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Upcoming Events
<i>Fellow Lecture Neuroscience</i> <br>Genela Morris (Tel Aviv)<br><b>Separate neurons for gains and losses: single-neuron recordings in the human brain</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>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Jakub Rudnicki (RUB) <br><b>The semantics of event schema</b>
<i>Psychology</i> <br>Mats Dombrowe (RUB) <br><b>Tau pathology disrupts neural navigation codes in the human medial temporal lobe</b>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Stephan Pohl (NYU) & Wej Ji Ma (NYU)<br><b>Clarifying the Conceptual Dimensions of Representation in Neuroscience</b>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Megan Peters (UCL) & Hojjat Azimi Asrari (UCL)<br><b>How Brains Build Higher Order Representations of Uncertainty</b>
Relevant Publications
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What is self-control? A discussion of unresolved issues.
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
The impact of contingency awareness on the neurocircuitry underlying pain-related fear and safety learning
Accuracy of self-control judgments by informants: can others tell where and how much we care, struggle, and succeed?
Single neuron responses in NCL, MVL, and Wulst during the observation of videos of conspecifics support population feature coding
Selective spatial attention to competing speakers in azimuth and depth: Evidence from real and virtual environments
The role of episodic memory in causal reasoning with counterfactuals: A perspective from predictive processing and trace minimalism
Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain
Accuracy of self-control judgments by informants: can others tell where and how much we care, struggle, and succeed?
Deceptive XAI: Typology, Creation and Detection
Prediction error processing and sharpening of expected information across the face-processing hierarchy
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 …
Prior knowledge activation as preparation prior to instruction: does the coverage of relevant prior knowledge affect learning?
Abstract Two-phase instructional designs such as Productive and Vicarious Failure employ preparatory activities before explicit instruction. It is assumed that during this preparatory activity, students need to activate their prior knowledge in order to be prepared for subsequent instruction. However, …
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 …
Positive mental health predicts amelioration of suicidal ideation in patients undergoing cognitive behavioral therapy
Background Positive mental health has been shown to confer resilience against suicidal ideation and behavior. Yet, studies on treatment seeking populations are rare. The aim of the present study was to investigate, whether PMH predicts the amelioration of suicidal ideation …
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 …
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 …

