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Upcoming Events
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Megan Peters (UCL) & Hojjat Azimi Asrari (UCL)<br><b>How Brains Build Higher Order Representations of Uncertainty</b>
<i>Biopsychology</i> <br>Anika Kuckertz (Heinrich Heine Universität Düssledorf) & Kai Benning (FZ Juelich)) <br><b>TBA</b>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Nathan Wildman (Tilburg)<br><b>Fictional virtual actions</b>
<i>Cognitive Psychology</i> <br>Leander Fester (RUB) <br><b>Freezing in humans? Postural sway as a readout of conditioned fear</b>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Krystyna Bielecka (University of Warsaw) & Marcin Milkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences)<br><b>Contentful Skills: Procedural Memory and the Representational Challenge to Non-Representational Cognition</b>
<i>Philosophy</i> <br>Henry Taylor (University of Birmingham) <br><b>TBA</b>
Relevant Publications
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Predictive acoustical processing in human cortical layers
Single neuron responses in NCL, MVL, and Wulst during the observation of videos of conspecifics support population feature coding
Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account
Learning What to Remember: Semantic Attention in Generative Episodic Memory Model. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).
Fayyaz, Z., Rathjens, J., Cheng, S., & Wiskott, L.. (2026). Learning What to Remember: Semantic Attention in Generative Episodic Memory Model. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).
What is self-control? A discussion of unresolved issues.
Stress, path integration, and the entorhinal cortex
The impact of contingency awareness on the neurocircuitry underlying pain-related fear and safety learning
The role of episodic memory in causal reasoning with counterfactuals: A perspective from predictive processing and trace minimalism
Varieties of self-to-memory dynamics in autobiographical memory: the case of depression
A computationally efficient music processing algorithm for cochlear implants based on an auditory adaptation model
Out of touch? How trauma shapes the experience of social touch – neural and endocrine pathways
Deceptive XAI: Typology, Creation and Detection
Foundation Models – A New Paradigm for Artificial Intelligence
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 …
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 …
Costly pain avoidance and its impact on the modulation and extinction of visceral pain-related fear
Abstract Along the gut-brain axis, visceral pain demonstrably evokes emotional learning and memory processes shaping behavior in clinically relevant ways. Avoidance motivated by learned fear may constitute a major obstacle to treatment success in extinction-based interventions. However, the effects of …
Neurite density but not myelination of specific fiber tracts links polygenic scores to general intelligence
Abstract White matter is fundamental for efficient information transfer and thus crucial for intelligence. Previous studies demonstrated associations between fractional anisotropy and intelligence, but it remains unclear whether this relation is due to greater axon density, parallel, homogenous fiber orientation …

