Gesche Schauenburg

University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf · Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Neurocognitive studies on the emotion-language relation report a significant influence of affective content on the level of single words. However, it is rather difficult to investigate such influence on the sentence level – partly due to a missing theoretical approach to integrate multiple affective meanings. In a previous EEG study, we used impres...

Older adults exhibit impaired cognitive and balance performance, particularly under multi-task conditions, which can be improved through training. Compatibility of modality mappings in cognitive tasks (i.e., match between stimulus modality and anticipated sensory effects of motor responses), modulates physical and cognitive dual-task costs. However...

The concurrent performance of cognitive and postural tasks is particularly impaired in old adults and associated with an increased risk of falls. Biological aging of the cognitive and postural control system appears to be responsible for increased cognitive-motor interference effects. We examined neural and behavioral markers of motor-cognitive dua...

Cognitive-motor multitasking – individual differences in lateral frontal control Dual-task decrements in concurrent working memory and balance performance have critical outcomes such as falls. Concurrent performance of two cognitive tasks is associated with additional processing demands in the lateral prefrontal cortex (lPFC; D’Esposito et al., 19...

We compared event-related potentials during sentence reading, using impression formation equations of a model of affective coherence, to investigate the role of affective content processing during meaning making. The model of Affect Control Theory (ACT; Heise, 1979, 2007) predicts and quantifies the degree to which social interactions deflect from...

There is evidence for cortical contribution to the regulation of human postural control. Interference from concurrently performed cognitive tasks supports this notion, and the lateral prefrontal cortex (lPFC) has been suggested to play a prominent role in the processing of purely cognitive as well as cognitive-postural dual tasks. The degree of cog...

Age-related decline in executive functions and postural control due to degenerative processes in the central nervous system have been related to increased fall-risk in old age. Many studies have shown cognitive-postural dual-task interference in old adults, but research on the role of specific executive functions in this context has just begun. In...

The concept of habitus refers to socially stratified patterns of perception, 7 classification, and thinking that are supposed to bring about specific lifestyles. Until now, 8 research on the links between stratification and lifestyles has accounted for the habitus 9 mainly in conceptual and theoretical terms, and studies directly measuring habitus...

We present a database of 858 German words from the semantic fields of authority and community, which represent core dimensions of human sociality. Words were selected based on co-occurrence profiles of representative key words for these semantic fields. All words were rated along 5 dimensions, each measured by a bipolar semantic differential scale:...

Significance Humans use affective meanings of concepts as a source of information to automatically align social perceptions and behaviors with prevailing norms. Cohesive societies therefore require broad agreement on such meanings. Past research has yielded paradoxical findings. On the one hand, meanings of social concepts vary within societies, as...

A few months of physical exercise have been shown to increase cognition and to modulate brain functions in previously sedentary, mainly older adults. However, whether the preservation of newly gained cognitive capacities requires an active maintenance of the achieved fitness level during the intervention is not yet known. The aim of the present stu...

A long research tradition has been started on affective connotations of language since Osgood and colleagues provided good evidence of the universality of three affective dimensions – evaluation, potency and activity. Primary cross cultural research has shown that affective meanings depend on the cultural and social background of individuals. In th...