Publications 2025
Roßkopf, S., Mühlberger, A., Stärz, F., van de Par, S., Blau, M., & Kroczek, L. O.H. (2025). Impact of Visual Virtual Scene and Localisation Task on Auditory Distance Perception in Virtual Reality. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2025.3549855 (external link, opens in a new window)
Kroczek, L. O. H., & Mühlberger, A. (2025). Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 20(1), nsaf001. doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf001 (external link, opens in a new window)
Paul, K., Angus, D. J., Bublatzky, F., Wüllhorst, R., Endrass, T., Greenwood, L.-M., Hajcak, G., Jack, B. N., Korinth, S. P., Kroczek, L. O. H., Lucero, B., Mundorf, A., Nolden, S., Peterburs, J., Pfabigan, D. M., Schettino, A., Severo, M. C., Lee Shing, Y., Turan, G., ... Pourtois, G. (2025). Revisiting the electrophysiological correlates of valence and expectancy in reward processing - A multi-lab replication. Cortex, 184, 150-171. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.12.017 (external link, opens in a new window)
Publications 2024
Roßkopf, S., Kroczek, L. O., Stärz, F., Blau, M., Van de Par, S., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). The impact of binaural auralizations on sound source localisation and social presence in audiovisual virtual reality: converging evidence from placement and eye-tracking paradigms. Acta Acustica, 8, 72.
Aspöck, L., Fels, J., Frank, M., Bertsch, M., Mühlberger, A., Kroczek, L., Roßkopf, S., Seeber, B. U., Llorca-Bofí, J., Vorländer, M., Sladeczek, C., Bergner, J., Hock, K., Rodigast, R., Bös, J., Zotter, F., Sharma, G. K., Stellbrink, M., Weinzierl, S., Amengual Garí, S. V. (2024). Applications of virtual acoustics. Acoustics Journal,1,16-26.
Boehme, S., Herrmann, M. J., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). Good moments to stimulate the brain-A randomised controlled double-blinded study on anodal transcranial direct current stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex on two different time points in a two-day fear conditioning paradigm. Behavioural Brain Research, 460, 114804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114804 (external link, opens in a new window)
Neidhardt, A., Ahrens, J., Pörschmann, C., Aspöck, L., Fels, J., Frank, M., Bertsch, M., Mühlberger, A., Kroczek, L., Roßkopf, S., Seeber, B., Llorca-Bofí, J., Vorlaender, M., Sladeczek, C., Bergner, J., Hock, K., Rodigast, R., Bös, J., Zotter, F., & Amengual Garí, S. (2024). Applications of virtual acoustics. 24, 16-26.
Roßkopf, S., Wechsler, T. F., Tucha, S., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). Effects of facial biofeedback on hypomimia, emotion recognition, and affect in Parkinson's disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 30(4), 360-369.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617723000747 (external link, opens in a new window)
Roßkopf, S., Kroczek, L. O. H., Stärz, F., Blau, M., Van De Par, S., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). Comparable sound source localisation of plausible auralizations and real sound sources evaluated in a naturalistic eye-tracking task in virtual reality. Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023, 1485-1492.
https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.0377 (external link, opens in a new window)
Roßkopf, S., Kroczek, L. O., Stärz, F., Blau, M., Van de Par, S., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). Auditory Distance Perception in VR: The Influence of Visual Room Presentation and Estimation Method. Advances in acoustics. DAGA 2024, Hanover.
Kroczek, L. O. H., Roßkopf, S., Stärz, F., Blau, M., van de Par, S., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). The influence of affective voice on sound distance perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(9), 918-933. doi. org/10.1037/xhp0001222 (external link, opens in a new window)
Kroczek, L. O. H., Lingnau, A., Schwind, V., Wolff, C., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). Observers predict actions from facial emotional expressions during real-time social interactions. Behavioural Brain Research, 471, 115126. doi. org/10.1016/j.bbr.2024.115126 (external link, opens in a new window)
Aspöck, L., Fels, J., Frank, M., Bertsch, M., Mühlberger, A., Kroczek, L., Roßkopf, S., Seeber, B. U., Llorca-Bofí, J., Vorländer, M.,sladeczek, C., Bergner, J., Hock, K., Rodigast, R., Bös, J., Zotter, F., Sharma, G. K., Stellbrink, M., Weinzierl, S., Amengual Garí, S. V. (2024). Applications of virtual acoustics. Acoustics Journal,1,16-26.
Schröder, B., Kroczek, A., Kroczek, L. O. H., Ehlis, A. C., Batra, A., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). Cigarette craving in virtual reality cue exposure in abstainers and relapsed smokers. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 7538.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58168-7 (external link, opens in a new window)
Boehme, S., Herrmann, M. J., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). Good moments to stimulate the brain-A randomised controlled double-blinded study on anodal transcranial direct current stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex on two different time points in a two-day fear conditioning paradigm. Behavioural Brain Research, 460, 114804.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114804 (external link, opens in a new window)
Unterholzner, J., Kautzky, A., Reed, M. B., Wechsler, T. F., Popper, V., Spurny-Dworak, B., Stöhrmann, P., Klöbl, M., Varghese, N., Mühlberger, A., Eckert, A., Frey, R., Rujescu, D., Lanzenberger, R. & Vanicek, T. (2024). Effects of lockdowns on neurobiological and psychometric parameters in unipolar depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. Translational psychiatry, 14(1), 42.
doi.org/10.1038/s41398-024-02733-1 (external link, opens in a new window)
Publications 2023
Kroczek, A., Schröder, B., Diemer, J., Mühlberger, A., Ahlis, A.-C., & Batra, A. (2023). Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial to investigate cue exposure in virtual reality. SEARCH, 69(2), 56-64.
https://doi.org/10.1024/0939-5911/a000812 (external link, opens in a new window)
Kroczek, L. O. H., & Mühlberger, A. (2023). Public speaking training in front of a supportive audience in virtual reality improves performance in real-life. Scientific Reports, 13, 13968.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41155-9 (external link, opens in a new window)
Kroczek, L. O. H., & Mühlberger, A. (2023). Time to Smile: How Onset Asynchronies Between Reciprocal Facial Expressions Influence the Experience of Responsiveness of a Virtual Agent. Journal of Nonverbal Behaviour, 1-16.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-023-00430-z (external link, opens in a new window)
Schröder, B., & Mühlberger, A. (2023). Measuring attentional bias in smokers during and after psychosocial stress induction with a Trier Social Stress Test in virtual reality via eye tracking.Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1129422. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1129422 (external link, opens in a new window)
Schroën, J. A., Gunter, T. C., Numssen, O., Kroczek, L. O. H., Hartwigsen, G., & Friederici, A. D. (2023). Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(47), e2306279120.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306279120 (external link, opens in a new window)
Roßkopf, S., Wechsler, T. F., Tucha, S. & Mühlberger, A. (2023). Effects of facial biofeedback on hypomimia, emotion recognition, and affect in Parkinson's disease. Journal of the international Neuropsychological Society, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617723000747 (external link, opens in a new window)
Wechsler, T. F., Kocur, M., Schumacher, S., Rubenbauer, M., Ruider, A., Brockelmann, M., Lankes, M., Wolff, C. & Mühlberger, A. (2023). Looking fear in the eye: Gamified virtual reality exposure towards spiders for children using attention based feedback. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
doi.org/10.1177/13591045231194103 (external link, opens in a new window)
Publications 2022
Schröder, B., & Mühlberger, A. (2022). Assessing the attentional bias of smokers in a virtual reality anti-saccade task using eye tracking. Biological Psychology, 172, 108381. doi. org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108381 (external link, opens in a new window)
Aster H.-C., Romanos, M., Walitza, S., Gerlach, M., Mühlberger, A., Rizzo A, Andreatta, M., Hasenauer, N., Hartrampf, P. E., Nerlich, K., Reiners, C., Lorenz, R., Buck, A. K. and Deserno, L. (2022) Responsivity of the Striatal Dopamine System to Methylphenidate-A Within-Subject I-123-β-CIT-SPECT Study in Male Children and Adolescents With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Front. Psychiatry 13:804730.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.804730 (external link, opens in a new window)
Brunner, L. M., Maurer, F., Weber, K., Weigl, J., Milenkovic, V. M., Rupprecht, R., ... &
Mühlberger, A. (2022). Differential effects of the translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO) ligand etifoxine and the benzodiazepine alprazolam on startle response to predictable threat in a NPU-threat task after acute and short-term treatment. Psychopharmacology, 1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-022-06111-x (external link, opens in a new window)
Kroczek, L.O.H., Böhme, S. & Mühlberger, A. (2022). Face masks reduce interpersonal distance in virtual reality. Scientific Reports, 12, 2213.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06086-x (external link, opens in a new window)
Kroczek, L. O., & Mühlberger, A. (2022). Returning a smile: Initiating a social interaction with a facial emotional expression influences the evaluation of the expression received in return. Biological Psychology, 108453.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108453 (external link, opens in a new window)
Reichenberger, J., Wechsler, T.F., Diemer, J., Mühlberger, A., & Notzon, S. (2022). Fear,
psychophysiological arousal, and cognitions during a virtual social skills training in social anxiety disorder while manipulating gaze duration. Biological psychology, 175, 108432.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108432 (external link, opens in a new window)
Reitmaier, J., Schiller, A., Mühlberger, A., Pfaller, M., Meyer, M. and Shiban, Y. (2022), Effects of
rhythmic eye movements during a virtual reality exposure paradigm for spider-phobic patients. Psychol Psychother Theory Res Pract, 95: 57-78.
https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12363 (external link, opens in a new window)
Wechsler, T.F., Schmidmeier, M., Biehl, S. et al. Individual changes in stress, depression,
anxiety, pathological worry, posttraumatic stress, and health anxiety from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults from Southeastern Germany. BMC Psychiatry 22, 528 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04148-y (external link, opens in a new window)
Zänkert, S., Lindl, A., Schmitz, A., Kudielka, B. M., Mühlberger, A., & Wüst, S. (2022). Sustained
threat and phasic fear in the laboratory and cognitive-emotional processes of anxiety in everyday life-An ambulatory assessment study. International journal of psychophysiology, 175, 8-17.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.02.009 (external link, opens in a new window)
Publications 2021
Wechsler, T.F., Pfaller, M., Eickels, R.E.v, Schulz, L.H. & Mühlberger, A. (2021) Look at the Audience? A Randomised Controlled Study of Shifting Attention From Self-Focus to Nonsocial vs. Social External Stimuli During Virtual Reality Exposure to Public Speaking in Social Anxiety. Front. Psychiatry 12:751272.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.751272
Pfaller, M., Kroczek, L.O.H., Lange, B., Fülöp, R., Müller, M. & Mühlberger, A. (2021) Social Presence as a Moderator of the Effect of Agent Behaviour on Emotional Experience in Social Interactions in Virtual Reality. Front. Virtual Real. 2:741138.
doi: 10.3389/frvir.2021.741138
Kroczek L.O.H., Lingnau A., Schwind V., Wolff C., Mühlberger A. (2021). Angry facial expressions bias towards aversive actions. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0256912.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256912 (external link, opens in a new window)
Ma, L., Mor, S., Anderson, P., Baños, R., Botella, C., Bouchard, S., Cárdenas, G., Donker, T., Fernández-Álvarez, J., Lindner, P., Mühlberger, A., Powers, M., Quero, S., Rothbaum, B., Wiederhold, B., & Carlbring, P. (in press). Integrating Virtual Realities and Psychotherapy: SWOT Analysis on VR and MR Based Treatments of Anxiety and Stress-related Disorders. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 50(6), 509-526.
doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2021.1939410 (external link, opens in a new window)
Kroczek, L. O.H., & Gunter, T. C. (2021). The time course of speaker-specific language processing. Cortex, 141, 311-321.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.017 (external link, opens in a new window)
Biehl, S. C., Schmidmeier, M., Wechsler, T. F., Kroczek, L. O. H., & Mühlberger, A. (2021). Widespread Recommendations Can Change Our Habits of Hand-Washing and Physical Distance During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 3(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.3061 (external link, opens in a new window)
Bahr, L.-M., Maurer, F., Weigl, J., Weber, K., Melchner, D., Dörfelt, A.,... Nothdurfter, C. (2021). Dissociation of endocrine responses to the Trier Social Stress Test in Virtual Reality (VR-TSST) by the benzodiazepine alprazolam and the translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO) ligand etifoxine. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 124, 105100.
doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.105100
Publications 2020
Probst, T., Mühlberger, A., Kühner, J., Eifert, G. H., Pieh, C., Hackbarth, T., & Mander, J. (2020). Development and Initial Validation of a Brief Questionnaire on the Patients' View of the In-Session Realisation of the Six Core Components of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 2(3), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.v2i3.3115 (external link, opens in a new window)
Kroczek, L. O. H., Pfaller, M., Lange, B., Müller, M., & Mühlberger, A. (2020). Interpersonal Distance During Real-Time Social Interaction: Insights From Subjective Experience, Behaviour, and Physiology. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 561. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00561
Kroczek, L. O. H., & Gunter, T. C. (2020). Distinct neural networks relate to common and speaker specific language priors. Cerebral Cortex Communications, tgaa021.
doi:10.1093/texcom/tgaa021
Levine, S. M., Alahäivälä, A. L., Wechsler, T. F., Wackerle, A., Rupprecht, R., & Schwarzbach, J. V (2020). Linking Personality Traits to Individual Differences in Affective Spaces. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 448.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00448 (external link, opens in a new window)
Biehl, S. C., Keil, J., Naumann, E., & Svaldi, J. (2020). ERP and oscillatory differences in overweight/obese and normal-weight adolescents in response to food stimuli. Journal of Eating Disorders, 8(1), 1-11.
Mühlberger, A., Jekel, K., Probst, T., Schecklmann, M., Conzelmann, A., Andreatta, M., Rizzo, A. A., Pauli, P., & Romanos, M. (2020). The Influence of Methylphenidate on Hyperactivity and Attention Deficits in Children with ADHD: A Virtual Classroom Test. Journal of Attention Disorders, 24(2), 277-289.
doi: 10.1177/1087054716647480
Reichenberger, J., Pfaller, M., & Mühlberger, A. (2020). Gaze Behaviour in Social Fear Conditioning: An Eye-Tracking Study in Virtual Reality. Frontiers in Psychology 11:35 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00035
Publications 2019
Naumann, E., Biehl, S. C., & Svaldi, J. (2019). Eye-tracking study on the effects of happiness and sadness on body dissatisfaction and selective visual attention during mirror exposure in bulimia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 52(8), 895-903.
doi: 10.1002/eat.23127 (external link, opens in a new window)
Biehl, S.C., Ansorge, U., Naumann, E., & Svaldi, J. (2019). Altered Processing of Visual Food Stimuli in Adolescents with Loss of Control Eating. Nutrients 11, 210.
doi: 10.3390/nu11020210.
Böhme, S., Biehl, S.C., & Mühlberger, A. (2019). Effects of Differential Strategies of Emotion Regulation. Brain Sciences, 9, 225.
doi: 10.3390/brainsci9090225
Fernández-Álvarez, J., Rozental, A., Carlbring, P., Colombo, D., Riva, G., Anderson, P. L., Bañosh, R. M. Benbow, A. A., Bouchard, S., Bretón-López, J. M., Cárdenas, G., Difede, J., Emmelkamp, P., García-Palacios, A., Guillén, V., Hoffman, H., Kampann, I., Moldovan, R., Mühlberger, A., North, M., Pauli, P., Castros, W. P., Quero, S., Tortella-Feliu, M., Wyka, K., & Botella, C. (2019). Deterioration rates in Virtual Reality Therapy: An individual patient data level meta-analysis. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 61, 3-17.
doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.06.005
Herrmann, M. J., Mühlberger, A., Ehlis, A. C., Deckert, J. & Polak, T. (2019). Non-invasive brain stimulation and fear extinction: A systematic review. Neurology, 36(08), 537-541.
Kroczek, L.O.H., Gunter, T.C., Rysop, A.U., Friederici, A.D., and Hartwigsen, G. (2019). Contributions of left frontal and temporal cortex to sentence comprehension: Evidence from simultaneous TMS-EEG. Cortex 115, 86-98.
doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.01.010.
Probst, T., Jank, R., Dreyer, N., Seel, S., Wagner, R., Hanshans, K., Reyersbach, R., Mühlberger , A., Lahmann, C., & Christoph Pieh, C. (2019). Early Changes in Pain Acceptance Predict Pain Outcomes in Interdisciplinary Treatment for Chronic Pain. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8, 1373.
doi: 10.3390/jcm809137
Probst, T., O'Rourke, T., Decker, V., Kiessling, E., Meyer, S., Bofinger, C., Niklewski, G., Mühlberger, A., & Pieh, C. (2019). Effectiveness of a five-week inpatient dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder in psychiatry.Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 25, 192-198.
doi: 10.1097/PRA0000000000000383
Raber, J., Arzy, S., Bertolus, J.B., Depue, B., Haas, H.E., Kangas, M., Kensinger, E., Lowry, C.A., Marusak, H.A., Minnier, J., Mouly, A.-M., Mühlberger, A., Norrholm, S.D., Peltonen, K., Pinna, G., Rabinak, C., Shiban, Y., Soreq, H., van der Kooij, M.A., Lowe, L., Weingast, L.T., Yamashita, P., & Boutros, S.W. (2019). Current understanding of fear learning and memory in humans and animal models and the value of a linguistic approach for analysing fear learning and memory in humans. Neuroscience & Biobehavioural Reviews 105, 136-177.
doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.03.015.
Reichenberger, J., Pfaller, M., Forster, D., Gerczuk, J., Shiban, Y., & Mühlberger , A. (2019). Men Scare Me More: Gender Differences in Social Fear Conditioning in Virtual Reality. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:1617.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01617.
Santl, J., Shiban, Y., Plab, A., Wüst, A., Kudielka, B. M., & Mühlberger, A. (2019). Gender Differences in Stress Responses during a Virtual Reality Trier Social Stress Test. International Journal of Virtual Reality, 19(2), 1-8.
doi: 10.20870/IJVR.2019.19.2.2912
Wechsler, T. F., Kümpers, F., & Mühlberger, A. (2019). Inferiority or Even Superiority of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in Phobias?-A Systematic Review and Quantitative Meta-Analysis on Randomised Controlled Trials Specifically Comparing the Efficacy of Virtual Reality Exposure to Gold Standard in vivo Exposure in Agoraphobia, Specific Phobia, and Social Phobia. Front. Psychol, 10:1758.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01758
Publication 2018
Fehlner, K., Zimmermann, V., Wittmann, J., Mühlberger, A., & Shiban, Y. (2018). The premenstrual syndrome and the partner relationship: How it affects both partners in different ways. J Pregnancy Reprod, 2(1), 1-8.
doi: 10.15761/JPR.1000134
Gromer, D., Madeira, O., Gast, P., Nehfischer, M., Jost, M., Müller, M., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2018). Height Simulation in a Virtual Reality CAVE System: Validity of Fear Responses and Effects of an Immersion Manipulation. Frontiers Human Neuroscience, 12:372.
doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00372
Levine, S. M., Pfaller, M., Reichenberger, J., Shiban, Y., Mühlberger, A., Rupprecht, R., & Schwarzbach, J. V. (2018). Relating experimentally-induced fear to pre-existing phobic fear in the human brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 164-172.
doi: 10.1093/scan/nsx147
Preis, M., Vögtle, E., Dreyer, N., Seel, S., Wagner, R., Hanshans, K., Reyersbach, R., Pieh, C., Mühlberger, A., Probst, T. (2018). Long-term outcomes of a multimodal day-clinic treatment for chronic pain under the conditions of routine care. Pain Research and Management.
doi: 10.1155/2018/9472104
Probst, T., Decker, V., Kiessling, E., Meyer, S., Bofinger, C., Niklewski, G., Mühlberger, A., Pieh, C.(2018). Suicidal ideation and skill use during in-patient dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder. A diary card study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 9:152.
Shiban, Y., Brütting-Schick, J., Pauli, P., Domschke, K., & Mühlberger , A. (2018). Does caffeine facilitate exposure therapy for specific phobia? A randomised clinical trial. Resonanzen - E-Journal for biopsychosocial dialogues in psychosomatic medicine, psychotherapy, supervision and counselling, 6(2), 3-25.
Shiban, E., Lehmberg, J., Hoffmann, U., Thiel, J., Probst, T., Friedl, M., Mühlberger, A., Meyer, B., & Shiban, Y. (2018). Peritraumatic distress fully mediates the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms preoperative and three months postoperative in patients undergoing spine surgery. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 9.
doi: 10.1080/20008198.2018.1423824
Publications 2017
Deckert, J., Weber, H., Villmann, C., Lonsdorf, T.B., Richter, J., Andreatta, M., Arias-Vasquez, A., Hommers, L., Kent, L., Schartner, C., Cichon, S., Wolf, C., Schaefer, N.,von Collenberg C.R., Wachter, B., Blum, R., Schümann, D., Scharfenort, R., Schumacher, J., Forstner, A.J., Baumann, C., Schiele, M.A.,notzon, S., Zwanzger, P., Janzing, J.G.E., Galesloot, T., Kiemeney, L.A., Gajewska, A., Glotzbach-Schoon, E., Mühlberger, A.,alpers, G., Fydrich, T., Fehm, L., Gerlach, A.L., Kircher, T., Lang, T., Ströhle, A., Arolt, V., Wittchen, H.-U., Kalisch, R., Büchel, C., Hamm, A,. Nöthen, M.M., Romanos, M., Domschke, K., Pauli, P., & Reif, A.(2017). GLRB allelic variation associated with agoraphobic cognitions, increased startle response and fear network activation: a potential neurogenetic pathway to panic disorder. Molecular Psychiatry, 22, 1431-1439.
doi: 10.1038/mp.2017.2
Lonsdorf, T.B., Menz, M.M., Andreatta, M., Fullana, M.A., Golkar, A., Haaker, J., Heitland, I., Hermann, A., Kuhn, M., Kruse, O., Drexler, S.M., Meulders, A., Nees, F., Pittig, A., Richter, J., Römer, S., Shiban, Y., Schmitz, A., Straube, B., Vervliet, B., Wendt, J., Baas, J.M.P., & Merz, C.J. (2017). Don't fear 'fear conditioning': Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 77, 247-285.
doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.02.026
Mayer, G., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger , A. (2017). Modelling Human Behaviour in Escape and Evacuation Simulation. Research and Advanced Technology in Fire Safety, 69-83.
Probst, T., Geib, C., Güroff, E., & Mühlberger, A. (2017). Training the social skill "being able to demand" vs. training the social skill "being able to say no". A randomised controlled trial with healthy individuals. Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 57, 1-5.
doi: 20.1016/j.jbtep.2017.01.006
Reichenberger, J., Diemer, J., Zwanzger, P., Notzon, S., & Mühlberger, A. (2017). Social skills training in virtual reality for social anxiety: Validation of relevant interaction situations. Journal of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 46, 236-247.
doi: 10.1026/1616-3443/a000444
Reichenberger, J., Porsch, S., Wittmann, J., Zimmermann V., & Shiban, Y. (2017). Social Fear Conditioning Paradigm in Virtual Reality: Social vs. Electrical Aversive Conditioning. Frontiers in Psychology. 8:1979.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01979
Rodrigues, J., Müller, M., Mühlberger, A., & Hewig, J. (2017). Mind the movement: Frontal asymmetry stands for behavioral motivation, bilateral frontal activation for behaviour. Psychophysiology, 1-19.
doi: 10.1111/psyp.12908
Shiban, Y., Diemer, J., Müller, J., Brütting-Schick, J., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2017). Diaphragmatic breathing during virtual reality exposure therapy for aviophobia: functional coping strategy or avoidance behaviour? BMC Psychiatry, 17, 1-10.
doi: 10.1186/s12888-016-1181-2
Weeth, A., Mühlberger, A., & Shiban, Y. (2017). Was it less painful for knights? Influence of appearance in pain perception. European Journal of Pain.
doi: 10.1002/ejp.108
Zimmermann, V., Wittmann, J., Sparrer, D., Mühlberger, A., & Shiban, Y. (2017). The generalisation of conditioned startle responses from known to unknown lies. Learning and Motivation, 59, 64-69.
doi: 10.1016/j.lmot.2017.05.002
Publications 2016
Ahrens, L. M., Pauli, P., Reif, A., Mühlberger, A., Langs, G., Aalderink, T., & Wieser, M. J. (2016). Fear conditioning and stimulus generalisation in patients with social anxiety disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 44, 36-46.
doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.10.003
Andreatta, M., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2016). When does pleasure start after the end of pain? The time course of relief. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 524, 1653-1667.
doi:10.1002/cne.23872
Asthana, M. K., Brunhuber, B., Mühlberger, A., Reif, A., Schneider, S., & Herrmann, M. J. (2016). Preventing the Return of Fear Using Reconsolidation Update Mechanisms Depends on the Met-allele of the Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Polymorphism. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 19, 1-9.
doi: 10.1093/ijnp/pyv137
Diemer, J., Lohkamp, N., Mühlberger, A., Zwanzger, P. (2016). Fear and physiological arousal during a virtual height challenge - effects in patients with acrophobia and healthy controls. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 37, 30-39.
doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2015.10.007
Kuhn, M., Haaker, J., Glotzbach-Schoon, E., Schümann, D., Andreatta, M., Mechias, M. L., Raczka, K., Gartmann, N., Büchel, C., Deckert, J., Mühlberger, A., Pauli, P., Reif, A., Kalisch, T.B., & Lonsdorf, T. B. (2016). Converging evidence for an impact of a functional NOS gene variation on anxiety-related processes Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 803-812.
doi: 10.1093/scan/nsv151
Peperkorn, H.M., Diemer, J., Alpers, G.W., & Mühlberger, A. (2016). Representation of Patients' Hand Modulates Fear Reactions of Patients with Spider Phobia in Virtual Reality. Front. Psychol. 7:268.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00268
Shiban, Y., Diemer, J., Brandl, S., Zack, R., Mühlberger, A., & Wüst, A. (2016). Trier Social Stress Test in vivo and in virtual reality: Dissocation of response domains. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 110, 47-55.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.10.008
Shiban, Y., Fruth, M.B., Pauli, P., Kinateder, M., Reichenberger, J., & Mühlberger, A. (2016). Treatment effect on biases in size estimation in spider phobia. Biological Psychology, 121, Part B, 146-152.
doi: 10.1016/biopsycho.2016.03.005
Shiban, Y., Peperkorn, H., Alpers, G.W., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2016). Influence of perceptual cues and conceptual information on the activation and reduction of claustrophobic fear. J of Behaviour Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry, 51, 19-26. doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.11.002
Vierheilig, N., Mühlberger, A., Polak, T., & Herrmann, H. J. (2016). Transcranial direct current stimulation of the prefrontal cortex increases attention to visual target stimuli. Journal of Neural Transmission, 1-9.
doi: 10.1007/s00702-016-1542-5
Walz, N., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2016). A human open field test reveals thigmotaxis related to agoraphobic fear. Biological Psychiatry, 80, 390-397. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.12.016
Publications 2015
Ahrens, L. M., Mühlberger, A., Pauli, P., & Wieser, M. J. (2015). Impaired visuocortical discrimination learning of socially conditioned stimuli in social anxiety. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 7, 929-37.
doi: 10.1093/scan/nsu140
Andreatta, M., Glotzbach-Schoon, E., Mühlberger, A., Schulz, S. M., Wiemer, J., & Pauli, P. (2015). Initial and sustained brain responses to contextual conditioned anxiety in humans. Cortex, 63, 352-363.
doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.09.014
Andreatta, M., Leombruni, E., Glotzbach-Schoon, E., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Generalisation of Contextual Fear in Humans. Behaviour Therapy, 46, 583-596. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2014.12.008 (external link, opens in a new window)
Diemer, J., Alpers, G. W., Peperkorn, H. M., Shiban, Y., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). The impact of perception and presence on emotional reactions: a review of research in virtual reality. Front Psychol, 6, 26.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00026
Domschke, K., Winter, B., Gajewska, A., Unterecker, S., Warrings, B., Dlugos, A., Notzon, S., Nienhaus, K., Markulin, F., Gieselmann, A., Jacob, C., Herrmann, M. J., Arolt, V., Mühlberger, A., Reif, A., Pauli, P., Deckert, J., & Zwanzger, P. (2015). Multilevel impact of the dopamine system on the emotion-potentiated startle reflex. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 11, 1983-1993.
doi: 10.1007/s00213-014-3830-9
Glotzbach-Schoon, E., Andreatta, M., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2015). Reinstatement of contextual anxiety in humans: effects of state anxiety. Int J of Psychophysiol, 98, 557-566.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.07.013 (external link, opens in a new window)
Kinateder, M., Gromer, D., Gast, P., Buld, S., Müller, M., Jost, M., Nehfischer, M., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2015). The effect of dangerous goods transporters on hazard perception and evacuation behaviour - A virtual reality experiment on tunnel emergencies. Fire Safety Journal, 78, 24-30.
doi: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2015.07.002l.
Mühlberger, A., Kinateder, M., Brütting, J., Eder, S., Müller, M., Gromer, D., & Pauli, P. (2015). Influence of Information and Instructions on Human Behaviour in Tunnel Accidents: A Virtual Reality Study. Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, 12. doi: urn:nbn:en:0009-6-42521
Notzon, S., Deppermann, S., Fallgatter, A., Diemer, J., Kroczek, A., Domschke, K., Zwanzger, P., Ehlis, A.-C. (2015). Psychophysiological effects of an iTBS modulated virtual reality challenge including participants with spider phobia. Biological Psychology, 112, 66-76.
doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.10.003
Peperkorn, H. M., Diemer, J., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Temporal dynamics in the relation between presence and fear in virtual reality. Computers in Human Behaviour, 48, 542-547.
doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.02.028 (external link, opens in a new window)
Ronchi, E., Kinateder, M., Müller, M., Jost, M., Nehfischer, M., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Evacuation travel paths in virtual reality experiments for tunnel safety analysis. Fire Safety Journal, 71, 257-267.
doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2014.11.005 (external link, opens in a new window)
Schroeder, P. A., Mühlberger, A., & Plewnia, C. (2015). Exposure therapy. Virtual worlds for psychiatric application. NeuroTransmitter, 10.
doi: 10.1007/s15016-015-0695-z
Seibt, B., Mühlberger, A., Likowski, K. U., & Weyers, P. (2015). Facial mimicry in its social setting. front Psychol.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01122
Shiban, Y., Brütting, J., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Fear reactivation prior to exposure therapy: Does it facilitate the effects of VR exposure in a randomized clinical sample? Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 46, 133-140.
doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.09.009
Shiban, Y., Reichenberger, J., Neumann, I. D., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Social conditioning and extinction paradigm: A translational study in virtual reality. Front Psychol, 6, 400.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00400
Shiban, Y., Schelhorn, I., Jobst, V., Hörnlein, A., Puppe, F., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). The Appearance Effect: Influences of virtual agent features on performance and motivation. Computers in Human Behaviour, 49, 5-11.
doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.01.077
Shiban, Y., Schelhorn, I., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Effect of combined multiple contexts and multiple stimuli exposure in spider phobia: A randomised clinical trial in virtual reality. Behav Res Ther, 71, 45-53.
doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2015.05.014 (external link, opens in a new window)
Shiban, Y., Wittmann, J., Weißinger, M., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Gradual extinction reduces reinstatement. Front Behav Neurosci, 9, 254.
doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00254