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Anna Eiserbeck

Postdoctoral Researcher

Psychology

HU Berlin

   

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Anna Eiserbeck

Anna Eiserbeck

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Anna Eiserbeck is an experimental psychologist interested in visual perception, conscious experience, and social intelligence, particularly in interactions between humans and artificial intelligence.

She joined SCIoI in August 2023 to work as a postdoctoral researcher.

Anna previously conducted doctoral research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, investigating how visual information reaches conscious perception and how social and emotional information influences visual experience.

At SCIoI, Anna worked on Project S3, investigating social intelligence in the context of perception, communication, and interaction between humans and artificial intelligence. Her research combined behavioral and electrophysiological methods.

 


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Eiserbeck, A., Enge, A., Rabovsky, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2024). Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces. Consciousness and Cognition, 117, 103629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2023.103629
Baum, J., Eiserbeck, A., Maier, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2024). The evaluation of presumed deepfakes with different basic emotional expressions depends on valence [Poster]. Psychologie und Gehirn.
Eiserbeck, A., Wudarczyk, O., Kuhlen, A., Hafner, V. V., Haynes, J.-D., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2024). Communicative context enhances emotional word processing with human speakers but not with robots [Poster]. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC27).
Eiserbeck, A., Maier, M., Baum, J., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2023). Deepfake smiles matter less—the psychological and neural impact of presumed AI-generated faces. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 16111. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42802-x

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