Prof. Dr. Janek Lobmaier
Institut für Psychologie
Universität Bern
Alpeneggstrasse 22
CH-3012 Bern

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Telefon: +41 (0)31 631 4024

Achtung! Ich habe das Gebäude (und Büronummer) gewechselt! Neu bin ich an der Alpeneggstrasse 22, im Büro -211.

Büro: -211 (Alpeneggstrasse 22)

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Research interests
I am interested in social aspects of face perception, including eye gaze perception, emotional expression, trustworthiness, and their biological underpinnings. Understanding the cognitive processes involved in social perception has implications for clinical psychology and psychiatry, since for example dysfunction of eye gaze processing is a core symptom of autism and schizophrenia. I use psychophysics and brain imaging techniques (fMRI) to investigate featural and configural facial cues, attention following, and infant cutenes.


Recent Publications

Lobmaier, J.S., Hartmann, M., Volz, A.J. & Mast, F.W. (2012). Emotional expression affects the accuracy of gaze perception. Motivation and Emotion. DOI: 10.1007/s11031-012-9295-4.

Schmid, P.C., Schmid Mast, M. Bombari, D., Mast, F.W., & Lobmaier, J.S. (2011). How Mood States Affect Information Processing During Facial Emotion Recognition: An Eye Tracking Study. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 70 (4), 223-231.

Rimmele. U. & Lobmaier, J.S. (2012). Stress increases the feeling of being looked at. Psychoneuroendocrinology. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.06.013.

Lobmaier, J. S. & Perrett, D. I., (2011). The world smiles at me: self-referential positivity bias when interpreting direction of attention. Cognition and Emotion, 25 (2), 334-341.

Lobmaier, J. S. & Fischer, M. F. (2010). Motivational aspects of recognizing a smile. (Commentary on Niedenthal et al. "The Simulation of Smiles (SIMS) Model: Embodied simulation and the meaning of facial expression). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 452-453.

Lobmaier, J. S., Bolte, J., Mast, F.W., & Dobel, C. (2010). Configural and featural processing in humans with congenital prosopagnosia. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 6, 23-34. DOI 10.2478/v10053-008-0074-4.

Lobmaier, J.S., Mast, F.W. & Hecht, H. (2010). For the mind's eye the world is two-dimensional. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17 (1), 36-40.

Lobmaier, J. S., Sprengelmeyer, R., Wiffen, B., & Perrett, D. I., (2010). Female and male responses to cuteness, age and emotion in infant faces. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31 (1), 16-21.

Sprengelmeyer, R., Perrett, D. I., Cornwell, R. E., Lobmaier, J. S., Sprengelmeyer, A., Aasheim, H., Black, I., Cameron, L., Craw, S., and Young, A. W. (2009). The cutest little baby face: Differences in adults’ sensitivity to cuteness in infant faces. Psychological Science, 20 (2), 149-154.

Schwaninger, A., Lobmaier, J.S., Wallraven, C., & Collishaw, S. (2009). Two Routes to Face Perception: Evidence from Psychophysics and Computational Modeling. Cognitive Science, 33, 1413-1440.

Lobmaier, J. S., Tiddeman, B. T., & Perrett, D. I. (2008). Emotional expression modulates perceived gaze direction. Emotion 8 (4), 573-577.

Lobmaier, J. S., Klaver, P., Loenneker, Th., Martin, E., & Mast F. W. (2008). Featural and configural face processing strategies: Evidence from a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. NeuroReport 19 (3), 287-291.

Lobmaier, J. S., Mast, F. W. (2008). Face Imagery Is Based on Featural Representations. Experimental Psychology 55 (1), 47-53.


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