Publications
Preprints
Jelinčić, V., D’Agostini, M., Ventura-Bort, C., Cascio, L., Gorianskaia, E., Weymar, M., Torta, D. M., Van Diest, I., & von Leupoldt, A. (2024, September 16). Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation increases long-latency event-related potentials, but does not affect neural gating or alpha oscillations. Authorea, DOI: 10.22541/au.172649316.66839019/v1
Ventura-Bort, C., Giraudier, M., & Weymar, M. (2024, September 04). Trancutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation enhances emotional processing and episodic memory: A conceptual replication. Authorea. DOI: 10.22541/au.172541118.83676220/v1
Koppold, A., Lonsdorf, T. B., Kuhn, M., Weymar, M.,& Ventura-Bort, C. (2024, June 01). Physiological harmony or discord? Unveiling the correspondence between subjective arousal, valence and physiological responses. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.31.596899
Ventura-Bort, C., Wirkner, J., Wendt, J., Schwabe, L., Dolcos, F., Hamm, A. O., & Weymar, M. (2024, February 13). Opposing Effects of Pre-Encoding Stress on Neural Substrates of Item and Emotional Source Memory Retrieval. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4717321
Blaser, B., Weymar, M. & Wendt, J. (2023, November 15). Associations between fluctuations in premenstrual symptoms and vagally mediated heart rate variability in daily assessments throughout the menstrual cycle. Authorea.
DOI: 10.22541/au.170000985.55376250/v1
Blaser, B., Weymar, M. & Wendt, J. (2023, November 15). Smartphone-based heart rate variability biofeedback training improves premenstrual and depressive symptoms as well as anxiety/stress symptoms and attentional executive control: a pilot study. Authorea.
DOI: 10.22541/au.170000973.36600989/v1
Blaser, B., Hufenbach, M.C., Ventura-Bort, C., Weymar, M. & Wendt, J. (2023, September 19). Fear acquisition across the menstrual cycle: The moderating role of vagally mediated heart rate variability. Authorea. DOI: 10.22541/au.169516750.01875818/v1
Ventura-Bort, C., & Weymar, M. (2023, May 15). Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation modulates the processing of interoceptive prediction error signals and their role in allostatic regulation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tuzwp
Blaser, B., Weymar, M., & Wendt J. (2023, February 14). Heart rate variability biofeedback acutely improves attentional control only in highly stressed individuals. Authorea.
DOI: 10.22541/au.167639408.80317179/v1
Tünte, M.R., PetzkeT.M., Brand, S., Murphy, J., Witthöft, M., Hoehl, S., Weymar,M., & Ventura-Bort, C. (2022, October 21). He Who Seeks Finds (Bodily Signals): Differential Effects of Self-Reported Interoceptive Attention and Accuracy on Subclinical Psychopathology in a German-Speaking Sample. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/6h9p3
Brand, S., Göhler, A.C., Tünte, M.R., Murphy, J., Woller, J.P., Jungmann, S.M., Witthöft, M., Hoehl, S., Weymar, M., Hermann, C., & Ventura-Bort, C. (2022, October 21). Bridging the Gap between Interoception and Mental Health: Subjective Interoceptive Accuracy as a Correlate of Psychopathological Symptom Burden in a Multicenter Study. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/jak6b
Schiller, D., Yu, A. N. C., Alia-Klein, N., Becker, S., Cromwell, H. C., Dolcos, F., … Lowe, L. (2022, June 11). The Human Affectome. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9nu32
Contier, F., Weymar, M., Wartenburger, I., & Rabovsky, M. (2021). The P600, but not the N400, is modulated by sustained attention.doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.18.469143
Ventura-Bort, C., Wendt, & Weymar, M. (2021). Same but different: New insights on the correspondence between subjective affective experience and physiological responses from representational similarity analyses. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.30.442153
2024
Giraudier, M., Ventura-Bort, C., & Weymar, M. (2024). Effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on the P300: Do stimulation duration and stimulation type matter? Brain Sciences, 14, 690. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14070690
Blaser, B.,Weymar, M., & Wendt, J. (in press). Premenstrual syndrome is associated with differences in heart rate variability and attentional control throughout the menstrual cycle: A pilot study. International Journal of Psychophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112374
Blaser, B., Weymar, M.,& Wendt, J. (2024). Alleviating premenstrual symptoms with smartphone-based heart rate variability biofeedback training: a pilot study. Frontiers in Digital Health, 6:1337667.https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2024.1337667
Brand, S., Tünte, M.R., Witthöft, M., Hoehl, S., Weymar,M., & Ventura-Bort, C. (2024). The German Validation of the Body Perception Questionnaire-Short Form (BPQ-SF) and its relation to current self-report measures of interoception. PLOS Mental Health, 1(1): e0000038. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000038
Contier, F., Wartenburger, I., Weymar, M, & Rabovsky, M. (2024). Are the P600 and P3 ERP components are linked to the task-evoked pupillary response as a correlate of norepinephrine activity? Psychophysiology, 61, e14565. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14565
Ventura-Bort, C., & Weymar, M. (2024). Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation modulates the processing of interoceptive prediction errors and their role in allostatic regulation. Human Brain Mapping, 45, e26613.https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26613
Tünte, M.R., PetzkeT.M., Brand, S., Murphy, J., Witthöft, M., Hoehl, S., Weymar,M., & Ventura-Bort, C. (2024). He Who Seeks Finds (Bodily Signals): German Validation of the Interoceptive Attention Scale (IATS) and its relationship with Subclinical Psychopathology. Journal of Personality Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2316236
Herr, T., Kleger, P., Strauss, S., Szeska, C., Khalil, N., Badran, B.W., Weymar, M., & Grothe, M. (2024). Effect of noninvasive transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) on cerebral motor excitability – study protocol for a randomized, sham controlled trial. Frontiers in Neurology, 14:1341898. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1341898
Schiller, D., Yu, A.N.C., Alia-Klein, N., Becker, S., ... Loeffer, L. (2024). The Human Affectome. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.158: 105450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105450
2023
Blaser, B., Weymar, M.,& Wendt, J. (2023). Acute effects of a single-session heart rate variability biofeedback on attentional control: Does stress matter? Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1292983.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1292983
Laborde, S., Ackermann, S., Borges, U., D’Agostini, M., Giraudier, M., Iskra, M., Mosley, E., Ottaviani, C., Salvotti, C., Schmaußer, M., Szeska, C., van Diest, I., Ventura-Bort, C., Voigt, L., Wendt, J., &Weymar, M. (2023). Leveraging vagally-mediated heart rate variability as an actionable non-invasive biomarker for self-regulation: Assessment, Intervention, Evaluation. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/23727322231196789
Brand, S., Meis, A.C., Tünte, M.R., Murphy, J., Woller, J.P., Jungmann, S.M., Witthöft, M., Hoehl, S., Weymar, M., Hermann, C., & Ventura-Bort, C. (2023). A Multi-site German Validation of the Interoceptive Accuracy Scale and its Relation to Psychopathological Symptom Burden. Communications Psychology, 1, 14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00016-x
Blaser, B., Weymar, M., & Wendt, J. (2023). Ökonomische Erhebung prämenstrueller Symptomatik – Deutsche Übersetzung der Kurzversion der Premenstrual Assessment Form und deren psychometrische Überprüfung. Psychotherapie – Psychosomatik – Medizinische Psychologie, 73, 405-412. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2136-6941
Ventura-Bort, C., Panza, D., & Weymar, M. (2023). Words matter when inferring emotions: A conceptual replication and extension. Cognition & Emotion, 37, 529-543. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2183491
2022
Giraudier, M., Ventura-Bort, C., Burger, A., Claes, N., D’Agostini, M., Fischer, R., Franssen, M., Kaess, M., Koenig, J. Liepelt, R., Nieuwenhuis, S., Sommer, A., Van Diest, I., von Leupoldt, A., Warren, C. & Weymar, M. (2022). Evidence for a modulating effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) on salivary alpha-amylase as indirect noradrenergic marker: a pooled mega-analysis. Brain Stimulation, 15, 1378-1388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2022.09.009
Contier, F., Weymar, M., Wartenburger, I., & Rabovsky, M. (2022). Sustained attention as measured by reaction time variability is a strong modulator for the P600, but not the N400. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34, 2297-2310. https://doi:10.1162/jocn_a_0918
Ventura-Bort, C., Wendt, & Weymar, M. (2022). New insights on the correspondence between subjective affective experience and physiological responses from representational similarity analysis.Psychophysiology, 59, e14088. https://doi.org./10.111/psyp.14088
Giraudier, M., Ventura-Bort, C., Wendt, J., Lischke, A., & Weymar, M. (2022). Memory advantage for untrustworthy faces: Replication across lab- and web-based studies. PLOS ONE, 17: e0264034. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264034
Wirkner, J., Ventura-Bort, C., Hamm, A.O, & Weymar, M. (2022). Glancing at the “sunny side of life”: Emotion processing and memory in middle-aged women. Psychology & Neuroscience, 15, 210-221. https://doi.org/10.1037/pne0000277
2021
Ventura-Bort, C., Wendt, & Weymar, M. (2021). The role of interoceptive sensibility and emotional conceptualization for the experience of emotions. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:712418. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712418
Kohn, N., Morawetz, C., Weymar, M., Yuan, J., & Dolcos, F. (2021): Editorial: Cognitive Control of Emotions in Challenging Contexts. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2021.785875. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.785875
D’Agostini, M., Burger, A.M., Franssen, M., Claes, N., Weymar, M., Von Leupoldt, A., & Van Diest, I. (2021). Effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on reversal learning, tonic pupil size, salivary alpha-amylase, and cortisol. Psychophysiology, 58, e13885. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13885
Weymar, M. & Zaehle, T. (2021): Editorial: New Frontiers in Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: Cognitive, Affective and Neurobiological Effects of Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:694723. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.694723
Ventura-Bort, C., Wirkner, J., Wendt, J., Hamm, A.O., & Weymar, M. (2021). Establishment of emotional memories is mediated by vagal nerve activation: Evidence from non-invasive taVNS. The Journal of Neuroscience, 41, 7636-7648. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2329-20.2021
Szeska, C., Richter, J., Wendt, J., Weymar, M., & Hamm, A.O. (2021). Attentive immobility in the face of inevitable distal threat – startle potentiation and fear bradycardia as an index of emotion and attention. Psychophysiology, 58: e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13812
Farmer, A. D., Strzelczyk, A., Finisguerra, A., Gourine, A. V., Gharabaghi, A., Hasan, A., Burger, A. M., Jaramillo, A. M., Mertens, A., Majid, A., Verkuil, B., Badran, B. W., Ventura-Bort, C., Gaul, C., Beste, C., Warren, C. M., Quintana, D. S., Hämmerer, D., Freri, E., Frangos, E., Tobaldini, E., Kaniusas, E., Capone, F., Rosenow, F., Panetsos, F., Ackland, G., Kaithwas, G., O’Leary, G. H., Genheimer, H., IL Jacobs, H., Van Diest, I., Schoenen, J., Redgrave, J., Fang, J., Deuchars, J., Széles, J. C., Thayer, J. F., More, K., Vonck, K., Steenbergen, L., Vianna, L. C., McTeague, L., Ludwig, M., Veldhuizen, M. G., De Couck, M., Casazza, M., Keute, M., Bikson, M., Andreatta, M., D’Agostini, M., Weymar, M., Betts, M., Prigge, M., Kaess, M., Roden, M., Thai, M., Schuster, N. M., Montano, N., Hansen, N., Kroemer, N. B., Rong, P., Fischer, R., Howland, R. H., Sclocco, R., Sellaro, R., Garcia, R. G., Bauer, S:, Gancheva, S., Stavrakis, S., Kampusch, S., Deuchars, S. A., Wehner, S., Laborde, S., Usichenko, T., Polak, T., Zaehle, T., Borges, U., Teckentrup, V., Jandackova, V. K., Napadow, V., & Koenig, J. (2021). International Consensus Based Review and Recommendations for Minimum Reporting Standards in Research on Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (Version 2020). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14:568051. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2020.568051. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.568051
Bertonatti, M., Weymar, M., Sommer, W., & Fischer, H. F. (2021). Reaching out for food: How food incentives modulate peripersonal space perception. Journal of Cognition, 4, 21. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.148
Koenig, J., Abler, B., Agartz, I., Åkerstedt, T., Andreasson, O.A., Anthony, M., Bertsch, K., Brown, R.C., Brunner, R., Carnevali, L., Critchley, H.D., Cullen, K.R., de Geus, E.J.C., Dziobekl, I., Fischer, H., Flor, H., Gaebler, M., Gianaros, P.J., Giummarra, M.J., Greening, S.G., Guendelman, S., Heathers, J.A.J., Herpertz, S.C., Hu, M.X., Jentschke, S., Kaess, M., Kaufmann, T., Klimes-Dougan, B., Koelsch, S., Krauch, M., Kumral, D., Lamers, F., Lee, Tae-Ho, Lekander, M., Lin, F., Lotze, M., Makovac, E., Mancini, M., Mancke, F., Månsson, K.N.T., Manuck, S.B., Mather, M., Meeten, F., Min, J., Mueller, B., Muench, V., Nees, F., Nga, L., Nilsonne, G., Ordonez Acuna, D., Osnes, B., Ottaviani, C., Penninx, B.W.J.H., Ponzio, A., Poudel, G.R., Reinelt, J., Ren, P., Sakaki, M., Sørensen, L., Specht, K., Straub, J., Tamm, S., Thayer, J.F., Ubani, B., van der Mee, D.J., van Velzen, L.S., Ventura-Bort, C., Villringer, A., Watson, R.R., Wei, L., Wendt, J., Westlund Schreiner, M., Westlye, L.T., Weymar, M., Winkelmann, T. Wu, G.-R., Yoo, H.J., & Quintana, D.S. (2021). Cortical thickness and resting state cardiac function across the lifespan: a cross-sectional pooled mega analysis. Psychophysiology, 58: e13688. (prä-registriert 2018 über Open Science Framework https://osf.io/xw5gp/). https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13688
2020
Michalowski, J., Wiwatowska, E., & Weymar, M. (2020): Brain potentials reveal reduced attention and error-processing during a monetary Go/NoGo task in procrastination. Scientific Reports, 10:19678. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75311-2
Ventura-Bort, C., Wendt, J., Wirkner, J., König, J., Lotze, M., Hamm, A.O., Dolcos, F., & Weymar, M. (2020). Neural substrates of long-term item and source memory for emotional associates: An fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 107561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107561
Giraudier, M., Ventura-Bort, C., & Weymar, M. (2020). Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (tVNS) improves High Confidence Recognition Memory but not Emotional Word Processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1276. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01276
Meier, J., Weymar, M., & Schwabe, L. (2020).Stress alters the neural context for building new memories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 2226-2240. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01613
Szeska, C., Richter, J., Wendt, J., Weymar, M., & Hamm, A.O. (2020). Promoting long-term inhibition of human fear responses by non-invasive transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation during extinction training. Scientific Reports, 10:1529. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58412-w
Dolcos, F., Katsumi, Y., Bogdan, P., Shen, C., Jun, S., Buetti, S., Lleras, A., Freeman Boste, K., Weymar, M. & Dolcos, S. (2020). The impact of Focused Attention on subsequent emotional recollection: A functional MRI investigation. Neuropsychologia, 107338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107338
Dolcos, F., Katsumi, Y., Moore, M., Berggren, N., de Gelder, B., Derakshan, N., Hamm, A. O., Koster, E. H. W., Ladouceur, C. D., Okon-Singer, H., Pegna, A. J.. Richter, T., Schweizer, S., Van den Stock, J., Ventura-Bort, C., Weymar, M. & Dolcos, S. (2020). Neural Correlates of Emotion-Attention Interactions: From perception, learning, and memory to individual differences and training interventions. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 108, 559-601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.08.017
Ventura-Bort, C., Dolcos, F., Wendt, J., Wirkner, J., Hamm, A.O., & Weymar, M. (2020). Item and source memory for emotional associates is mediated by different retrieval processes: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia.145: 106606 (Epub 2017 Dec 12). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.12.015
2019
Weymar, M., Ventura-Bort, C., Wendt, J. & Lischke, A. (2019). Behavioral and neural evidence of enhanced long-term memory for untrustworthy faces. Scientific Reports, 9:19217. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55705-7
Ventura-Bort, C., Wirkner, J., Dolcos, F., Wendt, J., Hamm, A. O. & Weymar, M. (2019). Enhanced spontaneous retrieval of cues from emotional events: An ERP study. Biological Psychology, 148, 107742. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107742
Wirkner, J., Ventura-Bort, C., Schwabe, L., Hamm, A.O. & Weymar, M. (2019). Chronic stress and emotion: Differential effects on attentional processing and recognition memory. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107, 93-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.05.008
Schinkoeth, M., Weymar, M. & Brand, R. (2019). Listen to the heart. Getting closer to the somatic core of affective valuations of exercise through heart rate variability analysis. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 45:101541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2019.101541
Pahnke, R., Mau-Moeller, A., Junge, M., Wendt, J., Weymar, M., Hamm, A.O. & Lischke, A. (2019). Oral Contraceptives Impair Complex Emotion Recognition in Healthy Women. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12:1041. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.01041
Wendt, J., Weymar, M., Junge, M., Hamm, A. O. & Lischke, A. (2019). Heartfelt memories: Cardiac vagal tone correlates with increased memory for untrustworthy faces. Emotion, 19(1), 178-182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000396
2018
Weymar, M., Bradley, M. M., Sege, C. T. & Lang, P. J. (2018). Neural activation and memory for natural scenes: Explicit and spontaneous retrieval. Psychophysiology, e13197, 1-12.
2017
Dolcos, F., Katsumi, Y., Weymar, M., Moore, M., Tsukiura, T. & Dolcos, S. (2017). Emerging Directions in Emotional Episodic Memories. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1867.
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Weymar, M., Bradley, M. M., El-Hinnawi, N. & Lang, P. J. (2013). Explicit and spontaneous retrieval of emotional scenes: Electrophysiological correlates. Emotion, 13, 981-988.
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Book chapters
Dolcos, F., Katsumi, Y., Denkova, E., Weymar, M., & Dolcos, S. (2017, in press). Current Issues and Emerging Directions in the Impact of Emotion on Memory: A Review of Evidence from Brain Imaging Investigations. An invited book chapter to appear in Memory in Social Context. Edited by Takashi Tsukiura and Satoshi Umeda. Springer.
Weymar, M., & Hamm, A.O. (2013). Electrophysiological signature of emotional memories. In M. Linden & K. Rutkowski, (Eds.), Hurting memories and beneficial forgetting. Elsevier Insights, 21-35.