Cognitive Psychology

Hendrik Heinbockel joins our team as a PhD Student. A warm welcome to Hendrik!

In two experiments, Felix Kalbe showed that prediction errors for aversive events were, beyond the well-established effects of physiological arousal, associated with an improved memory formation for related stimuli. The study entitled...

Gundula Zerbes and Franziska Kausche demonstrated in their experiment that the stress mediators cortisol and noradrenaline impaired recall from habit memory. The study was published under the title “Glucocorticoids, Noradrenergic Arousal...