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"Clinical Neuroscience Center

for Emotions and Social Cognition"

Döhnel, K., Schuwerk,T., Meinhardt, J., Sodian, B., Hajak, G., & Sommer, M. (2012). Functional activity of the right temporo-parietal junction and of the medial prefrontal cortex associated with true and false belief reasoning. Neuroimage, 60, 1652-1661.

Meinhardt, J., Sodian, B., Thoermer, C., Döhnel, K., & Sommer, M. (2011). True- and false belief reasoning in children and adults: An event-related potential study of theory of mind. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 67-76.

Rothmayr, C., Sodian, B., Hajak, G., Döhnel, K., Meinhardt, J., & Sommer, M. (2011). Common and distinct neural networks for false-belief reasoning and inhibitory control. NeuroImage, 56, 1705-13. 

Döhnel, K. (2011). Theory of Mind, Emotion, and the Brain: Brain Regions involved in Intention-Based Emotion Attribution. Saarbrücken: Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften.

Sommer, M., Meinhardt, J, Eichenmüller, K., Sodian, B., Döhnel, K., & Hajak, G. (2010). Modulation of the cortical false belief network during development. Brain Research, 1354, 123-31.

Sommer, M., Rothmayr, C., Döhnel, K., Meinhardt, J., Schwerdtner, J., Sodian, B., & Hajak, G. (2010). How should I decide? The neural correlates of everyday moral reasoning. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2018-2026.

Sommer, M., Sodian, B., Döhnel, K., Schwerdtner, J., Meinhardt, J., & Hajak, G. (2010). In psychopathic patients emotion attribution modulates activity in outcome-related brain areas. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 182, 88-95.

Rothmayr, C., Sommer, M., Döhnel, K., Eichenmüller, K., Arnold, K., Ibelshäuser, I., Weigert, C., Vogt, S., Schwerdtner, J., & Hajak, G. (2010). Moralisches Urteilen bei „Psychopathen“. Psychiatrische Forschung (Supplement 1).

Sommer, M., Döhnel, K., Meinhardt, J., Hajak, G. (2008). Decoding of affective facial expressions in the context of emotional situations. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2615-2621.

Sommer, M., Hajak, G., Döhnel, K., Meinhardt, J. & Müller, J.L. (2008). Emotion-dependent modulation of interference processes: a fMRI study. Acta Neurobiologicae Experimentalis, 68, 193-203.

Döhnel, K., Sommer, M., Ibach, B., Rothmayr, C., Meinhardt, J., & Hajak, G. (2008). Neural correlates of emotional working memory in patients with mild cognitive impairment. Neuropsychologia, 41, 37-48.

Müller, J.L., Sommer, M., Döhnel, K., Weber, T., Schmidt-Wilcke, T., & Hajak, G. (2008). Disturbed prefrontal and temporal brain function during emotion and cognition interaction in criminal psychopathy. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 26, 131-150.

Müller, J.L., Gänßbauer, S., Sommer, M., Döhnel, K., Weber, T., Schmidt-Wilcke, T., & Hajak, G. (2008). Gray matter changes in right superior temporal gyrus in criminal psychopaths. Evidence from voxel-based morphometry. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 163, 213-222.

Sommer, M., Döhnel, K., Sodian, B., Meinhardt, J., Thoermer, C., & Hajak, G. (2007). Neural correlates of true and false belief reasoning. Neuroimage, 35, 1378-1384.

Sommer, M., Hajak, G., Döhnel, K., Schwerdtner, J., Meinhardt, J. & Müller, J.L. (2006). Integration of emotion an cognition in patients with psychopathy. Progress in Brain Research, 156, 457-466.