Behavioral and neural effects of practitioner communication on speech perception, treatment expectation, and treatment outcome (A19*)

• Subject Area: Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 422744262

The project will investigate how the perception of the practitioner’s warmth and competence influences an individual’s subsequent perception of speech and pain. By combining a large-scale online investigation to identify relevant stimulus material with two fMRI studies, the project will trace the influence of practitioner communication from the decoding of communication-induced expectations to their influence on subsequent speech processing and pain treatment expectations and outcome (pain perception).

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 289: Treatment Expectation - The impact of expectation on health outcome
• Major Instrumentation: thermal stimulation, fMRI compatible
• Instrumentation Group: 3400 Nervenreizgeräte
• Applicant Institution: Universität Duisburg-Essen
• Project Heads: Dr. Helen Blank; Dr. Katja Wiech