Assoziierte Forscher*Innen

Research Interests: Computational cognitive science • Large language models • Machine learning • Automated scientific discovery

Forschungsinteressen: • metacognition • subjective experience • disorders of mental health • computational modeling • functional MRI • MEG

Forschungsinteressen: • neural basis of spatial cognition • neural basis of embodiment • brain imaging • mobile brain imaging • EEG

Research interests: Neural mechanisms of high-level cognition • Network neuroscience • Laminar (cortical layer–specific) fMRI at ultra-high field • Causal manipulation using simultaneous fMRI–TMS • Closed-loop, neuroadaptive experimental designs • Mechanistic network modeling

Research interests: Neural basis of cognition-emotion interactions • emotional processing and control, emotion regulation • cognitive biases in anxiety and depression • fMRI • cognitive predictors of postpartum depression • cognitive biases and interventions in social anxiety

Research interests: • Neural dynamics of cognition and communication • Computational neuroscience • Perception and perceptual aberrations (hallucinations, tinnitus) • Speech and language comprehension • Interindividual differences • Healthy ageing

Forschungsinteressen: language evolution • language adaptation • language change • cultural evolution / cultural transmission • cross-linguistic diversity • communication games

Forschungsinteressen: • decision making • reinforcement learning • neural networks • functional MRI

Forschungsinteressen: • learning and memory development across the lifespan • predictive processing • environmental impacts on cognitive and brain development

Forschungsinteressen: • mechanisms underlying circadian photoreception in humans (non-visual effects of light) • signal integration and circadian rhythms in visual function

Forschungsinteressen: • language processing • memory • computational modeling • task-dependent processing • semantics • multimodality • neuroimaging • ecologically valid experiments

Forschungsinteressen: • impact of diet and lifestyle on brain structure and function • population neuroimaging • gut-microbiome-brain axis • cognitive aging • obesity and the brain • human interventional studies • genetic factors and gene-environment interactions • (micro-)structure of the hippocampus • structural imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, functional MRI & connectivity• impact of diet and lifestyle on brain structure and function • population neuroimaging • gut-microbiome-brain axis • cognitive aging • obesity and the brain • human interventional studies • genetic factors and gene-environment interactions • (micro-)structure of the hippocampus • structural imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, functional MRI & connectivity

Forschungsinteressen: • quantitative MRI • vascular imaging • metabolic Imaging • functional MRI • aging • cardiovascular disease • stroke

Forschungsinteressen: • human cortical organization • functional connectivity • cross-species comparative connectivity • higher-order cognition

Forschungsinteressen: • neuroplasticity and brain organization • reorganization in response to pathological states such as stroke • individual cortical adaptability • fMRI connectivity • spatial and temporal features of on-going brain signals

Forschungsinteressen: • training-related neuroplasticity • electrophysiological bases of motor control • cerebellar function, structure, and connectivity • white matter connectional architecture • quantitative assessment of stroke-related white matter disconnection • quantitative and physiologically-specific MRI • functional dynamics of the brain • image segmentation and registration