Publications of Esra Al

Asseyer, S., Panagoulas, E., Maidhof, J., Villringer, K., Al, E., Chen, X., … Jungehülsing, G. J. (2024). Prediction of central post‐stroke pain by quantitative sensory testing. Annals of Neurology. doi:10.1002/ana.27138

Al, E., Stephani, T., Engelhardt, M., Haegens, S., Villringer, A., & Nikulin, V. V. (2023). Cardiac activity impacts cortical motor excitability. PLoS Biology, 21. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002393

Kumral, D., Al, E., Cesnaite, E., Kornej, J., Sander, C., Hensch, T., … Villringer, A. (2022). Attenuation of the heartbeat-evoked potential in patients with atrial fibrillation. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, 8, 1219–1230.

Grund, M., Al, E., Pabst, M., Dabbagh, A., Stephani, T., Nierhaus, T., … Villringer, A. (2022). Respiration, heartbeat, and conscious tactile perception. The Journal of Neuroscience, 42, 643–656.

Al, E., Iliopoulos, F., Nikulin, V. V., & Villringer, A. (2021). Heartbeat and somatosensory perception. NeuroImage, 238. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118247

Al, E., Fivos, I., Forschack, N., Nierhaus, T., Grund, M., Motyka, P., … Villringer, A. (2020). Heart-brain interactions shape somatosensory perception and evoked potentials. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, 10575–10584.

Kumral, D., Sansal, F., Cesnaite, E., Mahjoory, K., Al, E., Gaebler, M., … Villringer, A. (2020). BOLD and EEG signal variability at rest differently relate to aging in the human brain. NeuroImage, 207. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116373

Motyka, P., Grund, M., Forschack, N., Al, E., Villringer, A., & Gaebler, M. (2019). Interactions between cardiac activity and conscious somatosensory perception. Psychophysiology, 56. doi:10.1111/psyp.13424

Azanova, M., Skora, L., Studenova, A., Al, E., Nikulin, V. V., & Villringer, A. Heart rate scales with prediction error. Talk_at_event presented at the Body-Brain Waves Symposium, Salerno, Italy. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-94A5-C

Azanova, M., Skora, L., Studenova, A., Al, E., Nikulin, V. V., & Villringer, A. Heart rate scales with prediction error. Talk_at_event presented at the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) Meeting, Ghent, Belgium. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-949F-4

Azanova, M., Skora, L., Studenova, A., Al, E., Nikulin, V. V., & Villringer, A. Heart rate scales with prediction error. Talk_at_event presented at the 11th MindBrainBody Symposium 2024, Berlin, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-949D-6

Enk, L., Forster, C., Al, E., Grund, M., & Villringer, A. External vs. internal priors: Investigating the influence of stimulus expectation and the cardiac cycle on somatosensory perception. Talk_at_event presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Conference on Body-Brain Waves, Salerno, Italy. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-EE95-F

Esra, A., Fivos, I., Forschack, N., Nierhaus, T., Grund, M., Gaebler, M., … Villringer, A. Somatosensory perception varies across the cardiac cycle. Talk_at_event presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 22), Krakow, Poland. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-9227-E

Chen, X., Panagoulas, E., Hardikar, S., Maidhof, J., Asseyer, S., Al, E., … Villringer, A. Regional and whole-brain alterations in functional connectivity in Central Post Stroke Pain patients. Poster presented at the ISAP World Congress on Pain, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-F71B-D

Azanova, M., Skora, L., Studenova, A., Al, E., Nikulin, V. V., & Villringer, A. Can retina serve as a surrogate marker for cardiovascular risk factor-associated differences in the brain? Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Seoul, Republic of Korea. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-F6D2-E

Azanova, M., Skora, L., Studenova, A., Al, E., Nikulin, V. V., & Villringer, A. Heart rate scales with prediction error. Poster presented at the 11th MindBrainBody Symposium 2024, Berlin, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-F6D7-9

Panagoulas, E., Chen, X., Maidhof, J., Hardikar, S., Asseyer, S., Al, E., … Villringer, A. Lower grey matter concentration in caudate nuclei is associated with subsequent development of central post-stroke pain. Poster presented at the Congress for Clinical Neuroscience with Advanced Training Academy (DGKN24), Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-903C-8

Grund, M., Al, E., Pabst, M., Dabbagh, A., Stephani, T., Nierhaus, T., & Villringer, A. Respiratory and cardiac activity associated with conscious tactile perception. Poster presented at the 8th Mind, Brain, Body Symposium, Berlin, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-79A7-3

Esra, A., Fivos, I., Forschack, N., Nierhaus, T., Grund, M., Gaebler, M., … Villringer, A. Do somatosensory detection and localization vary across the cardiac cycle? Poster presented at the 6th MindBrainBody Symposium (MBBS 2018), Berlin, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0000-E622-6

Forster, C., Stephani, T., Grund, M., Panagoulas, E., Al, E., Hofmann, S., … Villringer, A. (2024, June 13). Pre-stimulus beta power encodes explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas. BioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.06.12.598458