Steering group
Dr. Christoph Geißler (Managing Director)
Research
- Neurophysiological correlates of stress and working memory
- Neuro-hemodynamic correlates of feature response binding
Prof. Dr. Christian Frings
Research at ICAN
- Neural underpinnings of feature response binding
- Hyperbinding in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
Prof. Dr. Gregor Domes
Clinical and Biological Psychology
Research at ICAN
- Neurophysiological basis of social cognition
- Impairment of social cognition in mental and developmental disorders
- Interaction of cognition and emotion in cluster B personality disorders
- Neurobiological basis of stress and stress management
TRIER UNIVERSITY
Dr. Bernadette von Dawans
Clinical and Biological Psychology
Research
- Stress and stress protection (social support, touch, sports, oxytocin)
- Stress management in children and adults
- Effects of stress on health and social behavior in children and adults
- Psychobiology of social interaction
- Clinical psychology of social interaction (personality disorders, social phobia, burnout)
- Methods of stress induction and stress measurement
Prof. Dr. Yana Fandakova
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Research
- Neural basis of task switching in childhood
- Metamemory development across childhood and adolescence
- Differentlial effects of curiosity on memory across childhood and adolescence
- Pubertal hormones and brain plasticity in adolescence
- False memory in aging
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Siri-Maria Kamp
Research
- Basic mechanisms of memory
- Age-related memory changes
- Memory in clinical populations
- Attention and executive function
Jun.-Prof Florian Kasten
Neuro Stimulation
Research
· Causal role of neural oscillations in cognition
· Non-invasive brain stimulation to modulate oscillatory brain networks
· Inter-individual variability of brain stimulation effects
Prof. Dr. Jobst Meyer
Research
- The neurosocial phenotype of the Triple X Syndrome
- Causative genes and psychosocial stress in Primary Hyperhidrosis
Prof. Dr. Roland Neumann
General Psychology: Cognition, Emotion, Action Regulation
Research
- Emotional information processing
- Emotion and Behavior
- Implicit Social Cognition
Dr. Bernhard Pastötter
Research
- Electrophysiological correlates of Binding and Retrieval in Action Control
- The role of midfrontal theta oscillations in conflict detection and cognitive control
- Electrophysiological correlates of retrieval practice
Prof. Dr. Roland Pfister
Heisenberg Professor for General Psychology
Research
- Motor functions & action control
- Error processing
- Avoidance Behavior
- Rules, rule breaking, lying
- Statistics & Research Methods
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schächinger
Research
- Effects of stress and stress hormones on psychophysiological and cognitive processes
- Interoception and cognitive effects related to the activity changes in visceral afferent neurotraffic 'in vivo'
- Human startle eye blink, and prepulse inhibition (PPI)
TRIER UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
Prof. Dr. Klaus Peter Koch
Research
- Electrical diagnostic: Spatial diagnostics and artifact reduction
- Artifact and signal transmission models for bioelectric signal derivation systems
- Measuring set-up for the investigation of the influences of mechanical stress on artifacts in measuring cables and electrodes
- Development of models to describe the coupling of electromagnetic artifacts in electrophysiological measurements
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Jung
Research
- Association language, numbers and space
- Symbol learning
- Typical and atypical language processing
- Digital devices in early literacy development
- Therapeutic games
- Digital diagnostics
UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG
Prof. Dr. André Schulz
University of Luxembourg & CLIPSLAB
- Interoceptive brain network stimulation as intervention method to reduce stress and somatic symptoms (INSTIM)
- Interoception in medically unexplained symptoms (INMEDEX)
- Interoception and chronic stress (INSTRESS)
- Stress effects on interoceptive learning and memory as a mechanism of somatic symptom generation (INMEMO)
Prof. Dr. Robert Kumsta
Biopsychology - University of Luxemburg
Reseach
- Stress
- Gene-environment interaction
- Epigenetics
- Developmental psychopathology
- Mental health
- Oxytocin
KRANKENHAUS DER BARMHERZIGEN BRÜDER TRIER
Prof. Dr. Tim Piepho
Prof. Dr. Winfried Albert Willinek
Research
- The neurosocial phenotype of the Triple X Syndrome