Lioba Enk
Doctoral Candidate (cohort representative)
Academic education
since 2021 Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany
Doctoral research performed at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Supervisor: Arno Villringer
Lab rotations in the orientation phase: Arno Villringer, Isabel Dziobek and Hugo Critchley
2018–2021 M.Sc. Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
2014–2018 B.Sc. Psychology with a minor in Psychopathology and Clinical Neuropsychology, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
Research experience
2020–2021 Research assistance, Neurodiagnostic applications (Prof. Nikolaos Koutsouleris), Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hospital of the LMU Munich, Germany
2019 Research assistance, Social Neuroscience (PD Dr. Leonhard Schilbach), Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
2016–2018 Research internship and assistance, Social Cognition (Prof. Isabel Dziobek), Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Academic awards
2018 Travel Award, 11th Scientific Meeting for Autism Spectrum Conditions, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2016 Travel Award, Seminar “Empathy: Perspectives from Philosophy and Science” (Chair for Practical Philosophy and Ethics, LMU Munich), Venice International University, Italy
Publication
Marshall, A.C., Ren, Q., Enk, L., Liu, J., & Schütz-Bosbach, S. (2024). The effect of cardiac phase on distractor suppression and motor inhibition in a stop-signal task. Sci Rep 14, 29847 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80742-2
Weigand, A., Trilla, I., Enk, L., O’connell, G., Prehn, K., Brick, T. R., & Dziobek, I. (2021). How much of me do I see in other minds? Modulating egocentricity in emotion judgments by tDCS. Brain Sciences, 11(4), 512. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11040512
Poster presentations and talks
Enk, L., Marshall, A. C., Ren, Q., Liu, J., & Schütz-Bosbach, S. (2024, March). The effect of cardiac phase on distractor suppression and motor inhibition in a stop-signal task [Poster]. 11th MindBrainBody Symposium, Berlin, Germany.
Enk, L.*, Forster, C.*, Al, E., Grund, M., & Villringer, A. (2023, June). External vs. internal priors: Investigating the influence of stimulus expectation and the cardiac cycle on somatosensory perception [Talk]. Cognitive Neuroscience Conference on Body-Brain Waves, Salerno, Italy.
Enk, L., Patchitt, J., Tertikas, G., Grund, M., Villringer, A., & Critchley, H. (2023, March). Impact of nasal breathing on somatosensory detection: Experimental design and pilot results [Poster]. 10th MindBrainBody Symposium, Berlin, Germany.
Goltermann O.*, Bayramova, R.*, Enk, L., Hinrichs, M. A. B., Kamp, F., Serio, B., & Hofmann, S. (2022, July). Explainable AI for higher cognitive functions: How to provide explanations in the face of increasing complexity [Flash talk]. Neuromatch Academy, online.
Bayramova, R.*, Goltermann, O.*, Enk, L., Hinrichs, M. A. B., Kamp, F., Serio, B., & Hofmann, S. (2022, September). Explainable AI for higher cognitive functions: How to provide explanations in the face of increasing complexity [Talk]. 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Lille, France.
Forster, C.*, Enk, L.*, Panagoulas, E., Al, E., Grund, M., & Villringer, A. (2022, March). Informative cue on stimulus frequency determines criterion in near-threshold somatosensory detection [Poster]. 9th MindBrainBody Symposium, online.
Weigand, A., Enk, L., Moebert, T., Zoerner, D., Schneider, J., Lucke, U., & Dziobek, I. (2019, February). Introducing E.V.A. – A new training app for social cognition. Design, development, and first acceptance and usability evaluation for autistic users [Poster]. 12th Scientific Meeting for Autism Spectrum Conditions (WTAS), Augsburg, Germany.
Enk, L., O’Connell, G., Prehn, K., Domke, J., Brick, T. R., Dziobek, I., & Weigand, A. (2018, March). How much of me do I see in you – Neural correlates of self-other distinction in the affective domain [Poster]. 11th Scientific Meeting for Autism Spectrum Conditions (WTAS), Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
* shared first-authorship