Department of Psychiatric Neurophysiology
Soziophysiology Section

Head:	Andreas Altorfer  PD Dr. phil.     031 930 9756
Staff:	Simon Schwab  M.Sc.     031 930 9396
	Christian Mikutta  Dr. med.     031 930 9464

Introduction
The following projects involve methodological procedures developped in our research group. Especially head and eye movement analysis as well as the integrated analysis of psychophysiological variables (HR, HRV, EDA, Respriation, Pulsevolume, EEG, fMRI) are used as indicators to evaluated the impact of perceptual, cognitive, and emotional characteristics of defined situations e.g. verbal interaction, perception tasks, music (melodic progression, rhythmic variations, expectations and violation of expectations, factors of Narmour's implication-realization model). In this context normal volunteers are compared with patients of different diagnostic groups (especially Schizophrenia and Depression).

List of Projects
Eye-head-coordination
Music and emotion
Turn-taking (speaker recognition)
Head-movement Behavior during communication