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Department of Psychology

Staff

Dr Markus Hausmann

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43286
Room number: L53

Contact Dr Markus Hausmann (email at markus.hausmann@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

1996 Diploma in Psychology (Dipl. Psych.)
2000 PhD in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.)
2006 Habilitation, Venia legendi in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Research Groups

Research Interests

  • Sex differences in cognition and functional/structural brain organisation
  • Neuromodulatory properties of sex hormones
  • Hemispheric asymmetries and interhemispheric interaction
  • Spatial attention and spatial cognition

Selected Publications

Books: edited

  • Lautenbacher, S., Güntürkün, O. & Hausmann, M. (2007). Gehirn und Geschlecht – Neurowissenschaft des kleines Unterschieds zwischen Frau und Mann. Heidelberg: Springer Science.

Books: reviews

  • Hausmann, M. (2009). Hormones and behaviour: a psychological approach. American Journal of Human Biology 21: 228-229.

Books: sections

  • Hausmann, M. (2011). Sex oder Gender? Neurobiologie kognitiver Geschlechtsunterschiede. In Wissenschaft und Gender. Gottfried, M., Neck, R. & Spiel, C. Vienna: Böhlau. 55-79.
  • Hirnstein, M. & Hausmann, M. (2010). Kognitive Geschlechtsunterschiede. In Handbuch Psychologie und Geschlechterforschung. Steins, G. Wiesbaden VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. 69-85.
  • Hausmann, M. & Bayer, U. (2010). Sex hormonal effects on hemispheric asymmetry and interhemispheric interaction. In The two halves of the brain: Information processing in the cerebral hemispheres. Hugdahl, K. & Westerhausen, R. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 287-312.
  • Jordan, K. & Hausmann, M. (2010). Sexualhormone und Verhalten. In Neurobiologie forensich-relevanter Störungen. Müller, J. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. 118-126.
  • Hausmann, M. (2008). Geschlecht, Sexualhormone und Hirnasymmetrie. In Handbuch der Neuro- und Biopsychologie. Hermann, M. & Gauggel, S. Göttingen: Hogrefe. 287-302.
  • Güntürkün, O. & Hausmann, M. (2007). Funktionelle Hirnorganisation und Geschlecht. In Gehirn und Geschlechts – Neurowissenschaft des kleinen Unterschieds zwischen Frau und Mann. Lautenbacher, S., Güntürkün, O. & Hausmann, M. Heidelberg: Springer Science. 87-104.
  • Hausmann, M. (2007). Kognitive Geschlechtsunterschiede. In Gehirn und Geschlecht – Neurowissenschaft des kleinen Unterschieds zwischen Frau und Mann. Lautenbacher, S., Hausmann, M. & Güntürkün, O. Heidelberg: Springer Science. 105-124.
  • Hausmann, M. (2005). Hirnstrukturelle und hirnphysiologische Besonderheiten der Frau. In Frauengesundheit - Ein praktischer Leitfaden für Ärzte und Psychotherapeuten. Riecher-Rössler, A. & Bitzer, J. München: Urban & Fischer. 62-71.
  • Hausmann, M. & Sänger, J. (2004). Wie Sexualhormone unser Denken beeinflussen. In Warum Frauen glauben, Sie könnten nicht einparken und Männer ihnen Recht geben - Über Schwächen, die gar keine sind. Eine Antwort auf A. & B. Pease. Quaiser-Pohl, C. & Jordan, K. München: Verlag C. H. Beck. 56-70.
  • Hausmann, M. (2001). Variationen der funktionellen cerebralen Asymmetrie: Modulation durch gonadale Steroidhormone. In Psychologie 2000, Bericht über den 42. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie in Jena 2000. Silbereisen, R. K. & Reitzle, M. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers. 587-593.
  • Hausmann, M. (2000). Geschlechtsspezifische Aspekte der funktionellen zerebralen Asymmetrie und deren Relevanz für die Psychiatrie. In Psychische Erkrankungen bei Frauen. Riecher-Rössler, A. & Rohde, A. Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger. 122-135.
  • Hausmann, M. & Güntürkün, O. (2000). Plastizität cerebraler Asymmetrien. In Aktuelle Aspekte der Neurorehabilitation. Daum, I. & Widdig, W. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers. 12-30.

Edited works: journals

  • Hausmann, M. & Schober, B. (2012). Sex and Gender Differences Revisited - New Perspectives and New Findings. Zeitschrift für Psychologie (Journal of Psychology), 220 (2).

Journal papers: academic

  • Lewald, J., Kentridge, R. W., Peters, S., Tegenthof, M., Heywood, C. A. & Hausmann, M. (2013). Auditory-visual localization in hemianopia. Neuropsychology
  • Campbell, A. & Hausmann, M. (2013). Effects of oxytocin on women’s aggression depend on state anxiety. Aggressive Behavior
  • Lewald, J. & Hausmann, M. (2013). Effects of sex and age on auditory spatial scene analysis. Hearing Research
  • Alba-Ferrara, L., De Erausquin, G. A., Hirnstein, M., Weis, S. & Hausmann, M. (2013). Emotional prosody modulates attention in schizophrenia patients with hallucinations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Najt, P., Bayer, U. & Hausmann, M. (2013). Models of hemispheric specialization in facial emotion perception - a reevaluation. Emotion 13: 159-167.
  • Najt, P., Bayer, U. & Hausmann, M. (2012). Atypical lateralization in emotional prosody in men with schizotypy. Laterality 17: 533-548.
  • Alba-Ferrara, L., Fernyhough, C., Weis, S., Mitchell, R. L. C. & Hausmann, M. (2012). Contributions of emotional prosody comprehension deficits to the formation of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia. Clinical Psychology Review 32(4): 244-250.
  • Hirnstein, M., Freund, N. & Hausmann, M. (2012). Gender stereotyping paradoxically enhances verbal fluency performance in men. Zeitschrift für Psychologie 220: 70-77.
  • Hjelmervik, H., Westerhausen, R., Osnes, B., Endresen, C. B., Hugdahl, K., Hausmann, M. & Specht, K. (2012). Language lateralization and cognitive control across the menstrual cycle assessed with a dichotic-listening paradigm. Psychoneuroendocrinology 37(11): 1866-1875.
  • Bayer, U. & Hausmann, M. (2012). Menstrual cycle-related changes of functional cerebral asymmetries in fine motor coordination. Brain and Cognition 79(1): 34-38.
  • Lewald, J., Tegenthoff, M., Peters, S. & Hausmann, M. (2012). Passive auditory stimulation improves vision in hemianopia. PLoS ONE 7(5): e31603.
  • Hausmann, M. & Schober, B. (2012). Sex and gender differences: new perspectives and new findings within a psychobiosocial approach. Zeitschrift für Psychologie 220: 57-60.
  • Alba-Ferrara, L., Weis, S., Damjanovic, L., Rowett, M. & Hausmann, M. (2012). Voice identity recognition failure in schizophrenia patients. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 200: 784-790.
  • Weis, S., Hausmann, M., Stoffers, B. & Sturm, W. (2011). Dynamic changes in functional cerebral connectivity of spatial cognition during the menstrual cycle. Human Brain Mapping 32(10): 1544-1556.
  • Ocklenburg, S., Hirnstein, M., Ohmann, T. H. & Hausmann, M. (2011). Mental rotation does not account for sex differences in left-right confusion. Brain and Cognition 76(1): 166-171.
  • Bayer, U. & Hausmann, M. (2011). Oestrogen treatment affects brain functioning after menopause. Menopause International 17: 148-152.
  • Bayer, U. & Hausmann, M. (2011). Sex hormone therapy and functional brain plasticity in postmenopausal women. Neuroscience 191: 118-128.
  • Alba-Ferrara, L., Hausmann, M., Mitchel, R. L. & Weis, S. (2011). The neural correlates of emotional prosody comprehension: Disentangling simple from complex emotion. PLoS ONE 6(12): e28701.
  • Hirnstein, M., Bayer, U., Ellison, A. & Hausmann, M. (2011). TMS over the left angular gyrus impairs the ability to discriminate left from right. Neuropsychologia 49(1): 29-33.
  • Ocklenburg, S., Hirnstein, M., Hausmann, M. & Lewald, J. (2010). Auditory space perception in left- and right-handers. Brain and Cognition 72: 210-217.
  • Hirnstein, M., Leask, S., Rose, J. & Hausmann, M. (2010). Disentangling the relationship between hemispheric asymmetry and cognitive performance. Brain and Cognition 73: 119–127.
  • Hausmann, M. (2010). Hormonal effects on the plasticity of cognitive brain functions. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 1(4): 607-612.
  • Bayer, U. & Hausmann, M. (2010). Hormone therapy in postmenopausal women affects hemispheric asymmetries in fine motor coordination. Hormones and Behavior 58: 450-456.
  • Waldie, K. E. & Hausmann, M. (2010). Right fronto-parietal dysfunction in children with ADHD and developmental dyslexia as determined by line bisection judgements. Neuropsychologia 48: 3650-3656.
  • Weis, S. & Hausmann, M. (2010). Sex Hormones: modulators of interhemispheric inhibition in the human brain. Neuroscientist 16(2): 132-138
  • Beste, C., Konrad, C., Saft, C., Ukas, T., Andrich, J., Pfleiderer, B., Hausmann, M. & Falkenstein, M. (2009). Alterations in voluntary movement execution in Huntington's disease are related to the dominant motor system - evidence from event-related potentials. Experimental Neurology 216: 148-157.
  • Lewald, J., Peters, S., Tegenthoff, M. & Hausmann, M. (2009). Dissociation of auditory and visual straight ahead in hemianopia. Brain Research 1287: 111-117.
  • Lewald, J., Peters, S., Tegenthoff, M. & Hausmann, M. (2009). Distortion of auditory space in hemianopia. European Journal of Neuroscience 30(7): 1401-1411.
  • Bayer, U. & Hausmann, M. (2009). Effects of sex hormone therapy on interhemispheric crosstalk in postmenopausal women. Neuropsychology 23(4): 509-518.
  • Bayer, U. & Hausmann, M. (2009). Estrogen therapy affects right hemispheric functioning in postmenopausal women. Hormones and Behavior 55(1): 228-234.
  • Hausmann, M., Schoofs, D., Rosenthal, H. E. S. & Jordan, K. (2009). Interactive effects of sex hormones and gender stereotypes on cognitive sex differences – a psychobiosocial approach. Psychoneuroendocrinology 34(3): 389-401.
  • Kirsch, J. A., Vlachos, J., Hausmann, M., Rose, J., Yim, M. Y., Aertsen, A. & Güntürkün, O. (2009). Neuronal encoding of meaning: Establishing category-selective response patterns in the avian 'prefrontal cortex'. Behavioural Brain Research 198: 214-223.
  • Lewald, J., Peters, S., Corballis, M. C. & Hausmann, M. (2009). Perception of stationary and moving sound following unilateral cortectomy. Neuropsychologia 47(4): 962-971.
  • Neufang, S., Specht, K., Hausmann, M., Güntürkün, O., Herpertz-Dahlmann, B., Fink, G. R. & Konrad, K. (2009). Sex differences and the impact of steroid hormones on the developing human brain. Cerebral Cortex 19(2): 464-473.
  • Hirnstein, M., Ocklenburg, S., Schneider, D. & Hausmann, M. (2009). Sex differences in left-right confusion depend on hemispheric asymmetry. Cortex 45(7): 891-899.
  • Hirnstein, M., Bayer, U. & Hausmann, M. (2009). Sex-specific response strategies in mental rotation. Learning and Individual Differences 19: 225-228.
  • Weis, S., Hausmann, M., Stoffers, B., Vohn, R., Kellermann, T. & Sturm, W. (2008). Estradiol modulates functional brain organization during the menstrual cycle: An analysis of interhemispheric inhibition. Journal of Neuroscience 28(50): 13401-13410.
  • Bayer, U., Kessler, N., Güntürkün, O. & Hausmann, M. (2008). Interhemispheric interaction during the menstrual cycle. Neuropsychologia 46(9): 2415-2422.
  • Hirnstein, M., Hausmann, M. & Güntürkün, O. (2008). The evolutionary origins of functional cerebral asymmetries in humans: Does lateralization enhance parallel processing?. Behavioural Brain Research 187(2): 297-303.
  • Clapp, W., Kirk, I. J. & Hausmann, M. (2007). Cognitive effects of memory load on hemispheric asymmetry of colour memory. Laterality 12: 139-153.
  • Hirnstein, M., Hausmann, M. & Lewald, J. (2007). Functional cerebral asymmetry in auditory motion perception. Laterality 12: 87-99.
  • Yamazaki, Y., Aust, U., Huber, L., Hausmann, M. & Güntürkün, O (2007). Lateralized cognition: asymmetrical and complementary strategies of pigeons during discrimination of the „human concept”. Cognition 104: 315-344.
  • Lissek, S., Hausmann, M., Knossalla, F., Peters, S., Nicolas, V., Güntürkün, O. & Tegenthoff, M. (2007). Sex differences in cortical and subcortical recruitment during simple and complex motor control: An fMRI study. Neuroimage 37(3): 912-926.
  • Beste, C., Hamm, J. P. & Hausmann, M. (2006). Developmental changes in visual line bisection in females throughout adulthood. Developmental Neuropsychology 30: 753-767.
  • Rolfe, M. H. S., Hausmann, M. & Waldie, K. E. (2006). Hemispheric functioning in children with subtypes of Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Attention Disorders 10: 20-27.
  • Hausmann, M., Tegenthoff, M., Sänger, J., Janssen, F., Güntürkün, O. & Schwenkreis, P. (2006). Transcallosal inhibition across the menstrual cycle: A TMS study. Clinical Neurophysiology 117(1): 26-32.
  • Hausmann, M. (2005). Hemispheric asymmetry in spatial attention across the menstrual cycle. Neuropsychologia 43(11): 1559-1567.
  • Holländer, A., Hausmann, M., Hamm, J. P. & Corballis, M. C. (2005). Sex hormonal modulation of hemispheric asymmetries in the attentional blink. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 11: 263-272.
  • Hausmann, M., Corballis, M. C., Fabri, M., Paggi, A. & Lewald, J. (2005). Sound lateralization in subjects with callosotomy, callosal agenesis, or hemispherectomy. Cognitive Brain Research 25: 537-546.
  • Hausmann, M., Durmusoglu, G., Yazgan, Y. & Güntürkün, O. (2004). Evidence for reduced hemispheric asymmetries in non-verbal functions in bilinguals. Journal of Neurolinguistics 17: 285-299.
  • Hausmann, M., Kirk, I. J. & Corballis, M. C. (2004). Influence of task complexity on manual asymmetries. Cortex 40: 103-110.
  • Hausmann, M., Güntürkün, O. & Corballis, M. C. (2003). Age-related changes in hemispheric asymmetry depend on sex. Laterality 8: 277-290.
  • Hausmann, M., Waldie, K. E. & Corballis, M. C. (2003). Developmental changes in line-bisection: A result of callosal maturation? Neuropsychology 17: 155-160.
  • Hausmann, M., Waldie, K. E., Allison, S. D. & Corballis, M. C. (2003). Line bisection following hemispherectomy. Neuropsychologia 41: 1523-1530.
  • Hausmann, M., Corballis, M. C. & Fabri, M. (2003). Line bisection in the split brain. Neuropsychology. Neuropsychology 17: 602-609.
  • Güntürkün, O. & Hausmann, M. (2003). The dual coding hypothesis of human cerebral asymmetries. Journal of Neurological Sciences (Turk) 20: 140-150.
  • Hausmann, M., Becker, C., Gather, U. & Güntürkün, O. (2002). Functional cerebral asymmetries during the menstrual cycle: A cross sectional and longitudinal analysis. Neuropsychologia 40: 808-816.
  • Waldie, K. E., Hausmann, M., Milne, B. J. & Poulton, R. (2002). Migraine and cognitive function: A life-course study. Neurology 59: 904-908.
  • Hausmann, M., Ergun, G., Yazgan, Y. & Güntürkün, O. (2002). Sex differences in line bisection as a function of hand. Neuropsychologia 40(3): 235-240.
  • Hausmann, M. & Güntürkün, O. (2000). Der Einfluss von Sexualhormonen auf die funktionelle cerebrale Asymmetrie. Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie 11: 203-215.
  • Hausmann, M. & Güntürkün, O. (2000). Progesteron und die interhemisphärische Interaktion. Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie 11: 230-233.
  • Hausmann, M., Slabbekoorn, D., Van Goozen, S. H. M., Cohen-Kettenis, P. T. & Güntürkün, O. (2000). Sex hormones affect spatial abilities during the menstrual cycle. Behavioral Neuroscience 114: 1245-1250.
  • Hausmann, M. & Güntürkün, O. (2000). Steroid fluctuations modify functional cerebral asymmetries: The hypothesis of progesterone-mediated interhemispheric decoupling. Neuropsychologia 38: 1362-1374.
  • Rasmjou, S., Hausmann, M. & Güntürkün, O. (1999). Hemispheric dominance and gender in the perception of an illusion. Neuropsychologia 37: 1041-1047.
  • Meinschaefer, J., Hausmann, M. & Güntürkün, O. (1999). Laterality effects in the processing of syllable structure. Brain and Language 70: 287-293.
  • Hausmann, M. & Güntürkün, O. (1999). Sex differences in functional cerebral asymmetries in a repeated measures design. Brain and Cognition 41: 263-275.
  • Hausmann, M., Behrendt-Körbitz, S., Kautz, H., Lamm, C., Radelt, F. & Güntürkün, O. (1998). Sex differences in oral asymmetries during wordrepetition. Neuropsychologia 36: 1397-1402.

Journal papers: professional

  • Hausmann, M. & Bayer U. (2011). Armonia hormonal. Mente y cerebro 50: 70-75.
  • Hausmann, M. & Bayer, U. (2010). Les mysteres du cerveau feminin. Cerveau & Psycho 37: 66-70.
  • Hausmann, M. & Bayer, U. (2009). Hormonelle Harmonie. Gehirn & Geist 9/2009: 60-65.
  • Ocklenburg, S. & Hausmann, M. (2009). Kognitive Geschlechtsunterschiede. Neurologie & Rehabilitation 15: 56-57.
  • Hausmann, M. (2004). Cerveaux sous influence hormonale. Cerveau & Psycho 5: 44-47.
  • Güntürkün, O., Hausmann, M. & Tegenthoff, M. (2003). „Der kleine Unterschied“ im menschlichen Gehirn. Neurorubin 2003: 6-9.
  • Hausmann, M. (2003). Frau und Mann - der große Unterschied: Eine Frage der Symmetrie. Gehirn & Geist 6(3): 56-61.

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