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The Hamburg Center of Neuroscience (HCNS) awards Dr. Hendrik Heinbockel the prize for the best thesis 2025. The title of his thesis is “On the trail...

Dr. Leon Lange joins our team as a post-doctoral fellow.

A warm welcome to Leon.

We’re excited to announce that the University of Hamburg’s Ideas and Venture Fund has selected two projects from our lab for funding: Sarah Koch’s...

Ivana Marijanovic started as a new PhD student in our lab. A warm welcome, Ivana!

In his latest paper, Hendrik shows that noradrenergic stimulation after memory retrieval may impair subsequent memory, depending on the extent of...

On October 7th, Anna successfully defended her doctoral thesis titled "The dual-systems approach in reinforcement learning – a multimethodological...

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...