PsPM Courses

We offer regular PsPM courses. To check for updates, visit our news site, our LinkedIn page, or follow bachlab on X.

Course preparation

Before getting started with our lectures and tutorials, we suggest that participants install Matlab and PsPM on their computers, download the provided data sets, and try to replicate the instructors’ demonstrations.

Course slides & webcasts

All course webcasts are hosted on our opencast e-lecture channel. Complimentary slides can be downloaded below. The download links for the slides can be found above the individual videos.

PsPM Lectures

1 Preliminaries: retrodictive validity & why do we need this

Slides lecture 01 (Dominik R. Bach)

2 LTI & GLM

Slides lecture 02 (Dominik R. Bach)

3 Skin conductance responses (SCR)

Slides lecture 03 (Dominik R. Bach)

4 Pupil size responses

Slides lecture 04 (Dominik R. Bach)

5 Heart period responses:

Slides lecture 05 (Philipp Paulus)

6 Respiration & startle eye blink:

Slides (Dominik R. Bach)

7 Measuring fear conditioning with PsPM:

Slides (Yanfang Xia)

PsPM Tutorials

Some of the tutorials have slides, others come with additional files for practice.

Tutorial 1

We are sorry. There is currently no material available for tutorial 1.

Tutorial 2: GLM for SCR (Dominik R Bach)

Tutorial 3: Non-linear models for SCR & artefact removal (Dominik R Bach)

Tutorial 4: pupil size analysis (Christoph W Korn)

Tutorial 5: Workflow automation I (Filip Melinscak)

Tutorial 6: Workflow automation II (Filip Melinscak)

Tutorial 7: cardiac, respiration, and eyeblink EMG pre-processing (Dominik R Bach)

Upcoming PsPM Courses

Currently non scheduled.

Past PsPM courses

18 - 19 January 2024: University of Bonn (online 2-half-day PsPM satellite workshop with practical training)
21 - 22 July 2021 ESCAN 2021: Budapest (online 1.5-day PsPM satellite workshop with practical training)
30 June - 1 July 2020: ESCAN 2020 Budapest (full 2-day PsPM satellite workshop with practical training; postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic)
6 April - 14 May 2020: Live online course (see course recordings and slides below)
30 March 2020: EMHFC 2020 Bochum (workshop on pupil size measurements; cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
13 November 2019: University of Göttingen
2 July 2019: Aegina Summer School on Social Cognition 2019
5 - 6 June 2019: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig
29 - 30 May 2018: Pre-conference workshop, Psychology & Brain, Gießen