Recent News

Upcoming Events

22
Oct

<i>Psychology</i> <br>Michael Levin (Tufts University) <br><b>How Cognition Emerges in Cell Collectives</b>

October 22
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
12
Nov

<i>Psychology</i> <br>Justin Wood (Indiana University Bloomington) <br><b>Origins of Intelligence in Animals and Machines</b>

November 12
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Relevant Publications

For full list of selected publications, see the publications page

Foundation Models – A New Paradigm for Artificial Intelligence

Meske, 2024 Schneider, J., Meske, C. and Kuss, P. (2024). Foundation Models – A New Paradigm for Artificial Intelligence. Business & Information Systems Engineering 66, 221–231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12599-024-00851-0

Deceptive XAI: Typology, Creation and Detection

Meske, 2024 Schneider, J., Meske, C. & Vlachos, M. (2024). Deceptive XAI: Typology, Creation and Detection. SN Computer Science 5, 81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-02401-z

Prediction error processing and sharpening of expected information across the face-processing hierarchy

Blank, 2024 Garlichs, A. & Blank, H. (2024). Prediction error processing and sharpening of expected information across the face-processing hierarchy. Nature Communications, 15, 3407.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47749-9

Out of touch? How trauma shapes the experience of social touch – neural and endocrine pathways

Scheele, 2024 Stevens L., Bregulla M., Scheele D. (2024). Out of touch? How trauma shapes the experience of social touch – neural and endocrine pathways. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (in press)

Opposing serial effects of stimulus and choice in speech perception scale with context variability

Blank, 2024 Ufer, C. & Blank, H. (2024) Opposing serial effects of stimulus and choice in speech perception scale with context variability. iScience:110611.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110611

When is learning “effortful”? Scrutinizing the concept of mental effort in cognitively-oriented research from a motivational perspective

Roelle, 2024 Grund, A., Fries, S., Nückles, M., Renkl, A., & Roelle, J. (2024). When is learning “effortful”? Scrutinizing the concept of mental effort in cognitively-oriented research from a motivational perspective. Educational Psychology Review, 36, Article...

Out of touch? How trauma shapes the experience of social touch – neural and endocrine pathways

Scheele, 2024 Stevens L., Bregulla M., Scheele D. (2024). Out of touch? How trauma shapes the experience of social touch – neural and endocrine pathways. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (in press)

Intuitive Expertise in Moral Judgments

Horvath, 2022 Horvath, J., & Wiegmann, A. (2022). Intuitive Expertise in Moral Judgments. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 100(2), 342–359. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2021.1890162

Prediction error processing and sharpening of expected information across the face-processing hierarchy

Blank, 2024 Garlichs, A. & Blank, H. (2024). Prediction error processing and sharpening of expected information across the face-processing hierarchy. Nature Communications, 15, 3407.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47749-9

Metacognition and self-control: An integrative framework. Psychological Review

Hennecke, 2023 Hennecke, M., & Bürgler, S.(2023). Metacognition and self-control: An integrative framework. Psychological Review, 130(5), 1262-1268. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000406

Reflecting (on) Replica. Can We Have a Good Affective Relationship with a Social Chatbot?

Weber-Guskar, 2022 Weber-Guskar, E. (2022). Reflecting (on) Replica. Can We Have a Good Affective Relationship with a Social Chatbot? In: Social Robotics and the Good Life: The Normative Side of Forming Emotional Bonds With Robots. (2022). transcript Verlag....

Can you teach me not to be angry? Relations between temperament and the emotion regulation strategy distraction in 2-year-olds.

Schneider, 2022 Schoppmann, J., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2022). Can you teach me not to be angry? Relations between temperament and the emotion regulation strategy distraction in 2-year-olds. Child Development, 93(1), 165–179....

Happy together? On the relationship between research on retrieval practice and generative learning using the case of follow-up learning tasks

Roelle, 2023 Roelle, J., Endres, T., Abel, R., Obergassel, N., Nückles, M., & Renkl, A. (2023). Happy together? On the relationship between research on retrieval practice and generative learning using the case of follow-up learning tasks. Educational Psychology...

Constructing a wider view on memory – Beyond the dichotomy of field and observer perspectives

Peters, Cosentino & Werning, 2022 Peeters, A., Cosentino, E., & Werning, M. (2022). Constructing a wider view on memory – Beyond the dichotomy of field and observer perspectives. In A. Berninger & Í. V. Ferran (eds.), Memory and Imagination (pp. 165–190)....

The stabilization of visibility for sequentially presented, low-contrast objects: Experiments and neural field model.

Schöner, 2023 Hock, H. S., & Schöner, G. (2023). The stabilization of visibility for sequentially presented, low-contrast objects: Experiments and neural field model. Journal of Vision, 23(8), 12.https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.8.12

Dynamical Systems Approaches to Cognition

Schöner, 2022 Schöner, G. (in press). Dynamical Systems Approaches to Cognition. In Sun, R (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.

Prediction error processing and sharpening of expected information across the face-processing hierarchy

Blank, 2024 Garlichs, A. & Blank, H. (2024). Prediction error processing and sharpening of expected information across the face-processing hierarchy. Nature Communications, 15, 3407.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47749-9

The embodied self, the pattern theory of self, and the predictive mind

Newen, 2018 Newen, A. (2018). The Embodied Self, the Pattern Theory of Self, and the Predictive Mind. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2270. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02270

You can’t always get what you want: Predictive Processing and Consciousness.

Schlicht, 2021 Schlicht, T., Dolega, K. (2021) You can’t always get what you want: Predictive Processing and Consciousness. Philosophy and the Mind Scienceshttps://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/article/view/9153

A methodological dilemma for investigating consciousness empirically

Schlicht, 2018 Schlicht, T. (2018). A methodological dilemma for investigating consciousness empirically. Consciousness and Cognition, 66, 91–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.11.002

When numbers are not exact: Ambiguity and prediction in the processing of sentences with bare numerals

Werning, 2018 Spychalska, M., Kontinen, J., Noveck, I., Reimer, L., & Werning, M. (2018). When numbers are not exact: Ambiguity and prediction in the processing of sentences with bare numerals. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition....

Diffusion markers of dendritic density and arborization in gray matter predict differences in intelligence

Güntürkün, 2018 Genç, E., Fraenz, C., Schlüter, C., Friedrich, P., Hossiep, R., Voelkle, M. C., Güntürkün, O., … Jung, R. E. (2018). Diffusion markers of dendritic density and arborization in gray matter predict differences in intelligence. Nature Communications,...

Mental Content

Schlicht, 2022 Dołęga, K., & Schlicht, T. (2022). Mental Content. In Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience. Routledge.

Mechanistic flexibility of the Retrosplenial Cortex enables its contribution to spatial cognition

Stacho & Manahan-Vaughan, 2022 Stacho M., & Manahan-Vaughan, D. (2022). Mechanistic flexibility of the Retrosplenial Cortex enables its contribution to spatial cognition. Trends In Neurosciences, 45(4), 284-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2022.01.007

Rethinking Integration of Epistemic Strategies in Social Understanding: Examining the Central Role of Mindreading in Pluralist Accounts

Newen, 2021 Wolf, J., Coninx, S., & Newen, A. (2021). Rethinking Integration of Epistemic Strategies in Social Understanding: Examining the Central Role of Mindreading in Pluralist Accounts. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00486-7

Higher functional connectivity between prefrontal regions and the dorsal attention network predicts absence of renewal.

Tegenthoff, 2021 Lissek, S., & Tegenthoff, M. (2021). Higher functional connectivity between prefrontal regions and the dorsal attention network predicts absence of renewal. Behavioural Brain Research, 412, 113413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113413