2011 and articles in press

Hoenig, K., Müller, C., Herrnberger, B., Spitzer, M., Ehret, G., & Kiefer, M. (2011). Neuroplasticity of semantic maps for musical instruments in professional musicians. NeuroImage, 56, 1714-1725.

Kiefer, M., Ansorge, U., Haynes, J. D., Hamker, F., Mattler, U., Verleger, R., & Niedeggen, M. (2011). Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of conscious and unconscious visual perception: From a plethora of phenomena to general principles. Advances in Cognitive Psychology in press.

Kiefer, M., Sim, E.-J., Helbig, H. B., & Graf, M. (2011). Tracking the time course of action priming on object recognition: Evidence for fast and slow influences of action on perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1864–1874.

Kiefer, M., & Pulvermüller, F. (2011). Conceptual representations in mind and brain: Theoretical developments, current evidence and future directions. Cortex.

Martens, U., Ansorge, U., & Kiefer, M. (2011). Controlling the unconscious: Attentional task sets modulate subliminal semantic and visuo-motor processes differentially. Psychological Science, 22, 282-291.

Michael, L., Hesselmann, G., Kiefer, M., & Niedeggen, M. (in press). Distractor-induced blindness for orientation changes and coherent motion. Vision Research.



2010

Ansorge, U., Kiefer, M., Khalid, S., Grassl, S., & König, P. (2010). Testing the theory of embodied cognition with subliminal words. Cognition, 116, 303-320.

Fladung, A.-K., Baron, U., Gunst, I., & Kiefer, M. (2010). Cognitive reappraisal modulates performance following negative feedback in patients with major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine, 40, 1703-1710.

Helbig, H.B., Steinwender, J., Graf, M. & Kiefer, M. (2010). Action observation can prime visual object recognition. Experimental Brain Research, 200, 251-258.

Kiefer, M., & Martens (2010). Attentional sensitization of unconscious cognition. Task sets modulate subsequent masked semantic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139, 464-489.

Rinker, T., Alku, P., Brosch, S., & Kiefer, M. (2010). Discrimination of native and non-native vowel contrasts in bilingual Turkish–German and monolingual German children: Insight from the Mismatch Negativity ERP component. Brain and Language, 113, 90-95

Videsott, G., Herrnberger, G., Schilly, E., Grothe, J., Hoenig, K., Wiater, W., Spitzer, M., & Kiefer, M. (2010). Speaking in multiple languages: Neural correlates of language proficiency in multilingual word production. Brain and Language, 113, 103-112.


2009 

Kiefer, M., Martens, U., Weisbrod, M., Hermle, L., & Spitzer, M. (2009). Increased unconscious semantic activation in schizophrenia patients with formal thought disorder. Schizophrenia Research, 114, 79-83.

Martens, U. & Kiefer, M. (2009). Specifying attentional top-down influences on subsequent unconscious semantic processing. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 5, 56-68. Download article

Reuter, M., Montag, C., Peters, K., Kocher, A., & Kiefer, M. (2009). The modulatory influence of the functional COMT Val158Met polymorphism on lexical decisions and semantic priming. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 20 doi:10.3389/neuro.09.020.2009.
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Stroth, S., Kubesch, S., Dieterle, K., Ruchsow, M., Heim, R., & Kiefer, M. (2009). Physical fitness, but not acute exercise modulates event-related potential indices for executive control in healthy adolescents. Brain Research, 1269, 114-124.


2008

Hoenig, K., Sim, E-J., Bochev, V., Herrnberger, B. & Kiefer, M. (2008). Conceptual flexibility in the human brain: Dynamic recruitment of semantic maps from visual, motion and motor-related areas. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(10), 1799-1814.

Kiefer, M. (2008). Zusammenwirken kognitiver Systeme: Kognitionspsychologische und neurophysiologische Befunde zur Rolle des semantischen Gedächtnisses bei der Informationsverarbeitung. Psychologische Rundschau, 59, 87-97.

Kiefer, M., Sim, E.-J., Herrnberger, B., Grothe, J., & Hoenig, K. (2008). The sound of concepts: Four markers for a link between auditory and conceptual brain systems. The Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 12224-12230.

Ruchsow, M., Grön, G., Kiefer, M, Beschoner, P., Hermle L, Ebert, D., & Falkenstein, M. (2008). Electrophysiological evidence for reduced inhibitory control in depressed patients in partial remission: A Go/Nogo study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 68, 209-218.

Ruchsow, M., Grön, G., Kiefer, M., Buchheim, A., Walter, H., Martius, P., Reiter, M., Hermle, L., Spitzer, M., Ebert, D. & Falkenstein, M. (2008). Response inhibition in borderline personality disorder: Event-related potentials in a Go/Nogo task. Journal of Neural Transmission, 115, 127-133.

Ruchsow M, Groen, G. Kiefer, M., Hermle L, Spitzer, M., & Falkenstein, M. (2008). Impulsiveness and ERP components in a Go/Nogo task. Journal of Neural Transmission, 115, 909-915.

Ruchosw, M., Grön, G. Spitzer, M., Hermle, L., Buchheim, A. & Kiefer, M. (2008). Electrophysiological evidence for a syntactic but not semantic deficit in depressive patients. Journal of Psychophysiology, 22, 121-129.

v. Soden-Fraunhofen, R., Sim, E-J., Liebich, S., Frank, K. & Kiefer, M. (2008). Die Rolle der motorischen Interaktion beim Erwerb begrifflichen Wissens: Eine Trainingsstudie mit künstlichen Objekten. Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie, 22, 47-58.



2007

Bitz, U., Gust, K., Spitzer, & Kiefer, M. (2007). Phonological  deficit in school children is reflected in the mismatch negativity. NeuroReport, 18, 911-915.

Kiefer, M. (2007). Top-down modulation of unconscious 'automatic' processes: A gating framework. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 3, 289-306. Download article


Kiefer, M., Schuch, S., Schenck, W. & Fiedler, K. (2007). Mood states modulate activity in semantic brain areas during emotional word encoding. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 1560-1530.

Kiefer, M., Schuch, S., Schenck, W. & Fiedler, K. (2007). Emotion and memory: Event-related potential indices predictive for subsequent successful memory depend on the emotional mood state. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 3, 363-373. Download article

Kiefer, M., Sim, E.-J., Liebich, S., Hauk, O. & Tanaka, J. (2007). Experience-dependent plasticity of conceptual representations in human sensory-motor areas. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 525-542.


2006

Helbig, H.B., Graf, M., Kiefer, M. (2006). The role of action representations in object recognition. Experimental Brain Research.

Kaiser, S., Hill, H., Weiss, O., Markela-Lerenc, J., Kiefer, M., & Weisbrod, M. (2006). N2 event-related potential correlates of response inhibition in an auditory Go/Nogo task. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 61, 279-282.

Kiefer, M. & Brendel, D. (2006). Attentional modulation of unconscious 'automatic' processes: Evidence from event-related potentials in a masked priming paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 184-198.

Martens, E.U., Schweinberger, S.R., Kiefer, M., Burton,  A.M. (2006). Masked and unmasked electrophysiological repetition effects of famous faces. Brain Research, 1109, 146-157.

Ruchsow, M., Herrnberger, B., Beschoner, P., Grön, G., Spitzer, M. & Kiefer, M. (2006). Error processing in major depressive disorder. Evidence from even-related potentials. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 40, 37-46.

Ruchsow, M., Walter, H., Buchheim, A., Martius, P., Spitzer, M., Kächele, H., Grön, G. & Kiefer, M. (2006). Error-related negativity and response control in patients with borderline personality disorder. Biological Psychology, 72, 133-140.


2005

Kiefer, M. (2005). Repetition priming modulates category-related effects on event-related potentials: Further evidence for multiple cortical semantic systems. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 199-211.

Kiefer, M., Ahlegian, M. & Spitzer, M. (2005). Working memory capacity, indirect semantic priming and Stroop interference: Pattern of interindividual prefrontal performance differences in healthy volunteers. Neuropsychology, 19, 332-344.

Kessler, K. & Kiefer, M. (2005). Disturbing visual working memory: Electrophysiological evidence for a role of prefrontal cortex in recovery from interference. Cerebral Cortex, 15, 1075-1087.

Ruchsow, M., Grön, G., Reuter, K., Spitzer, M., Hermle, L. & Kiefer, M. (2005). Error-related brain activity in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and in healthy controls. Journal of Psychophysiology, 19, 298-304.

Ruchsow, M., Spitzer, M., Grön, G., Grothe, J. & Kiefer, M. (2005). Error processing and impulsiveness in normals: Evidence from event-related potentials. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 317-325.

Sim, E.-J. & Kiefer, M. (2005). Category-related brain activity to natural categories is associated with the retrieval of visual features: Evidence from repetition effects during visual and functional judgments. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 260-273.


2004

Ruchsow, M., Herrnberger, B., Wiesend, C., Spitzer, M. & Kiefer, M. (2004). The effect of erroneous responses on response evaluation in patients with major depression: A study with event related potentials. Psychophysiology, 41, 833-840.

Tanaka, J. W., Kiefer, M. & Bukach, C.M. (2004). A holistic account of the own-race effect in face recognition: Evidence from a cross-cultural study. Cognition, 93, B1-B9.


2003

Erk, S., Kiefer, M., Grothe, J., Wunderlich, A., Spitzer, M. & Walter, H. (2003). Emotional context modulates subsequent memory effect. NeuroImage,18, 439-447.

Kaiser, S., Unger, J., Kiefer, M., Markela, J., Mundt, C. & Weisbrod, M. (2003). Executive control deficit in depression: Event-related potentials in a Go/NoGo task. Psychiatry Research: Neroimaging, 122, 169-184.

Ruchsow, M., Trippel, K., Grön, G., Spitzer, M. & Kiefer, M. (2003). Semantic and syntactic processes during sentence comprehension in patients with schizophrenia: Evidence from event-related potentials. Schizophrenia Research, 64, 147-156.

Walter, H., Kiefer, M. & Erk, S. (2003). Content, context and cognitive style in mood-memory interactions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 433-434.


2002

Kiefer, M. (2002). The N400 is modulated by unconsciously perceived masked words: Further evidence for a spreading activation account of N400 priming effects. Cognitive Brain Research, 13, 27-39.

Kiefer, M. Apel, A., & Weisbrod, M. (2002). Arithmetic fact retrieval and working memory in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 53, 219-227.

Ruchsow, M., Grothe, J., Spitzer, M., Kiefer, M. (2002). Human anterior cingulate cortex is activated by negative feedback: Evidence from event-related potentials in a guessing task. Neuroscience Letters, 325, 203-206.


2001

Kiefer, M. (2001). Perceptual and semantic sources of category-specific effects in object categorization: Event-related potentials during picture and word categorization. Memory & Cognition, 29, 100-116.

Kiefer, M. & Spitzer, M. (2001). The limits of a distributed account of conceptual knowledge Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 469-471.


2000

Kiefer, M. & Spitzer, M. (2000). Time course of conscious and unconscious semantic brain activation. NeuroReport, 11, 2401-2407.

Weisbrod, M., Kiefer, M., Marzinzik, F. & Spitzer, M. (2000). Executive control is disturbed in schizophrenia: Evidence from event-related potentials in a Go/Nogo task. Biological Psychiatry, 47, 51-60.


1999

Kiefer, M. & Spitzer, M. (1999). Kognitive Defizite schizophrener Patienten. Nervenheilkunde, 18, 332-337.

Tanaka, J. W., Luu, P., Weisbrod, M. & Kiefer, M. (1999). Tracking the time course of object categorization using event-related potentials. NeuroReport, 10, 829-835.

Weisbrod, M., Kiefer, M., Hill, H. & Spitzer, M. (1999). Der Einsatz evozierter Potentiale zur Untersuchung von Störungen der auditorischen Informationsverarbeitung schizophrener Patienten. Nervenheilkunde, 18, 79-83.

Weisbrod, M., Kiefer, M., Winkler, S., Maier, S., Hill, H., Roesch-Ely, D. & Spitzer, M. (1999). Electrophysiological correlates of direct versus indirect semantic priming in normal volunteers. Cognitive Brain Research, 8, 289-298.

Weisbrod, M., Trage, J., Hill, H., Sattler, H., Maier, S., Kiefer, M., Grothe, J. & Spitzer, M. (1999). Emotional priming in depressed patients. German Journal of Psychiatry, 2, 19-47.


1998

Kiefer, M., Marzinzik, F., Weisbrod, M., Scherg, M. & Spitzer, M. (1998). The time course of brain activations during response inhibition: Evidence from event-related potentials in a Go/Nogo task. NeuroReport, 9, 765-770.

Kiefer, M., Weisbrod, M., Kern, I., Maier, S. & Spitzer, M. (1998). Right hemisphere activation during indirect semantic priming: Evidence from event-related potentials. Brain and Language, 64, 377-408.

Kiefer, M., Weisbrod, M. & Spitzer, M. (1998). Zur funktionellen Neuroanatomie und Psychopathologie des semantischen Gedächtnisses. Psychologische Rundschau, 49, 132-143.

1997-1995

Kiefer, M. & Dehaene, S. (1997). The time course of parietal activation in single-digit multiplication. Mathematical Cognition, 3, 1-30.

Kiefer, M., Mangold-Allwinn, R. & Barattelli, S. (1995). Vom generierten Konzept bis zum enkodierten Wort. Zur Determination der lexikalischen Spezifität von Objektbenennungen. Linguistische Berichte, 159, 381-411.

Books and Book Chapters

Kempf, W. & Kiefer, M. (Hrsg.)(2009). Forschungsmethoden der Psychologie. Zwischen naturwissenschaftlichem Experiment und sozialwissenschaftlicher Hermeneutik. Bd. 3: Natur und Kultur. Berlin: Regener.

Kempf, W. & Kiefer, M. (2009). Einleitung. In W. Kempf & M. Kiefer, M. (Hrsg.). Forschungsmethoden der Psychologie. Zwischen naturwissenschaftlichem Experiment und sozialwissenschaftlicher Hermeneutik (pp. 7-13). Bd. 3: Natur und Kultur. Berlin: Regener.

Kiefer, M. (1998). Zur kortikalen Organisation semantischer Informationsverarbeitung. In U. Kotkamp & W. Krause (Hrsg.), Intelligente Informationsverarbeitung (pp. 201-208). Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag.

Kiefer, M. (1999). Die Organisation des semantischen Gedächtnisses. Bern: Huber.

Kiefer, M. (2002). Bewusstsein. In J. Müsseler & W. Prinz (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie (pp. 178-222). Heidelberg: Spektrum, Akademischer Verlag.

Kiefer, M. (2004). Neuropsychologie und Elektrophysiologie kognitiver Defizite schizophrener Patienten. In H. Hippius (Hrsg.), Universitätskolloquien zur Schizophrenie, Bd II (pp. 102-108). Darmstadt: Steinkopf.

Kiefer, M. (2008). Bewusstsein. In J. Müsseler (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie. 2. völlig neu überarbeitete Auflage (pp. 154-188). Heidelberg: Spektrum, Akademischer Verlag.

Kiefer, M. (2009). Neurowissenschaftliche Methoden. In W. Kempf & M. Kiefer, M. (Hrsg.). Forschungsmethoden der Psychologie. Zwischen naturwissenschaftlichem Experiment und sozialwissenschaftlicher Hermeneutik. Bd. 3: Natur und Kultur (pp. 207-267). Berlin: Regener.

Kiefer, M., Weisbrod, M., Kern, I., Maier, S., & Spitzer, M. (1997). The effect of semantic distance on event-related potentials in normal subjects and schizophrenic patients. In H. Witte, U. Zwiener, B. Schack & A. Doering (Eds.), Quantitative and Topological EEG and MEG Analysis (pp. 169-171). Jena: Druckhaus Mayer GmbH.

Mangold-Allwinn, R., Barattelli, S., Kiefer, M., & Koelbing, H.G. (1995). Wörter für Dinge. Von flexiblen Konzepten zu variablen Benennungen. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.

Rinker, T. & Kiefer, M. (2011). The cognitive neuroscience of multilingualism. In W. Wiater & G. Videsott (eds.), New theoretical perspectives in multilingualism research (pp. 43-62). Frankfurt: Peter Lang

Ruchsow, M. & Kiefer, M. (2004). Elektrophysiologische Korrelate von Semantik und Grammatik bei schizophrenen und depressiven Patienten. In H. M. Müller & G. Rickheit (Hrsg.), Neurokognition der Sprache (pp. 143-165). Tübingen: Stauffenburg.

Weisbrod, M., Kiefer, M., Maier, S., Winkler, S., Hill, H., & Spitzer, M. (1997). Difficulty of the auditory oddball paradigm determines P300 topography in schizophrenic patients. In H. Witte, U. Zwiener, B. Schack & A. Doering (Eds.), Quantitative and Topological EEG and MEG Analysis  (pp. 158-160). Jena: Druckhaus Mayer GmbH.

Videsott, G., Herrnberger, B., Schilly, E., Grothe, J., Hoenig, K., Wiater, W., Spitzer, M. & Kiefer, M. (2011). The complex measurement of language(s). In W. Wiater & G. Videsott (eds.), New theoretical perspectives in multilingualism research (pp. 35-41). Frankfurt: Peter Lang

Wietasch, A.K., Kiefer, M. & Spitzer, M. (2007). Neuropsychologie. In: A. Rohde & A. Marneros (Hrsg.), Geschlechtsspezifische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Ein Handbuch. (pp. 305-323) Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

Technical Reports

Kiefer, M. (1996). Poodle, dog or animal? Specificity of object names as a result of flexible concept-word activation. In R. Meyer-Klabunde & C. von Stutterheim (Eds.), Conceptual and semantic knowledge in language production. Proceedings of a Workshop of the Special Collaborative Research Program 245 "Language and Situation" (Arbeiten aus dem Sonderforschungsbereich 245 "Sprache und Situation" Heidelberg/Mannheim, Bericht Nr. 92) (pp. 186-204). Heidelberg: Universität Heidelberg.

Maier, S. Weisbrod, M., Kiefer, M. & Spitzer, M. (1996). Network models and formal thought disorder: Priming in schizophrenic patients. In R. Meyer-Klabunde & C. von Stutterheim (Eds.), Conceptual and semantic knowledge in language production. Proceedings of a Workshop of the Special Collaborative Research Program 245 "Language and Situation" (Arbeiten aus dem Sonderforschungsbereich 245 "Sprache und Situation" Heidelberg/Mannheim, Bericht Nr. 92) (pp. 205-226). Heidelberg: Universität Heidelberg.

Kiefer, M., Barattelli, S., & Mangold-Allwinn, R. (1993). Kognition und Kommunikation: Ein integrativer Ansatz zur Detetermination der lexikalischen Spezifität der Objektklassenbezeichnung (Cognition and communication: An integrative approach to lexical specificity of object class names). (Arbeiten aus dem Sonderforschungsbereich 245 "Sprache und Situation" Heidelberg-Mannheim, Bericht Nr. 51). Mannheim: Universität Mannheim.