Interested in VR research? @martandreatta.bsky.social and me edited a special issue on "Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience" for Behavioural Brain Research. Read the editorial here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Register and connect!🙌 Great program and great people await you🧠 @dgps.bsky.social #ECRs

🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

We are very proud of our researchers Beatrice Baragli, Jerome Beetz, Jacqueline Degen, Mona Garvert, Jake Greenfield, and Jens Hör: They have been awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grants worth €1.5 million. Congratulations! @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Very happy that this is out now!

Exciting news! Our latest paper is now published 🎉 We dive into the fear generalization literature to see how individual fear gen profiles are typically quantified, extracted the most commonly used measures, and compared them using simulated and empirical data: doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

Submit your work until August 15, 2025, and join me!

Hallo #CPConf2025, Poster 3.7! Excited to share our fMRI study on #approach-avoidance conflict at this amazing conference. Avoid something you want, or approach something you fear? 😧😲🙈 Come see how the our brain resolves these motivational dilemmas!🧠👁️💃

📢 New Preprint: Acting upon Threat osf.io/r8a5n Together with @yannikstegmann.bsky.social & @gamerlab.bsky.social, we used EEG, eye-tracking, and autonomic data to disentangle threat intensity ⚡️ from action possibility 🏃‍♂️ in states of attentive immobility.

🚨Our latest paper is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social: We show how aversive generalization and contexts interact at electrocortical levels, demonstrating modulations of cues and contexts into different frequencies of the ssVEP. With @gamerlab.bsky.social! Check it out: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer: The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Truly proud to receive this award! Huge thanks to my amazing PhD students and colleagues — working with you all is the real reward 😉

Very glad to share my first published PhD paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We provide evidence of the behavioral/cognitive costs of overcoming automatic approach-avoidance responses triggered by affective stimuli. Huge thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @Andre Pittig

🎉 Exciting news! Our Stage 1 Registered Report on the Coherence of Gamma-Band EEG Activity as a Basis for Associative Threat Learning has been accepted at Nature Human Behaviour! You can read the uploaded protocol here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠

WOW, what a journey! Finally, our new paper is published in the Journal of Personality Assessment! 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@yannikstegmann.bsky.social receiving the early career award of the German Society of Psychophysiology and its Application. Very well deserved. Congrats!!! #pug2025

Now on stage @yannikstegmann.bsky.social presenting his work on contextual influences on threat processing #pug2025

I had pleasure of co-organizing my very first symposium together with my supervisor @gamerlab.bsky.social. A heartfelt thank you to all the amazing speakers @ondrejzika.bsky.social, @francescotortora.bsky.social, @ldeserno.bsky.social, @floriansch and participants for their contributions. #PUG2025

@sabrinagado.bsky.social now presenting her work on social learning in VR #pug2025 in room 1.010

Next poster from the group #pug2025 - B 191 by @menghuanchen.bsky.social on approach-avoidance control

Final talk of the IGOR Symposium at #PuG2025 by @mreutter.bsky.social @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social. Wondering how we are doing in terms of open science in biopsychology? What comes to mind when thinking of open science? What are benefits and costs? Look how the audience replied to our polls! 📊

Our symposium starts in 30 min in room 0.001. Looking forward to seeing you there #pug2025

Hey #PuG2025! I am excited to present my research on the role of midbrain PAG in the resolution of human approach-avoidance conflict resolution. If that sounds interesting to you, drop by my poster #79 (Room 2.007)!

Great poster from the lab #pug2025 now: A25 @lindawk.bsky.social comparing eye-tracking in mouse-tracking methods in assessing social attention

See our research at the #pug2025. @jannateigeler.bsky.social now presenting a novel gaze-congruent approach-avoidance task.

The #PuG2025 final program is online! Browse it or download the PDF version 👇 www.pug2025.org

Only a few days left until @pug2025.bsky.social – our symposium, organized together with @gamerlab.bsky.social 🧠⚡ 🎤 Join us for exciting talks by: @ondrejzika.bsky.social @francescotortora.bsky.social @ldeserno.bsky.social @florianschlagenhauf #PUG2025 #psychophysiology #reinforcementlearning

Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

Happy to share that this study is now published in JEP:HPP 🎉 psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Still time to apply! 🎉 (and to become a DGPA member, if you're not already)

Absolutely well deserved!

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Are you a DGPA member conducting outstanding research in biopsychology, psychophysiology, or neuroscience? Don’t miss the opportunity—apply now for the 2025 Early Career Award! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Less than 2 weeks left to apply for the Brain Products Young Scientist Award 👇

Our article with @gamerlab.bsky.social and @jannateigeler.bsky.social has now been published Open Access 🔓 in Behaviour Research and Therapy🥳 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

Next output of a wonderful collaboration 👇

Huge congratulations to @sabrinagado.bsky.social , who passed her PhD defense with flying colors! Great to celebrate another PhD from @rtg2660.bsky.social - there are more to come...

Only few days left to apply for a PhD position in my group @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

The deadline for the submission of posters for this year's 50th Psychology and Brain (PuG) Conference #PuG2025 in Würzburg has been extended until 11 April 2020. 🚨 We look forward to many more contributions. You can find more information at www.pug2025.org.

🚨 PhD position (65%, 3 years) 🚨 We are currently looking for a PhD candidate within the @rtg2660.bsky.social on the neural mechanisms of approach and avoidance behavior. Please share widely and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/06...

One week left to submit individual contributions for this year's 50th Psychology and Brain (PuG) conference in Würzburg. We look forward to receiving abstract submissions for accepted symposia as well as poster contributions www.pug2025.org

Excited to share our latest publication from @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social! Our data highlight how neurocognitive resources influence positive expectation effects on the processing of aversive stimuli. Stay tuned for what this implies for depressed patients. rdcu.be/edRLS

Yes! We are already busy as bees🐝🐝🐝 preparing and look forward to welcoming you in Würzburg! with @gamerlab.bsky.social @hein-lab.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social @martinweiss.bsky.social @mjherrmann.bsky.social Katja Bertsch Johannes Hewig Andrea Kübler Johannes Rodriguez

Remember to submit your symposium proposal for PuG 2025! Deadline is tomorrow (February 28). www.pug2025.org/submission

FINALLY! 🥳 Our paper on fear conditioning and childhood adversity has reached its final version of record @eLife! Check it out here: elifesciences.org/articles/91425

Expect more updates sometime soon...

Abstract submissions and registration are now possible 👉 www.pug2025.org Submission deadline for symposia is February 28, 2025 (notification of acceptance by March 14, 2025) and for posters March 31, 2025 We look forward to many exciting contributions!

We were thrilled to welcome @astrube.bsky.social from McLean Hospital, Harvard Uni as our guest speaker in today’s research seminar. Dr.Strube shared his research on “Exploring the Role of Predictive Coding and Active Inference in Pain: A Bayesian Perspective”.Thank you for accepting our invitation.

Nice to see that my employer has finally left this toxic place #eXit

Now I've been in Würzburg for 10 years, and yesterday the most important equipment for the lab finally arrived 👇