Affective pictures are widely used in studies of human emotions. The objects or scenes
shown in affective pictures play a pivotal role in eliciting particular emotions. However …

Despite the fact that chronic diseases usually occur together with a spectrum of possible
comorbidities that may differ strongly between patients, they are classically still viewed as …

Humans are subject to a variety of cognitive biases, such as the framing-effect or the
gambler's fallacy, that lead to decisions unfitting of a purely rational agent. Previous studies …

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the production of a vast amount of COVID-19-
themed brand commercials, in an attempt to exploit the salience of the topic to reach more …

Background Overgeneralization of fear is a pathogenic marker of anxiety and stress-related
disorders and has been linked with perceptual discrimination deficits, reduced fear …

The human brain comprises large-scale networks that flexibly interact to support diverse
cognitive functions and adapt to variability in daily life. The inferior parietal lobe (IPL) is a …

Subjective tinnitus (hereafter tinnitus) is often considered and studied as a perceptual
phenomenon. Accordingly, various abnormalities in the area of cognitive processing have …

Acquired fear responses often generalize from conditioned stimuli (CS) towards perceptually
similar, but harmless generalization stimuli (GS). Knowledge on similarities between CS and …

The last decades have seen a rise in the use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
approaches to modulate brain activity and associated behavior. Concurrently, eye tracking …

The WHO estimated that 430 million people worldwide suffer from moderate-tosevere
hearing loss. This number will increase by 2050 to an estimate of around 700 million people …