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

I might be biased, but what an inspiring #VR symposium at #PuG25 🤩
This field still develops so fast 🚀as showcased by the integration of neurophysiology, multi-user settings and clinical application.
Thanks to @martandreatta.bsky.social, @leonkroczek.bsky.social, @michaelgaebler.com and Marius Rubo!

In addition, we provided further evidence for a cardiovascular hyperarousal 🫀↗️ in social anxiety, which was not limited to social situations and not modulated by the pressure to adhere to social norms.

Overall, participants were more likely to look at the CSpos 🎯. Their first saccade was hereby mostly driven towards the social CSpos.

In Experiment 2, we included an attentional competition phase, during which participants were confronted with simultaneous presentations of social and non-social CSpos and CSneg.

It turned out: Participants could adapt their looking behavior and avoided looking towards punished stimuli – social or not 👏.
Nevertheless ☝️, they were still faster in looking towards social stimuli.

We presented social (faces) and non-social (fractals) stimuli serving as CSpos or CSneg. If participants looked at the CSpos, they were rewarded with points 🏆. However, if they looked at the CSneg, they received an aversive electrical stimulation⚡ (Experiment 1) or lost points ❌ (Experiment 2).

On my way home from #emhfc2024 🚄
Huge thanks to the organizers for setting up an inspiring and diverse meeting!
I am very grateful for the opportunity to learn 🤓, to connect with the conditioning community 🤝🏻 and also for receiving one of the poster prizes 🏆 for our VR-study
#research #conference #vr