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Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience

A05: Peripersonal space violations and social threat: daily-life psychological and neural mechanisms of environmental risk for reactive aggression

Heike Tost Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Central Institute of Mental Health Negative valence system Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Biological Psychiatry

Peripersonal space, the representation of the space immediately surrounding the body, will be studied as an underlying factor for threat experience.

C02: Aggressive decisions in social conflicts: Neuro-cognitive models for healthy individuals and psychiatric patients with high scores of aggression

Christoph Korn Klaus Mathiak RWTH Aachen Heidelberg University Interaction of negative valence system and cognitive system Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiolog Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Biological Psychiatry

Develop virtual scenarios to assess decision strategies in cartoon-like and naturalistic contexts.