Schacht, Annekathrin, Prof. Dr.

Professor of Affective Neuroscience and Psychophysiology


  • since 2016: Professor of Affective Neuroscience and Psychophysiology, Institute of Psychology, University of Goettingen
  • 10/2010-09/2016: Junior Professor (tenure track), Courant Research Centre ´Text Structures´, University of Goettingen
  • 2011: Habilitation (venia legendi) in Psychology (HU Berlin)
  • 2010: Visiting Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
  • 2010: Invited Junior Professor of Affective Neuroscience, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (CISA), University of Geneva
  • 2009: Visiting Professor of Psychology of Motivation and Emotion (substitution), Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam
  • 2008: Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin)
  • 2004-2008: Research Scientist, Biological Psychology / Psychophysiology (Prof. Dr. Werner Sommer), Institute of Psychology, HU Berlin


Major Research Interests

  • Affective and motivational impacts on visual sensory processing
  • Emotion-cognition interplay in the processing of written and spoken language
  • Audiovisual integration of social signals in human communication


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