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Overview

Matthias Gamer is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas primarily within Psychology and Neuroscience, with a notable focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. Their work frequently addresses Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, and Behavioral Neuroscience subfields.

Their published studies often explore topics related to Neural and Behavioral Psychology, Face Recognition and Perception, as well as Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes. They have also contributed research on Stress Responses and Cortisol, Deception Detection and Forensic Psychology, Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, and broader Mental Health Research topics.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Matthias Gamer include:

  • One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research, 2024, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Enhancing precision in human neuroscience, 2023, eLife
  • Consensus design of a calibration experiment for human fear conditioning, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Social anxiety is associated with heart rate but not gaze behavior in a real social interaction, 2020, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • Stronger reactivity to social gaze in virtual reality compared to a classical laboratory environment, 2020, British Journal of Psychology

Matthias Gamer has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Paul Pauli
  • Tina B. Lonsdorf
  • Katharina Domschke
  • Andreas Reif
  • Miriam A. Schiele

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Psychophysiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • eLife

Best Publications

  • Different amygdala subregions mediate valence-related and attentional effects of oxytocin in humans.

    Matthias Gamer;Bartosz Zurowski;Christian Büchel

  • Amygdala Activation Predicts Gaze toward Fearful Eyes

    Matthias Gamer;Christian Büchel

  • Oxytocin and Reduction of Social Threat Hypersensitivity in Women With Borderline Personality Disorder

    Katja Bertsch;Matthias Gamer;Brigitte Schmidt;Ilinca Schmidinger

  • Oxytocin increases amygdala reactivity to threatening scenes in females

    Alexander Lischke;Alexander Lischke;Matthias Gamer;Christoph Berger;Annette Grossmann

  • Are you looking at me? Measuring the cone of gaze.

    Matthias Gamer;Heiko Hecht

  • Don't Look Back in Anger! Responsiveness to Missed Chances in Successful and Nonsuccessful Aging

    Stefanie Brassen;Matthias Gamer;Jan Peters;Sebastian Gluth

  • Covariations among fMRI, skin conductance, and behavioral data during processing of concealed information.

    Matthias Gamer;Thomas Bauermann;Peter Stoeter;Gerhard Vossel

  • Are irrational reactions to unfairness truly emotionally-driven? Dissociated behavioural and emotional responses in the Ultimatum Game task.

    Claudia Civai;Corrado Corradi-Dell’Acqua;Matthias Gamer;Raffaella I. Rumiati;Raffaella I. Rumiati

  • Psychophysiological and vocal measures in the detection of guilty knowledge.

    Matthias Gamer;Hans-Georg Rill;Gerhard Vossel;Heinz Werner Gödert

  • Diagnostic Features of Emotional Expressions Are Processed Preferentially

    Elisa Scheller;Christian Büchel;Matthias Gamer

  • Registered replication report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008)

    Bruno Verschuere;Ewout H. Meijer;Ariane Jim;Katherine Hoogesteyn

  • Deception detection with behavioral, autonomic, and neural measures: Conceptual and methodological considerations that warrant modesty.

    Ewout H. Meijer;Bruno Verschuere;Matthias Gamer;Harald Merckelbach

  • Anterior Cingulate Activation Is Related to a Positivity Bias and Emotional Stability in Successful Aging

    Stefanie Brassen;Matthias Gamer;Christian Büchel

  • Combining physiological measures in the detection of concealed information

    Matthias Gamer;Bruno Verschuere;Geert Crombez;Gerhard Vossel

  • The neurobiology of dispositional negativity and attentional biases to threat: Implications for understanding anxiety disorders in adults and youth.

    Alexander J Shackman;Melissa D Stockbridge;Rachael M Tillman;Claire M Kaplan

  • Separate amygdala subregions signal surprise and predictiveness during associative fear learning in humans

    Sabrina Boll;Matthias Gamer;Sebastian Gluth;Jürgen Finsterbusch

  • Oxytocin specifically enhances valence-dependent parasympathetic responses.

    Matthias Gamer;Christian Büchel

  • fMRI-activation patterns in the detection of concealed information rely on memory-related effects

    Matthias Gamer;Olga Klimecki;Thomas Bauermann;Peter Stoeter

  • Separating brain processing of pain fromthat of stimulus intensity

    Bruno G. Oertel;Christine Preibisch;Till Martin;Carmen Walter

  • Task relevance and recognition of concealed information have different influences on electrodermal activity and event-related brain potentials.

    Matthias Gamer;Stefan Berti

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Verschuere
Bruno Verschuere University of Amsterdam
Raffael Kalisch
Raffael Kalisch Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Sabine C. Herpertz
Sabine C. Herpertz Heidelberg University
Gershon Ben-Shakhar
Gershon Ben-Shakhar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg
Gregor Domes
Gregor Domes University of Trier
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez Ghent University
Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg
Anke Ehlers
Anke Ehlers University of Oxford

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