Corinna Pehrs

Corinna Pehrs is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab since April 2017. She works with Prof. John-Dylan Haynes and Prof. Thomas Goschke on neurobehavioral mechansims of shielding and shifting of intentions using machine learning algorithms for decoding of fMRI data (TU Dresden - Collaborative Research Center 940: Volition und Cognitive Control).

Corinna obtained her Diploma in Psychology from Humboldt University Berlin and her doctoral training at the Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion” at Freie Universität Berlin under supervision of Prof. Stefan Koelsch and Prof. Lars Kuchinke. She presented naturalistic stimuli (i.e. film clips) in the fMRI scanner to investigate integration processes in the brain of emotional, multimodal information (visual, auditory, contextual). She studied effects on memory processing, empathy, compassion, mentalizing, episodic simulation and emotion using advanced connectivity analyses like dynamic causal modeling. Corinna spent one year at the Psychophysiology Laboratory (lab webpage) under supervision of Prof. James Gross at Stanford University studying emotion regulation. As a Postdoctoral Fellow, she worked in Ken Paller’s Lab at Northwestern University on a project using targeted memory reactivation (with EEG) and potential beneficial effects on psychotherapy (project webpage).

Things Corinna likes: Death Valley, Currywurst and the Cure.

Things Corinna doesn’t like: Brexit, nail files and Nutella on butter.

Publications

Pehrs C, Zaki J, Taruffi L, Kuchinke L, Koelsch S (2018). Hippocampal-temporopolar connectivity contributes to episodic simulation during social cognition. Sci Rep 8(1), 9409. (PDF)

Held-Poschardt D, Sterzer P, Schlagenhauf F, Pehrs C, Wittmann A, Stoy M, Hägele C, Knutson B, Heinz A, Ströhle A. (2018). Reward and loss anticipation in panic disorder: An fMRI study. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 271, 111-117. (PDF)

Pehrs C, Zaki J, Schlochtermeier LH, Jacobs AM, Kuchinke L, Koelsch S (2017). The temporal pole top-down modulates the visual ventral stream during social cognition. Cereb Cortex 27(1), 777-792. (PDF)

Taruffi L, Pehrs C, Skouras S, Koelsch S (2017). Effects of sad and happy music on mind-wandering and the default mode network. Sci Rep 7(1), 14396. (PDF)

LH Schlochtermeier, C Pehrs, JH Bakels, AM Jacobs, H Kappelhoff (2017). Context matters: Anterior and posterior cortical midline responses to sad movie scenes. Brain res 1661, 24-36.

Schlochtermeier LH, Pehrs C, Kappelhoff H, Kuchinke L, Jacobs AM, (2015). Emotion processing in different media types: Realism, complexity, and immersion. JSIN 1, 41-47. (PDF)

Pehrs C (2015). Dissertation: Neural network dynamics during socio-emotional cue-integration. (PDF)

Ehrlich A, Pehrs C, Schubert F, Gallinat J (2015). Alterations of cerebral glutamate in the euthymic state of patients with bipolar disorder. Psychiatry Res 233(2), 73-80. (PDF)

Pehrs C, Samson AC, Gross JJ (2015). The Quartet Theory: Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Comment on Comment on “The Quartet Theory of Human Emotions: An Integrative and Neurofunctional Model” by Koelsch et al. Phys Life Rev 13, 77-9. (PDF)

Manera V, Samson AC, Pehrs C, Lee IA, Gross JJ (2014). The Eyes have it: the role of attention in cognitive reappraisal of social stimuli. Emotion 14(5), 833-9. (PDF)

Pehrs C, Deserno L, Bakels JH, Schlochtermeier LH, Kappelhoff H, Jacobs A, Fritz T, Koelsch S, Kuchinke L (2014). How music alters a kiss: superior temporal gyrus controls fusiform-amygdalar effective connectivity. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 9(11), 1770-8. (PDF)

Schlochtermeier LH, Kuchinke L, Pehrs C, Urton K, Kappelhoff H, Jacobs AM (2013). Emotional picture and word processing: an fMRI study on effects of stimulus complexity. PLoS One, 8(2):e55619. (PDF)

Contact

Phone: +49 (0)30 20936768

E-Mail: corinna.pehrs@bccn-berlin.de

Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience

Philippstr. 13, Haus 6

10115 Berlin