Gamer Lab Wuerzburg
@gamerlab.bsky.social
Experimental Clinical Psychology section @uni-wuerzburg.de headed by Matthias Gamer. We are interested in Social Neuroscience, Visual Cognition and Forensic Psychology
What a great honor and so well deserved! 🎖️🔬 We are extremely proud of this incredible achievement. Prof. Georg Nagel is the 15th Nobel laureate with connections to JMU. From 2004 to 2026 he worked in Würzburg as professor and senior professor.
Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 7d agoBREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
🚨 Paper alert 🚨 New work on attentive immobility and memory 👇
Yannik Stegmann@yannikstegmann.bsky.social · 2w agoNew paper out! We examined EEG and autonomic responses during threat anticipation and asked whether this state of “attentive immobility” influences memory encoding. We found enhanced perceptual processing, but this did not translate into better memory. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📣 Registration is open for the Young Scientist Retreat 2026 in Leipzig (18–20 Nov)! Meet and connect with fellow ECRs, get input on your project, learn about others' research, and much more! Register here: 👉 forms.gle/4u3nFcAz5kF5... @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social
Hey folks! Check out our new preprint!📍 Bridging animal and human research, we dynamically manipulated contextual properties in VR to investigate how elemental and configural representations interact to shape the human defensive system across multiple response domains. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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🚨 New paper from @jannateigeler.bsky.social with @yannikstegmann.bsky.social on freezing responses in humans 👇
Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Janna Teigeler, Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer: Acting upon threat: Electrocortical, autonomic, and oculomotor responses in anticipation of avoidable and inevitable threats doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Very grateful to be able to attend and share my PhD work at the 4th computational psychiatry conference #cpconf #cpconf2026, at Yale University, New Haven. Come to visit 👋 We examined how competing outcomes reshape established approach-avoidance tendencies.
"Die neue geplante Streichung gesetzlicher Regelungen [...] ist kein rein vergütungsrechtlicher Eingriff, sondern gefährdet langfristig die Qualität, Stabilität und Zukunftsfähigkeit der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung in Deutschland." www.dgps.de/aktuelles/de...
Weitere geplante Änderungen im GKV-Beitragssatz Stabilisierungsgesetz gefährden eine evidenzbasierte psychotherapeutische Versorgung, die Ausbildung zukünftiger Psychotherapeut:innen und damit eine zentrale Säule der wissenschaftlichen Psychologie. Angesichts zunehmender psychischer Belastungen in Zeiten multipler Krisen braucht es eine Stärkung psychischer Gesundheit – nicht den Abbau bewährter Versorgungsstrukturen. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) appelliert daher, wissenschaftlich fundierte Psychotherapie langfristig zu sichern und verlässliche Perspektiven für Patientinnen und Patienten, psychotherapeutische Versorgung und die nächste Generation von Psychotherapeutinnen und Psychotherapeuten zu schaffen.
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Jetzt mitzeichnen: Der Todesstoß – CDU/CSU und SPD entziehen Psychotherapiepraxen die Existenzgrundlage
Ein Änderungsantrag soll mit der Streichung der Angemessenheitsprüfung die wirtschaftliche Grundlage psychotherapeutischer Praxen vernichten. Am 10. Juli fällt die Entscheidung.
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More than happy about this award 😊
Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg@bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 4mo agoThree Teaching Awards for Department 1! 🏆🏆🏆 Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Katja Bertsch, Prof. Dr. Matthias Gamer, and Dr. Johanna Popp. Thank you for your outstanding dedication to our students! 🎓🧠✨ @bertsch-lab.bsky.social @gamerlab.bsky.social @johannapopp.bsky.social
Super excited to have this paper finally published! 🎉 Using an immersive VR foraging paradigm, we show that different human defensive states can be distinguished across movement, physiology, and subjective experience, rather than being treated as a single "freezing" response. @gamerlab.bsky.social
Unraveling the behavioral and autonomic dynamics of defensive states in humans in an unconstrained, immersive virtual world
Defensive responses to threats are crucial for mental and physical health. Animal studies highlight different defense modes related to threat proximit…
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Very well deserved!
Andreas Strube@astrube.bsky.social · 4mo agoMany thanks to the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social and all colleagues for awarding me the DGPA Early Career Award 2026 at the fantastic #PuG2026! I am also grateful to the @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social for the support of my scientific work and the great research environment and network.
#PUG2026 continues. Watch out for further work from the Gamer lab 👇
First day of #PUG2026. We are showing a lot of exciting work 👇
Hey #VSS2026 folks 👋 I’ll be presenting our recent work together with @gamerlab.bsky.social and @visualattentionlab.bsky.social today: “Spatial Gradients of Reward and Threat Interact to Guide Human Foraging Patterns.” Come by poster #56.460 ✨ 📍 Where: Pavilion ⏰ When: 2:45–6:45
How much do treatment expectations matter in depression? Our new paper underscores the translational value of experimental placebo models for understanding and predicting real-world expectation effects. Part of our work in @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social Read more: rdcu.be/fiAkd
Acute placebo responsiveness predicts longitudinal expectation effects in antidepressant treatment
Translational Psychiatry - Acute placebo responsiveness predicts longitudinal expectation effects in antidepressant treatment
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New work from the lab 👇 Congrats @yannikstegmann.bsky.social & team!
Yannik Stegmann@yannikstegmann.bsky.social · 5mo agoInterested in fear conditioning and declarative memory? In our newest article we found that higher anxiety sensitivity was associated with increased P300 and LPP amplitudes, but not enhanced memory performance. doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Only a few days left to apply for the Early Career Award! If you would like to apply and are not yet a DGPA member, feel free to reach out.
Gamer Lab Wuerzburg@gamerlab.bsky.social · 6mo agoAre you a DGPA member (or thinking of becoming one 😁) conducting outstanding research in biopsychology, psychophysiology, or neuroscience? Apply now for the 2026 Early Career Award! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
Watch out: New work from us at #EMHFC2026 👇
Ecem Tavacioglu@ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 5mo agoHuge applause to @francescotortora.bsky.social for presenting our study “Gradual Extinction via US Intensity Reduction: a Translational Test of Fear Memory Updating in Humans” at #EMHFC2026 👏 Great teamwork, exciting study and results!
Die Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) e.V. und die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung (DGPA) schreiben einen Förderpreis für Wissenschaftskommunikation (1.500€) aus.
Gleich wird wieder demonstriert: Gegen Honorarkürzungen und Einschränkungen der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung aktionsbuendnis-psychotherapie.info/protest
Demos & Materialien – Aktionsbündnis Psychotherapie | Aktionsbündnis Psychotherapie
Finde Demos in deiner Nähe und lade druckfertige Flyer, Plakate und Social-Media-Grafiken für den Protesttag herunter.
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The team of our “Super-Test-Site Würzburg” consortium (University of Würzburg, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Leibniz-Institute for Länderkunde in Leipzig and the German Aerospace Center) held a meeting at our Earth Observation Research…
Super-Test-Site Würzburg consortium meeting
The team of our “Super-Test-Site Würzburg” consortium (University of Würzburg, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Leibniz-Institute for Länderkunde in Leipzig and the German Aerospace Center) held a meeting at our Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) on the 22nd of April 2026. This meeting focused on finalising our interdisciplinary, methodological digital framework that aims to allow […]
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Brain Products is once again supporting an award for early-career researchers in EEG research. If you are eligible (or know someone who is), check out the details and apply by May 10, 2026! 👇
Are you a DGPA member (or thinking of becoming one 😁) conducting outstanding research in biopsychology, psychophysiology, or neuroscience? Apply now for the 2026 Early Career Award! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
Würzburg, March 25, 2026, 4:30 PM (start: Eichhornstraße): Protest against cuts to psychotherapy fees, highlighting risks to mental health care access.
The compensation for psychotherapeutic services in Germany was cut yesterday. Please support the petition against that 👇 c.org/wc7Vhk7h5L
Diese Kampagne braucht dich jetzt
Monatelange Wartezeiten – und jetzt werden psychotherapeutische Leistungen gekürzt?
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🎤KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT We welcome Prof. Dr. Matthias Gamer from the Department of Psychology at the University of Würzburg 🧠 Explore how the brain responds to threats and defensive behavior on the conference’s final day. 📍 GSLS, University of Würzburg 📅 11 June 2026 @gamerlab.bsky.social
Spannendes Projekt an unserem Lehrstuhl!🙌 Erprobung von KI-gestütztem Therapie-Training in Virtual Reality 🗣️👓 www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei... @sabrinagado.bsky.social @isabelneumann.bsky.social @Daniel Gromer
KI-Patientinnen und -Patienten für die Ausbildung in Psychotherapie
Am Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie entsteht ein virtueller Übungsraum, in dem Studierende therapeutische Gespräche mit einem KI-generierten Gegenüber trainieren können.
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