DonnerLab

Welcome to the DonnerLab

The lab is based at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
The lab is affiliated with the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center
and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin.

UKE Postdoc Transition Grants for Anke Braun and Bharath Chandra Talluri

Anke and Bharath have just been awarded a 1-year Postdoc Transition Grant from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, in order to continue their successful work on history effects in perceptual decision-making. Congrats, Anke & Bharath!

New paper out in Current Biology: Confirmation bias through selective overweighting of choice-consistent evidence

Confirmation bias through selective overweighting of choice-consistent evidence, Current Biology, 28, 1-8 (2018). By Bharath Chandra Talluri & Tobias Donner. Confirmation bias is the tendency to interpret new information such that it agrees with one’s pre-existing beliefs. This cognitive bias is

New paper out in Scientific Reports: Task-evoked pupil responses reflect internal belief states

Task-evoked pupil responses reflect internal belief states, Scientific Reports (2018) By Olympia Colizoli, Jan Willem de Gee, Anne E. Urai & Tobias Donner Pupil diameter is a reliable marker of central arousal states and neuromodulatory responses. The pupil dilates whenever