Publications of Tania Singer

Linz, R.; Puhlmann, L. M.; Engert, V.; Singer, T.: 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, 105800 (2022)

Hoehne, K.; Vrticka, P.; Engert, V.; Singer, T.: Plasma oxytocin is modulated by mental training, but does not mediate its stress-buffering effect. Psychoneuroendocrinology 141, 105734 (2022)

Böckler, A.; Singer, T.: 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 (2021)

Mayer, A. V.; Preckel, K.; Ihle, K.; Piecha, F. A.; Junghanns, K.; Reiche, S.; Rademacher, L.; Müller-Pinzler, L.; Stolz, D. S.; Kamp-Becker, I. et al.; Stroth, S.; Roepke, S.; Küpper, C.; Engert, V.; Singer, T.; Kanske, P.; Paulus, F. M.; Krach, S.: Assessment of reward-related brain function after a single-dose of oxytocin in autism: A randomized controlled trial. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science (2021)

Puhlmann, L. M.; Vrticka, P.; Linz, R.; Stalder, T.; Kirschbaum, C.; Engert, V.; Singer, T.: Contemplative mental training reduces hair glucocorticoid levels in a randomized clinical trial. Psychosomatic Medicine 83 (8), pp. 894 - 905 (2021)

Favre, P.; Kanske, P.; Engen, H. G.; Singer, T.: 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, 118132 (2021)

Puhlmann, L. M.; Linz, R.; Valk, S. L.; Vrticka, P.; Vos de Wael, R.; Bernasconi, A.; Bernasconi, N.; Caldairou, B.; Papassotiriou, I.; Chrousos, G. P. et al.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Singer, T.; Engert, V.: Association between hippocampal structure and serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in healthy adults: A registered report. NeuroImage 236, 118011 (2021)

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

Grosse Wiesmann, C.; Friederici, A. D.; Singer, T.; Steinbeis, N.: 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 (12), pp. 6928 - 6935 (2020)

Puhlmann, L. M.; Engert, V.; Apostolakou, F.; Papassotiriou, I.; Chrousos, G. P.; Vrticka, P.; Singer, T.: Only vulnerable adults show change in chronic low-grade inflammation after contemplative mental training: Evidence randomized clinical trial. Scientific Reports 9, 19323 (2019)

Hildebrandt, L. K.; McCall, C.; Singer, T.: Socioaffective versus sociocognitive mental trainings differentially affect emotion regulation strategies. Emotion 19 (8), pp. 1329 - 1342 (2019)

Puhlmann, L. M.; Valk, S. L.; Engert, V.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Lin, J.; Epel, E. S.; Vrticka, P.; Singer, T.: 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 (9), e199687 (2019)

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

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

Przyrembel, M.; Vrticka, P.; Engert, V.; Singer, T.: Loving-kindness meditation - A queen of hearts?: A physio-phenomenological investigation on the variety of experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies 26 (7-8), pp. 95 - 129 (2019)

Bornemann, B.; Kovacs, P.; Singer, T.: Voluntary upregulation of heart rate variability through biofeedback is improved by mental contemplative training. Scientific Reports 9, 7860 (2019)

Preckel, K.; Trautwein, F.-M.; Paulus, F. M.; Kirsch, P.; Krach, S.; Singer, T.; Kanske, P.: Neural mechanisms of affective matching across faces and scenes. Scientific Reports 9, 1492 (2019)

Banzhaf, C.; Hoffmann, F.; Kanske, P.; Fan, Y.; Walter, H.; Spengler, S.; Schreiter, S.; Singer, T.; Bermpohl, F.: Interacting and dissociable effects of alexithymia and depression on empathy. Psychiatry Research 270, pp. 631 - 638 (2018)

Linz, R.; Singer, T.; Engert, V.: Interactions of momentary thought content and subjective stress predict cortisol fluctuations in a daily life experience sampling study. Scientific Reports 8, 15462 (2018)

Engert, V.; Kok, B. E.; Puhlmann, L. M.; Stalder, T.; Kirschbaum, C.; Papanastasopoulou, C.; Papassotiriou, I.; Pervanidou, P.; Chrousos, G. P.; Singer, T.: Exploring the multidimensional complex systems structure of the stress response and its relation to health and sleep outcomes. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 73, pp. 390 - 402 (2018)