Publications

 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. (in press). Neural Correlates of Emotion-Attention Interactions: From perception, learning, and memory to individual differences and training interventions. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

Ventura-Bort, C., Wirkner, J., Dolcos, F., Wendt, J., Hamm, A.O., & Weymar, M. (in press). Enhanced spontaneous retrieval cues from emotional events: An ERP study. Biological Psychology. 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.

 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.

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. doi: 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

Ventura-Bort, C., Wirkner, J., Genheimer, H., Wendt, J., Hamm, A. O., & Weymar, M. (2018). Effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) on the P300 and alpha-amylase level: A pilot study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12:202.

Fischer, R., Ventura-Bort, C., Hamm, A. O., & Weymar, M. (2018). Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) enhances conflict-triggered adjustment of cognitive control. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 18, 680-693.

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.

Wirkner, J., Schulz, P., Ventura-Bort, C., Hamm, A. O, & Weymar, M. (2018). Event-related potentials of emotional and neutral memories: The role of encoding position and delayed testing. Psychophysiology, 55: e13069, 1-12.

Lang, P. J., Herring, D. R., Duncan, C., Richter, J., Sege, C. T., Weymar, M., Limberg, A., Hamm, A. O., & Bradley, M. M. (2018). The startle evoked potential: Negative affectivity and severity of pathology in anxiety/mood disorders. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 3, 626-634.

Wieser, M., Hambach, A., & Weymar, M. (2018). Neurophysiological correlates of an attentional bias for emotional faces in socially anxious individuals – Evidence from a visual search task and N2pc. Biological Psychology, 132, 192-201.

Lischke, A. Junge, M., Hamm, A.O., & Weymar, M. (2017). Enhanced processing of untrustworthiness in natural faces with neutral expressions. Emotion, 18(2), 181-189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000318

Ventura-Bort, C., Dolcos, F., Wendt, J., Wirkner, J., Hamm, A. O., & Weymar, M. (2017). Item and source memory for emotional associates is mediated by different retrieval processes: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.12.015

Dolcos, F., Katsumi, Y., Weymar, M., Moore, M., Tsukiura, T., & Dolcos, S. (2017). Emerging Directions in Emotional Episodic Memories. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1867. 

Lang, P.J., Herring, D.R., Duncan, C., Richter, J., Sege, C.T., Weymar, M., Limberg, A., Hamm, A.O., & Bradley, M.M. (2017). The startle evoked potential: Negative affectivity and severity of pathology in anxiety/mood disorders. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 3(7), 626-634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.07.006

Wendt, J., Löw, A., Weymar, M., Lotze, M., & Hamm, A. O. (2017). Active avoidance and attentive freezing in the face of approaching threat. NeuroImage, 158, 196-204.

Wirkner, J., Weymar, M., Löw, A., Hamm, C., Struck, A.-M., & Hamm, A.O. (2017). Cognitive functioning and emotion processing in breast cancer survivors: An ERP pilot study. Psychophysiology, 54, 1209-1222.

Sege, C.T., Bradley, M.M., Weymar, M., & Lang, P.J. (2017). A direct comparison of appetitive and aversive anticipation: Overlapping and distinct neural activation. Behavioural Brain Research, 326, 96-102.

Neubert, J., Hillbrandt, K., Weymar, M., Hamm, A.O., & Wendt, J. (2017). Acquisition and Inhibition of Conditioned Fear in Spider Fearful Individuals. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 137, 114-122.

Ventura-Bort, C., Löw, A., Wendt, J., Dolcos, F., Hamm, A.O., & Weymar, M. (2016). When neutral turns significant: Brain dynamics of rapidly formed associations between neutral stimuli and emotional contexts. European Journal of Neuroscience. 26 July 2016.

Weymar, M. & Schwabe, L. (2016). Amygdala and emotion: The bright side of it. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10:224. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00224

Ventura-Bort, C., Löw, A., Wendt, J., Molto, J., Poy, R., Dolcos, F., Hamm, A.O., & Weymar, M. (2016). Binding neutral information to emotional contexts: Brain dynamics of long-term recognition memory. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2, 234-247.

Löw, A., Weymar, M., & Hamm, A.O. (2015). When threat is near get out of here: Dynamic of defensive behavior during freezing and escape. Psychological Science, 26, 1706-1716.

Wirkner, J., Löw, A., Hamm, A.O., & Weymar, M. (2015). New learning disrupts reconsolidation in the human brain: Targeting emotional memories through RSVP. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 119,  63-68.

Michalowski, J.M., Weymar, M., & Hamm, A.O. (2014). Remembering the object you fear: Brain potentials during recognition of spiders in spider phobics. PlosOne. 9(10): e109537.

Jaworek, A., Weymar, M., Löw, A., & Hamm, A. O. (2014). Brain potentials reflecting spontaneous retrieval of emotional long-term memories. Cognitive Neuroscience, 5, 168-176.

Weymar, M., Bradley, M.M., Hamm, A.O., & Lang, P.J. (2014). Encoding and reinstatement of threat: Recognition potentials. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 107, 87-92.

Weymar, M., Keil A., & Hamm, A.O. (2014). Timing the fearful brain: Hypervigilance and spatial attention in early visual perception. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 9, 723-729, doi: 10.1093/scan/nst044. Epub 2013 Apr 1

Wirkner, J., Weymar, M., Löw, A., & Hamm, A.O. (2013). Effects of pre-encoding stress on brain correlates associated with the long-term memory for emotional scenes. PlosOne, 8, e68212.

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.

Weymar, M., Gerdes, A.B.M., Löw, A., Alpers, G., & Hamm, A.O. (2013). Specific fear modulates attentional selectivity during visual search: Electrophysiological insights from the N2pc. Psychophysiology, 50, 139-148.

Weymar, M., Bradley, M.M., Hamm, A.O., & Lang, P.J. (2013). When fear forms memories: Threat of shock and brain potentials during encoding and retrieval. Cortex. 49, 819-826.

Weymar, M., Schwabe, L., Löw, A., & Hamm, A.O. (2012). Stress sensitizes the brain: Increased processing of unpleasant pictures after exposure to acute stress. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 1511-1518.

Michalowski, J.M., Melzig, C.A., Löw, A., Weymar, M., & Hamm, A.O. (2012). Modulation of the ERP repetition effects during exposure to phobia-relevant and other affective pictures in spider phobia. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 85, 55-61.

Weymar, M., Löw, A. Öhman, A., & Hamm, A.O. (2011). The face is more than its parts – Brain dynamics of enhanced spatial attention to spatial threat. NeuroImage, 58, 946-954.

Weymar, M., Löw, A.,  & Hamm, A.O. (2011). Emotional memories are resilient to time: Evidence from the parietal ERP old/new effect. Human Brain Mapping, 32, 632-640.

Weymar, M., Löw, A., Schwabe, L., & Hamm, A.O. (2010). Brain dynamics associated with recollective experiences of emotional events. NeuroReport, 21, 827-831.

Weymar, M., Löw, A., Modess, C., Engel, G., Gründling, M., Petersmann, A., Siegmund, W., & Hamm, A.O. (2010). Propranolol selectively blocks the enhanced parietal old/new effect during long-term recollection of unpleasant pictures: A high density ERP study. NeuroImage, 49, 2800-2806.

Weymar, M., Löw, A., Melzig, C.A. & Hamm, A.O. (2009). Enhanced long-term recollection for emotional pictures: Evidence from high-density ERPs. Psychophysiology, 46, 1200-1207. 

Bandt, C., Weymar, M., Samaga, D. & Hamm, A.O. (2009). Single-trial analysis of ERP components in a visual oddball experiment. Psychophysiology, 46, 474-757.

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.