
Sabrina GadoUniversity of Wuerzburg | JMU · Department of Psychology
Sabrina Gado
Master of Science
About
20
Publications
10,064
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
135
Citations
Introduction
I am a student at the graduate school of life sciences pursuing my PhD in the field of experimental clinical psychology and currently learning a lot about machine learning, neural signal processing, and neurosciences.
Education
October 2018 - February 2022
April 2015 - September 2020
Publications
Publications (20)
Background and objectives:
This multimodal two-phase study investigated the impact of trait social anxiety on exploration, social attention, and autonomic responses in a naturalistic setting. We expected higher avoidance of potentially crowded spaces, reduced visual attention on other people, and heightened physiological arousal in social situatio...
Social attention refers to a perceptual prioritization of social information and a tendency to quickly direct attention towards social stimuli. However, the extent to which social attention follows reflexive mechanisms rather than reflecting top-down control remains elusive. Here we examined the robustness of social orienting when challenged by com...
Adaptive social approach and avoidance behavior is of utmost importance for social functioning and an imbalance in these behavioral tendencies may constitute a risk factor for the etiology and maintenance of mental illness. To investigate these processes in a naturalistic environment with high ecological validity and experimental control, we implem...
Introduction
We investigated brain activation patterns of interacting emotional distractions and cognitive processes in a close-to-naturalistic functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study.
Methods
Eighteen participants engaged in a monitoring-control task, mimicking common air traffic controller requirements. The scenario entailed experien...
A workplace that emphasizes personal learning and task mastery fosters employee development and performance. However, it is yet unclear which specific factors support such a learning goal-oriented workplace. Based on research in the educational domain, we investigated the reciprocal effects of dispositional learning goal orientation, supervisor's a...
Humans’ performance varies due to the mental resources that are available to successfully pursue a task. To monitor users’ current cognitive resources in naturalistic scenarios, it is essential to not only measure demands induced by the task itself but also consider situational and environmental influences. We conducted a multimodal study with 18 p...
Humans’ performance varies due to the mental resources that are available to successfully pursue a task. To monitor users’ current cognitive resources in naturalistic scenarios, it is essential to not only measure demands induced by the task itself but also consider situational and environmental influences. We conducted a multimodal study with 18 p...
We investigated the effects of feedback on users’ performance during a cognitive task with concurrent emotional distraction. Our aim was to provide participants with insights into their current affective and cognitive state by measuring and decoding brain activity. Therefore, a real-time preprocessing, analyzing, and visualization routine was devel...
Motivation and Aim: In the past decade, theoretical models of modular architectures with cold cognitive and hot affective-emotional systems have been progressively revised [1-3]. Nowadays, these mechanisms are suggested to be interwoven [4-5] and even processed in shared underlying neurocircuitry (e.g., [1,3]). Particularly in naturalistic environm...
Motivation and Aim: For neuroergonomic applications, robust decoding of activation patterns indicating current affective or cognitive states is a crucial step to develop adaptive and collaborative human-machine systems leading to increased performance, safety, and user experience [1-6]. So far, most studies attempting to estimate affective and cogn...
The continuous acquisition of new digital competences and the development of situational learning assistance systems will become more important than ever in the coming years, because the world of work is becoming more complex, more informative and all above more data-driven. Jobs are changing due to increasing digitalisation, whereby the use of mod...
Psychologists with their expertise in statistics and regarding human perception and behavior can contribute valuable insights to the development of innovative and useful artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Therefore, we need to raise attention and curiosity for AI and foster the willingness to engage with it among psychology students. This requir...
The COVID-19 pandemic has a strong worldwide impact on not only the health and economic sectors but also the (socio-)psychological functioning of individuals. Since psychological health is an important protective factor to prevent diseases, it is crucial to identify individuals with increased vulnerability during the crisis. 275 adults participated...
Objective and Background: To contain the COVID-19 pandemic, public health actions have changed the everyday life with an inevitable impact on individuals and their social life. Since intact (socio-)psychological functioning and mental health are protective factors contributing to the immune system and preventing diseases, it is crucial to identify...
During COVID-19, there has been a need to gather reliable empirical data on the consequences for behavior and psychological well-being in society as well as to inform and educate individuals comprehensively. The WIBCE online survey tool offers the possibility to (1) inform, reflect, and empower participants to be more self-aware regarding psycholog...
Die COVID-19-Pandemie beeinflusst nicht nur den Gesundheits- und Wirtschaftssektor
sehr, sondern es sind auch Auswirkungen auf soziale und psychologische Faktoren der
Bevölkerung zu beobachten. Die Untersuchung dieser Auswirkungen ist besonders
relevant, da soziale und psychologische Ressourcen wichtige Schutzfaktoren für
Krankheiten darstellen. Da...
The COVID-19 pandemic has a strong worldwide impact on not only the health and economic sector but also the (socio-)psychological functioning of individuals. Since psychological health is an important protective factor to prevent diseases, it is crucial to identify individuals with increased vulnerability during the crisis. 275 adults participated...
Objective and Background: To contain the COVID-19 pandemic, public health actions have changed the everyday life with an inevitable impact on individuals and their social life. Since intact (socio-)psychological functioning and mental health are protective factors contributing to the immune system and preventing of diseases, it is crucial to identi...
During COVID-19, there has been a need to gather reliable empirical data on the consequences for behavior and psychological well-being in society as well as to inform and educate individuals comprehensively. The WIBCE online survey tool offers the possibility to (1) inform, reflect, and empower participants to be more self-aware regarding psycholog...
Driven by constant improvements of machine-learning algorithms, advances in computer power and large amounts of data, artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of many technological innovations shaping most people’s daily life. AI is an interdisciplinary science combining computer science, mathematics, robotics, linguistics, and phil...