General Psychology

Welcome to the General Psychology Lab!

Our research is concerned with the basic functions of the mind - in particular with decision making and how decisions are influenced by attention, learning and memory. We combine mathematical models of cognition with physiological and neuroscientfic methods (esp. eye tracking, fMRI, EEG) to achieve a comprehensive understanding of human cognition.

Head of General Psychology: Sebastian Gluth

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News

2 September 2021|General Psychology

New team member

We are happy to announce that Arjen Alink joined us as a Post-Doc. Welcome aboard!

2 September 2021|General Psychology

New Publication in "Trends in Cognitive Sciences"

This opinion article, entitled „The elusiveness of context effects in decision making“ and published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, is a collaboration with Mikhail Spektor from Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) and Sudeep Bhatia from UPenn...

22 July 2021|General Psychology

New Publication

In this new eye-tracking-study, we could replicate our previous findings that better remembered options were chosen, even when they were comparatively unattractive, a phenomenon we refer to as “memory bias”. In addition, we found that...

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