Publications Prof Martin Eimer

Research Areas:

Mechanisms of selective attention
Intermodal attention and crossmodal links in selective attention
Stimulus-response compatibility and perceptuo-motor links
Face perception
Implicit learning
Somatosensory processing and attentional selectivity in touch

Refereed Publications since 1993:

Mechanisms of selective attention

Eimer, M. (1993). ERPs elicited by Go and Nogo stimuli: Effects of attention and stimulus probability. Biological Psychology, 35, 123-138. abstract

Eimer, M. (1993). Spatial cueing, sensory gating and selective response preparation. Electroencephalograpy and Clinical Neurophysiology: Evoked Potentials, 88, 408-420. abstract

Schröger, E., & Eimer, M. (1993). Effects of transient spatial attention on auditory event-related potentials. NeuroReport, 4, 588-590.

Eimer, M. (1994). An ERP study on visual-spatial priming with peripheral onsets. Psychophysiology, 31, 154-163. abstract

Eimer, M. (1994). 'Sensory gating' as a mechanism for visuo-spatial orienting: Electrophysiological evidence from trial-by-trial cueing experiments. Perception & Psychophysics, 55, 667-675. abstract

Eimer, M. (1995). ERP correlates of transient attention shifts to color and location. Biological Psychology, 41, 167-182. abstract

Eimer, M., & Schröger, E. (1995). The location of preceding stimuli affects selective processing in a sustained attention situation. Electroencephalograpy and Clinical Neurophysiology, 94, 115-128. abstract

Eimer, M. (1996). ERP modulations indicate the selective processing of visual stimuli as a result of transient and sustained spatial attention. Psychophysiology, 33, 13-21. abstract

Eimer, M. (1996). The N2pc component as an indicator of attentional selectivity. Electroencephalograpy and Clinical Neurophysiology, 99, 225-234. abstract

Schröger, E., & Eimer, M. (1996). Effects of lateralized cues on the processing of lateralized auditory stimuli. Biological Psychology, 43, 203-226.

Eimer, M. (1997). An event-related potential (ERP) study of transient and sustained visual attention to color and form. Biological Psychology, 44, 143-160. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. (1997). Attentional selection and attentional gradients: An alternative method for studying transient visual-spatial attention. Psychophysiology, 34, 365-376. abstract

Eimer, M. (1997). Uninformative symbolic cues may bias visual-spatial attention: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Biological Psychology, 46, 67-71.

Schröger, E., & Eimer, M. (1997). Covert spatial orienting in audition: 'Cost-Benefit' analyses of reaction times and event-related potentials. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 50A, 457-474.

Eimer, M. (1998). Mechanisms of visual-spatial attention: Evidence from event-related brain potential studies. Visual Cognition, 5, 257-286. abstract

Eimer, M. (1999). Attending to quadrants and ring-shaped regions: ERP effects of visual attention in different spatial selection tasks. Psychophysiology, 36, 491-503. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. (2000). An ERP study of sustained spatial attention to stimulus eccentricity. Biological Psychology, 52, 205-220. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. (2000). The time course of spatial orienting elicited by central and peripheral cues: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology, 53, 253-258. abstract / Adobe PDF

Driver, J., Vuilleumier, P., Eimer, M., & Rees, G. (2001). Functional MRI and evoked potential correlates of conscious and unconscious vision in parietal extinction patients. NeuroImage, 14, 68-75. abstract / Adobe PDF

Van Velzen, J., & Eimer, M. (2003). Early posterior ERP components do not reflect the control of attentional shifts towards expected peripheral events. Psychophysiology. 40, 827-831 abstract / Adobe PDF

imer, M., Forster, B., Van Velzen, J., & Prabhu, G. (2005). Covert manual response preparation triggers attentional shifts: ERP evidence for the premotor theory of attention. Neuropsychologia, 43, 957-966. abstract / Adobe PDF

Forster, B., & Eimer, M. (2005). Covert spatial attention in touch: behavioural and electrophysiological evidence for costs and benefits. Psychophysiology, 42, 171-179. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., & Mazza, V. (2005). Electrophysiological correlates of change detection. Psychophysiology, 42, 328-342. abstract / Adobe PDF

Intermodal attention and crossmodal links in selective attention

Eimer, M., & Schröger, E. (1998). ERP effects of intermodal attention and cross-modal links in spatial attention. Psychophysiology, 35, 313-327. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. (1999). Can attention be directed to opposite locations in different modalities? An ERP study. Clinical Neurophysiology, 110, 1252-1259. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., & Driver, J. (2000). An event-related brain potential study of cross-modal links in spatial attention between vision and touch. Psychophysiology, 37, 697-705. abstract / Adobe PDF

Kennett, S., Eimer, M., Spence, C., & Driver, J. (2001). Tactile-visual links in exogenous spatial attention under different postures: Convergent evidence from Psychophysics and ERPs. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 462-478. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., Cockburn, D., Smedley, B., & Driver, J. (2001). Cross-modal links in endogenous spatial attention are mediated by common external locations: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Experimental Brain Research, 139, 398-411. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. (2001). Crossmodal links in spatial attention between vision, audition, and touch: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Neuropsychologia, 39, 1292-1303. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., & Driver, J. (2001). Crossmodal links in endogenous and endogenous spatial attention: Evidence from event-related brain potential studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 25, 497-511. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., Van Velzen, J., & Driver, J. (2002). Crossmodal interactions between audition, touch, and vision in endogenous spatial attention: ERP evidence on preparatory states and sensory modulations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 254-271. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., & Van Velzen, J. (2002). Crossmodal links in spatial attention are mediated by supramodal control processes: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Psychophysiology, 39, 437-449. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. (submitted). Electrophysiology of human crossmodal attention. In C. Spence & J. Driver (Eds.) Crossmodal Space and crossmodal attention. Oxford University Press.

Eimer, M. (submitted). Electrophysiological studies on multisensory attention. In G. Calvert, C. Spence, & B. Stein (Eds.). The handbook of multisensory processes. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.

Van Velzen, J., Forster, B., & Eimer, M. (2002). Temporal dynamics of lateralised ERP components elicited during endogenous attentional shifts to relevant tactile events. Psychophysiology, 39, 874-878. abstract

Eimer, M., Van Velzen, J., Forster, B., & Driver, J. (2003). Shifts of attention in light and in darkness: An ERP study of supramodal attentional control and crossmodal links in spatial attention. Cognitive Brain Research 15. 308-323 abstract / Adobe PDF

Macaluso, E., Eimer, M., Frith, C.D., & Driver, J. (2003). Preparatory states in crossmodal spatial attention: Spatial specificity and possible control mechanisms. Experimental Brain Research, 149, 62-74. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. (2004). Multisensory integration: How visual experience shapes spatial perception. Current Biology, 14, R115-R117. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., Van Velzen, J., & Driver, J. (2004). ERP evidence for crossmodal audio-visual effects of endogenous spatial attention within hemifields. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 272-288. abstract / Adobe PDF

Macaluso, E., Driver, J., Van Velzen, J., & Eimer, M. (2005). Influence of gaze direction on crossmodal modulation of visual ERPs by endogenous tactile spatial attention. Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 406-417. abstract / Adobe PDF

Stimulus-response compatibility and perceptuo-motor links

Eimer, M. (1995). Stimulus-response compatibility and automatic response activation: Evidence from psychophysiological studies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21, 837-854. abstract

Eimer, M., Hommel, B., & Prinz, W. (1995). S-R compatibility and response selection. Acta Psychologica, 90, 301-313. abstract

Eimer, M. (1997). The Lateralized Readiness Potential as an on-line measure of automatic response activation in S-R compatibility situations. In B. Hommel & W. Prinz (Eds.). Theoretical issues in stimulus-response compatibility. Advances in Psychology, 118. Amsterdam: Elsevier (pp. 51-73). abstract

Schlaghecken, F. & Eimer, M. (1997). The influence of subliminally presented primes on response preparation. Sprache & Kognition, 16, 166-175. abstract

Eimer, M. (1998). The Lateralized Readiness Potential as an on-line measure of selective response activation. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 30, 146-156. abstract

Eimer, M., & Schlaghecken, F. (1998). Effects of masked stimuli on motor activation: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 1737-1747. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. (1999). Facilitatory and inhibitory effects of masked prime stimuli on motor activation and behavioral performance. Acta Psychologica, 101, 293-313. abstract / Adobe PDF

Haggard, P., & Eimer M. (1999). On the relation between brain potentials and the awareness of voluntary movements. Experimental Brain Research,126, 128-133. - / Adobe PDF

Schlaghecken, F., & Eimer, M. (2000). A central/peripheral asymmetry in subliminal priming. Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 1367-1382. abstract

Eimer, M., & Schlaghecken, F. (2001). Response facilitation and inhibition in manual, vocal, and oculomotor performance: Evidence for a modality-unspecific mechanism. Journal of Motor Behavior, 33, 16-26. abstract

Eimer, M., & Coles, M.G.H. (2001). The lateralized readiness potential. In M. Jahanshahi & M. Hallett (Eds.). The Bereitschaftspotential: In Honour of Professors Deecke and Kornhuber. New York: Kluwer Academic / Plenum (forthcoming). abstract

Schlaghecken, F., & Eimer, M. (2001). Partial response activation to masked primes is not dependent on response readiness. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 92, 208-222. abstract

Schlaghecken, F., & Eimer, M. (2002). Motor activation with and without inhibition: Evidence for a threshold mechanism in motor control. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 148-162. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., Schubö, A., & Schlaghecken, F. (2002). Locus of inhibition in the masked priming of response alternatives. Journal of Motor Behaviour, 34, 3-10. abstract

Eimer, M. & Schlaghecken, F. (2002). Links between conscious awareness and response inhibition: Evidence from masked priming. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 514-520. abstract / Adobe PDF

Aron, A., Schlaghecken, F., Fletcher, P., Bullmore, E., Eimer, M., Barker, R., Sahakian, B., & Robbins, T. (2003). Inhibition of subliminally primed responses is mediated by the caudate and thalamus: evidence from MRI and Huntington's disease. Brain. 126, 713-723 abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., & Schlaghecken, F. (2003). Response facilitation and inhibition in subliminal priming. Biological Psychology. 64, 7-26 abstract / Adobe PDF

Schlaghecken, F, & Eimer, M. (2004). Subliminal stimuli can bias ‘free’ choices between response alternatives. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 463-468. abstract / Adobe PDF

Schlaghecken, F., Münchau, A., Bloem, B.R., Rothwell, J., & Eimer, M. (2003). Slow frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation affects reaction times, but not priming effects, in a masked prime task. Clinical Neurophysiology. 114, 1272-1277 abstract / Adobe PDF

Face perception

Eimer, M. (1998). Does the face-specific N170 component reflect the activity of a specialized eye detector? NeuroReport, 9, 2945-2948. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., & McCarthy, R.A. (1999). Prosopagnosia and structural encoding of faces: Evidence from event-related potentials. NeuroReport, 10, 255-259. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. (2000). Attentional modulations of face-specific ERP components. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 17, 103-116. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. (2000). Event-related brain potentials distinguish processing stages involved in face perception and recognition. Clinical Neurophysiology, 111, 694-705. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. (2000). The face-specific N170 component reflects late stages in the structural encoding of faces. NeuroReport, 11, 2319-2324. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. (2000). Effects of face inversion on the structural encoding and recognition of faces: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Cognitive Brain Research, 10, 145-158. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., & Holmes, A. (2002). An ERP study on the time course of emotional face processing. NeuroReport, 13, 427-431. abstract / Adobe PDF

Holmes, A., Vuilleumier, P., & Eimer, M. (2003). The processing of emotional facial expression is gated by spatial attention: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Cognitive Brain Research, 16, 174-184. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. & Holmes, A. (2003). The role of spatial attention in the processing of facial expression: An ERP study of rapid brain responses to six basic emotions. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 3 (2), 97-110 abstract / Adobe PDF

Implicit learning

Eimer, M., Goschke, T., Schlaghecken, F., & Stürmer, B. (1996): Explicit and implicit learning of event sequences: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 22, 970-987. abstract

Schlaghecken, F., Stuermer, B., & Eimer, M. (2000). Chunking processes in the learning of event sequences. Memory & Cognition, 28, 821-831. abstract

Somatosensory processing and attentional selectivity in touch

Eimer, M., Maravita, A., Van Velzen, J., Husain, M., & Driver, J. (2002). The Electrophysiology of Tactile Extinction: ERP correlates of unconscious somatosensory processing. Neuropsychologia, 40, 2438-2447. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., & Forster, B. (2003). Modulations of early somatosensory ERP components by transient and sustained spatial attention. Experimental Brain Research; 151: 24-31. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M. & Forster, B. (2003). The spatial distribution of attentional selectivity in touch: Evidence from somatosensory ERP components Clinical Neurophysiology 114: 1298-1306 abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., Forster, B., & Van Velzen, J. (2003). Anterior and posterior attentional control systems use different spatial reference frames: ERP evidence from covert tactile-spatial orienting. Psychophysiology 40: 924-933. abstract / Adobe PDF

Forster, B., & Eimer, M. (2004). The attentional selection of spatial and non-spatial attributes in touch: ERP evidence for parallel and independent processes. Biological Psychology 66:1-20. abstract / Adobe PDF

Eimer, M., Forster, B., Fieger, A., & Harbich, S. (2004). Effects of hand posture on preparatory control processes and sensory modulations in tactile-spatial attention. Clinical Neurophysiology 115:596-608. abstract / Adobe PDF

Forster, B., & Eimer, M. (2005). Covert spatial attention in touch: behavioural and electrophysiological evidence for costs and benefits. Psychophysiology, 42, 171-179. abstract / Adobe PDF

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