2022

• Anelis Kaiser Trujillo, E. Ngubia Kessée, Oliver Rollins, Sergio Della Sala, Roberto Cubelli
  A discussion on the notion of race in cognitive neuroscience research
  2022 Cortex, volume: 150:, pages: 153 - 164
• Kaiser Trujillo, A.
  Zur Überproduktion von Geschlechterdifferenz in der Neurowissenschaft
  2022 IWMpost 130 (Dezember 2022)

2021

• Duchesne, A., Kaiser Trujillo, A.
  Reflections on Neurofeminism and Intersectionality Using Insights From Psychology.
  2021 Front. Hum. Neurosci., volume: 15:684412
• Fitsch, H., Kaiser Trujillo, A., Plümecke, T.
  The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender in Today’s Big Data and Computational Neuroscience.
  2021 Bio-Politics, volume: 23, issue: 3

2020

• Hannah Fitsch, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Anelis Kaiser Trujillo, Cynthia Kraus, Deboleena Roy, Sigrid Schmitz
  Coalition-Making and the Practice of Feminist STS in the time of COVID-19
  2020 Catalyst - feminism, theory, technoscience, volume: 6, issue: 2
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  In this lab meeting, six feminist scholars who engage with the sciences from various perspectives and have been collaborating over the last decade as members of the NeuroGenderings Network, share a sustained discussion on the responsibilities of a feminist scientist—particularly in light of our current moment. In a time when ongoing acts of anti-Black racism and police brutality have converged with a global pandemic and anti-science movements, we ask ourselves, how do we express solidarity and also hold ourselves accountable at the crossroads of science and social justice?
• Anelis Kaiser Trujillo
  From "race" and sex/gender bias research to feminist neuroscience
  2020 Gender Campus Blog
• Fitsch, H., Kaiser Trujillo, A., Plümecke, T.
  Sex/Gender in the Brain: Politics of Neuroscience.
  2020 Science for the People Magazine, volume: 23 (3), pages: 51 - 55

2019

• Bryant, K., Grossi, G., Kaiser, A.
  Feminist Interventions on the Sex/Gender Question in Neuroimaging Research
  2019 The Scholar & Feminist Online; published by the Barnard Center for research on women., issue: 15.2
• Anelis Kaiser
  Frauen in den Ingenieurswissenschaften: Zwischen Irritation und Negierung
  2019 querelles-net Rezensionszeitschrift fuer Frauen- und Geschlechterfoschung, volume: 20, issue: 3, pages: 1 - ff
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  Trotz Bemühungen auf Ebene der Gleichstellung sind Frauen nach wie vor im MINT-Bereich an deutschen Hochschulen unterrepräsentiert. Was mögen die Gründe dafür sein? Mit den Methoden der Sozialwissenschaften untersuchen Wissenschaftler*innen die Ursachen für diese Geschlechter-Disbalance. So auch Inka Greusing in ihrer Dissertationsschrift, in der sie auf verschiedene immanente Strukturen in unseren Köpfen, in unserem Verhalten und in den Studiengängen hinweist. Dadurch wird klar, dass Maßnahmen zur Veränderung der Situation nach wie vor notwendig sind. Die Analyse von Inka Greusing stellt einen sorgfältig ausgearbeiteten Beitrag für das Forschungsfeld Gender Studies in den MINT-Fächern dar.
• Fine, C., Jordan-Young, B., Kaiser, A., & Rippon, G. (translated from “Plasticity, plasticity, plasticity …" (2013)).
  Plasticidad, plasticidad, plasticidad… y la rigidez del problema del sexo.
  2019 The Scholar & Feminist Online; published by the Barnard Center for research on women, issue: 15.2

2018

• Kaiser, A.
  Estudios de género y producción del género por las neurociencias.
  In: C. Mora, A. Kottow, M. Ceballos, V. Osses (Eds.), Investigación, Políticas y Programas de Género.
  2018, VERLAG, pages: 37 - 50,
• Kaiser Trujillo, A., Purtschert, P.
  Research That Goes Under the Skin. Body and Materiality in Gender Studies.
  2018 Gender Campus Blog
• Kaiser A.
  Wie sich Geschlechtlichkeit in den Neurowissenschaften manifestiert und wie Geschlecht in das Gehirn kommt. Kritische Überlegungen.
  2018 In M. Koreuber, & B. Assmann (Eds.), Das Geschlecht in der Biologie. Aufforderung zu einem Perspektivwechsel. (Series Schriften zur interdisziplinären Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung), volume: 12, pages: 133 - 150

2017

• Kaiser Trujillo, A., Purtschert, P.
  Forschung, die unter die Haut geht: Körper und Materialität in den Gender Studies. Gender Campus Blog
  2017 Gender Campus Blog
• Rippon, G., Jordan-Young, R., Kaiser, A., Joel, D., Fine, C.
  Journal of Neuroscience Research Policy on Addressing Sex as a Biological Variable: Comments, Clarifications, and Elaborations.
  2017 Journal of Neuroscience Research, volume: 95, issue: 7, pages: 1357 - 1359
• Schellenberg, D., Kaiser, A.
  The sex/gender distinction: Beyond F and M., in: APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women, Eds: Cheryl B. Travis, Jacquelyn W. White, Alexandra Rutherford, Wendi S. Williams.
  2017 American Psychological Association, pages: 165 - 187

2016

• Kaiser, A., Schmitz, S.
  Neuroscience, Brain Research, and Sexuality.
  2016 In N. Naples (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, IV, pages: 1759 - 1765
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  Since, in the 1990s, the brain became an object of significant social importance and neuroscience emerged as a leading, powerful, and culturally significant field of science, gender and queer studies, too, began to devote considerable attention to examining how neuroscience makes sexual performance, sexual behavior, and sexual desire a part of the brain. In this entry, we describe how and when exactly sex/gender and sexuality became involved in neuroscience.
• Kaiser, A.
  Sex/Gender Matters and Sex/Gender Materialities in the Brain.
  2016 In V. Pitts-Taylor (Ed.), Mattering: Feminism, Science and Materialism, pages: 123 - 139
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  Anelis Kaiser examines the sciences of the brain and the brain itself as contested sites for the exploration of sex/gender in material terms. She draws from Barad’s understanding of materiality to explain the subsurface of bodily matter and finds in this concept, to some extend, a way to approach the brain in its material becoming. The author shows the intransigence of dichotomously mattered sexed/gendered brain regions in neuroscientific practice, and argues that in contrast to Barad’s “non-vital” materiality of physics, addressing the brain’s sex/gendered materiality requires a distinct approach to the “bio” of neurobiological matter. Against this backdrop, she gives particular attention to the independent agency of matter and makes the applicability of an agentic materiality in neuroscientific empiricism a subject of discussion.

2015

• Kaiser, A., Eppenberger, L., Kuenzli, E., Smieskova, R., Borgwardt, S., Radue, E.W., Bendfeldt, K.
  Age of second language acquisition in multilinguals has an impact on grey matter volume in language-associated brain areas.
  2015 Frontiers in Psychology, 6, page: 638
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  Numerous structural studies have established that experience shapes and reshapes the brain throughout a lifetime. The impact of early development, however, is still a matter of debate. Further clues may come from studying multilinguals who acquired their second language at different ages. We investigated adult multilinguals who spoke three languages fluently, where the third language was learned in classroom settings, not before the age of 9 years. Multilinguals exposed to two languages simultaneously from birth (SiM) were contrasted with multinguals who acquired their first two languages successively (SuM). Whole brain voxel based morphometry revealed that, relative to SuM, SiM have significantly lower gray matter volume in several language-associated cortical areas in both hemispheres: bilaterally in medial and inferior frontal gyrus, in the right medial temporal gyrus and inferior posterior parietal gyrus, as well as in the left inferior temporal gyrus. Thus, as shown by others, successive language learning increases the volume of language-associated cortical areas. In brains exposed early on and simultaneously to more than one language, however, learning of additional languages seems to have less impact. We conclude that – at least with respect to language acquisition – early developmental influences are maintained and have an effect on experience-dependent plasticity well into adulthood.
• Kaiser, A., Dussauge, I.
  Feminist and Queer Repoliticizations of the Brain.
  2015 EspacesTemps.net, Travaux
• Joel, D., Kaiser, A., Richardson, S., Ritz, S., Roy, D,, Subramaniam, B.
  Lab Meeting: A Discussion on experiments and experimentation.
  2015 Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 1(1), pages: 1 - 12
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  In 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed a new policy to promote “sex parity” in research. As an extension to the 1993 NIH Revitalization Act which mandated the inclusion of women and minorities in clinical trials, the new NIH policy will require scientists to include “sex” as a variable in both animal model and in vitro cell line-based research. The end goal is to ensure that NIH funded scientists “balance male and female cells and animals in preclinical studies in all future applications” (Clayton and Collins 2014, 283). The curators of this section asked four interdisciplinary scholars to discuss this proposed policy.

2014

• Kaiser, A.
  On the (Im)possibility of a Feminist and Queer Neuroexperiment.
  2014 Gendered Neurocultures. Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Current Brain Discourses (Series: challenge GENDER – Contemporary challenges of within Gender Theory Vol. 2, pages: 41 - 66
• Rippon, G., Jordan-Young, R., Kaiser, A., Fine, C.
  Recommendations for sex/gender neuroimaging research: Key principles and implications for research design, analysis and interpretation.
  2014 Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8,, page: 650
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  Neuroimaging (NI) technologies are having increasing impact in the study of complex cognitive and social processes. In this emerging field of social cognitive neuroscience, a central goal should be to increase the understanding of the interaction between the neurobiology of the individual and the environment in which humans develop and function. The study of sex/gender is often a focus for NI research, and may be motivated by a desire to better understand general developmental principles, mental health problems that show female-male disparities, and gendered differences in society. In order to ensure the maximum possible contribution of NI research to these goals, we draw attention to four key principles—overlap, mosaicism, contingency and entanglement—that have emerged from sex/gender research and that should inform NI research design, analysis and interpretation. We discuss the implications of these principles in the form of constructive guidelines and suggestions for researchers, editors, reviewers and science communicators.
• Stein, M., Winkler, C., Kaiser, A., Dierks, T.
  Structural brain changes related to bilingualism: Does immersion make a difference?
  2014 Frontiers in Psychology, 5,, page: 1116
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  Within the field of neuroscientific research on second language learning, considerable attention has been devoted to functional and recently also structural changes related to second language acquisition. The present literature review summarizes studies that investigated structural changes related to bilingualism. Furthermore, as recent evidence has suggested that native-like exposure to a second language (i.e., a naturalistic learning setting or immersion) considerably impacts second language learning, all findings are reflected with respect to the learning environment. Aggregating the existing evidence, we conclude that structural changes in left inferior frontal and inferior parietal regions have been observed in studies on cortical gray matter changes, while the anterior parts of the corpus callosum have been repeatedly found to reflect bilingualism in studies on white matter (WM) connectivity. Regarding the learning environment, no cortical alterations can be attributed specifically to naturalistic or classroom learning. With regard to WM changes, one might tentatively propose that changes in IFOF and SLF are possibly more prominently observed in studies investigating bilinguals with a naturalistic learning experience. However, future studies are needed to replicate and strengthen the existing evidence and to directly test the impact of naturalistic exposure on structural brain plasticity.
• Fine, C., Joel, D., Jordan-Young, R., Kaiser, A., Rippon, G.
  Why Males ≠ Corvettes, Females ≠ Volvos, and Scientific Criticism ≠ Ideology: A Response to “Equal ≠ The Same: Sex Differences in the Human Brain”
  2014 by Larry Cahill in Cerebrum.

2013

• Fine, C., Jordan-Young, B., Kaiser, A., Rippon, G.
  Plasticity, plasticity, plasticity … and the rigid problem of sex.
  2013 Trends in Cognitive Science, 17, pages: 550 - 551
• Dussauge, I., Kaiser, A.
  Repolitisations féministes et queer du cerveau.
  2013 Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 7(3), pages: 667 - 692
• Ferstl, E. C., Kaiser, A.
  Wie quantitative Methoden aus der Experimental- und Neuropsychologie einen Beitrag zur Geschlechterforschung leisten können.
  2013 Gender, Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 3, pages: 9 - 25
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  Language and gender: How quantitative methods from experimental psychology and neuropsychology can contribute to gender research On closer examination of the canon of gen- d er theories that are based on the social sci- en ces and humanities, the impression arises that psychology does not play a central role in this fi eld of research. One possible reason for the lack of psychological research may be their use of quantitative and empirical meth- ods – an indispensable approach in scientifi - c ally oriented psychological research, how- ever. In this article, we advocate quantitative experimental psychology enriched by gender theory. Based on our fi eld of research, the psychology of language, we illustrate which aspects of gender research can be comple- mented through behavioural and neuroscien- tifi c methods. The fi rst section presents recent studies which, based on measurements of re- action time and ERPs, describe how strongly gender stereotypes are rooted in semantics. The second section introduces recent results from neuro-imaging studies and calls a sex- based lateralization of lang uage processing into question. Finally, we sketch the latest re- search approaches and recommend a trans- disciplinary combination of qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Kaiser A.
  Zum (An)Erkennen von Gleichheit und Differenz in Geschlechterforschung und Neurowissenschaft – ein kritischer Vergleich.
  2013 In G. Grisard, U. Jäger, & T. König (Eds.), Verschieden sein – Nachdenken über Geschlecht und Differenz, Ulrike Helmer Verlag, pages: 147 - 157

2012

• Dussauge, I., Kaiser, A.
  Neuroscience and Sex/Gender.
  2012 Neuroethics, 5(3), pages: 211 - 216
• Kaiser, A.
  Re-conceptualizing Sex and Gender in the Human Brain.
  2012 Zeitschrift für Psychologie, volume: 220, issue: 2, pages: 130 - 136
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  When is an observed dissimilarity between brains of females and males a ‘‘sex’’ difference and when is it a ‘‘gender’’ difference? The aim of this conceptual paper is to pinpoint the understandings of ‘‘sex’’ and ‘‘gender’’ within neuropsychological research, as these terms implicitly lead to overlapping and nonspecific associations when variables concerning female and male characteristics are operationalized. Also, it is argued, following a central approach within gender studies, that it is impossible for the variables of ‘‘sex’’ and ‘‘gender’’ to be categorized as solely biological or solely social components or to be measured or recorded as such, and for this reason, they should in fact be regarded as a unity and designated as sex/gender.
• Dussauge, I., Kaiser, A.
  Re-queering the Brain.
  2012 In R. Bluhm, A. Jacobson, & H. Maibom (Eds.), Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science, Palgrave Macmillan Verlag, pages: 121 - 144

2010

• Kaiser, A.
  Sex/Gender and neuroscience: focusing on current research.
  2010 In M. Blomqvist & E. Ehnsmyr (Eds.), Never mind the gap! Gendering science in transgressive encounters. Crossroads of Knowledge, pages: 189 - 210

2009

• Kaiser, A.
  Feminismus, Geschlechterforschung und die Neurowissenschaft.
  2009 Online publication, Feministisches Institut Hamburg
• Kaiser, A., Haller, S., Schmitz, S., Nitsch, C.
  On sex/gender related similarities and differences in fMRI language research.
  2009 Brain Research Reviews, 61(2), pages: 49 - 59
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  Again and again, attempts have been made to find correlates of sex/gender differences in the human brain. Despite the insistence with which differences have been stated, empirical results have not been unequivocal: evidence for and against the influence of sex in the makeup of men's and women's brains has been presented. This article focuses on the relevance of sex/gender related differences in fMRI research, especially with regard to language processing. By discussing some crucial criteria from fMRI examinations, we demonstrate the existence of paradigmatic, methodological and statistical defaults that interfere with assessing the presence or absence of sex/gender differences. These criteria are, among others, the use of contrast analyses, the function of the variable sex/gender as a co-item and the “publication bias”. It is argued that dealing with the sex/gender variable will, at least to some degree, inevitably lead to the detection of differences rather than to the detection of similarities.
• Bloch, C., Kaiser, A., Kuenzli, E., Zappatore, D., Haller, S., Franceschini, R., Nitsch, C.
  The age of second language acquisition determines the variability in activation elicited by narration in three languages in Broca’s and Wernicke’s area.
  2009 Neuropsychologia, 47(3), pages: 625 - 633
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  It is generally accepted that the presence of a second language (L2) has an impact on the neuronal substrates build up and used for language processing; the influence of the age of L2 exposure, however, is not established. We tested the hypothesis that the age of L2 acquisition has an effect on the cortical representation of a multilingual repertoire in 44 multilinguals with different age of exposure to a L2 (simultaneous or covert simultaneous exposure to L1 and L2, sequential acquisition of L1 and L2 between 1 and 5 years, late learning of L2 after 9 years of age) and all fluent in a late learned L3. Regional activation in a language production task showed a high in-between-subject variability, which was higher than within-subject variability between L1, L2, and L3. We, therefore, performed a single subject analysis and calculated the within-subject variance in the numbers of activated voxels in Broca’s and Wernicke’s area. Subjects with early exposure to L2 showed low variability in brain activation in all three languages, in the two early as well as the late learned language. In contrast, late multilinguals exhibited higher variability. Thus, cerebral representation of languages is linked to the age of L2 acquisition: early exposure to more than one language gives rise to a language processing network that is activated homogeneously by early and late learned languages, while the inhomogeneous activation in late multilinguals indicates more independent access to the multilingual repertoire. Early passive exposure to L2 results in the same low variance as active bilingual upbringing. Variability in local brain activity increases progressively from the simultaneous to late L2 exposure, indicating a gradual transition from the mode of early bilingual language representation to that of late ones.

2007

• Imboden, G., Kaiser, A., Ratmoko, C.
  Das “bewegte” Geschlecht.
  2007 In D. Grisard, J. Häberlein, A. Kaiser & S. Saxer (Eds.), Gender in Motion: Die Konstruktion von Geschlecht in Raum und Erzählung, pages: 104 - 127
• Dominique Grisard, Jana Häberlein, Anelis Kaiser, Sibylle Saxer
  Gender in Motion Die Konstruktion von Geschlecht in Raum und Erzählung
  2007 Campus, page: 405
• Grisard, D., Häberlein, J., Kaiser, A., Saxer, S.
  Gender in Motion. Die Konstruktion von Geschlecht in Raum und Erzählung.
  2007 In D. Grisard, J. Häberlein, A. Kaiser & S. Saxer (Eds.), Gender in Motion: Die Konstruktion von Geschlecht in Raum und Erzählung, pages: 11 - 31
• Kaiser, A., Kuenzli, E., Zappatore, D., Nitsch, C.
  On females’ lateral and males’ bilateral activation during language production: A fMRI study.
  2007 International Journal of Psychophysiology, 63(2), pages: 192 - 198
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  This study focuses on sex/gender and language in fMRI research. We explore the question of similarities and differences in 22 men and 22 women, respectively, in a fMRI language production task of fluent narration in which covert language production was contrasted with an auditory attentional task. In women, a left-lateralised activation concentrated in BA 44 while in men activation was more frontal in BA 45 and more often bilateral. This result is the opposite of those shown so far. Interestingly, the effect is only significant at the level of group analysis; it disappears when analysing activation at the level of the individual subject. We argue that sex/gender differences in the brain should be regarded much more critically, due to the numerous variables interacting and thus confounding with sex/gender. Our present study, too, cannot resolve the controversy about the existence of sex/gender similarities and differences in fMRI-language investigations.

2006

• Kaiser, A.
  Geschlecht im Kopf.
  2006 Schattenblick, Fachpool Sozialwissenschaften\Psychologie, Forschung. MA Verlag: online Publikation
• Kaiser, A.
  On ›Geschlecht‹ in Brain Science Experiments.
  2006 Thinking Gender – The Next Generation, Online publication
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  While in neuroscience Geschlecht (sex/gender) is a hard and rarely contested variable, in gender studies, Geschlecht is a social phenomenon; a result and a facet of human action and social structures – in short: a social construct. Since my dissertation is a `gap-work` between this epistemologically different disciplines, I would like to focus on some difficulties a gender studies-oriented scientist can encounter while operating experimentally with Geschlecht. Furthermore, I will pinpoint the experimental conditions, paradigms and variables of interest in the brain lab. How is the neuroscientific experiment implemented? Which items are measured in the experiment? What do the results show? Rather than attempting a deconstruction of Geschlecht, this paper is a hard-to-ask-question. For on the one hand, the paper is committed to scientific explanation, whilst on the other, it takes the post-butlerian era seriously.

2005

• Kaiser, A.
  Geschlecht im Kopf.
  2005 Rosa, 31,, pages: 19 - 21

2004

• Kaiser, A.
  Glück im Gehirn.
  2004 Megaphon, 278, pages: 17 - 18
• Kaiser, A.
  Wie bunte Bilder von Gehirnen Geschlechtsunterschiede naturalisieren.
  2004 Fraz, 4, page: 34

2003

• Kaiser A., Greef A.
  Wird die Universität ökonomisiert? Widerstand gegen die Ökonomisierung der Bildung durch die Bologna-„Reform“.
  2003 In: Basler Stadtbuch 2003, pages: 118 - 121