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Upcoming Events
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Lukas Kob (Czech Academy of Sciences) <br><b>Holistic Representations in Large Language Models</b>
Workshop:<br><b>Perception-Thought Transitions</b>
<i>Psychology</i> <br>Michael Levin (Tufts University) <br><b>Model systems for diverse intelligence research: technological approach to minds everywhere</b>
<i>Biopsychology</i> <br>Merel Jager (RUB) <br><b>Reality, survivorship bias, smooth sailing & the paradox of individuality</b>
<i>Psychology</i> <br>Katja Langer (RUB) <br><b>Accute stress effects on flexible emotion regulation choices: The moderation of working memory capacity </b>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri) <br><b>Thought as an Inner Navigation: A Neurocognitive Architecture for Propositional Thought</b>
Relevant Publications
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Remembering without (representational) memory: a neuro-computational study on regaining categoricity and compositionality from minimal traces
Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain
Neural subspace reorganization reflects value-based decision-making
Selective spatial attention to competing speakers in azimuth and depth: Evidence from real and virtual environments
What is self-control? A discussion of unresolved issues.
The effects of pre-extinction stress vs. physical exercise on contextual retrieval and generalization
Accuracy of self-control judgments by informants: can others tell where and how much we care, struggle, and succeed?
The impact of contingency awareness on the neurocircuitry underlying pain-related fear and safety learning
Reading media and multitasking: effects on comprehension and metacomprehension when reading multiple texts
Single neuron responses in NCL, MVL, and Wulst during the observation of videos of conspecifics support population feature coding
Predictive processing’s flirt with transcendental idealism
Abstract The popular predictive processing (PP) framework posits prediction error minimization (PEM) as the sole mechanism in the brain that can account for all mental phenomena, including consciousness. I first highlight three ambitions associated with major presentations of PP: (1) …
Out of touch? How trauma shapes the experience of social touch – neural and endocrine pathways
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 …
Opposing serial effects of stimulus and choice in speech perception scale with context variability
Prediction error processing and sharpening of expected information across the face-processing hierarchy
Costly pain avoidance and its impact on the modulation and extinction of visceral pain-related fear
Abstract Along the gut-brain axis, visceral pain demonstrably evokes emotional learning and memory processes shaping behavior in clinically relevant ways. Avoidance motivated by learned fear may constitute a major obstacle to treatment success in extinction-based interventions. However, the effects of …
When is learning “effortful”? Scrutinizing the concept of mental effort in cognitively-oriented research from a motivational perspective
Positive mental health predicts amelioration of suicidal ideation in patients undergoing cognitive behavioral therapy
Background Positive mental health has been shown to confer resilience against suicidal ideation and behavior. Yet, studies on treatment seeking populations are rare. The aim of the present study was to investigate, whether PMH predicts the amelioration of suicidal ideation …

