A5079755439- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Language Development and Disorders
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
LMU Klinikum
2023-2025
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2023-2025
Freie Universität Berlin
2021-2022
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2021-2022
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2021-2022
Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin
2021
Autism spectrum disorder is characterized by impaired social communication and interaction. As a neurodevelopmental typically diagnosed during childhood, diagnosis in adulthood preceded resource-heavy clinical assessment period. The ongoing developments digital phenotyping give rise to novel opportunities within the screening diagnostic process. Our aim was quantify multiple non-verbal interaction characteristics autism build classification models independent of ratings. We analyzed videos...
People with autism or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) take longer to recognise emotions associated certain facial expressions. While this effect has been sufficiently documented, its specificity received less attention. Since both conditions lead increased reaction times on a wide variety of tasks, it is unclear whether differences in responses are specific emotion recognition due attenuations more basic sensory motor processes. Therefore, we pair the use sensitive morphing...
<title>Abstract</title> Background: Humans form almost instantaneous impressions of everyone they encounter. These set the first tone for how approach and interact with others. Research on impression formation unveiled that formed by autistic non-autistic people are often less favourable when rating an person. This effect is partly explainable differences in motion dynamics. Methods: In this preregistered study, we systematically assessed 27 36 comparison observers watching videos showing...
Faces are crucial sources of information for social interaction and cognition. This importance is reflected in increased attention, referred to as face attention bias (FAB). preregistered study investigated FAB adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD), two neurodevelopmental disorders associated symptoms. We hypothesised decreased ASD altered ADHD. assessed exogenous selective faces using a dot-probe paradigm. While general was observed across groups,...
In the last decade, several theories have proposed explanations of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) based on Bayesian Brain hypothesis. Research repetition suppression suggests that neural correlates prediction errors in ASD might be domain-specific with increased attenuations for faces compared to objects. Contrastingly, research assessing mismatch negativity attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) indicates a domain-general attenuation errors. Therefore, we captured colours and emotions...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is diagnosed on the basis of speech and communication differences, amongst other symptoms. Since conversations are essential for building connections with others, it important to understand exact nature differences between autistic non-autistic verbal behaviour evaluate potential these diagnostics. In this study, we recorded dyadic used automated extraction interactional turn-taking features 54 26 participants. The extracted parameters showed high as a...
Abstract Background Parents’ mental illness (MI) and parental history of early life maltreatment (ELM) are known to be significant risk factors for poor parenting while is a crucial mediator the intergenerational continuity child maltreatment. Hence, prevention programs families with an MI parent, which pay particular attention experiences ELM in urgently needed. Parental mentalizing was previously found mediate successful parenting. Interventions aimed at improving capacity reduced parents....
Interpersonal synchrony (IPS), or the temporal coordination of behavior interaction partners during social exchange, mediates natural interactions and rapport. Attenuated IPS has been shown between autistic individuals their partners; however, mechanisms this attenuation remain unclear. One possibility could lie in perceiving timing others’ behaviors. The present study aimed to relate behavioral production with perception dynamics event non-autistic adults. Autistic participants engaged...
Abstract Social reciprocity and interpersonal synchrony implicitly mediate social interactions to facilitate natural exchanges. These processes are altered in autism, but it is unclear how such alterations manifest at the neural level during interaction processing. Using task-based fMRI, we investigated correlates of basic reciprocal a preregistered study. Participants communicated with virtual partner by sending visual signals. Analyses showed comparable activation patterns experienced...
How the temporal dynamics of social interactions are perceived arguably plays an important role in how one engages and difficulties establishing smooth may occur. One aspect is mutual coordination individuals' behaviors during interaction, otherwise known as behavioral interpersonal synchrony (IPS). Behavioral IPS has been studied increasingly various contexts, such a feature interaction inherent to autism. To fully understand interactions, or reductions thereof autism, neural basis...
How the temporal dynamics of social interactions are perceived arguably plays an important role in how one engages and difficulties establishing smooth may occur. One aspect is mutual coordination individuals' behaviors during interaction, otherwise known as behavioral interpersonal synchrony (IPS). Behavioral IPS has been studied increasingly various contexts, such a feature interaction inherent to autism. To fully understand interactions, or reductions thereof autism, neural basis...
When people meet, they almost instantaneously form an impression of each other. First impressions character traits and rapport are less favourable when with autism spectrum condition (ASC) judged compared to non-autistic people. Little is known about the behavioural differences that drive these altered impressions. In present study, we investigated influence interpersonal synchrony on formation autistic Specifically, used lagged cross-correlations assess how much interactant's motion energy,...
Abstract Empathy as the capacity to feel with others is a vital human response. It especially important in context of parenting. To date, little known about differences empathy responses parents and non-parents children adults. Therefore, this study functional magnetic resonance imaging was used shed further light on interaction motherhood behavioural well neural stimuli depicting adults pain. Despite similar ratings imagined painfulness stimuli, mothers showed higher activation bilateral...
Abstract Successful parenting requires constant inferring of affective states. Especially vital is the correct identification facial affect. Previous studies have shown that infant faces are processed preferentially compared to adult both on behavioural and neural level. This study specifically investigates child‐evoked responses their modulation by motherhood attention To do so, we used a paradigm measure during explicit implicit affect recognition (FAR) in mothers non‐mothers using child...
Despite growing evidence on effects of parenthood social understanding, little is known about the influence theory mind (ToM), capacity to infer mental and affective states others. It also unclear whether any possible ToM would generalise inferring adults or are specific children. We investigated neural activation in mothers women without children while they predicted action intentions from child adult faces. Region-of-interest analyses showed stronger bilateral posterior cingulate cortex,...
Cognitive down-regulation of craving involves a neural network within the prefrontal cortex. Tobacco use disorder (TUD) and trait impulsivity have been associated with cortex impairments deficits. However, general deficits in (regarding non-drug-related cues) compared to never-smokers (NS), differential alterations between drug-related cues, as well its links subject characteristics (smoking severity, impulsivity) so far sparsely investigated TUD.In this study, 78 subjects (37 TUD & 42 NS)...
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) have been shown to take longer recognise emotions associated facial expressions. While this effect has sufficiently documented, less given its specificity. Since both disorders lead increased reaction times on a wide variety of tasks, it is unclear whether differences in are specific emotion recognition processes due attenuations more basic sensory motor processes. Therefore, we pair the use sensitive...
People with autism or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) take longer to recognise emotions associated certain facial expressions. While this effect has been sufficiently documented, its specificity received less attention. Since both conditions lead increased reaction times on a wide variety of tasks, it is unclear whether differences in responses are specific emotion recognition due attenuations more basic sensory motor processes. Therefore, we pair the use sensitive morphing...
Speech, if present, is usually affected in terms of how people speak as a central symptom autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Additionally, autistic report having difficulties with small talk. Since talk specifically, and conversations general, are essential for building connections others, it important to understand non-autistic verbal behaviour differs. In this study, we recorded dyadic used automated extraction speech interactional turn-taking features 54 26 participants. Using Bayesian mixed...
Parenting requires mothers to read social cues and understand their children. It is particularly important that they recognise child’s emotions react appropriately, for example, with compassion sadness or compersion happiness. Despite this importance, it unclear how motherhood affects women’s ability associated facial expressions in Using videos of an emotionally neutral face continually gradually taking on a expression emotion, we quantified the amount information needed match emotion...
Aversive drug cues can be used to support smoking cessation and create awareness of negative health consequences smoking. Better understanding the effects aversive on craving processing appetitive in abstinence motivated smokers is important further improve their use therapy smoking-related public measures. In this study, 38 quitting underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning while performing a novel extended cue-reactivity paradigm. Pictures cigarettes served as cues,...
Empathy allows us to share emotions and encourages help others. It is especially important in the context of parenting where children's wellbeing dependent on their parents' understanding fulfilment needs. To date, little known about differences empathy responses parents non-parents. Using stimuli depicting adults children pain, this study focuses interaction motherhood neural areas associated with empathy. Mothers showed higher activation both pain bilateral anterior insulae, key regions...
Infant and child faces receive more attention than adult faces, especially when they are portraying emotions. This preferential treatment is increased in mothers. It unclear how this affects the ability to recognise emotions at which age children lose treatment. Using morphed videos where a neutral face continually gradually takes on an emotion, we were able quantify amount of information needed identify emotion. We investigated as well accuracy both separately integrated performance score....