Dr Carsten Allefeld
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Dr Allefeld is a cognitive neuroscientist with a background in physics and philosophy.
His research is about developing and improving statistical models and data analysis methods for neuroimaging (EEG, fMRI) and behavioural data. His work tries to make concepts of physics, nonlinear dynamics, systems theory, and information theory fruitful for cognitive neuroscience and psychology. He is particularly interested in the relation between neural and mental states.
Qualifications
- Dr. rer. nat., University of Potsdam, Germany, 2000 - November 2004
Employment
- Lecturer, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2019 - present
- Research Associate, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Germany, November 2009 - December 2018
Languages
English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review) and German (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review)
Research students
2ndsupervisor
- Edward Latham, Research Student
Publications
Featured publications
- Görgen, K., Hebart, M.N., Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.D. (2017). The same analysis approach: Practical protection against the pitfalls of novel neuroimaging analysis methods. NeuroImage, 180, pp. 19-30. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.12.083
- Allefeld, C., Görgen, K. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2016). Valid population inference for information-based imaging: From the second-level t -test to prevalence inference. NeuroImage, 141, pp. 378-392. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.07.040
- Soch, J., Haynes, J.D. and Allefeld, C. (2016). How to avoid mismodelling in GLM-based fMRI data analysis: cross-validated Bayesian model selection. NeuroImage, 141, pp. 469-489. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.07.047
- Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2014). Searchlight-based multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI by cross-validated MANOVA. NeuroImage, 89, pp. 345-357. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.043
- Allefeld, C., Atmanspacher, H. and Wackermann, J. (2009). Mental states as macrostates emerging from brain electrical dynamics. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 19(1). doi:10.1063/1.3072788
Publications by category
Chapters (3)
- Kuhlen, A.K., Allefeld, C., Anders, S. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2015). Towards a multi-brain perspective on communication in dialogue. Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use (pp. 182-200). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107042018.
- Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2015). Multi-voxel Pattern Analysis. Brain Mapping (pp. 641-646). Elsevier. ISBN 9780123973160.
- Wackermann, J. and Allefeld, C. (2009). State space representation and global descriptors of brain electrical activity. Electrical Neuroimaging (pp. 191-214). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521879798.
Conference papers and proceedings (3)
- Allefeld, C. Phase vs. amplitude correlations in event-related potentials. .
- Allefeld, C. and Frisch, S. Phase synchronization analysis of event-related potentials in language processing. .
- Allefeld, C. and Kurths, J. Multivariate Phase Synchronization Analysis of EEG Data. .
Journal articles (35)
- Soch, J. and Allefeld, C. (2026). Multivariate Bayesian inversion for classification and regression. International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 22(1). doi:10.1007/s41060-026-01168-9
- de‐la‐Higuera‐Gonzalez, P., Allefeld, C., de‐la‐Torre‐Luque, A., Guillén, A.I., Díaz‐Marsá, M. and Fett, A. (2026). Relationships between attachment insecurity, beliefs about the self and others, paranoia, and social functioning across the psychosis continuum. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 65(2), pp. 530-550. doi:10.1111/bjc.70027
- Wojciechowski, B.W., White, L.C., Allefeld, C. and Pothos, E.M. (2025). Order effects and the evaluation bias in legal decision making. Decision, 12(3), pp. 246-267. doi:10.1037/dec0000263
- Guseva, M., Bogler, C., Allefeld, C., Ziya, E.B. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2025). Neural Correlates of Different Randomization Tasks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 37(3), pp. 621-640. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_02280
- Yan, C., Christophel, T.B., Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2023). Categorical working memory codes in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 274. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120149
- Guseva, M., Bogler, C., Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2023). Instruction effects on randomness in sequence generation. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1113654
- Yan, C., Christophel, T.B., Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2021). Decoding verbal working memory representations of Chinese characters from Broca's area. NeuroImage, 226, pp. 117595-117595. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117595
- Soch, J., Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2019). Inverse transformed encoding models – A solution to the problem of correlated trial-by-trial parameter estimates in fMRI decoding. NeuroImage pp. 116449-116449. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116449
- Christophel, T.B., Allefeld, C., Endisch, C. and Haynes, J.D. (2018). View-Independent Working Memory Representations of Artificial Shapes in Prefrontal and Posterior Regions of the Human Brain. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 28(6), pp. 2146-2161. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhx119
- Christophel, T.B., Iamshchinina, P., Yan, C., Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2018). Cortical specialization for attended versus unattended working memory. Nature Neuroscience, 21(4), pp. 494-496. doi:10.1038/s41593-018-0094-4
- Soch, J., Meyer, A.P., Haynes, J.-.D. and Allefeld, C. (2017). How to improve parameter estimates in GLM-based fMRI data analysis: cross-validated Bayesian model averaging. NeuroImage, 158, pp. 186-195. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.056
- Schultze-Kraft, M., Birman, D., Rusconi, M., Allefeld, C., Görgen, K., Dähne, S.... Haynes, J.-.D. (2016). The point of no return in vetoing self-initiated movements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(4), pp. 1080-1085. doi:10.1073/pnas.1513569112
- Ritter, K., Schumacher, J., Weygandt, M., Buchert, R., Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J. (2015). Multimodal prediction of conversion to Alzheimer's disease based on incomplete biomarkers∗. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 1(2), pp. 206-215. doi:10.1016/j.dadm.2015.01.006
- Weygandt, M., Hummel, H.-.M., Schregel, K., Ritter, K., Allefeld, C., Dommes, E.... Gärtner, J. (2015). MRI-based diagnostic biomarkers for early onset pediatric multiple sclerosis. NeuroImage: Clinical, 7, pp. 400-408. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2014.06.015
- Ramírez, F.M., Cichy, R.M., Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2014). The Neural Code for Face Orientation in the Human Fusiform Face Area. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34(36), pp. 12155-12167. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.3156-13.2014
- Winkler, I., Brandl, S., Horn, F., Waldburger, E., Allefeld, C. and Tangermann, M. (2014). Robust artifactual independent component classification for BCI practitioners. Journal of Neural Engineering, 11(3), pp. 035013-035013. doi:10.1088/1741-2560/11/3/035013
- Rusconi, M., Allefeld, C., Hohlefeld, F.U., Deutschlaender, R., Christophel, T.B., Neumann, W.-.J.... Haynes, J.-.D. (2014). LP25: Predicting “free” motor-decisions from subcortical brain signals. Clinical Neurophysiology, 125, pp. S151-S151. doi:10.1016/s1388-2457(14)50494-4
- Soon, C.S., Allefeld, C., Bogler, C., Heinzle, J. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2014). Predictive brain signals best predict upcoming and not previous choices. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00406
- Ramirez, F., Cichy, R.M., Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2012). Translation tolerant and category-selective encoding of orientation in the fusiform face area. Journal of Vision, 12(9), pp. 1180-1180. doi:10.1167/12.9.1180
- Hackmack, K., Paul, F., Weygandt, M., Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2012). Multi-scale classification of disease using structural MRI and wavelet transform. NeuroImage, 62(1), pp. 48-58. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.022
- Heinzle, J., Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2012). Information flow, dynamical systems theory and the human brain. Physics of Life Reviews, 9(1), pp. 78-79. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2011.12.007
- Kuhlen, A.K., Allefeld, C. and Haynes, J.-.D. (2012). Content-specific coordination of listeners' to speakers' EEG during communication. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00266
- Allefeld, C., Pütz, P., Kastner, K. and Wackermann, J. (2011). Flicker-light induced visual phenomena: Frequency dependence and specificity of whole percepts and percept features. Consciousness and Cognition, 20(4), pp. 1344-1362. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2010.10.026
- Ott, U., Wackermann, J., Allefeld, C., Gebhardt, H., Walter, B. and Vaitl, D. (2010). Global EEG descriptors and default-mode network during daydreaming and meditation. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 77(3), pp. 217-217. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.06.299
- Bialonski, S., Allefeld, C., Wellmer, J., Elger, C. and Lehnertz, K. (2009). 87. An approach to identify synchronization clusters within the epileptic network. Clinical Neurophysiology, 120(1), pp. e37-e38. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2008.07.086
- Allefeld, C. (2008). The hollow of being: What can we learn from Merleau-Ponty's ontology for a science of consciousness? Mind and Matter, 6(2), pp. 235-255
- WACKERMANN, J., PUTZ, P. and ALLEFELD, C. (2008). Ganzfeld-induced hallucinatory experience, its phenomenology and cerebral electrophysiology. Cortex, 44(10), pp. 1364-1378. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2007.05.003
- Bialonski, S., Allefeld, C., Wellmer, J., Elger, C. and Lehnertz, K. (2008). An approach to identify synchronization clusters within the epileptic network. Klinische Neurophysiologie, 39(01). doi:10.1055/s-2008-1072881
- Allefeld, C. and Bialonski, S. (2007). Detecting synchronization clusters in multivariate time series via coarse-graining of Markov chains. Physical Review E, 76(6). doi:10.1103/physreve.76.066207
- ALLEFELD, C., MÜLLER, M. and KURTHS, J. (2007). EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION AS A GENERALIZED SYNCHRONIZATION CLUSTER ANALYSIS. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 17(10), pp. 3493-3497. doi:10.1142/s0218127407019251
- Wackermann, J. and Allefeld, C. (2007). On the meaning and interpretation of global descriptors of brain electrical activity. Including a reply to X. Pei et al. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 64(2), pp. 199-210. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2007.02.003
- ALLEFELD, C. (2006). ABOUT THE DERIVATION OF THE SCA ALGORITHM. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 16(12), pp. 3705-3706. doi:10.1142/s0218127406017099
- Allefeld, C., Frisch, S. and Schlesewsky, M. (2005). Detection of early cognitive processing by event-related phase synchronization analysis. NeuroReport, 16(1), pp. 13-16. doi:10.1097/00001756-200501190-00004
- ALLEFELD, C. and KURTHS, J. (2004). TESTING FOR PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 14(02), pp. 405-416. doi:10.1142/s021812740400951x
- ALLEFELD, C. and KURTHS, J. (2004). AN APPROACH TO MULTIVARIATE PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION ANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATION TO EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 14(02), pp. 417-426. doi:10.1142/s0218127404009521
Reports (4)
- Soch, J. and Allefeld, C. Kullback-Leibler Divergence for the Normal-Gamma Distribution..
- Soch, J. and Allefeld, C. Exceedance Probabilities for the Dirichlet Distribution..
- Allefeld, C., Soon, C.S., Bogler, C., Heinzle, J. and Haynes, J.-.D. Sequential dependencies between trials in free choice tasks..
- Allefeld, C. Instantaneous oscillatory direction and phase for multivariate timeseries..