Yannik Stegmann

At #2025SPR, @yannikstegmann.bsky.social’s insightful talk on attentive immobility shared that heightened arousal and increased alpha suppression when anticipating threat avoidance only benefit the motor response but not memory encoding. @therealspr.bsky.social

We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

Together with @mreutter.bsky.social, @leahilde.bsky.social, @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social, @martandreatta.bsky.social, @gamerlab.bsky.social and more colleagues who aren’t on Bluesky (yet)!

Psychometric Considerations in Assessing Fear Generalization as a Predictor of Anxiety The ability to adaptively transfer acquired fear to novel situations is fundamental for survival in ever-changing environments and may contribute to t…

Exciting news! Our latest paper is now published 🎉
We dive into the fear generalization literature to see how individual fear gen profiles are typically quantified, extracted the most commonly used measures, and compared them using simulated and empirical data: doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

Our oscillations consensus paper is finally out as a preprint 🤩 thanks to everyone involved
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer:

The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

📢 New Preprint: Acting upon Threat
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Together with @yannikstegmann.bsky.social & @gamerlab.bsky.social, we used EEG, eye-tracking, and autonomic data to disentangle threat intensity ⚡️ from action possibility 🏃‍♂️ in states of attentive immobility.

The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat Abstract. Adapting behavior to environmental demands is a fundamental aspect of survival. In the face of unfamiliar potential dangers, organisms display a wide range of defensive mechanisms, such as u...

🚨Our latest paper is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social: We show how aversive generalization and contexts interact at electrocortical levels, demonstrating modulations of cues and contexts into different frequencies of the ssVEP. With @gamerlab.bsky.social! Check it out: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

This protocol constitutes a close replication of the work of Miltner et al. (doi.org/10.1038/17126), inspired by the #EEGManyLabs project. We will examine the role of gamma, alpha and other neural oscillations in aversive associative learning across more than 300 participants at 9 different labs.

🎉 Exciting news! Our Stage 1 Registered Report on the Coherence of Gamma-Band EEG Activity as a Basis for Associative Threat Learning has been accepted at Nature Human Behaviour! You can read the uploaded protocol here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠

@yannikstegmann.bsky.social receiving the early career award of the German Society of Psychophysiology and its Application. Very well deserved. Congrats!!! #pug2025

It was a blast! Thanks to all the contributors of the symposium and to everyone who attended!

The #PuG2025 is happening in Würzburg ~this week~ and we cannot wait to see you all in person! 🧠 @pug2025.bsky.social

Today and tomorrow, two early career scholar workshops are taking place ⬇️

📢 We’re seeking a PhD candidate for an exciting project exploring maladaptive fear avoidance in anxiety-related disorders, combining experimental lab tasks and EMA! Apply by 16th May!
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#phd #anxiety #EMA #conditioning

Our article with @gamerlab.bsky.social and @jannateigeler.bsky.social has now been published Open Access 🔓 in Behaviour Research and Therapy🥳
doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

Job announcement for a 65% PhD position for 3 years

🚨 PhD position (65%, 3 years) 🚨
We are currently looking for a PhD candidate within the @rtg2660.bsky.social on the neural mechanisms of approach and avoidance behavior. Please share widely and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/06...

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💡 New preprint! osf.io/preprints/ps...
We conducted a threat generalization task within aversive vs neutral contexts while recording EEG. Next to enhanced pupil response in the aversive vs. neutral contexts, we found that distinct harmonics of the ssVEP frequency index cue vs. context responses 👀🧠

Thank you! I would love to join!

Electrocortical Responses in Anticipation of Avoidable and Inevitable Threats: A Multisite Study When faced with danger, human beings respond with a repertoire of defensive behaviors, including freezing and active avoidance. Previous research has revealed a pattern of physiological responses, cha...

📣 New paper alert! Together with @jannateigeler.bsky.social, Arash Mirifar, @akeil1927.bsky.social, and @gamerlab.bsky.social we looked at correlates of attentive immobility during the anticipation of avoidable vs unavoidable threats in two samples from Germany and the US. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

@yannikstegmann.bsky.social giving a great presentation (🐍👀) on their study using flickering video stimuli to track neural activity during threat detection, showing how anxious contexts alter visuocortical engagement.

@therealspr.bsky.social #2024SPR

Now on stage: @yannikstegmann.bsky.social talking about sustained attention during contextual threat

📣 New Preprint 📣
@yannikstegmann.bsky.social, @gamerlab.bsky.social and I investigated the robustness of the Social Attention Bias 👀
We explored whether humans can suppress directing their attention towards social stimuli when this is associated with an aversive outcome 👉 osf.io/preprints/os...

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library Recent research challenges the idea that defensive states induced by potential and acute threat are mutually exclusive. In this study, we observed enhanced defensive responses to acute threat stimuli....

👀New paper alert: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Robust effects of inherently aversive contexts on psychophysiological correlates of defense behavior! With Judith Paulus, @mwieser.bsky.social and @gamerlab.bsky.social. Out now in @therealspr.bsky.social!

Preprint-alert: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Aversive contexts enhance psychophys responses to conditioned threat cues. A summary of two experiments and some interesting findings! Together with Judith Paulus, @mwieser.bsky.social, and @gamerlab.bsky.social