Katharina Keuper
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Joined OCC in 2011
Research Project
Learned symbols for emotional concepts – on the neural basis of emotional word processing and learning
Neuroscientific and behavioral studies investigating emotional word processing reveal selective and prioritized processing of emotional words – learned symbols for emotional concepts (e.g. Kissler et al., 2009). Interestingly, the neural responses to these symbols resemble those to materials that have an innate evolutionary significance (e.g. emotional faces or scenes): In EEG and MEG differential emotional processes are reflected in the modulation of early, mid-latency and late event-related potentials, such as the P1 (e.g. Ortigue et al, 2004), EPN and the LPP (e.g., Junghöfer et al., 2001). However, little is known about the process of hooking up (pseudo)words with an emotional meaning. How does the emotional content influence the learning process on a behavioral level? Which are the neural mechanisms underlying the acquisition of emotional words?
In the project at hand we investigate the neural reflections of emotional word processing and word learning in healthy populations by means of combined neurophysiological methods (EEG/MEG, cTBS). The future goal of this project involves the implementation of word learning as a tool to study functional and dysfunctional learning processes. The latter are discussed as an important factor in the development of emotional disorders like anxiety disorders and depression.
This research is funded by the IZKF (Do3/021/10).
Promotion Committee
Prof. Dr. P. Zwitserlood
PD Dr. C. Dobel
PD Dr. M. Junghöfer
Publications
Keuper, K., Zwanzger, P., Nordt, M., Eden, A., Laeger, I., Zwitserlood, P., Kissler, J., Junghöfer, M., Dobel, C. (acc.). How ‚hate‘ and ‚love‘ differ from ‚sleep‘ – Using combined EEG/MEG data to reveal the sources of early cortical responses to emotional words. Human Brain Mapping
Laeger I, Dobel C, Dannlowski U, Kugel H, Grotegerd D, Kissler, J, Keuper, K, Eden, A, Zwitserlood, P, Zwanzger, P (2012) Amygdala responsiveness to emotional words is modulated by subclinical anxiety and depression. Behavioural brain research 233: 508–516.
Conference Contributions
Keuper, K., Dobel, C., Nordt, M., Eden, A., Zwanzger, P. (2012).
Valence specific effects of right vs. left prefrontal cTBS on late emotion sensitive ERPs.
Poster presented at the Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences (ESCAN), Marseille, France.
Keuper, K., Dobel, C., Nordt, M., Eden, A., Laeger, I., Zwanzger, P. (2012).
Effekte präfrontaler cTBS auf emotionale Wortverarbeitung – elektroenzephalografische Korrelate.
Poster presented at the PhD-Symposium of the Institute for Psychological Psychotherapy (IPP), Münster, Germany.
Eden, A., Schreiber, J., Keuper, K., Zwanzger, P., Laeger, I., Dobel, C. (2012).
Memory Bias and Structural Differences in High vs. Low Trait-Anxious individuals.
Poster presented at the Human Brain Mapping (HBM) Conference, Peking, China.
Dobel, C., Keuper, K., Zwanzger, P. (2012).
Frühe Valenzeffekte der Wortverarbeitung und deren Manipulation durch rTMS – Evidenz durch MEG und EEG. Oral presentation at the 48 th. Conference of the 'Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie', Bielefeld, Germany.
Keuper, K., Beintner, R., Zwanzger, P., Dobel, C. (2011).
Learning Names for Fearful Faces - On the Interaction of Emotion and Learning.
Oral presentation at the European Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ESCOP), San Sebastian, Spain.
Keuper, K. (2011).
Emotionale Wortverarbeitung - eine kombinierte Elektroenzephalogramm (EEG) - Magnetenzephalogramm (MEG) Messung.
Poster presented at the PhD-Symposium of the Institute for Psychological Psychotherapy (IPP), Münster, Germany.
Keuper, K., Nordt, M., Zwanzger, P., Dobel, D. (2011).
Fast Access to "Hate" and "Love": Rapid Neural Responses to Emotional Categories during Word Processing. Poster presented at the International Conference on Neuroscience (ICON), Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Nordt, M., Keuper, K., Zwanzger, P., Dobel, D. (2011).
On the Neural Basis of Emotional Word Processing -A Combined EEG-MEG Study with Individual Head Models. Poster presented at the International Conference on Neuroscience (ICON), Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Laeger, I., Dobel, C., Dannlowski, U., Kugel, H., Kissler, J., Arolt, V., Pantev, C., Grotegerd, D., Keuper, K., Eden, A., Zwitserlood, P., Zwanzger, P. (2011).
Neuronale Korrelate emotionaler Wortverarbeitung im Zusammenhang mit subklinischer Trait-Angst und Depressivität.
Poster presented at the DGPPN, Berlin, Germany.
Dellert, T., Keuper, K., Dobel, C. and Zwanzger, P. (2011).
Differential Effects of Right Versus Left Prefrontal cTBS on Emotional Word Processing - Magnetoencephalographic Correlates.
Poster presented at the 2. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hirnstimulation in der Psychiatrie, Münster, Germany
Keuper, K. (2011).
Fast Knowledge about "Hate" and "Love": Rapid Neural Responses to Emotional Categories during Word Processing.
Poster presented at the 2.IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School, London, UK.
Keuper, K., Zwanzger, P., Junghöfer, M., Kissler, J., Dobel, C. (2010).
Emotional Word Processing – a combined EEG-MEG Study.
Poster presented at the Tagung des Collaborative Research Center 636: Learning, memory, and brain plasticity: Implications for psychopathology, Mannheim, Germany
Keuper, K., Zwitserlood, P., Rodriguez-Fornells, A., Dobel, D. (2010).
Hooking up Novel Words with Abstract and Concrete Meanings – an MEG Study.
Poster presented at the 'Nachwuchstagung Neurovisionen 6', Bochum, Germany.
Keuper, K., Zwitserlood, P., Rodríguez-Fornells, A., & Dobel, C. (2010).
Acquisition of Abstract and Concrete Words from Context – an MEG Study.
Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), Portland, Oregon, USA.
Keuper, K., Zwitserlood, P., Rodríguez-Fornells, A., Elling, L., & Dobel, C. (2010).
Contextual Word Learning – an MEG Study.
Poster presented at the Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), Montreal, Canada.
Keuper, K., Jorschick, A. Zwitserlood, P. (2010).
Einflussfaktoren auf Reaktionszeiten in einem Task-Switching-Experiment zur Sprachproduktion.
Poster presented at the 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Saarbrücken, Germany.
Wolmetz, M., Keuper, K., Desmond, J.E., Rapp, B. (2008).
Speech Perception after Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Receptive Language Regions.
Poster presented at the 38. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SFN), Washington D.C., USA.
Keuper, K., Jorschick, A., & Zwitserlood, P. (2007).
Asymmetry of Switch Costs When Switching Between Speech Production Tasks: Basic Level Picture Naming and Category Identification.
Poster presented at 4. Hopkins Workshop on Language (HOWL), Baltimore, MD, USA.
Keuper, K., Jorschick, A., & Zwitserlood, P. (2006).
Task Switching – Wechselkosten beim Wechsel zwischen Objektbenennung und Kategoriebestimmung.
Oral presentation at the 47. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Mainz, Germany.
CV
| *1984 | Münster, Germany |
| 2004–2010 | Studies in Psychology, University of Münster, Germany |
| 2007–2008 | Studies in Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| 2010 | Beginning of PhD research project at the Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University Hospital Münster |