August 2024
Neuropsychological observations in single case studies
and theoretical concepts about human vision
A publication gap of three decades
An attempt is made to bring together several observations in previous studies and to reflect their theoretical implications. One claim is to emphasize the power of single case studies. They reflect exploratory research which can (and has) resulted in confirmatory research testing specific hypotheses. This research is also an example of “vertical interdisciplinarity” looking for the data-generating mechanisms on the neural level for behavioral phenomena.
Ernst Pöppel, Richard Held, Douglas Frost: Residual visual function after brain wounds involving the central visual pathways in man. Nature 243 (1973) 295-296
Patients with acquired blindness in the visual field due to a stroke or an accident are not completely blind as it has been believed before; they still process visual information on an implicit level, a phenomenon that became known as “blindsight”.
Ernst Pöppel, Lewis O. Harvey, Jr.: Light-difference threshold and subjective brightness in the periphery of the visual field. Psychologische Forschung 36 (1973) 145-161
Visual processing in the visual field shows a central cone of decreasing sensitivity around the fovea up to some 10 degrees eccentricity; this perifoveal region is surrounded by a plateau of constant sensitivity up to some 35 degrees eccentricity in the temporal visual field, followed again by a decrease of sensitivity until the end of the visual field. Paradoxically, the apparent brightness of threshold stimuli increases with decreasing sensitivity. A special neural mechanism presumably implemented in the retina creates homogeneity of brightness throughout the visual field.
Ernst Pöppel: Comment on "Visual system's view of acoustic space". Nature 243 (1973) 231
The maps of the visual and the auditory space require special coordinating mechanisms in neural systems as the visual space is retina-centred, the auditory space is head-centred. The question is how one perceptual space can be created.
Ernst Pöppel, Detlev von Cramon, Helmut Backmund: Eccentricity - specific dissociation of visual functions in patients with lesions of the central visual pathways. Nature 256 (1975) 489-490
Temporal processing of stimuli in the visual field is different for the perifoveal region compared to the periphery of the visual field corresponding to the distribution of threshold.
Ernst Pöppel, Rüdiger Brinkmann, Detlev von Cramon, Wolf Singer: Association and dissociation of visual functions in a case of bilateral occipital lobe infarction. Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten 225 (1978) 1-22
In a patient with tunnel vision due to a brain injury it could be shown that restitution of visual function is possible. The concept of “central fatigue” is developed on the basis of this observation: short-term reduction of function is conceived of being the basis for long-term improvement of function.
Ernst Pöppel: Bridging a neuronal gap: Perceptual completion across a cortical scotoma is dependent on stimulus motion. Naturwissenschaften 72 (1985) 599
An area of extended blindness due to a brain injury is straddled by moving stimuli resulting in conscious vision. This observation led to a study of several decades with a publication in 2024 (see below).
Ernst Pöppel, (1986). Long-range colour-generating interactions across the retina. Nature, 320 (1986), 523–525
Colour induction is a visual phenomenon in which a negative after-image at one position in the visual field results is inducing the same colour surrounding the after-image. It is shown that this effect is of retinal origin, and it is predicted that on the level of the amacrine cells in the retina lateral neural networks with spectral sensitiity of different wavelengths are responsible for this effect.
Ernst Pöppel, Petra Stoerig, Nikos Logothetis, Wolfgang Fries, Klaus-Peter Boergen, Wolfgang Örtel, Josef Zihl: Plasticity and rigidity in the representation of the human visual field. Experimental Brain Research 68 (1987) 445-448
A patient with a convergent squint in one eye since birth suffered a stroke in old age resulting in an aera of blindness in the two eyes. It turns out that the visual field representation in the brain is rigid, but the representation of the oculomotor system is plastic. This leads to the question how the two systems are interrelated to allow reliable orientation in space.
Ernst Pöppel: Size constancy and oculomotor modulation of perifoveal light-difference threshold. Naturwissenschaften 75 (1988) 463-465
A theoretical model of neural processing is proposed that size constancy in near space is not operating on the central representation of the seen object itself but on a transformation of a coordinate system in which the object is represented. This transformation is triggered by information from extra-ocular muscles which is sent to extra-striate areas of the visual brain.
Bin Zhou, Ernst Pöppel, Lingyan Wang, Taoxi Yang, Yuliya Zaytseva, Yan Bao. Seeing without knowing: Operational principles along the early visual pathway. PsyCh Journal, 5 (2016) 145-160.
Several observations on the early visual pathway are summarized: Constancy of brightness throughout the visual field and a suspected neural mechanism at the retinal level; color induction at the retnal level and neural mechanism as a necessary condition for colour constancy; restitution of visual function after brain injury; implication for a topological representation of the visual field suggesting high divergence of projection, and the concept of “central fatigue”; the slowing down of binocular rivalry resulting in a “temporal microscope” which suggests that image creation in neural systems is implemented sequentially; interhemispheric control of visual attention presumably implemented at the level of the superior colliculus of the midbrain; seeing without knowing as suggesged by the phenomenon of “blindsight”; a strong case is made that neural activities in the visual cortex (V1) even if damaged are necessary for conscious vision.
Bao, Y., Zhou, B., Yu, X., Mao, L., Gutyrchik, E., Paolini, M., Logothetis, N., Pöppel, E. Conscious vision in blindness: A new perceptual phenomenon implemented on the “wrong” side of the brain. PsyCh Journal (2024) 1–8.
In 1985 the phenomenon of visual completion across an area of blindness in the visual field was described (see above). This observation resulted in studies of several decades with a patient which gave substantial insight into processing of visual processing in the human brain using also fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging). The paradigm of “psychoanatomy” resulted for instance in the discovery of neural mechanisms controlling perceptual verticality. Furthermore, a conceptual model is suggested that transfers processing of visual infornation to the other brain hemisphere resulting in conscious vision.
Cai M, Bao Y. Spatial attention modulates auditory dominance in audiovisual order judgment. Psych J. 2023 Aug;12(4):537-539. doi: 10.1002/pchj.661. Epub 2023 Jul 2. PMID: 37394228.
Chen S, Wang T, Bao Y. Serial dependence in timing at the perceptual level being modulated by working memory. Psych J. 2023 Aug 1. doi: 10.1002/pchj.653. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37528541.
Fan Y, Li X, Bao Y. Multiple temporal reference frames revealed by a reproduction task. Psych J. 2023 Oct 31. doi: 10.1002/pchj.697. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37905901.
Gu Y, Paolini M. Temporal regularity in autobiographical memory: A single case fMRI study. Psych J. 2023 Oct 18. doi: 10.1002/pchj.680. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37852609.
Liu Y, Zhao C, Sander-Thömmes T, Yang T, Bao Y. Beta oscillation is an indicator for two patterns of sensorimotor synchronization. Psych J. 2023 Oct 31. doi: 10.1002/pchj.696. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37905907.
Luo Y, He Y, Bao Y. Perifoveal and peripheral attentional modulation on order perception. Psych J. 2023 Oct 31. doi: 10.1002/pchj.700. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37905921.
Pöppel E, Bao Y, Giersch A, Ushakov D. Temporal processes, temporal perspectives: Logistics and semantics of human time. Psych J. 2023 Aug;12(4):477-478. doi: 10.1002/pchj.674. PMID: 37563862.
Wang T, Luo Y, Ivry RB, Tsay JS, Pöppel E, Bao Y. A unitary mechanism underlies adaptation to both local and global environmental statistics in time perception. PLoS Comput Biol. 2023 May 5;19(5):e1011116. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011116. PMID: 37146089; PMCID: PMC10191274.
Yang H, Bao Y. Three-phase temporal dynamics in random number generation. Psych J. 2023 Sep 8. doi: 10.1002/pchj.676. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37681229.
Yao Li, Biyi Ye, Yan Bao. The same phase creates a unique visual rhythm unifying moving elements in time. Psych J. 2023 Aug;12(4):500-506. doi: 10.1002/pchj.636. Epub 2023 Mar 14. PMID: 36916772.
Zhang Z, Lin X, Bao Y. Holistic temporal order judgment of tones requires top-down disentanglement. Psych J. 2023 Aug;12(4):491-499. doi: 10.1002/pchj.603. Epub 2022 Sep 22. PMID: 36137943.
Zhao C, Bao Y. Hemispheric asymmetry of auditory oddball detection: An MEG study. Psych J. 2023 Oct;12(5):749-751. doi: 10.1002/pchj.684. Epub 2023 Oct 9. PMID: 37807896.
Zhao C, Wong YL, Xu Y, Wang S, Bao Y. Time represented in space: Bar better than ring while waiting. Psych J. 2023 Oct 31. doi: 10.1002/pchj.698. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37905932.
Zhang D, Wang Y, Bao Y. Subjective time dilation as a result of entropy. Psych J. 2023 Oct 31. doi: 10.1002/pchj.695. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37905927.
Yan Bao, Dongxue Zhang, Chen Zhao, Ernst Pöppel, Vera Zabotkina (2022). An
Aesthetic Frame for Three Modes of Knowing. PsyCh Journal. DOI: 10.1002/pchj.588
Alexander Benz, Arusu Formuli, Garam Jeong, Nan Mu, Nejra Rizvanovic (2022).
Environmental psychology: Challenges and opportunities for a sustainable future.
PsyCh Journal DOI: 10.1002/pchj.585
Morteza Izadifar (2022). The Neurobiological Basis of the Conundrum of Self-
continuity: A Hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.740542
Morteza Izadifar, Taoxi Yang, Marco Paolini, Arusu Formuli, Yan Bao (2022).
Composing in the scanner: A functional magnetic resonance imaging single case
study on visual and auditory imagery. PsyCh Journal. DOI: 10.1002/pchj.522
Nan Mu, Dongxue Zhang, Chen Zhao (2022). Temporal reproduction: A paradigm
indicating a 3-s time window. PsyCh Journal. DOI: 10.1002/pchj.597
Ernst Pöppel, (2022), Social spaces as necessity: a neuro-cognitive perspective,
RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. “Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies” Series, no. 4,
part 3, pp. 348–354, DOI: 10.28995/2686-7249-2022-4- 348-354
Yifan Zeng, Xuanyu Wang, Sarita Silveira, Jana von Trott zu Solz, Fabian
Simmank, Yuliya Zaytseva, Yan Bao, Marco Paolini (2022). Symmetric in the striate
but asymmetric in the extrastriate cortex when processing three-quarter faces: Neural
underpinnings for aesthetic appreciations. PsyCh Journal. DOI: 10.1002/pchj.539
Zhilin Zhang, Xiaoxiong Lin, Yan Bao (2022). Holistic temporal order judgment of
tones requires top-down disentanglement. PsyCh Journal. DOI: 10.1002/pchj.603
Chen Zhao, Paloma Enriquez, Morteza Izadifar, Ernst Pöppel, Yan Bao, Vera
Zabotkina (2022). Complementarity of mental content and logistic algorithms in a
taxonomy of cognitive functions. Psych Journal, 1-7. DOI: 10.1002/pchj.602
It is considered important that scientists communicate their work to the general public, the so-called "Bringschuld". These are the last four books which I wrote together with Dr. Beatrice Wagner (a former doctoral student). The book "Je älter desto besser" (2010, the older the better) was even a bestseller. The next books written with her were: "Von Natur aus kreativ" (2012, by nature creative), "Dummheit" (2013, stupidity), "Traut euch zu denken" (2016, dare to think). It all started with "Lust und Schmerz" (pain and pleasure) in 1982, followed by "Grenzen des Bewußtseins" (1985, limits of consciousness, translated into many languages), "Geheimnisvoller Kosmos Gehirn" (1994, magic universe of the brain, with Anna-Lydia Edingshaus), "Gekonnt denken" (2006, competent thinking, with Silke Amthor), "Zum Entscheiden geboren" (2008, born to decide). The best book I wrote (according to own judgment) was "Der Rahmen. Ein Blick des Gehirns auf unser Ich" (2006, the frame. a view of the brain to myself); it was much too long, over 500 pages. In this book an attempt was made to describe how science "happens" (often unplanned and even chaotic). After ten books of this kind I decided, "enough is enough"; the "Bringschuld" has been done.
Im Alltag sind wir selten kreativ. Wir passen uns an, erfüllen Pflichten, werden Normen gerecht. Ob im Bildungssystem, das von Pisa und Bologna reglementiert wird, oder in der Arbeit, wo Routine und Angst vor Jobverlust immer öfter in den Burn-out führen. Für das Entdecken von persönlichen Potentialen ist wenig Raum. Dabei befähigt uns das Gehirn zu so viel mehr. Ernst Pöppel und Beatrice Wagner präsentieren eine befreiende Sicht auf den Menschen: Wir sind biologisch und neurologisch auf kreative Entfaltung angelegt - in allen Bereichen unseres Lebens, von der Bewegung bis zur Erinnerung. Diese Erkenntnis kann uns helfen, unser soziales Leben positiv zu beeinflussen. So zeigen die Autoren z.B., wie man individuell lernenden Kindern gerecht wird und warum wir uns gerade in persönlichen Krisen auf das kreative Gehirn verlassen können. Ein Buch, das mit neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen Mut macht, die eigene Kreativität zu entdecken und auszuleben.
Gebundene Ausgabe: 256 Seiten
Verlag: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & CO. KG
Erscheinungsdatum: 27. August 2012
ISBN: 3446432124
Das Älterwerden hat in unserer Kultur kein gutes Image. Zu Unrecht. Denn das Alter hält positive Überraschungen bereit, besonders was die Entwicklung des Gehirns betrifft. Es arbeitet mit
zunehmendem Alter immer besser. Man muss es nur richtig verstehen und bedienen. Wie das funktioniert, präsentieren die Autoren in zehn überraschenden Thesen. Jede These beruht auf einem
Forschungsbereich von Prof. Ernst Pöppel.Sie zeigt Funktionsweisen des Gehirns, die der Hirnforscher selbst entdeckt hat. Kennt man diese Funktionsweisen, kann man richtig mit ihnen umgehen. Denn
erst dann kommen seine Stärken richtig zum Vorschein.So wird das Altern zu einer Bereicherung für das eigene Leben. Bei aller Wissenschaft ist das Buch spannend und persönlich gehalten. Lebendig
und fesselnd beschreibt die Mitautorin Dr. Beatrice Wagner, wie der geniale Hirnforscher zu seinen Erkenntnissen kam. Kleine Übungen führen den Leser dann zu eigenen Erfahrungen und dem richtigen
Umgang mit dem eigenen Gehirn.
Gebundene Ausgabe: 272 Seiten
Verlag: GRÄFE UND UNZER Verlag GmbH
Erscheinungsdatum: Auflage 5, 1. September 2010
ISBN: 3833818670
Wussten Sie, dass die linke Körperseite empfindlicher auf Schmerz reagiert als die rechte? Ernst Pöppel erklärt die neuronalen Ursachen. Er erzählt von Erfahrungen, die wir alle kennen: von
Erinnerung und Vergessen, von Zorn und von Freude, von Assoziationen, Gewohnheiten und Irrtümern.
Taschenbuch: 560 Seiten
Verlag: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Erscheinungsdatum: 1. November 2010
ISBN: 3423346574
Brain scientists and psychologists are often victims of theories coming from other scientific areas. One example is the "treatment of time" in philosophy or physics. In our article we try to escape from these concepts in these disciplines. We use as a unifying concept of "temporal experiences" the psychobiological principle of homeostatic regulation which leads us to the idea of "identity" with its two meanings, i.e., identity of percepts or thoughts and self identity. Comments are welcome; the Frontiers journals provide the opportunity to comment either constructively or destructively.
Taoxi Yang, Xiaoxuan Li, Yao Li, Ernst Pöppel, Yan Bao (2020). Temporal twilight zone and beyond: Timing mechanisms in consciously delayed actions. PsyCh Journal, 791–803. DOI: 10.1002/pchj.389
Taoxi Yang, Sarita Silveira, Arusu Formuli, Marco Paolini, Ernst Pöppel, Tilmann Sander, Yan Bao (2019). Aesthetic experiences across cultures: neural correlates when viewing traditional Eastern or Western landscape paintings. Frontiers in Psychology10:798. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00798
Xiang Li, Ernst Pöppel, Yan Bao (2018): A nonparametric method to detect oscillatory components in short time series. PsyCh Journal, DOI: 10.1002/pchj.221
Ernst Pöppel (2018). East of West, West of East: a matter of global and local identity. Cognitive Processing. doi.org/10.1007/s10339-018-0885-2
Yan Bao, Taoxi Yang, Jinfan Zhang, Jiyuan Zhang, Xiaoxiong Lin, Marco Paolini, Ernst Pöppel, Sarita Silveira (2017): The “Third Abstraction” of the Chinese artist LaoZhu: Neural and behavioral indicators of aesthetic appreciation. PsyCh Journal 6: 110–119 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.167
Yan Bao, Alexandra von Stosch, Mona Park, Ernst Pöppel (2017). Complementarity as Generative Principle: A Thought Pattern for Aesthetic Appreciations and Cognitive Appraisals in General. Frontiers in Psychology. Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Doi.org/10.3389/fp-syg.2017.00727
Lingyan Wang, Yan Bao, Jiyuan Zhang, Xiaoxiong Lin, Lang Yang, Ernst Pöppel, Bin Zhou (2016). Scanning the world in three seconds: Mismatch negativity as an indicator of temporal segmentation. Psych Journal, 5: 170-176. DOI: 10.1002/pchj.144
Lingyan Wang, Xiaoxiong Lin, Bin Zhou, Ernst Pöppel, Yan Bao (2016). Rubberband effect in temporal control of mismatch negativity. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1299. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01299
Bin Zhou, Ernst Pöppel, Lingyan Wang, Taoxi Yang, Yuliya Zaytseva, Yan Bao (2016). Seeing without knowing: Operational principles along the early visual pathway. PsyCh Journal, 5: 145-160. DOI: 10.1002/pchj.141
Yan Bao, Taoxi Yang, Xiaoxiong Lin, Yuan Fang, Yi Wang, Ernst Pöppel, Quan Lei (2016). Aesthetic Preferences for Eastern and Western Traditional Visual Art: Identity Matters. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1596. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01596
Yan Bao, Taoxi Yang, Xaoxiong Lin, Ernst Pöppel (2016). Donders revisited: Discrete or continuous temporal processing underlying reaction time distributions? PsyCh Journal, 5: 177-179. DOI: 10.1002/pchj.142
Mona Park, Evgeny Gutyrchik, Lorenz Welker, Petra Carl, Ernst Pöppel, Yuliya Zaytseva, Thomas Meindl, Janusch Blautzik, Maximilian Reiser, Yan Bao (2015). Sadness is unique: Neural Processing of Emotions in Speech Prosody in Musicians and Non-musicians. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.01049
Sarita Silveira, Yan Bao, Lingyan Wang, Ernst Pöppel, Mihai Avram, Fabian Simmank, Yuliya Zaytseva, Janusch Blautzik (2015): Does a bishop pray when he prays? And does his brain distinguish between different religions? PsyCh Journal, 4, 199-2017. Doi:. DOI: 10.1002/pchj.116
Aline Vedder, Lukasz Smigielski, Evgeny Gutyrchik, Yan Bao, Janusch Blautzik, Ernst Pöppel, Yuliya Zaytseva, Edmund Russell (2015). Neurofunctional Correlates of Environmental Cognition. An fMRI Study with Images from Episodic Memory. PloS ONE 10(4): e0122470. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0122470
Lingyan Wang, Xiaoxiong Lin, Bin Zhou, Ernst Pöppel, Yan Bao (2015). Subjective present: a window of temporal integration indexed by mismatch negativity. Cognitive Processing, DOI 10.1007/s10339-015-0687-8
Yuliya Zaytseva, Raymond CK Chan, Ernst Pöppel, Andreas Heinz (2015). Luria revisited: cognitive research in schizophrenia, past implications and future challenges. PEHM: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine. 10:4 DOI 10.1186/s13010-015-0026-9
Yan Bao, Ernst Pöppel, Lingyan Wang, Xiaoxiong Lin, Taoxi Yang, Mihai Avram,
Janusch Blautzik, Marco Paolini, Sarita Silveira, Aline Vedder, Yuliya Zaytseva,
Bin Zhou (2015): Synchronization as a biological, psychological and social mechanism to create common time: A theoretical frame and a single case study. PsyCh Journal 4: 243–254. DOI: 10.1002/pchj.119
Yuliya Zaytseva, Evgeny Gutyrchik, Yan Bao, Ernst Pöppel, Shihui Han, Georg Northoff, Lorenz Welker, Thomas Meindl, Janusch Blautzik (2014). Self processing in the brain: A paradigmatic fMRI case study with a professional singer. Brain and Cognition, 87: 104-108.
Bin Zhou, Ernst Pöppel, Yan Bao (2014). In the jungle of time: The concept of identity as an escape. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00844
Sarita Silveira, Verena Graupmann, Maria Agthe, Evgeny Gutyrchik, Janusch Blautzik, Idil Ilhanli, Andrea Berndt, Dieter Frey, Maximilian Reiser, Ernst Pöppel, Kristina Hennig-Fast (2014). Existential neuroscience: Effects of mortality salience on neurocognitive processing of attractive opposite-sex faces. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, DOI:10.1093/scan/nst157
Ernst Pöppel, Yan Bao (2014). Temporal windows as a bridge from objective to subjective time. In: D. Lloyd & V. Arstila (Eds.), Subjective Time. MIT Press. pp. 241-261,
KyungHun Han, Yuliya Zaytseva, Yan Bao, Hyun Taek Kim, SunYong Chung, JongWoo Kim, Ernst Pöppel (2014). Impairment of the vocal expression of emotions in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, doi:10.3389/fnagi.2014.00101
Ernst Pöppel, Mihai Avram, Yan Bao, Verena Graupmann, Evgeny Gutyrchik, Aline Lutz, Mona Park, Maximilian Reiser, Edmund Russell, Sarita Silveira, Lukasz Smigielski, Caroline Szymanski, Yuliya Zaytseva (2013). Sensory processing of art as a unique window into cognitive mechanisms: Evidence from behavioral experiments and fMRI studies. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences 86, 10-17
Ernst Pöppel, Yan Bao, Shihui Han, Evgeny Gutyrchik, Alexey Sozinov, Dmitry Ushakov, Artem Kovalev, Alexander M. Chernorizov, Galina Ya. Menshikova, Vera Y. Zabotkina, Yuliya Zaytseva, Yuri P. Zinchenko (2013). Unasked questions and unused answers in psychology. Psychology in Russia. State of the Art, 6, 4-18
Silmar Teixeira, Sergio Machado, Flávia Paes, Bruna Velasques, Julio Guilherme Silva, Antonio L. Sanfim, Daniel Minc, Renato Anghinah, Luciano L. Menegaldo, Mohamed Salama, Mauricio Cagy, Antonio Egidio Nardi, Ernst Pöppel, Yan Bao, Elsbieta Szelag, Pedro Ribeiro, Oscar Arias-Carrión (2013). Time perception distortion in neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders. CNS and Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets. 12, 567-582
Mihai Avram, Kristina Hennig-Fast, Yan Bao, Ernst Pöppel, Maximilian Reiser, Janusch Blautzik, James Giordano, Evgeny Gutyrchik (2014). Neural correlates of moral judgments in first- and third-person perspectives: implications for neuroethics and beyond. BMC Neuroscience, 15:39.
Aline Lutz, Armin Nassehi, Yan Bao, Ernst Pöppel, Anikó Sztrókay, Maximilian Reiser, Kai Fehse, Evgeny Gutyrchik (2013). Neurocognitive processing of body representations in artistic and photographic images. NeuroImage 66, 288-292
Mihai Avram, Evgeny Gutyrchik, Yan Bao, Ernst Pöppel, Maximilian Reiser, Janusch Blautzik (2013). Neurofunctional correlates of aesthetic and moral judgments: Equal but not the same. Neuroscience Letters. 534, 128-132
Yan Bao, Quan Lei, Yuan Fang, Yu Tong, Kerstin Schill, Ernst Pöppel, Hans Strasburger (2013). Inhibition of Return in the Visual Field: the Eccentricity Effect is Independent of Cortical Magnification. Experimental Psychology. 60, 425-431
Yan Bao, Aneta Szymaszek, Xiaoying Wang, Anna Oron, Ernst Pöppel, Elzbieta Szelag (2013). Temporal order perception of auditory stimuli is selectively modified by tonal and non-tonal language environments. Cognition. 129, 579-585
Yan Bao, Zhiyuan Wang, Wei Liang, Yi Wang, Ernst Pöppel, Hui Li (2013). Inhibition of return at different eccentricities in the visual field share the same temporal window. Neuroscience Letters. 534, 7-11
Sarita Silveira, Verena Graupmann, Dieter Frey, Janusch Blautzik, Thomas Meindl, Maximilian Reiser, Cheng Chen, Yizhou Wang, Yan Bao, Ernst Pöppel, Evgeny Gutyrchik (2012). Matching reality in the arts: Self-referential neural processing of naturalistic compared to surrealistic images. Perception. 41, 569-576. doi:10.1068/p7191
Yi-Huang Su, Ernst Pöppel (2012). Body movement enhances the extraction of temporal structures in auditory sequences. Psychological Research. 76, 373-382
Yan Bao, Ernst Pöppel (2012). Anthropological universals and cultural specifics: Conceptual and methodological challenges in cultural neuroscience. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 36, 2143-2146
Yan Bao, Yi Wang, Ernst Pöppel (2012). Spatial orienting in the visual field: A unified perceptual space? Cognitive Processing. 13 (Suppl.) S93-S96
Ernst Pöppel, Eva Ruhnau (2011). Psychologie als eine auf Modelle angewiesene Angelegenheit ohne Taxonomie - eine Polemik. Nova Acta Leopoldina NF 110, Nr. 377, 213-233
Yan Bao, Tilmann Sander, Lutz Trahms, Ernst Pöppel, Quan Lei, Bin Zhou (2011).
Bin Zhou, Yan Bao, Tilmann Sander, Lutz Trahms, Ernst Pöppel (2010). Dissociation of summation and peak latencies in visual processing: An MEG study on stimulus eccentricity. Neuroscience Letters. 483, 101-104
Bin Zhou, Jungang Qin, Lihua Mao, Shihui Han, Ernst Pöppel (2010). Modulations of temporal perception by consciously and unconsciously perceived stimuli. Perception. 39, 900-908
Ernst Pöppel (2010). Perceptual identity and personal self: Neurobiological reflections. In: Tomasz Maruszewski, Malgorzata Fajkowska, Michael M. Eysenck, (Eds) Personality from biological, cognitive, and social perspectives. Eliot Werner Publications, Clinton Corners, New York, pp. 75-82
Oscar Arias-Carrion, Maria Stamelou, Eric Murillo-Rodríguez, Manuel Menéndez-González, Ernst Pöppel (2010). Dopaminergic reward system: a short integrative review. International Archives of Medicine. 3
Ernst Pöppel (2009). Pre-semantically defined temporal windows for cognitive processing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 363, 1887-1896
Yan Bao, Ernst Pöppel: Two spatially separated attention systems in the visual field: evidence from inhibition of return (2007). Cognitive Processing. 8, 37-44
Rüdiger Ilg, Kai Vogeley, Thomas Goschke, A. Bolte, J. Shah, Ernst Pöppel, Gereon Fink (2007). Neuronal processes underlying intuitive coherence judgments as revealed by fMRI on a semantic judgment task. NeuroImage. 38, 228-238
Koji Tanida, Ernst Pöppel (2006). A hierarchical model of operational anticipation windows in driving an automobile. Cognitive Processing. 7, 275-287
Yoshihiro Miyake, Y. Onishi, Ernst Pöppel (2004). Two types of anticipation in synchronization tapping. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis. 64, 415-426
Nikita F. Podvigin, Tatjana V. Bagaeva, Ekaterina V. Boykova, Andrej A. Zargarov, Darja N. Podvigina, Ernst Pöppel (2004). Three bands of oscillatory activity in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat visual system. Neuroscience Letters. 361, 83-85
Ernst Pöppel (2004). Lost in time: a historical frame, elementary processing units and the 3-second window. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis. 64, 295-301
Elzbieta Szelag, Joanna Kowalska, Tadeusz Galkowski, Ernst Pöppel (2004). Temporal processing deficits in high-functioning children with autism. British Journal of Psychology. 95, 269-282
Elzbieta Szelag, Joanna Kowalska, Krystyna Rymarczyk, Ernst Pöppel (2002) Duration processing in children as determined by time reproduction: implications for a few seconds temporal window. Acta psychologica. 110, 1-9
M. Kanabus, Elzbieta Szelag, Ewa Rojak, Ernst Pöppel (2002). Temporal order judgement for auditory and visual stimuli. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis. 62, 263-270
Martin Lotze, Marc Wittmann, Nicole von Steinbüchel, Ernst Pöppel, Till Roenneberg (1999). Daily rhythm of temporal resolution in the auditory system. Cortex. 35, 89-100
Elzbieta Szelag, Joanna Kowalska, Krystyna Rymarczyk, Ernst Pöppel (1998). Temporal integration in a subjective accentuation task as a function of child cognitive development. Neuroscience Letters. 257, 69-72
Elzbieta Szelag, Nicole von Steinbüchel, Ernst Pöppel (1997). Temporal processing disorders in patients with Broca's aphasia. Neuroscience Letters. 235, 33-36
Katja Rubia, Uwe Schuri, Detlev Y. von Cramon, Ernst Pöppel (1997). Time estimation as a neuronal network property: a lesion study. Neuroreport. 8, 1273-1276
Dierk Schwender, Michael Daunderer, Ernst Pöppel (1997). Central anaesthetic effects and suppression of auditory information processing during general anaesthesia. Theory of Biosciences. 116, 284-289
Ernst Pöppel (1997). A hierarchical model of temporal perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 1, 56-61
Dierk Schwender, Christian Madler, Sven Klasing, Ernst Pöppel, Klaus Peter (1995). Mid-latency auditory evoked potentials and wakefulness during Caesarean section. European Journal of Anaesthesiology. 12, 171-179
Dierk Schwender, Agnes Kaiser, Sven Klasing, Klaus Peter, Ernst Pöppel (1994). Midlatency auditory evoked potentials and explicit and implicit memory in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Anesthesiology. 80, 493-501
Dierk Schwender, Christian Madler, Sven Klasing, Klaus Peter, Ernst Pöppel (1994). Anesthetic control of 40-Hz brain activity and implicit memory. Consciousness and Cognition. 3, 129-147
Ernst Pöppel (1994). Temporal mechanisms in perception. International Review of Neurobiology. 37, 185-202
Ulla Mitzdorf, Baihan Li, Ernst Pöppel (1994) Mass-action view of single-cell responses to stimulation of the receptive field and/or beyond: exemplification with data from the rabbit primary visual cortex. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 92, 442-455
Marek Franek, Jiri Mates, Tomas Radil, Karin Beck, Ernst Pöppel (1994). Sensorimotor synchronization: Motor responses to pseudoregular auditory patterns. Perception & Psychophysics. 55, 204-217
Nicole von Steinbüchel, Ernst Pöppel (1993). Domains of rehabilitation: a theoretical perspective. Behavioural Brain Research. 56, 1-10
Dierk Schwender, Christian Madler, Sven Klasing, Klaus Peter, Ernst Pöppel (1993). Do auditory evoked potentials measure depth of anaesthesia? Theoretical Surgery. 8, 29-37
Dierk Schwender, Sven Klasing, Christian Madler, Ernst Pöppel, Klaus Peter 1993). Effects of benzodiazepines on mid-latency auditory evoked potentials. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia. 40, 1148-1154
Dierk Schwender, Sven Klasing, Christian Madler, Ernst Pöppel, Klaus Peter (1993). Mid-latency auditory evoked potentials during ketamine anaesthesia in humans. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 71, 629-632
Ute Engler, Josef Zihl, Ernst Pöppel (1993). Incongruity of homonymous visual field defects. Clinical Vision Science. 8, 355-363
Jiri Mates, Tomas Radil, Ernst Pöppel (1992). Cooperative tapping: Time control under different feedback conditions. Perception & Psychophysics. 52, 691-704
Nikira Podvigin, Hennric Jokeit, Ernst Pöppel, A. Chizh, N. Kiselyeva (1992). Stimulus dependent oscillatory activity in the lateral geniculate body of the cat. Naturwissenschaften. 79, 428-431
Thomas Steinbach, Gerhard von Dreden, Ernst Pöppel (1991). Long-term training in a choice reaction time task reveals different learning characteristics for the visual and auditory system. Naturwissenschaften. 78, 185-187
Eva Ruhnau, Ernst Pöppel (1991). Adirectional temporal zones in quantum physics and brain physiology. International Journal of Theoretical Physics. 30, 1083-1090
Ernst Pöppel, Lin Chen, Helmut Glünder, Ulla Mitzdorf, Eva Ruhnau, Kerstin Schill, Nicole von Steinbüchel (1991). Temporal and spatial constraints for mental modelling. In: V.P. Bhatkar, K.M. Rege (Eds.): Frontiers in knowledge-based computing. Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi pp. 57-68
Marek Franek, Jiri Mates, Tomas Radil, Karin Beck, Ernst Pöppel (1991). Sensorimotor synchronization: Motor responses to regular auditory patterns. Perception & Psychophysics. 49, 509-516
Agnes Kaiser, Ernst Pöppel, Dierk Schwender (1991). Hypnosis in the exploration of auditory perception during general anaesthesia. Hypnos. 18, 148-152
Christian Madler, Ingo Keller, Dierk Schwender, Ernst Pöppel (1991). Sensory information processing during general anaesthesia: The effect of isoflurane on auditory evoked neuronal oscillations. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 66, 81-87
Tomas Radil, Jiri Mates, Josef Ilmberger, Ernst Pöppel (1990). Stimulus anticipation in following rhythmic acoustical patterns by tapping. Experientia 46. 762-763
Ernst Pöppel, Kerstin Schill, Nicole von Steinbüchel (1990). Sensory integration within temporally neutral system states:A hypothesis. Naturwissenschaften.77, 89-91
Ernst Pöppel, Kerstin Schill, Nicole von Steinbüchel (1990). Multistable states in intrahemispheric learning of a sensorimotor task. NeuroReport. 1, 69-72
Ingo Keller, Christian Madler, Dierk Schwender, Ernst Pöppel (1990). Analysis of oscillatory components in perioperative AEP-recordings: a nonparametric procedure for frequency measurement. Clinical Electroencephalography. 21, 88-92
Ernst Pöppel (1989). The measurement of music and the cerebral clock: A new theory. Leonardo. 22, 83-89
Ernst Pöppel (1989). Taxonomy of the subjective: An evolutionary perspective. In: J.W. Brown (Ed.): Neuropsychology of visual Perception. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, N. J., USA. pp. 219-232
Ernst Pöppel, Nikos Logothetis: (1988). Psychophysical correlates of physiological functions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 11, 308-309
Fred Turner, Ernst Pöppel (1988). Metered poetry, the brain, and time. In: I. Rentschler, B. Herzberger, D. Epstein (Eds.): Beauty and the Brain. Biological Aspects of Aesthetics. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel pp. 71-90
Reinhard Werth, Ernst Pöppel (1988). Compression and lateral shift of mental coordinate systems in a line bisection task. Neuropsychologia. 26, 741-745
Ernst Pöppel (1988). Size constancy and oculomotor modulation of perifoveal light-difference threshold. Naturwissenschaften 75, 463-465
Stefan Brandt, Matthias Reiser, Ernst Pöppel (1988). Color induction: Spatial gain of regional retinal disinhibition in different color channels. Naturwissenschaften. 75, 574-575
Ernst Pöppel, Petra Stoerig, Nikos Logothetis, Wolfgang Fries, Klaus-Peter Boergen, Wolfgang Örtel, Josef Zihl (1987). Plasticity and rigidity in the representation of the human visual field. Experimental Brain Research. 68, 445-448
Margret Schleidt, Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Ernst Pöppel (1987). A universal constant in temporal segmentation of human short-term behavior. Naturwissenschaften. 74, 289-290
Christian Madler, Ernst Pöppel (1987). Auditory evoked potentials indicate the loss of neuronal oscillations during general anaesthesia. Naturwissenschaften. 74, 42-43
Ernst Pöppel, Thomas Steinbach (1986). Selective vulnerability of the two cerebral hemispheres under alcohol. Naturwissenschaften. 73, 327-328
Petra Stoerig, Ernst Pöppel (1986). Eccentricity-dependent residual target-detection in visual field defects. Experimental Brain Research. 64, 469-475
Ernst Pöppel (1986). Long-range colour-generating interactions across the retina. Nature. 320, 523-525
Till Roenneberg, Ernst Pöppel (1985). Topographical distribution of the summation property of Y-ganglion cells in the cat retina. Experimental Brain Research. 59, 1-9
Petra Stoerig, Martin Hübner, Ernst Pöppel (1985). Signal detection analysis of residual vision in a field defect due to a post-geniculate lesion. Neuropsychologia. 23, 589-599
Ernst Pöppel (1985). Bridging a neuronal gap: Perceptual completion across a cortical scotoma is dependent on stimulus motion. Naturwissenschaften. 72, 599
Nikos Logothetis, Wolfgang Fries, Ernst Pöppel (1985). Extrafoveal pursuit as studied with the Rashbass paradigm. In: R. Groner, G.W. McConkie, C. Menz (Eds.): Eye Movements and Human Information Processing. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, pp. 33-40
Christian Madler, Rudolf Morawetz, Pia Parth, Klaus Peter, Ernst Pöppel (1985). Pain: Right hemisphere dominance in the modulation of the emotional quality of aversive stimuli. In: J.T. Spence, C. E. Izard (Eds.): Motivation, Emotion and Personality. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, pp. 241-246
Fred Turner, Ernst Pöppel (1983). The neural lyre: Poetic meter, the brain and time. Poetry. August, pp. 277-309
Klaus J. Miescke, Ernst Pöppel (1982). A nonparametric procedure to detect periods in time series. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 13, 319-325
Josef Zihl, Peter Lissy, Ernst Pöppel (1980). Brightness perception in the visual field: Effects of retinal position and adaptation level. Psychological Research. 41, 297-304
Ernst Pöppel (1978). Time perception. In: R. Held, H.W. Leibowitz, H.-L. Teuber (Eds.): Handbook of Sensory Physiology. Vol.8. Perception. Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 713-729
Ernst Pöppel, Rüdiger Brinkmann, Detlev von Cramon, Wolf Singer (1978). Association and dissociation of visual functions in a case of bilateral occipital lobe infarction. Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten. 225, 1-22
Wolf Singer, Josef Zihl, Ernst Pöppel (1977). Subcortical control of visual thresholds in humans: Evidence for modality-specific and retinotopically organized mechanisms of selective attention. Experimental Brain Research. 29, 173-190
Josef Zihl, Ernst Pöppel, Detlev von Cramon (1977). Diurnal variation of visual field size in patients with postretinal lesions. Experimental Brain Research. 27, 245-249
Douglas Frost, Ernst Pöppel (1976). Different programming modes of human saccadic eye movements as a function of stimulus eccentricity: Indications of a functional subdivision of the visual field. Biological Cybernetics. 23. 39-48
Ernst Pöppel (1975). Parameter estimation or hypothesis testing in the statistical analysis of biological rhythms? Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 6, 511-512
Ernst Pöppel, Detlev von Cramon, Helmut Backmund (1975). Eccentricity - specific dissociation of visual functions in patients with lesions of the central visual pathways. Nature. 256, 489-490
Ernst Pöppel, Whitman A. Richards (1974). Light sensitivity in cortical scotomata contralateral to small islands of blindness. Experimental Brain Research. 21, 125-130
Ernst Pöppel, Stefanie R. Shattuck (1974). Reading in patients with brain wounds involving the central visual pathways. Cortex.10, 84-88
Jürgen Aschoff, Jaroslav Figala, Ernst Pöppel (1973). Circadian rhythms of loco-motor activity in the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) measured with two different techniques. Journal Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 85, 20-28
Ernst Pöppel (1973). Influence of pause duration on the reproduction of a 2-second interval. Bulletin Psychonomic Society. 2, 291-292
Ernst Pöppel (1973). Fortification illusion during an attack of ophthalmic migraine. Implications for the human visual cortex. Naturwissenschaften. 60, 554-555
Ernst Pöppel (1973). Comment on "Visual system's view of acoustic space". Nature. 243, 231
Ernst Pöppel, Lewis O. Harvey, Jr. (1973). Light-difference threshold and subjective brightness in the periphery of the visual field. Psychologische Forschung. 36, 145-161
Ernst Pöppel, Richard Held, Douglas Frost (1973). Residual visual function after brain wounds involving the central visual pathways in man. Nature. 243, 295-296
Ernst Pöppel (1972). Oscillations as possible basis for time perception. Studium Generale. 24, 85-107. Reprint in: J.T. Fraser et al. (Ed.): The study of time. Springer, Berlin, pp. 219-241
Ernst Pöppel (1970). Excitability cycles in central intermittency. Psychologische Forschung. 34, 1-9
Ernst Pöppel (1970). Frequency measurement in time series data. Life Sciences and Space Research. 8, 234
Ernst Pöppel, Henner Giedke (1970). Diurnal variation of time perception. Psychologische Forschung. 34, 182-198
Ernst Pöppel (1968). Desynchronisationen circadianer Rhythmen innerhalb einer isolierten Gruppe (Desynchronization of circadian rhythms within an isolated group) . Pflügers Archiv. 299, 364-370
Ernst Pöppel (1967). Signifikanz-Artefakte in der experimentellen Parapsychologie (Significance artefacts in experimental parapsychology). Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie. 10, 63-72