General Psychology I

Head:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Pierre Sachse

Team:
Dr. Alexandra Hoffmann, BSc, MSc
Mag. Dr. Markus Martini
Dr. Hisaaki Tabuchi
Dr. Stephan Dahm, BSc, MA

Focus

  • Analysis and support of human information processing (everyday/macro-cognition, cognition, motivation and emotion)

Prevention and health considerations

  • Basic research into changes in learning and memory across the lifespan
  • Analysis of factors that enhance or impair learning and memory performance (emotion, motivation, interference, chronobiology)
  • Neuroscientific investigation of learning and memory

A life-course perspective

  • Development of (cognitive and/or physiological) training programmes for both healthy older adults and patients (e.g. with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia), for example in collaboration with the Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI)
  • Research into neurodegenerative diseases in collaboration with the MUI (Department of Neurology) using eye-tracking technologies, and assessment of the efficacy of pharmacological interventions to support social-cognitive and emotional functions

Externally funded projects

  • FWF grant “Measuring the ability to visualise actions” (FWF project P 36142-B, launched in October 2023)
  • TWF grant “Psychophysiological signatures of grief: from self-report to experimental measurability”
  • TWF grant “Multimodal attentional effects in conflict tasks”

Methods

  • Eye tracking
  • EEG
  • fMRI

Selected publications

  • Huber, S. E., Martini, M. & Sachse, P. (2023). Task-synchronous blink modulation requires neither visual stimulation nor active motor response and is modulated by the predictability of the task. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 187, 1–10.
  • Marhenke, R., Acevedo, B., Sachse, P. & Martini, M. (2023). Individual differences in sensory processing sensitivity amplify the effects of post-learning activity, for better or for worse. Scientific Reports, 13:4451.
  • Hoffmann, A., Schellhorn, A.-M., Ritter, M., Sachse, P., Maran, T. (2023). Blink synchronisation increases over time and predicts problem-solving performance in virtual teams. Small Group Research, 1–23.
  • Hacker, W. & Sachse, P. (2023). General Industrial and Organisational Psychology. Psychological Regulation of Work Activities (4th, revised and updated edition). Zurich: vdf Hochschulverlag (textbook).
  • Hoffmann, A., Maran, T., Grünbaum, T., Liegl, S., Lobis, U. & Sachse, P. (2022). A psychophysiological study of grief: There are two sides to the story. Motivation and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09928-3
  • Hoffmann, A., Marhenke, R. & Sachse, P. (in press). Sensory processing sensitivity predicts performance in an emotional antisaccade paradigm. Acta Psychologica. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103463
  • Huber, S., Martini, M. & Sachse, P. (2022). Blinking patterns in humans are modulated by auditory input. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104982
  • Hoffmann, A., Büsel, C., Ritter, M. & Sachse, P. (2021). Do emotional stimuli influence response inhibition? Evidence from the antisaccade paradigm. Cognition and Emotion. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2021.1979475
  • Maran, T., Furtner, M., Liegl, S., Ravet-Brown, T., Haraped, L. & Sachse, P. (2021). Visual attention in real-life conversations: gaze patterns are modulated by communication and group size. Applied Psychology: An International Review, O (O), 1–26. doi: 10.1111/apps.12291
  • Martini, M., Marhenke, R., Martini, C., Rossi, S. & Sachse, P. (2020). Individual differences in working memory capacity moderate the effects of post-learning activity on long-term memory consolidation. Scientific Reports, 10, 1–10. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74760-z
  • Martini, M., Heinz, A., Hinterholzer, J., Martini, C. & Sachse, P. (2020). Effects of wakeful rest versus social media use after learning on the retention of new memories. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 1–8. doi: 10.1002/acp.3641
  • Martini, M. & Sachse, P. (2020). Factors modulating the effects of alertness on memory. Cognitive Processing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-019-00942-x
  • Huber, S. E., Sachse, P., Mauracher, A., Marksteiner, J., Pohl, W., Weiss, E. M. & Canazei, M. (2019). Assessment of fractal characteristics of locomotor activity in geriatric inpatients with Alzheimer’s dementia. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Vol. 11, 1–16. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2019.00272
  • Martini, M., Martini, C. & Sachse, P. (2019). A brief period of post-coding wakeful rest supports verbal memory performance in children aged 10–13 years. Current Psychology. doi:10.1007/s12144-019-0156-0
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