Bianca Wittmann
Prof. Dr.
Justus-Liebig University Giessen
FB 06 Psychology and Sports-Sciences
Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10F
35394 Giessen, Germany
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My research aims to characterize how appetitive and aversive motivational events are processed in the human brain and how they shape cognitive functions such as memory and decision-making. I am especially interested in their interaction with contextual factors.
project-related publications
former project-related publications
Dal Mas, D. & Wittmann, B.C. (2017). Avoiding boredom: Caudate and insula activity reflects boredom-elicited purchase bias. Cortex, 92, 57-69.
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Schomaker , J. & Wittmann , B.C. (2017). Memory Performance for Everyday Motivational and Neutral Objects is Dissociable from Attention. Front. Behav. Neurosci., 11, 121.
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Schomaker, J., & Wittmann, B. C. (2021). Effects of active exploration on novelty-related declarative memory enhancement. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 179, 107403.
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Schomaker, J., Rau, E..M., Einhäuser, W., & Wittmann, B.C. (2017). Motivational Objects in Natural Scenes (MONS): A database of >800 objects. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1669.
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Schomaker, J., Walper, D., Wittmann, B.C., & Einhäuser, W. (2017). Attention in natural scenes: Affective motivational factors guide gaze independently of visual salience. Vision Research, 133, 161-175.
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Wittmann , B. C., & D’Esposito, M. (2015). Levodopa administration modulates striatal processing of punishment-associated itemsin healthy participants. Psychopharmacology, 232(1), 135-144.
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