Long after finishing hist contract in the lab — and quite some time after submitting his thesis — Thomas finally defended his PhD thesis on the impact of uncertainty and surprise on brain states and decision-making in the beautiful Agnietenkapel
MD for Keno Hagena!
Keno Hagena just defended his medical doctoral thesis on a model-based fMRI study investigating the learning of stimulus-response mapping rules. He delivered a very impressive presentation of his work — without any slides, which, are (like an external audience) are
PhD Position on Arousal & Memory-based Decision-Making
We plan to fill a PhD position within a new DFG-funded Research Training Group “Emotional Learning & Memory” at Hamburg, starting this summer! Short description of our project within this consortium: Mounting evidence points to a strong impact of brainstem
Postdoc and PhD Positions in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at UKE (Hamburg)
By Stefano Panzeri (Professor of Neural Information Processing, UKE) & Tobias H. Donner (Professor of Integrative Neuroscience, UKE). The Panzeri and Donner laboratories at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) aim to fill joint postdoc and PhD positions starting at
PhD “summa cum laude” for Bharath Chandra Talluri
Bharath Chandra Talluri was just awarded his PhD with “summa cum laude”. Unfortunately, the defense could only take place online, but still it was a fantastic event, attended by several family members, friends, past and present lab members, as well
PhD “summa cum laude” for Anke Braun
Anke Braun was just awarded her PhD with distinction. She successfully defended her thesis on the computational and neural bases of history biases in perceptual decisions. She gave a wonderful overview over the background of her work and the empirical
Brainstem Modulation of Large-Scale Intrinsic Cortical Activity Correlations.
van den Brink RL, Pfeffer T & Donner TH. 2019. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 13:340. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00340. Brain activity fluctuates continuously, even in the absence of changes in sensory input or motor output. These intrinsic activity fluctuations are correlated across brain regions and
PhD “summa cum laude” for Jan Willem de Gee
Jan Willem de Gee was awarded his PhD with distinction (“summa cum laude”). He gave a beautiful talk that summarized his deep and novel insights into the relationship between phasic arousal and decision-making. This work had started with his MSc internship, already published in
Confidence predicts speed-accuracy tradeoff for subsequent choices
Desender K, Boldt A, Verguts T & Donner TH. (2019) Confidence Predicts Speed-accuracy Tradeoff for Subsequent Choices. eLife. 8: e43499. By Kobe Desender & Tobias Donner. Humans can provide precise judgments of the accuracy of their choices. When we feel confident in
Pupil Session at Gordon Research Conference Eye Movements 2019
By Tobias H. Donner. I just got back from the 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements Bridging Knowledge About Gaze Control Across Applications, Disorders, Levels and Species. I presented in the session Pupillometry as a Behavioral Indicator, along with