Matthias Gamer

This paper investigates neural mechanisms of approach-avoidance control using fMRI and behavioral tasks, finding that threat-like responses to conflicting stimuli trigger reward-like behaviors and that VS-rTPJ connectivity predicts conflict resolution.

The paper examines how childhood adversity affects threat learning in healthy adults, finding reduced discrimination between danger and safety signals but not overgeneralization.

The paper shows placebo treatment improves mood and reduces distractibility by fearful faces when attentional resources are available, linked to top-down regulation of aversive inputs.

This study shows that higher gaze-pattern similarity between stimuli correlates with worse future memory, independent of motivation but dependent on perceptual overlap.