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<i>Psychology</i> <br>Mats Dombrowe (RUB) <br><b>Tau pathology disrupts neural navigation codes in the human medial temporal lobe</b>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Stephan Pohl (NYU) & Wej Ji Ma (NYU)<br><b>Clarifying the Conceptual Dimensions of Representation in Neuroscience</b>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Megan Peters (UCL) & Hojjat Azimi Asrari (UCL)<br><b>How Brains Build Higher Order Representations of Uncertainty</b>
<i>Biopsychology</i> <br>Anika Kuckertz (Heinrich Heine Universität Düssledorf) & Kai Benning (FZ Juelich)) <br><b>TBA</b>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Nathan Wildman (Tilburg)<br><b>Fictional virtual actions</b>
<i>Cognitive Psychology</i> <br>Leander Fester (RUB) <br><b>Freezing in humans? Postural sway as a readout of conditioned fear</b>
Relevant Publications
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The effects of pre-extinction stress vs. physical exercise on contextual retrieval and generalization
What is self-control? A discussion of unresolved issues.
The role of episodic memory in causal reasoning with counterfactuals: A perspective from predictive processing and trace minimalism
Neural subspace reorganization reflects value-based decision-making
Selective spatial attention to competing speakers in azimuth and depth: Evidence from real and virtual environments
A computationally efficient music processing algorithm for cochlear implants based on an auditory adaptation model
Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account
Single neuron responses in NCL, MVL, and Wulst during the observation of videos of conspecifics support population feature coding
A computationally efficient music processing algorithm for cochlear implants based on an auditory adaptation model
Loops all the way up: Recurrency as an implementation-first primitive for consciousness
Three types of phenomenal consciousness and their functional roles: unfolding the ALARM theory of consciousness
The evolution of consciousness is a neglected topic that plays a surprisingly insignificant role in all major theories of consciousness. Furthermore, substantial disagreements can be observed in the dominant views on the neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs), which focus too …
Prediction error processing and sharpening of expected information across the face-processing hierarchy
When is learning “effortful”? Scrutinizing the concept of mental effort in cognitively-oriented research from a motivational perspective
Foundation Models – A New Paradigm for Artificial Intelligence
Extinction context is learned by pigeons, not given by the environment
Abstract The saying “context is everything” underscores the importance of interpreting things, be they quotes, events, actions, or stimuli, not in isolation but in the light of a bigger picture – their context. This is evident even in fundamental forms …
Reference in memories from perceptual and non-perceptual experiences: a non-disjunctivist account including vicarious, oneiric and fictional remembering
Abstract The paper argues for a non-disjunctivist account of reference in episodic memory. Our account provides a uniform theory of reference for episodic memories that root in veridical and non-veridical experiences. It is independent from the particular mechanisms that subserve …
Out of touch? How trauma shapes the experience of social touch – neural and endocrine pathways
Regional prefrontal and hippocampal differences in gray matter volume are linked to the propensity for renewal in extinction learning
Introduction The renewal effect of extinction describes the reoccurrence of an extinguished response if recall is performed in a context that is not the same as the extinction context. This learning phenomenon is clinically relevant, since it potentially interferes with …

