Dr. Katharina Paul
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Research Associate
Differential Psychology and Psychological Assessment
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Academic Education
10/2015 - 09/2019 |
Ph.D. studies, Cognitive & Affective Psychophysiology Laboratory, Ghent University (BE) |
10/2008 - 06/2014 | University Studies Psychology, University of Vienna (AT) |
Academic Appointments
10/2015 - 09/2019 |
Ph.D. studies, Cognitive & Affective Psychophysiology Laboratory, Ghent University (BE) |
03/2018 - 08/2018 |
Lab visit, Social Emotive Neuroscience Lab, University of New South Wales (AU) |
02/2015 - 06/2015 |
Internship, MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University Vienna, AT |
09/2011 - 05/2014 |
Project Assistant, Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, University of Vienna (AT) |
Funding
2019 | Travel Grant for a conference, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) |
2018 | Travel Grant for a long stay abroad, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) (V410718N) |
2015 | Support for a Conference, Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft (ÖFG) (International Communication) |
2015 | Ph.D. fellowship, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) (11U9216N/11U9218N) |
Publications
Paul, K. & Short, C. A. et al. (in press) The Methodology and Dataset of the CoScience EEG-Personality Project - A Large-Scale, Multi-Laboratory Project Grounded in Cooperative Forking Paths Analysis. Personality Science
Harmon-Jones, E., Willoughby, C., Paul, K., & Harmon-Jones, C. (in press). The effect of perceived effort and perceived control on reward valuation: Using the reward positivity to test a dissonance theory prediction. Biological Psychology, 154, 107910. doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107910 (IF: 2.67)
Severo, M. C., Paul, K., Walentowska, W., Moors, A., & Pourtois, G. (in press). Neurophysiological evidence for evaluative feedback processing depending on goal relevance. NeuroImage, 215, 116857. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116857 (IF 5.81)
Paul, K., Vassena, E., Severo, M. C., & Pourtois, G. (in press). Dissociable effects of reward magnitude on fronto‐medial theta and FRN during performance monitoring. Psychophysiology, 57, e13481. doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13481 (IF: 3.46)
Yang, Q., Paul, K., & Pourtois, G. (in press). Defensive motivation increases conflict adaptation through local changes in cognitive control: Evidence from ERPs and mid-frontal theta. Biological Psychology, 148, 107738. doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107738 (IF: 2.67)
Harmon-Jones, E., Clarke, D., Paul, K., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2020). The effect of perceived effort on reward valuation: Taking the Reward Positivity (RewP) to dissonance theory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, 157. doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00157 (IF: 3.21)
Paul, K., Pourtois, G., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2020). Modulatory effects of positive mood and approach motivation on reward processing: Two sides of the same coin?. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 20, 236-249. doi.org/10.3758/s13415-019-00764-6 (IF: 2.21)
Kraus C., Seiger R., Pfabigan D. M., Sladky R., Tik M., Paul K., Woletz M., Gryglewski G., Vanicek T., Komorowski A., Kasper S., Lamm C., Windischberger C., & Lanzenberger R. (2019). Hippocampal subfields in acute and remitted depression – an ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging study. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 22, 513-522. doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyz030 (IF: 3.98).
Gheza, D., Paul, K., & Pourtois, G. (2018). Dissociable effects of reward and expectancy during evaluative feedback processing revealed by topographic ERP mapping analysis. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 132, 213-225. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.11.013 (IF: 2.58)
Walentowska, W., Paul, K., Severo, M. C., Moors, A., & Pourtois, G. (2018). Relevance and uncertainty jointly influence reward anticipation at the level of the SPN ERP component. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 132, 287-297. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.11.005 (IF: 2.58)
Sladky, R., Geissberger, N., Pfabigan D. M., Kraus, C., Tik, M., Woletz, M., Paul, K., Vanicek, T., Auer, B., Kranz, G. S., Lamm, C., Lanzenberger, R., & Windischberger, C. (2018). Unsmoothed functional MRI of the human amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis during processing of emotional faces. NeuroImage, 168, 383-391. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.12.024 (IF: 5.84)
Kraus, C., Klöbl, M., Tik, M., Auer, B., Vanicek, T., Geissberger, N., Pfabigan, D. M., Hahn, A., Woletz, M., Paul, K., Komorowski, A., Kasper, S., Windischberger, C., Lamm, C., & Lanzenberger, R. (2017). The pulvinar nucleus and antidepressant treatment: Dynamic modeling of antidepressant response and remission with ultra-high field functional MRI. Molecular Psychiatry, 24, 746-756. doi.org/10.1038/s41380-017-0009-x (IF: 13.20)
Pourtois, G., Vanlessen, N., Bakic, J., & Paul, K. (2017). Modulatory effects of positive mood on cognition: Lessons from attention and error monitoring. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 495-501. doi.org/10.1177/0963721417709551 (IF: 3.35)
Paul, K., & Pourtois, G. (2017). Mood congruent tuning of reward expectation in positive mood: evidence from FRN and Theta modulations. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 765-774. doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx010 (IF: 3.94)
Paul, K., Walentowska, W., Bakic, J., Dondaine, T., & Pourtois, G. (2017). Modulatory effects of happy mood on performance monitoring: Insights from error-related brain potentials. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 17, 106-123. doi.org/10.3758/s13415-016-0466-8 (IF: 3.26)
Walentowska, W., Moors, A., Paul, K., & Pourtois, G. (2016). Goal relevance influences performance monitoring at the level of the FRN and P3 components. Psychophysiology, 53, 1020-1033. doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12651 (IF: 2.58)
Pfabigan, D. M., Seidel, E. M, Paul, K., Grahl, A., Sailer, U., Lanzenberger, R., Windischberger C., & Lamm, C. (2015). Context-sensitivity of the Feedback-Related Negativity for zero-value feedback outcomes. Biological Psychology, 104, 184-192. doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.12.007 (IF: 3.473)
Seidel, E. M., Pfabigan, D. M., Hahn, A., Sladky R., Grahl, A., Paul, K., Kraus, C., Küblböck, M., Kranz, G. S., Hummer, A., Lanzenberger, R., Windischberger, C., & Lamm, C. (2014). Uncertainty during pain anticipation: The adaptive value of preparatory processes. Human Brain Mapping, 36, 744-755. doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22661 (IF: 6.924)
Pfabigan, D. M., Seidel, E. M., Sladky, R., Hahn, A., Paul, K., Grahl, A., Küblböck, M., Kraus, C., Hummer, A., Kranz, G.S., Windischberger, C., Lanzenberger, R., & Lamm, C. (2014). P300 amplitude variation is related to ventral striatum BOLD response during gain and loss anticipation: An EEG and fMRI experiment. NeuroImage, 96, 12–21. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.03.077 (IF: 6.132)
Awards
2018 | Student Poster Award, Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) |
Research Topics
- Performance Monitoring, Cognitive Control
- Reward Processing
- Motivation & positive Affect