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Lab colloquium
Winter term 2022/2023
18.10. Introduction to winter term
25.10. Introduction into brain connectivity, gradients und cortical hierarchies (Clara Weber)
01.11. Invited talk by Aleya Flechsenhaar (LMU Munich): The e-LOOP: Can we learn to be empathic?
08.11. “Superstitious Learning of Abstract Order from Random Reinforcement.” (Yuhao et al., preprint)
15.11. “A Corticostriatal Pathway Mediating Self-Efficacy Enhancement.” (Shany et al., 2022)
22.11. “Interactions between Attributions and Beliefs at Trial-by-Trial Level: Evidence from a Novel Computer Game Task.” (Zamfir & Dayan, 2022)
29.11. Invited online lecture by Elena Zamfir (University of Oxford) on “Interactions between attributions and beliefs at trial-by-trial level: Evidence from a novel computer game task”
06.12. “The Role of Predictions, Their Confirmation, and Reward in Maintaining the Self-Concept.” (Mokady & Reggev, 2022)
13.12. Presentation of initial analyses of the SOREAL project (Yana Schwarze)
20.12. X-mas special: “The Value of Failure in Science: The Story of Grandmother Cells in Neuroscience” (Barwich, 2019)
10.01. Presentation of initial analyses of the i-LOOP (Laura Rosenbusch & Alica Steinert)
17.01.
24.01. Presentation of MA projects by Konrad Krahl und Jan Weis
31.01. “Mesolimbic dopamine release conveys causal associations“ (Jeong et al., 2022)
06.02. “What Is Computational Psychiatry Good For?” (Browning et al., 2022)
Winter term 2021/2022
19.10. Introduction to winter term & reports from the CPC in Zürich
26.10. Short presentation by Clara Weber on her planned PhD project (guests: Thomas Martinetz & Amir Madany)
02.11. “How the Discrepancy Between Prior Expectations and New Information Influences Expectation Updating in Depression-The Greater, the Better?” (Kube et al., 2021)
09.11. “Reward biases spontaneous neural reactivation during sleep” (Sterpenich et al., 2021)
16.11. “Subjective Arousal and Perceived Control Clarify Heterogeneity in Inflammatory and Affective Outcomes” (Ghane et al., 2021)
23.11. Invited talk by Geert-Jan Will (Utrecht University): Neural and computational processes underlying dynamic changes in self-esteem
30.11. BA/MA forum and presentations
07.12. Short presentation of grant proposals
14.12. Decision-making ability, psychopathology, and brain Connectivity (Moutoussis et al., 2021)
21.12. x-mas special: Video presentation by Tali Sharot at the PsychoNeuroEconomics conference
11.01. Practical session: How to present a poster
18.01. “The value of confidence: Confidence prediction errors drive value-based learning in the absence of external feedback” (Pzatschinsky et al., 2021)
25.01. Invited talk by Julie Lasselin (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden): “Experimental endotoxemia”
01.02. “Replacing academic journals” (Brembs et al., 2021)
Summer term 2021
06.04. Introduction summer term on “Social learning”
13.04. Rehearsal PhD defense
20.04. Learning About the Self: Motives for coherence and positivity constrain learning from self (Elder et al.)
27.04. „W2-Klinische Psychologie“ hearings
04.05. Learning from other minds: An optimistic critique of reinforcement learning models of social learning (Velez & Gweon)
11.05. Emotion as information in early social learning (Wu et al.)
18.05. Signed and unsigned reward prediction errors dynamically enhance learning and memory (Rouhani & Niv)
25.05. Lab-meeting / Discussion BA & MA
01.06. Seven Computations of the Social Brain (Molapour et al.)
08.06. The primacy of behavioral research for understanding the brain (Niv)
15.06. Lab-meeting / Discussion BA & MA
22.06. How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science (Guest & Martin)
29.06. End of term & summary
Winter term 2020/2021
20.10. Introduction into rStudio (Finn Lübber)
Block I: Immunology (Finn Lübber & Tanja Lange)
27.10. Introduction I
03.11. Introduction II
10.11. Free slot for MA presentation by Viktor Wahner
17.11. Introduction III
Block II: MVPA/RSA (David Stolz/ Annalina Mayer)
24.11. Introduction I
01.12. Introduction II
08.12. Introduction III
15.12. free slot for BA/MA presentation
Block III: Social grids? (Alexander Schröder & Frieder Paulus)
12.01. Introduction I
19.01. Introduction II
26.01. Introduction III
02.02. end of term
Summer term 2020
Block I: What is Open Science and how does it work? (Lena Rademacher)
21.04. Open Science Collaboration “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science”
28.04. Scheel et al, preprint “An excess of positive results: Comparing the standard Psychology literature with Registered Reports”
05.05. Allen & Mehler 2019 “Open science challenges, benefits and tips in early career and beyond”
12.05. Invited talk by Julia Beitner from the Open Science Initiative, Frankfurt
Block II: Value und der VMPFC (David Stolz)
19.05. Stalnaker et al.: “What OFC does not do”
26.05. Aoki et al.: “Value of Choices and Social Equality in vmPFC”
02.06. Pfingsten
09.06. Roy et al.: “Constructing Affective Meaning”
16.06. Viewpoints: Discussion between Schiller, Huettel, Fellows, Delgado and others
Block III: Aktuelle Forschung zu Psychose/Schizophrenie
23.06. The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis (Sterzer et al., 2018; Biol Psychiatry)
Winter term 2019/2020
Block I: Microbiome & Psychiatry (Johanna Voges)
05.11. Introduction
12.11. Introduction
19.11. Introduction
Block II: Social learning in anxiety or depression (Laura Müller-Pinzler, Nora Czekalla, Sören Krach)
26.11. Hopkins et al.: “Reduced positive evidence within activated self-schema…”
03.12. Niv et al.: “Learning task-state representations”
10.12. Becker et al.: “Altered activaton of the ventral striatum…”
17.12. Christmas Special: Rollwage et al. : „What underlies political polarization?
Block III: Social emotions & psychiatry (Annalina Mayer)
07.01. What is an emotion? Dispute between Feldman-Barett & Adolphs 10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.008
14.01.
Block IV: VMPFC & Control (David Stolz)
21.01. Na et al.: „Humans use forward thinking to exert social control”