Tom Schönberg

This study examines how agency and behavioral metrics relate to enjoyment in a VR museum tour, finding no agency effect on enjoyment but a link between gaze engagement and painting liking.

ResXR provides an open-source toolkit for reproducible human behavior studies in Extended Reality, converting immersive experiments into standardized datasets with quality reports.

This study identifies eye movement patterns associated with spatial disorientation during flight simulations, showing that instrument focus reduces visual illusions while HUD engagement mitigates vestibular illusions.

This study examines how different VR modalities affect spatial learning and gaze behavior in humans using eye-tracking and T-maze tasks.

This study investigates how non-reinforced and reinforced preference changes are maintained over time using functional MRI, finding distinct neural connectivity patterns in different brain networks.

This study validates Garmin's stress score against HRV metrics from ECG recordings, finding significant correlations and differences between stress and rest conditions.

This study uses eye-tracking in VR to identify subjective preferences and emotional valence of objects, finding that gaze metrics correlate with preference and valence rankings.

The paper investigates the role of the reward system during natural story comprehension and finds that reward areas are activated and related to sentence predictability.

This study attempts to replicate and extend findings on habit formation in humans using multi-modal MRI, but finds no clear habit formation with training duration and identifies goal-directed neural patterns instead.

The paper develops a Bayesian computational model to predict individual differences in non-reinforced preference changes during Cue-Approach Training.

The paper examines brain volumetric changes in a population before and after the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown, finding increases in amygdala, putamen, and anterior temporal cortices, which diminished over time.

The paper shows that memory for trained items enhances preference for high-value stimuli after non-reinforced cue-approach training, even months later.

This study tests if associating grip effort with snack food items changes preferences, finding no effect across four experiments.

The paper investigates how the brain evaluates complex objects with multiple attributes, finding that ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and perirhinal cortex are involved in configural processing when value depends on the whole object rather than individual attributes.

This study shows that counterconditioning after memory retrieval reduces the reinstatement of appetitive memories in humans.

This study investigates how brain activity patterns relate to long-lasting non-reinforced behavioral change using fMRI and a cue-approach training paradigm.

The study investigates whether the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is critical for non-reinforced preference changes in a cue-approach training task, finding no group-level difference between participants with VMF lesions and healthy controls.

This study identifies neural mechanisms for prospective effort valuation separate from actual effort performance using fMRI in human participants.

The paper shows that low-level visual features influence preferences for different item categories, with varying contributions depending on item type and measurement method.