Publications

Under Review

Welke, D., & Vessel, E. A. (2025). Tracing the epistemic arc: Distinct physiological signatures for curiosity, insight, understanding and liking during interactions with visual art. | preprint

Central Contributions

Vessel, E. A., & Welke, D. (2025). The neuroscience of visual art appreciation. In A. Giraldez-Hayes, M. Seligman, & J. Burke, Routledge International Handbook of Wellbeing Arts (1st ed., pp. 53–64). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781032637297-7

Mushtaq, F., Welke, D., Gallagher, A., Pavlov, Y. G., Kouara, L., Bosch-Bayard, J., Van Den Bosch, J. J. F., Arvaneh, M., Bland, A. R., Chaumon, M., Borck, C., He, X., Luck, S. J., Machizawa, M. G., Pernet, C., Puce, A., Segalowitz, S. J., Rogers, C., Awais, M., … Valdes-Sosa, P. (2024). One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(8), 1437–1443. doi:10.1038/s41562-024-01941-5

Welke, D. & Vessel, E. A. (2022). Naturalistic viewing conditions can increase task engagement and aesthetic preference but have only minimal impact on EEG quality. NeuroImage, 256:119218, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119218 | preprint | preregistration

Strijbosch, W., Vessel, E. A., Welke, D., Mitas, O., Gelissen, J., & Bastiaansen, M. (2021). On the Neuronal Dynamics of Aesthetic Experience: Evidence from Electroencephalographic Oscillatory Dynamics. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(3):461–479, doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01812 | preprint

Welke, D., Purton, I., & Vessel, E. A. (2021). Inspired by art: Higher aesthetic appeal elicits increased felt inspiration in a creative writing task. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Advance online publication, doi:10.1037/aca0000393 | preprint

Welke, D., Behncke, J., Hader, M., Schirrmeister, R. T., Schönau, A., Eßmann, B., Müller, O., Burgard, W., & Ball, T. (2017). Brain Responses During Robot-Error Observation. Kognitive Systeme Journal, doi:10.17185/duepublico/44533 | preprint

Group Publications

Constant, M., Mandal, A., Asanowicz, D., Panek, B., Kotlewska, I., Yamaguchi, M., Gillmeister, H., Kerzel, D., Luque, D., Molinero, S., Vázquez-Millán, A., Pesciarelli, F., Borelli, E., Ramzaoui, H., Beck, M., Somon, B., Desantis, A., ..., Welke, D., Mushtaq, F., Pavlov, Y. G., Liesefeld, H. R. (2025). A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996)☆,☆☆,☆☆☆,☆☆☆☆,☆☆☆☆☆. Cortex, 190, 304–341. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.014 | stage 1 RR | RR reviews | preprint

Pavlov, Y. G., Adamian, N., Appelhoff, S., Arvaneh, M., Benwell, C. S. Y., Beste, C., Bland, A. R., Bradford, D. E., Bublatzky, F., Busch, N. A., Clayson, P. E., Cruse, D., Czeszumski, A., Dreber, A., Dumas, G., ..., Welke, D., ..., Zakharov, I., & Mushtaq, F. (2021). #EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments. Cortex, 144:213–229, doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2021.03.013 | preprint

Scientific Software

Larson, E., Gramfort, A., Engemann, D. A., Leppakangas, J., Brodbeck, C., Jas, M., Brooks, T., Sassenhagen, J., Luessi, M., King, J.-R., McCloy, D., Goj, R., Favelier, G., Höchenberger, R., Brunner, C., van Vliet, M., ..., Welke, D., ... Buildqa. (2022). MNE-Python (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7019768

Appelhoff, S., Sanderson, M., Brooks, T., van Vliet, M., Quentin, R., Holdgraf, C., Chaumon, M., Mikulan, E., Tavabi, K., Höchenberger, R., ..., Welke, D., ..., Brunner, C., Rockhill, A., Larson, E., Gramfort, A., & Jas, M. (2019). MNE-BIDS: Organizing electrophysiological data into the BIDS format and facilitating their analysis. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(44):1896, doi:10.21105/joss.01896

Datasets

Constant, M., Mandal, A., Asanowicz, D., Panek, B., Kotlewska, I., Yamaguchi, M., Gillmeister, H., Kerzel, D., Luque, D., Molinero, S., Vázquez-Millán, A., Pesciarelli, F., Borelli, E., Ramzaoui, H., Beck, M., Somon, B., Desantis, A., ..., Welke, D., Mushtaq, F., Pavlov, Y. G., Liesefeld, H. R. (2025). EEGManyLabs—Replication Raw Dataset—Eimer1996 (Version 1.0, p. 335 GiB) [Dataset]. G-Node. doi:10.12751/G-NODE.CRM6LJ

Constant, M., Mandal, A., Asanowicz, D., Panek, B., Kotlewska, I., Yamaguchi, M., Gillmeister, H., Kerzel, D., Luque, D., Molinero, S., Vázquez-Millán, A., Pesciarelli, F., Borelli, E., Ramzaoui, H., Beck, M., Somon, B., Desantis, A., ..., Welke, D., Mushtaq, F., Pavlov, Y. G., Liesefeld, H. R. (2025). EEGManyLabs—Replication Processed Dataset—Eimer1996 (Version 1.0, p. 515 GiB) [Dataset]. G-Node. doi:10.12751/G-NODE.8ZXJ27