1027.
  • Marschner, A., Mell, T., Wartenburger, I., Villringer, A., Reischies, F. M., & Heekeren, H. R. (2005). Reward-based decision-making and aging. Brain Research Bulletin, 67(5), 382-390.
  • Heekeren, H. R., Marrett, S., Bandettini, P. A., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2004). A general mechanism for perceptual decision-making in the human brain. Nature, 431, 859-861.

Alle aufklappen Curriculum Vitae

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Burzynska, A. Z., Nagel, I. E., Preuschhof, C., Gluth, S., Bäckman, L., Li, S.-C., Lindenberger, U., & Heekeren, H. R. (in press). Cortical thickness is linked to executive functioning in adulthood and aging. Human Brain Mapping. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6811.2011.01373.x

Mohr, P. N. C., Li, S.-C., & Heekeren, H. R. (2012). Corrigendum to "Neuroeconomics and aging: Neuromodulation of economic decision making in old age" [Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 34 (5) (2010), 678-688. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.05.010]. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 36, 735.
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Montag, C., Neuhaus, K., Lehmann, A., Krüger, K., Dziobek, I., Heekeren, H. R., Heinz, A., & Gallinat, J. (2012). Subtle deficits of cognitive theory of mind in unaffected first-degree relatives of schizophrenia patients. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 262, 217-226. doi:10.1007/s00406-011-0250-2
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Passow, S., Westerhausen, R., Wartenburger, I., Hugdahl, K., Heekeren, H. R., Lindenberger, U., & Li, S.-C. (2012). Human aging compromises attentional control of auditory perception. Psychology and Aging, 27, 99-105. doi:10.1037/a0025667
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Biele, G., Rieskamp, J., Krugel, L. K., & Heekeren, H. R. (2011). The neural basis of following advice. PLoS Biology, 9(6):e1001089. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001089
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Burzynska, A. Z., Nagel, I. E., Preuschhof, C., Li, S.-C., Lindenberger, U., Bäckman, L., & Heekeren, H. R. (2011). Microstructure of fronto-parietal connections predicts cortical responsivity and working memory performance. Cerebral Cortex, 21, 2261-2271. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhq293
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Dziobek, I., Preißler, S., Grozdanovic, Z., Heuser, I., Heekeren, H. R., & Roepke, S. (2011). Neuronal correlates of altered empathy and social cognition in borderline personality disorder. NeuroImage, 57, 539-548. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.005
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Kirchner, J. C., Hatri, A., Heekeren, H. R., & Dziobek, I. (2011). Autistic symptomatology, face processing abilities, and eye fixation patterns. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41, 158-167. doi:10.1007/s10803-010-1032-9
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Montag, C., Dziobek, I., Richter, I. S., Neuhaus, K., Lehmann, A., Sylla, R., Heekeren, H. R., Heinz, A., & Gallinat, J. (2011). Different aspects of theory of mind in paranoid schizophrenia: Evidence from a video-based assessment. Psychiatry Research, 186, 203-209. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2010.09.006
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Nagel, I. E., Preuschhof, C., Li, S.-C., Nyberg, L., Bäckman, L., Lindenberger, U., & Heekeren, H. R. (2011). Load modulation of BOLD response and connectivity predicts working memory performance in younger and older adults. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 2030-2045. doi:10.1162/jocn.2010.21560
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Papenberg, G., Bäckman, L., Chicherio, C., Nagel, I. E., Heekeren, H. R., Lindenberger, U., & Li, S.-C. (2011). Higher intraindividual variability is associated with more forgetting and dedifferentiated memory functions in old age. Neuropsychologia, 49, 1879-1888. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.03.013
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Park, S. Q., Kahnt, T., Rieskamp, J., & Heekeren, H. R. (2011). Neurobiology of value integration: When value impacts valuation. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 9307-9314. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4973-10.2011
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Philiastides, M. G., Auksztulewicz, R., Heekeren, H. R., & Blankenburg, F. (2011). Causal role of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in human perceptual decision making. Current Biology, 21, 980-983. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.04.034
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Prehn, K., Heekeren, H. R., & Van der Meer, E. (2011). Influence of affective significance on different levels of processing using pupil dilation in an analogical reasoning task. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 79, 236-243. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.10.014
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Ritter, K., Dziobek, I., Preißler, S., Rüter, A., Vater, A., Fydrich, T., Lammers, C.-H., Heekeren, H. R., & Roepke, S. (2011). Lack of empathy in patients with narcissistic personality disorder. Psychiatry Research, 187, 241-247. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2010.09.013
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Störmer, V., Li, S.-C., Heekeren, H. R., & Lindenberger, U. (2011). Feature-based interference from unattended visual field during attentional tracking in younger and older adults. Journal of Vision, 11(2):1. doi:10.1167/11.2.1
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Wenzlaff, H., Bauer, M., Maess, B., & Heekeren, H. R. (2011). Neural characterization of the speed-accuracy tradeoff in a perceptual decision-making task. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 1254-1266. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4000-10.2011
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Bahnemann, M., Dziobek, I., Prehn, K., Wolf, I., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Sociotopy in the temporoparietal cortex: Common versus distinct processes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5, 48-58. doi:10.1093/scan/nsp045
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Basten, U., Biele, G., Heekeren, H. R., & Fiebach, C. R. (2010). How the brain integrates costs and benefits during decision making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, 21767-21772. doi:10.1073/pnas.0908104107
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Bertram, L., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Obesity and the brain: A possible genetic link. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 2:27. Retrieved November 24, 2010, from http://alzres.com/content/2/5/27 doi:10.1186/alzrt51

Burzynska, A. Z., Preuschhof, C., Bäckman, L., Nyberg, L., Li, S.-C., Lindenberger, U., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Age-related differences in white matter microstructure: Region-specific patterns of diffusivity. NeuroImage, 49, 2104-2112. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.09.041
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Chicherio, C., Nagel, I. E., Heekeren, H. R., Li, S.-C., Bäckman, L., & Lindenberger, U. (2010). Modulation des effets génétiques sur le fonctionnement exécutif et la mémoire de travail au cours du vieillissement normal. In A. Ribaupierre, P. Ghisletta, T. Lecerf, & J.-L. Roulin (Eds.), Identité et spécificités de la psychologie différentielle (pp. 93-97). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
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Dziobek, I., Bahnemann, M., Convit, A., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). The role of the fusiform-amygdala system in the pathophysiology of autism. Archives of General Psychiatry, 67, 397-405. doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.31
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Graef, S., Biele, G., Krugel, L. K., Marzinzik, F., Wahl, M., Wotka, J., Klostermann, F., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Differential influence of levodopa on reward-based learning in Parkinson's disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4:169. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2010.00169
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Kliemann, D., Dziobek, I., Hatri, A., Steimke, R., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Atypical reflexive gaze patterns on emotional faces in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 12281-12287. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0688-10.2010
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Li, S.-C., Chicherio, C., Nyberg, L., Oertzen, T. v., Nagel, I. E., Papenberg, G., Sander, T., Heekeren, H. R., Lindenberger, U., & Bäckman, L. (2010). Ebbinghaus revisited: Influences of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on backward serial recall are modulated by human aging. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 2164-2173. doi:10.1162/jocn.2009.21374
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Mohr, P. N. C., Biele, G., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Neural processing of risk. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 6613-6619. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0003-10.2010
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Mohr, P. N. C., Biele, G., Krugel, L. K., Li, S.-C., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Neural foundations of risk-return trade-off in investment decisions. NeuroImage, 49, 2556-2563. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.060
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Mohr, P. N. C., Li, S.-C., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Neuroeconomics and aging: Neuromodulation of economic decision making in old age. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 34, 678-688. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.05.010
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Montag, C., Ehrlich, A., Neuhaus, K., Dziobek, I., Heekeren, H. R., Heinz, A., & Gallinat, J. (2010). Theory of mind impairments in euthymic bipolar patients. Journal of Affective Disorders, 123, 264-269. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2009.08.017
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Philiastides, M. G., Biele, G., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). A mechanistic account of value computation in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, 9430-9435. doi:10.1073/pnas.1001732107
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Philiastides, M. G., Biele, G., Vavatzanidis, N., Kazzer, P., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Temporal dynamics of prediction error processing during reward-based decision making. NeuroImage, 53, 221-232. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.052
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Preißler, S., Dziobek, I., Ritter, K., Heekeren, H. R., & Roepke, S. (2010). Social cognition in borderline personality disorder: Evidence for disturbed recognition of the emotions, thoughts, and intentions of others. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 4:182. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00182
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Preuschhof, C., Heekeren, H. R., Li, S.-C., Sander, T., Lindenberger, U., & Bäckman, L. (2010). KIBRA and CLSTN2 polymorphisms exert interactive effects on human episodic memory. Neuropsychologia, 48, 402-408. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.031
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Preuschhof, C., Schubert, T., Villringer, A., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Prior information biases stimulus representations during vibrotactile decision making. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 875-887. doi:10.1162/jocn.2009.21260

Ruff, D. A., Marrett, S., Heekeren, H. R., Bandettini, P. A., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2010). Complementary roles of systems representing sensory evidence and systems detecting task difficulty during perceptual decision making. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 4:190. doi:10.3389/fnins.2010.00190
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Scheibe, C., Ullsperger, M., Sommer, W., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Effects of parametrical and trial-to-trial variation in prior probability processing revealed by simultaneous electroencephalogram/functional magnetic resonance imaging. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 16709-16717. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3949-09.2010
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Van der Meer, E., Beyer, R., Horn, J., Foth, M., Bornemann, B., Ries, J., Kramer, J., Warmuth, E., Heekeren, H. R., & Wartenburger, I. (2010). Resource allocation and fluid intelligence: Insights from pupillometry. Psychophysiology, 47, 158-169. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00884.x
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Wolf, I., Dziobek, I., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Neural correlates of social cognition in naturalistic settings: A model-free analysis approach. NeuroImage, 49, 894-904. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.08.060
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Yoshida, W., Dziobek, I., Kliemann, D., Heekeren, H. R., Friston, K. J., & Dolan, R. J. (2010). Cooperation and heterogeneity of the autistic mind. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 8815-8818. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0400-10.2010
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Dresler, T., Mériau, K., Heekeren, H. R., & Van der Meer, E. (2009). Emotional stroop task: Effect of word arousal and subject anxiety on emotional interference. Psychological Research, 73, 364-371. doi:10.1007/s00426-008-0154-6
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Green, N., & Heekeren, H. R. (2009). Perceptual decision making: A bidirectional link between mind and motion. In M. Raab, J. G. Johnson, & H. Heekeren (Eds.), Progress in Brain Research: Vol. 174. Mind and Motion: The bidirectional link between thought and action (pp. 207-218). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Johnson, J. G., Raab, M., & Heekeren, H. R. (2009). Mind and motion: Surveying successes and stumbles in looking ahead. In M. Raab, J. G. Johnson, & H. Heekeren (Eds.), Progress in Brain Research: Vol. 174. Mind and Motion: The bidirectional link between thought and action (pp. 319-328). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Krugel, L. K., Biele, G., Mohr, P. N. C., Li, S.-C., & Heekeren, H. R. (2009). Genetic variation in dopaminergic neuromodulation influences the ability to rapidly and flexibly adapt decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 17951-17956. doi:10.1073/pnas.0905191106
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Li, S.-C., Lindenberger, U., Nyberg, L., Heekeren, H. R., & Bäckman, L. (2009). Dopaminergic modulation of cognition in human aging. In W. Jagust & M. D'Esposito (Eds.), Imaging the aging brain (pp. 71-91). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Mell, T., Wartenburger, I., Marschner, A., Villringer, A., Reischies, F. M., & Heekeren, H. R. (2009). Altered function of ventral striatum during reward-based decision making in old age. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3:34, 1-10. doi:10.3389/neuro.09.034.2009
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Mériau, K., Wartenburger, I., Kazzer, P., Prehn, K., Villringer, A., Van der Meer, E., & Heekeren, H. R. (2009). Insular activity during passive viewing of aversive stimuli reflects individual differences in state negative affect. Brain and Cognition, 69, 73-80. doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2008.05.006
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Nagel, I. E., Preuschhof, C., Li, S.-C., Nyberg, L., Bäckman, L., Lindenberger, U., & Heekeren, H. R. (2009). Performance level modulates adult age differences in brain activation during spatial working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 22552-22557. doi:10.1073/pnas.0908238106
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Philiastides, M. G., & Heekeren, H. R. (2009). Spatiotemporal characteristics of perceptual decision making in the human brain. In J. C. Dreher & L. Tremblay (Eds.), Handbook of reward and decision making (pp. 185-212). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Raab, M., Johnson, J. G., & Heekeren, H. R. (Eds.). (2009). Mind and motion: The bidirectional link between thought and action (Progress in Brain Research No. 174). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Scheibe, C., Schubert, R., Sommer, W., & Heekeren, H. R. (2009). Electrophysiological evidence for the effect of prior probability on response preparation. Psychophysiology, 46, 758-770. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00825.x
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Zentgraf, K., Green, N., Munzert, J., Schack, T., Tenenbaum, G., Vickers, J. N., Weigelt, M., Wolfensteller, U., & Heekeren, H. R. (2009). How are actions physically implemented? In M. Raab, J. G. Johnson, & H. Heekeren (Eds.), Progress in Brain Research: Vol. 174. Mind and Motion: The bidirectional link between thought and action (pp. 303-318). Amsterdam: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/S0079-6123(09)01324-7
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Dziobek, I., Rogers, K., Fleck, S., Bahnemann, M., Heekeren, H. R., Wolf, O. T., & Convit, A. (2008). Dissociation of cognitive and emotional empathy in adults with Asperger syndrome using the Multifaceted Empathy Test (MET). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 464-473.
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Lindenberger, U., Nagel, I. E., Chicherio, C., Li, S.-C., Heekeren, H. R., & Bäckman, L. (2008). Age-related decline in brain resources modulates genetic effects on cognitive functioning. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2, 234-244. doi:10.3389/neuro.01.039.2008
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Nagel, I. E., Chicherio, C., Li, S.-C., Oertzen, T. v., Sander, T., Villringer, A., Heekeren, H. R., Bäckman, L., & Lindenberger, U. (2008). Human aging magnifies genetic effects on executive functioning and working memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2:1. Retrieved October 23, 2008, from http://frontiersin.org/humanneuroscience/paper/10.3389/ neuro.09/001.2008/
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Prehn, K., Heekeren, H. R., Blasek, K., Lapschies, K., Mews, I., & Van der Meer, E. (2008). Neuroticism influences pupillary responses during an emotional interference task. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 70, 40-49.
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Prehn, K., Wartenburger, I., Mériau, K., Scheibe, C., Goodenough, O. R., Villringer, A., Van der Meer, E., & Heekeren, H. R. (2008). Individual differences in moral judgment competence influence neural correlates of socio-normative judgments. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3, 33-46.
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Trenner, M. U., Fahle, M., Fasold, O., Heekeren, H. R., Villringer, A., & Wenzel, R. (2008). Human cortical areas involved in sustaining perceptual stability during smooth pursuit eye movements. Human Brain Mapping, 29, 300-311.
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Trenner, M. U., Heekeren, H. R., Bauer, M., Rössner, K., Wenzel, R., Villringer, A., & Fahle, M. (2008). What happens in between? Human oscillatory brain activity related to crossmodal spatial cueing. PLoS ONE, 3(1), Article 1467. Retrieved February 7, 2008, from http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001467
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Heekeren, H. R., Wartenburger, I., Marschner, A., Mell, T., Villringer, A., & Reischies, F. M. (2007). Role of ventral striatum during reward-based decision making. NeuroReport, 18, 951-955.

Li, S.-C., Biele, G., Mohr, P. N. C., & Heekeren, H. R. (2007). Aging and neuroeconomics: Insights from research on neuromodulation of reward-based decision making. Analyse & Kritik, 29, 97-111.

Heekeren, H. R., Marrett, S., Ruff, D. A., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2006). Involvement of human left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in perceptual decision making is independent of response modality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103, 10023-10028.
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Mériau, K., Wartenburger, I., Kazzer, P., Prehn, K., Lammers, C.-H., van der Meer, E., et al. (2006). A neural network reflecting individual differences in cognitive processing of emotions during perceptual decision making. NeuroImage, 33, 1016-1027.
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Preuschhof, C., Heekeren, H. R., Taskin, B., Schubert, T., & Villringer, A. (2006). Neural correlates of vibrotactile working memory in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 13231-13239.
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Heekeren, H. R., Wartenburger, I., Schmidt, H., Prehn, K., Schwintowski, H. P., & Villringer, A. (2005). Influence of bodily harm on neural correlates of semantic and moral decision-making. Neuroimage, 24(3), 887-897.

Mell, T., Heekeren, H. R., Marschner, A., Wartenburger, I., Villringer, A., & Reischies, F. M. (2005). Effect of aging on stimulus-reward association learning. Neuropsychologia, 43(4), 554-563.

Scheibe, C., Wartenburger, I., Wüstenberg, T., Villringer, A., & Heekeren, H. R. (2005). Neural correlates of the interaction between transient and sustained processes - a Mixed Blocked/Event-related FMRI Study [Electronic Version, ahead of print]. Human Brain Mapping.

Heekeren, H. R., Marrett, S., Bandettini, P. A., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2004). A general mechanism for perceptual decision-making in the human brain. Nature, 431(7010), 859-861.

Wartenburger, I., Heekeren, H. R., Burchert, F., Heinemann, S., De Bleser, R., & Villringer, A. (2004). Neural correlates of syntactic transformations. Human Brain Mapping, 22, 72-81.

Buchheim, K., Obrig, H., von Pannwitz, W., Müller, A., Heekeren, H. R., Villringer, A., & Meierkord, H. (2003). Decrease in haemoglobin oxygenation during absence seizures in adult humans. Neuroscience Letters, 354(2), 119-122.

Heekeren, H. R., Wartenburger, I., Schmidt, H., Schwintowski, H. P., & Villringer, A. (2003). An fMRI study of simple ethical decisionmaking. Neuroreport, 14, 1215-1219.

Wartenburger, I., Heekeren, H. R., Abutalebi, J., Cappa, S. F., Villringer, A., & Perani, D. (2003). Early setting of grammatical processing in the bilingual brain. Neuron, 37, 159-170.

Wartenburger, I., Heekeren, H. R., Burchert, F., De Bleser, R., & Villringer, A. (2003). Grammaticality judgments on sentences with and without movement of phrasal constituents - an event-related fMRI study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 16(4-5), 301-314.

Heekeren, H. R., Wartenburger, I., Schmidt, H., Denkler, C., Schwintowski, H. P., & Villringer, A. (2002). Brain moral judgement - towards a neurobiology of law. Lili-Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 32(128), 114-126.

Wenzel, R., Wobst, P., Heekeren, H. R., Kwong, K. K., Brandt, S. A., Kohl, M., Obrig, H., Dirnagl, U., Cooper, C. E., & Villringer, A. (2000). Saccadic suppression induces focal hypooxygenation in the occipital cortex. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 20, 1103-1110.

Heekeren, H. R. (1999). Nichtinvasive optische Messung der zerebralen Cytochrom-c-Oxidase Redox-Status bei visueller Stimulation [Noninvasive optical assessment of the cerebral cytochrome-c-oxidase redox-state during visual stimulation]. Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany (Suma cum laude).

Heekeren, H. R., Kohl, M., Obrig, H., Wenzel, R., von Pannwitz, W., Matcher, S., Dirnagl, U., Cooper, C. E., & Villringer, A. (1999). Noninvasive assessment of changes in cytochrome-c oxidase oxidation in human subjects during visual stimulation. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 19, 592-603.

Kohl, M., Nolte, C., Heekeren, H. R., Horst, S., Scholz, U., Obrig, H., & Villringer, A. (1998). Determination of the wavelength dependence of the differential pathlength factor from near infrared pulse signals. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 43, 1771-1782.

Heekeren, H. R., Obrig, H., Wenzel, R., Eberle, K., Ruben, J., Villringer, K., Kurth, R., & Villringer, A. (1997). Cerebral haemoglobin oxygenation during sustained visual stimulation - a near-infrared spectroscopy study. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 352, 743-750.

Heekeren, H. R., Wenzel, R., Obrig, H., Ruben, J., Ndayisaba, J. P., Luo, Q., Dale, A. M., Nioka, S., Kohl, M., Dirnagl, U., Villringer, A., & Chance, B. (1997). Towards noninvasive optical human brain mapping - improvements of the spectral, temporal and spatial resolution of near-infrared spectroscopy. Proceedings / SPIE, International Society for Optical Engineering, 2979, 847-857.

Hock, C., Villringer, K., Heekeren, H. R., Hofmann, M., Wenzel, R., Villringer, A., & Müller-Spahn, F. (1997). A role for near infrared spectroscopy in psychiatry? Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 413, 105-112.

Hock, C., Villringer, K., Müller-Spahn, F., Wenzel, R., Heekeren, H. R., Schuh-Hofer, S., Hofmann, M., Minoshima, S., Schwaiger, M., Dirnagl, U., & Villringer, A. (1997). Decrease in parietal cerebral hemoglobin oxygenation during performance of a verbal fluency task in patients with Alzheimer. Brain Research, 755, 293-303.

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Pannwitz, W. v., Obrig, H., Heekeren, H. R., Müller, A., Kohl, M., Wolf, T., Wenzel, R., Dirnagl, U., & Villringer, A. (1997). Clinical approaches in cerebral near-infrared spectroscopy. In G. Litscher, & G. Schwarz (Eds.), Transcranial cerebral oximetry.

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