Laura Bechtold

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf — Germany

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

9h-index348citations20works0.22yr avg
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Research Topics

Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism(12), Action Observation and Synchronization(10), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition(8), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies(5), Child and Animal Learning Development(3)

Publications20 total

Feel what you read: Specific aspects of empathy modulate semantic retrieval processes and representational content of emotion-label, emotion-laden, and neutral abstract words
PLoS ONE·2026Open Access
Love, laugh, life—the effect of empathy on the processing of emotion-label, emotion-laden and neutral abstract words
Scientific Reports·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Feel What You Read: Specific Aspects of Empathy Modulate Semantic Retrieval Processes and Representational Content of Emotion-Label, Emotion-Laden, and Neutral Abstract Words
2025Open Access
Love, Laugh, Life – The effect of empathy on the processing of emotion-label, emotion-laden and neutral abstract words
2025Open Access
Feel What You Read: Specific Aspects of Empathy Influence Semantic Retrieval Processes and Representational Content of Emotion-Label, Emotion-Laden, and Neutral Abstract Words
2025Open Access
There is no research on a dead planet – Fostering ecologically sustainable open science practices in neuroscience
2025Open Access
Sensorimotor synchronization to music reduces pain
PLoS ONE·2023· 17 citedOpen Access
A Fine-Grained Investigation of Single-Trial N400 Amplitudes and Response Times in Association- and Similarity-Driven Abstract and Concrete Word Priming
2023Open Access
That means something to me: How linguistic and emotional experience affect the acquisition, representation, and processing of novel abstract concepts.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition·2023· 5 cited
Brain Signatures of Embodied Semantics and Language: A Consensus Paper
Journal of Cognition·2023· 32 citedOpen Access
When a Sunny Day Gives You Butterflies: An Electrophysiological Investigation of Concreteness and Context Effects in Semantic Word Processing
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Sensorimotor synchronization to music reduces pain
Research Square (Research Square)·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
When a sunny day gives you butterflies: an electrophysiological investigation of concreteness and context effects in semantic word processing
2022· 1 citedOpen Access
That means something to me: the effect of linguistic and emotional experience on the acquisition and processing of novel abstract concepts
2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Corroborating behavioral evidence for the interplay of representational richness and semantic control in semantic word processing
Scientific Reports·2021· 9 citedOpen Access
How words get meaning: The neural processing of novel object names after sensorimotor training
NeuroImage·2019· 9 cited
The role of experience for abstract concepts: Expertise modulates the electrophysiological correlates of mathematical word processing
Brain and Language·2018· 15 citedOpen Access
The Effect of Training-Induced Visual Imageability on Electrophysiological Correlates of Novel Word Processing
Biomedicines·2018· 10 citedOpen Access
Event-related desynchronization of mu and beta oscillations during the processing of novel tool names
Brain and Language·2018· 30 cited
The influence of acute stress on attention mechanisms and its electrophysiological correlates
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience·2014· 207 citedOpen Access

Frequent Co-authors

Marta Ghio(14), Christian Bellebaum(10), Linda Espey(6), Miriam Rademacher(3), Lucy M. Werner(2), Stavros Skouras(2), Ståle Pallesen(2), Marco Tettamanti(2), Jessica Sänger(1), Daniela Schoofs(1), Meinolf Blaszkewicz(1), Edmund Wascher(1), Samuel H. Cosper(1), Anastasia Malyshevskaya(1), Maria Montefinese(1), Piermatteo Morucci(1), Valentina Niccolai(1), Claudia Repetto(1), Ana Zappa(1), Yury Shtyrov(1)