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12.12.2024
 

Currently there are no open positions at our lab.

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05.12.2024
 

How this powerful duo can enhance collaboration, transparency, and reproducibility of psychological science.
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05.12.2024
 

Our postdoc, Dr. Ekaterina Pronizius, in collaboration with Prof. Bukowski, organized the Social Cognition Workshop, “From Self-Knowledge to Knowing...
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25.10.2024
 

Our research team published a paper in Scientific Reports demonstrating that everyday helping is associated with improved mood but increased stress...
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25.10.2024
 

New book chapter in the book "Environmental Neuroscience" explores the intersection of social neuroscience and pro-environmental behavior.
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14.10.2024
 

We've all experienced moments of assuming others share our emotions or beliefs. This ability to distinguish between self and others—self-other...
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03.10.2024
 

New paper on climate change with data collected from 63 countries
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25.09.2024
 

Self-other distinction across mental disorders. It was an incredible experience sharing our research with the community!
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21.09.2024
 

We rock at the DGPs Congress 2024 in Vienna
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30.08.2024
 

Following the project's title, Magdalena will be "Setting a New Analysis Standard for Canine Comparative Social Neuroscience" by modeling the BOLD...
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31.07.2024
 

New review paper on domestic dogs as a comparative model for visual social neuroscience

What have we learned so far? Current challenges, potential solutions, and future directions for comparative neuroimaging with dogs
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30.07.2024
 

FWF 3-year Erwin-Schrödinger fellowship awarded to Magdalena Boch

Magdalena will join the Cognitive Neuroecology Lab at the University of Oxford to work on the project "The social temporal lobe: A case of convergent...
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30.07.2024
 

Congratulations to Luise Graichen and Julia Braunstein!
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01.07.2024
 

Lab head Claus Lamm receives APS Mentor Award and features as FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Mentoring Award Finalist
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30.06.2024
 

Our scannies at the FENS 2024 in Vienna
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25.06.2024
 
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21.06.2024
 

New review paper on the link between shared representations and prosocial behavior, and its relevance for clinical conditions.

How do changes in pain processing systems affect prosocial behavior in pain-related clinical conditions such as chronic pain?
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12.06.2024
 

SIPS Commendation 2024

Ekaterina Pronizius (Postdoc, SCAN-Unit) Recognized with SIPS Commendation for Reaction Time Preprocessing Initiative
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23.05.2024 12:37
 

We rock in Belgium.

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15.05.2024
 

Congratulations to Dr. Pronizius!
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15.05.2024
 

International Forum on Clinical Research

Revolutionizing Clinical Psychology through Big Team Science!
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20.04.2024
 

New paper on functional mapping of the somatosensory cortex in dogs published in Brain Structure and Function

What happens in a dog's brain when the dog is being petted?
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01.02.2024
 

New Paper on the Use of Cultural Artifacts as Cognitive Fossils Published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences

How do cultural artifacts help us trace psychological changes throughout history?
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09.01.2024
 

Our latest paper shows the importance of effort costs when considering how prosocial behaviour changes under acute stress

How much effort is involved in helping others and our existing prosocial tendencies could be key to understanding acute stress effects on prosocial...
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26.12.2023
 

New Paper on Reproductive Strategies and Romantic Love in Early Modern Europe Published in Archives of Sexual Behavior

How did changing living standards influence romantic love and reproductive behaviors in early modern Europe?
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19.12.2023
 

FWF grant awarded to Claudia Massaccesi, Isabella Wagner, Lei Zhang, and Claus Lamm

The role of incentives and uncertainty in prosocial behavior
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15.12.2023
 

An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex

Maybe the amygdala is not angry or sad or afraid – it's just misunderstood!
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11.12.2023
 

New Paper published: Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries

Effectively reducing climate change requires dramatic, global behavior change. Yet it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people...
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06.12.2023
 

Raúl Hernández Awarded with the ESPRIT Grant

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21.11.2023
 

2023 International Ferrari Soave Award for Human Biology

Lab head Claus Lamm has received the 2023 International Ferrari Soave Award for Human Biology by the Turin Academy of Sciences.
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13.11.2023
 

Neuroscience can help us to understand the reciprocal relationships between a changing climate and the brain.
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02.10.2023
 

New paper on psychological and structural brain differences between placebo analgesia responders and non-responders published in Frontiers in Psychology

To respond or not to respond: exploring empathy-related psychological and structural brain differences between placebo analgesia responders and...
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20.08.2023
 

New paper on how dogs predict human action targets published in Open Mind

Dogs rely on visual cues rather than on effector-specific movement representations to predict human action targets

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11.07.2023
 

New Paper on the effect of blocking dopamine receptors on trust in males published in Nature Communications

Blocking D2/D3 dopamine receptors in male participants increases volatility of beliefs when learning to trust others
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27.06.2023
 

New paper on body- and animacy-responsive areas in dogs and humans published in Communications Biology

Functionally analogous body- and animacy-responsive areas are present in the dog (Canis familiaris) and human occipito-temporal lobe
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22.06.2023
 

New Paper on Hippocampal and Cortical Contributions to Hierarchical Representation Published in eLife

How does the brain represent complex hierarchies?
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06.06.2023
 

New paper on age-related differences in interference control published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Age-related differences in interference control in the context of a finger-lifting task: an fMRI study

 
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05.06.2023
 

New paper on reward network response to social touch in major depression published in Psychological Medicine

There may be altered striatal processing of social touch in major depressive disorder
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03.04.2023
 

New paper on strategic prosocial behaviour published in Neuropsychopharmacology

Testosterone eliminates strategic prosocial behavior through impacting choice consistency in healthy males
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28.03.2023
 

New paper on energetic arousal during acute social isolation published in Psychological Science

Lowered energy could be part of a homeostatic response to a lack of social contact
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28.03.2023
 

New paper on aberrant uncertainty processing published in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

Aberrant uncertainty processing is linked to psychotic-like experiences, autistic traits, and is reflected in pupil dilation during probabilistic...
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11.03.2023
 

New paper on social closeness and prosocial behaviour published in Scientific Reports

Only empathy-related traits, not being mimicked or endorphin release, influence social closeness and prosocial behavior
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15.02.2023
 

New paper using interleaved fMRI/TMS published in NeuroImage

Acute TMS/fMRI response explains offline TMS network effects – An interleaved TMS-fMRI study
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11.02.2023
 

New paper on COVID-19 rapid-response dataset published in Scientific Data

The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset
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31.01.2023
 

New paper on tracking others navigating through space published in Nature Communications

Entorhinal grid-like codes and time-locked network dynamics track others navigating through space
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10.01.2023
 

New paper on listening to music during COVID-19 lockdown published in JAMA Network Open

Perceptions of stress and mood associated with listening to music in daily life during the COVID-19 lockdown
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05.12.2022
 

New paper on model-based and model-free behaviour published in eLife

Effects of dopamine D2/3 and opioid receptor antagonism on the trade-off between model-based and model-free behaviour in healthy volunteers
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30.11.2022
 

New paper on stress and prosocial behaviours published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Does stress make us more—or less—prosocial? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of acute stress on prosocial behaviours using...
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30.11.2022
 

New paper on prosocial helping published in Psychological Science

Placebo analgesia reduces costly prosocial helping to lower another’s pain
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18.11.2022
 

New paper on vicarious fear learning published in PLOS ONE

The causal role of affect sharing in driving vicarious fear learning
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19.10.2022
 

Remembrance of Andrea Knauseder

We commemorate Andrea Knauseder, a former Master student at the SCAN-Unit.
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17.10.2022
 

New paper on stress and mood during COVID-19 lockdowns published in British Journal of Health Psychology

The effects of social interactions on momentary stress and mood during COVID-19 lockdowns
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01.10.2022
 

New paper on vicarious disgust published in NeuroImage

Effective connectivity reveals distinctive patterns in response to others’ genuine affective experience of disgust
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26.09.2022
 

New paper on COVID-19 health messaging published in Affective Science

In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries
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31.07.2022
 

New paper on attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 published in PNAS Nexus

Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning.
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15.07.2022
 

Marietta-Blau Grant to E. Pronizius!

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27.05.2022
 

New paper on global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic published in PNAS.

Shame and fear can increase controlled motivation, but using these tactics in public health communications carries certain risks.
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25.05.2022
 

New paper on stress and mood during COVID-19 lockdown published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Diurnal dynamics of stress and mood during COVID-19 lockdown: a large multinational ecological momentary assessment study
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30.04.2022
 

New paper on human emotional egocentricity published in Neurobiology of Aging

Right supra-marginal gyrus and secondary somatosensory cortex play a role in age-related differences in human emotional egocentricity.
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20.04.2022
 

New paper on moral judgments published in Nature Human Behaviour

Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western

countries in a culturally diverse sample
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08.04.2022
 

Stipend for ambitious students

Ambitious and talented psychology students can apply for a private funded stipend.

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09.02.2022
 

New paper on stress responses published in Neuropsychopharmacology

Opioid-blunted cortisol response to stress is associated with increased negative mood and wanting of social reward.
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26.01.2022
 

Scientist of the week - interview on placebo research

Why does the placebo effect cause so many vaccine side effects?
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03.01.2022
 

Your sorrow is my sorrow? How we empathize with the emotions of others - Special

What happens in our brain when we observe how another person feels pain? Article in a special issue of In-Mind magazine
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29.11.2021
 

Blog post about new paper on trust

"In amygdala we trust": behind the paper
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26.11.2021
 

New paper on trust

Basolateral and central amygdala orchestrate how we learn whom to trust
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02.08.2021
 

New paper on brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic published in Nature Human Behavior.

Reconstrual and repurposing are the most effective reappraisal strategies.
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16.05.2021
 

New paper published

Socio-cognitive training impacts emotional and perceptual self-salience but not self-other distinction
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15.05.2021
 

New paper on empathy for pain

Beyond Sharing Unpleasant Affect — Evidence for Pain-Specific Opioidergic Modulation of Empathy for Pain
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03.05.2021
 

New paper published

"The administration of the opioid buprenorphine decreases motivational error signals" published in Psychoneuroendocrinology
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06.04.2021
 

Meta-analysis featuring members of the lab

"Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data" published in Nature Communications
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06.04.2021
 

Bank Austria Research Award 2021

Congratulations to Lisa Anna Rosenberger and Jürgen Goller!

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24.03.2021
 

New paper on self-other distinction

Interplay of self-other distinction and cognitive control mechanisms in a social automatic imitation task: An ERP study
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16.03.2021
 

New paper published in Animal Cognition

Watching others in a positive state does not induce optimism bias in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus), but leads to behaviour indicative of...
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03.03.2021
 

New paper on durable memories

Durable memories and efficient neural coding through mnemonic training using the method of loci
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11.02.2021
 

New paper published on opioid use and empathy for pain

Chronic non‐medical prescription opioid use and empathy for pain: Does pain make the difference?
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23.01.2021
 

New paper on placebo analgesia and empathy for pain

Another's pain in my brain: No evidence that placebo analgesia affects the sensory-discriminative component in empathy for pain
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17.01.2021
 

New publication in NeuroImage

Tailored haemodynamic response function increases detection power of fMRI in awake dogs (Canis familiaris)
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13.01.2021
 

New paper on facial mimicry

The effects of self-relevance vs. reward value on facial mimicry
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04.01.2021
 

New publication in Nature Human Behavior

To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?
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27.12.2020
 

Awards for lab members (SfN Global Connectome)

Congratulations to Alexandrina Guran and Lei Zhang!
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17.12.2020
 

New paper on the relationship between dogs and humans

Exploring the dog–human relationship by combining fMRI, eye-tracking and behavioural measures
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03.11.2020
 

New paper published in Psychophysiology

Pharmacological fMRI provides evidence for opioidergic modulation of discrimination of facial pain expressions
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25.10.2020
 

New paper on social connectedness during COVID-19

Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID‐19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue
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03.08.2020
 

New paper from the lab!

Using reinforcement learning models in social neuroscience: frameworks, pitfalls and suggestions of best practices

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16.07.2020
 

New paper on the mechanisms of imitation

Being mimicked affects inhibitory mechanisms of imitation
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23.06.2020
 

New TT position available

The Vienna Cognitive Science Hub is looking for a Tenure-Track Professorship for the field of Cognitive Neuroscience of brain-microbiome interaction
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04.06.2020
 

New paper on placebo-induced pain reduction

Placebos can reduce pain by inducing beliefs in the effectiveness of an actually inert treatment.
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19.05.2020
 

Aktuelle Studie COVISTRESS

Studie zum Thema Covid-19 und Stress
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26.02.2020
 

New publication from the lab

Increasing self-other bodily overlap increases sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain
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13.11.2019
 

New review out in Brain Topography

The Role of Sensorimotor Processes in Pain Empathy by Dr. Igor Riečanský and Prof. Lamm
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05.11.2019
 

The Vienna CogSciHub:Study Participant Platform is looking for you!
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24.10.2019
 

New publication from the NBU

Fairness norm violations in anti-social psychopathic offenders in a repeated trust game
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01.10.2019
 

Exciting new preprint from the lab

Age-related changes in human emotional egocentricity: evidence from multi-level neuroimaging
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15.06.2019
 

New paper published (open access): Self-other overlap and empathy

Increasing self-other bodily overlap increases sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain.

 
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06.06.2019
 

Postdoc position (3 years) in dog/human fMRI Vienna

New Position Available!!

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22.05.2019
 

Adriaense, Lamm et al.

New paper shows precursor of empathy in ravens.
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22.03.2019
 

Riečanský, Lengersdorff, Pfabigan, Lamm

New paper: Increasing self-other bodily overlap increases sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain
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08.02.2019
 

Lamm, Rütgen, Wagner

""New" review paper in Neurosci Lett. (published online 2017) now assigned issue and page number. That letter was in the mail for quite some time ;-)"
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08.02.2019
 

Lamm et al.

New paper: The Other and Me: Effects of oxytocin on self-other distinction.
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08.01.2019
 

New member

The SCAN-Unit welcomes our new post-doc Lei Zhang.
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27.11.2018
 

Pfabigan, Wucherer, Lamm et al.

New paper: Cultural influences on the processing of social comparison feedback signals—an ERP study
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16.11.2018
 

Lamm et al.

New paper: The Neural Substrate of Reward Anticipation in Health: A Meta-Analysis of fMRI Findings in the Monetary Incentive Delay Task.
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19.09.2018
 

Two new members

The SCAN-Unit welcomes Ronald Sladky and Paul Forbes
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01.08.2018
 

Placebo Imaging Consortium, including Claus Lamm

New publication with Placebo Imaging Consortium in JAMA Neurology
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16.05.2018
 

Pfabigan, Wucherer, Lamm

New paper: Internal control beliefs and reference frame concurrently impact early performance monitoring ERPs
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02.05.2018
 

Lamm et al.

New paper: Psychometric properties of the Epworth Sleepiness Scale: A factor analysis and item-response theory approach.
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10.01.2018
 

Lamm et al.

New paper on antidepressant treatment and fMRI
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10.01.2018
 

Riva, Wagner, Lamm et al.

New paper on aging & empathy
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