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Upcoming Events
<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>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Daniel Burnston (Tulane University) & Tomas J. Ryan (Trinity College Dublin/CIFAR)<br><b>An Alternative to Encoding for Thinking About Neural Representation</b>
Relevant Publications
For full list of selected publications, see the publications page
What is self-control? A discussion of unresolved issues.
Accuracy of self-control judgments by informants: can others tell where and how much we care, struggle, and succeed?
Reading media and multitasking: effects on comprehension and metacomprehension when reading multiple texts
The effects of pre-extinction stress vs. physical exercise on contextual retrieval and generalization
The role of episodic memory in causal reasoning with counterfactuals: A perspective from predictive processing and trace minimalism
A computationally efficient music processing algorithm for cochlear implants based on an auditory adaptation model
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
Predictive acoustical processing in human cortical layers
Loops all the way up: Recurrency as an implementation-first primitive for consciousness
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 …
Regional prefrontal and hippocampal differences in gray matter volume are linked to the propensity for renewal in extinction learning
Introduction The renewal effect of extinction describes the reoccurrence of an extinguished response if recall is performed in a context that is not the same as the extinction context. This learning phenomenon is clinically relevant, since it potentially interferes with …
Foundation Models – A New Paradigm for Artificial Intelligence
Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain
Abstract Extinction learning—the suppression of a previously acquired fear response—is critical for adaptive behaviour and core for understanding the aetiology and treatment of anxiety disorders. Electrophysiological studies in rodents have revealed critical roles of theta (4–12 Hz) oscillations in amygdala and …
The Relationship Between Vividness of Positive Future-Oriented Mental Imagery, Anhedonia, and Positive Affect
The vividness with which people can imagine positive events happening in their future has been linked to a number of different aspects of psychopathology and wellbeing. These relationships are hypothesised to arise from the role of mental imagery in thinking …
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 …
When is learning “effortful”? Scrutinizing the concept of mental effort in cognitively-oriented research from a motivational perspective
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 …
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 …

