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Archive 2025

Archive: 2025 | 2024


January 2025
Neuropsychology
Update on laminar profiles of HC subregions during navigation and/or NIH-visit update
Khazar Ahmadi (Ruhr University Bochum)
Research Colloquium - Neural Basis of Learning
From cues to context: How saliency influences pigeons’ ability to distinguish different settings
Farina Lingstädt (Ruhr University Bochum)
FOR 2812-Colloquium
An episodicity score for free recall data? Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Emil Eva Rosina
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Exploration and Exploitation in Human Joint Decisions
Bahador Bahrami (Chair of General and Experimental Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Munich, Germany)
Research Colloquium - Neural Basis of Learning
Caroline Evers (Ruhr University Bochum)
Öykü Akal (Ruhr University Bochum)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Cognitive and neuronal mechanisms of adaptive learning within a signal detection theory framework
Maik Stüttgen (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, University Medical Center Mainz, Institute of Pathophysiology)
Cognitive Psychology Research Colloquium
The relationship between cortisol, grid-like representations and path integration
Osman Akan (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)
Research Colloquium - Neural Basis of Learning
tba
Yannik Neukirch (Ruhr University Bochum)
FOR 2812-Colloquium
The Ethics of Engrams
Sven Bernecker (University of Cologne)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Auditory learning across the processing hierarchy: representational changes from midbrain to A1
Livia de Hoz Garcia-Bellido (Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Neuroscience Research Center, Berlin)
Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
Navigating beyond the cognitive map    
Arne Ekstrom (University of Arizona)

February 2025
Seminar Series LOOPS
Vision for perception versus vision for action: dissociable contributions of visual sensory drives from primary visual cortex and superior colliculus neurons to orienting behaviors
Ziad Hafed (Centrum für integrative Neurowissenschaften, Universität Tübingen)
Online-Seminarreihe 2024/2025 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biologische Psychiatrie e.V. (DGBP)
Neuronale Mechanismen der psychomotorischen Verlangsamung bei Psychosen   
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Walther, Würzburg

March 2025
Online-Seminarreihe 2024/2025 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biologische Psychiatrie e.V. (DGBP)
Die neuronalen Korrelate von Psychotherapie bei Angststörungen 
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube, Marburg
INI Seminar
Spatial Coding with Augmented Memory
Jon Recalde, M.Sc.

April 2025
INI Colloquium
Combining modeling and experimentation to investigate and optimize non-invasive brain stimulation
Dr. Han Lu (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Neuropsychologie Colloquium
Combining modeling and experimentation to investigate and optimize non-invasive brain stimulation
Dr. Han Lu (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Seminar Series LOOPS
Retinal input integration in excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the mouse superior colliculus in vivo
Prof. Dr. Jens Kremkow (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Motor Codes and Visual Working Memory
D. Schneider, PhD & Ş. Özdemir, MSc.
Neuropsychologie Colloquium
Some single-neuron results (fear extinction)
M.Sc. George Jacob (Ruhr-Uni Bochum)
MoNN&Di – INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 2025
Current perspectives in Neuroscience
Robert Campbell, Deniz Dalkara, Michael Devine, Graziella Di Cristo, Maren Engelhardt, Pauline Lafenêtre, Stephan Lammel, Katja Nowick, Silke Patz, Mahmoud Pouladi, Arundhati Ray
Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Colloquium
The influence of acute stress on the performance in an IQ-Test
Osman Akan & Mustafa Yildirim (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

May 2025
Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Colloquium
A toaster in the bathroom: Neural correlates of semantic construction during episodic memory recall
Carina Zöllner (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)
Colloquium of the Departments of Medical Psychology and Translational Neuroscience
From interviews with genocide perpetrators and rescuers to the neuroscience of (dis)obedience
Prof. Emilie Caspar (Ghent University) 
Seminar Series LOOPS
Single-neuron correlates of perception and memory in the human medial temporal lobe
Prof. Dr. Dr. Florian Mormann (Universitätsklinikum Bonn)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Exploration and Exploitation in Human Joint Decisions
Dr. Bahador Bahrami (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Colloquium
Endogenous cortisol and cognitive emotion regulation: Do we even need stress?
Mustafa Yildirim (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)
Neuropsychologie Colloquium
Update: cross-disorder polygenic risk, structural connectivity, and psychopathology
Javier Schneider Penate, M.Sc.
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
How training environment affects visual perceptual learning
Giorgio Maneti, PhD
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
A brain in spikes: single cell recordings of the avian visual associative system during extinction
Robert Reichert (AE Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)
IGSN-Symposium
Catecholaminergic Control of Hippocampal Function, Tau Pathology and Cortex
Nelson Totah, Simon Wiegert, Susan Walling 
Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Colloquium
Semantic reconstruction in episodic memory: Evidence from a VR-based study in school children
Henry Soldan (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)
Neuropsychologie Colloquium
tba
Yuchi Yan, Beijing Normal University
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Uncovering Attention with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging
S. Chota, PhD & K. Arora MSc.

June 2025
FOR 2812-Conference
GEM 2025 - Generative Episodic Memory: Interdisciplinary perspectives from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy
Prof. Dr. Sen Cheng (Ruhr University Bochum) 
Inaugural lecture
Advancing the Science and Theory of Consciousness through Adversarial Collaboration
Prof. Dr. Lucia Melloni (Ruhr University Bochum)
Cognitive Neurobiology Colloquium
Neural model of compositionality
Prof. Dr. Alexandre Pouget (University of Geneva)
Seminar Series LOOPS
Developmental and evolutionary perspectives on thalamic function
Dr. Bruno Averbeck (National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA)
Neuropsychologie Colloquium
tba
Xueyao Zheng, Beijing Normal University
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Comparison of the Neuronal Firing Rates in the Avian Tectofugal System and Mammalian V5 Region & Social learning of pecking sequences in pigeons
J. Drießen & T. Clemens
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Effects of Sleep on Consolidation and Forgetting
Dr. Gordon Feld (Psychology and Neurobiology of Sleep and Memory, Mannheim)
BrainBusiness: Neuroscience meets healthcare industry
(Research Department of Neuroscience, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, GesundheitsCampus Bochum, MedEcon Ruhr)
Mental Health & Visuelle Wahrnehmung und zugehörige Erkrankungen
Dr. Andreas Erbslöh, Prof. Dr. Dirk Jancke, PD Dr. Sabrina Reinehr, Dr. Georg Gerten/Nico Kutschenko, Laurin Plank, Prof. Dr. Anna Mikhof, Magnus Schückes
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
tba
Prof. Onur Güntürkün, Dr. Patrick Anselme (AE Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Neural correlates of arbitrary visuomotor mapping
M. Flaim and S. S. Silva

July 2025
Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Colloquium
The effects of cognitive emotion regulation on repeated exposure to stress
Katja Langer (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)
Neuropsychologie Colloquium
tba
Dr. Carlos A. Gomes, RUB
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Neural Signature of Extinction Learning in the Visual System of Pigeons
Robert Reichert, MSc.
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Rhythms Beyond Words: Using deep learning to explore temporal structures in & Jackdaw vocal communication
Lutz Wehrland
Seminar Series LOOPS
tba
Dr. Roselyne Chauvin
Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Colloquium
Discourses of climate delay and their relation to pro-environmental behaviour
Dorothea Metzen (Klinische und Biologische Psychologie, TU Dortmund)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Social stimuli as context in extinction learning & Social learning of foraging sequences in pigeons
J. Diekmann & D. Rabi

August 2025
Research Colloquium Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience
Neural circuits underlying episodic memory
Prof. Dr. Flávio Freitas Barbosa

September 2025
Brain Day 2025
Brain Day: Von der Grundlagenforschung zur Therapie
Prof. Dr. Helen Blank, PD Dr. Kalliopi Pitarokoili, Prof. Dr. Carsten Theiss
NeuroImmunoCon 2025
Navigating Autoimmune Interactions in the Nervous System
Melissa Sgodzai, Thomas Korn, Susan Schwab, Jeremias Motte, Vijay Kuchroo, Pia Renk, Baffour Sarpong, Kalliopi Pitarokoili, Fabian Preisner, Rafael Klimas, Claire Jacob, Gerd Meyer zu Hörste, Niklas Rilke, Peter Arthur-Farraj 

October 2025
IGSN-Symposium
Human Brain Development and the Use of Cerebral Organoids to Decipher Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms
Sam Hughes*, Jessica van Oosterwijck, Marina López-Solà*
IGSN-Symposium
From Bench to Bedside: Advances in Understanding Chronic Pain
Sam Hughes*, Jessica van Oosterwijck, Marina López-Solà*

November 2025
IGSN-Symposium
Novel Approaches for Behavioral Assessment of Rodents
Pia Kahnau*, Megan Jackson, Markus Wöhr*

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