Alex studied Behavior, Neurobiology and Cognition at the University of Vienna and completed a second master's degree in Bio Data Science. In his doctoral project, he is working on computerized, AI-based interventions aimed at treating specific phobias.

Publications

2025

Pegler D , Steyrl D , Zhang M, Karner A, Arato J , Scharnowski F et al. SpiderNets: Estimating Fear Ratings of Spider-Related Images with Vision Models. 2025 Sep 5. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2509.04889

Lor CS, Steyrl D, Karner A, Götzendorfer SJ, Klimesch A, Eder SJ et al. SpiderPhy dataset: A multimodal dataset of Physiological, Psychometric and Behavioral Responses to fear stimuli. Scientific Data. 2025 Apr 10;12(1):599. 599. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-04908-x

Zhang M, Karner A, Kostorz K, Shea S, Steyrl D, Melinscak F et al. SpiDa-MRI behavioral and (f)MRI data of adults with fear of spiders. Scientific Data. 2025 Feb 17;12(1):284. 284. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-04569-w

Buchanan EM, Cuccolo K, Heyman T, van Berkel N, Coles NA, Iyer A et al. Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. Nature Human Behaviour. 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x

2024

Karner A, Obenaus L, Zhang M, Lor C, Kostorz K , Pegler D et al. Visual attributes of spiders associated with aversiveness in spider-fearful individuals: A machine learning analysis. PsyArXiv. 2024 Jun 14. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/ht2pr

Zhang M, Karner A, Kostorz K, Shea S, Steyrl D , Melinšcak F et al. SpiDa-MRI, behavioral and (f)MRI data of adults with fear of spiders. bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 7.

Karner A, Zhang M, Lor CS, Steyrl D, Götzendorfer SJ, Weidt S et al. The "SpiDa" dataset: self-report questionnaires and ratings of spider images from spider-fearful individuals. Frontiers in Psychology. 2024;15:1327367. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1327367

2023

Lor CS, Zhang M, Karner A, Steyrl D , Sladky R , Scharnowski F et al. Pre- and post-task resting-state differs in clinical populations. NeuroImage: Clinical. 2023 Jan;37:103345. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103345

Terry J, Ross RM, Nagy T, Salgado M, Garrido-Vásquez P, Sarfo JO et al. Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset). Journal of Open Psychology Data. 2023;11(1):8. doi: 10.5334/jopd.80

2022

Lor CS, Zhang M, Karner A, Steyrl D , Sladky R , Scharnowski F et al. Pre- and post-task resting-state differs in clinical populations. bioRxiv. 2022 Sep 22. doi: 10.1101/2022.09.20.508750

2021

Krylova M, Skouras S, Razi A, Nicholson AA, Karner A, Steyrl D et al. Progressive modulation of resting-state brain activity during neurofeedback of positive-social emotion regulation networks. Scientific Reports. 2021 Dez 3;11(1):23363. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-02079-4