Gamer Lab Wuerzburg
@gamerlab.bsky.social
Experimental Clinical Psychology section @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social headed by Matthias Gamer. We are interested in Social Neuroscience, Visual Cognition and Forensic Psychology
Great opportunity to join Katja's group @uni-wuerzburg.de 👇
Another great opportunity to join our group!💼🙌 We're looking for an Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) auf Zeit!
October 31, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Great opportunity to join Katja's group @uni-wuerzburg.de 👇
Highly recommended! Great PI, great lab and great environment 👇
🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀
🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling
We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.
📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!
More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt
#CognitiveNeuroscience
🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling
We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.
📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!
More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt
#CognitiveNeuroscience
October 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Highly recommended! Great PI, great lab and great environment 👇
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11 days left to apply!💼⏰ Spread the word 📣
We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
October 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
11 days left to apply!💼⏰ Spread the word 📣
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With an amazing keynote by @michaelgaebler.com #wuertual25 comes to an end. A huge thank you to all participants for sharing your research and perspectives and for contributing to the amazing atmosphere! #tbc
October 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
With an amazing keynote by @michaelgaebler.com #wuertual25 comes to an end. A huge thank you to all participants for sharing your research and perspectives and for contributing to the amazing atmosphere! #tbc
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#wuertual25 just started!
Looking forward to an interesting and inspiring 3 days ahead 🚀
Looking forward to an interesting and inspiring 3 days ahead 🚀
October 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
#wuertual25 just started!
Looking forward to an interesting and inspiring 3 days ahead 🚀
Looking forward to an interesting and inspiring 3 days ahead 🚀
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job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃
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Die Finanzierung der Psychotherapie-Weiterbildung ist noch immer nicht geregelt. 2500 Absolvierende stehen jährlich vor verschlossenen Türen. Die Zukunft der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung ist in Gefahr! Kommt am 24.10.25 um 15 Uhr nach Köln oder Bochum zur Demo, werdet laut für die Finanzierung!
October 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Die Finanzierung der Psychotherapie-Weiterbildung ist noch immer nicht geregelt. 2500 Absolvierende stehen jährlich vor verschlossenen Türen. Die Zukunft der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung ist in Gefahr! Kommt am 24.10.25 um 15 Uhr nach Köln oder Bochum zur Demo, werdet laut für die Finanzierung!
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Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃
#PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
#PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
September 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃
#PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
#PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
Less than one week left to apply 👇 Exciting project, great team, and a stimulating environment!
🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Less than one week left to apply 👇 Exciting project, great team, and a stimulating environment!
Interested in VR research? @martandreatta.bsky.social and me edited a special issue on "Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience" for Behavioural Brain Research. Read the editorial here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience
Technological advances are making the use of virtual reality (VR) easier and more affordable for many research institutions. Such applications allow f…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Interested in VR research? @martandreatta.bsky.social and me edited a special issue on "Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience" for Behavioural Brain Research. Read the editorial here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025
👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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📅 October 21–24, 2025
👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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September 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
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We are very proud of our researchers Beatrice Baragli, Jerome Beetz, Jacqueline Degen, Mona Garvert, Jake Greenfield, and Jens Hör: They have been awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grants worth €1.5 million. Congratulations! @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
We are very proud of our researchers Beatrice Baragli, Jerome Beetz, Jacqueline Degen, Mona Garvert, Jake Greenfield, and Jens Hör: They have been awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grants worth €1.5 million. Congratulations! @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
Very happy that this is out now!
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andreas B. Eder, Matthias Gamer, et al:
Motivational control of habits: A preregistered fMRI study
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Motivational control of habits: A preregistered fMRI study
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
August 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Very happy that this is out now!
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Exciting news! Our latest paper is now published 🎉
We dive into the fear generalization literature to see how individual fear gen profiles are typically quantified, extracted the most commonly used measures, and compared them using simulated and empirical data: doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...
We dive into the fear generalization literature to see how individual fear gen profiles are typically quantified, extracted the most commonly used measures, and compared them using simulated and empirical data: doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...
Psychometric Considerations in Assessing Fear Generalization as a Predictor of Anxiety
The ability to adaptively transfer acquired fear to novel situations is fundamental for survival in ever-changing environments and may contribute to t…
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August 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Exciting news! Our latest paper is now published 🎉
We dive into the fear generalization literature to see how individual fear gen profiles are typically quantified, extracted the most commonly used measures, and compared them using simulated and empirical data: doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...
We dive into the fear generalization literature to see how individual fear gen profiles are typically quantified, extracted the most commonly used measures, and compared them using simulated and empirical data: doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...
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Submit your work until August 15, 2025, and join me!
Join me!
I missed the 1st edition but heard so many good things & I'm happy to attend the 2nd edition of
**Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting 2025**
Focus: research and application of #XR in psychology, neuroscience & medicine - from theoretical foundations to clinical applications
www.wuertual.org
I missed the 1st edition but heard so many good things & I'm happy to attend the 2nd edition of
**Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting 2025**
Focus: research and application of #XR in psychology, neuroscience & medicine - from theoretical foundations to clinical applications
www.wuertual.org
XR-Meeting Würzburg
October 8-10, 2025, Würzburg, Germany #wuertual25
www.wuertual.org
August 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Submit your work until August 15, 2025, and join me!
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Hallo #CPConf2025, Poster 3.7!
Excited to share our fMRI study on #approach-avoidance conflict at this amazing conference.
Avoid something you want, or approach something you fear? 😧😲🙈
Come see how the our brain resolves these motivational dilemmas!🧠👁️💃
Excited to share our fMRI study on #approach-avoidance conflict at this amazing conference.
Avoid something you want, or approach something you fear? 😧😲🙈
Come see how the our brain resolves these motivational dilemmas!🧠👁️💃
July 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Hallo #CPConf2025, Poster 3.7!
Excited to share our fMRI study on #approach-avoidance conflict at this amazing conference.
Avoid something you want, or approach something you fear? 😧😲🙈
Come see how the our brain resolves these motivational dilemmas!🧠👁️💃
Excited to share our fMRI study on #approach-avoidance conflict at this amazing conference.
Avoid something you want, or approach something you fear? 😧😲🙈
Come see how the our brain resolves these motivational dilemmas!🧠👁️💃
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📢 New Preprint: Acting upon Threat
osf.io/r8a5n
Together with @yannikstegmann.bsky.social & @gamerlab.bsky.social, we used EEG, eye-tracking, and autonomic data to disentangle threat intensity ⚡️ from action possibility 🏃♂️ in states of attentive immobility.
osf.io/r8a5n
Together with @yannikstegmann.bsky.social & @gamerlab.bsky.social, we used EEG, eye-tracking, and autonomic data to disentangle threat intensity ⚡️ from action possibility 🏃♂️ in states of attentive immobility.
OSF
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July 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
📢 New Preprint: Acting upon Threat
osf.io/r8a5n
Together with @yannikstegmann.bsky.social & @gamerlab.bsky.social, we used EEG, eye-tracking, and autonomic data to disentangle threat intensity ⚡️ from action possibility 🏃♂️ in states of attentive immobility.
osf.io/r8a5n
Together with @yannikstegmann.bsky.social & @gamerlab.bsky.social, we used EEG, eye-tracking, and autonomic data to disentangle threat intensity ⚡️ from action possibility 🏃♂️ in states of attentive immobility.
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🚨Our latest paper is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social: We show how aversive generalization and contexts interact at electrocortical levels, demonstrating modulations of cues and contexts into different frequencies of the ssVEP. With @gamerlab.bsky.social! Check it out: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat
Abstract. Adapting behavior to environmental demands is a fundamental aspect of survival. In the face of unfamiliar potential dangers, organisms display a wide range of defensive mechanisms, such as u...
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨Our latest paper is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social: We show how aversive generalization and contexts interact at electrocortical levels, demonstrating modulations of cues and contexts into different frequencies of the ssVEP. With @gamerlab.bsky.social! Check it out: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer:
The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
July 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer:
The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Truly proud to receive this award! Huge thanks to my amazing PhD students and colleagues — working with you all is the real reward 😉
We proudly present the first-ever #GSLS Supervisor of the Year Award! 🏆
From 40 nominations, four top PIs were selected:
🥇 Gabriele Büchel
🥈 Alexander Westermann @westermannlab.bsky.social
🥉 Carmen Villmann & Matthias Gamer @gamerlab.bsky.social
Proud to have the best supervisors! @uni-wuerzburg.de
From 40 nominations, four top PIs were selected:
🥇 Gabriele Büchel
🥈 Alexander Westermann @westermannlab.bsky.social
🥉 Carmen Villmann & Matthias Gamer @gamerlab.bsky.social
Proud to have the best supervisors! @uni-wuerzburg.de
July 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Truly proud to receive this award! Huge thanks to my amazing PhD students and colleagues — working with you all is the real reward 😉
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Very glad to share my first published PhD paper
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We provide evidence of the behavioral/cognitive costs of overcoming automatic approach-avoidance responses triggered by affective stimuli.
Huge thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @Andre Pittig
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We provide evidence of the behavioral/cognitive costs of overcoming automatic approach-avoidance responses triggered by affective stimuli.
Huge thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @Andre Pittig
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
This study advances our understanding of how individuals control automatic approach and avoidance tendencies to appetitive and aversive stimuli. Merging behavioral, physiological, and oculomotor resp...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Very glad to share my first published PhD paper
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We provide evidence of the behavioral/cognitive costs of overcoming automatic approach-avoidance responses triggered by affective stimuli.
Huge thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @Andre Pittig
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We provide evidence of the behavioral/cognitive costs of overcoming automatic approach-avoidance responses triggered by affective stimuli.
Huge thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @Andre Pittig
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🎉 Exciting news! Our Stage 1 Registered Report on the Coherence of Gamma-Band EEG Activity as a Basis for Associative Threat Learning has been accepted at Nature Human Behaviour! You can read the uploaded protocol here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠
Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠
July 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🎉 Exciting news! Our Stage 1 Registered Report on the Coherence of Gamma-Band EEG Activity as a Basis for Associative Threat Learning has been accepted at Nature Human Behaviour! You can read the uploaded protocol here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠
Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠
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WOW, what a journey! Finally, our new paper is published in the Journal of Personality Assessment! 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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June 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
WOW, what a journey! Finally, our new paper is published in the Journal of Personality Assessment! 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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@yannikstegmann.bsky.social receiving the early career award of the German Society of Psychophysiology and its Application. Very well deserved. Congrats!!! #pug2025
June 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
@yannikstegmann.bsky.social receiving the early career award of the German Society of Psychophysiology and its Application. Very well deserved. Congrats!!! #pug2025