- Selected topics in neuropsychology
- Neuropsychology of emotion and communication
- Epilepsy

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, Woehmann C, Zwissler B, Pfeiffer A, Ertl V, & Kissler J. Does remembering cause forgetting in chronically stressed people?
- A study of Ugandan civil war refugees with and without PTSD. Journal of Psychology, in press.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Clementz BA, Dzau JR, Blumenfeld LD, Matthews S, Kissler J. (2003). Ear of stimulation determines schizophrenia-normal brain activity differences in an auditory paired-stimuli paradigm. European Journal of Neuroscience;
18(10):2853-8.

Wienbruch C, Moratti S, Elbert T, Vogel U, Fehr T, Kissler J, Schiller A, Rockstroh B. (2003). Source distribution of neuromagnetic slow wave activity in schizophrenic and depressive patients. Clinical Neurophysiology; 114(11):2052-60.

Fehr T, Kissler J., Wienbruch, C., Moratti, S., Elbert, T., Watzl, H., Rockstroh, B. (2003). Source distribution of neuromagnetic slow wave activity in schizophrenic patients - effects of activation. Schizophrenia Research, 63(1-2):63-71.

Bäuml KH, Kissler J, Rak A. (2002). Part-list cuing in amnesia - Evidence for a retrieval deficit. Memory & Cognition, 30(6):862-70.

Fehr T., Kissler J., Moratti S., Wienbruch C., Rockstroh B., Elbert T., (2001). Source distribution of neuromagnetic focal slow waves and MEG-delta activity in schizophrenic patients. Biological Psychiatry, 50(2): 108-116.

Rockstroh B., Kissler J., Mohr B., Eulitz C., Lommen U., Wienbruch C., Elbert T., (2001). Altered Hemispheric Asymmetry of Auditory Magnetic Fields to Tones and Syllables in Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 49(8): 694-703.

Müller M.M., Keil A., Kissler J., Gruber T. (2001). Suppression of the auditory middle-latency response and evoked gamma-band response in a paired-click paradigm. Experimental Brain Research 136(4): 474-479.

Kissler J., Müller M.M., Fehr T., Rockstroh B., Elbert T. (2000). MEG gamma band activity in schizophrenia patients and healthy subjects in a mental arithmetic task and at rest. Clinical Neurophysiology, 111(11): 2079-87.

Kissler J., Bäuml K.H. (2000). Effects of the beholder's age on the perception of facial attractiveness. Acta Psychologica, 104(2): 145-66.

Kissler J., Clementz B.A. (1998). Fixation stability among schizophrenia patients. Neuropsychobiology, 38(2): 57-62.

Biological Psychology; Brain and Cognition; Brain and Language; Brain Topography; Cerebral Cortex; Clinical Neurophysiology; Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience; Emotion; European Journal of Cognitive Psychology; Experimental Brain Research; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; 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)