Department of Psychology

Nils Hachmeister is a former employee of the AE02 and no longer an active part of the work unit.

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Currently at Universtiät Gent

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Research Interests

Curriculum Vitae

• 03/2014 - 06/2016: Member of the of the 'Center of Excellence - Cognitive Interaction Technology' (CITEC) Graduate School, Intelligent Systems Study Program.
• 04/2012 - 04/2016: Bielefeld University, PhD 'Meaning in words - How social context amplifies processing of emotional language'. Graded: ,Summa cum laude' - Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johanna Kissler. Second Referee: Prof. Dr. Rasha Abdel Rahman. Third Referee: Prof. Dr. Frank Neuner.
• 2006 to 2012: University of Konstanz, Bachelor & Master in Psychology.

Awards and Grants

• Dissertation Award of the Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft, Bielefeld University (2017, 1.000 Euro).
• DAAD P.R.I.M.E. Postdoctoral Fellowship for a one year stay at Ghent University (Lab of Prof. Gilles Pourtois) and return to Bielefeld University (2016-2018, 113.000 Euro).
• Stipendiary of the Leopoldina Academy of Science for visiting the Workshop 'Crossing Boundaries in Science. Modeling Nature and Society - Can We Control the World?', Weimar, June 30 - July 2 (2016).
• DAAD Travel Grant for the 3rd Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), Porto, June 23-26 (2016, 557 Euro).
• Research Grant for young researchers at Bielefeld University (2016, 12.000 Euro).
• Research Training Fellowship of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) (2016, 3250$).
• Travel Award of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR). for the 55th Annual Meeting, Seattle, September 30 - October 4. (2015, 1000$).
• Poster Award of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR). People matter: perceived sender identity amplifies visual processing of socio-emotional language feedback. (2014, 300$).
• Travel Award of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR). for the 54th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, September 10-14. (2014, 1000$).
• CITEC project "Cognitive interaction between virtual agents and humans - examining human-like attributions to virtual agents using high-density EEG" of the 'Center of Excellence - Cognitive Interaction Technology' (CITEC), Bielefeld University. (2014-2016, 39.898 Euro).
• DAAD Travel Grant for the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), Florence, October 2-6. (2013, 458 Euro)

Talks und Posters

Talks

• Schindler, S., & Kissler, J. (2016). Selective visual attention to emotional words. Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), 58th Annual Meeting, Heidelberg, March 21 - 23.
• Schindler, S., & Kissler, J. (2015). Sender identity and sender competence enhance processing of socio-emotional words. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 55th Annual Meeting, Seattle, September 30 - October 4.
• Schindler, S., Wolff, W., Brand, R., & Kissler, J. (2015). Faking in various conditions - cerebral correlates of faking a Brief Implicit Association Test. Invited Talk at the CCN meeting, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Ghent, August 25.
• Schindler, S., (2015). Wer sagt das?! - Visuelle Verarbeitung von (emotionalem) Wortfeedback in Abhängigkeit der vermeintlichen Interaktionspartner. 4th national general psychology graduate student meeting (A-Dok), June 19-21, 2015. Jena, Germany.
• Schindler, S., Wolff, W., Brand, R., & Kissler, J. (2015). Cerebral correlates of faking the Implicit Association Test. Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), 57th Annual Meeting, Hildesheim, March 8-11.
• Kissler, J. & Schindler, S., (2015). People matter: Perceived sender identity amplifies visual processing of socio-emotional language feedback. Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), 57th Annual Meeting, Hildesheim, March 8-11.
• Schindler, S., (2014). Cerebral correlates of faking the Implicit Association Test. Invited Talk at the Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Münster, Germany, November 6.
• Schindler, S., (2014). What can EEG tell us about Cognition and Emotion? Invited Talk at the Department of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Cluster of Excellency in Cognition Sciences, University of Potsdam, June 16.
• Schindler, S., Steppacher, I., Wegrzyn, M. & Kissler, J. (2014). It's all in your head ? effects of social context on emotional word processing. Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), 56th Annual Meeting, Gießen, March 30 - April 2.

Posters

• Schindler, S., Miller, G. A., & Kissler, J. (2016). The social mind: How perceived sender expertise amplifies cortical processing of emotional langauge feedback. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR),56th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, September 21-25. Pdf
• Schindler, S., Miller, G. A., & Kissler, J. (2016). Attending to your therapist: How perceived sender expertise amplifies cerebral processing of emotional langauge feedback. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), Porto, June 23-26.
• Schindler, S., & Kissler, J. (2016). Selective visual attention to emotional words. Parallel and interactive effects in visual cortex European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), Porto, June 23-26.
• Schindler, S., & Kissler, J. (2015). Selective visual attention to emotional words. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 55th Annual Meeting, Seattle, September 30 - October 4.
• Klein, F., Iffland, B., Schindler, S., & Neuner, F. (2015). The influence of physically and socially threatening context information on the processing of inherently neutral faces. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 55th Annual Meeting, Seattle, September 30 - October 4.
• Schindler, S., Wolff, W., Brand, R., & Kissler, J. (2015). Cerebral correlates of faking the Implicit Association Test. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), March 12-14.
• Schindler, S., (2014). Cognitive interaction between virtual agents and humans - examining human-like attributions to virtual agents using high-density EEG. 4th CITEC Graduate School Retreat, Horn-Bad Meinberg, November 3-5.
• Schindler, S., & Kissler, J. (2014). People matter: perceived sender identity amplifies visual processing of socio-emotional language feedback. Society for Psychophysiolical Research (SPR), 54th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, September 10-14.
• Steppacher, I., Schindler, S., Schlösser, D., & Kissler, J. (2014). Higher, Faster, Worse? Enhanced event-related potentials during affective picture processing in migraine patients. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 54th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, September 10-14.
• Schindler, S., & Kissler, J. (2014). People matter: influence of imagined sender identity on cerebral processing social feedback. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), Dortmund, May 7-10.
• Schindler, S., Steppacher, I., Wegrzyn, M. & Kissler, J. (2014). It's all in your head - how evaluation affects the processing of emotional trait adjectives: an ERP study. Consortium of European Research on Emotion Conference (CERE), Berlin, March 27-28.
• Schindler, S., Steppacher, I., Wegrzyn, M. & Kissler, J. (2013). It's all in your head - how anticipation of evaluation affects the processing of emotional trait adjectives: an ERP study. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 53rd Annual Meeting, Florence, October 2-6.
• Zwissler, B., Sperber, C., Aigeldinger, S., Schindler, S., Kissler, J. & Plewnia, C. (2013). Shaping memory accuracy by means of transcranial direct current stimulation. Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), 20th Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

Membership

• Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)
• European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN)
• Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Reviewer for

Scientific Reports; Biological Psychology; Frontiers in Psychology; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

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• Reviewing Editor für Frontiers in Psychology and Frontiers in Neuroscience

Teaching

• Seminar: 270468 Social Neuroscience: Hirnphysiologische Korrelate und beteiligte Strukturen an sozialer Reizverarbeitung (S) (SoSe 2016)
• Seminar: 270057 Emotion und Gedächtnis (S) (WiSe 2015/2016) intermediate evaluation and final evaluation
• Seminar: 270241 Projektarbeit II: Physiologische Psychologie (S) (SoSe 2015) evaluation
• Seminar: 270249 Projektarbeit I: Physiologische Psychologie (S) (WiSe 2014/2015)
• Seminar: 270061 Vielkanal-EEG Datenanalyse mit SPM (S) (WiSe 2013/2014)
• Seminar: 270209 Empirisch-Experimentelles Projektseminar (S) (WiSe 2013/2014)
• Stream teaching participantion: Neuroscientific insights into human memory control I & II of the summer school 'Continuous learning in living and artificial systems' 9-13 September 2013 at the CITEC, University Bielefeld.
• Stream teaching participantion: Verbal and Non-verbal Interaction in Social Neuroscience of the summer school 'Verbal and non-verbal interaction: From experiments to implementation' 27-31 August 2012 at the CITEC, University Bielefeld

Dr. Inga Steppacher is a former employee of the AE02 and no longer an active part of the work unit.

Talks

• 2017 | BMBF-Kick-Off-Meeting Projekt NeuroCommTrainer, Bielefeld
• NeuroCommTrainer
• 2017 | Projektvorstellung MeH Fachausschuss, Bethel
• NeuroCommTrainer - Ein Trainingsgerät für Menschen mit schweren Bewusstseinsstörungen
• 2015 | International Workshop 'Establishing communication with low responsive patients - perspectives for cognitive interaction technology', Bielefeld
• I communicate, therefore I am
• 2015 | Fortbildungsvortrag für Mitarbeiter des Fachbereichs 'Menschen mit erworbener Hirnschädigung' (MeH), Bethel
• Das mentale HÄ? Ereigniskorrelierte Potentiale bei Menschen mit schwersten Bewusstseinsstörungen
• 2015: | Eingeladener Vortrag: 4. Fachtag 'Menschen mit erworbenen Hirnschädigungen', Bielefeld - Bethel
• Verarbeitung sinnloser Sätze als Prognosefaktor für Menschen mit schwersten Bewusstseinsstörungen
• 2015 | Eingeladener Workshop: 4. Fachtag 'Menschen mit erworbenen Hirnschädigungen, Bielefeld-Bethel
• Die Belastung pflegender Angehöriger
• 2014 | Eingeladener Vortrag: 2.Symposium des Deutschen Instituts für Wachkoma-Forschung (DIWF), Köln
• Forschung für Patienten mit schwersten Bewusstseinsstörungen: Von der Suche nach guten Prognosefaktoren
• 2013 | Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting (ABIM), Schweiz
• Speech, a beacon in the dark! N400 predicts recovery from unresponsive wakefulness and minimal consciousness state
• 2012 | Fortbildungsvortrag für Mitarbeiter der Frührehabilitation, Kliniken Schmieder, Allensbach
• Elektrophysiologische Indizes der Informationsverarbeitung bei Patienten im Wachkoma und MCS
• 2012 | Citec Summerschool 2012, Bielefeld
• EEG-Basics
• 2011 | Update Neuro-Reha 2011, Schwerpunkt Frührehabilitation, Allensbach
• Elektrophysiologische Indizes der Informationsverarbeitung bei Patienten im Wachkoma und MCS
• 2010 | Lurija Institut für Rehabilitationswissenschaften und Gesundheitsforschung, Allensbach
• Kognitive Verarbeitungsprozesse bei Menschen mit schwersten Bewusstseinsstörungen

Posters

2018 | Conference Abstract, Deutsche Gesellschaft für klinische Neurophysiologie und funktionelle Bildgebung (DGKN)
Optimizing ERP detection in disorders of consciousness by taking into account pre-stimulus brain states
Steppacher, I. & Kissler, J.

2014 | Conference Abstract | PUB-ID: 2694911
HIGHER, FASTER, WORSE? ENHANCED EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS DURING AFFECTIVE PICTURE PROCESSING IN MIGRAINE PATIENTS
Steppacher, I., Schloesser, D. & Kißler, J. | Psychophysiology 51: S75-S75
PUB | WoS

2010 | Conference CNS, Montreal
Electrophysiological indices of information processing of patients with severe reduction of consciousness - appearance pattern and prognostic value
Steppacher, I., Eickhoff, S., Kaps, M., Witzke, W. & Kissler, J.

2009 | Gesellschaft für Neuropsychologie (GNP), Berlin
Informationsverarbeitung bei Patienten mit schwersten Bewusstseinsstörungen - Auftretensmuster und klinischer Vorhersagewert.
Steppacher, I., Eickhoff, S., Kaps, M., Witzke, W. & Kissler, J.

Liane Stritz has been involved in the project NeuroCommTrainer: Ein Trainings- und Kommunikationssystem für schwer hirngeschädigte Patienten

The project is supported by the German Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung.