Staff profile

• Face Recognition
• Face memory, particularly memory biases for own-group faces ('own-race bias', 'own-age bias', 'own-gender bias')
• Person Categorization and processing of visually derivable facial information (age, gender, ethnicity, attractiveness)
• Cognitive and neural correlates of aging in face memory and perception
• Organization of person-related information in semantic memory

• 2016: Associate Editor - Cortex:
• 2016: Associate Editor - Perception/i-Perception:
• 2015: Associate Editor - British Journal of Psychology:
• 2012: Associate Editor - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology:
• 2009: Thuringian Research Prize for Basic Research:

Journal Article

• Wiese, H., Popova, T., Schipper, M., Zakriev, D., Burton, A. M., & Young, A. W. (2024). How neural representations of newly learnt faces change over time: Event-related brain potential evidence for overnight consolidation. Cortex, 171, 13-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.10.007
• Tuettenberg, S. C., & Wiese, H. (in press). Event-related brain potential correlates of the other-race effect: A review. British Journal of Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12591
• Popova, T., & Wiese, H. (2023). Developing familiarity during the first eight months of knowing a person: A longitudinal EEG study on face and identity learning. Cortex, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.04.008
• Wiese, H., Schipper, M., Popova, T., Burton, A. M., & Young, A. W. (2023). Personal familiarity of faces, animals, objects, and scenes: Distinct perceptual and overlapping conceptual representations. Cognition, 241, Article 105625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105625
• Quinn, B. P., & Wiese, H. (2023). The role of the eye region for familiar face recognition: Evidence from spatial low-pass filtering and contrast negation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(2), 338-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221085990
• Popova, T., & Wiese, H. (2023). How quickly do we learn new faces in everyday life? Neurophysiological evidence for face identity learning after a brief real-life encounter. Cortex, 159, 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.12.005
• Dalski, A., Kovacs, G., Wiese, H., & Ambrus, G. G. (2022). Characterizing the shared signals of face familiarity: long-term acquaintance, voluntary control, and concealed knowledge. Brain Research, 1796, Article 148094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2022.148094
• Wiese, H., Hobden, G., Siilbek, E., Martignac, V., Flack, T. R., Ritchie, K. L., …Burton, A. M. (2022). Familiarity is familiarity is familiarity: Event-related brain potentials reveal qualitatively similar representations of personally familiar and famous faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(8), 1144-1164. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001063
• Popova, T., & Wiese, H. (2022). The time it takes to truly know someone: Neurophysiological correlates of face and identity learning during the first two years. Biological Psychology, 170, Article 108312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108312
• Wiese, H., Anderson, D., Beierholm, U., Tuettenberg, S. C., Young, A. W., & Burton, A. M. (2022). Detecting a viewer's familiarity with a face: Evidence from event-related brain potentials and classifier analyses. Psychophysiology, 59(1), Article e13950. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13950
• Tüttenberg, S. C., & Wiese, H. (2021). Recognising other-race faces is more effortful: The effect of individuation instructions on encoding-related ERP Dm effects. Biological Psychology, 158, Article 107992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107992
• Tüttenberg, S., & Wiese, H. (2020). Intentionally remembering or forgetting own- and other-race faces: Evidence from directed forgetting. British Journal of Psychology, 111(3), 570-597. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12413
• Wiese, H. (2020). Facing dyads and single faces in the social visual world. Cortex, 135, 358-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.09.014
• Ritter, V., Kaufmann, J. M., Krahmer, F., Wiese, H., Stangier, U., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2020). Neural Correlates of Own- and Other-Face Perception in Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, Article 302. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00302
• Tüttenberg, S. C., & Wiese, H. (2019). Learning own- and other-race facial identities from natural variability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(12), 2788-2800. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819859840
• Tüttenberg, S. C., & Wiese, H. (2019). Learning own- and other-race facial identities: Testing implicit recognition with event-related brain potentials. Neuropsychologia, 134, Article 107218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107218
• Wiese, H., Ingram, B. T., Elley, M. L., Tüttenberg, S. C., Burton, A. M., & Young, A. W. (2019). Later but not early stages of familiar face recognition depend strongly on attentional resources: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Cortex, 120, 147-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.06.004
• Wiese, H., Chan, C., & Tüttenberg, S. (2019). Properties of Familiar Face Representations: Only Contrast Positive Faces Contain All Information Necessary for Efficient Recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(9), 1583-1598. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000665
• Wiese, H., Tüttenberg, S. C., Ingram, B. T., Chan, C. Y., Gurbuz, Z., Burton, A. M., & Young, A. W. (2019). A robust neural index of high face familiarity. Psychological Science, 30(2), 261-272. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618813572
• Limbach, K., Kaufmann, J. M., Wiese, H., Witte, O. W., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2018). Enhancement of face-sensitive ERPs in older adults induced by face recognition training. Neuropsychologia, 119, 197-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.08.010
• Rakic, T., Steffens, M. C., & Wiese, H. (2018). Same-gender distractors are not so easy to reject: ERP evidence of gender categorization. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(5), 825-836. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-018-0607-3
• Wiese, H., & Schweinberger, S. (2018). Inequality between biases in face memory: Event-related potentials reveal dissociable neural correlates of own-race and own-gender biases. Cortex, 101, 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.01.016
• Andrews, S., Burton, M. A., Schweinberger, S. R., & Wiese, H. (2017). Event-related potentials reveal the development of stable face representations from natural variability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(8), 1620-1632. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1195851
• Hansen, K., Steffens, M. C., Rakić, T., & Wiese, H. (2017). When appearance does not match accent: Neural correlates of ethnicity-related expectancy violations. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(3), 507-515. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw148
• Wiese, H., Komes, J., Tuettenberg, S., Leidinger, J., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2017). Age-related differences in face recognition: Neural correlates of repetition and semantic priming in young and older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(8), 1254-1273. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000380
• Komes, J., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2015). Neural correlates of cognitive aging during the perception of facial age: The role of relatively distant and local texture information. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 1420. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01420
• Kloth, N., Damm, M., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2015). Aging affects sex categorization of male and female faces in opposite ways. Acta Psychologica, 158, 78-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2015.04.005
• Menzel, C., Hayn-Leichsenring, G., Langner, O., Wiese, H., & Redies, C. (2015). Fourier power spectrum characteristics of face photographs: attractiveness perception depends on low-level image properties. PLoS ONE, 10(4), Article e0122801. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122801
• Wiese, H., & Schweinberger, S. (2015). Getting connected: Both associative and semantic links structure semantic memory for newly learned persons. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(11), 2131-2148. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1008526
• Neumann, M., End, A., Luttmann, S., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2015). The own-age bias in face memory is unrelated to differences in attention — Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 15(1), 180-194. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-014-0306-7
• Komes, J., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2014). Fluency affects source memory for familiar names in younger and older adults: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. NeuroImage, 92, 90-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.02.009
• Wolff, N., Kemter, K., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2014). What drives social in-group biases in face recognition memory? ERP evidence from the own-gender bias. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(5), 580-590. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nst024
• Komes, J., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2014). Preserved fine-tuning of face perception and memory: evidence from the own-race bias in high- and low-performing older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 6, Article 60. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00060
• Wiese, H., Altmann, C., & Schweinberger, S. (2014). Effects of attractiveness on face memory separated from distinctiveness: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Neuropsychologia, 56, 26-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.12.023
• Wiese, H., Kaufmann, J., & Schweinberger, S. (2014). The Neural Signature of the Own-Race Bias: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. Cerebral Cortex, 24(3), 826-835. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhs369
• Wiese, H. (2013). Do neural correlates of face expertise vary with task demands? Event-related potential correlates of own- and other-race face inversion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, Article 898. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00898
• Wiese, H., Komes, J., & Schweinberger, S. (2013). Ageing faces in ageing minds: A review on the own-age bias in face recognition. Visual Cognition, 21(9-10), 1337-1363. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2013.823139
• Wiese, H., Wolff, N., Steffens, M., & Schweinberger, S. (2013). How experience shapes memory for faces: An event-related potential study on the own-age bias. Biological Psychology, 94(2), 369-379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.07.001
• Wiese, H., Kachel, U., & Schweinberger, S. (2013). Holistic face processing of own- and other-age faces in young and older adults: ERP evidence from the composite face task. NeuroImage, 74, 306-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.02.051
• Wiese, H., Komes, J., & Schweinberger, S. (2012). Daily-life contact affects the own-age bias and neural correlates of face memory in elderly participants. Neuropsychologia, 50(14), 3496-3508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.022
• Wiese, H. (2012). The role of age and ethnic group in face recognition memory: ERP evidence from a combined own-age and own-race bias study. Biological Psychology, 89(1), 137-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.10.002
• Wiese, H., Kloth, N., Gullmar, D., Reichenbach, J., & Schweinberger, S. (2012). Perceiving age and gender in unfamiliar faces: An fMRI study on face categorization. Brain and Cognition, 78(2), 163-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2011.10.012
• Wolff, N., Wiese, H., & Schweinberger, S. (2012). Face Recognition Memory Across the Adult Life Span: Event-Related Potential Evidence From the Own-Age Bias. Psychology and Aging, 27(4), 1066-1081. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029112
• Wiese, H., & Schweinberger, S. (2011). Accessing Semantic Person Knowledge: Temporal Dynamics of Nonstrategic Categorical and Associative Priming. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(2), 447-459. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2010.21432
• Wiese, H. (2011). The structure of semantic person memory: Evidence from semantic priming in person recognition. British Journal of Psychology, 102(4), 899-914. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.2011.02042.x
• Schweinberger, S., Zaske, R., Walther, C., Golle, J., Kovacs, G., & Wiese, H. (2010). Young without plastic surgery: Perceptual adaptation to the age of female and male faces. Vision Research, 50(23), 2570-2576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2010.08.017
• Stahl, J., Wiese, H., & Schweinberger, S. (2010). Learning task affects ERP-correlates of the own-race bias, but not recognition memory performance. Neuropsychologia, 48(7), 2027-2040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.03.024
• Wiese, H., Stahl, J., & Schweinberger, S. (2009). Configural processing of other-race faces is delayed but not decreased. Biological Psychology, 81(2), 103-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2009.03.002
• Wiese, H., Schweinberger, S., & Hansen, K. (2008). The age of the beholder: ERP evidence of an own-age bias in face memory. Neuropsychologia, 46(12), 2973-2985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.06.007
• Wiese, H., Schweinberger, S., & Neumann, M. (2008). Perceiving age and gender in unfamiliar faces: Brain potential evidence for implicit and explicit person categorization. Psychophysiology, 45(6), 957-969. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00707.x
• Wiese, H., & Schweinberger, S. (2008). Event-related potentials indicate different processes to mediate categorical and associative priming in person recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34(5), 1246-1263. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0012937
• Stahl, J., Wiese, H., & Schweinberger, S. (2008). Expertise and own-race bias in face processing: an event-related potential study. NeuroReport, 19(5), 583-587. https://doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0b013e3282f97b4d
• Neumann, M., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2007). Event-related potential correlates of repetition priming for ignored faces. NeuroReport, 18(13), 1305-1309. https://doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0b013e328273bc80
• Nebel, K., Wiese, H., Seyfarth, J., Gizewski, E., Stude, P., Diener, H., & Limmroth, V. (2007). Activity of attention related structures in multiple sclerosis patients. Brain Research, 1151, 150-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2007.03.007
• Wiese, H., & Daum, I. (2006). Frontal positivity discriminates true from false recognition. Brain Research, 1075(1), 183-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2005.12.117
• Wiese, H., Tonnes, C., de Greiff, A., Nebel, K., Diener, H., & Stude, P. (2006). Self-initiated movements in chronic prefrontal traumatic brain injury: An event-related functional MRI study. NeuroImage, 30(4), 1292-1301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.11.012
• Nebel, K., Wiese, H., Stude, P., de Greiff, A., Diener, H., & Keidel, M. (2005). On the neural basis of focused and divided attention. Cognitive brain research, 25(3), 760-776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.011
• Nebel, K., Stude, P., Wiese, H., Muller, B., de Greiff, A., Forsting, M., …Keidel, M. (2005). Sparse Imaging and continuous event-related fMRI in the visual domain: A systematic comparison. Human Brain Mapping, 24(2), 130-143. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.20075
• Wiese, H., Stude, P., Nebel, K., Forsting, M., & de Greiff, A. (2005). Prefrontal cortex activity in self-initiated movements is condition-specific, but not movement-related. NeuroImage, 28(3), 691-697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.06.044
• Wiese, H., Stude, P., Sarge, R., Nebel, K., Diener, H., & Keidel, M. (2005). Reorganization of motor execution rather than preparation in poststroke hemiparesis. Stroke, 36(7), 1474-1479. https://doi.org/10.1161/01.str.0000170639.26891.30
• Wiese, H., Stude, P., Nebel, K., de Greiff, A., Forsting, M., Diener, H., & Keidel, M. (2004). Movement preparation in self-initiated versus externally triggered movements: an event-related fMRI-study. Neuroscience Letters, 371(2-3), 220-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2004.08.078
• Wiese, H., Stude, P., Nebel, K., Osenberg, D., Volzke, V., Ischebeck, W., …Keidel, M. (2004). Impaired movement-related potentials in acute frontal traumatic brain injury. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115(2), 289-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1388-2457%2803%2900348-1
• Wiese, H., Stude, P., Nebel, K., Osenberg, D., Ischebeck, W., Stolke, D., …Keidel, M. (2004). Recovery of movement-related potentials in the temporal course after prefrontal traumatic brain injury: a follow-up study. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115(12), 2677-2692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2004.06.015
• Muller, B., Stude, P., Nebel, K., Wiese, H., Ladd, M., Forsting, M., & Jueptner, M. (2003). Sparse imaging of the auditory oddball task with functional MRI. NeuroReport, 14(12), 1597-1601. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200308260-00011