NeuroAttachment – Project Description

NeuroAttachment: Attachment and Neurophysiological Processes in Emotion Perception and Emotion Regulation in Late Adolescence

Within this project, we investigate, using a sample of 21 same-gender friendship dyads (N = 42), the role of attachment representations in the perception of emotions in friendships, the association between attachment representations and asymmetric EEG activity patterns related to emotion regulation, and the importance of attachment representations as a moderator in the relationship between emotional situations and information-processing processes.

To examine the underlying neurophysiological processes, various EEG experiments are conducted.

Project leads: Rainer Leyh, Melanie Kungl, Gottfried Spangler

Diploma students: Anastasia Kretz, Susanne Steidler

Research interns: Elena Dassler, Sebastian Görtler

Student research assistant: Simon Moll

Third-party funding: Köhler Foundation

Publikationen:

Leyh, R., Heinisch, C., Kungl, M. T., & Spangler, G. (2016). Attachment representation moderates the influence of emotional context on information processing. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 10, 278.
Kungl, M. T., Leyh, R., & Spangler, G. (2016). Attachment representations and brain asymmetry during the processing of autobiographical emotional memories in late adolescence. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 10, 644.