News (2025)4 June 2025|CMDNJob offer: Research Associate for the Project "Integration of dynamic belief updating across contexts and psychopathology"We have a postdoc position available for the project “Integration of dynamic belief updating across contexts and psychopathology”. The most important...25 April 2025|CMDNNew Publication in eLifeHunger drives humans to seek calorie-dense foods. This tendency has been evolutionary adaptive as it ensured survival under conditions of scarcity...15 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...
