Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gluth

Head of General Psychology
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Academic CV
10/2020 - | Professor for General Psychology at the University of Hamburg |
02/2016 - 09/2020 | Assistant professor for Decision Neuroscience at the University of Basel |
07/2013 - 01/2016 | Postdoc in the Center for Economic Psychology (PI: Jörg Rieskamp) at the University of Basel |
07/2009 - 06/2013 | PhD student in the Department of Systems Neuroscience (PI: Christian Büchel) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf |
10/2004 - 03/2009 | Student of psychology at the Humboldt-University Berlin |
Competitive grants and awards
01/2021 - | ERC Starting Grant Tracking the decisions of others with the own mind |
09/2017 - 12/2020 | SNF research grant The influence of episodic memory on value-based decision making |
12/2016 | Lecturer of the Year award (Department of Psychology, University of Basel) |
11/2015 | Steven-Karger publication award (for Gluth et al., 2015, Neuron; Department of Psychology, University of Basel) |
07/2009 - 06/2013 | DFG scholarship (International Research Training Group CINACS) |
Selected Publications
Spektor, M.S., Bhatia, S., & Gluth, S. (2021). The elusiveness of context effects in decision making. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Weilbaecher, R.A., Kraemer, P.M., & Gluth, S. (2020). The reflection effect in memory-based decisions. Psychological Science, 31, 1439-1451.
Gluth, S., Kern, N., Kortmann, M., & Vitali, C.L. (2020). Value-based attention but not divisive normalization influence decisions with multiple alternatives. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 634-645.
Gluth, S., & Meiran, N. (2019). Leave-One-Trial-Out, LOTO, a general approach to link single-trial parameters of cognitive models to neural data. eLife, 8, e42607.
Busemeyer, J.R., Gluth, S., Rieskamp, J., & Turner, B. (2019). Cognitive and neural bases of multi-attribute, multi-alternative value-based decisions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23, 251-263.
Spektor, M.S., Gluth, S., Fontanesi, L., & Rieskamp, J. (2019). How similarity between choice options affects decisions from experience: The accentuation-of-differences model. Psychological Review, 126, 52-88.
Gluth, S.*, Spektor, M.S.*, & Rieskamp, J. (2018). Value-based attentional capture affects multi-alternative decision making. eLife, 7, e39659. *equal contribution
Gluth, S., Hotaling, J. M., & Rieskamp, J. (2017). The attraction effect modulates reward prediction errors and intertemporal choices. Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 371-382.
Gluth, S., & Fontanesi, L. (2016). Wiring the altruistic brain. Science, 1028-1029.
Gluth, S., Sommer, T., Rieskamp, J., & Büchel, C. (2015). Effective connectivity between hippocampus and prefrontal cortex controls preferential choices from memory. Neuron, 86, 1078-1090.
Brassen, S., Gamer, M., Peters, J., Gluth, S., & Büchel, C. (2012). Don't look back in anger! Responsiveness to missed chances in successful and non-successful aging. Science, 336, 612-614.
Gluth, S., Rieskamp, J., & Büchel, C. (2012). Deciding when to decide: time-variant sequential sampling models explain the emergence of value-based decisions in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 10686-10698.