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Mag. Dr. Daniela Pfabigan

Daniela Pfabigan

Institute for Clinical, Biological
and Differential Psychology
Room Number: O3.2
Liebiggasse 5, 3. Floor (left
wing)
1010 Vienna, Austria
T: +43-1-4277-471 32
F: +43-1-4277-471 93

Post-doctoral scholar -Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, University Vienna

Research Interests

  • Neural correlates of feedback processing
  • Emotional processing and its physiological correlates

Curriculum Vitae 

Degrees-Education:

  • 01/2011 Ph.D., Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria; Title of Thesis: "Decision making and feedback processing investigated with event-related potentials"
  • 02/2007 Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
  • 10/2005 M.Sc., Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria

Career-Work & Research Experience:

  • since Feb 2011- Research Associate University of Vienna, Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit,
  • Research Associate-Eggenburg Institute for Complex Systems, Health, and Neuroscience (EICoN),Eggenburg, Austria (10/2010 – 05/2011 )
  • Research Associate-University of Vienna, Department of Clinical Psychology (08/2009 – 09/2010)
  • Student Assistant-University of Vienna, Brain Research Laboratory, University of Vienna (09/2006 – 08/2009)
  • Clinical Neuropsychologist-Rehabilitation Centre Bad Pirawarth, Austria (12/2006 – 09/2008)
  • Internship Clinical Neuropsychology-Hospital St. Pölten, Austria (01/2006 – 11/2006)

Peer-reviewed publications (selection): 

  • Pfabigan D.M., Alexopoulos J., Bauer H., Lamm C. and Sailer U. (2011). All about the money – external performance monitoring is affected by monetary, but not by socially conveyed feedback cues in more antisocial individuals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 5:100. (PDF) 
  • Pfabigan, D. M., Alexopoulos, J., Bauer, H. and Sailer, U. (2010). Manipulation of feedback expectancy and valence induces negative and positive reward prediction error signals manifest in event-related brain potentials. Psychophysiology, no. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01136.x
  • Pfabigan, D. M., Alexopoulos, J., Kryspin-Exner, I. & Sailer, U. (2010). Effects of antisocial personality traits on event-related potentials during face processing. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 77, 277-278.
  • Schreiner, T., Alexopoulos, J., Pfabigan, D. M. & Sailer, U. (2010). Facial cues affect the feedback negativity to offers in the Ultimatum Game. An EEG investigation. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 77, 337.
  • Alexopoulos, J., Pfabigan, D., Fischmeister, F.P.S. & Bauer, H. (2009). Do we care about the powerless third? Psychophysioloy, 46, S112.

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