Josephine Jörke was awarded with a poster prize by the German Society for Psychophysiology and its Application (DPGA), at the 50th Annual Conference on “Psychology and the Brain“ (PuG) 2025. The PuG is a prestigious conference, organized in collaboration with the Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology Section of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) and the DPGA and covers topics ranging from fundamental neurobiological research on experience and behavior to applied psychological research.

In her poster presentation, Josephine presented the results of a visual mismatch negativity study investigating the influence of autistic traits on the visual perception of social and non-social cues using a novel paradigm developed by Dr. Mareike Bayer. The results indicate that the detail-oriented visual processing style associated with higher autistic traits may be based on enhanced sensory precision rather than attenuated top-down predictions, but only for non-social input.

We congratulate Josephine and look forward to the publication of the study!