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Dec

Workshop with Susanna Schellenberg on “The Nature of Perspectives”

December 11
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Dec

<i>Neuroinformatics:</i><br>Simon Nagel (RUB)<br><b>Neural Data Science - Detecting Transient Oscillations</b>

December 12
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15
Dec

Workshop with Susana Monsó:<br><b>Do Animals Understand Death?</b>

December 15
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Dec

<i>Biopsychology:</i><br>Onur Güntürkün & Patrick Anselme (RUB, Biopsy)<br><b>Extinction learning in the wild</b>

December 15
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16
Dec

<i>Philosophy:</i><br>Gen Eickers (Bayreuth)<br><b>Emotional Injustice and Masculinity</br></b>

December 16
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18
Dec

<i>Neuropsychology:</i><br>Varnan Chandreswaran (RUB)<br><b>Title TBA</b>

December 18
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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

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)

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

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...

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

Berechenbare Gefühle? Grundlegendes zu einer Ethik der digitalen Emotionserfassung

Weber-Guskar, 2023 Weber-Guskar, E. (2023). Berechenbare Gefühle? Grundlegendes zu einer Ethik der digitalen Emotionserfassung. In: Schweiger, G., Zichy, M. (eds) Zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen im Zeitalter des Digitalen. Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen der...

Altered Left Ventricular Myocardial Deformation in Young Women With Borderline Personality Disorder: An Echocardiographic Study

Brüne, 2022 Engemann, L., Aweimer, A., Ewers, A., Afshari, F., Maiß, C., Kern, K., … & Brüne, M. (2022). Altered Left Ventricular Myocardial Deformation in Young Women With Borderline Personality Disorder: An Echocardiographic Study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 84(5),...

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.

Evolutionary Inquiries Into the Origin and Nature of Mental Disorders

Brüne, 2023 Brüne M. (2023). Evolutionary Inquiries Into the Origin and Nature of Mental Disorders. JAMA psychiatry, 80(6), 537–538. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.0662

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)

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 ALARM theory of consciousness: A two-level theory of phenomenal consciousness

Newen, 2023 Newen, A., & Montemayor, C. (2023). The ALARM theory of consciousness: A two-level theory of phenomenal consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 30(3-4), 84–105. https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.30.3.084

Quo Vadis Psychiatry? Why It Is Time to Endorse Evolutionary Theory

Brüne, 2022 Brüne, M., Palanza, P., Parmigiani, S., & Troisi, A. (2022). Quo Vadis Psychiatry? Why It Is Time to Endorse Evolutionary Theory. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 210(4), 235-245.

A Model of Semantic Completion in Generative Episodic Memory

Wiskott, 2022 Fayyaz, Z., Altamimi, A., Zoellner, C., Klein, N., Wolf, O. T., Cheng, S., & Wiskott, L.. (2022). A Model of Semantic Completion in Generative Episodic Memory. Neural Computation, 34(9), 1841–1870. http://doi.org/10.1162/neco_a_01520

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

Fictional emotions and emotional reactions to social robots as depictions of social agents

Weber-Guskar, 2023 Blatter, J., & Weber-Guskar, E. (2023). Fictional emotions and emotional reactions to social robots as depictions of social agents. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22001716

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

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

Inside Document Models: Role of Source Attributes in Readers’ Integration of Multiple Text Contents.

Stadtler, 2021 Rouet, J.-F., Saux, G., Ros, C., Stadtler, M., Vibert, N., & Britt, M. A. (2021). Inside Document Models: Role of Source Attributes in Readers’ Integration of Multiple Text Contents. Discourse Processes, 58(1), 60–79....

Evolutionary Inquiries Into the Origin and Nature of Mental Disorders

Brüne, 2023 Brüne M. (2023). Evolutionary Inquiries Into the Origin and Nature of Mental Disorders. JAMA psychiatry, 80(6), 537–538. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.0662

Visual and Tactile Sensory Systems Share Common Features in Object Recognition.

Tegenthoff, 2021 Tabrik, S., Behroozi, M., Schlaffke, L., Heba, S., Lenz, M., Lissek, S., Güntürkün, O., Dinse, H. R., & Tegenthoff, M. (2021). Visual and Tactile Sensory Systems Share Common Features in Object Recognition. eNeuro, 8(5), ENEURO.0101-21.2021....

The time-course of sentence meaning composition. N400 effects of the interaction between context-induced and lexically stored affordances

Werning, 2017 Cosentino, E., Baggio, G., Kontinen, J., & Werning, M. (2017). The Time-Course of Sentence Meaning Composition. N400 Effects of the Interaction between Context-Induced and Lexically Stored Affordances. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 813....

How to feel about emotionalized artificial intelligence? When robot pets, holograms, and chatbots become affective partners

Weber-Guskar, 2021 Weber-Guskar, E. (2021). How to feel about emotionalized artificial intelligence? When robot pets, holograms, and chatbots become affective partners. Ethics and Information Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-021-09598-8

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)

The role of spontaneous recovery effects in the context of German orthography instruction methods with delayed correction.

Rummel, 2021 Erdmann, J., & Rummel, N. (2021). The role of spontaneous recovery effects in the context of German orthography instruction methods with delayed correction. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000377