Harald Thomas Schupp

Affective prime and target picture processing : an ERP analysis of early and late interference effects (2008)

Flaisch, Tobias, Stockburger, Jessica, Schupp, Harald Thomas

Viewing emotionally arousing compared to neutral pictures is associated with differential electrophysiological activity in early ("early posterior negativity", EPN), as well as later time-windows...

In dubio pro defensio : Initial activation of conditioned fear is not cue specific (2008)

Weike, Almut I., Schupp, Harald Thomas, Hamm, Alfons O.

This study explored the time course of conditioned fear response expression. Two neutral male facial expressions served as conditioned stimuli (CS) in a differential trace conditioning that involved...

Visual noise effects on emotion perception : brain potentials and stimulus identification (2008)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Stockburger, Jessica, Schmälzle, Ralf, Bublatzky, Florian, Weike, Almut I., Hamm, Alfons O.

Event-related potential (ERP) studies revealed an early posterior negativity (EPN) for emotionally arousing pictures. Two studies explored how this effect relates to perceptual stimulus...

Explicit attention interferes with selective emotion processing in human extrastriate cortex (2007)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Stockburger, Jessica, Bublatzky, Florian, Junghöfer, Markus, Weike, Almut I., Hamm, Alfons

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Brain imaging and event-related potential studies provide strong evidence that emotional stimuli guide selective attention in visual processing. A reflection of the emotional...

Selective visual attention to emotion (2007)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Stockburger, Jessica, Codispoti, Maurizio, Junghöfer, Markus, Weike, Almut I., Hamm, Alfons

Visual attention can be voluntarily directed toward stimuli and is attracted by stimuli that are emotionally significant. The present study explored the case when both processes coincide and...

Fear acquisition requires awareness in trace but not delay conditioning (2007)

Weike, Almut I., Schupp, Harald Thomas, Hamm, Alfons O.

The present study explored fear acquisition in differential delay versus trace conditioning in regard to the potential role of the acquired contingency awareness. One of two neutral pictures (CS+)...

Stimulus novelty and emotion perception : the near absence of habituation in the visual cortex (2006)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Stockburger, Jessica, Codispoti, Maurizio, Junghöfer, Markus, Weike, Almut I., Hamm, Alfons

In rapid serial visual presentation of pictures, an early event-related brain potential component shows enlarged negativity over occipital regions for emotional pictures compared with neutral...

The categorization of natural scenes : brain attention networks revealed by dense sensor ERPs (2006)

Codispoti, Maurizio, Ferrari, Vera, Junghöfer, Markus, Schupp, Harald Thomas

The present study examined cortical indicators of selective attention underlying categorization based on target features in natural scenes. The primary focus was to determine the neural sources...

Fleeting images : rapid affect discrimination in the visual cortex (2006)

Junghöfer, Markus, Sabatinelli, Dean, Bradley, Margaret M., Schupp, Harald Thomas, Elbert, Thomas R., Lang, Peter J.

Converging electrophysiological and hemodynamic findings indicate sensory processing of emotional pictures is preferred to that of neutral pictures. Whereas neuroimaging studies of emotional picture...

Neuroimaging methods in affective neuroscience : Selected methodological issues (2006)

Junghöfer, Markus, Peyk, Peter, Flaisch, Tobias, Schupp, Harald Thomas

A current goal of affective neuroscience is to reveal the relationship between emotion and dynamic brain activity in specific neural circuits. In humans, noninvasive neuroimaging measures are of...

Emotion and attention : Event-related brain potential studies (2006)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Flaisch, Tobias, Stockburger, Jessica, Junghöfer, Markus

Emotional pictures guide selective visual attention. A series of event-related brain potential (ERP) studies is reviewed demonstrating the consistent and robust modulation of specific ERP components...

Neuroimaging of emotion : empirical effects of proportional global signal scaling in fMRI data analysis (2005)

Junghöfer, Markus, Schupp, Harald Thomas, Stark, Rudolf, Vaitl, Dieter

Global variations of BOLD-fMRI signal are often considered as nuisance effects. This unwanted source of variance is commonly eliminated using proportional global signal scaling (PGSS). However,...

Fear conditioning following unilateral temporal lobectomy : dissociation of conditioned startle potentiation and autonomic learning (2005)

Weike, Almut I., Hamm, Alfons, Schupp, Harald Thomas, Runge, Uwe, Schroeder, Henry W. S., Kessler, Christof

The present study investigated fear-potentiated startle and autonomic learning in brain-lesioned patients in a classical fear-conditioning paradigm. Startle blink and skin conductance responses of 30...

Selectively attending to natural scenes after alcohol consumption : an ERP analysis (2005)

De Cesarei, Andrea, Codispoti, Maurizio, Schupp, Harald Thomas, Stegagno, Luciano

Alcohol effects on cognitive, emotional and behavioral processes have been linked to an impairment of attention. Because attention operates at the level of specific cognitive subsystems, recent...

Gesundheitliche Risiken : Wahrnehmung und Verarbeitung (2005)

Renner, Britta, Schupp, Harald Thomas

Kapitel aus "Enzyklopädie der Psychologie" über gesundheitliche Risiken und ihre Wahrnehmung

The facilitated processing of threatening faces : an ERP analysis (2004)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Öhman, Arne, Junghöfer, Markus, Weike, Almut I., Stockburger, Jessica, Hamm, Alfons

Threatening, friendly, and neutral faces were presented to test the hypothesis of the facilitated perceptual processing of threatening faces. Dense sensor event-related brain potentials were measured...

The selective processing of briefly presented affective pictures : an ERP analysis (2004)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Junghöfer, Markus, Weike, Almut I., Hamm, Alfons

Recent event-related potential (ERP) studies revealed the selective processing of affective pictures. The present study explored whether the same phenomenon can be observed when pictures are...

Brain processes in emotional perception : motivated attention (2004)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Cuthbert, Bruce N., Bradley, Margaret M., Hillman, Charles H., Hamm, Alfons, Lang, Peter J.

Brain potentials and blink reflexes were recorded while participants viewed emotional pictures organised into content categories that varied in motivational significance. Event-related potentials at...

Emotional facilitation of sensory processing in the visual cortex (2003)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Junghöfer, Markus, Weike, Almut I., Hamm, Alfons

A key function of emotion is the preparation for action. However, organization of successful behavioral strategies depends on efficient stimulus encoding. The present study tested the hypothesis that...

Attention and emotion : An ERP analysis of facilitated emotional stimulus processing (2003)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Junghöfer, Markus, Weike, Almut I., Hamm, Alfons

Recent event-related potential studies observed an early posterior negativity (EPN) reflecting facilitated processing of emotional images. The present study explored if the facilitated processing of...

Affective blindsight : intact fear conditioning to a visual cue in a cortically blind patient (2003)

Hamm, Alfons, Weike, Almut I., Schupp, Harald Thomas, Treig, Thomas, Dressel, Alexander, Kessler, Christof

Blindsight refers to remarkable residual visual abilities of patients with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1). Recent studies revealed that such residual abilities do not apply only to...

The effect of neuroleptic medication on prepulse inhibition in schizophrenia patients : current status and future issues (2001)

Hamm, Alfons, Weike, Almut I., Schupp, Harald Thomas

RATIONALE: Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the startle reflex is a powerful tool for investigating sensorimotor gating in both animals and humans. Evidence of impaired PPI in patients with schizophrenia...

Brain potentials in affective picture processing : covariation with autonomic arousal and affective report (2000)

Cuthbert, Bruce N., Schupp, Harald Thomas, Bradley, Margaret M., Birbaumer, Niels, Lang, Peter J.

Emotionally arousing picture stimuli evoked scalp-recorded event-related potentials. A late, slow positive voltage change was observed, which was significantly larger for affective than neutral...

Psychophysiological responses of sport fans (2000)

Hillman, Charles H., Cuthbert, Bruce N., Cauraugh, James, Schupp, Harald Thomas, Bradley, Margaret M., Lang, Peter J.

Investigated psychophysiological differences in identified sport fans within the context of the biphasic theory of emotion (P. J. Long, 1985). Forty participants (aged 18-49 yrs), grouped into three...

Affective picture processing : the late positive potential is modulated by motivational relevance (2000)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Cuthbert, Bruce N., Bradley, Margaret M., Cacioppo, John T., Ito, Tiffany, Lang, Peter J.

Recent studies have shown that the late positive component of the event-related-potential (ERP) is enhanced for emotional pictures, presented in an oddball paradigm, evaluated as distant from an...

Probing affective pictures : attended startle and tone probes (1998)

Cuthbert, Bruce N., Schupp, Harald Thomas, Bradley, Margaret, McManis, Mark, Lang, Peter J.

Reflexive eyeblinks to a startle probe vary with the pleasantness of affective pictures, whereas the corresponding P300 varies with emotional arousal. The impact of attention to the probe on these...

Probe P3 and blinks : two measures of affective startle modulation (1997)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Cuthbert, Bruce N., Bradley, Margaret M., Birbaumer, Niels, Lang, Peter J.

Two concurrent measures of the evoked startle response, the elicited blink reflex and the event-related potential, were measured while individuals viewed pictures that varied in pleasure and arousal....

Positive shifts of event-related potentials : a state of cortical disfacilitation as reflected by the startle reflex probe (1994)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Lutzenberger, Werner, Rau, Harald, Birbaumer, Niels

Cortical positivity as measured by slow event-related potentials is assumed to represent a decreased excitability of cortical networks and suppression of their behavioral-cognitive output. The blink...

Neurophysiological differences between perception and imagery (1994)

Schupp, Harald Thomas, Lutzenberger, Werner, Birbaumer, Niels, Miltner, Wolfgang, Braun, Christoph

The present study was designed to examine brain activity underlying mental imagery is conceptualized as behavior guided by internal representation only, the activity of the prefrontal lobes was...

Slow cortical potential biofeedback and the startle reflex (1994)

Brody, Stuart, Rau, Harald, Köhler, Fabiola, Schupp, Harald Thomas, Lutzenberger, Werner

The negativity of slow cortical potentials (SCP) of the surface EEG is a measure of brain excitability, correlating with motor and cognitive preparation. Self-control of SCP positivity has been shown...

The scalp distribution of the fractal dimension of the EEG and its variation with mental tasks (1992)

Lutzenberger, Werner, Elbert, Thomas, Birbaumer, Niels, Ray, William J., Schupp, Harald Thomas

The insights gained by the concept of deterministic chaos for the EEG is that this seemingly disordered process may be governed by relatively few simple laws which could be determined. One of the...