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Short Description
PHYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL LABS (examination and control room, sleep lab)
EXPERIMENTAL PARADIGMS: 3D virtual reality, eye-blink startle, pre-pulse inhibition,
olfactometer, electric stimulation, conditioning, biofeedback, IAPS, IADS, films, etc., ...
LAB MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS: TMSi Refa 72-channels, 4x TMSi Porti 32-channels, 64-channel dense array EEG, polysomnography, ECG, electrodermal activity, heart rate variability, impedance cardiography, blood pressure (Finapres 2300, Dinamap), facial electromyography, startle measurement, pulse plethysmography, skin temperature, respiration, pCO2, 3D-accelerometry, saliva samples, digital video recording, behavior coding (including facial reactions to emotions), electronic rating scales, psychometry, eye-tracker
AMBULATORY MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS: electronic diary apps and smartphones, Variolab, Vitaport-1, Vitaport-3, 3x VarioPort-B, 4x camntech motion watch, 2 mobile measurement stations for external lab implementation
SOFTWARE: E-Prime, Brain Vision Analyzer, ANSLAB, LIWC, Polybench
Contact Person
Prof. Dr. Frank Wilhelm
Research Services
Elicitation of stress and emotions in humans
Measurement and analysis of behavioral, cognitive, autonomic, endocrine and electrocortical indicators of stress and emotion while awake and during sleep
Objective measurement of emotions
Polysomnography
Applied psychophysiology
Neuro-marketing
Human-computer interaction
Driver monitoring
Ecological Momentary Assessment
Ambulatory psychophysiological assessment
Ecological Momentary Assessment
Ecological Momentary Intervention
Biofeedback
Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy
Exposure therapy
Virtual reality therapy
Influence of pharmacological substances on processing stress and emotions
Influence of pharmacological substances on psychotherapy
Methods & Expertise for Research Infrastructure
The Clinical Stress and Emotion Lab is a research lab for elicitation, measurement and analysis of stress and emotion reactions in humans.
A large number of stimuli and experimental setups are used and behavioral, cognitive, autonomic, endocrine and electrocortical (64-channels) indicators of stress and emotions are measured during waking and sleep. When examining people with psychological disorders this allows developing a systemic perspective for understanding the mechanisms and processes relevant for clinical syndromes, taking into account neurocognitive, affective and social theories and relationships.
Lab examinations can be validated externally and supplemented through mobile psychophysiological measurement devices and smartphone-based surveys.
Fachbereich Psychologie
0043 662 8044 5103
frank.wilhelm@sbg.ac.at
http://www.emotion-salzburg.org/
2010-2018
Perner, Schabus, Wilhelm, et al.
FWF
http://www.emotion-salzburg.org/
Regulation of emotional responding to social cues in social anxiety
2013-2016
Blechert, Wilhelm
ÖNB
http://www.emotion-salzburg.org/
Emotional, restrained and bulimic eating in lab and daily life
2014-2017
Blechert, Vögele, Wilhelm
FWF
http://www.emotion-salzburg.org/
NewEat: Transdiagnostic views on Eating disorders and obesity and new approaches for treatment
2014
Blechert
http://www.eat.sbg.ac.at/
2017
Wiggert N., Wilhelm F.H., Boger S., Georgii C., Klimesch W. & Blechert J.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 12(2) 329-339
https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw128
The Pavlovian craver: Neural and experiential correlates of single Trial naturalistic food conditioning in humans
2016
Blechert J., Testa G., Georgii C., Klimesch W. & Wilhelm F.H.
Physiology & Behavior 158 18-25
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.02.028
Exposure to social-evaluative video clips: Neural, facial-muscular, and experiential responses and the role of social anxiety
2015
Wiggert N., Wilhelm F.H., Reichenberger J. & Blechert J.
Biological Psychology 110 59-67
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.07.008
High cardiac vagal control is related to better subjective and objective sleep quality
2015
Werner G.G, Ford B.Q., Mauss I.B., Blechert J., Schabus M. & Wilhelm F.H.
Biological Psychology 106 79-85
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.02.004
Criticism hurts everybody, praise only some: Common and specific neural responses to approving and disapproving social-evaluative videos
2016
Miedl S.F., Blechert J., Klackl J., Wiggert N., Reichenberger J., Derntl B. & Wilhelm F.H.
NeuroImage 132 138-147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.027
ANSLAB: Integrated multi-channel peripheral biosignal processing in psychophysiological science
2015
Blechert J., Peyk P., Liedlgruber M. & Wilhelm F.H.
Behavior Research Methods 48(4) 1528-1545
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0665-1
Higher vagal activity as related to survival in patients with advanced breast cancer: an analysis of autonomic dysregulation
2015
Giese-Davis J., Wilhelm F.H., Tamagawa R., Palesh O., Neri E., Taylor C.B., Kraemer H.C. & Spiegel D.
Psychosomatic Medicine 77(4) 346-355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000167
Smartphone based stress prediction
2015
Stütz T., Kowar T., Kager M., Tiefengrabner M., Stuppner M., Blechert J., Wilhelm F.H. & Ginzinger S.
In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan, S. Lawless (Eds.), User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 240-251). Berlin: Springer
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20267-9_20
Pre- to postsleep change in psychophysiological reactivity to emotional films: late-night REM sleep is associated with attenuated emotional processing
2015
Werner G.G., Schabus M., Blechert J., Kolodyazhniy V. & Wilhelm F.H.
Psychophysiology 52(6) 813-825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12404
Low levels of estradiol are associated with elevated conditioned responding during fear extinction and intrusive memories in daily life
2014
Wegerer M., Kerschbaum H., Blechert J. & Wilhelm F.H.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 116 145-154
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2014.10.001