Rasmus Bruckner, PhD
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| 2024-present | Visiting Scholar Universität Hamburg |
| 2020-present | Post-doc Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2015-2020 |
Dr. rer. nat. Psychology ("Summa cum laude") International Max Planck Research School LIFE Max Planck School of Cognition Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin |
| 2012-2015 | M.Sc. Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin |
| 2008-2011 | B.Sc. Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen |
Competitive grants and awards
| 2024-2028 |
Co-PI DFG research unit "Contextual influences on dynamic belief updating in volatile environments: Basic mechanisms and clinical implications" |
| 2023 | TEAMS-Grant Freie Universität Berlin |
Selected Publications
Bruckner, R., Nassar, M. R., Li, S.-C., & Eppinger, B. (2025). Differences in learning across the lifespan emerge via resource-rational computations. Psychological Review. Advance online publication.
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Bruckner, R., Heekeren, H. R., & Nassar, M. R. (2025). Understanding learning through uncertainty and bias. Communications Psychology 3, 24.
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Ganesh, P., Donner, T. H., Cichy, R. M., Schuck N. W., Finke, C., & Bruckner, R. (2024). Pupil-linked arousal encodes uncertainty-weighted prediction errors.
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Ganesh, P., Cichy, R. M., Schuck N. W., Finke, C., & Bruckner, R. (2024). Adaptive integration of perceptual and reward information in an uncertain world. eLife, 13:RP99266.
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Bruckner, R. & Nassar, M. R. (2024). Decision-making under uncertainty. Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, 2nd edition (Academic Press).
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O'Leary, J. D., Bruckner, R., Autore, L., & Ryan, T. J. (2024). Natural forgetting reversibly modulates engram expression. eLife, 12:RP92860.
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Koch, C., Zika, O., Bruckner, R., & Schuck, N. W. (2024). Influence of surprise on reinforcement learning in younger and older adults. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(8), e1012331.
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Dabas, A., Bruckner, R., Schultz, H., Benoit, R. G.(2024). Learning from imagined experiences via an endogenous prediction error. bioRxiv
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Satti, M. H., Wille, K., Nassar, M. R., Cichy, R. M., Schuck, N. W., Dayan, P., & Bruckner, R. (2024). Absence of systematic effects of trait anxiety on learning under uncertainty. Proceedings of the conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience 2024.
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Yao, Y.-W., Song, K.-R., Schuck, N. W., Li, X., Fang, X.-Y., Zhang, J.-T., Heekeren, H. R., & Bruckner, R. (2023). The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex represents subjective value across effort-based and risky decision-making. NeuroImage, 279:120326.
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