Cognitive, clinical, computational neuroscience: I study how we understand language and make decisions, and what happens in the brain if things go wrong.
https://franziskaknolle.com
https://www.tum.de
https://www.mri.tum.de
Franziska Knolle
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What matters most for childhood brain organization?
We analyzed 649 variables.
The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers.
Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES.
In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.)
yalereview.org/article/mela...
So excited to be attending #PUG2026!
The KnolleLab will be presenting some great new data on neurocognitive alterations in psychosis spectrum. Check out the work by @esterner.bsky.social, @mirilangy.bsky.social, @prithasen.bsky.social, @onuricin.bsky.social, Bruna, Zach, Zlata and Maryia π§ π‘
A naturally occurring Yin and Yang! β―οΈ A small reminder that tolerance may show up in unexpected places, even in these chaotic days!
Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.
Fantastic resource of German sentences to study predictive processes! Thank you @esterner.bsky.social & @franziskaknolle.bsky.social
Scott Marek
Melanie Mitchell
Franziska Knolle
Franziska Knolle
How can πͺ help us understand anhedonia?
What started as a small project is now (> 2 years after the preprint, with revision deadlines landing exactly during my move from TΓΌbingen to Bonn and even during a monastery-based PhD retreat) finally out in Cell Rep Med
π½π§΅ www.cell.com/cell-reports...
New preprint from down under:
Can acute TMS effects on dynamic brain states predict subsequent symptom change during treatment for depression?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#restinstateEEG #TMS #Depression #HMM #longitudinal
Schulz et al. show that anhedonia in depression, as measured by a scale often equated
with loss of pleasure, reflects reduced anticipation of food rewards rather than impaired
enjoyment itself. Linkin...
The Naturalistic Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab is launching at UT Austin and is looking for founding members at all levels, including lab manager, PhD students, and postdocs! #NeuroJobs
We will study human brainπ§ and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling.
thesonglab.github.io
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
Helen Blank
Carina Forster
Transition dynamics of external and internal attention across on-task and off-task states
Perspective by Sam Verschooren, Martin J. Dahl, Mariam Aly & Matthias Mittner
go.nature.com/43avM3v
#cogpsy #psychscisky
Corinna Schulz
Hayoung Song
The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research
Biopsych Community, we are ready and canβt wait to
welcome you to Heidelberg! #PUG2026
Peter Kirsch
π¨ 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 πͺ
Elisabeth Sterner
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...
π¬ 619 German sentences
π Cloze probabilities & entropy estimated from up to 232 participants
π« Demographic + subclinical data
π§ Professionally recorded audio material
πͺ Open access scripts and interactive online tool