Cognitive Modelling & Decision Neuroscience Lab

How do climate policy effects scale from individual decisions to societal change? Our latest work combines behavioural experiments and agent-based modelling to address exactly this question. We're happy to see this work out in @natenergy.nature.com (check it out, it's open access): 👇

Researchers show that a carbon tax and information intervention increase individual EV adoption but have divergent effects on system-level uptake and policy support.

How does the brain integrate multiple attributes into a choice? Using EEG, eye-tracking, and cognitive modelling, Jordan, Romy and Sebastian uncover neural signatures of hierarchical value integration. Check out the thread below 👇

We had three extremely inspiring days coming together with a group of people who all think about #effort at our Effort Mini-(Un-)conference in Hamburg: discussing lots of open questions, sharing new ideas, thinking together about the challenges our field is facing, and having a great time! 🧠🚶🏼‍♀️🍴

Last week, we had our 2nd lab retreat at Schloss Basthorst! 2.5 days, 16 scientific sessions, German herbs, a boat tour, and lots of good company and team-building.🌿🍵🚤 Grateful to our amazing team for all the effort, ideas, and energy they brought along! A little glimpse of our retreat.☺️

Difficult decisions take time, but can we keep all accumulated evidence in mind long enough to make better choices? We find that working-memory limitations constrain decision-making, and these effects are modulated by dopamine. biorxiv.org/content/10.6... bioRxiv out with Cina Aghamohammadi et al.

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 Apply: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

Happy to share our new preprint, "Modeling Environmental Behavior: Lessons from Social Computational Neuroscience". A big thank you to my co-authors @annesaulin.bsky.social, @tony-craig.bsky.social, Caroline Moraes, Yansong Li, Chunliang Feng, and @lei-zhang.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Now published at Scientific Reports 🚀 If you ever wondered whether and how hunger affects your decision-making beyond food choices, make sure to check out our paper! 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧵below

Have you ever wondered whether hunger state affects your choices in non-food domains? 👀 Make sure to check out our latest preprint, which sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the effects of hunger state on choice: osf.io/preprints/ps...

See also here for a short lay summary: www.growkudos.com/publications...

Interested in information search? 👀🔍 Make sure to check out our latest theory explaining how people search for information; now out in Psychological Review! @sgluth.bsky.social @jordantdeakin.bsky.social and Jörg Rieskamp

Curious about how context influences decision-making? 👀🧠 Make sure to check out our symposium on Wednesday 11:00-12:30 at Room N2 #TeaP2026 Featuring✨ @tiborstoe.bsky.social @nunobusch.bsky.social @dmding.bsky.social @barbaraoberbauer.bsky.social

Yesterday, we finally got to celebrate the successful PhD defense of our PostDoc @maryamtohidi.bsky.social at a delicious Iranian restaurant😋 We are so proud of Dr Tohidimoghaddam, who continues her journey with us elucidating multi-attribute decision-making🧠 Stay tuned for her future contributions!

Though-provoking talk at our research colloquium yesterday! 🧠 We were honoured to have @freekvanede.bsky.social with us, who made us rethink about attention by showing us the power of microsaccades and what they tell us about WM processes! Looking forward to continuing discussions and ideas!

⏳ Just over 2 weeks left to apply! ⏳ We are looking for talented Cognitive Neuroscientists to join our team at Trinity College Dublin for postdoc positions funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV296/r... www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Inspiring talk at our research colloquium yesterday! 🧠 Using very cool games (🦀🎰🐷🃏), @sebraem.bsky.social showed when and how individuals flexibly adapt their learning across different environments. We enjoyed a day packed of valuable discussions and delicious food!

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

Another great joint event with @cmdn-lab.bsky.social before the winter break! It was wonderful to visit each other’s labs again and enjoy a fun evening together ✨ Already looking forward to the next one!

A "Nutri-Score", but for the lab 😁 We uploaded a preprint with our thoughts on optimal lab technology for complex questions. We hope it's as much fun to read as was writing it: Wolff, W., Gluth, S., & Keyser, J. (2025, December 6). Considerations for setting up an S-tier behavioral and brain […]

A “Nutri-Score". But for the lab 😁 Had a blast presenting our thoughts on optimal lab technology for complex questions at #ISSP in Hong Kong. Interested? Check out our @cmdn-lab.bsky.social & @dhprlab.bsky.social preprint w/ @sgluth.bsky.social & Johannes Keyser: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Check out our new preprint, led by Romy Froemer and in collaboration with Chih-Chung Ting and Sebastian Gluth: “Goals shape dynamics of attention and selection for value-based decision-making”. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨Friends, we’re happy to share that our book is available for pre-order! 🎉 We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience. It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic. Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif

Inspiring talk at our research colloquium yesterday! 🧠 Liane Schmidt shed light on the important question , why people struggle to stick to a healthy diet 🍏 We enjoyed valuable discussions during individual meetings and over a delicious (more or less healthy) dinner!

Fascinating session at our research colloquium yesterday! 🧠 Sebastian Olschewski unpacked how complexity shapes the way we make risky decisions. Valuable discussions during individual meetings and over a delicious dinner!

🧠 Hyperscanning in action! With the Gläscher Lab @isnlab.bsky.social, @mrugsen.bsky.social investigates how 2 brains interact during real-time decision making. Using simultaneous EEG, we explore how people learn each other's preferences and intentions — one offer, one choice, one signal at a time.

Our new paper is out as a reviewed preprint in @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Congrats to @hashimsat.bsky.social and our amazing collaborators on this great team effort. Special shout-out to @haukeren.bsky.social, who made this possible through his generous support 🙌

#preprint 📢 Effort usually boosts performance - but not always. We discuss 4 domain-general factors that modulate effort-performance (de)coupling: osf.io/preprints/ps... TL;DR: A framework on when and why effort-performance links appear to change across domains, timescales & measures. 🧵

How can we increase eco-friendly choices? 🌱 Our new preprint with @barbaraoberbauer.bsky.social , Ulf Hahnel & @sgluth.bsky.social reveals the mechanisms through which consumer-friendly attribute displays boost ecological decisions

Thank you for organising this fun garden party with inspiring chats 💬, good food 😋 and of course some sporty activities 💪 Looking forward to many more joint events 🤩

🥐 When we’re hungry, we pay more attention to taste than health, literally. Eye-tracking and modelling show hunger shifts our focus toward calorie-rich foods and away from nutrition info.

Proud to see this one out as Version of Record in #eLife doi.org/10.7554/eLif... 🥰

This week we had another great guest in our #DHPRLab meeting. 🥳 @sgluth.bsky.social from @cmdn-lab.bsky.social took the time to tell us all about computational modeling of decision making. It was a pleasure having you, thank you so much for visiting. ☺️

Amazing sunny team event with our lab today! ☀️ We tackled an escape room aboard the historic ship Rickmer Rickmers - nothing like solving puzzles surrounded by maritime history ⚓🧩 So lovely bonding outside the lab and putting our problem-solving skills to work in completely new settings! 🤓

🚨 We’re hiring! Join our research team in Lüneburg 🚨 🔬 Postdoc: s.academiccloud.de/8fEM2Y 🎓 PhD: s.academiccloud.de/vNbRHM We're looking for researchers to work on the intersection between psychology and sustainability. Apply now or share with someone who should! #Academia #PhD #Postdoc

After years of hard work, @hashimsat.bsky.social's big one is out! Huge thanks to co-authors Katharina Wille, Matt Nassar, Radek Cichy, @nicoschuck.bsky.social & Peter Dayan - and to @haukeren.bsky.social for his invaluable support!

Excited to see our study on the Tagesschau 🎉 Note: We conducted a laboratory experiment, meaning that the application to real life grocery shopping is limited. Our findings shed light on the cognitive mechanisms that underly food choice under hunger. Also, we do not appeal to politics or industry.

🎉 Thrilled to share the press releases of our study 🎉 English from @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/for-the-pres... German from @uni-hamburg.de: www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/pre...

Interested in the mechanisms underlying distractor effects? Make sure to check out the paper of our postdoc @maryamtohidi.bsky.social in which she sheds light on how and when the distractor effect emerges in value-based and multialternative choice paradigms.

What an absolute pleasure to have @wanjawolff.bsky.social from @dhprlab.bsky.social with us! Thank you for this inspiring talk 🙏 We are looking forward to many more opportunities to discuss research and practice table soccer 🤓⚽