Annekathrin Schacht
Affective Neuroscience and Psychophysiology
Georg-Elias-Müller-Institute of Psychology
Research Interests
- Affective and motivational impacts on visual sensory processing
- Emotion-cognition interplay in the processing of written and spoken language
- Face processing, including emotional expressions, attractiveness, and face identity
- Audiovisual integration of social signals in human communication
Education and Employment
| 2016 | Professor, Department of Affective Neuroscience and Psychophysiology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany |
| 2011 | Habilitation in Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HUB), Germany |
| 2010 - 2016 | Junior Research Group Leader, Courant Research Center Text structures, University of Göttingen |
| 2010 | Guest Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 | Visiting Professor, Université de Genève, Switzerland |
| 2009 | Interim Professor of Psychology of Motivation and Emotion, University of Potsdam, Germany |
| 2008 - 2010 | Project leader, “Emotions in Word and Face Processing”, funded by the Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion”, Berlin, Germany |
| 2008 - 2009 | Post-doctoral Researcher/Assistant Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 2008 | PhD (Dr. rer. nat., Psychology), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Selected honours and awards
| 2010 | Early Career Achievement Award (Förderpreis) of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 2010 | Invited Professor, CISA, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2009 | Top Reviewer in 2009 for Biological Psychology |
Selected publications
Rossi V, Vanlessen N, Bayer M, Grass A, Pourtois G, Schacht A (2017). Motivational salience modulates early visual cortex responses across task sets. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, epub ahead of print, doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01093
Bayer M, Rossi V, Vanlessen N, Grass A, Schacht A, Pourtois G (2017). Independent effects of motivation and spatial attention in the human visual cortex. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, epub ahead of print, doi: 10.1093/scan/nsw162
Maruo Y, Schacht A, Sommer W, Masaki H (2016). Impacts of motivational valence on the error-related negativity elicited by full and partial errors. Biological Psychology 114: 108-16
Bayer M, Schacht A (2014). Event-related brain responses to emotional words, pictures and faces? A cross-domain comparison. Frontiers in Psychology 5: 1106
Schacht A (2013). Reviving a forgotten dimension? Potency in affective neuroscience. In: Fontaine J, Scherer KR, Soriano C (Eds.), Components of Emotional Meaning: A Sourcebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 261-70
Rellecke J, Sommer W, Schacht A (2012). Does processing of emotional facial expressions depend on intention? Time-resolved evidence from event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology 90: 23-32
Recio G, Sommer W, Schacht A (2011). Electrophysiological correlates of perceiving and evaluating static and dynamic facial emotional expressions. Brain Research 1376: 66-75
Rellecke J, Palazova M, Sommer W, Schacht A (2011). On the automaticity of emotion processing in words and faces: Event-related brain potentials evidence from a superficial task. Brain and Cognition 77: 23-32
Wilhelm O, Herzmann G, Kunina O, Danthiir V, Schacht A, Sommer W (2010). Individual differences in perceiving and recognizing faces? One element of social cognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 99: 530-48
Schacht A , Sommer W (2009). Emotions in word and face processing: early and late cortical responses. Brain and Cognition 69: 538-550