Publications of Tania Singer

Valk, S. L., Kanske, P., Park, B.-yong, Hong, S.-J., Böckler, A., Trautwein, F.-M., … Singer, T. (2023). Functional and microstructural plasticity following social and interoceptive mental training. ELife, 12. doi:10.7554/eLife.85188

Degering, M., Linz, R., Puhlmann, L. M., Singer, T., & Engert, V. (2023). Revisiting the stress recovery hypothesis: Differential associations of cortisol stress reactivity and recovery after acute psychosocial stress with markers of long-term stress and health. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 28. doi:10.1016/j.bbih.2023.100598

Engert, V., Hoehne, K., & Singer, T. (2023). Specific reduction in the cortisol awakening response after socio-affective mental training. Mindfulness, 14, 681–694.

Blasberg, J. U., Kanske, P., Böckler, A., Trautwein, F.-M., Singer, T., & Engert, V. (2022). Associations of social processing abilities with psychosocial stress sensitivity. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 12. doi:10.1016/j.cpnec.2022.100159

Linz, R., Puhlmann, L. M., Engert, V., & Singer, T. (2022). Investigating the impact of distinct contemplative mental trainings on daily life stress, thoughts and affect: Evidence from a nine-month longitudinal ecological momentary assessment study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 142. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105800

Böckler, A., & Singer, T. (2022). Longitudinal evidence for differential plasticity of cognitive functions: Mindfulness-based mental training enhances working memory, but not perceptual discrimination, response inhibition, and metacognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 1573–1590.

Hoehne, K., Vrticka, P., Engert, V., & Singer, T. (2022). Plasma oxytocin is modulated by mental training, but does not mediate its stress-buffering effect. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 141. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105734

Mayer, A. V., Preckel, K., Ihle, K., Piecha, F. A., Junghanns, K., Reiche, S., … Krach, S. (2022). Assessment of reward-related brain function after a single-dose of oxytocin in autism: A randomized controlled trial. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 2, 136–146.

Puhlmann, L. M., Vrticka, P., Linz, R., Stalder, T., Kirschbaum, C., Engert, V., & Singer, T. (2021). Contemplative mental training reduces hair glucocorticoid levels in a randomized clinical trial. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83, 894–905.

Favre, P., Kanske, P., Engen, H. G., & Singer, T. (2021). Decreased emotional reactivity after 3-month socio-affective but not attention- or meta-cognitive-based mental training: A randomized, controlled, longitudinal fMRI study. NeuroImage, 237. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118132

Puhlmann, L. M., Linz, R., Valk, S. L., Vrticka, P., Vos de Wael, R., Bernasconi, A., … Engert, V. (2021). Association between hippocampal structure and serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in healthy adults: A registered report. NeuroImage, 236. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118011

Tholen, M., Trautwein, F.-M., Böckler, A., Singer, T., & Kanske, P. (2020). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) item analysis of empathy and theory of mind. Human Brain Mapping, 41, 2611–2628.

Grosse Wiesmann, C., Friederici, A. D., Singer, T., & Steinbeis, N. (2020). Two systems for thinking about others' thoughts in the developing brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, 6928–6935.

Puhlmann, L. M., Engert, V., Apostolakou, F., Papassotiriou, I., Chrousos, G. P., Vrticka, P., & Singer, T. (2019). Only vulnerable adults show change in chronic low-grade inflammation after contemplative mental training: Evidence randomized clinical trial. Scientific Reports, 9. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-55250-3

Hildebrandt, L. K., McCall, C., & Singer, T. (2019). Socioaffective versus sociocognitive mental trainings differentially affect emotion regulation strategies. Emotion, 19, 1329–1342.

Puhlmann, L. M., Valk, S. L., Engert, V., Bernhardt, B. C., Lin, J., Epel, E. S., … Singer, T. (2019). Association of short-term change in leukocyte telomere length with cortical thickness change and outcomes of mental training among healthy adults: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Network Open, 2. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.9687

Linz, R., Puhlmann, L. M., Apostolakou, F., Mantzou, E., Papassotiriou, I., Chrousos, G. P., … Singer, T. (2019). Acute psychosocial stress increases serum BDNF levels: An antagonistic relation to cortisol but no group differences after mental training. Neuropsychopharmacology, 44, 1797–1804.

Singer, T., & Engert, V. (2019). It matters what you practice: Differential training effects on subjective experience, behavior, brain and body in the ReSource Project. Current Opinion in Psychology, 28, 151–158.

Przyrembel, M., Vrticka, P., Engert, V., & Singer, T. (2019). Loving-kindness meditation - A queen of hearts?: A physio-phenomenological investigation on the variety of experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 26, 95–129.

Bornemann, B., Kovacs, P., & Singer, T. (2019). Voluntary upregulation of heart rate variability through biofeedback is improved by mental contemplative training. Scientific Reports, 9. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-44201-7