Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (in chronological order)

2017

Bayer M, Ruthmann K, Schacht A (in press). The impact of personal relevance on emotion processing: Evidence from event-related potentials and pupillary responses. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. DOI: https://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. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.04.032

Martín-Loeches M, Ouyang G, Rausch P, Stürmer B, Palazova M, Schacht A, Sommer W (in press). Test-retest reliability of the N400 component in a sentence reading paradigm. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience. DOI: 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. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_0109

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. DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsw162

2016

Schacht A, Luczak 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.

Grass A, Bayer M, Schacht A (2016). Electrophysiological correlates of emotional content and volume level in spoken word processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10. DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00326.

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, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.12.004.

Rostami, HN, 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, DOI: 10.1007/s10548-015-0438-2

2015

Künecke J, Sommer W, Schacht A, Palazova M (2015). Embodied simulation of emotional valence: Facial muscle responses to abstract and concrete words. Psychophysiology, 52, 1590-1598. DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12555

Mayerhofer B, Schacht A (2015). From incoherence to mirth: neuro-cognitive processing of garden-path jokes. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 550, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00550

Mayerhofer B, Maier K, Schacht A (2015). Priming interpretations: Contextual impact on the processing of garden path jokes. Discourse Processes, 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/0163853X.2015.1092373

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, DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2015.02.003

Turi Z, Pisoni A, Raithel A, Ambrus GG, 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): e0123085. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123085

2014

Bayer M, Schacht A (2014). Event-related brain responses to emotional words, pictures and faces – A cross-domain comparison. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1106. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01106

Riese K, Bayer M, Lauer G, Schacht A (2014). In the eye of the recipient. Pupillary responses to suspense in literary classics. Scientific Studies of Literature, 4:2, 211-232. DOI: 10.1075/ssol.4.2.05rie

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. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.12.003

Schacht* A, Sommer* W, Shmuilovich O, Casado P, Martín-Loeches M (2014). Differential Task Effects on N400 and P600 Elicited by Semantic and Syntactic Violations. PLoS ONE, 9(3): e91226. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091226 (*joint first authorship)

Sommer W, Hildebrandt A, Schacht A (2014). Face Perception. In AC Michalos (ed.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_975 (invited)

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, 5:404. DOI: 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, 241-253. DOI: 10.1037/a0034079

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, 264-271. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.02.008

Ouyang G, Schacht A, Zhou C, Sommer W (2013). Overcoming Limitations of the ERP Method with Residue Iteration Decomposition (RIDE): A Demonstration in Go/Nogo Experiments. Psychophysiology, 50, 253-265. DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12004

Recio G, Schacht A, Sommer W (2013). Classification of Dynamic Facial Expressions of Emotion Presented Briefly. Cognition and Emotion, 27, 1486-1494. DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.794128

Rellecke J, Sommer W, Schacht A (2013). Emotion Effects on the N170 - A Question of Reference? Brain Topography, 26, 62-71. DOI: 10.1007/s10548-012-0261-y

Sommer W, Hildebrandt A, Kunina-Habenicht O, Schacht A, Wilhelm O (2013). Sex Differences in Face Cognition. Acta Psychologica, 142, 62-73. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.11.001

Sommer W, Stürmer B, Shmuilovich O, Martín-Loeches M, Schacht A (2013). How about Lunch? Consequences of the Meal Context on Cognition and Emotion. PLoS ONE, 8(7): e70314. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070314 http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/07/scienceshot-why-you-should-skip-business-lunch

2012

Bayer M, Sommer W, Schacht A (2012). Font Size Matters - Emotion and Attention in Cortical Responses to Written Words. PLoS ONE, 7(5): e36042. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036042 http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/05/scienceshot-large-fonts-elicit.html

Bayer M, Sommer W, Schacht A (2012). P1 and beyond: Functional Seperation of multiple emotion effects in word recognition. Psychophysiology, 49, 959-969. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01381.x

Hildebrandt A, Schacht A, Sommer W, Wilhelm O (2012). Measuring the Speed of Recognizing Facially Expressed Emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 26, 650-660. DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.602046

Jiménez-Ortega L, Martín-Loeches M, Casado P, Sel A, Fondevila S, Herreros de Tejada P, Schacht A, Sommer W. (2012). How the Emotional Content of Discourse Affects Language Comprehension. PLoS ONE, 7(3): e33718. DOI: 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, 3262-3272. DOI: 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, 23-32. DOI: 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, 130-136. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.10.001

Schacht A, Sommer W (2012). Emotions in Cognitive Conflicts. In NM Seel (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_1914

2011

Bayer M, Sommer W, Schacht A (2011). Emotional Words Impact the Mind but not the Body: Evidence from Pupillary Responses. Psychophysiology, 48, 1553–1561. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01219.x

Gerger G, Leder H, Tinio P, Schacht A (2011). Faces versus Patterns: Exploring aesthetic reactions using facial EMG. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 5, 241-250. DOI: 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, 2766– 2775. DOI: 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.12.041

Rellecke J, Bakhirtas M, Sommer W, Schacht A (2011). Automaticity in attractive face processing: Brain Potentials from a dual task. NeuroReport, 22, 706-710. DOI: 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, 23-32. DOI: 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, 2:335. DOI:  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, 299–307. DOI: 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 Neursocience, 10, 349-356. DOI: 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, e9742. DOI: 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, 530-548. DOI: 10.1037/a0019972

2009

Martín-Loeches M, Schacht A, Casado P, Abdel Rahman R, Hohlfeld A, Sommer W (2009). Rules and Heuristics during Sentence Comprehension: Evidences from a Dual-Task Brain Potential Study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1365-1379. DOI: 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, 246-250. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.10.007

Schacht A, Nigbur R, Sommer W (2009). Emotions in Go/NoGo Conflicts. Psychological Research, 73, 843-856. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-008-0192-0

Schacht A, Sommer W. (2009). Emotions in Word and Face Processing: Early and Late Cortical Responses. Brain and Cognition, 69, 538-550. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.11.005

Schacht A, Sommer W (2009). Time Course and Task Dependence of Emotion Effects in Word Processing. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 28-43. DOI: 10.3758/CABN.9.1.28

... – 2008

Herzmann G, Danthiir V, Schacht A, Sommer W, Wilhelm O (2008). Towards a Comprehensive Test Battery for Face Processing: Assessment of the Tasks. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 840-857. DOI: 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, 132-142. DOI: 10.3758/CABN.8.2.132

Võ, ML-H, Jacobs AM, Kuchinke L, Conrad M, Schacht A, Hutzler F (2008). The Coupling of Emotion and Cognition in the Eye: Old/New Effects in Pupil Dilations. Psychophysiology, 45, 130-140. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00606.x

Danthiir V, Wilhelm O, Schacht A (2005). Decision speed in intelligence tasks: Correctly an ability? Psychology Science, 47, 200-229.

Werheid K, Schacht A, Sommer W (2007). Facial attractiveness modulates early and late event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology, 76, 100-108. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.06.008

Scherer KR, Zentner MR, Schacht A (2001). Emotional states generated by music: An exploratory study of music experts. Musicae Scientia, Special Issue 2001-2002, 149-171. DOI: 10.1177/10298649020050S106

BOOK CHAPTERS
Schacht A (2016). Determining the dynamics of perceived suspense in literary classics: A data-driven approach. In M Horváth, K Mellmann (eds.), Die biologisch-kognitiven Grundlagen narrativer Motivierung. Münster: Mentis.

Sommer W, Bröcker F, Martín-Loeches M, Schacht A, Stürmer B (2015). Understanding and Designing the Meal Experience and it’s Psychological Consequences. In P Benz (ed.), Experience Design. Bloomsbury.

Schacht A (2013). Reviving a Forgotten Dimension – Potency in Affective Neuroscience. In J Fontaine, KR Scherer, C Soriano (eds.), Components of Emotional Meaning: A Sourcebook. 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 (Hg.), Empirie in der Literaturwissenschaft. Münster: Mentis.

Mayerhofer B & Schacht A (2013). Salience, accessibility, and humorous potential in the comprehension of garden path jokes: A probabilistic approach. In M Dynel (ed.), Developments in linguistic humour theory. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

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 (eds.), The Science of Emotional Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns. Oxford: Oxford University Press.