News15 April 2025|CMDNNew publication in "Psychological Review"As humans, we have remarkable abilities to adjust our behavior to new challenges and situations. For example, we often need to master new technologies...15 April 2025|CMDNNew publication in "Communications Psychology"In this paper, we show that increasing the value of an inferior option makes two superior ones look less valuable. Interestingly we show that this...13 February 2025|CMDNNew publication in "Communications Psychology"How do we learn to make good decisions in an uncertain world? This paper explores how the brain updates beliefs based on incoming information—what...10 January 2025|CMDNNew Student Assistant and Visit from AustraliaWe welcome Eva-Charlotte Trost, who started working with us as a student assistant at the beginning of January. Additionally, we look forward to the...6 January 2025|CMDNNew publication in "Psychological Review"To provide a mechanistic explanation for observed behaviours, increasingly more psychologists rely on cognitive computational models which map the...1 November 2024|CMDNDAAD Scholarship for Project at UC BerkeleyOur doctoral candidate, Barbara Oberbauer has received a DAAD-Scholarship for a research stay at the University of California, Berkeley. Next year...21 October 2024|CMDNCurrent Information from the Department of Cognitive Modeling and Neuroscience of Decision MakingThe department led by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gluth has undergone a name change: The previous title "General Psychology" has been changed to "Cognitive...16 August 2024|CMDNNew publication in "Frontiers in Behavioral Economics"Sebastian Gluth and Chih-Chung Ting published the article "Unraveling information processes of decision-making with eye-tracking data" in "Frontiers...1 July 2024|CMDNWe welcome our guest PhD student Lucas CastilloFrom July 1st on, Lucas Castillo is visting our group for three months. Lucas is a PhD student at the University of Warwick, UK, and will work on...1 July 2024|CMDNVisit from ParisStefano Palminteri (research director at INSERM, Paris), three members of his Human Reinforcement Learning lab, and Sophie Bavard (former postdoc in...20 June 2024|CMDNNew publication in "PLoS Biology"Sebastian Gluth, Sophie Bavard and Erik Stuchlý published the article "Humans can infer social preferences from decision speed alone" in "PLoS...14 June 2024|CMDNNew publication in „Nature Human Behaviour“Sophie Bavard published the article "Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries" in "Nature Human...1 June 2024|CMDNWe warmly welcome Maryam TohidimoghaddamWe warmly welcome Maryam and look forward to future collaboration! " 'How do we make up our minds?' is my main research question. As a postdoc, I will...31 May 2024|CMDNFarewell to Dr. Sophie BavardWe bid farewell to our valued colleague and Post-Doctoral researcher, Sophie. Sophie has enriched our lab with her outstanding research and tireless...1 May 2024|CMDNWe warmly welcome Dr. Jordan DeakinWe warmly welcome Jordan and look forward to future collaboration! "I was born and raised in Birmingham, UK, where I completed my BSc in Psychology...1 May 2024|CMDNWe welcome three new student assistantsWe are pleased to welcome Clara Köhne, Frederik Weber, and Ugur Turhan to our team. We warmly welcome our new colleagues!31 March 2024|CMDNFarewell to our student assistant CelestinaWe bid farewell to our valued student assistant, Celestina. On behalf of the General Psychology team, we would like to thank her for her dedicated...23 February 2024|CMDNApproval of a BMBF Research Grant on Flexible, Goal-Directed Decision MakingIn collaboration with Prof. Amitai Shenhav from Brown University (soon: University of California at Berkeley) and Prof. Romy Frömer from the...8 January 2024|CMDNOur team welcomes three new student research assistants!We are happy to welcome Izel Habil, Mira Poehlsen and Amber En Sung to our team. We warmly welcome our new colleagues! 18 December 2023|CMDNFarewell to our team member Anne-Christin KaufmannThis month we say goodbye to our valued student assistant and colleague Anne-Christin Kaufmann after she has enriched us for over a year, both...Show all news
