Matthias Gamer

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Professor for Experimental Clinical Psychology

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Germany

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Matthias Gamer is a Professor for Experimental Clinical Psychology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany. His research focuses on visual attention mechanisms, emotional perception, and the impact of social and emotional factors on behavior. Recent publications include investigations into mechanisms of social attention bias, threat processing, and the effects of anxiety on visual exploration. He employs diverse methodologies, including immersive virtual reality, to study complex psychological interactions.

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Neural mechanisms of (mal)adaptive approach and avoidance behaviour

Open Date: 2021-01-01

Close Date: 2026-01-01

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High-resolution structural and functional imaging of the brain to investigate subcortical structures

Open Date: 2021-01-01

Close Date: 2024-01-01

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The long-term effects of Corona on mental health: Trajectories of adaptive and maladaptive coping

Open Date: 2020-01-01

Close Date: 2023-01-01

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Interaction of attentional and learning processes during acquisition, generalization and loss of fear

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2020-01-01

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Mechanisms of Social Attention

Open Date: 2014-01-01

Close Date: 2019-01-01

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Daniel Baker

Senior Lecturer

University of York

UNITED KINGDOM

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Marieke Van der Schaaf

Tilburg University

NETHERLANDS

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Stephan Nebe

Senior Teaching and Research Assistant

University of Zurich

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Yu-Fang Yang

Freie Universität Berlin

GERMANY

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Roland Pfister

University of Trier

GERMANY

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Jens Bölte

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Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

GERMANY

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Gregor Domes

University of Trier

GERMANY

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Kirsten Hilger

Full Professor

Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

GERMANY

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A gaze into the void: Anticipatory saccades toward prevented events

Voluntary and reflexive mechanisms of visual attention: An investigation of the robustness of the social attention bias.

Facial features associated with fear and happiness attract gaze during brief exposure without enhancing emotion recognition

The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat

Overcoming Automatic Behavioral Tendencies in Approach‐Avoidance Conflict Decisions

Assessing the Long-Term Stability of the Spielberger State-Trait Inventory Trait Scale over 3.5 Years

The influence of (social) anxiety and visual exploration on threat responding and generalization

The effect of social anxiety on social attention in naturalistic situations

Studying the influence of single social interactions on approach and avoidance behavior: A multimodal investigation in immersive virtual reality

Applicability and validity of the reaction time‐based concealed information test in a prison sample

Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils

Heart rate variability, interoceptive accuracy and functional connectivity in middle-aged and older patients with depression

Enhancing precision in human neuroscience

Neurobiology and trauma research as alternatives to statement validity analysis?: On the question of new possibilities for credibility assessments,Neurobiologie und Traumaforschung als Alternativen zur Aussagepsychologie?: Zur Frage neuer Möglichkeiten für die Glaubhaftigkeitsbegutachtung

Orienting versus inhibition: The theory behind the ocular-based Concealed Information Test

Acquisition learning is stronger for aversive than appetitive events

Centralized gaze as an adaptive component of defensive states in humans

Fear conditioning and stimulus generalization in association with age in children and adolescents

Idiosyncratic viewing patterns of social scenes reflect individual preferences

Individual Patterns of Visual Exploration Predict the Extent of Fear Generalization in Humans

Placebo induced expectations of mood enhancement generate a positivity effect in emotional processing

Reality in a sphere: A direct comparison of social attention in the laboratory and the real world

Situational and personality determinants of social attention in a waiting room scenario

Collaborators (8)

Daniel Baker

Marieke Van der Schaaf

Stephan Nebe

Yu-Fang Yang

Roland Pfister

Jens Bölte

Gregor Domes

Kirsten Hilger

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