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Olga Pollatos

Olga Pollatos

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Psychology

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53
Citations
12621
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4763
National Ranking
216

Overview

Olga Pollatos is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, focusing notably on psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment and cognitive processes, human-automation interaction and safety, eating disorders and behaviors, pain management and placebo effects, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and digital mental health interventions.

Pollatos has contributed to multiple papers in various scientific journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Comment on "Zamariola et al. (2018), Interoceptive Accuracy Scores are Problematic: Evidence from Simple Bivariate Correlations"-The empirical data base, the conceptual reasoning and the analysis behind this statement are misconceived and do not support the authors' conclusions" (2020), Biological Psychology
  • "Are interoceptive accuracy scores from the heartbeat counting task problematic? A comment on Zamariola et al. (2018)" (2020), Biological Psychology
  • "The Effects of a 3-Week Heartbeat Perception Training on Interoceptive Abilities" (2022), Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • "From Driver to Supervisor: Comparing Cognitive Load and EEG-Based Attentional Resource Allocation Across Automation Levels" (2023), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
  • "Using bodily postures to reduce anxiety and improve interoception: A comparison between powerful and neutral poses" (2020), PLoS ONE

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • European Journal of Health Psychology
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biological Psychology

In collaboration, Pollatos has frequently co-authored with several researchers, including Dana Schultchen, Sandra A. Mai-Lippold, Felicitas Weineck, Gernot Hauke, and Christine Schillings.

Best Publications

  • Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap

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  • On the embodiment of emotion regulation: interoceptive awareness facilitates reappraisal

    Jürgen Füstös;Klaus Gramann;Klaus Gramann;Beate M. Herbert;Olga Pollatos

  • Reduced perception of bodily signals in anorexia nervosa.

    Olga Pollatos;Anne-Lene Kurz;Jessica Albrecht;Tatjana Schreder

  • On the Relationship Between Interoceptive Awareness and Alexithymia: Is Interoceptive Awareness Related to Emotional Awareness?

    Beate M. Herbert;Cornelia Herbert;Olga Pollatos

  • The Body in the Mind: On the Relationship Between Interoception and Embodiment

    Beate M. Herbert;Olga Pollatos

  • On the relationship between interoceptive awareness, emotional experience, and brain processes.

    Olga Pollatos;Wladimir Kirsch;Rainer Schandry

  • Brain structures mediating cardiovascular arousal and interoceptive awareness

    Olga Pollatos;Rainer Schandry;Dorothee P. Auer;Christian Kaufmann

  • Neural systems connecting interoceptive awareness and feelings.

    Olga Pollatos;Klaus Gramann;Rainer Schandry

  • Accuracy of heartbeat perception is reflected in the amplitude of the heartbeat-evoked brain potential.

    Olga Pollatos;Rainer Schandry

  • Interoception across Modalities: On the Relationship between Cardiac Awareness and the Sensitivity for Gastric Functions

    Beate M. Herbert;Eric R. Muth;Olga Pollatos;Cornelia Herbert

  • Differential effects of anxiety and depression on interoceptive accuracy.

    Olga Pollatos;Eva Traut-Mattausch;Rainer Schandry

  • Brain structures involved in interoceptive awareness and cardioafferent signal processing: A dipole source localization study

    Olga Pollatos;Wladimir Kirsch;Rainer Schandry

  • Interoceptive sensitivity and emotion processing: an EEG study.

    Beate M. Herbert;Olga Pollatos;Rainer Schandry

  • Bidirectional relationship of stress and affect with physical activity and healthy eating

    Dana Schultchen;Julia Reichenberger;Theresa Mittl;Tabea R. M. Weh

  • Attenuated interoceptive sensitivity in overweight and obese individuals

    Beate M. Herbert;Olga Pollatos

  • Heart rate response after emotional picture presentation is modulated by interoceptive awareness.

    Olga Pollatos;Beate M. Herbert;Ellen Matthias;Rainer Schandry

  • Interoceptive awareness mediates the relationship between anxiety and the intensity of unpleasant feelings

    Olga Pollatos;Eva Traut-Mattausch;Heike Schroeder;Rainer Schandry

  • Cardiac awareness and autonomic cardiac reactivity during emotional picture viewing and mental stress.

    Beate M. Herbert;Olga Pollatos;Herta Flor;Paul Enck

  • Improvement of Interoceptive Processes after an 8-Week Body Scan Intervention.

    Dana Fischer;Matthias Messner;Olga Pollatos

  • On the generalised embodiment of pain: how interoceptive sensitivity modulates cutaneous pain perception.

    Olga Pollatos;Jürgen Füstös;Hugo D. Critchley;Hugo D. Critchley

  • Interoceptive awareness, anxiety and cardiovascular reactivity to isometric exercise

    Olga Pollatos;Beate M Herbert;Christian Kaufmann;Dorothee P Auer

  • Impaired central processing of emotional faces in anorexia nervosa.

    Olga Pollatos;Beate M. Herbert;Rainer Schandry;Klaus Gramann

Frequent Co-Authors

Beate M. Herbert
Beate M. Herbert University of Tübingen
Rainer Schandry
Rainer Schandry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Stefan Duschek
Stefan Duschek UMIT Tirol - Private University for Health Sciences and Health Technology
Peter Henningsen
Peter Henningsen Technical University of Munich
Ulrich Voderholzer
Ulrich Voderholzer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Stephan Zipfel
Stephan Zipfel University of Tübingen
Jens Blechert
Jens Blechert University of Salzburg
Daniel Zimprich
Daniel Zimprich University of Ulm
Joshua M. Smyth
Joshua M. Smyth Pennsylvania State University
David Daniel Ebert
David Daniel Ebert Technical University of Munich

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