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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🙏😃NOW published in Nature Communications Psychology: Our work on the Neural Code of Neuroticism 😯 >> >> Similarity in Brain 🧠 Responses to Movies 🎥 relate to Similarity in Neuroticism Scores!! rdcu.be/BX5ivn2W28Va

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Visit our poster NOW @dgps.bsky.social conference in Luxembourg 😃 - Intelligence and the MMN ERP - A Meta-Analysis

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

😃 Our Meta-Analysis on MMN and Intelligence is now available online as preprint. 🥰 >> Significant across-study negative associations between intelligence and MMN amplitude & latency! - high heterogeneity requiring better standards and guidelines 😌 doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🥳Our New Study of the FOPSID-Project is now published in Psychoneuroendocrinology 😃 - Open Access: "Individual dynamics in stress-related pain responses" - great collaboration with Inge Timmers, Tom Smeets and Joren Vyverman from Ghent and Tilburg University doi.org/10.1016/j.ps...

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🥳Congratulations to Tobias Nöth! 😍👏- whose Meta-Analysis about Intelligence and Mismatch Negativity won the "Best Student Poster Award" at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Intelligence Research in Warsaw. >> online version: osf.io/59n6u/files/...

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

📢OPEN Accessible now: "Trait-Relevant Tasks Improve Personality Prediction FromStructural-Functional Brain Network Coupling" doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

📢 NEW: "The Multilayer Processing Theory of Human Intelligence" now available online‼️Intelligence as phenomenon arising from neural Interactions at various temporal and spatial scales🧠 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🥳HUGE Congratulations to Johanna Popp, who defended yesterday her dissertation with "Summa Cum Laude" @johannapopp.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

😃Finally!!!😃 >> After more than 3 yr hard work together with @matteuler.bsky.social , I am delighted to share our Meta-Analysis about ALL studies linking Intelligence to the P300 ERP >> Small but significant effect size across 49 studies‼️https://biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705728v1

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

😱New Work: ‼️Personality Traits Interact with the Stress-Pain Relationship‼️ - Great Collaboration @Inge__Timmers @TilburgU @Uni_WUE, Tom Smeets, Stefanie Meeuwis and Joren Vyverman! doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

😍 Today published in Nature Communications - Biology: "Decoding the Human Brain During Intelligence Testing". 🧠 fMRI Graph Theory + EEG Signal Complexity 🧠 Collaboration with Rex Jung, Adam Chuderski & Jonas Thiele! >> 🙂Open Access: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Decoding the human brain during intelligence testing - Communications Biology

Variations in human brain frontoparietal functional connectivity and in signal complexity during intelligence tests relate to individual test performance. Results encourage exploring human intell...

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

😱 "The Neural Code of Neuroticism"‼️Exciting new work of our group 😃>> Persons with higher Neuroticism have more heterogeneous Brain Responses - especially during "neurotic" movie scenes! 😎Inter-Subject Representational Similarity Analyses 😃https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.19.700296v1

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Congratulations to Johanna Popp and all persons involved in this project! @johannapopp.bsky.social 😍https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811924000582?via%3Dihub

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

📢📢 New Results 😃 NO sign. prediction of PERSONALITY from Resting-State - BUT during Trait-Relevant Tasks‼️Our new Preprint on Structural-Functional Brain Network Coupling‼️🧐🧠 doi.org/10.1101/2025... Post übersetzen

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

💥Thanks to very valuable input from Reviewers 🩵🩵, we supplemented our most recent work on the question 📢What happens in the human brain during intelligence testing 🧠❓ with multiscale entropy analyses of EEG signals. 🔆 New results: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

📢New Preprint:😃Brain Structure and Cognitive Ability during Adolescence (N=8534)‼️Regional structure, morphometric similarity (MRI), and structural connectivity (DTI) >> Hubs of critical maturation🧠‼️ doi.org/10.1101/2024...

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Kirsten Hilger @kirstenhilger.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

🥳 Congratulations to Jonas Thiele - now PhD!! 😃 - who did a great job yesterday and defended this dissertation! @uni-wuerzburg.de @bertsch-lab.bsky.social >> with the well-deserved grade: SUMMA CUM LAUDE!!!!!😍

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