• Non-conscious emotional processing
• Neural correlates of consciousness
• Visual masking
• EEG & MEG
• EEG-fMRI integration

1. Peters, A., Brockhoff, L., Bruchmann, M., Dellert, T., Moeck, R., Schlossmacher, I., & Straube, T. (2023). Visual perceptual load and processing of somatosensory stimuli in primary and secondary somatosensory cortices. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 7005. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34225-5
2. Bruchmann, M.*, Mertens, L.*, Schindler, S., & Straube, T. (in press). Potentiated early neural responses to fearful faces are not driven by specific face parts. Scientific Reports
3. Vormbrock, R., Bruchmann, M., Wolf, M.-I., Straube, T., & Schindler, S. (in press). Effects of emotion on auditory ERPs are independent of manipulated target relevance. Emotion
4. Brockhoff, L., Vetter, L., Bruchmann, M., Schindler, S., Moeck, R., & Straube T. (in press). The effects of visual working memory load on detection and neural processing of task-unrelated auditory stimuli. Scientific Reports
5. Dellert, T., Krebs, S., Bruchmann, M., Schindler, S., Peters, A., & Straube, T. (2022). Neural correlates of consciousness in an attentional blink paradigm with uncertain target relevance. NeuroImage, 264, 119679. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119679
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7. Vormbrock, R., Bruchmann, M., Menne, L., Straube, T., & Schindler, S. (2023). Testing stimulus exposure time as the critical factor of increased EPN and LPP amplitudes for fearful faces during perceptual distraction tasks. Cortex, 160, 9-23. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.12.011
8. Schindler, S.*, Querengässer, J.*, Bruchmann, M., Moeck, R., & Straube, T. (2021). Bayes Factors show evidence against systematic relationships between the anchoring effect and the Big Five personality traits. Scientific Reports.
9. Bruchmann, M., Schindler, S., Dinyarian, M., & Straube, T. (2021). The role of phase and orientation for ERP modulations of spectrum-manipulated fearful and neutral faces. Psychophysiology, e13974. doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13974
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14. Steinweg, A.*, Schindler, S.*, Bruchmann, M., Moeck, R., & Straube, T. (2021). Reduced early fearful face processing during perceptual distraction in high trait anxious participants. Psychophysiology.
15. Krasowski, C.*, Schindler, S.*, Bruchmann, M., Moeck, R., & Straube, T. (2021). Electrophysiological responses to negative evaluative person-knowledge: Effects of individual differences. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.
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19. Holtmann, O., Bruchmann, M., Mönig, C., Schwindt, W., Melzer, N., Miltner, W. H. R., & Straube, T. (2020). Lateralized deficits of disgust processing after insula-basal ganglia damage. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01429
20. Schindler, S., Caldarone, F., Bruchmann, M., Moeck, R., & Straube, T. (2020). Time-dependent effects of perceptual load on processing fearful and neutral faces. Neuropsychologia, 146, 107529. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107529
21. Bruchmann, M.*, Schindler, S.*, & Straube, T. (2020). The spatial frequency spectrum of fearful faces modulates early and mid‐latency ERPs but not the N170. Psychophysiology, e13597. doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13597
22. Schlossmacher, I., Dellert, T., Pitts, M., Bruchmann, M., & Straube, T. (2020). Differential effects of awareness and task relevance on early and late ERPs in a no-report visual oddball paradigm. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(14), 2906–2913. doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.2077-19.2020
23. Lin, H., Müller-Bardorff, M., Gathmann, B., Brieke, J., Mothes-Lasch, M., Bruchmann, M., Miltner, W. H. R., & Straube, T. (2020). Stimulus arousal drives amygdalar responses to emotional expressions across sensory modalities. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1898. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58839-1
24. Schindler, S., Bruchmann, M., Bublatzky, F., & Straube, T. (2019). Modulation of face- and emotion-selective ERPs by the three most common types of face image manipulations. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(5), 493–503. doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz027
25. Figel, B., Brinkmann, L., Buff, C., Heitmann, C.Y., Hofmann, D., Bruchmann, M., Becker, M.P.I., Herrmann, M.J., & Straube, T. (2019). Phasic amygdala and BNST activation during the anticipation of temporally unpredictable social observation in social anxiety disorder patients. NeuroImage: Clinical, 22, 101735. doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101735
26. Holtmann, O., Schlossmacher, I., Moenig, C., Johnen, A., Rutter, L.-M., Tenberge, J.-G., Schiffler, P., Everding, J., Golombeck, K.S., Strippel, C., Dik, A., Schwindt, W., Wiendl, H., Meuth, S.G., Bruchmann, M., Melzer, N., & Straube, T. (2018). Amygdala enlargement and emotional responses in (autoimmune) temporal lobe epilepsy. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 9561. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27914-z
27. Müller-Bardorff, M., Bruchmann, M., Mothes-Lasch, M., Zwitserlood, P., Schlossmacher, I., Hofmann, D., Miltner, W., & Straube, T. (2018). Early brain responses to affective faces: A simultaneous EEG-fMRI study. NeuroImage, 178, 660–667. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.05.081
28. Feldker, K., Heitmann, C.Y., Neumeister, P., Brinkmann, L., Bruchmann, M., Zwitserlood, P., & Straube, T. (2018). Cardiorespiratory concerns shape brain responses during automatic panic-related scene processing in patients with panic disorder. J Psychiatry Neurosci, 43(1), 26–36. doi.org/10.1503/jpn.160226
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30. Schlossmacher, I., Junghöfer, M., Straube, T., & Bruchmann, M. (2017). No differential effects to facial expressions under continuous flash suppression: An event-related potentials study. NeuroImage, 163(Supplement C), 276–285. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.09.034
31. Neumeister, P., Feldker, K., Heitmann, C. Y., Buff, C., Brinkmann, L., Bruchmann, M., & Straube, T. (2017). Specific amygdala response to masked fearful faces in post-traumatic stress relative to other anxiety disorders. Psychological Medicine, 1–11. doi.org/10.1017/S0033291717002513
32. Feldker, K., Heitmann, C. Y., Neumeister, P., Tupak, S. V., Schrammen, E., Moeck, R., Zwitserlood, P., Bruchmann, M., & Straube, T. (2017). Transdiagnostic brain responses to disorder-related threat across four psychiatric disorders. Psychological Medicine, 47(4), 730–743. doi.org/10.1017/S0033291716002634
33. Buff, C., Brinkmann, L., Bruchmann, M., Becker, M. P. I., Tupak, S., Herrmann, M. J., & Straube, T. (2017). Activity alterations in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala during threat anticipation in generalized anxiety disorder. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx103
34. Bruchmann, M., Korsukewitz, C., Krämer, J., Wiendl, H., & Meuth, S. G. (2016). Dichoptic Metacontrast Masking Functions to Infer Transmission Delay in Optic Neuritis. PLOS ONE, 11(10), e0163375. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163375
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36. Müller-Bardorff, M., Schulz, C., Peterburs, J., Bruchmann, M., Mothes-Lasch, M., Miltner, W., Straube T. (2016). Effects of emotional intensity under perceptual load: an event-related potentials (ERPs) study. Biological Psychology [epub ahead of print].
37. Schröder, O., Schriewer, E., Golombeck, K. S., Kürten, J., Lohmann, H., Schwindt, W., Wiendl, H., Bruchmann, M., Melzer, N.,Straube, T. (2015). Impaired Autonomic Responses to Emotional Stimuli in Autoimmune Limbic Encephalitis. Frontiers in Neurology: Epilepsy, 250. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00250
38. Bruchmann, M., Thaler, K., & Vorberg, D. (2015). Visible Persistence of Single-Transient Random Dot Patterns: Spatial Parameters Affect the Duration of Fading Percepts. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0137091. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137091
39. Stein, A., Engell, A., Lau, P., Wunderlich, R., Junghoefer, M., Wollbrink, A., Bruchmann, M., Rudack, C., & Pantev, C. (2015). Enhancing Inhibition-Induced Plasticity in Tinnitus–Spectral Energy Contrasts in Tailor-Made Notched Music Matter. PLoS One. 2015 May 7;10(5):e0126494. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126494
40. Pape, J., Paraskevopoulos, E., Bruchmann, M., Wollbrink,  A., Rudack, C., & Pantev, C. (2014). Playing and listening to tailor-made notched music: The effectiveness of multimodal and unimodal music training in tinnitus therapy. Neural Plasticity, 2014, e516163. doi:10.1155/2014/516163
41. Hintze, P., Junghöfer, M., & Bruchmann, M. (2014). Evidence for rapid prefrontal emotional evaluation from visual evoked responses to conditioned gratings. Biological Psychology, 99, 126-136
42. Bruchmann, M., Hintze, P. & Vorwerk, J. (2012). The time course of feature integration in plaid patterns revealed by meta- and paracontrast masking. Journal of Vision, 12(13). doi:10.1167/12.13.13
43. Huster, R.J., Enriquez-Geppert, S., Pantev, C., & Bruchmann, M. (2012). Variations in midcingulate morphology are related to ERP indices of cognitive control. Brain Structure and Function. doi:10.1007/s00429-012-0483-5.
44. Bruchmann, M., Hintze, P., & Mota, S. (2011). The effects of spatial and temporal cueing on metacontrast masking. Advances in Cognitive Psychology. 7: 132-41. doi:10.2478/v10053-008-0093-1.
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46. Bruchmann, M., Herper, K., Konrad, C., Pantev, C., & Huster, R.J. (2010). Individualized EEG source reconstruction of Stroop-interference with masked color words. NeuroImage, 49, p. 1800–1809.
47. Knecht, S., Wersching, H., Lohmann, H., Bruchmann, M., Duning, T., Dziewas, R., Berger, K. & Ringelstein, E.B. (2008). High-normal blood pressure is associated with poor cognitive performance. Hypertension;51(3):663-8.
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