Simone Kühn

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Affiliation: Ghent University
Country: Belgium

Publications

  1. ncbi The cognitive representation of intending not to act: Evidence for specific non-action-effect binding
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
    Cognition 117:9-16. 2010
  2. ncbi "Keep calm and carry on": structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotions
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    PLoS ONE 6:e16569. 2011
  3. ncbi Resting-state brain activity in schizophrenia and major depression: a quantitative meta-analysis
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Schizophr Bull 39:358-65. 2013
  4. ncbi Whodunnit? Electrophysiological correlates of agency judgements
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    PLoS ONE 6:e28657. 2011
  5. ncbi Higher prefrontal cortical thickness in high schizotypal personality trait
    Simone Kühn
    Charite University Medicine, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Große Hamburger Straße 5 11, 10115 Berlin, Germany
    J Psychiatr Res 46:960-5. 2012
  6. ncbi Why ruminators won't stop: The structural and resting state correlates of rumination and its relation to depression
    Simone Kühn
    Ghent University, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Belgium University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, United Kingdom Electronic address
    J Affect Disord 141:352-60. 2012
  7. ncbi The neural basis of video gaming
    S Kuhn
    Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    Transl Psychiatry 1:e53. 2011
  8. ncbi Hippocampal subfields predict positive symptoms in schizophrenia: first evidence from brain morphometry
    S Kuhn
    Charite University Medicine, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany
    Transl Psychiatry 2:e127. 2012
  9. ncbi Quantitative meta-analysis on state and trait aspects of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Schizophr Bull 38:779-86. 2012
  10. ncbi The neural correlates of subjective pleasantness
    Simone Kühn
    Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Neuroimage 61:289-94. 2012

Detail Information

Publications48

  1. ncbi The cognitive representation of intending not to act: Evidence for specific non-action-effect binding
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
    Cognition 117:9-16. 2010
    ..Our results suggest that the representation of non-actions contains a facilitation of the alternative action rather than a suppression of the action in question...
  2. ncbi "Keep calm and carry on": structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotions
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    PLoS ONE 6:e16569. 2011
    ....
  3. ncbi Resting-state brain activity in schizophrenia and major depression: a quantitative meta-analysis
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Schizophr Bull 39:358-65. 2013
    ..The vmPFC has previously been identified as a crucial area for self-referential processing and may represent a target to increase the diagnostic validity of resting-state activity for disorders with dysfunctions of the self...
  4. ncbi Whodunnit? Electrophysiological correlates of agency judgements
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    PLoS ONE 6:e28657. 2011
    ....
  5. ncbi Higher prefrontal cortical thickness in high schizotypal personality trait
    Simone Kühn
    Charite University Medicine, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Große Hamburger Straße 5 11, 10115 Berlin, Germany
    J Psychiatr Res 46:960-5. 2012
    ..One may speculate that this finding is in line with the hypothesis of a compensatory role of greater prefrontal cortex in schizotypy in healthy populations...
  6. ncbi Why ruminators won't stop: The structural and resting state correlates of rumination and its relation to depression
    Simone Kühn
    Ghent University, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Belgium University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, United Kingdom Electronic address
    J Affect Disord 141:352-60. 2012
    ..Rumination is a good predictor of major depression. The current study explores the structural and functional neural correlates of rumination...
  7. ncbi The neural basis of video gaming
    S Kuhn
    Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    Transl Psychiatry 1:e53. 2011
    ..This activity was likewise negatively correlated with deliberation time. The association of video game playing with higher left ventral striatum volume could reflect altered reward processing and represent adaptive neural plasticity...
  8. ncbi Hippocampal subfields predict positive symptoms in schizophrenia: first evidence from brain morphometry
    S Kuhn
    Charite University Medicine, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany
    Transl Psychiatry 2:e127. 2012
    ..Our observation opens the gate for advanced investigation of the commonly reported hippocampal abnormalities in schizophrenia in terms of specific subfields...
  9. ncbi Quantitative meta-analysis on state and trait aspects of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Schizophr Bull 38:779-86. 2012
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  10. ncbi The neural correlates of subjective pleasantness
    Simone Kühn
    Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Neuroimage 61:289-94. 2012
    ..The results suggest that the evaluation of likability or pleasure is an automatic process and that it is neither elicited nor enhanced by instructions to report the outcome of these judgements...
  11. ncbi Reduction of cerebellar grey matter in Crus I and II in schizophrenia
    Simone Kühn
    Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Charite University Medicine, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
    Brain Struct Funct 217:523-9. 2012
    ..The failure of conventional VBM to detect such effects suggests that previous studies might have underestimated the importance of cerebellar structural deficits in schizophrenia...
  12. ncbi Brain grey matter deficits in smokers: focus on the cerebellum
    Simone Kühn
    Charite University Medicine, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany
    Brain Struct Funct 217:517-22. 2012
    ..Of note, the dependence-related magnitude of the volume deficit may support the notion that the cerebellum is substantially involved in core mechanisms of drug dependence...
  13. ncbi Common biology of craving across legal and illegal drugs - a quantitative meta-analysis of cue-reactivity brain response
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Eur J Neurosci 33:1318-26. 2011
    ..The ACC, right pallidum and ventral striatum were related to drug cue reactivity as well as self-reported craving, suggesting that this set of brain regions constitutes the core circuit of drug craving in nicotine and alcohol addiction...
  14. ncbi A quantitative meta-analysis on cue-induced male sexual arousal
    Simone Kühn
    Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology and Gent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Gent University, Henri Dunantlaan, Gent, Belgium
    J Sex Med 8:2269-75. 2011
    ..Visually induced sexual arousal is a common occurrence in human behavior. The cerebral underpinnings of this response have been explored in recent neuroimaging studies...
  15. ncbi Structural correlates of trait anxiety: reduced thickness in medial orbitofrontal cortex accompanied by volume increase in nucleus accumbens
    Simone Kühn
    Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    J Affect Disord 134:315-9. 2011
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  16. ncbi Planning not to do something: Does intending not to do something activate associated sensory consequences?
    Simone Kühn
    Ghent University, Belgium
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 10:454-9. 2010
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  17. ncbi Reduced thickness of medial orbitofrontal cortex in smokers
    Simone Kühn
    Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    Biol Psychiatry 68:1061-5. 2010
    ..However, to date an analysis of cortical thickness in smokers compared with never-smokers has not been undertaken...
  18. ncbi Neural correlates of emotional synchrony
    Simone Kühn
    Ghent University, Department of Experimental Psychology and Clinical Experimental Psychology, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 6:368-74. 2011
    ..However, incongruent emotional states activated the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex as well as posterior superior temporal gyrus/sulcus, both playing a role in conflict processing...
  19. ncbi Brain areas consistently linked to individual differences in perceptual decision-making in younger as well as older adults before and after training
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Gent, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    J Cogn Neurosci 23:2147-58. 2011
    ..We conclude that the striatum is involved in regulating response thresholds, whereas the inferior parietal lobe might represent decision-making evidence related to letters and numbers...
  20. ncbi The functional and neural mechanism of action preparation: roles of EBA and FFA in voluntary action control
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
    J Cogn Neurosci 23:214-20. 2011
    ..These observations provide further support for the ideomotor theory and suggest that visual imagery might play a role in voluntary action control...
  21. ncbi Dissociating mental states related to doing nothing by means of fMRI pattern classification
    Simone Kühn
    Ghent University, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Metabolic Imaging, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Neuroimage 53:1294-300. 2010
    ..Hence our data support the implicit assumption of legal practice that voluntary non-action shares important features with overt voluntary action...
  22. ncbi The neural underpinnings of event-file management: evidence for stimulus-induced activation of and competition among stimulus-response bindings
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Universityof Gent, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    J Cogn Neurosci 23:896-904. 2011
    ..The particular pattern obtained is consistent with predictions from diffusion models of decision making, which suggest a crucial role of local competition in response selection...
  23. ncbi Why do I like you when you behave like me? Neural mechanisms mediating positive consequences of observing someone being imitated
    Simone Kühn
    Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    Soc Neurosci 5:384-92. 2010
    ..Moreover mOFC/vmPFC shows higher effective connectivity with striatum and mid-posterior insula during being imitated compared to not being imitated...
  24. ncbi Minimizing motor mimicry by myself: self-focus enhances online action-control mechanisms during motor contagion
    Stephanie Spengler
    Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Independent Junior Research Group Body and Self, Leipzig, Germany
    Conscious Cogn 19:98-106. 2010
    ..This indicates that a self-focus provoking situation can enhance online action-control mechanisms, needed to resist unintentional motor contagion tendencies and thereby enables a modulation of automatic mirroring responses...
  25. ncbi The implementation of verbal instructions: an fMRI study
    Egbert Hartstra
    Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
    Hum Brain Mapp 32:1811-24. 2011
    ..Therefore, we conclude that the implementation of verbal instructions results from an interplay of a brain areas that represent novel rulelike information in domain general terms and brain areas that are specific to S-R rules...
  26. ncbi Experience-dependent plasticity of white-matter microstructure extends into old age
    Martin Lövdén
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 48:3878-83. 2010
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  27. ncbi Intentional inhibition: how the "veto-area" exerts control
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
    Hum Brain Mapp 30:2834-43. 2009
    ..This view of dFMC is consistent with a new view of self-control as a key stage in a cognitive-motor interface...
  28. ncbi Performance-related increases in hippocampal N-acetylaspartate (NAA) induced by spatial navigation training are restricted to BDNF Val homozygotes
    Martin Lövdén
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, Berlin, Germany
    Cereb Cortex 21:1435-42. 2011
    ..BDNF genotype moderates these plastic changes, in line with the contention that gene-context interactions shape the ontogeny of complex phenotypes...
  29. ncbi Inducing disbelief in free will alters brain correlates of preconscious motor preparation: the brain minds whether we believe in free will or not
    Davide Rigoni
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Gent, Padova, Italy
    Psychol Sci 22:613-8. 2011
    ..Our findings indicate that abstract belief systems might have a much more fundamental effect than previously thought...
  30. ncbi Spatial navigation training protects the hippocampus against age-related changes during early and late adulthood
    Martin Lövdén
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Neurobiol Aging 33:620.e9-620.e22. 2012
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  31. ncbi The neural correlates of intending not to do something
    Simone Kühn
    Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    J Neurophysiol 101:1913-20. 2009
    ....
  32. ncbi Common structural correlates of trait impulsiveness and perceptual reasoning in adolescence
    Christina Schilling
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
    Hum Brain Mapp 34:374-83. 2013
    ..This study investigates whether there are common structural cerebral correlates of trait impulsiveness and cognitive functioning in a large sample of healthy adolescents from the IMAGEN project...
  33. ncbi Healthy brooders employ more attentional resources when disengaging from the negative: an event-related fMRI study
    Marie Anne Vanderhasselt
    Department of Experimental and Clinical Health Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000, Gent, Belgium
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 11:207-16. 2011
    ..These mechanisms might protect them from developing depressive symptoms...
  34. ncbi Functional mechanisms involved in the internal inhibition of taboo words
    Els Severens
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
    Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7:431-5. 2012
    ..This finding strongly suggests that external social rules become internalized and act as a stop-signal...
  35. ncbi Retrospective construction of the judgement of free choice
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
    Conscious Cogn 18:12-21. 2009
    ..Our data support the retrospective account of intentional action. Furthermore, we introduce an experimental approach that objectifies introspective judgments of awareness of intention...
  36. ncbi When the brain tames the tongue: covert editing of inappropriate language
    Els Severens
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    Psychophysiology 48:1252-7. 2011
    ..This component has previously been interpreted as reflecting conflict. These results indicate that taboo utterances can indeed be detected and corrected internally...
  37. ncbi Challenging a decade of brain research on task switching: brain activation in the task-switching paradigm reflects adaptation rather than reconfiguration of task sets
    Wouter De Baene
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    Hum Brain Mapp 33:639-51. 2012
    ..Therefore, our results call the classical reconfiguration interpretation into question and provide first evidence for adaptation of abstract task representations...
  38. ncbi Outcome expectancy and not accuracy determines posterror slowing: ERP support
    Elena Núñez Castellar
    Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 10:270-8. 2010
    ..The results support the hypothesis that posterror slowing is caused by attentional orienting to unexpected events...
  39. ncbi Busy doing nothing: evidence for nonaction--effect binding
    Simone Kühn
    Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
    Psychon Bull Rev 16:542-9. 2009
    ..Moreover, we demonstrate that nonactions have to be initiated voluntarily in order to elicit nonaction-effect binding...
  40. ncbi Testing the connection of the mirror system and speech: how articulation affects imitation in a simple response task
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Cognitive Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 46:1513-21. 2008
    ..These findings provide strong experimental support for the assumption that language production and imitation share common functional mechanisms...
  41. ncbi Manual dexterity correlating with right lobule VI volume in right-handed 14-year-olds
    Simone Kühn
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
    Neuroimage 59:1615-21. 2012
    ..Although neuronal cerebellar structures mediate dexterity, classical whole brain voxel-based morphometry (VBM) has not identified structural correlates of dexterity in the cerebellum...
  42. ncbi Cortical thickness correlates with impulsiveness in healthy adults
    Christina Schilling
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Campus Mitte, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Große Hamburger Str 5 11, 10115 Berlin, Germany
    Neuroimage 59:824-30. 2012
    ..This study investigates whether there are overlapping as well as distinct structural cerebral correlates of attentional, motor and nonplanning impulsiveness in healthy adults...
  43. ncbi When doing nothing is an option: the neural correlates of deciding whether to act or not
    Simone Kühn
    Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Gent, Belgium
    Neuroimage 46:1187-93. 2009
    ..This finding strongly supports the assumption that intentionally not acting can be considered as a mode of action...
  44. ncbi Better to take one long or two quick looks? Independent processing of evidence from discrete visual presentations
    Wolf Schwarz
    Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
    J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:1337-52. 2008
    ..These predictions were tested, confirmed, and extended in 5 letter-identification experiments that focused on the mechanism by which information extracted from single arrays is integrated across different looks...
  45. ncbi Does taste matter? How anticipation of cola brands influences gustatory processing in the brain
    Simone Kühn
    Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Charite University Medicine, Berlin, Germany The Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    PLoS ONE 8:e61569. 2013
    ..The present results reveal strong effects of brand labels on neural responses signalling reward...
  46. ncbi Gray matter correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder: a quantitative meta-analysis
    Simone Kühn
    Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Berlin, Germany
    Biol Psychiatry 73:70-4. 2013
    ..Cerebral gray matter reductions have been suggested to be a crucial pathobiological marker of PTSD. However, a quantitative meta-analysis of whole-brain voxel-based morphometry studies is lacking...
  47. ncbi There is no free won't: antecedent brain activity predicts decisions to inhibit
    Elisa Filevich
    Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 8:e53053. 2013
    ..Last-moment decisions to inhibit or delay may depend on unconscious preparatory neural activity...
  48. ncbi The Internal Anticipation of Sensory Action Effects: When Action Induces FFA and PPA Activity
    Simone Kühn
    Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University Gent, Belgium
    Front Hum Neurosci 4:54. 2010
    ..This observation constitutes support for ideomotor theory...