Neurocognition of Language

Isabell Wartenburger

Email: isabell.wartenburger[at]uni-potsdam.de

Phone: ++49-331-9772928

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Research interests

Neural basis and development of higher cognitive functions and language processing by use of psychophysiological and brain imaging methods (fMRI, NIRS, EEG) across the life span.

Current projects

DFG "Longitudinal assessment of functional and structural cerebral reorganization during language learning in adulthood"

BMBF NIL-III (Neurowissenschaften, Instruktion, Lernen) "Short-Term vs. Long-Term Learning in Mathematical Cognition: Cerebral Correlates, Domain Impacts, and Sources of Individual Differences"

DFG SPP 1234 "Development of prosodic competence in early first language acquisition: Behavioral and neurophysiological investigations"

Exzellenzcluster Languages of Emotion (Freie Universität Berlin) „Processing of Emotion and Language - Development and interaction across lifespan"

Publications:

Friederici, A.D., Wartenburger, I. (2010). Language and brain. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science (peer-reviewed review article)

Wartenburger, I., Kühn, E., Sassenberg, U., Foth, M., Franz, E.A., van der Meer, E. (2010). On the relationship between fluid intelligence, gesture production, and brain structure. Intelligence, 38: 193-201. (IF 2008: 3.274) (published online 2009)

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(1): 158-169. (IF 2008: 3.318) (published online 2009)

Telkemeyer. S., Rossi, S., Koch, S.P., Nierhaus, T., Steinbrink, J., Poeppel, D., *Obrig, H., *Wartenburger, I. (2009). Sensitivity of newborn auditory cortex to the temporal structure of sounds. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(47): 14726-14733. *equal contribution. (IF 2008: 7.452)

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.

Wartenburger, I., Heekeren, H.R., Preusse, F., Kramer, J., van der Meer, E. (2009). Cerebral correlates of analogical processing and their modulation by training. Neuroimage, 48(1):291-302. (IF 2008: 5.694)

Mériau, K., Wartenburger, I., Kazzer, P., Prehn, Villringer, A., van der Meer, E., Heekeren, HR. (2009). Insular activity during passive viewing of aversive stimuli. Brain and Cognition, 69(1): 73-80. (IF 2008: 2.441)

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(1): 33-46. (IF: not listed)

*Heekeren, HR., *Wartenburger, I., Marschner, A., Mell, T., Villringer, A., Reischies, FM. (2007). Role of ventral striatum in reward-based decision making. Neuroreport 18 (10) 951-955.*equal contribution. (IF 2007: 2.163)

Wartenburger, I., Steinbrink,^.J., Telkemeyer, S., Friedrich, M., Friederici, AD., Obrig, H. (2007). The processing of prosody: Evidence of interhemispheric specialization at the age of four. Neuroimage 34 (1) 416-25. (IF 2007: 5.457)

Scheibe, C., Wartenburger, I., Wuestenberg, T., Kathmann, N., Villringer, A., Heekeren, HR. (2006). Neural correlates of the interaction between transient and sustained processes – a mixed blocked/event-related fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping 27(7) 545:51. (IF 2006: 4.888)

Mériau, K., Wartenburger, I., Kazzer, P., Prehn, K., Lammers, CH., van der Meer, E., Villringer, A., Heekeren, HR. (2006). A neural network reflecting individual differences in cognitive processing of emotions during perceptual decision-making. Neuroimage 33 (3) 1016-27. (IF 2006: 5.559)

Mell, T., Heekeren, HR., Marschner, A., Wartenburger, I., Villringer, A., Reischies, FM. (2005). Effect of aging on stimulus-reward association learning. Neuropsychologia, 43 (4) 554:63. (IF 2005: 4.119)

Marschner, A., Mell, T., Wartenburger, I., Villringer, A., Reischies, FM., Heekeren, HR. (2005). Reward-based decision-making and aging. Brain Research Bulletin, 67 (5) 382:390. (IF 2005: 2.481)

Heekeren, HR., Wartenburger, I., Schmidt, H., Prehn, K. Schwintowski, HP., Villringer, A. (2005). Influence of bodily harm on neural correlates of semantic and moral decision-making. Neuroimage, 24 (3) 887:97. (IF 2005: 5.288)

Wartenburger, I., Heekeren, HR., Burchert, F., Heinemann, S., De Bleser, R., Villringer, A. (2004). Neural correlates of syntactic transformations. Human Brain Mapping 22 72:81. (IF 2004: 4.815)

Heekeren, HR., Wartenburger, I., Schmidt, H., Schwintowski, HP., Villringer, A. (2003). An fMRI study of simple ethical decision-making. Neuroreport 14 (9) 1215:19. (IF 2003: 2.503)

Cannestra, AF., Wartenburger, I., Obrig, H., Villringer, A., Toga, AW. (2003). Functional assessment of Broca’s area using near infrared spectroscopy in humans. Neuroreport 14 (15) 1961:65. (IF 2003: 2.503)

Wartenburger, I., Heekeren, HR., 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) 301:14. (IF 2003: 1.571)

Wartenburger, I., Heekeren, HR., Abutalebi, J., Cappa, SF., Villringer, A., Perani, D. (2003). Early setting of grammatical processing in the bilingual brain. Neuron 37 (1) 159:70. (IF 2003: 14.109)

*funded by the Stifterverband für die Deusche Wissenschaft (Claussen-Simon-Stiftung)