Erich Schröger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1458433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erich Schröger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erich |
| FAMILY NAME | Schröger |
| SIGNATURE | SCHRÖGER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8321-6629 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Perceived biodiversity
Biodiversity is crucial for human health and well‐being. Perceived biodiversity—people's subjective experience of biodiversity—seems to be particularly relevant for mental well‐being. Using photographs and audio recordings of forests that varied in levels of biodiversity, we conducted two sorting studies to assess how people perceive visual and acoustic diversity and whether their perceptions align with species richness and proxies for forest str…
The more the merrier? Perceived forest biodiversity promotes short‐term mental health and well‐being—A multicentre study
Forests can foster mental health and well‐being. Yet, the contribution of forest biodiversity remains unclear, and experimental research is needed to unravel pathways of biodiversity–health linkages. Here, we assess the role of tree species richness, both actual and perceived, and how stress reduction and attention restoration can serve as potential mediating pathways to achieve positive mental health and well‐being outcomes. We conducted an expe…
Auditory representations for long lasting sounds
The basic features of short sounds, such as frequency and intensity including their temporal dynamics, are integrated in a unitary representation. Knowledge on how our brain processes long lasting sounds is scarce. We review research utilizing the Mismatch Negativity event-related potential and neural oscillatory activity for studying representations for long lasting simple versus complex sounds such as sinusoidal tones versus speech. There is ev…
The auditory brain in action
According to the ideomotor theory, action may serve to produce desired sensory outcomes. Perception has been widely described in terms of sensory predictions arising due to top-down input from higher order cortical areas. Here, we demonstrate that the action intention results in reliable top-down predictions that modulate the auditory brain responses. We bring together several lines of research, including sensory attenuation, active oddball, and …
Word class and word frequency in the MMN looking glass
Attentional Processing of Disgust and Fear and Its Relationship With Contamination-Based Obsessive–Compulsive Symptoms
Disgust has recently been characterized as a low-urgency emotion, particularly compared to fear. The aim of the present study is to clarify whether behavioral inhibition during disgust engagement is characteristic of a low-urgency emotion and thus indicates self-imposed attentional avoidance in comparison to fear. Therefore, 54 healthy participants performed an emotional go/no-go task with disgust- and fear-relevant as well as neutral pictures. F…
Society News
which traces shifts in the division of disciplinary labor on key US "social problems" over the postwar decades.The volume includes chapters on the family (Savina Balasubramanian and
The digitization of the Wundt estate at Leipzig University
Wilhelm M. Wundt (1832-1920) was one of the most important German scholars of the 19th and early 20th centuries and famously founded the first institute for experimental psychology in Leipzig in 1879. Wundt's institute established a teaching and research facility that attracted a large number of students from all over the world and contributed greatly to the development of modern psychology. Until now, the relatively poor indexing and documentati…
Distraction by emotional sounds
Unexpectedly occurring task-irrelevant stimuli have been shown to impair performance. They capture attention away from the main task leaving fewer resources for target processing. However, the actual distraction effect depends on various variables; for example, only target-informative distractors have been shown to cause costs of attentional orienting. Furthermore, recent studies have shown that high arousing emotional distractors, as compared wi…
Sensation of agency and perception of temporal order
Biologische Psychologie
Das Ziel ist im Weg
Biologische Psychologie
Das Ziel ist im Weg
The Primacy of Beauty in Judging the Aesthetics of Objects
The conceptual structure of the aesthetics of objects was investigated. To this end, associative namings for the word "aesthetics" were collected from 311 nonartist German college students in a timed verbal association task. 590 different adjectives were produced, depicting diversification of the concept. The adjective "beautiful" was given by more than 90% of the participants. The adjective "ugly" was the second most frequent naming, used by alm…
Probability Distributions of Minkowski Distances between Discrete Random Variables
Minkowski distances are frequently used to indicate the similarity of two vectors in a n-dimensional space. This paper is about the probability distributions of Minkowski distances (e.g., City-block distances and Euclidean distances) between vectors in spaces spanned by n orthogonal, discrete valued axes. Formulas to compute the distributions of Minkowski distances are developed, critical values for tests of significance are tabled, and a normal …
The digitization of the Wundt estate at Leipzig University
Wilhelm M. Wundt (1832-1920) was one of the most important German scholars of the 19th and early 20th centuries and famously founded the first institute for experimental psychology in Leipzig in 1879. Wundt's institute established a teaching and research facility that attracted a large number of students from all over the world and contributed greatly to the development of modern psychology. Until now, the relatively poor indexing and documentati…
Probability Distributions of Minkowski Distances between Discrete Random Variables
Minkowski distances are frequently used to indicate the similarity of two vectors in a n-dimensional space. This paper is about the probability distributions of Minkowski distances (e.g., City-block distances and Euclidean distances) between vectors in spaces spanned by n orthogonal, discrete valued axes. Formulas to compute the distributions of Minkowski distances are developed, critical values for tests of significance are tabled, and a normal …
The Primacy of Beauty in Judging the Aesthetics of Objects
The conceptual structure of the aesthetics of objects was investigated. To this end, associative namings for the word "aesthetics" were collected from 311 nonartist German college students in a timed verbal association task. 590 different adjectives were produced, depicting diversification of the concept. The adjective "beautiful" was given by more than 90% of the participants. The adjective "ugly" was the second most frequent naming, used by alm…
Das Ziel ist im Weg
Biologische Psychologie
Das Ziel ist im Weg
Biologische Psychologie
Sensation of agency and perception of temporal order
Distraction by emotional sounds
Unexpectedly occurring task-irrelevant stimuli have been shown to impair performance. They capture attention away from the main task leaving fewer resources for target processing. However, the actual distraction effect depends on various variables; for example, only target-informative distractors have been shown to cause costs of attentional orienting. Furthermore, recent studies have shown that high arousing emotional distractors, as compared wi…
The digitization of the Wundt estate at Leipzig University
Wilhelm M. Wundt (1832-1920) was one of the most important German scholars of the 19th and early 20th centuries and famously founded the first institute for experimental psychology in Leipzig in 1879. Wundt's institute established a teaching and research facility that attracted a large number of students from all over the world and contributed greatly to the development of modern psychology. Until now, the relatively poor indexing and documentati…
Word class and word frequency in the MMN looking glass
Attentional Processing of Disgust and Fear and Its Relationship With Contamination-Based Obsessive–Compulsive Symptoms
Disgust has recently been characterized as a low-urgency emotion, particularly compared to fear. The aim of the present study is to clarify whether behavioral inhibition during disgust engagement is characteristic of a low-urgency emotion and thus indicates self-imposed attentional avoidance in comparison to fear. Therefore, 54 healthy participants performed an emotional go/no-go task with disgust- and fear-relevant as well as neutral pictures. F…
Society News
which traces shifts in the division of disciplinary labor on key US "social problems" over the postwar decades.The volume includes chapters on the family (Savina Balasubramanian and
The auditory brain in action
According to the ideomotor theory, action may serve to produce desired sensory outcomes. Perception has been widely described in terms of sensory predictions arising due to top-down input from higher order cortical areas. Here, we demonstrate that the action intention results in reliable top-down predictions that modulate the auditory brain responses. We bring together several lines of research, including sensory attenuation, active oddball, and …
Auditory representations for long lasting sounds
The basic features of short sounds, such as frequency and intensity including their temporal dynamics, are integrated in a unitary representation. Knowledge on how our brain processes long lasting sounds is scarce. We review research utilizing the Mismatch Negativity event-related potential and neural oscillatory activity for studying representations for long lasting simple versus complex sounds such as sinusoidal tones versus speech. There is ev…
The more the merrier? Perceived forest biodiversity promotes short‐term mental health and well‐being—A multicentre study
Forests can foster mental health and well‐being. Yet, the contribution of forest biodiversity remains unclear, and experimental research is needed to unravel pathways of biodiversity–health linkages. Here, we assess the role of tree species richness, both actual and perceived, and how stress reduction and attention restoration can serve as potential mediating pathways to achieve positive mental health and well‐being outcomes. We conducted an expe…
Perceived biodiversity
Biodiversity is crucial for human health and well‐being. Perceived biodiversity—people's subjective experience of biodiversity—seems to be particularly relevant for mental well‐being. Using photographs and audio recordings of forests that varied in levels of biodiversity, we conducted two sorting studies to assess how people perceive visual and acoustic diversity and whether their perceptions align with species richness and proxies for forest str…
Psychology (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Audiology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (2 works) · Alcoholism (2 works)