Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry

This international seminar series is part of a joint doctoral training and research collaboration between the University of Melbourne (spokesperson: Carsten Murawski) and the University of Bonn (spokesperson: Ulrich Ettinger).

The online seminar takes place Thursdays at 9am (Bonn) via Zoom. Talks are 45 minutes plus 15 minutes for questions and discussion. The target audience consists of students, PhD students, postdocs and other researchers who have an interest in decision making research.

If you wish to take part, please feel free to contact us!

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Timetable

07.04.2022
Dr Quentin Huys (Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, UK): "Emotional Thoughts"

05.05.2022
Kristof Keidel (Department of Psychology, University of Bonn, Germany): "The Date/Delay Effect in Intertemporal Choice"

12.05.2022
Prof Tobias Kalenscher (Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany): "To give or not to take – framing effects boost generosity in social discounting"

19.05.2022
Prof Adele Diederich (Cognitive Science Lab, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): "A Dynamic Dual Process Model of Intertemporal Choice"

02.06.2022
Eva Halbe (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Germany): "The impact of somatic markers on decision-making in ADHD"

09.06.2022
Prof Bettina von Helversen (Department of Psychology, University of Bremen, Germany): "Modeling decision making in optimal stopping problems"

07.07.2022
Christine Leonards (Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia): "The role of default mode network suppression in higher-order cognitive processes"

06.10.2022
Prof Volker Thoma (Department of Psychology, University of East London, UK): "Brain stimulation of right dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex increases cognitive reflection performance"

03.11.2022
Prof Christian Ruff (Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland): "Dissecting the neural computations guiding strategic social behavior"

17.11.2022
Dr Mathias Pessiglione (Paris Brain Institute, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France): "Origins and Consequences of Mood Flexibility"

01.12.2022
Prof Soyoung Park (Neuroscience Research Center, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany): "Body-Brain Interaction Shaping Human Choice"

08.12.2022
Prof Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD’s Octapharma Chair in Decision Neuroscience, Fontainebleau, France): "Individual Differences in (Dietary) Decision Making and Its Control: Connecting the Brain and Gut to Improve our Understanding of Behavior"

02.02.2023
Prof Floris de Lange (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Nijmegen, Netherlands): "Predictive Neural Representations in Vision and Language"

16.03.2023
Dr Marion Rouault (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France): "Subjective confidence and changes-of-mind in human decision-making"

30.03.2023
Prof Shenghua Luan (Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China): "Smart Heuristics: How to Make Good Decisions in a World of Uncertainty"

25.05.2023
Prof Arndt Bröder (School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany): "Testing a formal model of coherence-based information search in decision making"

15.06.2023
Dr Konstantinos Tsetsos (School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK): "Computational Mechanisms of Irrational Decisions"

22.06.2023
Prof Jan Peters (Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany): "Exploration in Brains and Machines"

13.07.2023
Prof Christian List (Chair and Head of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany): "Agential Indeterminism"

02.11.2023
Prof Mark Walton (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK): "Adaptive Behaviour, State Inference and Mesolimbic Dopamine"

09.11.2023
Prof Chao Yan (School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China): "Gaining Insights into Apathy in Schizophrenia: A Perspective form Effort-Based Decision Making"

16.11.2023
Dr Imran Noorani (The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK): "LATER Models of Neural Decision"

14.12.2023
Prof Mona Garvert (Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany): "Neural Representations Underlying Flexible Behavior"

18.01.2024
Dr Igor Kagan (Decision and Awareness Group, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center (DPZ), Göttingen): "Behavioral and Neuronal Mechanisms of Dynamic Social Interactions"

15.02.2024
Dr Vassilis Cutsuridis (School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, UK): "Computational Psychiatry: A Theory-driven Approach to Decision Making in Early-stage Huntington's Disease"

21.03.2024
Prof Birte Forstmann (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands): "Decision mechanisms in the Deep Brain: A joint-modeling approach"

06.06.2024
Prof Philipp Sterzer (Basel University Psychiatric Clinics, Switzerland): "Now you see it… now you don’t: Temporal fluctuations in perceptual inference and their role in psychosis"

13.06.2024
Prof Ekaterina Jussupow (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany): "Metacognitions in Human-AI Interaction"

20.06.2024
Prof Agnieszka Tymula (School of Economics, The University of Sydney, Australia): "Risk attitude with a backward-looking reference point"

04.07.2024
Prof Thorsten Pachur (TUM School of Management, Munich, Germany): "How attentional processes shape decision making under risk"

25.07.2024
Prof Laurence Hunt (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK): "Decision making in dynamically evolving, naturalistic environments"

15.08.2024
Prof Gilad Feldman (Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong): "Cognitive biases in researchers and the research process: Summarizing ~150 replications on heuristics and biases and discussing implications, challenges, and potential remedies for improving science"

29.08.2024
Prof Todd Hare (Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland): "Rethinking Basic Assumptions in Reward Learning"

19.09.2024
Prof Sebastian Gluth (Department of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Germany): "Modelling information search and choice dynamics in multi-attribute decision making"

17.10.2024
Prof Alan Sanfey (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, The Netherlands): "Multiple motivations in moral choice: a decision neuroscience approach"

24.10.2024
Prof Maël Lebreton (Paris School of Economics, France, and University of Geneva, Switzerland): "Affective and Motivational Biases on Confidence Judgments"

31.10.2024
Prof Trevor Chong (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia): "Disorders of motivation in neurological disease"

12.12.2024
Dr Yaira Chamorro Díaz (Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico): "Inhibitory oculomotor control as an endophenotype of Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder: integrating genetics and neuropsychological traits"

20.02.2025
Prof Ben Becker (Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong): "Advanced neural decoding and modulation of human emotion and motivation"

27.03.2025
Prof Andrea Reiter (Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Germany)