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Antonia shows in her first publication that the enhancing effect of stress on memory consolidation depends on stressor recall.

This work has been...

Kaja sheds in her latest publication light on the cognitive mechanisms involved in the influence of prediction errors on memory formation.

The work...

Sarah Koch joins our team as new post-doc.

A warm welcome to Sarah!

On August 28th, Hendrik successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "On the trail of memory traces: how stress affects initial memory
formation...

Kaja has just published her first paper, in which she presents first evidence that a cognitive training intervention can prevent stress-induced...

Jacqueline shows across three experiments that dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activity is increased and not, as commonly assumed, decreased under...

Jacqueline zeigt in ihrer neuen Arbeit über drei Experimente hinweg, dass die Aktivität des dorsolateralen Präfrontalcortexes unter akutem Stress...

In his most recent study, Hendrik shows that post-retrieval stress can impair subsequent remembering depending on the hippocampal memory trace...

On January 26th, Anna-Maria defended successfully her thesis on the topic "An Insightful Trio: Stress, Imagination and the Angular Gyrus Shape...

On January 19th, Valentina successfully defended her thesis on "Memory dynamics over time: mechanisms and modulation". Congrats, Valentina! Well done!

Claudius von Schröder joins our team as a research associate.

A warm welcome to Claudius!

Valentina shows in her new work that the time-dependent transformation of memories in the hippocampus and neocortex is semantic, but not perceptual...

Valentina received this year’s Biopsychology Research Award at the conference “Psychology and Brain” for her publication „Noradrenergic arousal...

Fabian Dorok joins our team as a research associate.

A warm welcome to Fabian!

Xiaoyu Wang  joins our team as a research associate (guest doctorate).

A warm welcome to Xiaoyu!

How do we learn to predict and detect danger? In an opinion paper that was just published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Blazej discusses how...

Sterre van de Langenberg joins our team as a research associate.

A warm welcome to Sterre!

Stefan just started a tenure-track professorship for "Nutrional Neuroscience" at the University of Vienna. All the best for the new position, Stefan...

In her new study, Anna-Maria contrasted the mechanisms underlying insight-driven memory reconfigurations through direct observation with those through...