Bernhard Pastötter

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Die FG Allgemeine Psychologie lädt Mitglieder zur Einreichung von Anträgen ein. Im Rahmen dieser Initiative stärken wir den Austausch und die Zusammenarbeit innerhalb unserer Fachgruppe und fördern innovative Forschungsansätze 🔎

Weitere Informationen auf der Website
www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/...

Die Fachkollegiaten der Allgemeinen Psychologie (Prof. Andrea Kiesel und Prof. Martin Rolfs) werden Einblicke und Tipps geben. Zudem erzählen zwei erfolgreiche Erstantragssteller (Dr. David Izydorczyk, Dr. Christoph Näfgen) über ihre Erfahrungen zur Antragserstellung und -einreichung.

In meiner letzten Statistik Vorlesung wurde ich heute ganz überraschend von den Studierenden und der Abteilung verabschiedet. Danke für die tolle gemeinsame Zeit! Ich nehme viele schöne Erinnerungen mit von der @unitrier.bsky.social.

Warm invitation to our career workshop: writing DFG applications (Erstantrag/Eigene Stelle/Sachbeihilfe)

When: Friday, Feb 27th 2026, 11am–2pm
Where: Zoom

A registration by February 20th is required, more information were sent out via the DGPs' mailing list. (The workshop will be held in German.)

AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

Memory, Misinformation, and Loftus and Palmer, Revisited A few months ago, I floated a question in a post. Anita Eerland and I had applied for funding for a large-scale replication project. Early reviews of the proposal were very positive, but there was som...

New post: replicating Loftus and Palmer at scale.

rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...

Happy to share that our shared first-author paper with @febedemeyer.bsky.social is now published open access in @jcgntn.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/4bt2D8Q

We developed and administered an open-source cognitive control test battery with often used tasks (bit.ly/4ql9gyP) in 247 students. Key insights in 🧵

Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues In today's pattern recognition class my professor talked about PCA, eigenvectors and eigenvalues. I understood the mathematics of it. If I'm asked to find eigenvalues etc. I'll do it correctly li...

still one of the best explanations of principal component analysis (pca), explained at different levels from layman to the more math inclined stats.stackexchange.com/a/140579/132...

Just kicked off the Kyiv Winter School of Memory 2026 with over 70 participants of different universities in Ukraine. So rewarding to see this slightly crazy idea become a reality. Thanks to @linniplidot.bsky.social and Karine Malysheva (National University of Kyiv) for organising this with me.

Türchen 17/24 🧑🏻‍🍼

Heute stellen wir euch (ParenThesis) vor! Der Blog schafft Sichtbarkeit für die Probleme von Eltern in der Wissenschaft, stellt Lösungen vor und leistet damit einen hilfreichen Beitrag.

#karriere #elterninderwissenschaft #parenthesis #blog #worklifebalance

Türchen 15/24 ✍️🌟

Heute startet die Anmeldung für die TeaP 2026!
Bereits seit 1958 ist sie eine renommierte psychologische Forschungskonferenz.
Damit auch weitere wichtige Termine nicht verpasst werden: einfach auf Instagram unter @dgps_fgal folgen

#teap #psychologie #konferenz #forschung

New paper in Psych Review on a model of false recognition in Deese-Roediger-McDermott DRM task.

Not just recognition responses, but also associated RTs!

And not just the semantic task, but also the structural task - where words overlap in orthography/phonology!

A thread!

Türchen 4/24 🧑‍🎄

Heute möchten wir euch auf unsere Projekte, Programme und Angebote insbesondere zur Nachwuchsförderung aufmerksam machen.
Hier der Link 🔗
www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/...

#nachwuchsförderung #dgps #psychologie #angebote #förderung

Türchen 1/24 🕯️ Ursprünge der Psychologie
Heute startet unser wissenschaftlicher Adventskalender! Freu dich auf interessante Forschungsergebnisse, Terminerinnerungen und Mini-Experimente!
Folge uns (@dgps_fgal) auf Instagram, um nichts zu verpassen.

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Looking forward to more inspiring sessions ahead! Next one on January 30th at noon, 12 pm, with Magdalena Abel, who will introduce her newly established chair at the UTN, the Technical University of Nuremberg. We hope many of you will join again.

✨ Heute stellen wir unsere Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie vor! Sie erforscht Grundlagen wie Wahrnehmung, Denken & Gedächtnis ➡️ Fundament für viele psychologische Disziplinen.
Die Fachgruppe ist auch auf Bluesky 👉 @dgps-fgal.bsky.social sky.social
Mehr: dgps.de/fachgruppen/allgemeine-psychologie

🎉 Start unserer Vorstellungsreihe der DGPs-Fachgruppen! Den Anfang macht die FG Geschichte der Psychologie. Sie erforscht, wie psychologische Ideen, Institutionen & Praktiken entstanden – und warum das heute zählt. Seit 1988: Austausch & Nachwuchsförderung. Vernetzt Euch: @dgpsgeschichte.bsky.social

The influence of free choice on recognition memory in the face of distraction Recognition memory is typically better for items learned after a free choice (independent of study material) than after a forced choice. However, previous studies presented to-be-remembered items i...

New paper published: Having free choice over what to learn improves memory, even in the presence of distraction.
Across two experiments, free choice selectively enhanced recognition for relevant, but not irrelevant items. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 The submission phase for talks & posters at #TeaP2026 starts on October 27! 🎉 Submit your contribution by November 16: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼 Present in a symposium, mixed-topics session, early-career session, or poster session 😍

The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online!

Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany

More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up.

pug2026.org

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social

Perception–Action Integration Is Linked to Posterior Alpha/Beta Desynchronization Abstract. Stimulus–response (S-R) bindings, which integrate sensory stimuli and motor responses into event files, are transient yet essential for adaptive behavior. This study investigated the EEG osc...

Perception–Action Integration Is Linked to Posterior Alpha/Beta Desynchronization. Our EEG study out now and open access in @jocn.bsky.social.

direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Principles for proper peer review

doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Why I left academia and neuroscience Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

Das ICAN der @unitrier.bsky.social präsentiert EEG, fNIRS und vieles mehr interessierten Kindern und Erwachsenen beim City Campus in Trier. Besucht uns gerne!

📢 SAVE THE DATE for #TeaP2026 in Tübingen 😍 Symposium submissions open on October 1! 🎉 For details, check out our website: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼

When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions A Spanish foundation using an artificial-intelligence tool to screen grant applications says it makes the peer-review process more efficient, but other researchers say it’s a breakdown in trust.

It can take weeks to write a grant proposal, so how would it feel to have a machine reject it in seconds?

go.nature.com/42hLWrv

The Young Scientist Retreat is the perfect event to get to know fellow PhD students and postdocs working in biopsychology and related fields. I highly recommend it! 👐

Bar chart showing % of articles retracted, with expression of concern, or no action from different publishers. 100% no action from Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer; 100% retraction from Taylor and Francis.

Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions

The emergence of NeuroAI: bridging neuroscience and artificial intelligence — a Comment article by Sadra Sadeh & Claudia Clopath

@sdrsd.bsky.social @clopathlab.bsky.social
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#neuroscience #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...