The International Research Training Group (IRTG) The Brain in Action – BrainAct, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), invites applications for 8 Research Assistants (Doctoral candidates) Salary and benefits are according to a public service position in Germany (TV-H E 13, 65 %). The part-time positions are to be staffed starting at the 1st … More Positions for 8 Research Assistants (Doctoral candidates) in the IRTG 1901

We are looking for a new student research assistant to join the TNM Lab! The position will be focussed on the Gestik3 project, for further details see the official announcement:

Within the framework of the TRR/SFB 135 project “Predictive perception: multisensory consequences of one`s own actions” (PIs: Prof. Dr. T. Kircher and Prof. Dr. B. Straube), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Phillips-University Marburg, Germany is looking for a Postdoctoral fellow with a background in experimental … More Post-doctoral position (neuroscience/ fMRI/ experimental psychology) available in the Collaborative Research Centre: “Cardinal mechanisms of perception” (TRR/SFB 135) Marburg, Germany

Berger, P., Bitsch, F., Jakobi, B., Nagels, A., Straube, B., & Falkenberg, I. (accepted). Cognitive and emotional empathy in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A replication and extension study. Psychiatry Research

Cuevas, P., Steines, M., He, Y., Nagels, A., Culham, J. & Straube, B. (accepted). The facilitative effect of gestures on the neural processing of semantic complexity in a continuous narrative. NeuroImage. IF=5.426 Abstract Gestures are elemental components of social communication and aid comprehension of verbal messages; however, little is known about the potential role of … More Paper accepted: The facilitative effect of gestures on the neural processing of semantic complexity in a continuous narrative

Share Link:https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1YopS3lc~r72zK Krautheim, J., Dannlowski, U., Steines, M., Neziroğlu, G., Acosta, H., Sommer, J., Straube, B.*, & Kircher, T.* (2019). Intergroup empathy: enhanced neural resonance for ingroup facial emotion in a shared neural production-perception network. NeuroImage, 194, 182-190. IF: 5.426 * contributed equally Introduction Empathic behavior and related neural processing are strongly modified by group … More Paper accepted: Intergroup empathy: enhanced neural resonance for ingroup facial emotion in a shared neural production-perception network.

Good job, Florian!

For the presentation of her poster about the neural correlates of NOS1-ex1f-VNTR allelic variation in panic disorder and agoraphobia during fear conditioning and extinction.

Excellent! Philipp!

Excellent! Yunbo!