Publications

Links to publications in google-scholar/research gate

Pre-Prints

Demler VF, Sterner EF, Knolle F (2025) Language-network connectivity and cortical glutamate and their associations with overweighted semantic prior beliefs, schizotypy and task-based hallucinations. medRxiv,2025.12.07.25341628

Sterner, E. F., Stadler, M., & Knolle, F. (2025, October 26). Munich Sentence (MuSe) Database – Completion norms and audio recordings for 619 German sentences. PsyArXiv

Criscuolo, A., Knolle, F., Schwartze, M., Schröger, E., Ivry, R., & Kotz, S. A. (2025). Lesions in the cerebellum impact cross-modal temporal predictions. bioRxiv, 2025-07

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

[38] Goodwin, I., Diederen, K., Weilnhammer, V., Hird, E., Garrido, M., & Knolle, F.(2025). Predictive processing accounts of psychosis: Bottom-up or top-down disruptions, where do we stand? accepted in Nature Mental Health

[37] Knolle, F., Sterner, E., Demler, V. F., MacGregor, L. J., & Mathys, C. (2025). Guided by Expectations: Overweighted Semantic Priors in Schizotypy and their Links to Glutamate. Biological psychiatry, S0006-3223(25)01299-5.

[36] Sen, P., Koch, K., Schmitz-Koep, B., Guersel, D., & Knolle, F. (2025). Altered model-based prediction error signalling in the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 121358.

[35] Sterner, E. F., Greve, A., & Knolle, F. (2025). Temporal Stability of Semantic Predictions in Subclinical Autistic and Schizotypal Personality Traits. Schizophrenia 11, 103.

[34] Langley, C., Murray, G.K., Armand, S., Knolle, F., et al. (2025) Computational modelling and neural correlates of reinforcement learning following three-week escitalopram: a double-blind, placebo-controlled semi-randomised study. Translational Psychiatry 15, 175.

[33] Sen, P., & Knolle, F. (2025). Right caudate deactivation during reward anticipation predicts elevated risk for psychosis in adolescents. NeuroImage: Clinical, 45, 103756.

[32] Schwarz, J. , Zistler, F., Usheva, A., Fix, A., Zinn, S., Zimmermann, J., Knolle, F., Schneider G., Nuttall R. (2025) Investigating dynamic brain functional redundancy as a mechanism of cognitive reserve. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 17.

[31] Knolle, F., Sen, P., Culbreth, A.J., Koch, K., Schmitz-Koep, B., Guersel, D.A., Wunderlich, K., Avram, M., Sorg, C., Brandl, F. (2024) Modelling model-based and model-free decision-making in a transdiagnostic sample to investigate disorder-specific and transdiagnostic alterations Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 49 (6) E388-E401.

[30] Bracher, K.M., Wohlschlaeger, A., Koch, K. & Knolle, F. (2024). Cognitive subgroups of affective and non-affective psychosis show differences in medication and cortico-subcortical brain networks. Scientific Reports 14, 20314. 

[29] Demler, V. F., Sterner, E. F., Wilson, M., Zimmer, C., & Knolle, F. (2024). The impact of spectral basis set composition on estimated levels of cingulate glutamate and its associations with different personality traits. BMC Psychiatry, 24, 320.

[28] Demler, V. F., Sterner, E. F., Wilson, M., Zimmer, C., & Knolle, F. (2023). Association between increased anterior cingulate glutamate and psychotic-like experiences, but not autistic traits in healthy volunteers. Scientific Reports 13, 12792.

[27] Scheibenbogen C., …, Knolle F, … & Burock S. (2023). Fighting Post-COVID and ME/CFS–development of curative therapies. Frontiers in Medicine, 10, 1194754.

[26] Knolle F, Arumugham SS, Barker R, et al. (2023). Grey matter morphometric biomarkers for classifying early schizophrenia and PD psychosis: a multicentre study. npj Parkinson’s Disease, 8;9(1):87.

[25] Knolle F, Sterner EF, Moutoussi M, Adams R, Griffin JD, Haarsma J, Taverne H, NSPN Consortium, Goodyer IM, Fletcher PC, and Murray GK. (2023). Action selection in early stages of psychosis: an active inference approach. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience,  48 (1), E78-E89.

[24] Brandl, F., Knolle, F., Avram, M., Leucht, C., Yakushev, I., Priller, J., Leucht, S., Sibylle Ziegler, Wunderlich, K., Sorg, C. (2023) Negative symptoms, striatal dopamine, and model-free reward decision-making in schizophrenia. Brain 146 (2), 767-777.

[23] Daimer, S., Mihatsch, L., Neufeld, A.S., Murray, G.K., Knolle, F. (2022). Investigating the relationship of COVID-19 related stress and media consumption with schizotypy, depression, and anxiety in cross-sectional surveys repeated throughout the pandemic in Germany and the UK. eLife 11:e75893.

[22] Kesby, J., Murray, G.K., Knolle, F. (2021). Neural circuitry of salience and reward processing in psychosis. Biological Psychiatry GOS.

[21] Daimer, S., Mihatsch, L., Ronan, L., Murray, G., Knolle, F., 2021. Subjective impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on schizotypy and general mental health in Germany and the UK, for independent samples in May and in October 2020 Frontiers of Psychology, 12, 667848.

[20] Mihatsch, L., von der Linde, M., Knolle, F., Luchting, B., Dimitriadis, K. and Heyn, J., 2021. Survey of German medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: attitudes toward volunteering versus compulsory service and associated factors. Journal of Medical Ethics.

[19] Knolle, F., Ronan, L. and Murray, G.K., 2021. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in the general population: a comparison between Germany and the UK. BMC Psychology, 9, 60.

[18] Sorby-Adams, A.J., Schneider, W.T., Goncalves, R.P., Knolle, F., Morton, A.J. (2020). Measuring executive function in sheep (Ovis aries) using visual stimuli in a semi-automated operant system. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 351, 109009.

[17] Avram, M., Brandl, F., Knolle, F., Cabello, J., Leucht, C., Scherr, M., Mustafa, M., Koutsouleris, N., Leucht, S., Ziegler, S., Sorg, C. (2020) Cortico-thalamic dysconnectivity links with aberrant striatal dopamine in schizophrenia. A simultaneous 18F-DOPA-PET/resting-state fMRI study. Brain, 143 (11), 3495-3505. 

[16] Knolle, F., Viviani, R., Garodalo, S., Ermakova, A.O., Justicia, A., Fletcher, P.C., Williams, G. & Murray, G.K. (2020). Differences in emotional salience processing between Parkinson’s patients with and without psychotic symptoms. NeuroImage:Clinical, 102277.

[15] Montagnese, M., Knolle, F., Haarsma, J., Griffin, J.D., Richards, A., Vertes, P. Kiddle, B., Fletcher, P.C., Jones, P.B., Owen, M.J., Fonagy, P., Bullmore, E.T., Dolan, R., NSPN Consortium, Moutoussis, M., Goodyer, I., Murray G.K. (2020). Reinforcement learning in psychosis: Relation of genetics and negative symptoms. Schizophrenia Research, 222, 389-396.

[14] Haarsma, J., Knolle, F., Griffin, J.D., Taverne, H. Mada, M., Goodyer, I.M., the NSPN Consortium, Fletcher, P.C., Murray, G.K. (2020).Influence of prior beliefs on perception in early psychosis: effects of illness stage and hierarchical level of belief. Journal Abnormal Psychology ,129(6), 581-598.

[13] Knolle, F., Schwartze, M., Schröger, E., & Kotz, S. A. (2019). Auditory predictions and prediction errors in response to self-initiated vowels. Frontiers in neuroscience, 13, 1146.

[12] Murray*, G. K., Knolle*, F., Ersche, K. D., Craig, K. J., Abbott, S., Shabbir, S. S., … & Robbins, T. W. (2019). Dopaminergic drug treatment remediates exaggerated cingulate prediction error responses in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychopharmacology, 1-12.* Joint first author.

[11] Ermakova, A.O., Gileadi, N., Knolle, F., Justicia, A., Anderson, R., Fletcher, P.C., Moutoussis, M., Murray, G.K. (2019). Cost evaluation during decision making in patients at early stages of psychosis. Computational Psychiatry, 3, 18-39.

[10] Knolle, F., Goncalves, R., Davies, E., Duff, A., & Morton, J. (2019). Response-inhibition during problem solving in sheep. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 32.

[9] Knolle*, F., Ermakova*, A.O., Justicia, A., Fletcher, P.C., Bunseck, N., Düzel, E. & Murray, G.K. (2018). Brain responses to different types of salience in antipsychotic naïve first episode psychosis: An fMRI study. Translational Psychiatry. 8:196. * Joint first author.

[8] Ermakova*, A.O., Knolle*, F., Justicia, A., Bullmore, E.T., Jones, P.J., Robbins, T.W., Fletcher, P.C., & Murray, G.K. (2018). Abnormal reward prediction error signalling in antipsychotic naïve individuals with first episode psychosis or clinical risk for psychosis. Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, 1691–1699. * Joint first author.

[7] Knolle, F., Goncalves, R. & Morton, J. (2017). Sheep recognise familiar and unfamiliar human faces from 2D images. Royal Society Open Science, 4: 171228.

[6] Knolle, F., Vallotton, C., & Ayoub, C. (2018). Maltreated children use more grammatical negations. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 1-12.

[5] Knolle, F., McBride, S.D., Stewart, J.E., Goncalves, R. & Morton, J. (2017). A stop-signal task for sheep: Introduction and validation of a direct measure for the stop-signal reaction time. Animal Cognition, 20(4), 615–626.

[4] Knolle, F., Schröger, E., & Kotz, S. A. (2013). Prediction errors in self- and externally-generated deviants. Biological Psychology, 92(2), 410-416.

[3] Knolle, F., Schröger, E., & Kotz, S. A. (2013). Cerebellar contribution to the prediction of self-initiated sounds. Cortex, 49(9), 2449-2461.

[2] Knolle, F., Schröger, E., Baess, P., & Kotz, S. A. (2012). The cerebellum generates motor-to-auditory predictions: ERP lesion evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(3), 698-706.

Monography

[1] Knolle, F. (2012). Knowing what’s next: The role of the cerebellum in generating predictions. PhD Thesis, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig. ISBN: 978-3-941504-26-4