Peer-reviewed journals

• Hofmann, M. J., Chang, Y.-N., Brower, H., & Zock, M. (2024). Editorial: Neurocomputational models of language processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18, 1-2.
• Sokolovič, L., & Hofmann, M. J. (2024). How to say ‘no’to a false memory: Leaky and noisy evidence accumulation during associative read-out.  Computational Brain & Behavior, 7, 357–377.
• Hilmerich, C., Hofmann, M. J., & Briesemeister, B. B. (2024). Anxiety and curiosity in hierarchical models of neural emotion processing—A mini review. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18, 1-7.
• Sokolovic, L,, Hofmann, M. J., Mohammad, N., & Kukolja, J. (2023). Neuropsychological Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia: A Systematic Review with Meta-Regressions. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 15, 1-24.
• Lusnig, L., Hofmann, M. J., & Radach, R. (2023). Mindful text comprehension: Meditation training improves reading comprehension of meditation novices, Mindfulness, 14, 708–719
• Hofmann, M. J., Kleemann, M. A., Roelke-Wellmann, A., Vorstius, C., & Radach, R. (2022). Semantic feature activation takes time: longer SOA elicits earlier priming effects during reading. Cognitive Processing, 23, 309-318.
• Hofmann, M. J., Remus, S., Biemann, C., Radach, R., & Kuchinke, L. (2022). Language Models Explain Word Reading Times Better Than Empirical Predictability. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 4, 1-20.
• Lusnig, L., Radach, R., & Hofmann, M. J. (2021). Meditation affects word recognition of meditation novices. Psychological Research, 86, 1-14.
• Geißler, C. F. G., Hofmann, M. J., & Frings, C. (2020). It’s more than interference: Examining the neuro‐hemodynamic correlates of the flanker task with functional near‐infrared spectroscopy. European Journal of Neuroscience, 52, 3922-3031.
• Jansen, M. T., Tamm, S., Merten, T., Tamm, A., & Hofmann, M. J. (2020). Feigning memory impairment in a forced-choice task: Evidence from event-related potentials. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 158, 190-200.
• Lusnig, L., Radach, R., Mueller, C. J., & Hofmann, M. J. (2020). Zen meditation neutralizes emotional evaluation, but not implicit affective processing of words. PLoS One, 15(2), 1-14.
• Roelke, A., & Hofmann, M. J. (2020). Functional connectivity of the left inferior frontal gyrus during semantic priming. Neuroscience Letters, 735 (135236), 1-7.
• Roelke, A., Vorstius, C., Radach, R., & Hofmann, M. J. (2020). Fixation-related NIRS indexes retinotopic occipital processing of parafoveal preview during natural reading. NeuroImage, 215(116823), 1-11.
• Hofmann, M. J., Biemann, C., Westbury, C., Murusidze, M., Conrad, M., & Jacobs, A. M. (2018). Simple co‐occurrence statistics reproducibly predict association ratings. Cognitive Science, 42(7), 2287-2312.
• Roelke, A., Franke, N., Biemann, C., Radach, R., Jacobs, A. M., & Hofmann, M. J. (2018). A novel co-occurrence-based approach to predict pure associative and semantic priming. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 1488–1493.
• Kuhlmann, M., Hofmann, M. J., & Jacobs, A. M. (2017). If you don’t have valence, ask your neighbor: evaluation of neutral words as a function of affective semantic associates. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 343.
• Mueller, C. J., Fritsch, N., Hofmann, M. J., & Kuchinke, L. (2017). Differences in the dynamics of affective and cognitive processing – An ERP study. Brain Research, 1655, 41-47.
• Jacobs, A., Hofmann, M. J., & Kinder, A. (2016). On Elementary Affective Decisions: To Like Or Not to Like, That Is the Question. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(1836), 1-17.
• Kuhlmann, M., Hofmann, M. J., Briesemeister, B. B., & Jacobs, A. M. (2016). Mixing positive and negative valence: Affective-semantic integration of bivalent words. Scientific Reports, 6, 1-7.
• Oganian, Y., Froehlich, E., Schlickeiser, U., Hofmann, M. J., Heekeren, H. R., & Jacobs, A. M. (2016). Slower perception followed by faster lexical decision in longer words: a diffusion model analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(1958), 1-12.
• Stüllein, N., Radach, R., Jacobs, A. M., & Hofmann, M. J. (2016). No one way ticket from orthography to semantics in recognition memory: N400 AND P200 effects of associations. Brain Research, 1639, 88-98.
• Hofmann, M. J., & Kuchinke, L. (2015). “Anything is good that stimulates thought” in the hippocampus Comment on “The quartet theory of human emotions: An integrative and neurofunctional model” by S. Koelsch et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 13, 58-60.
• Jacobs, A. M., Võ, M. L. H., Briesemeister, B. B., Conrad, M., Hofmann, M. J., Kuchinke, L., Lüdtke, J., & Braun, M. (2015). 10 years of BAWLing into affective and aesthetic processes in reading: what are the echoes?. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(714), 1-15.
• Westbury, C., Keith, J., Briesemeister, B. B., Hofmann, M. J., & Jacobs, A. M. (2015). Avoid violence, rioting, and outrage; approach celebration, delight, and strength: Using large text corpora to compute valence, arousal, and the basic emotions. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(8), 1599-1622.
• Hofmann, M. J., Dambacher, M., Jacobs, A. M., Kliegl, R., Radach, R., Kuchinke, L., Plichta, M.M., Fallgatter, A. M., & Herrmann, M. J. (2014). Occipital and orbitofrontal hemodynamics during naturally paced reading: An fNIRS study. Neuroimage, 94, 193-202.
• Hofmann, M. J., & Jacobs, A. M. (2014). Interactive activation and competition models and semantic context: from behavioral to brain data. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 46, 85-104.
• Kuchinke, L., Fritzemeier, S., Hofmann, M. J., & Jacobs, A. M. (2013). Neural correlates of episodic memory: associative memory and confidence drive hippocampus activations. Behavioural Brain Research, 254, 92-101.
• Westbury, C. F., Shaoul, C., Hollis, G., Smithson, L., Briesemeister, B. B., Hofmann, M. J., & Jacobs, A. M. (2013). Now you see it, now you don't: on emotion, context, and the algorithmic prediction of human imageability judgments. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(991), 10-13.
• Forgács, B., Bohrn, I. C., Baudewig, J., Hofmann, M. J., Pléh, C., Jacobs, A. M. (2012): Neural Correlates of Combinatorial Semantic Processing of Literal and Figurative Noun Noun Compound Words. Neuroimage, 63, 1432–1442.
• Hofmann, M. J., Kuchinke, L., Biemann, C., Tamm, S., & Jacobs, A. M. (2011). Remembering words in context as predicted by an Associative Read-Out Model. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 252, 1-11.
• Brink, T., Urton, K., Held, D., Kirilina, E., Hofmann, M. J., Klann-Delius, G., Jacobs, A. M., & Kuchinke L. (2011). The role of orbitofrontal cortex in processing empathy stories in 4-8 year-old children. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(80), 1-16.
• Kuchinke, L., Hofmann, M. J., Jacobs, A. M., Frühholz, S., Tamm, S., Herrmann, M. (2011). Human striatal activation during adjustment of the response criterion in visual word recognition. NeuroImage, 254, 2412-2417.
• Briesemeister, B.B., Hofmann, M. J., Tamm, S., Kuchinke, L., Braun, M. M. & Jacobs A. M. (2009). The pseudohomophone effect: Evidence for an orthography-phonology-conflict. Neuroscience Letters, 455, 124-128.
• Hofmann, M. J., Kuchinke, L., Tamm, S., Võ, M. L.-H, & Jacobs, A. M. (2009). Affective processing within 1/10th of a second: High arousal is necessary for early facilitative processing of negative but not positive words. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 9(4), 389-397.
• Klonek, F., Tamm, S. Hofmann, M., & Jacobs, A. M. (2009). Does familiarity or conflict account for performance in the word-stem completion task? Evidence from behavioural and ERP data. Psychological Research, 73, 871–882.
• Võ, M. L.-H., Conrad, M., Kuchinke, L., Hartfeld, K., Hofmann, M. J., & Jacobs, A. M. (2009). The Berlin affective word list reloaded (BAWL-R). Behavior Research Methods, 41(2), 534-539.
• Hofmann, M. J., Herrmann, M. J., Dan, I., Obrig, H., Conrad, M., Kuchinke, L., Jacobs, A. M., & Fallgatter, A.J. (2008). Differential activation of frontal and parietal regions during visual word recognition: An optical topography study. NeuroImage, 40(3), 1339-1348.
• Hofmann, M.J, Tamm, S. Braun, M. M., Dambacher, M., Hahne, A., & Jacobs, A. M. (2008). Conflict Monitoring Engages Mediofrontal Cortex during Nonword Processing. NeuroReport, 19(1), 25-29.
• Stenneken, P., Hofmann, M. J., & Jacobs A. M. (2008). Sublexical units in aphasic jargon and in the standard language. Comparative analyses of neologisms in connected speech. Aphasiology, 1, 1-15.
• Võ, M. L.-H., Jacobs, A. M., Kuchinke, L., Hofmann, M., Conrad, M., Schacht, A.-K., & Hutzler, F. (2008). The Coupling of Emotion and Cognition in the Eye: Introducing the Pupil Old/New Effect. Psychophysiology, 45(1), 130-140.
• Hofmann, M. J., Stenneken, P., Conrad, M., & Jacobs, A. M. (2007). Sublexical frequency measures for orthographic and phonological units in German. Behavior Research Methods, 39(3), 620-629.
• Hutzler, F., Braun, M., Vo, M. L.-H., Engl, V., Hofmann, M., Dambacher, M., Leder, H., & Jacobs, A. M. (2007). Welcome to the real world: Validating Fixation Related Potentials for Ecologically Valid Settings. Brain Research, 1172, 124-129.
• Kuchinke, L., Vo, M. L.-H., Hofmann, M., & Jacobs, A. M. (2007). Pupillary responses during lexical decisions vary with word frequency but not emotional valence. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 65(2), 132-140.
• Braun, M., Jacobs, A. M., Hahne, A., Ricker, B., Hofmann, M., & Hutzler, F. (2006). Model-generated lexical activity predicts graded ERP amplitudes in lexical decision. Brain Research, 1073-1074(1), 431-439.
• Dambacher, M., Kliegl, R., Hofmann, M., & Jacobs, A. M. (2006). Frequency and predictability effects on event-related potentials during reading. Brain Research, 1084(1), 89-103.
• Heine, A., Tamm, S., Hofmann, M., Bösel, R. M., & Jacobs, A. M. (2006a). Event-related theta activity reflects memory processes in pronoun resolution. NeuroReport, 17(18), 1835-1839.
• Heine, A., Tamm, S., Hofmann, M., Hutzler, F., & Jacobs. A. M. (2006b). Does the frequency of the antecedent noun affect the resolution of pronominal anaphors. Neuroscience Letters, 400 (1-2), 7-12.
• Stenneken, P., Hofmann, M., & Jacobs, A. (2005). Patterns of phoneme and syllable frequency in jargon aphasia. Brain and Language, 95, 221-222.

Conference proceedings

• Hofmann, M. J., Jansen, M. T., Wigbels, C., Briesemeister, B., & Jacobs, A. M. (2024). Individual Text Corpora Predict Openness, Interests, Knowledge and Level of Education. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon@ LREC-COLING 2024 (pp. 14-25), Turin, Italy.
• Hofmann, M. J., Müller, L., Rölke, A., Radach, R., & Biemann, C. (2020). Individual corpora predict fast memory retrieval during reading. Proceedings of the 6th workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-VI) (pp. 1-11). Barcelona, Spain.
• Franke, N., Roelke, A., Radach, R., & Hofmann, M. J. (2017). After braking comes hasting: reversed effects of indirect associations in 2nd and 4th graders. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2025-2030), London, UK.
• Czechowicz, A., Zobel, F., Dültgen, P., Bucher, L., & Hofmann, M. (2016). Entwicklung von haptischen Informationselementen auf Basis von Formgedächtnislegierungen zur Unterstützung älterer Menschen. Proceedings of the 4Smarts, Darmstadt, Germany.
• Biemann, C., Remus, S., & Hofmann, M. J. (2015). Predicting word ’predictability’ in cloze completion, electroencephalographic and eye movement data. In Proceedings of Natural Language Proceesing and Cognitive Science (pp. 83-93). Krakow, Poland, 22.-24.9.2015.
• Briesemeister, B. B., Hofmann, M. J., Kuchinke, L., & Jacobs, A. M. (2011). The BAWL databases in research on emotional word processing. In: Heister, J., Pohl, E., Würzner, K.-W. (Eds.). Lexical Resources in Psycholinguistic Research: Proceedings of the Workshop at the Fourth Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (qitl4), 28.3.2011. Potsdam Cognitive Science Series (vol. 3). Universitätsverlag Potsdam.

Book chapters

• Hofmann, M. J., Biemann, C., & Remus, S. (2017). Benchmarking n-grams, topic models and recurrent neural networks by cloze completions, EEGs and eye movements. In: Sharp, B., Sedes, F., Lubaszewski, W. (Eds.). Cognitive Approach to Natural Language Processing (pp. 197-215), ISTE press: Elsevier.
• Radach, R. & Hofmann, M. J. (2016). Graphematische Verarbeitung beim Lesen von Wörtern. In: Domahs, U. & Primus, B. Laut, Gebärde, Buchstabe (Handbuch Sprachwissen, Band 2) (pp. 455-474), De Gruyter.
• Jacobs, A. M., & Hofmann, M. J. (2013). Neurocognitive modeling -- Neurokognitive Modellierung. In: Kölsch, S., Schröger, E. (Eds.), Affektive und kognitive Neurowissenschaft; Serie II, Kognition; Bereich C, Theorie und Forschung, Band 5 (pp. 431-444); Göttingen: Hogrefe.