Steering group

Dr. Christoph Geißler (Managing Director)

Christoph Geißler

Research

  • Neurophysiological correlates of stress and working memory
  • Neuro-hemodynamic correlates of feature response binding

Prof. Dr. Christian Frings

Christian Frings

Cognitive Psychology

Research at ICAN

  • Neural underpinnings of feature response binding
  • Hyperbinding in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome

Prof. Dr. Gregor Domes

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

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

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

Siri-Maria Kamp

Neurocognitive Psychology

Research

  • Basic mechanisms of memory
  • Age-related memory changes
  • Memory in clinical populations
  • Attention and executive function

Jun.-Prof Florian Kasten

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

Jobst Meyer

Neurobehavioral Genetics

Research

  • The neurosocial phenotype of the Triple X Syndrome
  • Causative genes and psychosocial stress in Primary Hyperhidrosis

Prof. Dr. Roland Neumann

Neumann

General Psychology: Cognition, Emotion, Action Regulation

Research

  • Emotional information processing
  • Emotion and Behavior
  • Implicit Social Cognition

Dr. Bernhard Pastötter

Bernhard Pastötter

Cognitive Psychology

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

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

Hartmut Schächinger

Clinical Psychophysiology

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

Klaus Peter Koch

Electrical Engeneering

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

Stefanie Jung

Logopedics

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

André Schulz

University of Luxembourg & CLIPSLAB

Research

  • 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

Robert Kumsta

Biopsychology - University of Luxemburg

Reseach

  • Stress
  • Gene-environment interaction
  • Epigenetics
  • Developmental psychopathology
  • Mental health
  • Oxytocin

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