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A neural signature of touch aversion and interpersonal problems in Borderline Personality Disorder

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Voelter, J., Postin, D., Croy, I., Hurlemann, R., & Scheele, D. (2025). A neural signature of touch aversion and interpersonal problems in Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1159/000545973

Predictive processing’s flirt with transcendental idealism

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Schlicht, T. (2025). Predictive processing’s flirt with transcendental idealism. Noûs, nous.12552. https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12552

Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries

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Silva, M., Wu, X., Sabio, M., Conde-Blanco, E., Roldán, P., Donaire, A., Carreño, M., Axmacher, N., Baldassano, C., & Fuentemilla, L. (2025). Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries. Nature Communications, 16(1), 5647. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60788-0

Remembering without (representational) memory: a neuro-computational study on regaining categoricity and compositionality from minimal traces

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Labrenz, F., Kalenbach, A., Elsenbruch, S., & Icenhour, A. (2025). Costly pain avoidance and its impact on the modulation and extinction of visceral pain-related fear. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 27001. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10499-9

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