About the group
The lab is led by Prof. Sascha Frühholz.
Main research areas
- Voice communication and social voice signals
- Affective Neuroscience and Systems Neuroscience of the limbic system
- Digitalization and AI in Neuroscience
- Biometric and forensic dimensions of human data
- Clinical neuroscience of neurological and psychiatric disorders
- Evolution of music and musical emotions
Research Topics
- Affective Neuroscience: Emotion recognition from voices, music, and faces
- Social Neuroscience: Identify recognition from human signals
- Systems Neuroscience: Structural and functional features of the limbic system
- Forensic Psychology and Neuroscience: Psychopathy, biometrics, eye-witness memory
Projects
- Digital Emotions: How does the brain process natural and AI-generated emotional expressions?
- Human screams and the affective brain
- Deepface: Face recognition by the human brain
Cooperation
- NII Yamagishi Lab at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan
Research methods
- Functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Surface electroencephalography (EEG) and intracranial electrophysiology (iEEG)
- Single-cell spiking and cellular brain stimulation
- Computer-based information decoding and representation (AI / Machine Learning / Neural Networks)
- Visual and auditory psychophysics
- Clinical neuroscience of brain lesions
- Forensic experiments and psychopathological dimensions of crime
