Research

Our main research activities focus on the interplay of cognition and emotion in several domains of human information processing, including faces and written and spoken language. Our work aims to identify the specification of the origins, dynamics, and boundary conditions of emotion effects within and between different stimulus domains and modalities, as well as to better define the emotional outcomes of cognitive operations.

In order to answer our research questions, we employ a combination of well-established experimental paradigms with several psychophysiological measures, including event-related brain potentials (ERPs), eye movements, electrodermal and respiratory activity, facial muscle activity (via EMG recordings), and changes of pupil diameter.