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

• Cognitive Neuroscience

• 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

• Popova, Tsvetomila & Wiese, Holger (2023). Developing familiarity during the first eight months of knowing a person: A longitudinal EEG study on face and identity learning. Cortex
• Popova, Tsvetomila & Wiese, Holger (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.
• Quinn, Bartholomew P.A. & Wiese, Holger (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.
• Dalski, Alexia, Kovacs, Gyula, Wiese, Holger & Ambrus, Geza Gergely (2022). Characterizing the shared signals of face familiarity: long-term acquaintance, voluntary control, and concealed knowledge. Brain Research 1796: 148094.
• Tuettenberg, Simone C. & Wiese, Holger (2022). Event-related brain potential correlates of the other-race effect: A review. British Journal of Psychology
• Popova, Tsvetomila & Wiese, Holger (2022). The time it takes to truly know someone: Neurophysiological correlates of face and identity learning during the first two years. Biological Psychology 170: 108312.
• Wiese, Holger, Hobden, Georgina, Siilbek, Eike, Martignac, Victoire, Flack, Tessa R., Ritchie, Kay L., Young, Andrew W. & Burton, A. Mike (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.
• Wiese, Holger, Anderson, Dasha, Beierholm, Ulrik, Tuettenberg, Simone C., Young, Andrew W. & Burton, A. Mike (2022). Detecting a viewer's familiarity with a face: Evidence from event-related brain potentials and classifier analyses. Psychophysiology 59(1): e13950.
• Tüttenberg, Simone C. & Wiese, Holger (2021). Recognising other-race faces is more effortful: The effect of individuation instructions on encoding-related ERP Dm effects. Biological Psychology 158: 107992.
• Wiese, Holger (2020). Facing dyads and single faces in the social visual world. Cortex 135: 358-360.
• Ritter, Viktoria, Kaufmann, Jürgen M., Krahmer, Franziska, Wiese, Holger, Stangier, Ulrich & Schweinberger, Stefan R. (2020). Neural Correlates of Own- and Other-Face Perception in Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry 11: 302.
• Tüttenberg, S.C. & Wiese, H (2020). Intentionally remembering or forgetting own- and other-race faces: Evidence from directed forgetting. British Journal of Psychology 111(3): 570-597.
• Tüttenberg, Simone C. & Wiese, Holger (2019). Learning own- and other-race facial identities: Testing implicit recognition with event-related brain potentials. Neuropsychologia 134: 107218.
• Tüttenberg, Simone C & Wiese, Holger (2019). Learning own- and other-race facial identities from natural variability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72(12): 2788-2800.
• Wiese, Holger, Ingram, Brandon T., Elley, Megan L., Tüttenberg, Simone C., Burton, A. Mike & Young, Andrew 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.
• Wiese, H Tüttenberg, Simone C, Ingram, Brandon T, Chan, Chelsea YX, Gurbuz, Zehra, Burton, A Mike & Young, Andy W (2019). A robust neural index of high face familiarity. Psychological Science 30(2): 261-272.
• Wiese, H, Chan, CYX & Tüttenberg, SC (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.
• Limbach, Katharina, Kaufmann, Jürgen M., Wiese, Holger, Witte, Otto W. & Schweinberger, Stefan R. (2018). Enhancement of face-sensitive ERPs in older adults induced by face recognition training. Neuropsychologia 119: 197-213.
• Rakic, Tamara, Steffens, Melanie C. & Wiese, Holger (2018). Same-gender distractors are not so easy to reject: ERP evidence of gender categorization. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 18(5): 825-836.
• Wiese, H & Schweinberger, SR (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.
• Wiese, Holger, Komes, Jessica, Tuettenberg, Simone, Leidinger, Jana & Schweinberger, Stefan 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, & Cognition 43(8): 1254-1273.
• Hansen, Karolina, Steffens, Melanie C., Rakić, Tamara & Wiese, Holger (2017). When appearance does not match accent: Neural correlates of ethnicity-related expectancy violations. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 12(3): 507-515.
• Andrews, Sally, Burton, Mike A., Schweinberger, Stefan R. & Wiese, Holger (2017). Event-related potentials reveal the development of stable face representations from natural variability. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 70(8): 1620-1632.
• Komes, J., Schweinberger, S.R. & 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: 1420.
• Kloth, N., Damm, M., Schweinberger, S.R. & Wiese, H. (2015). Aging affects sex categorization of male and female faces in opposite ways. Acta Psychologica 158: 78-86.
• Menzel, C., Hayn-Leichsenring, G.U., 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): e0122801.
• Wiese, H. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2015). Getting connected: Both associative and semantic links structure semantic memory for newly learned persons. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 68(11): 2131-2148.
• Neumann, M.F., End, A., Luttmann, S., Schweinberger, S.R. & Wiese, H. (2015). The own-age bias in face memory is unrelated to differences in attention — Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 15(1): 180-194.
• Komes, J., Schweinberger, S.R. & 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.
• Wiese, H., Altmann, C.S. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2014). Effects of attractiveness on face memory separated from distinctiveness: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Neuropsychologia 56: 26-36.
• Wolff, N., Kemter, K., Schweinberger, S.R. & 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.
• Wiese, H., Kaufmann, J.M. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2014). The Neural Signature of the Own-Race Bias: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. Cerebral Cortex 24(3): 826-835.
• Komes, J., Schweinberger, S.R. & 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: 60.
• Wiese, H, Kachel, U & Schweinberger, SR (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.
• 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: 898.
• Wiese, H, Wolff, N, Steffens, MC & Schweinberger, SR (2013). How experience shapes memory for faces: An event-related potential study on the own-age bias. Biological Psychology 94(2): 369-379.
• Wiese, H., Komes, J. & Schweinberger, S.R. (2013). Ageing faces in ageing minds: A review on the own-age bias in face recognition. Visual Cognition 21(9-10): 1337-1363.
• Wolff, N, Wiese, H & Schweinberger, SR (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.
• Wiese, H, Komes, J & Schweinberger, SR (2012). Daily-life contact affects the own-age bias and neural correlates of face memory in elderly participants. Neuropsychologia 50(14): 3496-3508.
• Wiese, H, Kloth, N, Gullmar, D, Reichenbach, JR & Schweinberger, SR (2012). Perceiving age and gender in unfamiliar faces: An fMRI study on face categorization. Brain and Cognition 78(2): 163-168.
• 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.
• Wiese, H (2011). The structure of semantic person memory: Evidence from semantic priming in person recognition. British Journal of Psychology 102(4): 899-914.
• Wiese, H & Schweinberger, SR (2011). Accessing Semantic Person Knowledge: Temporal Dynamics of Nonstrategic Categorical and Associative Priming. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(2): 447-459.
• Schweinberger, SR, 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.
• Stahl, J, Wiese, H & Schweinberger, SR (2010). Learning task affects ERP-correlates of the own-race bias, but not recognition memory performance. Neuropsychologia 48(7): 2027-2040.
• Wiese, H, Stahl, J & Schweinberger, SR (2009). Configural processing of other-race faces is delayed but not decreased. Biological Psychology 81(2): 103-109.
• Stahl, J, Wiese, H & Schweinberger, SR (2008). Expertise and own-race bias in face processing: an event-related potential study. NeuroReport 19(5): 583-587.
• Wiese, H, Schweinberger, SR & Neumann, MF (2008). Perceiving age and gender in unfamiliar faces: Brain potential evidence for implicit and explicit person categorization. Psychophysiology 45(6): 957-969.
• Wiese, H & Schweinberger, SR (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.
• Wiese, H, Schweinberger, SR & Hansen, K (2008). The age of the beholder: ERP evidence of an own-age bias in face memory. Neuropsychologia 46(12): 2973-2985.
• Neumann, MF, Schweinberger, SR & Wiese, H (2007). Event-related potential correlates of repetition priming for ignored faces. NeuroReport 18(13): 1305-1309.
• Nebel, K, Wiese, H, Seyfarth, J, Gizewski, ER, Stude P,, Diener, HC & Limmroth, V (2007). Activity of attention related structures in multiple sclerosis patients. Brain Research 1151: 150-160.
• Wiese, H, Tonnes, C, de Greiff, A, Nebel, K, Diener, HC & Stude, P (2006). Self-initiated movements in chronic prefrontal traumatic brain injury: An event-related functional MRI study. NeuroImage 30(4): 1292-1301.
• Wiese, H & Daum, I (2006). Frontal positivity discriminates true from false recognition. Brain Research 1075(1): 183-192.
• 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.
• Nebel, K, Wiese, H, Stude, P, de Greiff, A, Diener, HC & Keidel, M (2005). On the neural basis of focused and divided attention. Cognitive Brain Research 25(3): 760-776.
• Wiese, H, Stude, P, Sarge, R, Nebel, K, Diener, HC & Keidel, M (2005). Reorganization of motor execution rather than preparation in poststroke hemiparesis. Stroke 36(7): 1474-1479.
• Nebel, K, Stude, P, Wiese, H, Muller, B, de Greiff, A, Forsting, M, Diener, HC & Keidel, M (2005). Sparse Imaging and continuous event-related fMRI in the visual domain: A systematic comparison. Human Brain Mapping 24(2): 130-143.
• Wiese, H, Stude, P, Nebel, K, de Greiff, A, Forsting, M, Diener, HC & Keidel, M (2004). Movement preparation in self-initiated versus externally triggered movements: an event-related fMRI-study. Neuroscience Letters 371(2-3): 220-225.
• Wiese, H, Stude, P, Nebel, K, Osenberg, D, Volzke, V, Ischebeck, W, Stolke, D, Diener, HC & Keidel, M (2004). Impaired movement-related potentials in acute frontal traumatic brain injury. Clinical Neurophysiology 115(2): 289-298.
• Wiese, H, Stude, P, Nebel, K, Osenberg, D, Ischebeck, W, Stolke, D, Diener, HC & 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.
• Muller, BW, Stude, P, Nebel, K, Wiese, H, Ladd, ME, Forsting, M & Jueptner, M (2003). Sparse imaging of the auditory oddball task with functional MRI. NeuroReport 14(12): 1597-1601.