Selected Publications
2023
Schultze, J., Hajian, S. A., Mai-Lippold, S., & Pollatos, O. (in press). Enhancing Interoceptive Abilities and Emotional Processing: Effects of HD-tDCS. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience.
Figalová, N., Bieg, H. J., Reiser, J. E., Liu, Y. C., Baumann, M., Chuang, L., & Pollatos, O. (2023). From Driver to Supervisor: Comparing Cognitive Load and EEG-based Attention Allocation across Automation Levels. arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.08477.
Rapp, L., Mai-Lippold, S. A., Georgiou, E., & Pollatos, O. (2023). Elevated EEG heartbeat-evoked potentials in adolescents with more ADHD symptoms. Biological Psychology, 108698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108698
Schillings C, Meissner D, Erb B, Schultchen D, Bendig E, Pollatos O. (2023). A chatbot-based intervention with ELME to improve stress and health-related parameters in a stressed sample: Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial. Front Digit Health, 5:1046202. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1046202
Pollatos, O., Mönkemöller, K., Groppe, K., & Elsner, B. (2023). Interoceptive accuracy is associated with benefits in decision making in children. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1070037
2022
Schnabel, K. & Pollatos, O. (2022). Alexithymia increases effects of ego-depletion. Frontiers psychiatry, Frontiers psychiatry, 13:970244. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.970244
Figalová, N., Chuang, L. L., Pichen, J., Baumann, M., & Pollatos, O. (2022). Ambient light conveying reliability improves drivers’ takeover performance without increasing mental workload. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 6(9), 73. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti6090073
Schillings, C., Karanassios, G., Schulte, N., Schultchen, D., & Pollatos, O. (2022). The Effects of a 3-Week Heartbeat Perception Training on Interoceptive Abilities. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.838055
Riemer, V., Schrader, C., & Pollatos, O. (2022). Prävention von Ballsportunfällen an Schulen mittels eines „serious game “: Konzeptvorstellung und begleitende Evaluation. Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung, 17(3), 291-298. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11553-021-00886-1
2021
Schillings, C., Schultchen, D., & Pollatos, O. (2021). Effects of a single yoga session on cardiac interoceptive accuracy and emotional experience. Brain Sciences, 11(12), 1572. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11121572
Karanassios, G., Schultchen, D., Möhrle, M., Berberich, G., & Pollatos, O. (2021). The effects of a standardized cognitive-behavioural therapy and an additional mindfulness-based training on interoceptive abilities in a depressed cohort. Brain Sciences, 11(10), 1355. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11101355
Kieslinger, K., Wartha, O., Pollatos, O., Steinacker, J. M., & Kobel, S. (2021). Parental Self-Efficacy—A Predictor of Children's Health Behaviors? Its Impact on Children's Physical Activity and Screen Media Use and Potential Interaction Effect Within a Health Promotion Program. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 712796. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712796
Weineck, F., Schultchen, D., Dunker, F., Hauke, G., Lachenmeir, K., Schnebel, A., ... & Pollatos, O. (2021). Discrepancies between explicit feelings of power and implicit Power motives are related to anxiety in women with anorexia nervosa. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 618650. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.618650
Schultchen, D., Schneider, C., Berberich, G., Zaudig, M., Erle, T. M., & Pollatos, O. (2021). On the relationship of interoceptive accuracy and attention: a controlled study with depressed inpatients and a healthy cohort. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 597488. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.597488
Ferentzi, E., Geiger, M., Mai-Lippold, S.A., Köteles, F., Montag, C. & Pollatos, O. (2021). Interaction between sex and cardiac interoceptive accuracy in measures of induced pain. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:577961, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577961
2020
Mai-Lippold, S.A., Dettlinger, C.M., Khalsa, S. S. & Pollatos, O. (2020). A Pilot Study on the Effect of an Energy Drink on Interoception in High vs. Low Anxiety Sensitivity Individuals. European Journal of Health Psychology, 27(4), 171–187. https://doi.org/10.1027/2512-8442/a000061
Ainley, V., Tsakiris, M., Pollatos, O., Schulz, A., & Herbert, B. M. (2020). Comment on "Zamariola et al. (2018), Interoceptive Accuracy Scores are Problematic: Evidence from Simple Bivariate Correlations" - The empirical data base, the conceptual reasoning and the analysis behind this statement are misconceived and do not support the authors' conclusions. Biological Psychology, 152, 107870. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107870
Erle, T. M., Mitschke, V., & Schultchen, D. (2020). Did my heart just leap or sink? The role of personality for the relation between cardiac interoception and well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 110493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110493
Küchler, A.-M., Schultchen, D., Pollatos, O., Moshagen, M., Ebert, D. D., & Baumeister, H. (2020). Studicare mindfulness-study protocol of a randomized controlled trial evaluating an internet- and mobile-based intervention for college students with no and "on demand" guidance. Trials, 21(1), 975. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04868-0
Leonidou, C., Pollatos, O., & Panayiotou, G. (2020). Emotional responses to illness imagery in young adults: Effects of attention to somatic sensations and levels of illness anxiety. Biological Psychology, 149, 107812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107812
Pannicke, B., Reichenberger, J., Schultchen, D., Pollatos, O., & Blechert, J. (2020). Affect Improvements and Measurement Concordance Between a Subjective and an Accelerometric Estimate of Physical Activity. European Journal of Health Psychology, 27(2), 66–75. https://doi.org/10.1027/2512-8442/a000050
Pollatos, O., Georgiou, E., Kobel, S., Schreiber, A., Dreyhaupt, J., & Steinacker, J. M. (2020). Trait-Based Emotional Intelligence, Body Image Dissatisfaction, and HRQoL in Children. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 973. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00973
Schultchen, D., Küchler, A.-M., Schillings, C., Weineck, F., Karabatsiakis, A., Ebert, D. D., . . . Pollatos, O. (2020). Effectiveness of a guided online mindfulness-focused intervention in a student population: Study protocol for a randomised control trial. BMJ Open, 10(3), e032775. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032775
Schultchen, D., Terhorst, Y., Holderied, T., Stach, M., Messner, E.-M., Baumeister, H., & Sander, L. B. (2020). Stay Present with Your Phone: A Systematic Review and Standardized Rating of Mindfulness Apps in European App Stores. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-020-09944-y
Terhorst, Y., Philippi, P., Sander, L. B., Schultchen, D., Paganini, S., Bardus, M., . . . Messner, E.-M. (2020). Validation of the Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS). PLOS ONE, 15(11), e0241480. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241480
Weineck, F., Hauke, G., Lindemann, H., Lachenmeir, K., Schnebel, A., Karačić, M., . . . Pollatos, O. (2020). Using bodily postures in the treatment of anorexia nervosa: Effects of power posing on interoception and affective states. European Eating Disorders Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.2813
Weineck, F., Schultchen, D., Hauke, G., Messner, M., & Pollatos, O. (2020). Using bodily postures to reduce anxiety and improve interoception: A comparison between powerful and neutral poses. PLOS ONE, 15(12), e0242578. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242578
Zimprich, D., Nusser, L., & Pollatos, O. (2020). Are interoceptive accuracy scores from the heartbeat counting task problematic? A comment on Zamariola et al. (2018). Biological Psychology, 152, 107868. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107868
2019
Mai, S., Braun, J., Probst, V., Kammer, T., & Pollatos, O. (2019). Changes in emotional processing following interoceptive network stimulation with rTMS. Neuroscience.
Schultchen, D., Bayer, J., Kühnel, J., Melchers, K. G., & Pollatos, O. (2019). Interoceptive accuracy is related to long-term stress via self-regulation. Psychophysiology, 49(3), e13429. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13429
Schultchen, D., Messner, M., Karabatsiakis, A., Schillings, C., & Pollatos, O. (2019). Effects of an 8-week body scan intervention on individually perceived psychological stress and related steroid hormones in hair. Mindfulness, 892(5), 297. doi.org/10.1007/s12671-019-01222-7
Schultchen, D., Reichenberger, J., Mittl, T., Weh, T. R. M., Smyth, J. M., Blechert, J., & Pollatos, O. (2019). Bidirectional relationship of stress and affect with physical activity and healthy eating. British Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12355
Schultchen, D., Zaudig, M., Krauseneck, T., Berberich, G., & Pollatos, O. (2019). Interoceptive deficits in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder in the time course of cognitive-behavioral therapy. PloS One, 14(5), e0217237. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217237
Weineck, F., Messner, M., Hauke, G., & Pollatos, O. (2019). Improving interoceptive ability through the practice of power posing: A pilot study. PLOS ONE, 14(2), e0211453. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211453
2018
Fischer, D., Strunz, E. & Walter, G. (2018). Biopsychosoziale Auswirkungen moderner Arbeitsplatzkonzepte. In D. Matusiewicz, V. Nürnberg & S. Nobis (Eds.), Gesundheit und Arbeit 4.0. Wenn Digitalisierung auf Mitarbeitergesundheit trifft. Heidelberg: medhochzwei Verlag.
Georgiou, E., Mai, S., Fernandez, K., C., & Pollatos, O. (2018). I see neither your Fear, nor your Sadness - Interoception in adolescents. Consciousness and Cognition, 60, 52-61. DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.02.011
Khalsa, S. S., Adolphs, R., Cameron, O. G., Critchley, H. D., Davenport, P. W., Feinstein, J. S., et al. (2018). Interoception and Mental Health: a Roadmap. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
Mai, S., Wong, C. K., Georgiou, E., & Pollatos, O. (2018). Interoception is associated with heartbeat-evoked brain potentials (HEPs) in adolescents. Biological Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.06.007
Pollatos, O. & Fischer, D. (2018). Interozeption. In C.-W. Kohlmann, C. Salewski & M. A. Wirtz (Eds.), Psychologie in der Gesundheitsförderung. Bern: Hogrefe.
Prinz, N., Bohn, B., Kern, A., Püngel, D., Pollatos, O., Holl, R. W. (2018). Feasibility and relative validity of a digital photo-based dietary assessment: Results from the Nutris-Phone study. Public Health Nutrition, 1-8. DOI: 10.1017/S1368980018000344
Reichenberger, J., Richard, A., Smyth, J. M., Fischer, D., Pollatos, O., & Blechert, J. (2018). It's craving time: time of day effects on momentary hunger and food craving in daily life. Nutrition. DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2018.03.048
Schubert, L., Walter, G., Fischer, D. & Merkwitz, R. (2018). Shared Leadership - Erfolgsfaktoren und Herausforderungen geteilter Führungspositionen. In D. Matusiewicz, V. Nürnberg & S. Nobis (Eds.), Gesundheit und Arbeit 4.0. Wenn Digitalisierung auf Mitarbeitergesundheit trifft. Heidelberg: medhochzwei Verlag.
2017
Fischer, D., Messner, M., & Pollatos, O. (2017). Improvement of Interoceptive Processes after an 8-Week Body Scan Intervention. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, 452. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00452
Pollatos, O., & Kammer, T. (2017). Reply to Coll et al.‘Important methodological issues regarding the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation to investigate interoceptive processing’(2017). Philosophical Transactions Royal Society B, 372: (1721), 20170046. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0046
2016
Fischer, D., Berberich, G., Zaudig, M., Krauseneck, T., Weiss, S., & Pollatos, O. (2016). Interoceptive Processes in Anorexia Nervosa in the Time Course of
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: A Pilot Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 7, 199. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00199
Georgiou, E., Mai, S., & Pollatos, O. (2016). Describe Your Feelings: Body Illusion Related to Alexithymia in Adolescence. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01690
Ohl, S., Wohltat, C., Kliegl, R., Pollatos, O., & Engbert, R. (2016). Microsaccades are coupled to heartbeat. Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 1237-1241. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2211-15.2016
Pittino, F., Mai, S., Huckauf, A., & Pollatos, O. (2016). Effects of Hunger on Sympathetic Activation and Attentional Processes for Physiological Computing. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems, Lisbon, Portugal (pp.152-160). Portugal: Scitepress.
Pollatos, O. (2016). The role of the body from the inside for embodied cognition. In Y.Coello & M. H. Fischer (Eds.), Perceptual and emotional embodiment (pp. 262-278). New York: Routledge.
Pollatos, O., & Georgiou, E. (2016). Normal interoceptive accuracy in women with bulimia nervosa. Psychiatry Research, 240, 328-332. DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.04.072
Pollatos, O., Herbert, B. M., Berberich, G., Zaudig, M., Krauseneck, T., & Tsakiris, M. (2016). Atypical Self-Focus Effect on Interoceptive Accuracy in Anorexia Nervosa. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00484
Pollatos, O., Herbert, B. M., Mai, S., & Kammer, T. (2016). Changes in interoceptive processes following brain stimulation. Philosophical Transactions Royal Society B, 371(1708), 20160016. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0016
Prinz, N., Bohn, B., Püngel, D., Beisel, S., Pollatos, O., & Holl, R. W. (2016). Digitale Erfassung des Ernährungsverhaltens bei Typ 1 Diabetes–erste Ergebnisse und Ausblick der Nutris-Phone Studie. Diabetologie und Stoffwechsel, 11(S 01), P100. DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1580847
2015
Georgiou, E., Matthias, E., Kobel, S., Kettner, S., Dreyhaupt, J., Steinacker, J. M., & Pollatos. O. (2015). Interaction of physical activity and interoception in children. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00502
Gottwald, Janna M., Elsner, B., & Pollatos, O. (2015). Good is up-spatial metaphors in action observation. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01605
Grynberg, D., & Pollatos, O. (2015). Perceiving one's body shapes empathy. Physiology & Behavior, 140, 54-60. DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.12.026
Grynberg, D., & Pollatos, O. (2015). Alexithymia modulates the experience of the rubber hand illusion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9(357). DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00357
Horndasch, S., Heinrich, H., Kratz, O., Mai, S., Graap, H., & Moll, G. H. (2015). Perception and evaluation of women’s bodies in adolescents and adults with anorexia nervosa. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 265(8), 677-687. DOI: 10.1007/s00406-015-0603-3
Kever, A., Pollatos, O., Vermeulen, N., & Grynberg, D. (2015). Interoceptive sensitivity facilitates both antecedent- and response-focused emotion regulation strategies. Personality and Individual Differences, 87, 20-23. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.07.014
Koch, A., & Pollatos, O. (2015). Reduced facial emotion recognition in overweight and obese children. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 79(6), 635-639. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.06.005
Mai, S., Gramann, K., Herbert, B. M., Friederich, H. C., Warschburger, P., & Pollatos, O. (2015). Electrophysiological evidence for an attentional bias in processing body stimuli in bulimia nervosa. Biological Psychology, 108, 105-114. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.03.013
Pollatos, O., Dietel, A., Gündel, H., & Duschek, S. (2015). Alexithymic trait, painful heat stimulation, and everyday pain experience. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 6. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00139
Pollatos, O., Matthias, E., & Keller, J. (2015). When interoception helps to overcome negative feelings caused by social exclusion. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00786
Traut-Mattausch, E., Wagner, S., Pollatos, O., & Jonas, E. (2015). Complaints as starting point for vicious cycles in customer-employee-interactions. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01454
2014
Herbert, B.M., & Pollatos, O. (2014). Attenuated interoceptive sensitivity in overweight and obese individuals. Eating Behaviors, 15(3), 445-448. DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeth.2014.06.006
Koch, A., Matthias, E., & Pollatos, O. (2014). Increased attentional bias towards food pictures in overweight and obese children. Journal of Child and Adolescent Behaviour, 2(2), 1000130.
Koch, A., & Pollatos, O. (2014). Cardiac sensitivity in children: Sex differences and its relationship to parameters of emotional processing. Psychophysiology, 51(9), 932-941. DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12233
Matthias, E., & Pollatos, O. (2014). Why Does My Body Hurt? Somatoform Disorders and Pain. In S. Marchand, I. Gaumond & D. Saravane (Eds.), Mental Health and Pain (S. 173-181). Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer.
Pollatos, O., Laubrock, J., & Wittmann, M. (2014). Interoceptive focus shapes the experience of time. PloS one, 9(1):e0086934. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086934
Pollatos, O., Yeldesbay, A., Pikovsky, A., & Rosenblum, M. (2014). How much time has passed? Ask your heart. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 8, 15. DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2014.00015
Weiss, S., Sack, M., Henningsen, P., & Pollatos, O. (2014). On the interaction of self-regulation, interoception and pain perception. Psychopathology, 47(6), 37-382. DOI: 10.1159/000365107
2013
Blechert, J., Goltsche, J. E., Herbert, B. M., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2014). Eat your troubles away: Electrocortical and experiential correlates of food image processing are related to emotional eating style and emotional state. Biological Psychology, 96, 94-101. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.12.007
Enck, P., Hefner, J., Herbert, B. M., Mazurak, N., Weimer, K., Muth, E. R., ... & Martens, U. (2013). Sensitivity and Specificity of Hypnosis Effects on Gastric Myoelectrical Activity. PloS one, 8(12), e83486. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083486
Füstös, J., Gramann, K., Herbert, B. M., & Pollatos, O. (2012). On the embodiment of emotion regulation: interoceptive awareness facilitates reappraisal. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(8), 911-917. DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss089
2012
Herbert, B. M., & Pollatos, O. (2012). The body in the mind: on the relationship between interoception and embodiment. Topics in Cognitive Science, 4(4), 692-704. DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01189.x
Herbert, B. M., Herbert, C., Pollatos, O., Weimer, K., Enck, P., Sauer, H., & Zipfel, S. (2012). Effects of short-term food deprivation on interoceptive awareness, feelings and autonomic cardiac activity. Biological Psychology, 89(1), 71-79. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.09.004
Herbert, B. M., Muth, E. R., Pollatos, O., & Herbert, C. (2012). Interoception across modalities: on the relationship between cardiac awareness and the sensitivity for gastric functions. PloS one, 7(5), e36646. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036646
Kühnpast, N., Gramann, K., & Pollatos, O. (2012). Electrophysiologic evidence for multilevel deficits in emotional face processing in patients with bulimia nervosa. Psychosomatic Medicine, 74(7), 736-744. DOI: 10.1097./PSY.0b013e31825ca15a
Pollatos, O., Füstös, J., & Critchley, H. D. (2012). On the generalised embodiment of pain: how interoceptive sensitivity modulates cutaneous pain perception. Pain, 153(8), 1680-1686. DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.04.030
Pollatos, O. & Gramann, K. (2012). Attenuated modulation of brain activity accompanies emotion regulation deficits in alexithymia. Psychophysiology, 49 (5), 651-658. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01348x
2011
Pollatos, O., Dietel, A., Herbert, B.M., Wankner, S., Wachsmuth, C., Henningsen, P. & Sack, M. (2011). Blunted autonomic reactivity and increased pain tolerance in somatoform patients. Pain, 152(9), 2157-2164. DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2011.05.024
Pollatos, O. & Gramann, K. (2011). Electrophysiological evidence of early processing deficits in alexithymia. Biological Psychology, 87(1), 113-121. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.02.016
Pollatos, O., Werner, N.S., Duschek, S., Schandry, R., Matthias, E. & Herbert, B.M. (2011). Differential effects of alexithymia subscales on autonomic reactivity and anxiety during social stress. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 70(6), 525-533. DOI: 10.1016/j.psychores.2010.12.003
Herbert, B.M., Herbert, C. & Pollatos, O. (2011). On the relationship between interoceptive awareness and alexithymia: Is interoceptive awareness related to emotional awareness? Journal of Personality, 79(5), 1149-1175. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00717.x
Pollatos, O., Herbert, B.M., Wankner, S., Dietel, A., Wachsmuth, C., Henningsen, P. & Sack, M. (2011). Autonomic imbalance is associated with reduced facial recognition in somatoform disorders. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 71(4), 232-239. DOI: 10.1016/j.psychores.2011.03.012
Pollatos, O. & Gramann, K. (2012). Attenuated modulation of brain activity accompanies emotion regulation deficits in alexithymia. Psychophysiology, 49(5), 651-658. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01348.x
Pollatos, O., Herbert, B.M., Füstös, J., Weimer, K., Enck, P. & Zipfel, S. (2011). Food deprivation sensitizes pain perception. Journal of Psychophysiology, 26, 1-9. DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000062