- Selected topics in neuropsychology
- Memory and memory disorders
- Inhibitory processes in memory
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy

Affective Neuroscience:
- Emotion and Language (see project page Emotion and Communication )
- Episodic Memory: Memory Inhibition, Emotion, Stress
Other:
- Auditory Processing in Persistent Vegetative State
- Application of Novel Optical Imaging Methods to Cognitive Neuroscience
- Schizophrenia Research

'Understanding Emotions' (2006). Progress in Brain Research, 156. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
with S. Anders, G. Ende, M. Junghöfer und D. Wildgruber.

Koessler S, Engler H, Riether C, & Kissler J. No retrieval-induced forgetting under stress. Psychological Science, PMID: 19818045 [Epub ahead of print Oct 8 2009].

Demirakca T, Herbert.C, Kissler J, Ruf M, Wokrina T, Ende G (2009). Overlapping Neuronal Correlates of Reading Emotionally Positive and Negative Adjectives. The Open Neuroimaging Journal, 3:54-7.

Herbert C, Ethofer T, Anders S, Junghofer M, Wildgruber D, Grodd W, & Kissler J (2009). Amygdala activation during reading of emotional adjectives - an advantage for pleasant content. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 4(1):35-49.[Epub ahead of print 2008 Sep 27].

Kissler J, Herbert C, Winkler I, Junghöfer M. (2009) Emotion and attention in visual word processing: An EEG study. Biological Psychology, 80(1):75-83 [Epub ahead of print 2008 Mar 14].

Li J, Ninck M, Koban L, Elbert T, Kissler J, & Gisler T. (2008). Transient functional blood flow change in the human brain measured non-invasively by diffusing-wave spectroscopy. Optics Letters;33(19):2233-5.

Hauswald A, Kissler J. (2008). Directed forgetting of complex pictures using an item-cued paradigm. Memory, Jun 27:1-13.

Kissler J, Keil A. (2008). Look-Don't look! How emotional pictures affect pro- and anti-saccades. Experimental Brain Research. 2008 Mar 27. [Epub ahead of print].

Kissler J, Hauswald A. (2008). Neuromagnetic activity during recognition of emotional pictures. Brain Topography, 20(4):192-204. Epub 2008 Mar 12.

Herbert C, Junghöfer M, & Kissler J. (2008). Event related potentials to emotional adjectives during reading. Psychophysiology. 45(3):487-98. Epub 2008 Jan 23.

Kissler J, Herbert C, Peyk P, Junghöfer M. (2007). ‘Buzzwords’– Early cortical responses to emotional words. Psychological Science, 18(6), 475-480.

Kissler, J, Assadollahi R, Herbert, C. (2006). Emotional and semantic networks in visual word processing – insights from ERP studies. Progress in Brain Research 156, ‘Understanding Emotions’, pp. 147-184.

Herbert C, Kissler J, Junghöfer M, Peyk P, Rockstroh B.(2006) Processing of emotional adjectives - Evidence from startle EMG and ERPs. Psychophysiology, 43(2):197-206.

Ethofer T, Anders S, Erb M, Herbert C, Wiethoff S, Kissler J, Grodd W, Wildgruber D. (2005): Cerebral pathways in processing of affective prosody: A dynamic causal modeling study. Neuroimage, 30(2):580-7.

Kissler J & Bäuml KH (2005). Memory retrieval in schizophrenia: Evidence from part-list cuing. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11(3):273-80.

McDowell, JE, Kissler J, Berg P, Dyckman K, Gao Y, Clementz BA. (2005). Combined EEG/MEG study of cortical activities preceding pro- and anti-saccades. Neuroreport, 16(7):663-8.

Clementz BA, Keil A, Kissler J. (2004). Aberrant brain dynamics in schizophrenia: delayed buildup and prolonged decay of the visual steady-state response. Brain Research - Cognitive Brain Research; 18(2):121-9.

Heim S, Kissler J, Elbert T, Rockstroh B. (2004). Cerebral lateralization in schizophrenia and dyslexia: neuromagnetic responses to auditory stimuli. Neuropsychologia; 42(5):692-7.

Biological Psychology; Brain and Cognition; Brain and Language; Cerebral Cortex; Clinical Neurophysiology; Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience; Emotion; European Journal of Cognitive Psychology; Experimental Brain Research; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience Letters; Progress in Brain Research; Psychiatry Research; Psychological Science; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Psychophysiology.

Funding Agencies:
DFG-German Research Foundation
DAAD-German Academic Exchange Service

- German Research Foundation/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2006-2008 and 2009-2011)
- Ministry for Science and Education Baden-Württemberg/MWK Baden-Württemberg (2008-2010)
- Hannelore-Kohl Foundation/Hannelore-Kohl-ZNS Stiftung (2008-2010)

Past funding:
-Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (2002-2007)