Elisabeth Sterner

🚨Paper alert: So great to see this published. Our review on the predictive processing account of psychosis!

Thanks to the amazing team 🧠 - it was so much fun writing this piece. 🤩

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex, Nature Neuroscience

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.”

In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.

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#neuroskyence 🧵:

International Consortium on Hallucination Research Visit the post for more.

Save the Date: The next ICHR Satellite Meeting will be in Munich, Sep 21-24 2026!

Hosted by @franziskaknolle.bsky.social & co-organised with @echrhallucinations.bsky.social, this will be our 5th satellite meeting and first trip to Germany.

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Language-network connectivity and cortical glutamate and their associations with overweighted semantic prior beliefs, schizotypy and task-based hallucinations Background: Impairments in language comprehension and production are core symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD). Predictive processing, a Bayesian framework of brain function, provides an...

🚨New preprint looking at neurobiological and computational mechanisms underlying altered language-related predictive processing and subclinical symptom formation in a schizotypy sample!
Great work by medical student Verena Demler! 🎉🧠
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Angebot: Ein Tag als Neurowissenschaftlerin München | 23. April 2026, 09:00 | TUM Klinikum, Neuroradiologie, München mit Dr. Franziska Knolle

🚨lf you’re based in Munich and have a daughter or friends with one, this might be interesting to them! Experience a day as a neuroscientist 🧠💡we’re very excited to show the girls around and introduce them to our work!!! 🤩 www.girls-day.de/.oO/Show/tum...

Thanks to my supervisor Franziska Knolle and to our fantastic research intern Maximilian Stadler for his immense work in this project! Credits for the online tool go to Chuyang Wang! 🥳

With the MuSe database we hope to facilitate reproducible research across fields. All scripts and data can be found on OSF (osf.io/ktnze/overview). Make sure to check out our online tool (munichsentencedatabase.franziskaknolle.com) to customize sentence material according to your specific needs.

Excited to share the Munich Sentence Database (MuSe)!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

💬 619 German sentences
📊 Cloze probabilities & entropy estimated from up to 232 participants
👫 Demographic + subclinical data
🎧 Professionally recorded audio material
🪄 Open access scripts and interactive online tool

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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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!!

https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/pages/call-for-papers-computational-markers

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 ✨

YouTube video by 2swap Adventures in State Space

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...

Guided by Expectations: Overweighted Semantic Priors in Schizotypy and their Links to Glutamate An imbalance in the weighting of prior beliefs and sensory evidence is thought to contribute to the development of psychotic symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions. We investigated (1) how muc...

🚨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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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

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...