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New smartphone-based application launched!

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New smartphone-based application for research launched!  After almost 1.5 years of development, together with with genius programmer Karol Lassota (https://www.beyond-the-bit.de/) and with great support by the UniversitätsTransferKlinik (Martin Leucker), we are extremely proud to have launched our first SNL research application (now available in iOS and Android stores).  Video produced by Yaryna Bitkovska    

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CCNB-Lectures Series hosted together with the SNL!

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We are announcing a new lectures series on the topic of “control” We are extremely happy to announce this new summer term lectures series on “control”, co-organized with our colleagues Felix Blankenburg and Timo Schmidt (FU Berlin).  We will hear great talks from international speakers:  05.05.2025 Opening by Sören Krach und David Stolz (on-site at

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Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Cognitive Flexibility: An [18F]Fallypride PET Study

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New paper by Lena Rademacher, published in Journal of Nuclear Medicine, from our group!   Abstract Cognitive flexibility is the ability to appropriately adapt one’s thinking and behavior to changing environmental demands and is conceptualized as an aspect of executive function. The dopamine system has been implicated in cognitive flexibility; however, a direct, that is,

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Computational modeling shows confirmation bias during formation and revision of self-beliefs

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Abstract Self-belief formation and revision strongly depend on social feedback. Accordingly, self-beliefs are subject to (re)evaluation and updating when facing new information. However, it has been shown that self-related learning is rarely purely information-driven. Instead, self-related learning is susceptible to a wide variety of biases. Among them is the confirmation bias, which can render updating

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Altered physiological, affective, and functional connectivity responses to acute stress in patients with alcohol use disorder

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Background There is evidence that the processing of acute stress is altered in alcohol use disorder (AUD), but little is known about how this is manifested simultaneously across different stress parameters and which neural processes are involved. The present study examined physiological and affective responses to stress and functional connectivity in AUD. Methods Salivary cortisol

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Examining self-belief formation through artificial beliefs

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Abstract Psychological research has addressed key questions about self-beliefs, such as when they are formed, how they are shaped, or what functions they might have. The fundamental question of how we arrive at these self-beliefs in the first place has mostly been neglected, and there is currently no mechanistic description of the underlying processes. While

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Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying maladaptive self-belief formation in depression

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Abstract A core symptom of major depression is maladaptive self-beliefs. These are perpetuated by negatively biased feedback processing. Understanding the neurocomputational mechanisms of biased belief updating may help to counteract maladaptive beliefs. The present study uses functional neuroimaging to examine neural activity associated with prediction error-based learning in depression and healthy controls. We hypothesized that

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The Human Affectome

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Abstract Over the last decades, the interdisciplinary field of the affective sciences has seen proliferation rather than integration of theoretical perspectives. This is due to differences in metaphysical and mechanistic assumptions about human affective phenomena (what they are and how they work) which, shaped by academic motivations and values, have determined the affective constructs and

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Rethink funding!? New paper and Shiny App published

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Rethink funding!? Every funding agency, be it the German (DFG), Swiss (SNF), British (Wellcome Trust), US American (NIH), Chinese (NSFC), or French (ANR) research foundation, has its own scheme on how to allocate research funding to the researchers. And research funding determines what is considered good science, it controls future science, and it shapes future knowledge.  However, meta-science research increasingly shows that funding allocation is inherently

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How do we arrive at our beliefs? “Neurocomputational mechanisms of affected beliefs” out now!

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Affected beliefs Researchers at Lübeck University show links between emotions and the formation of self-efficacy beliefs   Why do some people believe that they are good at something and others not, while performing exactly similar? A recent study from Lübeck University, Germany, finds that emotional experiences are linked to the way people establish novel beliefs

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