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Professor of Predictive Cognition at Faculty of Psychology @ruhr-uni-bochum.de Emmy Noether Research Group Leader PI @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social @ UKE Hamburg https://blanklab.eu/

We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be...

Fantastic resource of German sentences to study predictive processes! Thank you @esterner.bsky.social & @franziskaknolle.bsky.social

💭 How, when, and where do we remember events we have truly experienced? Philosophers and computational neuroscientists are working together to answer this question. Learn more in this @ruhr-uni-bochum.de story feat. Bernstein member Sen Cheng 👉️ bit.ly/4fz8n2R #Neuroskyence #BernsteinNetwork 🧠 📈

#PuG2026 was a fantastic conference! Now you can already safely the date for #PuG2027 in Oldenburg: 6-8 May, 2027! 🧠

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Mit seinem Werk über das Bewusstsein erlangte David Chalmers vor 30 Jahren große Popularität. Im Juni diskutiert er in Bochum alte und neue Fragen zum Thema.

Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience

I am so proud of the amazing work by @esterner.bsky.social!🤩 This database is fantastic to extract validated and linguistically described sentence stimuli! We even have downloadable recordings of the stimuli! ‼️It’s a great resource when you’d like to design a German language paradigm! Enjoy!!😊

Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand". www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵

Call for papers: ICHR/ECHR 2026 (deadline June 15) The next meeting of ICHR will be at TU Munich (Oct 19-21), hosted by the fantastic @franziskaknolle.bsky.social! Get your abstracts in and join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes 1/n

It's that time of the year: IGOR is going to #PuG2026 in Heidelberg! 🧠 Interested in open and reproducible science? Come meet us, discover our latest work, and get involved. 🧵 Check the thread below for all our events #PuG2026 #IGOR [1/6]

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By combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ...

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Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Vor 30 Jahre veröffentlichte David Chalmers sein bahnbrechendes Buch „The Conscious Mind“, in dem er eine Wissenschaft des Bewusstseins theoretisch fundieren wollte. Im Juni kommt er nach Bochum.

The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research

Online Now: Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

🚨 Our database is published in Behavior Research Methods: link.springer.com/article/10.3... with Maximilian Stadler and @franziskaknolle.bsky.social If you plan on working with German speech stimuli, check out our osf for auditory stimuli and our online tool for selecting sentence material 🪄

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics and information integration during percept formation often distinguish clinical from nonclinical populations. Computational psychiatry can elucidate these variations through two primary approaches: (i) Bayesian modeling, which treats perception as an unconscious inference, and (ii) an active, information-seeking perspective (e.g., reinforcement learning), which frames perceptual switches as internal actions. Our synthesis aims to leverage multistability to bridge these computational psychiatry subfields, linking human and animal studies as well as connecting behavior to underlying neural mechanisms. Perceptual multistability emerges as a promising noninvasive tool for clinical applications, facilitating translational research and enhancing our mechanistic understanding of cognitive processes and their impairments.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Prediction is a core feature of language, which is widely studied across research domains. The Munich Sentence (MuSe) database enhances reproducibility by providing sentence completion norms for 619 G...

Excited to share the Munich Sentence Database (MuSe)! osf.io/preprints/ps... 💬 619 German sentences 📊 Cloze probabilities & entropy estimated from up to 232 participants 👫 Demographic + subclinical data 🎧 Professionally recorded audio material 🪄 Open access scripts and interactive online tool