First/senior author in peer-refereed journals
2025-
Teghil A , Wittmann M (2025). How the body and brain process time. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 179, 106416.
Schiffer K, Pfeifer E, Stolterfoth C, Wittmann M (2025). Silence, darkness, and gravity: A qualitative analysis of individual experiences during Floatation-REST. Spiritual Care 14, 263–277.
Wittmann M, Montemayor C, Dorato M (2025). Stoicism, mindfulness, and the brain: The empirical foundations of second-order desires. Frontiers in Psychology 16, 1569237.
Pantazis I, Wittmann M (2025). Experience after Floatation-REST: Relaxation during floating mediates the afterglow effect. Consciousness and Cognition 130, 103836.
Yiassemides A, Wittmann M (2025). Hans Bender in conversation with Carl Jung: Participation mystique and its implications for our understanding of time and death. International Journal of Jungian Studies 17, 20–39.
2024
Wittmann M, Scheck F, Feldmann J, Glaesman A, Mossbridge J, Bem D (2024). The German version of a retroactive priming task shows mixed effects. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice 11(3), 392–405.
Pfeifer E, Wulf H, Metz K, Wüster A-L, Pischel M, Wittmann M (2024). Correlations between meaning in life and nature connectedness: German-language validation of two topic-related measures and practical implications. Spiritual Care 13(3), 242–256. https://doi.org/10.1515/spircare-2024-0011
Lieb Y, Schult B, Wittmann M (2024). VR video game-induced psi communication with red and green ganzfeld: A proof-of-principle study. Journal of Anomalistics 24, 303–322.
Khoshnoud S, Leitritz D, Çinar Bozdağ M, Alvarez Igarzábal F, Noreika V, Wittmann M (2024). When the heart meets the mind Exploring the brain-heart interaction during time perception. Journal of Neuroscience 44, e2039232024.
Flatten C, Linares Gutiérrez D, Kübel SL, Taylor S, Wittmann M (2024). Increased wakefulness as measured by the WAKE-16 is related to mindfulness and emotional self-regulation in experienced Buddhist meditators. In T Dotan Ben-Soussan, J Glicksohn, N Srinivasan (Eds.) The Neurophysiology of Silence (C): Creativity, Aesthetic Experience and Time. Progress in Brain Research 287, 287–307.
Hruby H, Schmidt S, Feinstein J, Wittmann M (2024). Induction of altered states of consciousness during Floatation-REST is associated with the dissolution of body boundaries and the distortion of subjective time. Scientific Reports 14, 9316 .
Witowska J, Stolarski M, Wittmann M (2024). Psychometric validation of the German adaptation of the Temporal Metacognition Scale. Timing and Time Perception 12, 64–82.
2022-2023
Wittmann M (2023). A commentary on Physical time within human time by Gruber RP, Block RA, Montemayor C (2022). Frontiers in Psychology. Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 13:718505.
Pfeifer E, Pothmann K, Claaßen S, Wittmann M (2023). Increased relaxation, less boredom, and a faster passage of time during a period of silence in the forest. In: Neurophysiology of Silence. In T Dotan Ben-Soussan, J Glicksohn, N Srinivasan (Eds.) Neurophysiology of Silence Part A: Empirical Studies Progress in Brain Research 277, 157–180 .
Balcı F, Ünübol H, Grondin S, Sayar GH, van Wassenhove V, Wittmann M (2023). Dynamics of retrospective timing: A big data approach. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 30, 1840–1847.
Montemayor C, Wittmann M (2022). The illusions of time passage: Why time passage is real. Philosophies 7(6):140.
Linares Gutiérrez D, Schmidt S, Meissner K, Wittmann M (2022). Changes in subjective time and self during meditation. Biology 11(8):1116.
Senyk O, Abramov V, Bedan V, Bunas A, Hrechkosii M, Lutsenko O, Mandzyk T, Wittmann M (2022). Differences in time perspectives measured under the dramatically changing socioeconomic conditions during the Ukrainian political crises in 2014/2015. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(12):7465.
Khoshnoud S, Alvarez Igarzábal F, Wittmann M (2022). Brain-heart interaction and the experience of flow while playing a video game. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16: 819834
Elliott MA, Zalewska M, Wittmann M (2022). Mindfulness meditation influences implicit but not explicit coding of temporal simultaneity. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement 6, 159–169.
Kosak F, Schelhorn I, Wittmann M (2022). The subjective experience of time during the pandemic in Germany: the big slowdown. PLoS ONE 17(5), e0267709.
Wittmann M (2022). Psychologie und Neurobiologie des Zeiterlebens: Körper, Gefühle und das Selbst. Komplementäre Ansätze zur Psychotherapie. Psychotherapeut 67, 408–413.
2020 - 2021
Schellinger U, Anton A, Wittmann M (2021). “It is all so Strangely Intertwined.” A discussion between Hans Bender and Carl Gustav Jung about synchronicity (1960). Phanês 4, 1–50.
Müller M, Wittmann M (2021). Anomalous Cognition in the context of time: Does the viewer describe a deterministic or a probabilistic future? Journal of Scientific Exploration 35, 542–569
Costa R, Madeira A, Barata M, Wittmann M (2021). The power of dionysus – effects of red wine on consciousness: A naturalistic study in a wine bar. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0256198
Alvarez Igarzábal F, Hruby H, Witowska J, Khoshnoud S, Wittmann M ( 2021). What happens while waiting in virtual reality? A comparison between a virtual and a real waiting situation concerning boredom, self-regulation, and the experience of time. Technology, Mind, and Behavior 2 (2) doi: 10.1037/tmb0000038
Costines C, Borghardt TL, Wittmann M (2021). The phenomenology of “pure” consciousness as reported by an experienced meditator of the Tibetan Buddhist Karma Kagyu Tradition. Analysis of interview content concerning different meditative states. Philosophies 6 (2):50.
Wittmann M, Mella N (2021). Having children speeds up the passage of life time in parents. Timing & Time Perception 9, 275–283.
Kent L, Wittmann M (2021). Time consciousness: The missing link in theories of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2021, 7(2): niab011
Kübel SL, Fiedler H, Wittmann M (2021). Red visual stimulation in the Ganzfeld leads to a relative over-estimation of duration compared to green. PsyCh Journal 10, 5–19.
Khoshnoud S, Alvarez Igarzábal F, Wittmann M (2020). Peripheral-physiological and neural correlates of the flow experience while playing video games: a comprehensive review. Peer J 8:e10520
Wittmann M (2020). Subjective passage of time during the pandemic: routine, boredom, and memory. KronoScope 20, 260-271.
Kübel SL, Wittmann M (2020). A German validation of four questionnaires crucial to the study of time perception: BPS, CFC-14, SAQ, MQT. International Journal Environmental Research and Public Health 17 (22), 8477.
Pfeifer E, Stolterfoth C, Spahn C, Schmidt HU, Timmermann T, Wittmann M (2020). Preventing music performance anxiety (MPA): Music students judge combined depth relaxation music therapy (DRMT) and silence to be an effective methodology. Music and Medicine 12, 148–156.
Witowska J, Zajenkowski M, Wittmann M (2020). Integration of balanced time perspective and time perception: the role of executive control and neuroticism. Personality and Individual Differences 163, 110061.
Witowska J, Schmidt S, Wittmann M (2020).What happens while waiting? How self-regulation affects boredom and subjective time during a real waiting situation. Acta Psychologica 205, 103061.
Dorato M, Wittmann M (2020). The phenomenology and cognitive neuroscience of experienced temporality. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 19, 747–771
Pfeifer E, Wittmann M (2020). Waiting, thinking, and feeling: variations in the perception of time during silence. Frontiers in Psychology Consciousness Research 11 (602).
Wittmann M (2020). Altered states of consciousness self and time during meditation. International Journal for the Study of Chan Buddhism and Human Civilization 7, 27–39.
2018 – 2019
Pfeifer E, Fiedler H, Wittmann M (2019). Increased relaxation and present orientation after a period of silence in a natural surrounding. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 29, 75-92.
Kohls N, Esch T, Gerber L, Adrian L, Wittmann M (2019). Mindfulness meditation and fantasy relaxation in a group setting leads to a diminished sense of self and an increased present orientation. Behavioral Sciences 9(8), 87.
Pfeifer E, Fiedler H, Wittmann M (2019). Enhanced relaxation in students after combined depth relaxation music therapy and silence in a natural setting. The Arts in Psychotherapy 63, 68–76.
Müller M, Müller L, Wittmann M (2019). Predicting the stock market: An associative remote viewing study. Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 19, 326–346.
Pfeifer E, Geyer N, Storch F, Wittmann M (2019). “Just Think”—Students feel significantly more relaxed, less aroused, and in a better mood after a period of silence alone in a room. Psych 1, 343–352.
Linares Gutiérrez D, Pfeifer E, Schmidt S, Wittmann M (2019). Meditation experience and mindfulness are associated with reduced self-reported mind-wandering in meditators—A German version of the Daydreaming Frequency Scale. Psych 1, 193–206.
Linares Gutiérrez D, Kübel S, Giersch A, Schmidt S, Meissner K, Wittmann M (2019). Meditation-induced states, vagal tone, and breathing activity are related to changes in auditory temporal integration. Behavioral Sciences 9(5), 51.
Wittmann M, Sircova A (2018). Dispositional orientation to the present and future and its role in pro-environmental behavior and sustainability. Heliyon 4 (10) October 2018, e00882.
Jokic T, Zakay D, Wittmann M (2018). Individual differences in self-rated impulsivity modulate the estimation of time in a real waiting situation. Timing & Time Perception 6, 71–89.
2016 – 2017
Wittmann M, Neumaier L, Evrard R, Weibel A, Schmied-Knittel I (2017). Subjective time distortion during near-death experiences: an analysis of reports. Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 17, 309–320.
Deinzer V, Clancy L, Wittmann M (2017). The sense of time while watching a dance performance. Sage Open 7, October-December 2017, 1–10.
Müller M, Wittmann M (2017). Remote Viewing: Eine Proof-of-Principle-Studie. Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 17, 83–104.
Costa RM, Pestana J, Costa D, Wittmann M (2017). Women’s finger pressure sensitivity at rest and recalled body awareness during partnered sexual activity. International Journal of Impotence Research29, 157–159
Berkovich-Ohana A, Wittmann M (2017). A typology of altered states according to the consciousness state space (CSS) model: A special reference to subjective time. Journal of Consciousness Studies 24, 37–61.
Pfeifer E, Sarikaya A, Wittmann, M. (2016). Changes in states of consciousness during a period of silence after a session of depth relaxation music therapy (DRMT). Music and Medicine 8, 180–186.
Thönes S, Wittmann M (2016). Time perception in Yogic mindfulness meditation - effects on retro-spective duration judgments and time passage. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice 3, 316–325.
Costa RM, Petana J, Costa D, Wittmann M (2016). Altered states of consciousness are related to higher sexual responsiveness. Consciousness and Cognition 42, 135–141.
2014 – 2015
Wittmann M, Rudolph T, Linares Gutierrez D, Winkler I (2015). Time perspective and emotion regulation as predictors of age-related subjective passage of time. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 12, 16027-16042.
Wittmann M (2015). Modulations of the experience of self and time. Consciousness and Cognition 38, 172–181.
Dorato M, Wittmann M (2015). The now and the passage of time. From physics to psychology. Kronoscope 15, 191–213.
Zaytseva Y, Szymanski C, Gutyrchik E, Pechenkova E, Vlasova R, Wittmann M (2015). A disembodied man: A case of somatopsychic depersonalization in schizotypal disorder. PsyCh Journal 4, 186–198.
Wernery J, Atmanspacher H, Kornmeier J, Candia V, Folkers G, Wittmann M (2015). Temporal processing in bistable perception of the Necker cube. Perception 44, 157–168.
Wittmann M, Otten S, Schötz E, Sarikaya A, Lehnen H, Jo H-G, Kohls N, Schmidt S, Meissner K (2015). Subjective expansion of extended time-spans in experienced meditators. Frontiers in Psychology 5 (1586).
Montemayor C, Wittmann M. (2014). The varieties of presence: hierarchical levels of temporal integration. Timing & Time Perception 2, 325–338.
Wittmann M, Peter J, Gutina O, Otten S, Kohls N, Meissner K (2014). Individual differences in self-attributed mindfulness levels are related to the experience of time and cognitive self-control. Personality and Individual Differences 64, 41–45.
Wackermann J, Meissner K, Tankersley D, Wittmann M (2014). Effects of emotional valence and arousal on acoustic duration reproduction assessed via the ‘dual klepsydra model’. Frontiers in Neurorobotics 8 (11).
Wackermann J, Pacer J, Wittmann M. (2014). Perception of acoustically presented time series with varied intervals. Acta Psychologica 147, 105–110.
Pollatos O, Laubrock J, Wittmann M (2014). Interoceptive focus shapes the experience of time. PLoS ONE 9 (1): e86934.
2010 – 2013
Wittmann M (2013). The inner sense of time: how the brain creates a representation of duration. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 14, 217–223.
Pütz P, Ulbrich P, Churan J, Fink M, Wittmann M (2012). Duration discrimination in the context of age, sex, and cognition. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 24, 893–900.
Wittmann M (2011). Moments in time. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 5 (66).
Wittmann M, Simmons AN, Flagan T, Lane SD, Wackermann J, Paulus MP (2011). Neural substrates of time perception and impulsivity. Brain Research 1406, 43–58.
Meissner K, Wittmann M (2011). Body signals, cardiac awareness, and the perception of time. Biological Psychology 86, 289–297.
Wittmann M, Simmons AN, Aron J, Paulus MP (2010). Accumulation of neural activity in the posterior insula encodes the passage of time.Neuropsychologia 48, 3110–3120.
Wittmann M, Lovero KL, Lane SD, Paulus MP (2010) Now or later? Striatum and insula activation to immediate versus delayed rewards.Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics 3, 15–26.
Wittmann M, van Wassenhove V, Craig AD, Paulus MP (2010). The neural substrates of subjective time dilation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 4 (2).
Gutyrchik E, Churan J, Meindl T, Bokde ALW, von Bernwitz H, Born C, Reiser M, Pöppel E, Wittmann M (2010). Functional neuroimaging of duration discrimination on two different time scales. Neuroscience Letters 469, 411–415.
Wittmann M, Paulus MP, Roenneberg T (2010). Decreased psychological well-being in late ‘chronotypes’ is mediated by smoking and alcohol consumption. Substance Use & Misuse 45, 15–30.
2008 – 2009
Baldauf D, Burgard E, Wittmann M (2009). Time perception as a workload measure in simulated car driving. Applied Ergonomics 40, 929–935.
Wittmann M, Paulus MP (2009). Temporal horizons in decision making. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics 2, 1–11.
Wittmann M (2009). The inner experience of time. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364, 1955–1967.
Ulbrich P, Churan J, Fink M, Wittmann M (2009). Perception of temporal order: The effects of age, sex, and cognitive factors. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition 16, 183–202.
Wittmann M (2009). Die Neuropsychologie der Zeit - Kognitive und emotionale Modulatoren der zeitlichen Erfahrung. Zeitschrift für Medizinische Psychologie 18, 28-39.
Wittmann M, Arce E, Santisteban C (2008). How impulsiveness, trait anger, and extracurricular activities might affect aggression in school children. Personality and Individual Differences 45, 618–623.
Kiss M, Cristescu T, Fink M, Wittmann M (2008). Auditory language comprehension of temporally reversed speech signals in native and non-native speakers. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis 68, 204–213.
Wittmann M, Paulus MP (2008). Decision making, impulsivity, and time perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12, 7–12.
2006 – 2007
Wittmann M, Leland D, Churan J, Paulus MP (2007). Impaired time perception and motor timing in stimulant-dependent subjects. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 90, 183–192.
Wittmann M, Leland D, Paulus MP (2007). Time and decision making: differential contribution of the posterior insular cortex and striatum during a delay discounting task. Experimental Brain Research 179, 643–653.
Ulbrich P, Churan J, Fink M, Wittmann M (2007). Temporal reproduction: further evidence for two processes. Acta Psychologica 125, 51–65.
Wittmann M, Carter O, Hasler F, Cahn R, Grimberg U, Spring D, Hell D, Flohr H, Vollenweider FX (2007). Effects of psilocybin on time perception and temporal control of behaviour in humans. Journal of Psychopharmacology 21, 50–64.
Wittmann M, Vollmer T, Schweiger C, Hiddemann W (2006). The relation between the experience of time and psychological distress in patients with hematological malignancies. Palliative & Supportive Care 4, 357–364.
Fink M, Churan J, Wittmann M (2006). Temporal processing and context dependency of phoneme discrimination in patients with aphasia. Brain & Language 98, 1–11.
Wittmann M, Dinich J, Merrow M, Roenneberg T (2006). Social jetlag: misalignment of biological and social time. Chronobiology International 23, 497–509.
Fink M, Ulbrich P, Churan J, Wittmann M (2006). Stimulus-dependent processing of temporal order. Behavioural Processes 71, 344–352.
Wittmann M, Kiss M, Gugg P, Steffen A, Fink M, Pöppel E, Kamiya H. (2006). Effects of display location of a visual in-vehicle task on simulated driving. Applied Ergonomics 37, 187–199.