Juliane Britz

Juliane Britz is a Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, University of Fribourg. Her research focuses on the interplay between brain and body in conscious awareness, particularly through EEG microstate analysis and multimodal investigations of interoceptive signals.

• Current project: BBC - Brain, Body and Consciousness (2019-2025) examining how bodily rhythms (heartbeat/respiration) interact with brain activity in perceptual awareness.
• Key methodologies: Simultaneous EEG-ECG-respiration recording, source reconstruction, network dynamics modeling.

Research Focus

Her work bridges cognitive neuroscience and physiological psychology, exploring:

• Temporal organization of EEG microstates in health and neurological disorders
• Brain-body interactions in sensory threshold perception
• Embodied semantics in language processing
• Neural dynamics during propofol-induced unconsciousness

Publication Trends

Recent articles reveal a trajectory from basic neural dynamics (2008-2011) to translational applications in schizophrenia vulnerability markers (2014) and anesthesia research (2022), culminating in current investigations of interoceptive influences on consciousness (2024).

Contact

• Email: juliane.britz@unifr.ch
• Office: RM 01 bu. C-4.110, University of Fribourg