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Antje B. M. Gerdes

Antje B. M. Gerdes

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Psychology

D-Index
30
Citations
3642
World Ranking
11385
National Ranking
552

Overview

Antje B. M. Gerdes is affiliated with the University of Mannheim in Germany and primarily works within the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research focuses on diverse topics related to perception, emotion, and cognition.

The main topics of Gerdes's work include:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Face and Expression Recognition
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Gerdes has contributed to several subfields of study, notably:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Social Psychology
  • Sensory Systems

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Gerdes cover a range of interdisciplinary topics related to emotional and facial expression processing. Examples include:

  • Emotional sounds guide visual attention to emotional pictures: An eye-tracking study with audio-visual stimuli (2020, Emotion)
  • Read My Face: Automatic Facial Coding Versus Psychophysiological Indicators of Emotional Valence and Arousal (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Fear one, fear them all: A systematic review and meta-analysis of fear generalization in pathological anxiety (2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • Automatic facial coding versus electromyography of mimicked, passive, and inhibited facial response to emotional faces (2021, Cognition & Emotion)
  • What's in a face: Automatic facial coding of untrained study participants compared to standardized inventories (2022, PLoS ONE)

These publications reflect collaborations with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Georg W. Alpers
  • T. Tim A. Höfling
  • Ulrich Föhl
  • Laura-Ashley Fraunfelter
  • Ulrich Müller

Gerdes's research has appeared predominantly in journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, PLoS ONE, and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. These venues represent important outlets for work intersecting psychological theory, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental methodology.

Best Publications

  • Test–retest reliability of evoked BOLD signals from a cognitive–emotive fMRI test battery

    Michael M. Plichta;Adam J. Schwarz;Oliver Grimm;Katrin Morgen

  • Spiders are special: fear and disgust evoked by pictures of arthropods

    Antje B.M. Gerdes;Gabriele Uhl;Gabriele Uhl;Georg W. Alpers

  • Here is looking at you: Emotional faces predominate in binocular rivalry.

    Georg W. Alpers;Antje B. M. Gerdes

  • Emotional pictures and sounds: a review of multimodal interactions of emotion cues in multiple domains

    Antje B. M. Gerdes;Matthias J. Wieser;Georg W. Alpers

  • Auditory cortex activation is modulated by emotion: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study

    Michael M. Plichta;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Georg W. Alpers;Georg W. Alpers;Wilma Harnisch

  • Facial mimicry and the mirror neuron system: simultaneous acquisition of facial electromyography and functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    Katja U. Likowski;Andreas Mühlberger;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Matthias J. Wieser

  • Not so harmless anymore: How context impacts the perception and electrocortical processing of neutral faces

    Matthias J. Wieser;Antje B.M. Gerdes;Inga Büngel;Katharina A. Schwarz

  • Impact of facial asymmetry in visual perception: a 3-dimensional data analysis.

    Philipp Meyer-Marcotty;Georg W. Alpers;Antje B.M. Gerdes;Angelika Stellzig-Eisenhauer

  • When spiders appear suddenly: spider-phobic patients are distracted by task-irrelevant spiders.

    Antje B.M. Gerdes;Georg W. Alpers;Georg W. Alpers;Paul Pauli

  • Why are you looking like that? How the context influences evaluation and processing of human faces

    Katharina A. Schwarz;Matthias J. Wieser;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Andreas Mühlberger

  • Psychological Placebo and Nocebo Effects on Pain Rely on Expectation and Previous Experience.

    Philipp Reicherts;Antje B.M. Gerdes;Paul Pauli;Matthias J. Wieser

  • Social and emotional relevance in face processing: happy faces of future interaction partners enhance the late positive potential.

    Florian Bublatzky;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Andrew J. White;Martin Riemer

  • Brain Activations to Emotional Pictures are Differentially Associated with Valence and Arousal Ratings

    Antje B. M. Gerdes;Matthias J. Wieser;Andreas Mühlberger;Peter Weyers

  • Persons with Cleft Lip and Palate Are Looked at Differently

    P. Meyer-Marcotty;A.B.M. Gerdes;T. Reuther;A. Stellzig-Eisenhauer

  • Visual face perception of adults with unilateral cleft lip and palate in comparison to controls--an eye-tracking study.

    Philipp Meyer-Marcotty;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Angelika Stellzig-Eisenhauer;Georg W. Alpers

  • Abnormal Affective Responsiveness in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Subtype Differences

    Annette Conzelmann;Ronald F. Mucha;Christian P. Jacob;Peter Weyers

  • Panic disorder with agoraphobia from a behavioral neuroscience perspective: Applying the research principles formulated by the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative

    Alfons O. Hamm;Jan Richter;Christiane A. Pané-Farré;Dorte Westphal

  • Attention and amygdala activity: an fMRI study with spider pictures in spider phobia.

    Georg W. Alpers;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Bernadette Lagarie;Katharina Tabbert

  • Stop looking angry and smile, please: start and stop of the very same facial expression differentially activate threat- and reward-related brain networks

    Andreas Mühlberger;Matthias J. Wieser;Antje B.M. Gerdes;Monika C.M. Frey

  • Read my Face: Automatic Facial Coding versus Psychophysiological Indicators of Emotional Valence and Arousal

    T. Tim A. Höfling;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Ulrich Föhl;Georg W. Alpers

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg W. Alpers
Georg W. Alpers University of Mannheim
Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg
Matthias J. Wieser
Matthias J. Wieser Erasmus University Rotterdam
Andreas Mühlberger
Andreas Mühlberger University of Regensburg
Michael M. Plichta
Michael M. Plichta Goethe University Frankfurt
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Andreas J. Fallgatter University of Tübingen
Christian Jacob
Christian Jacob University of Würzburg
Alfons O. Hamm
Alfons O. Hamm University of Greifswald
Gabriele Uhl
Gabriele Uhl University of Greifswald
Andrew T. Gloster
Andrew T. Gloster University of Lucerne

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