Publications
In Press
- Bayer, M., Grass, A. & Schacht, A. (In Press). Associated valence impacts early visual processing of letter strings: Evidence from ERPs in a cross-modal learning paradigm. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.
- Hammerschmidt, W., Kulke, L., Broering, C. & Schacht, A. (In Press). Money or smiles: Independent ERP effects of associated monetary reward and happy faces. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206142.
2018
- Hammerschmidt, W., Kagan, I., Kulke, L. & Schacht, A. (2018). Implicit reward associations impact face processing: Time-resolved evidence from event-related brain potentials and pupil dilations. NeuroImage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.201.
- Hernández-Gutiérrez, D., Abdel Rahman, R., Martín-Loeches, M., Muñoz, F., Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2018). Does dynamic information about the speaker´s face contribute to semantic speech processing? ERP evidence. Cortex, (104), 12-25. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.03.031.
- Jürgens, R., Fischer, J. & Schacht, A. (2018). Hot Speech and Exploding Bombs: Autonomic Arousal during Emotion Classification of Prosodic Utterances and Affective Sounds. Frontiers in Psychology, (9), 228. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00228.
- Kulke, L., Reiß, M., Krist, H. & Rakoczy, H. (2018). How robust are anticipatory looking measures of Theory of Mind? Replication attempts across the life span. Cognitive Development.
- Kulke, L., von Duhn, B., Schneider, D. & Rakoczy, H. (2018). Is Implicit Theory of Mind a Real and Robust Phenomenon? Results From a Systematic Replication Study. Psychological Science, (29), 888-900. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617747090.
- Lausen, A. & Schacht, A. (2018). Gender differences in the recognition of vocal emotions. Frontiers in Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00882.
- Muñoz, F., Hildebrandt, A., Schacht, A., Stürmer, B., Bröcker, F., Martín-Loeches, M. & Sommer, W. (2018). What makes the hedonic experience of a meal in a top restaurant special and retrievable in the long term? Meal-related, social and personality factors. Appetite, (125), 454-465. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2018.02.024.
- Schacht, A. & Vrtička, P. (2018). Spatiotemporal pattern of appraising social and emotional relevance: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13415-018-0629-x, ISSN: 1531-135X.
- Stürmer, B., Ouyang, G., Palazova, M., Schacht, A., Martín-Loeches, M., Rausch, P. & Sommer, W. (2018). Lunching for Relaxation or Cognitive Control? After-Effects of Social and Solitary Meals. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, (14(1)), 14-20. https://dx.doi.org/10.5709/acp-0234-3.
2017
- Bayer, M., Rossi, V., Vanlessen, N., Grass, A., Schacht, A. & Pourtois, G. (2017). Independent effects of motivation and spatial attention in the human visual cortex. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(1), 146 - 156. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw162.
- Bayer, M., Ruthmann, K. & Schacht, A. (2017). The impact of personal relevance on emotion processing: Evidence from event-related potentials and pupillary responses. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(9), 1470-1479. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx075.
- Hammerschmidt, W., Sennhenn-Reulen, H. & Schacht, A. (2017). Associated motivational salience impacts early sensory processing of human faces. NeuroImage. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.04.032.
- Kulke, L. (2017). The effect of stimulus size and eccentricity on attention shift latencies. Vision, 1(4), 25.
- Kulke, L. (2017). Dealing with unforeseen crises. In C. McMaster & C. Murphy, Postgraduate Study in the UK - Surviving and Succeeding (Management, Policy + Education). (9, pp. 95-108). Libri Publishing. ISBN: 9781911450030.
- Kulke, L., Bayer, M., Grimm, A. & Schacht, A. (2017). Differential effects of learned associations with words and pseudowords on event-related brain potentials. https://dx.doi.org/10.1101/240945.
- Kulke, L., Janßen, L., Demel, R. & Schacht, A. (2017). Validating the Goettingen Faces Database. https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/4KNPF.
- Kulke, L. & Rakoczy, H. (2017). Implicit Theory of Mind - an overview of current replications and non-replications. Data in Brief. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.11.016.
- Kulke, L., Reiß, M., Krist, H. & Rakoczy, H. (2017). Implicit Theory of Mind across the life span – Anticipatory looking data. Data in Brief, 15, 712-719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.10.02.
- Louisa, K. (2017). Dealing with unforeseen crises. In Christopher McMaster & Caterina Murphy, Postgraduate Study in the UK - Surviving and Succeeding. (9, pp. 95-108). Libri Publishing. ISBN: 1911450034.
- Martín-Loeches, M., Ouyang, G., Rausch, P., Stürmer, B., Palazova, M., Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2017). Test-retest reliability of the N400 component in a sentence-reading paradigm. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 0, 1–12. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1330485.
- Rossi, V., Vanlessen, N., Bayer, M., Grass, A., Pourtois, G. & Schacht, A. (2017). Motivational salience modulates early visual cortex responses across task sets. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(6), 968–979. https://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01093.
- Schacht, A. & Vrticka, P. (2017). Spatio-Temporal Pattern of Appraising Social and Emotional Relevance: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials. bioRxiv (preprint). https://dx.doi.org/10.1101/230961.
2016
- Grass, A., Bayer, M. & Schacht, A. (2016). Electrophysiological correlates of emotional content and volume level in spoken word processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10. ISSN: 1662-5161, https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00326.
- Kulke, L., Atkinson, J. & Braddick, O. (2016). Neural mechanisms of attention become more specialised during infancy: Insights from combined eye tracking and EEG. Developmental Psychobiology, (59), 250-260. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dev.21494.
- Kulke, L., Atkinson, J. & Braddick, O. (2016). Neural Differences between Covert and Overt Attention Studied using EEG with Simultaneous Remote Eye Tracking. FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE, 10. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00592, ISSN: 1662-5161.
- Maruo, Y., Schacht, A., Sommer, W. & Masaki, H. (2016). Impacts of motivational valence on the error-related negativity elicited by full and partial errors. Biological Psychology, 114, 108 - 116. ISSN: 0301-0511, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.12.004.
- Mayerhofer, B., Maier, K. & Schacht, A. (2016). Priming Interpretations: Contextual Impact on the Processing of Garden Path Jokes. Discourse Processes, 53(8), 675-694. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2015.1092373.
- Rostami, H.N., Ouyang, G., Bayer, M., Schacht, A., Zhou, C. & Sommer, W. (2016). Dissociating the influence of affective word content and cognitive processing demands on the late positive potential. Brain Topography, 29(1), 82 - 93. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10548-015-0438-2.
- Schacht, A. (2016). Determining the dynamics of perceived suspense in literary classics: A data-driven approach. In M Horváth, K Mellmann , Die biologisch-kognitiven Grundlagen narrativer Motivierung. ( , pp. ). Münster: Mentis. ISBN: 978-3-89785-463-5.
- Schacht, A., Łuczak, A., Pinkpank, T., Vilgis, T. & Sommer, W. (2016). The valence of food in pictures and on the plate: impacts on brain and body. International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, 5, 33-40. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgfs.2016.11.002.
2015
- Hildebrandt, A., Sommer, W., Schacht, A. & Wilhelm, O. (2015). Perceiving and remembering emotional facial expressions—A basic facet of emotional intelligence. Intelligence, 50, 52 - 67. ISSN: 0160-2896, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2015.02.003.
- Kulke, L., Atkinson, J. & Braddick, O. (2015). Automatic Detection of Attention Shifts in Infancy: Eye Tracking in the Fixation Shift Paradigm. PLOS ONE, 10(12). https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142505.
- Künecke, J., Sommer, W., Schacht, A. & Palazova, M. (2015). Embodied simulation of emotional valence: Facial muscle responses to abstract and concrete words. Psychophysiology, 52(12), 1590 - 1598. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12555.
- Mayerhofer, B. & Schacht, A. (2015). From incoherence to mirth: Neuro-cognitive processing of garden-path jokes. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00550.
- Pisoni, A., Turi, Z., Raithel, A., Ambrus, G.G., Alekseichuk, I., Schacht, A., Paulus, W. & Antal, A. (2015). Separating Recognition Processes of Declarative Memory via Anodal tDCS: Boosting Old Item Recognition by Temporal and New Item Detection by Parietal Stimulation. PLOS ONE, 10(3), 1-17. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123085.
- Sommer, W., Bröcker, F., Martín-Loeches, M. & Schacht, A. (2015). Understanding and Designing the Meal Experience and it’s Psychological Consequences. In P Benz, Experience Design. ( , pp. ). Bloomsbury.
2014
- Atkinson, J., Andrew, M., Kulke, L., Montague-Johnson, C., Wattam-Bell, J., Parr, J., Sullivan, P. & Braddick, O. (2014). Fixation shifts in typical infants and perinatal brain injury: attention measures from preferential looking, eye tracking and ERPs. Perception ECVP abstract, 43, 38–38.
- Bayer, M. & Schacht, A. (2014). Event-related brain responses to emotional words, pictures, and faces—A cross-domain comparison. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. https://dx.doi.org/ 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01106.
- Recio, G., Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2014). Recognizing dynamic facial expressions of emotion: Specificity and intensity effects in event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology, 96, 111 - 125. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.12.003.
- Riese, K., Bayer, M., Lauer, G. & Schacht, A. (2014). In the eye of the recipient: Pupillary responses to suspense in literary classics. Scientific Study of Literature, 4(2), 211 - 232. https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.4.2.05rie.
- Schacht, A., Sommer, W., Shmuilovich, O., Martíenz, P.C. & Martín-Loeches, M. (2014). Differential Task Effects on N400 and P600 Elicited by Semantic and Syntactic Violations. PLOS ONE, 9(3), 1-7. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091226.
- Sommer, W., Hildebrandt, A. & Schacht, A. (2014). Face Perception. In Michalos, Alex C., Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. ( , pp. 2109-2112). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_975, ISBN: 978-94-007-0753-5.
- Wilhelm, O., Hildebrandt, A., Manske, K., Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2014). Test battery for measuring the perception and recognition of facial expressions of emotion. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00404.
2013
- Boldt, A., Stürmer, B., Gaschler, R., Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2013). Get out of here, quick! Problems with transparent labels on glass doors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 19(3), 241 - 253. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0034079.
- Mayerhofer, B. & Schacht, A. (2013). Salience, accessibility, and humorous potential in the comprehension of garden path jokes: A probabilistic approach. In M Dynel, Developments in linguistic humour theory. ( , pp. ). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
- Ouyang, G., Schacht, A., Zhou, C. & Sommer, W. (2013). Overcoming limitations of the ERP method with residue iteration decomposition (RIDE): A demonstration in go/no‐go experiments. Psychophysiology, 50(3), 253 - 265. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12004.
- Palazova, M., Sommer, W. & Schacht, A. (2013). Interplay of emotional valence and concreteness in word processing: An event-related potential study with verbs. Brain and Language, 125(3), 264 - 271. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2013.02.008.
- Recio, G., Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2013). Classification of dynamic facial expressions of emotion presented briefly. Cognition and Emotion, 27(8), 1486 - 1494. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2013.794128.
- Rellecke, J., Sommer, W. & Schacht, A. (2013). Emotion effects on the N170: A question of reference?. Brain Topography, 26(1), 62 - 71. ISSN: 0896-0267.
- Schacht, A. (2013). Reviving a Forgotten Dimension – Potency in Affective Neuroscience. In J Fontaine, KR Scherer, C Soriano , Components of Emotional Meaning: A Sourcebook. ( , pp. ). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Schacht, A., Pollmann, K. & Bayer, M. (2013). Lese-Erleben im Labor? Zu Potential und Limitationen psycho(physio)logischer Methoden in der empirischen Literaturwissenschaft. In P Ajouri, K Mellmann, C Rauen , Empirie in der Literaturwissenschaft. ( , pp. ). Münster: Mentis.
- Sommer, W., Hildebrandt, A., Kunina-Habenicht, O., Schacht, A. & Wilhelm, O. (2013). Sex differences in face cognition. Acta Psychologica, 142(1), 62 - 73. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.11.001.
- Sommer, W., Stürmer, B., Shmuilovich, O., Martin-Loeches, M. & Schacht, A. (2013). How about Lunch? Consequences of the Meal Context on Cognition and Emotion. PLOS ONE, 8(7). https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070314.
2012
- Bayer, M., Sommer, W. & Schacht, A. (2012). P1 and beyond: Functional separation of multiple emotion effects in word recognition. Psychophysiology, 49(7), 959 - 969. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01381.x.
- Bayer, M., Sommer, W. & Schacht, A. (2012). Font size matters—Emotion and attention in cortical responses to written words. PLoS ONE, 7(5). https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036042.
- Hildebrandt, A., Schacht, A., Sommer, W. & Wilhelm, O. (2012). Measuring the speed of recognising facially expressed emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 26(4), 650 - 666. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2011.602046.
- Jiménez-Ortega, L., Martín-Loeches, M., Casado, P., Sel, A., Fondevila, S., de Tejada, P.H., Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2012). How the emotional content of discourse affects language comprehension. PLoS ONE, 7(3). https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033718.
- Martín-Loeches, M., Fernández, A., Schacht, A., Sommer, W., Casado, P., Jiménez-Ortega, L. & Fondevila, S. (2012). The influence of emotional words on sentence processing: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence. Neuropsychologia, 50(14), 3262 - 3272. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.010.
- Rellecke, J., Sommer, W. & Schacht, A. (2012). Does processing of emotional facial expressions depend on intention? Time-resolved evidence from event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology, 90(1), 23 - 32. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.02.002.
- Schacht, A., Adler, N., Chen, P., Guo, T. & Sommer, W. (2012). Association with positive outcome induces early effects in event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology, 89(1), 130 - 136. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.10.001.
- Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2012). Emotions in Cognitive Conflicts. In NM Seel , Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. (pp. 1139–1141). Springer. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_1914.
- Wattam-Bell, J., Chiu, M. & Kulke, L. (2012). Developmental reorganisation of visual motion pathways. I-PERCEPTION, 3(4), 230. ISSN: 2041-6695.
2011
- Bayer, M., Sommer, W. & Schacht, A. (2011). Emotional words impact the mind but not the body: Evidence from pupillary responses. Psychophysiology, 48(11), 1553 - 1561. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01219.x.
- Gerger, G., Leder, H., Tinio, P.P. & Schacht, A. (2011). Faces versus patterns: Exploring aesthetic reactions using facial EMG. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 5(3), 241 - 250. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0024154.
- Palazova, M., Mantwill, K., Sommer, W. & Schacht, A. (2011). Are effects of emotion in single words non-lexical? Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Neuropsychologia, 49(9), 2766 - 2775. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.005.
- Recio, G., Sommer, W. & Schacht, A. (2011). Electrophysiological correlates of perceiving and evaluating static and dynamic facial emotional expressions. Brain Research, 1376, 66 - 75. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2010.12.041.
- Rellecke, J., Bakirtas, A.M., Sommer, W. & Schacht, A. (2011). Automaticity in attractive face processing: brain potentials from a dual task. NeuroReport: For Rapid Communication of Neuroscience Research, 22(14), 706 - 710. https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834a89ad.
- Rellecke, J., Palazova, M., Sommer, W. & Schacht, A. (2011). On the automaticity of emotion processing in words and faces: Event-related brain potentials evidence from a superficial task. Brain and Cognition, 77(1), 23 - 32. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2011.07.001.
- Stürmer, B., Nigbur, R., Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2011). Reward and punishment effects on error processing and conflict control. Frontiers in psychology, 2. https://dx.doi.org/ 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00335.
2010
- Bayer, M., Sommer, W. & Schacht, A. (2010). Reading emotional words within sentences: The impact of arousal and valence on event-related potentials. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 78(3), 299 - 307. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.09.004.
- Schacht, A., Dimigen, O. & Sommer, W. (2010). Emotions in cognitive conflicts are not aversive but are task specific. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 10(3), 349 - 356. https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/CABN.10.3.349.
- Schacht, A., Martín-Loeches, M., Casado, P., Abdel Rahman, R., Sel, A. & Sommer, W. (2010). How Is Sentence Processing Affected by External Semantic and Syntactic Information? Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. PLOS ONE, 5(3), 1-12. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009742.
- Wilhelm, O., Herzmann, G., Kunina, O., Danthiir, V., Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2010). Individual differences in perceiving and recognizing faces—One element of social cognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(3), 530 - 548. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0019972.
2009
- Martín-Loeches, M., Schacht, A., Casado, P., Hohlfeld, A., Abdel Rahman, R. & Sommer, W. (2009). Rules and heuristics during sentence comprehension: Evidence from a dual-task brain potential study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(7), 1365 - 1379. https://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21106.
- Recio, G., Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2009). Effects of inter-stimulus interval on skin conductance responses and event-related potentials in a Go/NoGo task. Biological Psychology, 80(2), 246 - 250. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.10.007.
- Schacht, A., Nigbur, R. & Sommer, W. (2009). Emotions in Go/Nogo conflicts. Psychological Research, 73(6), 843 - 856. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-008-0192-0.
- Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2009). Time course and task dependence of emotion effects in word processing. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 9(1), 28 - 43. https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/CABN.9.1.28.
- Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2009). Emotions in word and face processing: Early and late cortical responses. Brain and Cognition, 69(3), 538 - 550. ISSN: 0278-2626.
2008
- Herzmann, G., Danthiir, V., Schacht, A., Sommer, W. & Wilhelm, O. (2008). Toward a comprehensive test battery for face cognition: Assessment of the tasks. Behavior Research Methods, 40(3), 840 - 857. https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BRM.40.3.840.
- Schacht, A., Werheid, K. & Sommer, W. (2008). The appraisal of facial beauty is rapid but not mandatory. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 8(2), 132–142. https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/CABN.8.2.132.
- Võ, M.L., Jacobs, A.M., Kuchinke, L., Hofmann, M., Conrad, M., Schacht, A. & Hutzler, F. (2008). The coupling of emotion and cognition in the eye: Introducing the pupil old/new effect. Psychophysiology, 45(1), 130 - 140. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00606.x.
2007
- Herzmann, G., Danthiir, V., Wilhelm, O., Sommer, W. & Schacht, A. (2007). Face Memory: A Cognitive and Psychophysiological Approach to the Assessment of Antecedents of Emotional Intelligence. In G Matthews, M Zeidner, RD Roberts, The Science of Emotional Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns. ( , pp. ). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Werheid, K., Schacht, A. & Sommer, W. (2007). Facial attractiveness modulates early and late event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology, 76(1-2), 100 - 108. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.06.008.
