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Kolloquium:
Düsseldorf Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience


When?                 Tuesday, 4:30pm-5:30pm

Where?               Room 23.03.01.61

Our weekly research talks are organised by us in cooperation with the teams of Tobias Kalenscher, Christian Bellebaum and Susanne Becker. The colloquium is a hybrid event: all talks will be given in‐person in room 23.03.01.61 (please note the change from last winter term), and they will be streamed online, too. We will not record the talks; they will not be made available after the session. You are welcome to join the in-person talks. If you want to join the virtual meeting, please send an email to

Date

Who

Title

Host

11.04.2023

Stefano Palminteri

Human Reinforcement Learning team, INSERM & École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Feedback anticipation induces dispositional changes in risk preferences

Gerhard Jocham

18.04.2023

Jonas Zaman

Centre for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, KU Leuven, Belgium

Multiple pathways to widespread fears: Disentangling idiosyncratic fear generalization mechanisms using computational modeling

Susanne Becker

25.04.2023

Pieter Goltstein

Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Munich, Germany

Neuronal representations of learned categories in mouse visual and higher cortical areas

Tobias Kalenscher

02.05.2023

Anne Urai

Cognitive, Computational and Systems Neuroscience; University of Leiden.

Choice history bias as a window into cognition and neural circuits

Gerhard Jocham

09.05.2023

Simone Vossel

Cognitive Neuropsychology, Dept of Psychology, University of Cologne and FZ Jülich (INM-3)

Human brain networks for prediction-dependent attention

Gerhard Jocham

16.05.2023

Akseli Surakka/Graf

Institute of Psychopharmacology

Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

From Adolescence to Adulthood: How Social Isolation Shapes the Oxytocin System and Behaviour

Tobias Kalenscher

23.05.2023

Maria Willadsen

Experimental and Physiological Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

Anxiety and Fear in the Rat – Insights from Ultrasonic Vocalizations

Tobias Kalenscher

30.05.2023

Julian Packheiser

Social Brain Lab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The behavioral benefits and neural correlates of affective touch - a perspective from field, lab and meta research

Tobias Kalenscher

06.06.2023

No Talk

No Talk

No Talk

13.06.2023

Dominik Bach

Hertz Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, University of Bonn & University College London

Critical intelligence: computational characteristics of human escape

Gerhard Jocham

20.06.2023

Mike Colombo

Otago University Dunedin, New Zealand

Wither the primate pedestal

Tobias Kalenscher

27.06.2023

No Talk

No Talk

No Talk

04.07.2023

Christian Merz

Cognitive  Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

How stress hormones change learning and memory processes

Christian Bellebaum


12.12.2020 Congratulations Luca!

Luca’s first paper of her PhD thesis has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications! Luca shows that the cortical balance between excitation and inhibition (E/I balance) plays region-specific roles in different kinds of decision making. E/I balance in one region (dorsal anterior cingulate cortex) influences how we balance the value of moving away from a depleting resource against the cost of leaving. In contrast, E/I balance in another region (ventromedial prefrontal cortex) is related to simple reward-maximizing choices.

Kaiser LF, Gruendler TOJ, Speck O, Luettgau L, Jocham G (2021) Dissociable roles of cortical excitation-inhibition balance during patch-leaving versus value-guided decisions. Nature Communications, Feb 10, 12(1): 904.


04.07.2020: Congrats Lennart!

Lennart just published the first paper of his PhD thesis! His work shows that decisions are not only guided by memories, but decisions themselves modify hippocampal stimulus-outcome associations - and thereby bias future decisions.

Luettgau L, Tempelmann C, Kaiser LF, Jocham G (2020) Decisions bias future choices by modifying hippocampal associative memories. Nature Communications 3 July 11(1): 3318.

 

 

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