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Hey AI: Can You Trigger Me? A Comparison of Text-to-Speech Synthesis and Human Speech in a Virtual Social Stress Paradigm
Sarah Roßkopf, Leon O.H. Kroczek, Theresa F. Wechsler, Felix Stärz, Matthias Blau, Steven Van De Par, Andreas Mühlberger
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Preliminary Evaluation of the German SPIN and Mini-SPIN for Screening Social Anxiety Disorder in University Students
Background Efficient screening for Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) requires valid and up-to-date instruments. The Social Phobia Inventory …
Teresa Schmidt-Peter, Leon O. H. Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger
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Aurally Impressed, yet Not More Stressed: On the Relationship between Audiovisual Realism, Social Anxiety, and Presence in a Virtual Social Stress Scenario
Binaural auralizations can create spatial hearing impressions that closely resemble real sound sources, enhancing immersion and realism …
Sarah Roßkopf, Andreas Mühlberger, Felix Stärz, Matthias Blau, Steven Van De Par, Leon O. H. Kroczek
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Use of Audio-Visual Interactive Virtual Environments to Avoid the Room Divergence Effect in Office-like Environments
This study examines whether auditory perception in audio-visual interactive virtual environments (IVE) is affected by the subjects' …
Felix Stärz, Steven Van De Par, Sarah Roßkopf, Leon O. H. Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger, Matthias Blau
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The Influence of Persona and Conversational Task on Social Interactions with a LLM-controlled Embodied Conversational Agent
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in conversational tasks. Embodying an LLM as a virtual human …
Leon O.H. Kroczek, Alexander May, Selina Hettenkofer, Andreas Ruider, Bernd Ludwig, Andreas Mühlberger
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Communicative Social Intentions Modulate Emotional Mimicry Responses
ABSTRACT Facial emotional expressions are interactive signals that communicate intentions. Previous research has shown that …
Leon O. H. Kroczek, Silke Frank, Uta Gold, Fridolin Hesse, Selina Hettenkofer, Nadja Peterreins, Lorenz Teutsch, Valerie Theophile, Andreas Mühlberger
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The Effects of Different Variants of Eye-Tracking-Based Feedback of Attentional Processes during Virtual Social Interactions
Introduction Enhanced self-focused attention plays an important role in the maintenance of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). …
Teresa Schmidt-Peter, Theresa F. Wechsler, Leon O. H. Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger
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Impact of Visual Virtual Scene and Localization Task on Auditory Distance Perception in Virtual Reality
Investigating auditory perception and cognition in realistic, controlled environments is made possible by virtual reality (VR). …
Sarah Roßkopf, Andreas Mühlberger, Felix Stärz, Steven Van De Par, Matthias Blau, Leon O.H. Kroczek
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Revisiting the Electrophysiological Correlates of Valence and Expectancy in Reward Processing -- A Multi-Lab Replication
Two event-related brain potential (ERP) components, the frontocentral feedback-related negativity (FRN) and the posterior P300, are key …
Katharina Paul, Douglas J. Angus, Florian Bublatzky, Raoul Wüllhorst, Tanja Endrass, Lisa-Marie Greenwood, Greg Hajcak, Bradley N. Jack, Sebastian P. Korinth, Leon O.H. Kroczek, Boris Lucero, Annakarina Mundorf, Sophie Nolden, Jutta Peterburs, Daniela M. Pfabigan, Antonio Schettino, Mario Carlo Severo, Yee Lee Shing, Gözem Turan, Melle J.W. Van Der Molen, Matthias J. Wieser, Niclas Willscheid, Faisal Mushtaq, Yuri G. Pavlov, Gilles Pourtois
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Comparison of Binaural Auralisations to a Real Loudspeaker in an Audiovisual Virtual Classroom Scenario: Effect of Room Acoustic Simulation, HRTF Dataset, and Head-Mounted Display on Room Acoustic Perception
In this study, auralisations of a real room were compared to the actual acoustics of that room using listening tests. Participants sat …
Felix Stärz, Steven Van De Par, Sarah Roßkopf, Leon O. H. Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger, Matthias Blau
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