IMBB Institute for Mind, Brain and Behavior

• Aufbau von Forschungsmodulen in der Lehre: Kausale Inferenz, Kognitive Neurowissenschaften, Wahrnehmung und Psychophysik
• Eigene Forschungsschwerpunkte: Komparative evolutionäre Neuroanatomie, Computational Psychiatry, Metakognition, Auditive Kognition, Lernen, Individuelle Unterschiede im Erleben und Verhalten
• Forschungsinfrastruktur: Experimentallabor für Psychoakustik, Eye-Tracking, Histologielabor, Konfokalmikroskop
• Methoden: Komputationale Modellierung, Psychophysik, Bayes Statistik, Maschinelles Lernen, (f)MRT, Histologie, Strukturgleichungsmodelle
• Repräsentation der Fächer Allgemeine, Biologische und Mathematische Psychologie, Quantitative Methoden und Neurowissenschaften in nationalen/internationalen Konsortien, Fachgesellschaften und Institutionen

Neurowissenschaften - Psychologische Grundlagenforschung - Statistik und Kognitive Modellierung

• Alterung und Degeneration neuronaler Netzwerke (C. elegans)
• Visuelle und Auditive Wahrnehmung, Psychophysik
• Kognition, Metakognition, Kognitive Modellierung, Bildgebung
• Assoziatives und affektives Lernen, kausale Schlüsse, Entscheiden​
• Messung, Entwicklung und Konsequenzen von Persönlichkeit
• Evolution des Gehirns bei Säugern
• Plastizität über die menschliche Lebensspanne
• Mensch-Technik-Interaktion
• Statistische Methoden

AG Alterung und Degeneration neuronaler Netzwerke in C. Elegans

• Prof. Dr. Karl Emanuel Busch, Professur für Physiologie (Link zum Profil)

AG Messung, Entwicklung und Konsequenzen von Persönlichkeit

• Prof. Dr. Michael Grosz, Professur für Psychologische Diagnostik (Link zum Profil)
• Richard Rau (Link zum Profil)

AG Cognition and Computation

• Prof. Dr. habil. Matthias Guggenmos, Professur für Komputationale Kognitive Neurowissenschaften (Link zum Profil)

AG Auditive Kognition, Assoziatives Lernen, Psychophysik

• Prof. Dr. habil. Florian Kattner, Professur für Allgemeine Psychologie (Link zum Profil)
• Samuel Conrad
• Mitra Hassanzadeh

AG Lernen, kausale Schlüsse, Entscheiden

• Prof. Dr. Björn Meder, Professur für Allgemeine Psychologie (Link zum Profil)

AG Evolution des Gehirns bei Säugern

• Prof. Dr. Nina Patzke, Professur für Neuroanatomie (Link zum Profil)
• Javad Hami
• Oleg Tsuprykov
• Kira Johanna
• Lisa Gromen
• Marvin Kock

AG Statistische Methoden, affektive Lernprozesse

• Prof. Dr. Daniel Schad, Professur für Quantitative Methoden (Link zum Profil)
• Laura A. Wirth

AG Plastizität über die Lebensspanne

• Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Wenger, Professur für Entwicklungspsychologie

AG Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

• Prof. Dr. Rebecca Wiczorek, Professur für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

  2024

• Avelino-de-Souza, K., Mynssen, H., Chaim, K., Parks, A., Ikeda, J. M. P., Cunha, H. A., Mota, B., Patzke, N. (2024). Anatomical and volumetric description of the guiana dolphin (sotalia guianensis) brain from an ultra-high-field magnetic resonance imaging. Brain Structure and Function, accepted for publication
• Grosz, M. P., Ayaita, A., Arslan, R. C., Buecker, S., Ebert, T., Hünermund, P., Müller, S. Rieger, S., Zapko-Willmes, A., Rohrer, J. M. (2024). Natural experiments: Missed opportunities for causal inference in psychology. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231218610
• Grosz, M. P., van Aert, R. C. M., & Back, M. D. (2024). A meta-analytic review of the associations of personality, intelligence, and physical size with social status. Psychological Bulletin. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000416
• Kattner, F. (2024). False memories through auditory distraction: When irrelevant speech produces memory intrusions in the absence of semantic interference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241235654
• Kattner, F., Fischer, M., Caling, A., Cremona, S., Ihle, A., Hodgson, T., & Föcker, J. (2024). The disruptive effects of changing-state sound and emotional prosody on verbal short-term memory in blind, visually impaired, and sighted listeners. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 36(1), 28-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2186771
• Liu, S., Li, R., Wegner, L., Huang, C., Haucke, M. N., Schad, D. J., ... & Heinzel, S. (2024). High-mind wandering correlates with high risk for problematic alcohol use in China and Germany. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 274(2), 335-341. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-023-01555-4
• Schad, D. J., Nicenboim, B., & Vasishth, S. (2024). Data aggregation can lead to biased inferences in Bayesian linear mixed models and Bayesian analysis of variance. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000621
• Xu, L. X., Zhang, J. L., Geng, X. M., Song, K. R., Zeng, P. P., Potenza, M. N., ..., Schad, D. J. & Zhang, J. T. (2024). Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer and outcome-devaluation effects in individuals with gaming experience.Computers in Human Behavior, 108188.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108188

  2023

• Adams, Z., Osman, M., Bechlivanidis, C., & Meder, B. (2023). (Why) Is misinformation a problem? Perspectives on Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916221141344
• Bryce, D., Kattner, F., Birngruber, T., & Wellingerhof, P. (2023). Monitoring accuracy suffers when working memory demands increase: Evidence of a dependent relationship. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(12), 1909-1922. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001262
• Binz, M., Alaniz, S., Roskies, A., Aczel, B., Bergstrom, C. T., Allen, C., ..., Schad, D. J., ... & Schulz, E. (2023). How should the advent of large language models affect the practice of science? arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.03759.
• Giron, A. P., Ciranka, S., Schulz, E., van den Bos, W., Ruggeri, A., Meder, B., & Wu, C. M. (2023). Developmental changes in exploration resemble stochastic optimization. Nature Human Behavior, 7, 1955-1967. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01662-1
• Gowda, S. G. B., Gowda, D., Hou, F., Shekhar, C., Chiba, H., Patzke, N., & Hui, S. P. (2023). Regiospecific analysis of lipidome in the brain from mammals of land and aquatic habitats-by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Heliyon, 9(12). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e22959
• Grosz, M. P. (2023). The factor structure of Big Five personality trait measures at the between- and within-person levels. European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070231213805  
• Grosz, M. P., van Aert, R. C. M., & Back, M. D. (2023). A Meta-Analysis on the Associations of Personality, Intelligence, and Physical Size with Social Status. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/73mf4
• Grosz, M. P., Ayaita, A., Arslan, R. C., Buecker, S., Ebert, T., Müller, S., … Rohrer, J. M. (2023). Natural Experiments: Missed Opportunities for Causal Inference in Psychology. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dah3q
• Kappes, C., Marion-Jetten, A. S., Taylor, G., Schad, D. J., Dreßler, B., El-Hayek, S., ... & Stach, P. (2023). The role of mindfulness and autonomous motivation for goal progress and goal adjustment: an intervention study. Motivation and Emotion, 47(6), 946-964. Doi: 10.1007/s11031-023-10033-2
• Kattner, F., Fischer, M., Caling, A., Cremona, S., Ihle, A., Hodgson, T., & Föcker, J. (2023). The disruptive effects of changing-state sound and emotional prosody on verbal short-term memory in blind, visually impaired, and sighted listeners. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2023.2186771
• Kattner, F., & Gast, A. (2023). Scaling preferences using probabilistic choice models: Is there a ratio-scale representation of subjective liking? Psychological Research, 87, 1953-1965. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01775-8
• Kattner, F., Hanl, S., Paul, L., & Ellermeier, W. (2023). Task-specific auditory distraction in serial recall and mental arithmetic. Memory & Cognition, 51, 930-951. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01363-6
• Kattner, F., Hassanzadeh, M., & Ellermeier, W. (2023). The role of spatial location in irrelevant speech revisited: A registered replication of Jones and Macken (1995). In principle acceptance of Version 3 by Peer Community in Registered Reports. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/2TB8E  
• Liu, S., Rabovsky, M., & Schad, D. J. (2023). Spontaneous mind wandering impairs model-based decision making. PloS one, 18(1), e0279532. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279532
• Liu, S., Li, R., Wegner, L., Huang, C., Haucke, M. N., Schad, D. J., Zhao, M., & Heinzel, S. (2023). High-mind wandering correlates with high risk for problematic alcohol use in China and Germany. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 1–7. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-023-01555-4
• Ptasczynski, L. E., Steinecker, I., Sterzer, P., & Guggenmos, M. (2022). The value of confidence: Confidence prediction errors drive value-based learning in the absence of external feedback. PLoS computational biology, 18(10), e1010580. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010580
• Schad, D. J. & Rabovsky, M. (2022). Social-distancing induced deceleration can enhance subjective well-being. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being, doi: 10.1111/aphw.12414
• van Doorn, J., …, Schad, D.J., …, Aust, F. (2023). Bayes Factors for Mixed Models: a Discussion. Computational Brain & Behavior, doi: 10.1007/s42113-022-00160-3
• Vasishth, S., Yadav, H., Schad, D. J., & Nicenboim, B. (2023). Sample size determination for Bayesian hierarchical models commonly used in psycholinguistics. Computational Brain & Behavior, 6(1), 102-126.  doi: 10.1007/s42113-021-00125-y

    2022

• Bağci, B., Düsmez, S., Zorlu, N., Bahtiyar, G., Isikli, S., Bayrakci, A., Heinz, A., Schad, D. J., & Sebold, M. (2022). Computational analysis of probabilistic reversal learning deficits in male subjects with alcohol use disorder. Frontiers in psychiatry, 13, 960238. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.960238
• Eckert, A. L., Gounitski, Y., Guggenmos, M., & Sterzer, P. (2022). Cross-Modality Evidence for Reduced Choice History Biases in Psychosis-Prone Individuals. Schizophrenia bulletin, sbac168. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac168
• Guggenmos M. (2022). Reverse engineering of metacognition. eLife, 11, e75420. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.75420
• Kattner, F., & Bryce, D. (2022). Attentional control and metacognitive monitoring of the effects of different types of task-irrelevant sound on serial recall. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 48(2), 139–158. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000982
• Kattner, F., & Gast, A. (2022). Scaling preferences using probabilistic choice models: is there a ratio-scale representation of subjective liking?. Psychological research, 10.1007/s00426-022-01775-8. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01775-8
• Kattner, F., Hanl, S., Paul, L., & Ellermeier, W. (2022). Task-specific auditory distraction in serial recall and mental arithmetic. Memory & cognition, 1–22. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01363-6
• Kattner, F., Richardson, B. H., & Marsh, J. E. (2022). The benefit of foreknowledge in auditory distraction depends on the intelligibility of pre-exposed speech. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 5(3-4), 151-168. doi: 10.1080/25742442.2022.2089525
• Li, Q., Marcu, D. C., Dear, P. H., & Busch, K. E. (2022). Aerotaxis Assay in Caenorhabditis elegans to Study Behavioral Plasticity. Bio-protocol, 12(16), e4492. https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.4492
• Magrabi, A., Beck, A., Schad, D.J., Lett, T.A., Stoppel, C.M., Charlet, K., Kiefer, F., Heinz, A., & Walter, H. (2022). Alcohol dependence decreases functional activation of the caudate nucleus during model‐based decision processes. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14812
• Marsh, J. E., Kattner, F., & Ruhnau, P. (2022). Research collection: On theoretical advancement in auditory distraction research. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 4(3-4), 133-138. doi: 10.1080/25742442.2022.2036524
• Matsushima, T., Miura, M., Patzke, N., Toji, N., Wada, K., Ogura, Y., Homma, K. J., Sgadò, P., & Vallortigara, G. (2022). Fetal blockade of nicotinic acetylcholine transmission causes autism-like impairment of biological motion preference in the neonatal chick. Cerebral Cortex Communications, tgac041, https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgac041
• Meder, B., Mayrhofer, R., & Ruggeri, A. (2022). Developmental trajectories in the understanding of everyday uncertainty terms. Topics in Cognitive Science, 14, 258–281.
• Meder, B., Wu, C.M., Schulz, E., & Ruggeri, A. (2021). Development of directed and random exploration in children. Developmental Science, 24,(4), e13095.
• Nelson, J. D., Rosenauer, C., Crupi, V., Tentori, K. & Meder, B. (2022). The Likelihood Difference Heuristic and binary test selection given situation-specific utilities. Decision, 9(3), 285–319.
• Osman, M., Adams, Z., Meder, B., Bechlivanidis, C., Verduga, O., & Strong, C. (2022). People’s understanding of the concept of misinformation. Journal of Risk Research, 25(10), 1239–1258.
• Schad, D. J., & Rabovsky, M. (2022). Social distancing-induced deceleration can enhance subjective well-being. Applied psychology. Health and well-being, 10.1111/aphw.12414. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12414
• Schad, D.J. & Vasishth, S. (2022). The posterior probability of a null hypothesis given a statistically significant result. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, doi: 10.48550/arXiv.1901.06889, Shiny app: https://danielschad.shinyapps.io/probnull
• Schad, D.J., Nicenboim, B., Bürkner, P.-C., Betancouort, M., & Vasishth, S. (2022). Workflow techniques for the robust use of Bayes factors. Psychological Methods, doi: 10.1037/met0000472, arXiv preprint: arXiv:2103.08744
• Swaboda, N., Meder, B., & Ruggeri, A. (2022). Finding the (most efficient) way out of a maze is easier than asking (good) questions. Developmental Psychology, 58(9), 1730–1746.
• Vasishth, S., Yadav, H., Schad, D.J., & Nicenboim, B. (2022). Sample size determination for Bayesian hierarchical models commonly used in psycholinguistics. Computational Brain and Behavior, doi: 10.1007/s42113-021-00125-y, PsyArXiv preprint: PsyArXiv:u8yvc
• Wu, C. M., Ho, M. K., Kahl, B., Leuker, C., Meder, B., & Kurvers, R. (2021). Specialization and selective social attention establishes the balance between individual and social learning. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1921–1927). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

    2021

• Meder, B., Crupi, V., & Nelson, J. D. (2021). What makes a good query? Prospects for a comprehensive theory of human information acquisition. In I. Cogliati-Dezza, E. Schulz, and C. M. Wu (Eds.). The drive for knowledge: the science of human information-seeking (pp. 101–123). Cambridge University Press.
• Meder, B., & Mayrhofer, R. (2021). Diagnostic causal reasoning. In M. Knauff and W. Spohn (Eds.), Handbook of rationality (pp. 449–460). MIT Press.
• Osman, M., McLachlan, S., Fenton, N., Neil, M., Löfstedt, R., & Meder, B. (2020). Learning from behavioural changes that fail. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 969–980.
• Stone, K., Verissimo, J, Schad, D.J., Oltrogge, E., Vasishth, S. & Lago, S. (2021). The interaction of grammatically distinct agreement dependencies in predictive processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36(9), 1159-1179, doi: 10.1080/23273798.2021.1921816

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