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Faculty 11 Human and Health Sciences: Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology

Prof. Dr. Louisa Kulke

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Contact: Hochschulring 18, 28359 Bremen, Raum 0440, Cognium

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Website: https://louisa-kulke.weebly.com/

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Since April 2023: Professor in Developmental and Pedagogical Psychology at Bremen University

2020-2023: Junior professor in Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg

2018-2020: Lecturer at the department of Affective Neuroscience and Psychophysiology at Georg-August University Göttingen

2017-2018: Postdoc position at the department of Affective Neuroscience and Psychophysiology at Georg-August University Göttingen

2015-2017: Postdoc position at the department of Developmental Psychology at Georg-August University Göttingen

2012-2015: PhD studies at University College London, London, UK in Developmental Sciences (primary supervisor: Prof Janette Atkinson, formerly the late Dr John Wattam-Bell, secondary supervisor: Dr Jyrki Toumainen), research on the topic “Cortical mechanisms of visual attention in typically developing infants and adults”.

2009 – 2012: B.Sc. in Psychology at Göttingen University, passed with distinction (first class degree with honours), title of thesis: “Identity-based priming, ERPs and individual differences”

Neural mechanisms of cognition and emotion and their development during infancy, childhood and adulthood, amongst others:

June 2022: Kingston Open Research Initiative Award

July 2021: Grant by the Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg e.V. to conduct and eye-tracking study on attention in premature infants in social situations

July 2021: Innovation Fond Teaching to implement Virtual Reality in digital teaching

July 2021: Grant from the Emerging Talents Initiative for a research project on “Development of neural and behavioural mechanisms of attention in social interactions”, investigating differences between digital and face-to-face interactions

February 2021: CResCID Grant on the topic : “Individual differences affecting dynamic emotion authenticity perception” in collaboration with Dr Mircea Zloteanu and Dr Fatima Maria Felisberti (Kingston University London)

May 2020: DFG grant for the project „Overt and covert attention to emotional faces in realistic social situations“

July 2019: Grant from the Diligentia Foundation in cooperation with PD Dr Alexia Gaudeul and Dr Katharina Gangl on „The effect of ethical feedback on moral behaviour among economic actors“

July 2018: Selected as one of the winners of the „Preregistration Challenge“ of the Open Science Framework

November 2017: Leibniz Science Campus Seed Fund (in cooperation with Dr Pooresmaeili and Prof Schacht) on the topic “The impacts of emotional content, reward and effort on overt shifts of visual attention”

November 2016: Leibniz Science Campus Seed Fund (in cooperation with Dr Christian Valuch) on “Developing perceptual expectations: An experimental test of predictive coding theory”

May 2014: Cecily De Monchaux Research Price 2014/2015

Jan. – Oct. 2014: DAAD (German Academix Exchange Service) PhD stipend

April 2013: Cecily De Monchaux Research Price 2012/2013

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  • Pasqualette, L., & Kulke, L. (2023). Do other people's displays of emotion affect our gaze to them? An empirical study. Social Sciences. https://socialsciences.nature.com/posts/do-other-people-s-display-of-emotion-affect-our-gaze-to-them-an-empirical-study.

  • Pasqualette, L., & Kulke, L. (2023). Effects of emotional content on social inhibition of gaze in live social and non-social situations. Scientific Reports. 10.1038/s41598-023-41154-w.

  • Pasqualette, L., Klinger, S., & Kulke, L. (2023). Development and validation of a natural dynamic facial expression stimulus set. Plos one, 18(6), e0287049.

  • Roetner, J.; van Doren, J.; Maschke, J.; Kulke, L.; Pontones, C.; Fasching, P.; Beckmann, M.; Lenz, B.; Kornhuber, J.; Eichler, A. (accepted). Effects of prenatal alcohol exposition on cognitive outcomes in childhood and youth: A longitudinal analysis based on meconium ethyl glucuronide. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience.

  • König, L., Aulbach, M., Blume, C., Kulke, L., Sperlich, L., Venz, L. (2023). Neues vom In-Mind Blog: Was sich für Autor:innen ändert. The Inquisitive Mind.

  • Nebe, S., Reutter, M., Baker, D. H., Bölte, J., Domes, G., Gamer, M., Kulke, L., … Feld, G. (2023). Enhancing Precision in Human Neuroscience. eLife.

  • Kulke, L., Ertugrul, S., Reyentanz, E., & Thomas, V. (2023). Uncomfortable staring? Gaze to other people in social situations is inhibited in both infants and adults. Developmental Science, e13468. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.13468

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Further publications and citations are listed on Google Scholar.

Reviewer activity: publons.com/a/1525420/.

Kulke, L., & Pasqualette, L. (2022). Emotional content automatically affects attention under natural conditions. DGPs Congress. Hildesheim, Germany.

 

Kulke, L., Ertugrul, S., Reyentanz, E., & Thomas, V. (2022). Development of social modulation of attention in live compared to video situations. Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development. Lancaster, UK.

Pasqualette, L. & Kulke, L. (2022). Emotion-driven attention differs between natural and instructed contexts: a combined EEG and eye-tracking study. Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California USA.

Zloteanu, M., Felisberti, F. M., Dr, & Kulke, L. (2022). Individual differences affecting dynamic emotion authenticity perception. Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California USA.

Steffan, A., Zimmer, L., … Kulke, L., Schuwerk, T. (2022). Validation of an open source, web-based, eye-tracking method (WebGazer) for research on cognitive development: Comparison of anticipatory looking behavior in toddlers tested via web-based vs. in-lab eye-tracking. Cognitive Development Society Symposium. Madison, WI.

Pasqualette, L. & Kulke, L. (2021). A combined EEG and eye-tracking study of emotion-driven attention in naturalistic situations. Harvard Women in Psychology Trends in Psychology Summit. Harvard, US.

Kulke, L., Brümmer, L., Pooresmaeili, A., Schacht, A. (2021). If you’re happy, do I know it? Neural mechanisms of overt attention shifts. International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.

Kulke, L. & Hinrichs, M. (2021). Measuring implicit Theory of Mind in live social situations with mobile eye-tracking. International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.

Pasqualette, L. & Kulke, L. (2021). An EEG and eye-tracking study of emotion-driven attention in natural situations. International Conference on Social Neuroscience in Ecologically Valid Conditions. Moscow, Russia [online].

Pasqualette, L. & Kulke, L. (2021). An EEG and eye-tracking study of emotion-driven attention in natural situations. International Conference on Social Neuroscience in Ecologically Valid Conditions. Moscow, Russia [online].

Kulke, L. & Pasqualette, L. (2021). Emotional content only influences eye-movements under natural conditions. 46th Annual Conference Psychology and the Brain. Online.

Kulke, L., Brümmer, L., Pooresmaeili, A., Schacht, A. (2021). Distractors attenuate emotion effects on attention during free viewing. 63rd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. TeaP@home.

Kulke, L. & Valuch, C. (2021). Development and relation of predictive context processing and Theory of Mind. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development. Budapest, Hungary

Kulke, L. & Hinrichs, M. (2020). Monitoring gaze during live interactions – a mobile eye-tracking study investigating Theory of Mind. Online Poster Flash of the DGPs Conference. Vienna, Austria [digitized due to pandemic].

Kulke, L. (2020). Neural mechanisms of fast and flexible attention shifts to emotional faces. Reading Emotions Symposium, Reading, UK (online).

Kulke, L. (2020). If you’re happy, do I know it? Neural mechanisms of overt attention shifts. Posterblitz der DGPA und der DGPs Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie.

Kulke, L., & Schacht, A. (2019). Neural mechanisms of overt attention shifts to emotional faces. Psychologie und Gehirn, Dresden, Germany.

Schacht, A., Hammerschmidt, W., Kulke, L., Kagan, I. (2019). Implicit reward associations impact face processing: Time-resolved evidence from event-related brain potentials and pupil dilations. Psychologie und Gehirn, Dresden, Germany.

Kulke, L., Lepauvre, A. & Schacht, A. (2019). Neural and behavioural trajectories of associative learning. International Society for Research on Emotion, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Kulke, L. (2019). Overt attention to physically and emotionally salient stimuli. Workshop on The Influences of Motivation and Emotion on Visual Processing. Göttingen, Germany.

Kulke, L., & Schacht, A. (2019). Late but not early Event-Related Potentials reflect emotion modulations during overt attention shifts. TEAP, London, UK.

Schacht, A., Hammerschmidt, W., Kulke, L., & Kagan, I. (2019). Implicit reward associations impact face processing: Time-resolved evidence from event-related brain potentials and pupil dilations. TEAP, London, UK.

Kulke, L., & Schacht, A. (2018). Looking at emotional faces: Neural and saccadic mechanisms of attention to salience and emotional content. DGPS Kongress. Frankfurt, Deutschland.

Kulke, L., & Rakoczy, H. (2018). Ein Test impliziter Theory of Mind mit realistischeren Stimuli. DGPS Kongress. Frankfurt, Deutschland.

Göttinger Open Source und Science Initiative der Psychologie, presented by Kulke, L. (2018). Zwei Jahre Göttinger Open Source und Science Initiative der Psychologie – ein Erfahrungsbericht. DGPS Kongress. Frankfurt, Deutschland.

Kulke, L., & Schacht, A. (2018). Early neural mechanisms of overt attention. ESCAN. Leiden, Netherlands.

Kulke, L., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., & Schacht, A. (2018). Combining eye-tracking and EEG to measure attention to salient and emotional stimuli. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. Boston, USA.

Kulke, L., & Schacht, A. (2018). Attention to emotion: a gaze-contingent eye-tracking and EEG study. Interactive Eye-Gaze Symposium. London, UK.

Kulke, L., (2017). Shifting attention to emotional stimuli – a study combining eye-tracking and EEG. DGPs Young Scientist Retreat. Marburg, Germany.

Kulke, L., Rakoczy, H. (2017). How reliable and valid are anticipatory looking measures in theory of mind task? In: Are implicit theory of mind findings robust? Some doubts from converging non-replications. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Austin, Texas, US.

Kulke, L., Rakoczy, H. (2017). Implicit theory of mind over the lifespan: How robust and convergent are different anticipatory looking measures?. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Austin, Texas, US.

Kulke, L., Rakoczy, H. (2017). Implicit Theory of Mind – replicability and validity of anticipatory looking studies. International Convention of Psychological Science. Vienna, Austria.

Kulke, L., Rakoczy, H. (2017). How robust and replicable are implicit Theory of Mind tasks? Criticism and alternative explanations. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development. Budapest, Hungary.

Kulke, L., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2016). Infant brains become more efficient: Neural mechanisms of visual attention in the first year of life. International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Kulke, L. (2016). Can we measure anything non-verbally? A critical discussion of combined eye tracking and EEG.Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Kulke, L., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2015). Differential brain activity in overt and covert attention shifts: Evidence from co-registered eye-tracking and EEG. European Conference on Visual Perception, Liverpool, UK.

Kulke, L., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2015). How efficient is the brain? Attention development in term-born and premature infants. Neurodevelopmental Disorders Seminar, Oxford, UK.

Kulke, L., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2015). Letting go: How the disappearance of a fixation target prompts the brain to shift attention. Vision Sciences Society, St Pete Beach, Florida, US.  

Kulke, L., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2015). Neuronal mechanisms of visual attention: A nonverbal measure combining eye-tracking and EEG. TEAP. Hildesheim, Germany

Kulke, L., Gawryszewsky, M., Wattam-Bell, J., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2014). Combining cognitive measures, eye-tracking and EEG to assess attention development. Minding the gaps: the challenges of interdisciplinary developmental science. Cambridge, UK.

Kulke, L., Wattam-Bell, J., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2014). Development of neural mechanisms for spatial attention. In: Motion Processing in Typical and Atypical Development: symposium in memory of John Wattam-Bell. Perception.

Kulke, L. (2014); Development of neural mechanisms for spatial attention. European Conference on Visual Perception. Belgrade, Serbia.

Kulke, L., Wattam-Bell, J., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2014); Attention Development and Early Learning: Insights From Eye-tracking Measures of Infants’ Fixation Shifts. Interntional Conference on Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany.

Kulke, L., Wattam-Bell, J., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2014); Neuronal mechanisms of normal development of attention in infancy. Neurodevelopmental Disorders Series, Durham, UK.

Kulke, L. (2014). Neuronal mechanisms of development of attention in infancy. UCL Cumberland Lodge Conference, UK.

Kulke, L., Wattam-Bell, J., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2014); Visual attention: Development of behaviour and brain responses. Applied Vision Association Meeting, York, UK.

Kulke, L., Wattam-Bell, J., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2014) Attention Development and Learning: Recent Insights From Eye-tracking and EEG. TEAP. Giessen, Germany.

Kulke, L., Wattam-Bell, J., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2013); Measuring the development of visual attention in infancy: More exact timing due to eye-tracking. CogDev Joint annual conference of the BPS Developmental and Cognitive Sections, Reading, UK.

Kulke, L., Wattam-Bell, J. (2013); Combining event-related potentials and eye-tracking to assess the effect of attention on cortical responses. 36th European Conference on Visual Perception. Bremen, Germany.

Kulke, L., Wattam-Bell, J. (2013); Combining event-related potentials and eye-tracking to assess visual attention. Birmingham Bootcamp. Birmingham, UK.

Kulke, L., Wattam-Bell, J., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2013); Eye-tracking measures of visual attention in infancy. SoP/ CDCN Symposium. London, UK.

Kulke, L. (2013); Attention development in the brain: A frequency-tagging approach. UCL Cumberland Lodge Conference, UK.

Kulke, L., Wattam-Bell, J., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. (2013); Eye-tracking measures of visual attention in infancy. Eye movement research and developmental disorders. Newcastle, UK.

Wattam-Bell J., Chiu M., Kulke L. (2012), Developmental reorganisation of visual motion pathways. i-Perception 3(4) 230.

Kulke, L., & Pasqualette, L. B. B. B. (2022). Learning from VR compared to 2D Videos. doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/JGRUP

 

Pasqualette, L. B. B. B., Rückert, L. L., Schuberth, S., & Kulke, L. (2022). Neural mechanisms of attention to emotional videos in social and non-social settings. osf.io/gxvw7

Kulke, L., Ertuğrul, S., & Reyentanz, E. (2022). Social modulation of attention in children. osf.io/he2kr

Steffan, A., Zimmer, L., Arias-Trejo, N., Bergmann, C., Billing, A., Bohn, M., Kulke, L.… Schuwerk, T. (2021). Validation of an open source, web-based, eye-tracking method (WebGazer) for research on cognitive development: Comparison of anticipatory looking behavior in toddlers tested via web-based vs. in-lab eye-tracking. doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/SMYA4

Ertuğrul, S., Regelein, S., & Kulke, L. (2021). Voluntary disengagement of attention from pictures with emotional and social content. doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MWGEQ

Klinger, S., Pasqualette, L. B. B. B., & Kulke, L. (2021). Differences in perceived emotional genuineness in posed and event-elicited emotional videos. osf.io/cytrs

Kulke, L., Ertuğrul, S., Reyentanz, E., & Thomas, V. (2021). Uncomfortable staring? Social modulation of attention in infants compared to adults. osf.io/837wm

Zloteanu, M., Felisberti, F. M., Dr, & Kulke, L. (2021). Individual differences affecting dynamic emotion authenticity perception. doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/FNTR8

Gaudeul, A., Gangl, K., Kirchkamp, O., & Kulke, L. (2021). How feedback and emotions affect moral behaviour. osf.io/q3bme

Pasqualette, L. B. B. B., Kugler, C. C. M., & Kulke, L. (2021). Overt, covert and natural attention shifts to emotional faces. doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/3QXMF

Kulke, L., Valuch, C., & Langer, T. (2021). Relation between face-to-face and online contacts with and without masks, emotion recognition and mood in adults. osf.io/gepw8*

Kulke, L., Valuch, C., & Langer, T. (2021). Adolescents’ emotion recognition based on the visible eye region before and after government-mandated wearing of masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. osf.io/fa5h2*

Kulke, L. (2020). Natural eye-movements to faces in an attention shift paradigm. osf.io/bvcfz*

Kulke, L., Brümmer, L., Pooresmaeili, A., & Schacht, A. (2020). Disengaging overt attention from emotional faces. osf.io/7ec8y

Kulke, L., Pooresmaeili, A., & Schacht, A. (2019). Effects of visual competition and emotional salience on overt attention shifts. osf.io/324ds*

Kulke, L., Meiners, L., Postin, D., & Schacht, A. (2019). Determining salient regions of pictures with social & emotional content. osf.io/4wrzf

Wessels, M., Valuch, C., Schacht, A., & Kulke, L. (2019). Retrieving incidental memories in Virtual Reality. osf.io/z76sj*

Kulke, L., Postin, D., & Schacht, A. (2019). Neural and attentional patterns of social content and emotional valence processing: An EEG and Eye-Tracking study. osf.io/vxn6g.

Wessels, M., Valuch, C., Schacht, A., & Kulke, L. (2019). Differences in Incidental Memory of Virtual Reality compared to 2D Videos of Emotional Scenes. osf.io/fujpr. *

Kulke, L., Brümmer, L., Pooresmaeili, A., & Schacht, A. (2019). Overt and covert attention shifts to emotional faces – combining EEG, Eye-tracking and a go/no-go paradigm. osf.io/4kscq/.*

Hinrichs, M., & Kulke, L. (2019). Testing anticipatory looking implicit Theory of Mind paradigms under more realistic social circumstances. osf.io/ntj2y *

Johannsen, J., Proft, M., Kulke, L., Rakoczy, H. (2019). A systematic comparison of gaze patterns in true belief, false belief and ignorance situations. osf.io/57qb9/.

Rafiee, Y., Kulke, L., Lausen, A., & Schacht, A. (2019). The influence of ovarian hormones on multisensory emotion recognition. osf.io/u2cem

Kulke, L., Lepauvre, A., & Schacht, A. (2018). Modeling the time-course of associative learning and the effect of visual features. osf.io/xuntq

Kulke, L., & Schacht, A. (2018). Neural mechanisms of overt attention shifts to emotional faces. osf.io/vbk2e*

Kulke, L., Gessler, H., Feyerabend, D. & Schacht, A. (2017). Validation of the iMotions Facial Expression Analysis Software using EMG. osf.io/75j9z/*

Kulke, L., Johannsen, J., Rakoczy, H. (2017). Testing the effect of familiarization trials on implicit Theory of Mind with standardized animated stimuli. osf.io/gfjs5*

Kulke, L., Janßen, L., & Schacht, A. (2017). Validating the Goettingen Faces Database. osf.io/c9mfq*

Kulke, L., Wübker, M., Rakoczy, H. (2017). Where is the chocolate? Testing implicit Theory of Mind with ecologically more valid stimuli. osf.io/hj9kr/*

Kulke, L., Wübker, M., Rakoczy, H. (2017). How non-verbal is implicit Theory of Mind? Adding a verbal narration to anticipatory looking tasks. osf.io/fb8fj/*

Kulke, L. (2017). Cueing vs. Theory of Mind: Removing confounds from anticipatory looking false belief tasks. osf.io/3b8tq/*

Kulke, L. (2017). Are we less social in noisy environments?The effect of noise on implicit Theory of Mind performance.osf.io/ca682/*

Kulke, L. (2017). Testing conditioning as an alternative explanation in implicit Theory of Mind paradigms. osf.io/sy328/*

Kulke, L., Wübker, M., Rakoczy, H. (2016). Is implicit Theory of Mind a robust phenomenon? A test with ecologically more valid stimuli. osf.io/65pv8/*

Kulke, L., Rakoczy, H. (2016). How social is implicit Theory of Mind? Investigating location effects with a true belief control condition. osf.io/d47zk/*

Kulke, L., Rakoczy, H. (2016). Implicit Theory of Mind – myth or mindreading mechanism. osf.io/dxb5n/*

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