Posters

Yafeng Pan presented a poster at the Virtual European Meeting of Human Fear Conditioning 2022, titled Preventing the return of learned threat via prefrontal control during handholding.

Lisa Espinosa presented a poster titled Pavlovian threat conditioning can generate intrusive memories.

SOBP 2022

Walsh, A., Olsson, A., Dayan, P., & Gutart-Masip, M. (April, 2022). The cognitive and neural impact of uncontrollable stress on reward learning.

Guitart-Masip, M., Walsh, A., Dayan, P., & Olsson, A. (April, 2022). Anxiety associated with perceived lack of control over stress during the COVID-19 pandemic impairs reward learning.

EMHFC 2021

Presentation: Yi, J., Pärnamets, P., & Olsson, A. (May, 2021). The Face value of Feedback: Facial behavior is shaped by goals and punishment in interactive dyads. the Virtual European Meeting of Human Fear Conditioning.

Presentation: Yafeng, P., Vinding, M. C., Lundqvist, D., & Olsson, A. A multi-brain mechanism for observational threat learning.

SOBP 2021

Jangard, S., Lindström, B., Khemiri, L., Jayaram-Lindström, N., & Olsson, A. (2021, April). Prosocial Decision-Making in Young Adults with Alcohol Use Disorder. Society of Biological Psychiatry. A Virtual Event.

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Prosocial Decision-Making in Young Adults with Alcohol Use Disorder. (PDF, 4.41 MB)

SANS 2021

Presentation: Vieira, J.B., & Olsson, A. (2021, April) Threat imminence facilitates care-motivated helping in dangerous contexts. Annual Meeting of The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. A Virtual Event.

Presentation: Jangard, S., Lindström, B., Khemiri, L., Jayaram-Lindström, N., & Olsson, A. (2021, April). Prosocial Decision-Making in Young Adults with Alcohol Use Disorder. Annual Meeting of The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. A Virtual Event.

Presentation: Presentation of: Yi, J., Pärnamets, P., & Olsson, A. (April, 2021). The Face Value of Feedback: Facial Behaviour is shaped by goals and punishment in interactive dyads. Annual Meeting of The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. A Virtual Event.

Presentation: Pan, Y, Vinding, C.M, Lundqvist, D, & Olsson, A. (2021, April) A multi-brain mechanism for observational threat learning. Annual Meeting of The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. A Virtual Event.

SfN 2021

Müllner-Huber, A., Anton-Boicuk, L., Pronizius, E., Lengersdorff, L., Olsson, A., & Lamm, C. (2021, Jan) Hypnotic suggestions provide evidence for a causal role of affect sharing in driving observational fear learning. Society for Neuroscience – Global Connectome: A Virtual Event.

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Hypnotic suggestions provide evidence for a causal role of affect sharing in driving observational fear learning (PDF, 551.48 KB)

SANS 2019

Yi, J., Pärnamets, P., & Olsson, A. (2019, May) Facing threat: Facial but not learned dominance affects learning of optimal facial expressions in incentivized social interactions. Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Miami Beach, FL.

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Facing threat: Facial but not learned dominance affects learning of optimal facial expressions in incentivized social interactions (PDF, 752.11 KB)

Golkar, A., Espinosa, L., Dima, A., & Olsson, A. (2019, May) Shared safety prevents the recovery of learned threat. Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Miami Beach, FL.

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Shared safety prevents the recovery of learned threat (PDF, 4.14 MB)

Pärnamets, P., Granwald, T., & Olsson, A. (2019, May) From trust in groups to trust in individuals. Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Miami Beach, FL.

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From trust in groups to trust in individuals (PDF, 735.3 KB)

Espinosa, L., Holmes, E., & Olsson, A. (2019, May) Support is not in the eye of the supporter: The impact of social support interactions on acquired threat. Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Miami Beach, FL.

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Support is not in the eye of the supporter: The impact of social support interactions on acquired threat (PDF, 1.29 MB)

Nook, E. C., Holmes, E. A., Somerville, L. H., & Olsson, A. (2019, May) I see your fears: The role of empathy and mental imagery in contagious worries. Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Miami Beach, FL.

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I see your fears: The role of empathy and mental imagery in contagious worries (PDF, 1.36 MB)

CNS 2019

Undeger, I., Visser, R. M., & Olsson, A. (2019, March) Associative learning via intentional and unintentional actions. Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s 26th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

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Associative Learning via Intentional and Unintentional Actions (PDF, 3.85 MB)

SPSAN 2018

Undeger, I., Visser, R. M., Golkar, A., & Olsson, A. (2018, August) Neural patterns formation via expectancy violations during learning from intentional threat. Sao Paulo School of Advanced Science on Social and Affective Neuroscience, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Neural patterns formation via expectancy violations during learning from intentional threat (PDF, 2.74 MB)

OHBM 2018

Undeger, I., Visser, R. M., Sequeira, R. & Olsson, A. (2018, June) Neural patterns of threat relevant social information during aversive learning. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Singapore.

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Neural patterns of threat relevant social information during aversive learning (PDF, 3.59 MB)

MEG Nord 2018

Hensler, T., Kaiser, D., Cichy, R. M., Lundqvist, D.,* & Olsson, A.* (2018, May) The influence of observational fear learning on neural responses to visual stimuli. MEG Nord, Stockholm, Sweden (* = equal contributions).

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The influence of observational fear learning on emotional responses and neural stimulus representations (PDF, 472.17 KB)

SANS 2018

Poster: Haaker, J., Lindström, B., Yi, J., Petrovic, P., & Olsson, A. (2018, May) Midbrain responses in social aversive learning: Neural and neuropharmacological mechanisms. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Brooklyn, NY.

Haaker, J., Lindström, B., Yi, J., Petrovic, P., & Olsson, A. (2018, May) Midbrain responses in social aversive learning: Neural and neuropharmacological mechanisms. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Brooklyn, NY.

Yi, J., Pärnamets, P., & Olsson, A. (2018, May) Facing danger: Learning to avoid punishment through facial responses during social interactions. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Brooklyn, NY.

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Facing danger: Learning to avoid punishment through facial responses during social interactions (PDF, 644.93 KB)

Posters from previous years:

Selbing, I. & Olsson, A., (2017, June) Strategies of observational reinforcement learning. Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, Ann Arbor, MI.

Pärnamets, P., Hensler, T., & Olsson, A. (2017, March) Computational analysis of moral choices between racial in- and outgroup members. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

Pärnamets, P., Lindström, B., Jangard, S., & Olsson, A. (2017, March) Computational mechanisms underlying moral choices’ adjustment of descriptive norms. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

Pärnamets, P., Espinosa, L., & Olsson, A. (2017, March) Interpersonal sychronisation as a mediating mechanism in vicarious fear learning. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

Undeger, I., Golkar, A., Pärnamets, P., & Olsson, A. (2017, March) Effects of agency on learning fear from others. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

Selbing, I. & Olsson, A. (2016, August) Descriptions of others’ ability corrupt observational learning. Society for NeuroEconomics Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany.

Pärnamets, P. & Olsson, A. (2016, August) Predictive gaze cues facilitate instrumental avoidance learning. Society for NeuroEconomics Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany.

Pärnamets, P., Hall, L. & Johansson, P. (2016, August) Same, same but different? evidence accumulation across moral and non-moral domains. Society for NeuroEconomics Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany.

Undeger, I. & Olsson, A. (2016, April) Effects of agency on learning fear from others. European Meeting of Human Fear Conditioning, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Pärnamets, P. & Olsson, A. (2016, April). Predictive gaze cues facilitate instrumental avoidance learning. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Molapour, T. & Olsson, A. (2016, April). Eye for an eye: Reciprocal punishment in dyadic interactions. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Golkar, A. & Olsson, A. (2016, April). Observational fear learning is determined by social group. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Haaker, J., Yi, J., & Olsson, A. (2016, April) Blockade of endogenous opioids enhances observational fear learning via teaching signals in the amygdala and PAG. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Molapour, T., Golkar, A., Navarrete, C., Haaker, J., & Olsson, A. (2015, June) Neural correlates of biased social fear learning and interaction in an intergroup context. 21st Annual meeting of the organization for human brain mapping, Honolulu, HI.

Haaker, J., Molapour, T. & Olsson, A. (2015, June) Social dominance threat is shaped by observing confrontations between others. 21st Annual meeting of the organization for human brain mapping, Honolulu, HI.

Haaker, J., Yi, J., & Olsson, A. (2015, May). Influence of opioidergic neurotransmission on vicarious acquisition of fear. Seventh European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning, Bochum, Germany.

Lindström, B., Haaker, J., & Olsson, A. (2015, May). Neural and computational underpinnings of social threat learning. Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, New York, NY.

Haaker, J., Golkar, A., Selbing, I., & Olsson, A. (2014, November). Observational extinction blocks learned fear by recruitment of the vmPFC in humans. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.

Lindström, B. R., Hjort, O., & Olsson, A. (2013, May). Social learning of avoidance: Reinforcement learning and experimental results. Association for Psychological Science 25th Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Lindström, B. R., Selbing, I., Molapour, T., & Olsson, A. (2013, May). Racial bias drives social reinforcement learning. Association for Psychological Science 25th Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Lindström, B. R., Golkar, A., Ährlund-Richter, S., Wiktor, P., & Olsson, A. (2013, April). The impact of stimulus value on goal-directed aversive reinforcement learning. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Fransisco, CA.

Nilsonne, G., Tamm, S., Golkar, A., Gospic, K., Olsson, A., Ingvar, M., Petrovic, P. (2013, April). Pharmacological manipulation of empathy using oxazepam. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Fransisco, CA.

Golkar, A., Selbing, I., Flygare, O., Öhman, A., & Olsson, A. (2013, April). Others as means to a safe end: Vicarious extinction blocks the return of learned fear. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Fransisco, CA.

Selbing, I., Lindström, B. R., Golkar, A., & Olsson, A. (2013, April). Adaptive observational aversive learning. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Molapour, T., Golkar, A., Navarrete, C., Hjort, O., & Olsson, A. (2013, April). Brain responses during extinction of learned fear to racial in-group and out-group faces. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Fransisco, CA.

Nilsonne, G., Tamm, S., Golkar, A., Olsson, A., Ingvar, M., & Petrovic, P. (2012, April). Effect of the benzodiazepine agonist oxazepam on psychophysiological and self-reported indices of empathy. 5th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

Lindström, B. R., Berglund Mattsson-Marn, I., Golkar, A., & Olsson, A. (2012, March). Activity in the corrugator supercilii muscle as a novel index of punishment-guided cognitive control. Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.

Fürth, D., Öhman, A., & Olsson, A. (2011, September) Inter-individual variability, measurement and information in aversive learning. 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Boston, MA.

Furth, D., Andersson, E., Golkar, A., Lonsdorf, T., Derbsch, M., Öhman, A., & Olsson, A. (2009, October). Learning to fear others through pavlovian conditioning and social punishment. 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Berlin, Germany.