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Upcoming Events
Workshop:<br><b>Perception-Thought Transitions</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>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Megan Entwistle (Université Grenoble Alpes) <br><b>TBA</b>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Monika Dunin-Kozicka (Lublin)<br><b>An Experiential Account of Pretense</b>
Relevant Publications
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From Gut Feeling to Gray Matter: Mapping Defecation Urgency in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
A computationally efficient music processing algorithm for cochlear implants based on an auditory adaptation model
Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account
Reading media and multitasking: effects on comprehension and metacomprehension when reading multiple texts
Neural subspace reorganization reflects value-based decision-making
Stress, path integration, and the entorhinal cortex
Remembering without (representational) memory: a neuro-computational study on regaining categoricity and compositionality from minimal traces
Loops all the way up: Recurrency as an implementation-first primitive for consciousness
Single neuron responses in NCL, MVL, and Wulst during the observation of videos of conspecifics support population feature coding
What is self-control? A discussion of unresolved issues.
A neural signature of touch aversion and interpersonal problems in Borderline Personality Disorder
Introduction: Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) suffer from severe social impairments and interpersonal problems. Social touch can provide comfort and facilitate the maintenance of social bonds, and preliminary evidence indicates a negative evaluation of social touch in patients with …
Foundation Models – A New Paradigm for Artificial Intelligence
Posttraining noradrenergic stimulation maintains hippocampal engram reactivation and episodic-like specificity of remote memory
Abstract Recent findings indicate that noradrenergic arousal maintains long-term episodic-like specificity of memory. However, the neural mechanism of how norepinephrine can alter the temporal dynamics of systems consolidation to maintain hippocampus dependency of remote memory is currently unknown. Memories are …
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 …
Out of touch? How trauma shapes the experience of social touch – neural and endocrine pathways
Epigenetic markers of disease risk and psychotherapy response in anxiety disorders – a longitudinal analysis of the DNA methylome
Abstract Epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation are hypothesized to play a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of anxiety disorders and to predict as well as relate to treatment response. An epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) (Illumina MethylationEPIC BeadChip) was performed …
Interindividual Variability in Memory Performance Is Related to Corticothalamic Networks during Memory Encoding and Retrieval
Encoding new memories relies on functional connections between the medial temporal lobe and the frontoparietal cortices. Multiscan fMRI showed changes in these functional connections before and after memory encoding, potentially influenced by the thalamus. As different thalamic nuclei are interconnected …

