News7 July 2025|ForschungBest Thesis Award 2025The Hamburg Center of Neuroscience (NCNS) awards Dr. Hendrik Heinbockel together with another candidate the prize for the best thesis 2025. The title...1 July 2025|cogpsyWelcome, Neele!Neele Elbersgerd joins our team as a research assistant. A warm welcome to Neele!1 July 2025|cogpsyWelcome, Leon!Dr. Leon Lange joins our team as a post-doctoral fellow. A warm welcome to Leon.1 June 2025|cogpsy3rd place in the dissertation competition for Sarah KochIn the 14th dissertation competition of the German Psychological Society (General Psychology Division), Sarah Koch's dissertation came 3rd out of 10...3 April 2025|cogpsyTwo projects funded by the Ideas and Venture Fund!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...1 April 2025|cogpsyWelcome, Ivana!Ivana Marijanovic started as a new PhD student in our lab. A warm welcome, Ivana!10 February 2025|PublicationNew paper by Hendrik Heinbockel!In his latest paper, Hendrik shows that noradrenergic stimulation after memory retrieval may impair subsequent memory, depending on the extent of...28 November 2024|Academic affairsAnna Cremer successfully defends her thesis!Photo: privatOn October 7th, Anna successfully defended her doctoral thesis titled "The dual-systems approach in reinforcement learning – a multimethodological...5 November 2024|PublicationFirst paper by Antonia Lilja!Antonia shows in her first publication that the enhancing effect of stress on memory consolidation depends on stressor recall. This work has been...5 November 2024|PublicationNew paper by Kaja Loock!Kaja sheds in her latest publication light on the cognitive mechanisms involved in the influence of prediction errors on memory formation. The work...16 October 2024|AdministrationNew post-doc!Sarah Koch joins our team as new post-doc. A warm welcome to Sarah!28 August 2024|Academic affairsHendrik Heinbockel successfully defends his thesis!Photo: privatOn August 28th, Hendrik successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "On the trail of memory traces: how stress affects initial memoryformation...25 June 2024|PublicationFirst publication of Kaja Loock!Kaja has just published her first paper, in which she presents first evidence that a cognitive training intervention can prevent stress-induced...5 April 2024|PublicationNew publication by Jacqueline Meier!Jacqueline shows across three experiments that dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activity is increased and not, as commonly assumed, decreased under...3 April 2024|cogpsyNeue Publikation von Jacqueline Meier!Jacqueline zeigt in ihrer neuen Arbeit über drei Experimente hinweg, dass die Aktivität des dorsolateralen Präfrontalcortexes unter akutem Stress...28 March 2024|PublicationNew publication by Hendrik Heinbockel!In his most recent study, Hendrik shows that post-retrieval stress can impair subsequent remembering depending on the hippocampal memory trace...26 January 2024|Academic affairsAnna-Maria Grob defended her thesis!Photo: privatOn January 26th, Anna-Maria defended successfully her thesis on the topic "An Insightful Trio: Stress, Imagination and the Angular Gyrus Shape...19 January 2024|Academic affairsValentina Krenz defended her thesis!Photo: privatOn January 19th, Valentina successfully defended her thesis on "Memory dynamics over time: mechanisms and modulation". Congrats, Valentina! Well done!1 January 2024|AdministrationNew team memberClaudius von Schröder joins our team as a research associate. A warm welcome to Claudius!14 September 2023|PublicationNew paper by Valentina Krenz!Valentina shows in her new work that the time-dependent transformation of memories in the hippocampus and neocortex is semantic, but not perceptual...Show all news