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Prof. Dr Thomas Reber

Thomas Reber
Vice-dean

Documents

Curriculum Vitae

Thomas Reber obtained his PhD in psychology in 2012 from the University of Bern, Switzerland. He went to the Department of Epileptology at the University of Bonn, Germany, in 2013 as research fellow funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2018 he went on to join the UniDistance Suisse, where works as associate professor of psychology. His research investigates neural correlates and mechanisms of memory, perception, and awareness with a particular focus on the human medial temporal lobe. To this aim he uses intracranial EEG, human single units, as well as scalp EEG and fMRI.

News

A neuron

A new article from Prof. Thomas Reber published in Nature Communications

A new article from Prof. Thomas Reber published in Nature Communications

Research focus

In his research, Thomas Reber investigates the neural correlates of perception, memory, attention and consciousness. He develops cognitive experiments for use with healthy subjects, amnesics and epilepsy patients. Brain activity is measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), intracranial electroencephalography (EEG), and extracellular single-cell recordings in humans. At UniDistance Suisse, Thomas Reber incorporates findings from basic research into applied research on the use of information and communication technology to support learning processes.

Research projects

Workload and learning behaviour of distance learning students
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Belardi Angelo // Reber Thomas // Rothen Nicolas // Martarelli Corinna
Status: Completed
Start: 01.01.2023
End: 31.12.2025
EDUDL+
Psychology
Workload and learning behaviour of distance learning students
Belardi Angelo // Reber Thomas // Rothen Nicolas // Martarelli Corinna
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Completed
Start: 01.01.2023
End: 31.12.2025
EDUDL+
Psychology
Creating opportunities to interact & learn in online learning environments for higher education
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Reber Thomas // Belardi Angelo // Jullien Jean-Michel // Carbonel Henrietta
Start: 01.10.2020
Psychology
Creating opportunities to interact & learn in online learning environments for higher education
Reber Thomas // Belardi Angelo // Jullien Jean-Michel // Carbonel Henrietta
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Start: 01.10.2020
Psychology
School of Tomorrow
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Rothen Nicolas // Reber Thomas
Status: Completed
Start: 01.10.2019
End: 30.09.2022
Psychology
School of Tomorrow
Rothen Nicolas // Reber Thomas
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Completed
Start: 01.10.2019
End: 30.09.2022
Psychology
Interaction of learning principles in acquiring a new second language
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Reber Thomas // Rothen Nicolas // Belardi Angelo // Salome Pedrett
Status: Completed
Start: 01.08.2018
End: 31.12.2019
Psychology
Interaction of learning principles in acquiring a new second language
Reber Thomas // Rothen Nicolas // Belardi Angelo // Salome Pedrett
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Funding scheme: -
Status: Completed
Start: 01.08.2018
End: 31.12.2019
Psychology
Cognitive capacity in the presence of a smartphone
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Rothen Nicolas // Reber Thomas // Maalouli-Hartmann Matthias // Martarelli Corinna
Status: Completed
Start: 01.08.2018
End: 30.06.2019
Psychology
Cognitive capacity in the presence of a smartphone
Rothen Nicolas // Reber Thomas // Maalouli-Hartmann Matthias // Martarelli Corinna
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Completed
Start: 01.08.2018
End: 30.06.2019
Psychology

Research groups

Cognitive Neurophysiology

Faculty of Psychology

Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context
2026-02 | Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09910-2
  • Marcel Bausch
  • Johannes Niediek
  • Thomas P. Reber
  • Sina Mackay
  • Jan Boström
  • Christian E. Elger
  • Florian Mormann
Journal article
Correction: Spacing, feedback, and testing boost vocabulary learning in a web application.
2025-07 | Frontiers in psychology
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1629682
  • Belardi A
  • Pedrett S
  • Rothen N
  • Reber TP
Journal article
Phase of firing does not reflect temporal order in sequence memory of humans and recurrent neural networks.
2025-03 | Nature neuroscience
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01893-7
  • Liebe S
  • Niediek J
  • Pals M
  • Reber TP
  • Faber J
  • Boström J
  • Elger CE
  • Macke JH
  • Mormann F
Journal article
Effects of 5 Hz Auditory Beat Stimulation on Mind Wandering and Sustained Attention in an Online Experiment
2024-01 | Journal of Cognitive Enhancement
DOI: 10.1007/s41465-024-00290-5
  • Belardi, A.
  • Chaieb, L.
  • Fell, J.
  • Rothen, N.
  • Reber, T.P.
Journal article Peer-reviewed
Concept and location neurons in the human brain provide the ‘what’ and ‘where’ in memory formation
2024-01 | Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52295-5
  • Mackay, S.
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Bausch, M.
  • Boström, J.
  • Elger, C.E.
  • Mormann, F.
Journal article
Side effects of monaural beat stimulation during sustained mental work on mind wandering and performance measures
2024-01 | Frontiers in Psychology
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1375717
  • Schmidt, L.M.
  • Chaieb, L.
  • Derner, M.
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Fell, J.
Journal article
Correlates of implicit semantic processing as revealed by representational similarity analysis applied to EEG
2024-01 | iScience
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111149
  • Weber, V.
  • Ruch, S.
  • Skieresz, N.H.
  • Rothen, N.
  • Reber, T.P.
Journal article
Modulating prospective memory and attentional control with high-definition transcranial current stimulation: Study protocol of a randomized, double-blind, and sham-controlled trial in healthy older adults
2023-08 | PLOS ONE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289532
  • Nadine Schmidt
  • Marta Menéndez-Granda
  • Ronya Münger
  • Thomas P. Reber
  • Ute J. Bayen
  • Fabian E. Gümüsdagli
  • Alexandra Hering
  • Emilie Joly-Burra
  • Matthias Kliegel
  • Jessica Peter
Journal article
A key role of the hippocampal P3 in the attentional blink
2023-05 | NeuroImage
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120028
  • T. P. Reber
  • Marlene Derner
  • Jennifer Faber
  • Rainer Surges
  • Florian Mormann
  • Juergen Fell
Journal article
Single-neuron mechanisms of neural adaptation in the human temporal lobe
2023-04 | Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38190-5
  • Thomas P. Reber
  • Sina Mackay
  • Marcel Bausch
  • Marcel S. Kehl
  • Valeri Borger
  • Rainer Surges
  • Florian Mormann
Journal article
A Meta-Analysis on Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Applications: Benefits and Risks
2022-09 | Psychologica Belgica
DOI: 10.5334/pb.1146
  • Mariela Mihaylova
  • Simon Gorin
  • Thomas P. Reber
  • Nicolas Rothen
Journal article Peer-reviewed
Modulation of Mind Wandering Using Monaural Beat Stimulation in Subjects With High Trait-Level Mind Wandering
2022-06 | Frontiers in Psychology
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.815442
  • Leila Chaieb
  • Sofie Krakau
  • Thomas P. Reber
  • Juergen Fell
Journal article
On the relationship between mind wandering and mindfulness
2022-05 | Scientific Reports
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-11594-x
  • Angelo Belardi
  • Leila Chaieb
  • Alodie Rey-Mermet
  • Florian Mormann
  • Nicolas Rothen
  • Juergen Fell
  • Thomas P. Reber
Journal article Peer-reviewed
Noninvasive Brain Stimulation for the Modulation of Mind Wandering
2022-01 | New Perspectives on Mind-Wandering
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06955-0_8
  • Leila Chaieb
  • Thomas P. Reber
  • Sofie Krakau
  • Juergen Fell
Book chapter
Standardized database of 400 complex abstract fractals
2021-12 | Behavior Research Methods
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-021-01726-y
  • Rebecca Ovalle-Fresa
  • Sarah V Di Pietro
  • Thomas P Reber
  • Eleonora Balbi
  • Nicolas Rothen
Journal article Peer-reviewed
Spacing, Feedback, and Testing Boost Vocabulary Learning in a Web Application
2021-11 | Frontiers in Psychology
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.757262
  • Angelo Belardi
  • Salome Pedrett
  • Nicolas Rothen
  • Thomas P. Reber
Journal article Peer-reviewed
Concept neurons in the human medial temporal lobe flexibly represent abstract relations between concepts
2021-10 | Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26327-3
  • Marcel Bausch
  • Johannes Niediek
  • Thomas P. Reber
  • Sina Mackay
  • Jan Boström
  • Christian E. Elger
  • Florian Mormann
Journal article
Auditory beat stimulation modulates memory-related single-neuron activity in the human medial temporal lobe
2021-01 | Brain Sciences
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11030364
  • Derner, M.
  • Chaieb, L.
  • Dehnen, G.
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Borger, V.
  • Surges, R.
  • Staresina, B.P.
  • Mormann, F.
  • Fell, J.
Journal article
Does a smartphone on the desk drain our brain? No evidence of cognitive costs due to smartphone presence in a short-term and prospective memory task
2020-11 | Consciousness and Cognition
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2020.103033
Journal article
Patterns of single-neuron activity during associative recognition memory in the human medial temporal lobe.
2020-08 | NeuroImage
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117214
Journal article
Erratum: Representation of abstract semantic knowledge in populations of human single neurons in the medial temporal lobe (PLoS Biol (2019) 17:6 (e3000290) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000290)
2020-01 | PLoS Biology
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PBIO.3000753
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Bausch, M.
  • MacKay, S.
  • Boström, J.
  • Elger, C.E.
  • Mormann, F.
Journal article
Recollection in the human hippocampal-entorhinal cell circuitry
2019-12 | Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09558-3
Journal article
Representation of abstract semantic knowledge in populations of human single neurons in the medial temporal lobe
2019-06 | PLOS Biology
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000290
  • T. P. Reber
  • Marcel Bausch
  • Sina Mackay
  • Jan Boström
  • Christian E. Elger
  • Florian Mormann
Journal article
TV vs. YouTube: TV Advertisements Capture More Visual Attention, Create More Positive Emotions and Have a Stronger Impact on Implicit Long-Term Memory
2019-03 | Frontiers in Psychology
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00626
Journal article
Educational App-Development needs to be informed by the Cognitive Neurosciences of Learning & Memory
2018-12 | npj Science of Learning
DOI: 10.1038/s41539-018-0039-4
Journal article
Cue discriminability predicts instrumental conditioning
2018-01 | Consciousness and Cognition
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.03.013
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Samimizad, B.
  • Mormann, F.
Journal article
Memory, Consciousness & the Hippocampus
2017-04 | Before Consciousness
Book chapter
Mind wandering simultaneously prolongs reactions and promotes creative incubation
2017-01 | Scientific Reports
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10616-3
  • Leszczynski, M.
  • Chaieb, L.
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Derner, M.
  • Axmacher, N.
  • Fell, J.
Journal article
Single-Neuron Correlates of Conscious Perception in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
2017-01 | Current Biology
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.025
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Faber, J.
  • Niediek, J.
  • Boström, J.
  • Elger, C.E.
  • Mormann, F.
Journal article
Intracranial EEG correlates of implicit relational inference within the hippocampus
2016-01 | Hippocampus
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22490
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Do Lam, A.T.A.
  • Axmacher, N.
  • Elger, C.E.
  • Helmstaedter, C.
  • Henke, K.
  • Fell, J.
Journal article
Auditory Beat Stimulation and its Effects on Cognition and Mood States
2015-05 | Frontiers in Psychiatry
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00070
Journal article
Hippocampus is place of interaction between unconscious and conscious memories
2015-01 | PLoS ONE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122459
  • Züst, M.A.
  • Colella, P.
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Vuilleumier, P.
  • Hauf, M.
  • Ruch, S.
  • Henke, K.
Journal article
Detecting analogies unconsciously
2014-01 | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00009
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Luechinger, R.
  • Boesiger, P.
  • Henke, K.
Journal article
Unconscious relational encoding depends on hippocampus
2014-01 | Brain
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu270
  • Duss, S.B.
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Hänggi, J.
  • Schwab, S.
  • Wiest, R.
  • Müri, R.M.
  • Brugger, P.
  • Gutbrod, K.
  • Henke, K.
Journal article
Integrating events across levels of consciousness
2013-01 | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00068
  • Henke, K.
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Duss, S.B.
Journal article
Sleep stage II contributes to the consolidation of declarative memories
2012-08 | Neuropsychologia
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.06.008
Journal article
Integrating unseen events over time
2012-01 | Consciousness and Cognition
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.02.013
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Henke, K.
Journal article
Unconscious relational inference recruits the hippocampus
2012-01 | Journal of Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5639-11.2012
  • Henke, K.
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Luechinger, R.
  • Boesiger, P.
Journal article
Formation of semantic associations between subliminally presented face-word pairs
2011-01 | Consciousness and Cognition
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.03.018
  • Duss, S.B.
  • Oggier, S.
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Henke, K.
Journal article
Rapid formation and flexible expression of memories of subliminal word pairs
2011-01 | Frontiers in Psychology
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00343
  • Reber, T.P.
  • Henke, K.
Journal article
The Impact of Communication Modality on Perceived Credibility of Panel Members
2010-03 | Electronic News
DOI: 10.1177/1931243110361584
Journal article

Teaching

K2 Messung und Modellierung neuronaler Mechanismen kognitiver Prozesse Master of Science in Psychology
M08 Methoden III: Experimentelle Übungen Bachelor of Science in Psychology
M4 Online-Studien implementieren Master of Science in Psychology

Functions at UniDistance Suisse

Faculty of Psychology

  • Vice-dean
  • Programme direction for the German language Bachelor in Psychology and Master in Psychology
  • Associate Professor

Cognitive Neurophysiology

  • Associate Professor

Faculty Council of the Faculty of Psychology

  • Vice-dean
  • Programme direction for the German language Bachelor in Psychology and Master in Psychology
  • Associate Professor