Behavior and Cognition

Enrolled


  • Ana Lucia Arbaiza Bayona (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Prenatal and postnatal maternal influence on personality development in wild Assamese macaques

  • Saba Amirhaftehran (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: Levels of complexity of Theory of Mind (developmental perspective)

  • Leonie Baumann (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: Factors in the early emergence of modal cognition

  • Leon Behle (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition, Emotion and Behavior
    PhD Project: To know or not to know - emotional, motivational, and content-related factors of seeking or avoiding information

  • Juliette-Anne Belot (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Predictors of curiosity in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)

  • Laura Botzet (GAUSS) ◌ Biological Personality Psychology
    Projekt: Psychological Effects of Hormonal Contraceptives

  • Alperen Doğaner (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition, Emotion and Behavior
    PhD Project: Anticipation of Emotional and Motivational Outcomes in Social Interactions

  • Pia Gehlbach (GSGG) ◌ German Philology
    PhD Project: Iconicity and Semantic Conceptualization in Sign Language

  • Luz Maria Rivera Guevara (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Influence of social play on the dynamics of social bonds in assamese macaques

  • Faeze Heydari (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition, Emotion and Behavior
    PhD Project: Analysis of Real-life Emotional Expressions

  • Alice Hill (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Drivers and consequences of male care in wild macaques

  • Judith Kalinowski (GSGG) ◌ Psychologie der Sprache
    PhD Project: Word-form and word-meaning mismatches in language acquisition

  • Elif Karakoc (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Social Learning in Social Networks: On the interplay between innovation, information transmission and individuals’ social value

  • Ben Kawam (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: How between-group competition and within-group relatedness interact to shape social structure

  • Arnout Lindeman (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, DPZ
    PhD Project: On the fitness benefits of curiosity in grey mouse lemurs

  • Sophie-Claire Lusser (GAUSS) ◌ Economic and Social Psychology
    PhD Project: Emergence of leadership

  • Anne-Kathrin Mahlke (GAUSS) ◌ Psychology of Language
    PhD Project: The role of curiosity in infants' and young children's word learning

  • Sriranjani Manivasagam (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition, Emotion and Behavior
    PhD Project: Neurocognitive mechanisms of emotion communication

  • Marlene Meyer (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: From Individual to Social Metacognition: Metacognitive Development in Early Childhood

  • Maik Mylius (GAUSS) ◌ Neuronal Intelligence Group
    PhD Project: Information theoretic models of curiosity in hierarchical models of the world

  • Carolin Niederbremer (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Drivers and consequences of male care in wild macaques

  • Sabine Ostermann (GAUSS) ◌ Biological Personality Psychology
    PhD Project: Personality predictors, hormonal reactivity and affective consequences of emerging social status in human groups

  • Sofia Pereira (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Acquisition and use of social information in wild Assamese macaques

  • Kerne Rayner (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Social curiosity in Assamese macaques

  • Esther Semmelhack (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition, Emotion and Behavior
    PhD Project: Identifying psychophysiological parameters that reliably predict user performande in a dynamic human robot interaction

  • Shivani (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Sociality and female fitness in wild Assamese macaques

  • Simon Sina (GAUSS) ◌ Biological Personality Psychology
    PhD Project: Effects of personality on status acquisition in group interactions: An integrative analysis

  • Tamara Sorg (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Evolution of prosocial behavior: a meta-analysis and new experiments

  • Felicia Stich (GSGG) ◌ Psychology of Language
    Projekt: Form-Meaning Systematicity in Early word Learning

  • Judit Stolla (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Disentangling factors that affect foraging decisions in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)

  • Ann Thompson (GAUSS) ◌ Social Neurobiology
    PhD Project: Social bonds in marmosets

  • Shreya Venkatesan (GAUSS) ◌ Psychology of Language
    PhD Project: Exploration in the wild: bringing curiosity to the real world

  • Giulia Zantonello (GAUSS) ◌ Educational Psychology
    PhD Project: Curiosity-driven learning in children’s reading behaviour and knowledge acquisition

    • Alumni


  • Lena Ackermann (GAUSS) ◌ Psychology of Language
    PhD Project: Exploring infants' learning

  • Laura Almeling (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Aging and its impact on sociality in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

  • Simone Anza (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Prenatal stress effects on sociality, health and fitness in wild Assamese macaque

  • Anaïs Avilés de Diego (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Patterns of social behaviour and partner preferences in infants, yearlings and juveniles of wild Guinea baboons (Papio papio)

  • Nicolas Becker (GAUSS) ◌ Experimental Psychology
    PhD Project: Is semantic priming possible without consciousness?

  • Peter Bednarik (GAUSS) ◌ Evolution of Cooperation, CRC "Evolution des Sozialverhaltens"
    PhD Project: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Evolution of Cooperative Behavior

  • Aishwarya Bhonsle (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Neurology, University Medical Center
    PhD Project: Contribution of heart-brain interactions to conscious visual perception

  • Natalie Bleijlevens (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: The role of pragmatics in disambiguation and the relation between referent selection and retention

  • Yuqiu Chen (GSGG) ◌ German Philology
    PhD Project: Presupposition as a phenomenon at the semantics-pragmatics interface: an experimental investigation

  • Tiffany Claire Bosshard (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Social selectivity and the link between social and ecological risk taking in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

  • Eva Ricarda Bothe (GAUSS) ◌ Psychology of Language
    PhD project: Crossing the borders: the interplay of language, cognition and the brain in early human development

  • Katja Brodmann (GAUSS) ◌ Psychiatry und Psychotherapy, University Medical Center
    PhD Project: The influence of oxytocin on the neural activity implicated in action control and decision making

  • Lauren Cassidy (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Neuroscience, DPZ
    PhD Project: Advancing multi-modal laboratory animal welfare assessment systems towards objectivity and comparability

  • Federica Dal Pesco (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Dynamics and fitness benefits of male-male social bonds in wild Guinea baboons (Papio papio)

  • Martina De Eccher (GAUSS) ◌ Psychology of Language
    PhD Project: The role of digital automatized feedback in early word learning

  • Charlotte Defolie (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, DPZ
    PhD Project: A healthy social life? Sociality, stress and indicators of health in wild redfronted lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons)

  • Ronja Demel (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition, Emotion and Behavior
    PhD Project: The Role of Emotion in Moral Judgments: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

  • Delphine de Moor (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Paternal and maternal kin biases in the social behavior of male and female wild Assamese macaques

  • Julie Driebe (GAUSS) ◌ Biological Personality Psychology
    PhD Project: Predictive Validity and Change of Partner Preferences: A Longitudinal Investigation

  • Johanna Eckert (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: The evolutionary roots of intuitive statistics

  • Sarah Eiteljörge (GAUSS) ◌ Psychology of Language
    PhD Project: Cross-domain influences of early word and action learning

  • Neele Engelmann (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition and Decision-Making
    PhD Project: The Role of Causal Representations in Moral Judgment

  • Lauriane Faraut (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Social monitoring in a multilevel primate society

  • Isa Garbisch (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: Cognitive Foundations of Ascribing Intentional Action

  • Johanna Henke-von der Malsburg (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Cognition in two sympatrically living mouse lemur species, the Gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) and the Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae)

  • Annika Grass (GAUSS) ◌ Experimentelle Psycholinguistik, CRC "Textstrukturen"
    PhD Project: Origins of Early Emotion Effects in Written and Spoken Word Processing

  • Francesco Grassi (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition, Emotion and Behavior
    PhD Project: Modulations of emotional valence by motivational salience

  • Daria Gutleb (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Integrating Behavior, Hormones & Genes associated with the Primate HPA-Axis

  • Wiebke Hammerschmidt (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition, Emotion and Behavior
    PhD Project: Dissociating Biological and Associated Salience in Human Faces

  • Feride Nur Haskaraca Kizilay (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: The scopes, limits, and the cognitive foundations of implicit theory of mind

  • Christine Haunhorst (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Evolutionary Origin of the Human Pair-Bond - the Adaptive Significance of Male-Female Friendships in Wild Assamese Macaques

  • Jonas Hermes (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: Cognitive foundations and ontogenetic roots of selective trust in preschoolers

  • Marie Hirel (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Social evaluation and decision-making in macaques

  • Franziska Hübner (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, DPZ
    PhD Project: The link between cognition and fitness in wild gray mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus)

  • Marina Josephs (GAUSS) ◌ Biological Personality Psychology
    PhD Project: The relation between normative assessment and mental state reasoning

  • Julia Jünger (GAUSS) ◌ Biological Personality Psychology
    PhD Project: Hormones, personality and social signalling

  • Tobias Kordsmeyer (GAUSS) ◌ Biological Personality Psychology
    PhD Project: The effects of male testosterone reactivity in the mating context on self- and observer-rated personality

  • Alexandra Korzeczek (GAUSS) ◌ Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Center
    PhD Project: Neurophysioglogical mechanisms enhancing speech fluency of persons who stutter

  • Alexander Kraut (GAUSS) ◌ Experimental Psychology
    PhD Project: Unmasking the perception of temporal successions: bridge building between metacontrast masking and temporal integration and segregation processes

  • Neha Kulshreshtha (GSGG) ◌ German Philology
    PhD Project: (A)Symmetries in the visual-gestural modality - formal and functional aspects of movement in sign language

  • Adi Lausen (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition, Emotion and Behavior
    PhD Project: Emotion communication: neurocognitive mechanisms and inter-individual differences

  • Elisabeth Lindner (GAUSS) ◌ Sensorimotor Group, DPZ
    PhD Project: Sensory attenuation and agency

  • Kristina Miloserdov (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Neurology
    PhD Project: Visual perception in Parkinson's disease: Dissocation of vision for action and vision for perception

  • Nadja Miosga (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: Selective advice taking in children

  • Davide Montanari (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Group Coordination in Guinea Baboons

  • Caio Margarido Moreira (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, DPZ
    PhD Project: Neural mechanisms of mental and physical effort in adaptive decision-making in primates

  • Juan Carlos Marulanda Hernández (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition and Decision-Making
    PhD Project: Moral Judgments about Permissible and Non-permissible Harm in War

  • Nadine Müller (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: The costs and benefits of sociality in semi-free ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

  • Sonia Tatiana Murillo Corrales (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Social relationships: key to gut microbiome composition in wild redfronted lemurs?

  • Niina Nurmi (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: The tolerant chimpanzee - Quantifying the costs and benefits of sociality in wild female bonobos (Pan paniscus)

  • William O'Hearn (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Social evaluation and partner choice in the tolerant multi-level society of Guinea baboons

  • Nese Oktay-Gür (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: Theory of Mind and Intentionality Development

  • Rehana Omardeen (GSGG) ◌ Deutsche Philologie
    PhD Project: The development of communicative signals in sign language and gesture

  • Vivien Outters (GAUSS) ◌ Psychology of Language
    PhD Project: Infant-driven learning from different kinds of social signals

  • Sarah Placì (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Statistical learning and social inferences in human children and nonhuman primates

  • Annika Primaßin (GAUSS) ◌ Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Center
    PhD Project: Structural and functional brain correlates of long-term clinical improvement of speech fluency in adults who stutter undergoing intense stuttering therapy

  • Lea Prox (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
    PhD Project: Social structure and stable affiliative relationships

  • Johanna Prüfer (GAUSS) ◌ Economic and Social Psychology
    PhD Project: Emergence of Leadership

  • Yasaman Rafiee (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition, Emotion and Behavior
    PhD Project: Endocrinologic and neural basis of emotion perception during the menstrual cycle

  • Eva-Maria Rathke (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Determinants of cognititve performance and social preferences across age in Barbary macaques

  • Anja Richter (GAUSS) ◌ Psychiatry und Psychotherapy, Universitätsmedizin
    PhD Project: Functional neuroimaging of pathophysiological mesolimbic dopamine system and aberrant motivational salience in schizophrenia

  • Alan Rincon (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: The quality of affiliative relationships and endogenous oxytocin

  • Marie Ritter (GAUSS) ◌ Social- and Communication Psychology
    PhD Project: Effective decision making in groups - HoneyComb as a tool in decision research

  • Johannes Rollwage (GAUSS) ◌ Economic and Social Psychology
    PhD Project: Emergence of leadership: Predicting leadership initiative and followership from individual traits and behavioral styles

  • Katja Rudolph (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
    PhD Project: Health consequences of group size variation in Verreaux's sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi)

  • Baptiste Sadoughi (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Effects of progressing age on energy balance, sociality and health in wild female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)

  • Jana Samland (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition and Decision-Making
    PhD Project: The mutual influence of judgments of causality, intentionality and morality: Cognitive processes and intercultural comparison

  • Rajalakshmi Satarai Madhavan (GAUSS) ◌ Psychology of Language
    PhD Project: Language acquisition under a curiosity-driven framework: the interaction between input and selective interest.

  • Lukas Schad (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Auditory and social learning and its link to social network position in West African green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus)

  • Lara Schleifenbaum (GAUSS) ◌ Biological Personality Psychology
    PhD Project: Hormone-linked shifts in female motivational priorities and empathic accuracy in romantic couples

  • Lydia Schidelko (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: Meta-cognition and its developmental consequences for social cognition and pragmatics

  • Benjamin Schmid (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: Learning from reliable and unreliable speakers

  • Britta Schünemann (GAUSS) ◌ Developmental Psychology
    PhD Project: Do we have two systems to explain and evaluate other people's behavior? - A systematic examination of the 2-system theory

  • Fatih Sivridag (GAUSS) ◌ Psychology of Language
    PhD Project: Interactive alignment between pre-schoolers during L2 live video communication

  • Anne Sommerfeld (GAUSS) ◌ Experimental Psychology
    PhD Project: Do different types of masking interfere with information processing on different levels in the visual hierarchy

  • Mareike Spengler (GAUSS) ◌ Social Interaction and Developmental Neuroscience, University Medical Center
    PhD Project: Social Avoidance and Reinforcment Learning in Psychiatric Diseases

  • Anna Sperber (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
    PhD Project: The role of social network structure and personality in group movement decisions in red-fronted lemurs

  • Simon Stephan (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition and Decision-Making
    PhD Project: The mutual influence of generic-level causal information and single-case level causal information on causal cognition

  • James Stranks (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Social buffering and genetic variation in wild macaques

  • Rowan Titchener (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: Social information sampling and decision-making: An evolutionary and ontogenetic perspective

  • Sonia Touitou (GAUSS) ◌ Behavioral Ecology
    PhD Project: Physiology and energetics of female reproduction in wild assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)

  • Dominique Treschnak (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Ethology, DPZ
    PhD Project: The microcosm of Guinea baboon units: Regulation of mating and social relationships within the basal level of the Guinea baboon society

  • Sarah Wolter (GAUSS) ◌ Psychiatry und Psychotherapy, Universitätsmedizin
    PhD Project: Pathophysiological changes of neurofunctional interaction between hippocampus, prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens in schizophrenia

  • Pinar Yurt (GAUSS) ◌ Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, DPZ
    PhD Project: Natural distribution of cognitive abilities in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)

  • Annika Ziereis (GAUSS) ◌ Cognition, Emotion and Behavior
    PhD Project: Audio-visual integration in emotion communication- neurophysiological evidence