Cognitive and Affective Biopsychology

About

The working group “Cognitive and Affective Biopsychology”, led by Prof. Dr. Simon Eickhoff and co-led by Dr. Edna Cieslik, Dr. Felix Hoffstaedter, Dr. Robert Langner and Dr. Veronika Müller, aims to understand better how the brain contributes to human behaviour. The group investigates cognitive and socio-affective processes and their associations with brain activity, connectivity and morphology by applying state-of-the-art methodologies such as machine learning and large-scale meta-analyses.

Research Topics

Mental processes of particular interest to the group include attention and cognitive action control as well as emotional perception, experience and regulation. One of the main goals is to investigate how interindividual differences in these processes are reflected in the brain.

Furthermore, the group seeks to elucidate the neural correlates of cognitive and affective alterations in advanced age and conditions such as depression, schizophrenia or Parkinson’s disease.

The group applies a broad spectrum of multimodal neuroimaging methods to study brain–behaviour relationships. Approaches include innovative task-based fMRI studies, voxel-based morphometry as well as large-scale meta-analyses to identify brain regions and behavioural effects associated with particular mental processes. The interregional coupling between individual brain areas is investigated via resting-state functional connectivity analysis and meta-analytic connectivity modelling. The association of functional connectivity patterns with cognition and behaviour across individuals is studied using both correlational and out-of-sample prediction analyses. Additionally, the group is strongly involved in the methodological development of activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis. An emerging focus constitutes the study of determinants for accepting the use of artificial intelligence technologies in diagnostic brain imaging.

Contact

Prof. Dr. Simon Eickhoff

INM-7

Building 14.6y / Room 2042

+49 2461/61-1791

E-Mail
Systems Medicine

Group Members

Prof. Dr. Simon EickhoffBuilding 14.6y / Room 2042+49 2461/61-1791
Dr. Felix HoffstaedterBuilding 15.2 / Room 315+49 2461/61-8009
Dr. rer. medic. Edna CieslikNoneBuilding 14.6y / Room 2037+49 2461/61-96411
Dr. rer. medic. Veronika MüllerNoneBuilding 14.6y / Room 2037+49 2461/61-96411
Dr. phil. Robert LangnerNoneBuilding 14.6y / Room 2045+49 2461/61-8609
Martin GellNoneBuilding 14.6y / Room 3043+49 2461/61-96101
Lennart FrahmNoneBuilding 15.2 / Room 417+49 2461/61-85333
Lya Katarina Paas OliverosNoneBuilding 14.6y / Room 3049+49 2461/61-8609
Marisa HecknerNoneBuilding 14.6y / Room 3050+49 2461/61-96118
Nevena KraljevicPhD studentBuilding 14.6y +49 2461/61-85947
Changyi KuangNoneBuilding 14.6y / Room 2037+49 2461/61-96411
Important Publications

Kraljevic, N., Langner, R., Kuppers, V., Raimondo, F., Patil, K. R., Eickhoff, S. B., & Muller, V. I. (2024, Jun 1). Network and state specificity in connectivity-based predictions of individual behavior. Human Brain Mapping, 45(8), e26753. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26753

Aziz-Safaie, T., Muller, V. I., Langner, R., Eickhoff, S. B., & Cieslik, E. C. (2024, Mar). The effect of task complexity on the neural network for response inhibition: An ALE meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 158, 105544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105544

Paas Oliveros, L. K., Cieslik, E. C., Pieczykolan, A., Plaschke, R. N., Eickhoff, S. B., & Langner, R. (2023, Sep 9). Brain functional characterization of response-code conflict in dual-tasking and its modulation by age. Cerebral Cortex, 33(18), 10155-10180. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad273

Vickery, S., Hopkins, W. D., Sherwood, C. C., Schapiro, S. J., Latzman, R. D., Caspers, S., Gaser, C., Eickhoff, S. B., Dahnke, R., & Hoffstaedter, F. (2020, Nov 23). Chimpanzee brain morphometry utilizing standardized MRI preprocessing and macroanatomical annotations. Elife, 9. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60136

Müller, V. I., Cieslik, E. C., Laird, A. R., Fox, P. T., Radua, J., Mataix-Cols, D., Tench, C. R., Yarkoni, T., Nichols, T. E., Turkeltaub, P. E., Wager, T. D., & Eickhoff, S. B. (2018, Jan). Ten simple rules for neuroimaging meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 84, 151-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.11.012

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