How variance in observations of respiratory symptoms shapes first-hand experiences (A18*)

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

Project A18 N will investigate how treatment expectations induced by observing treatment benefits or failures in others contribute to symptom perception and treatment responses in human models of interoception and external threats to bodily integrity (i.e., pain). Using a Bayesian perspective, the project will address how the noise (uncertainty) that inherently accompanies our observations of others’ perceptions in a social world shapes first-hand experiences of treatment outcomes.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 289: Treatment Expectation - The impact of expectation on health outcome
• Applicant Institution: Universität Duisburg-Essen
• Project Heads: Dr. Jan Haaker; Dr. Christiane Melzig