High estradiol levels improve false memory rates and meta-memory in highly schizotypal women (2015)
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Hodgetts, S., Hausmann, M., & Weis, S. (2015). High estradiol levels improve false memory rates and meta-memory in highly schizotypal women. Psychiatry Research, 229(3), 708-714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2015.08.016

Overconfidence in false memories is often found in patients with schizophrenia and healthy participants with high levels of schizotypy, indicating an impairment of meta-cognition within the memory domain. In general, cognitive control is suggested to... Read More about High estradiol levels improve false memory rates and meta-memory in highly schizotypal women.

Sex hormones affect language lateralisation but not cognitive control in normally cycling women (2015)
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Hodgetts, S., Weis, S., & Hausmann, M. (2015). Sex hormones affect language lateralisation but not cognitive control in normally cycling women. Hormones and Behavior, 74, 194-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.06.019

Natural fluctuations of sex hormones during the menstrual cycle have been shown to modulate language lateralisation. Using the dichotic listening (DL) paradigm, a well-established measurement of language lateralisation, several studies revealed that... Read More about Sex hormones affect language lateralisation but not cognitive control in normally cycling women.

Menstrual cycle effects on selective attention and its underlying cortical networks (2014)
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Thimm, M., Weis, S., Hausmann, M., & Sturm, W. (2014). Menstrual cycle effects on selective attention and its underlying cortical networks. Neuroscience, 258, 307-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.11.010

It was the aim of the present study to investigate menstrual cycle effects on selective attention and its underlying functional cerebral networks. Twenty-one healthy, right-handed, normally cycling women were investigated by means of functional magne... Read More about Menstrual cycle effects on selective attention and its underlying cortical networks.

Emotional prosody modulates attention in schizophrenia patients with hallucinations (2013)
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Alba-Ferrara, L., de Erausquin, G., Hirnstein, M., Weis, S., & Hausmann, M. (2013). Emotional prosody modulates attention in schizophrenia patients with hallucinations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, Article 59. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00059

Recent findings have demonstrated that emotional prosody (EP) attracts attention involuntarily (Grandjean et al., 2008). The automat shift of attention toward emotionally salient stimuli can be overcome by attentional control (Hahn et al., 2010). Att... Read More about Emotional prosody modulates attention in schizophrenia patients with hallucinations.

Contributions of emotional prosody comprehension deficits to the formation of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia (2012)
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Alba-Ferrara, L., Fernyhough, C., Weis, S., Mitchell, R., & Hausmann, M. (2012). Contributions of emotional prosody comprehension deficits to the formation of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia. Clinical Psychology Review, 32(4), 244-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2012.02.003

Deficits in emotional processing have been widely described in schizophrenia. Associations of positive symptoms with poor emotional prosody comprehension (EPC) have been reported at the phenomenological, behavioral, and neural levels. This review foc... Read More about Contributions of emotional prosody comprehension deficits to the formation of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.

The neural correlates of emotional prosody comprehension: Disentangling simple from complex emotion (2011)
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Alba-Ferrara, L., Hausmann, M., Mitchel, R., & Weis, S. (2011). The neural correlates of emotional prosody comprehension: Disentangling simple from complex emotion. PLoS ONE, 6(12), Article e28701. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028701

Background Emotional prosody comprehension (EPC), the ability to interpret another person's feelings by listening to their tone of voice, is crucial for effective social communication. Previous studies assessing the neural correlates of EPC have foun... Read More about The neural correlates of emotional prosody comprehension: Disentangling simple from complex emotion.

Dynamic changes in functional cerebral connectivity of spatial cognition during the menstrual cycle (2011)
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Weis, S., Hausmann, M., Stoffers, B., & Sturm, W. (2011). Dynamic changes in functional cerebral connectivity of spatial cognition during the menstrual cycle. Human Brain Mapping, 32(10), 1544-1556. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21126

Functional cerebral asymmetries (FCAs) in women have been shown to vary with changing levels of sex hormones during the menstrual cycle. Previous studies have suggested that interhemispheric interaction forms a key component in generating FCAs and it... Read More about Dynamic changes in functional cerebral connectivity of spatial cognition during the menstrual cycle.

Sex Hormones: modulators of interhemispheric inhibition in the human brain (2010)
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Weis, S., & Hausmann, M. (2010). Sex Hormones: modulators of interhemispheric inhibition in the human brain. Neuroscientist, 16(2), 132-138. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073858409341481

Functional cerebral asymmetries (FCAs), which constitute a basic principle of human brain organization, are supposedly generated by interhemispheric inhibition of the dominant on the nondominant hemisphere. It has repeatedly been shown that FCAs are... Read More about Sex Hormones: modulators of interhemispheric inhibition in the human brain.

Estradiol Modulates Functional Brain Organization during the Menstrual Cycle: An Analysis of Interhemispheric Inhibition (2008)
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Weis, S., Hausmann, M., Stoffers, B., Vohn, R., Kellermann, T., & Sturm, W. (2008). Estradiol Modulates Functional Brain Organization during the Menstrual Cycle: An Analysis of Interhemispheric Inhibition. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(50), 13401-13410. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.4392-08.2008

According to the hypothesis of progesterone-mediated interhemispheric decoupling (Hausmann and Güntürkün, 2000), functional cerebral asymmetries (FCAs), which are stable in men and change during the menstrual cycle in women, are generated by interhem... Read More about Estradiol Modulates Functional Brain Organization during the Menstrual Cycle: An Analysis of Interhemispheric Inhibition.