Articles published / pre-prints

Pre-print: Mylius, M., Guendelman, S, Iliopoulos, F., Gallese, V., & Kaltwasser, L. (2023) The Impact of Meditation on Body Awareness: Prestimulus Alpha Activity Modulates Response Bias in a Somatosensory Signal Detection Task. Authorea. DOI: 10.22541/au.169445202.28516536/v1

Pre-print: Cabbai, G., Kühnapfel, C., Fingerhut, J., Kaltwasser, L., Prinz, J. J., & Pelowski, M. (2023). Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2dkfx

Pre-print: Weller, P., Recio, G., Kaltwasser, L., Nowparast-Rostami, H., Stuermer, B., & Sommer, W. (2023). Conflicts Between Priming and Explicit Memory: A Question of Fluency? https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2542812/v1

Dietze, P., Olderbak, S., Hildebrandt, A., Kaltwasser, L., & Knowles, E. D. (2022). A Lower-Class Advantage in Face Memory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221125599

Seabra, J., Kaltwasser, L., Mylius, M. & Gallese, V. (2022) Artistic expertise shapes face perception: An alpha frequency and N170 study on portraiture. Neuroimage: Reports, 2(3), 100117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2022.100117

Möller, T. J., Voss, M., & Kaltwasser, L. (2022). An Arduino based heartbeat detection device (ArdMob-ECG) for real-time ECG analysis. https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00513

Kaltwasser, L. (2022). Albert fragt: Lässt sich Solidarität lernen? Das Journal der Einstein Stiftung Berlin. Demokratieforschung Nr. 7.

Möller, T. J., Georgie, Y. K., Schillaci, G., Voss, M., Hafner, V. V., & Kaltwasser, L. (2021). Computational models of the “active self” and its disturbances in schizophrenia. Consciousness and Cognition, 93, 103155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103155  

Pavlov, Y. G., Adamian, N., Appelhoff, S., Arvaneh, M., Benwell, C., Kaltwasser, L., … Mushtaq, F. (2021). #EEGManyLabs: Investigating the Replicability of Influential EEG Experiments. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.03.013

Weiss, S., Grewe, C. M., Olderbak, S., Goecke, B., Kaltwasser, L., & Hildebrandt, A. (2020). Symmetric or not? A holistic approach to the measurement of fluctuating asymmetry from facial photographs. Personality and Individual Differences, 166, 110137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110137

Kaltwasser, L., Rost, N., Ardizzi, M., Calbi, M., Settembrino, L., Fingerhut, J., Pauen, M., & Gallese, V. (2019). Sharing the filmic experience – The physiology of socio-emotional processes in the cinema. PloS one, 14(10), e0223259. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223259

Kaltwasser, L., Mikac, U., Buško, V., & Hildebrandt, A. (2017). No robust association between static markers of testosterone and facets of socio-economic decision making. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 11, 250. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00250

Wilhelm, O., Kaltwasser, L., & Hildebrandt, A. (2017). Will the Real Factors of Prosociality Please Stand Up? A Comment on Böckler, Tusche, and Singer (2016). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 0(0), 1948550617707021. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617707021

Kaltwasser, L., Moore, K., Weinreich, A., & Sommer, W. (2017). The influence of emotion type, social value orientation and processing focus on approach-avoidance tendencies to negative dynamic facial expressions. Motivation and Emotion, 41(4), 532-544. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-017-9624-8

Kaltwasser, L. (2016). Influence of interpersonal abilities on social decisions and their physiological correlates. Dissertation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. https://doi.org/10.18452/17435

Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., Wilhelm, O., & Sommer, W. (2017). On the relationship of emotional abilities and prosocial behavior. Evolution and Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.10.011

Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., Wilhelm, O., & Sommer, W. (2016). Behavioral and neuronal determinants of negative reciprocity in the ultimatum game. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(10), 1608-1617. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw069

Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., Recio, G., Wilhelm, O., & Sommer, W. (2014). Neurocognitive mechanisms of individual differences in face cognition: A replication and extension. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(2), 861-878.  https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-013-0234-y

Kaltwasser, L., Ries, S., Sommer, W., Knight, R. T., & Willems, R. M. (2013). Independence of valence and reward in emotional word processing: electrophysiological evidence. Frontiers in psychology, 4, 168. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00168           

Work in Progress:

Byrnes, C., Mylius, M., Kaltwasser, L. & Gallese, V. (in preparation). Mind your emotion – auditory evoked event-related responses in mindfulness practitioners.

Duncan, C., Kaltwasser, L., & Dziobek, I. (in preparation). A pre-registered meta-analysis on reputation learning in the Trust Game.

Guendelmann, S., Kaltwasser, L., Gallese, V., & Dziobek, I. (in preparation). Rest and Task Heartrate Variability in regulating self and others emotions: behavioral and brain correlates.

Kaltwasser, L. & Hamker, F. (in preparation). Neurobiological models of human agency.

Kaltwasser, L., Palazova, M., Stürmer, B., & Gallese V. (in preparation). Emotional self-referential processing in heart-beat evoked potentials.

Magee, R., Sterzer, P., Kaltwasser, L. (under review). Disturbed Predictions in Minimal and Narrative Selfhood. Consciousness & Cognition.

Mylius, M., Byrnes, C., Kaltwasser, L., & Gallese, V. (in preparation). Mind your body – neural correlates of mindfulness in a somatosensory signal detection task.

Invited Conference Contributions and Talks:

Schlott, C. & Kaltwasser, L. (2023, December 11-13). Fostering Trust, Empathy, and Cooperation in Teamwork: The Impact of Design Thinking. Talk presented at the ISPIM Conference in Salzburg, Austria.

Kaltwasser, L. (2023, November 27th). Altered States of the Self. Biannual DFG SPP Meeting “Active Self”, Fulda, Germany.

Seabra, J., Kaltwasser, L., Mylius, M. & Gallese, V. (2023, August 24-26). Drawing expertise evidenced by alpha power can impact face perception. Poster presented at the Visual Science of Art Conference, Cypress, Greece.

Welp, S., Hildebrandt, A., Magezi, D., Voss, M. & Kaltwasser, L. (2023, April 6). Speaking induced suppression in the Rubber Voice Illusion – A Pilot experimental setup. Poster presented at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany.

Kaltwasser, L., Köster, M., Palazova, M., Stürmer, B., & Gallese, V. (2023, 7-11 March). The self in face identity processing with fast periodic visual stimulation. Poster at the Mind Brain Body Symposium, Charité, Berlin, Germany.

Mylius, M; Kaltwasser, L; Guendelman, S., Iliopoulos, F., & Gallese, V. (2023, 7-11 March). Meditation and Body Awareness: Lower prestimulus alpha activity in meditators modulates response bias in somatosensory signal detection task. Poster at the Mind Brain Body Symposium, Charité, Berlin, Germany.

Kaltwasser, L. (2023, 03 March). Ethical Questions in Neuroscience and AI. Winter School ‘Ethics and Neuroscience’. Talk presented at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany.

Kaltwasser, L. & Voss, M. (2023, March 1st). Functional aspects of the minimal self – the case of Schizophrenia. Biannual DFG SPP Meeting “Active Self”, Fulda, Germany.

Kaltwasser, L. (2022, July 18). Emotional self-referential processing in event-related potentials. Talk at the Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Kaltwasser, L. (2022, July 15). Brainpalace. ISRE Preconference on Affectivism, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Kaltwasser, L. (2022, June 18). Symposium: Cardiac and brain parameters of self & other emotion processing and regulation. Psychologie und Gehirn, Freiburg, Germany.

Kaltwasser, L. & Voss, M. (2022, 19 January). Functional aspects of the minimal self – the case of Schizophrenia. Virtual DFG SPP Meeting.

Kaltwasser, L. (2021, 17 March). Biological and behavioral determinants of interindividual differences in cooperation. Virtual DPPD Postdoc Workshop.

Kaltwasser, L. (2020, 21 April) Collective consciousness. Virtual Meet-up of Curious Minds, State Studio Berlin.

Kaltwasser, L. (2020, 19 February) Ethic Committees. Winter School ‘Ethics and Neuroscience’. Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin.

Kaltwasser, L. (2019, 11 December). Zwischen Genie und Wahnsinn. Wer nicht denken will fliegt raus. Lecture at the University of the Arts, Berlin.

Kaltwasser, L. (2019, 2 December). We feel therefore we are? About emotions and cooperation. Lecture Neurodesign at Hasso-Plattner Institut, Potsdam.

Kaltwasser, L. (2019, 15 November). What Does an Ethics Committee Do? Symposium Doing Good – Scientific Practice under Review, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany.

Kaltwasser, L. (2019, 5 November). Biological and behavioral determinants of individual differences in cooperation. Colloquium of the Institute of Psychology at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.

Kaltwasser, L. (2019, 19 June). Council of Experts on ambulatory physiological assessment of emotion during theatre performance. The Shape of Things to Come. Replica & Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin, Germany

Kaltwasser, L. (2019, 1 February). I feel therefore I am. Talk at the transdisciplinary panel Brains without Organs at Transmediale 2019, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.

Kaltwasser, L. & Limanowski, J. (2018, Nov 8). The role of multisensory active inference in body and self-representation and Functional aspects of the minimal self – the case of schizophrenia. Alumni Talks of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. Introduced by faculty member Felix Blankenburg (FU Berlin).

Kaltwasser, L., Geller, S., Sommer, W., Wilhelm, O., & Hildebrandt, A. (2018, 17-21 July). Organization of symposium Novel methods in the assessment of cooperation behavior and talk On the relationship of endogenous peripheral oxytocin and prosociality in couples and parents at European Congress on Personality Psychology (ECP) in Zadar, Croatia.

Kaltwasser, L., Köster, M., Palazova, M., Stürmer, B., & Gallese, V. (2018, 1-5 July). The self in face identity processing with fast periodic visual stimulation. Poster at CuttingEEG Conference in Paris, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, France.

Kaltwasser, L., Ardizzi, M., Calbi, M., Settembrino, L., Fingerhut, M., Pauen, M., & Gallese, V. (2018, 14-15 June). Sharing the filmic experience – the physiology of socio-emotional processes in the cinema. Talk at symposium Social Experiences of Film at New Europe College in Bucharest, Romania.

Kaltwasser, L., Kurnoth, E., Ouyang, G., Dimigen, O., & Hildebrandt, A. (2017, 23-25 March). Emotion recognition in children with autism disorder and typically developing children. Talk at International Congress of Psychological Science (ICPS), Vienna, Austria.

Kaltwasser, L. (2016, 4-5 November). See my fear and be prosocial. Talk at the State of Emotion Festival in Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany.

Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., Sommer, W., & Wilhelm, O. (2016, 18-22 September). Individual differences in negative reciprocity and neuronal correlates in the ultimatum game. Talk at the 50^th Congress of “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie” (DGPs), Leipzig, Germany.

Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., Sommer, W., & Wilhelm, O. (2015, 27-31 July). Individual differences in negative reciprocity and neuronal correlates in the ultimatum game. Talk at the Conference of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) in London, Ontario, Canada.

Kaltwasser, L. (2015, 11-15 March). Shared Cognition in the Bayesian Brain. Talk at a neurophilosophical workshop on Predictive Coding/Free Energy Account, Venice International University, San Servolo, Italy.

Kaltwasser, L. (2014, 25-27 May). Sentimentalism and free-will. Talk at the work-shop Free-Will: Philosophy Meets Neuroscience at Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., Sommer, W., & Wilhelm, O. (2014, 1-3 April). Individual differences in prosociality and emotion recognition abilities. Talk at the workshop on Biological underpinnings of cognitive abilities in health and diseases at Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China.

Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., Sommer, W., & Wilhelm, O. (2014, 26-28 March). On the Relationship of Emotional Abilities and Prosocial Behavior. Talk and organization of the symposium Psychophysiology and Pathology of Emotion Perception and Production at the Consortium of European Research on Emotion Conference 2014 in Berlin, Germany.

Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., & Sommer, W. (2013, 23-25 September). Emotionsperzeption und prosoziales Verhalten. Talk at the „Arbeitstagung der Fachgruppe Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik“ (DPPD) in Greifswald, Germany.

Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., Sommer, W., & Wilhelm, O. (2013, 3-5 August). On the Relationship of Emotional Abilities and Prosocial Behavior. Talk at the Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) in Berkeley, CA, USA.

Kaltwasser, L., Hildebrandt, A., Recio, G., Wilhelm, O. & Sommer, W. (2012, October 2-5). Brain-Behavior Relationships of Face Cognition. Talk at the workshop Biological Basis of Individual Differences in Human Social Communicative Abilities. Quantitative Experiments, Computational Methods and Modeling (Prof. Dr. Changsong Zhou and Prof. Dr. Werner Sommer), Centre for Nonlinear Studies at the Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.