Publications of Esra Al

Al, E.; Stephani, T.; Engelhardt, M.; Haegens, S.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Cardiac activity impacts cortical motor excitability. PLoS Biology 21 (11), e3002393 (2023)

Kumral, D.; Al, E.; Cesnaite, E.; Kornej, J.; Sander, C.; Hensch, T.; Zeynalova, S.; Tautenhahn, S.; Hagendorf, A.; Laufs, U. et al.; Wachter, R.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Attenuation of the heartbeat-evoked potential in patients with atrial fibrillation. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology 8 (10), pp. 1219 - 1230 (2022)

Grund, M.; Al, E.; Pabst, M.; Dabbagh, A.; Stephani, T.; Nierhaus, T.; Gaebler, M.; Villringer, A.: Respiration, heartbeat, and conscious tactile perception. The Journal of Neuroscience 42 (4), pp. 643 - 656 (2022)

Al, E.; Iliopoulos, F.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Heartbeat and somatosensory perception. NeuroImage 238, 118247 (2021)

Al, E.; Fivos, I.; Forschack, N.; Nierhaus, T.; Grund, M.; Motyka, P.; Gaebler, M.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Heart-brain interactions shape somatosensory perception and evoked potentials. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (19), pp. 10575 - 10584 (2020)

Kumral, D.; Sansal, F.; Cesnaite, E.; Mahjoory, K.; Al, E.; Gaebler, M.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: BOLD and EEG signal variability at rest differently relate to aging in the human brain. NeuroImage 207, 116373 (2020)

Motyka, P.; Grund, M.; Forschack, N.; Al, E.; Villringer, A.; Gaebler, M.: Interactions between cardiac activity and conscious somatosensory perception. Psychophysiology 56 (10), e13424 (2019)

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. Cognitive Neuroscience Conference on Body-Brain Waves, Salerno, Italy (2023)

Esra, A.; Fivos, I.; Forschack, N.; Nierhaus, T.; Grund, M.; Gaebler, M.; Motyka, P.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Somatosensory perception varies across the cardiac cycle. 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 22), Krakow, Poland (2018)

Chen, X.; Panagoulas, E.; Hardikar, S.; Maidhof, J.; Asseyer, S.; Al, E.; Villringer, K.; Müller, K.; Kause, T.; Jungehülsing, G. J. et al.; Villringer, A.: Regional and whole-brain alterations in functional connectivity in Central Post Stroke Pain patients. ISAP World Congress on Pain, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2024)

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? 30th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Seoul, Republic of Korea (2024)

Azanova, M.; Skora, L.; Studenova, A.; Al, E.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Heart rate scales with prediction error. 11th MindBrainBody Symposium 2024, Berlin, Germany (2024)

Grund, M.; Al, E.; Pabst, M.; Dabbagh, A.; Stephani, T.; Nierhaus, T.; Villringer, A.: Respiratory and cardiac activity associated with conscious tactile perception. 8th Mind, Brain, Body Symposium, Berlin, Germany (2021)

Esra, A.; Fivos, I.; Forschack, N.; Nierhaus, T.; Grund, M.; Gaebler, M.; Motyka, P.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Do somatosensory detection and localization vary across the cardiac cycle? 6th MindBrainBody Symposium (MBBS 2018), Berlin, Germany (2018)

Forster, C.; Stephani, T.; Grund, M.; Panagoulas, E.; Al, E.; Hofmann, S.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Pre-stimulus beta power encodes explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas. bioRxiv (2024)