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As mentioned above, the paradigm of the diploma thesis by David Meyer-Heintze (2011) showed promising results in terms of monitoring the differentiation between contextual and cue conditioning in virtual reality with electroencephalographic recordings. Du
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Hannah Genheimer
Fear and Anxiety in Virtual Reality Investigations of cue and context conditioning in virtual environment
Hannah Genheimer Würzburg, Germany
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Preface This interdisciplinary master thesis combines biological and psychological research. The study was implemented at the University of Würzburg in the Department of Psychology I (Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy). Our department includes research groups focusing on experimental clinical psychology, affective neuroscience, clinical psychophysiology, imitation behavior, eating behavior, cardiopsychology and fMRI, associative learning and virtual reality research. Our research tracks are two-fold: The biopsychological and experimental research addresses basic as well as application-oriented questions. The latter refers mainly to the field of clinical psychology. One focus is directed towards emotional and motivational phenomena such as anxiety, pain, substance abuse, and addiction. Here, we examine the underlying behavioral and psychophysiological mechanisms in healthy and clinical samples using various study designs and me
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