If you’re in #Munich 🥨 and curious about decision-making, perception, and cognition through a translational lens, join us for a seminar I’m hosting on Oct 30 with three fantastic speakers: @jkesby.bsky.social (visiting from 🇦🇺), @miguelbengala.bsky.social, and @jacob-lab.bsky.social 🧠💡

Amazing news! Congrats Ondrej!!

Thrilled to share that @cognemo.bsky.social and I are guest editors for a Schizophrenia Bulletin special issue on Computational markers of psychosis: From latent states to neurobiological mechanisms 🧠✨
If you’re working on this topic, we’d love to see your work!
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

Teaching at the #Studienstiftung Sommerakademie in Leysin will definitely remain a core memory of my PhD! Discussing computational psychiatry with such a curious, interdisciplinary group of students was truly inspiring! Sharing the experience with @eckertal.bsky.social made it even more special ✨

What makes a puzzle hard?

I found this video delightful.

⏳ How stable are semantic predictions over time? And how do autistic and schizotypal traits influence this stability?

Excited to see our new paper on the temporal stability of semantic predictions published - together with my supervisor @franziskaknolle.bsky.social and Andrea Greve: rdcu.be/ewV32

Thank you #CPConf2025 for the great opportunity to share our research and for bringing together such an inspiring community! Already looking forward to next year! 🙌🧠

📢 Finally out! 🎉 — Our paper exploring model-free vs. model-based decision-making in OCD using fMRI and Bayesian modeling.

Many thanks to my supervisors @franziskaknolle.bsky.social & Prof. Dr. Kathrin Koch for the incredible support throughout this journey!

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Finally out-Our paper on how overweighting priors during semantic processing gives rise to misperceptions (or task-based hallucinations) in schizotypy!
Thanks to the amazing team❤️
@esterner.bsky.social
Verena Demler
Lucy MacGregor
Chris Mathys
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
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In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Well that was fun!

A big thank you @cognemo.bsky.social @rssmith.bsky.social @esterner.bsky.social & R. Maramotti for coming all the way to Würzburg and delivering amazing talks.

Bringing Active Inference down to empirical data is not an easy feat but today's symposium was really inspiring! 🤓

Thrilled to co-chair my 1st symposium @ #PuG2025.
Make sure to drop by, this will be incredible! 🌟

Thu, 19.06.2025, 10:30-12:30 (session 1.013 Z6)
"Active Inference in Psychiatry"

w/ R. Smith, R. Maramotti, @cognemo.bsky.social & co-chair @esterner.bsky.social

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www.pug2025.org/de/sessions/...

Congrats, Joost!! 🥳

🔑 Higher contextual predictability enhances temporal stability

🔑 Elevated schizotypal & autistic traits reduce temporal stability, particularly in highly predictable contexts where stable predictions typically facilitate language processing

🔑 This effect is not due to impaired sentence recall.

Thrilled to share this preprint with Andrea Greve and my supervisor
@franziskaknolle.bsky.social! We explore how schizotypal and autistic traits affect the temporal stability of semantic predictions.
Read more: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our key findings:

🔑 Higher contextual predictability enhances stability.

🔑 Elevated schizotypal & autistic traits reduce stability, especially in highly predictable contexts.

🔑 This effect is not due to impaired sentence recall.

Finally out 🎉 - Our new paper explores the neuroimaging and computational differences of reward anticipation in kids with and without psychotic-like experiences. Well done, Pritha Sen, for the great work!!🤩
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am very excited to share our new preprint together with @Isabella Goodwin, @Kelly Diederen, @Emily Hird,
@veithweilnhammer.bsky.social, and @Marta Garrido! Where does predictive processing stand in psychosis research - revisiting Sterzer et al (2018) seven years later. 🧠🔍?
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Super excited to share our lates preprint, in collaboration with my amazing students Elisabeth and Verena, Lucy MacGregor (Cambridge) and Chris Mathys (Aarhus): Guided by Expectations: Overweighted Semantic Priors in Schizotypy and their Links to Glutamate

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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