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Elisabeth Sterner

@esterner.bsky.social
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PhD student passionate about Computational Psychiatry | KnolleLab | Neuroradiology, TUM University Hospital | General and Experimental Psychology, LMU Munich

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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨 Registration closes September 30! We have an amazing programme! So join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes!! We are looking forward to seeing you in Munich! 🧠🥨 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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ICHR and ECHR Satellite Meeting 2026, Munich, Germany - REGISTRATION
We are pleased to welcome you to the 2026 ICHR and ECHR Satellite Meeting, hosted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Klinikum rechts der Isar, in Munich, Germany, from 19–21 October 2026. Pl...
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
2023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026
So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?
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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 💫 💥 Interested in PhD / Postdoc opportunities in computational psychiatry / cognitive neuroscience? My lab at University College Dublin 🇮🇪 is currently accepting expressions of interest for internally funded PhD/Postdoc applications for positions starting in September 2027 (!). 1/
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Zachary Tefertiller @zachtefertiller.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Excited to share our new preprint! 🎈 We reversed risk contingencies in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task and used computational models to reveal latent risk-taking mechanisms missed by standard measures. Huge thanks to @franziskaknolle.bsky.social & @thorstenpachur.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🚨Registration is now open for the 2026 ICHR & ECHR Satellite Meeting in Munich, 19–21 October! Deadline: 30 September 2026 Programme and registration details: sites.google.com/view/echrich... We hope to see many of you in Munich in October!🥨🧠 @theichr.bsky.social&@echrhallucinations.bsky.social
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Pritha Sen @prithasen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨 Excited to share our latest preprint with my supervisor @franziskaknolle.bsky.social We describe a way to measure transdiagnostic mental-health burden in adolescents and examine how higher burden is associated with differences in cognition and brain structure. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Elisabeth Sterner @esterner.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Very happy to be back at one of my favorite conferences 🧠#PUG2026 Come talk to me on Friday about our recently published MuSe database 📂(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...) and very fresh results on speech detection and content recognition under auditory ambiguity in psychosis-proneness 💬
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The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research @theichr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Call for papers: ICHR/ECHR 2026 (deadline June 15) The next meeting of ICHR will be at TU Munich (Oct 19-21), hosted by the fantastic @franziskaknolle.bsky.social! Get your abstracts in and join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes 1/n
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🚨Abstract submission for the @theichr.bsky.social & @echrhallucinations.bsky.social satellite meeting is open! We’re excited to welcome keynote speakers Dr @kathaschmack.bsky.social , Dr @veithweilnhammer.bsky.social, Prof @mruscalafell.bsky.social & Prof Paul Fletcher! See you in Munich 🥨🧠!
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Valentin Riedl @vavatin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Samira's work made the cover of @natneuro.nature.com this month 🎉 🔗 nature.com/neuro/volumes/29/issues/5 I also want to highlight two recent comments that engage with our quantitative approach to interpreting the BOLD signal; both are worth reading (see below).
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We had an amazing Girls‘ Day today!! 🧠👩‍💻👩‍⚕️ Neuroradiology @tum.de Klinikum Rechts der Isar!
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Elisabeth Sterner @esterner.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🚨 Our database is published in Behavior Research Methods: link.springer.com/article/10.3... with Maximilian Stadler and @franziskaknolle.bsky.social If you plan on working with German speech stimuli, check out our osf for auditory stimuli and our online tool for selecting sentence material 🪄
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Munich Sentence (MuSe) Database: Completion norms and audio recordings for 619 German sentences - Behavior Research Methods
Prediction is a core feature of language, which is widely studied across research domains. The Munich Sentence (MuSe) database enhances reproducibility by providing sentence completion norms for 619 G...
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Nature @nature.com · 30/03/2026
Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ
IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Some thoughts on @franziskaknolle.bsky.social recent paper on speech expectations, hallucinations, and glutamate: illness and chronicity may be important in understanding the role of glutamate in prior weighting www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
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Hallucinations, Prior Overweighting, and Glutamate
Perception is not passive. It is a synthetic process, governed not only by the information incident on our sensory epithelia but also by our knowledge and prior experiences of the world, through model...
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Elisabeth Sterner @esterner.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🚨Finally published - I'm very excited to share this work where we investigated the role of coordinated oscillatory activity 🧠 during social and visual WM processes and how impairments in fine-tuning this mechanisms may explain deficits in individuals with high autistic personality traits.
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🚨Paper alert: Very happy to share a new preprint investigating the stability of human-based sentence entropy measures and how well they are represented with LLM-based measures! Spoiler alert: We still need human data!💡 Thanks to the amazing team!! 🤩 arxiv.org/abs/2602.04570
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
🚨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...
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Valentin Riedl @vavatin.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:
BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex, Nature Neuroscience
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The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research @theichr.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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. hallucinationconsortium.org
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🚨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...
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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...
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🚨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...
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Angebot: Ein Tag als Neurowissenschaftlerin
München | 23. April 2026, 09:00 | TUM Klinikum, Neuroradiologie, München mit Dr. Franziska Knolle
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Elisabeth Sterner @esterner.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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' 10/10 response, no notes
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."
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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 🧠💡
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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...
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Elisabeth Sterner @esterner.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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 ✨
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/08/2025
What makes a puzzle hard? I found this video delightful.
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Adventures in State Space
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Elisabeth Sterner @esterner.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
⏳ 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
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Elisabeth Sterner @esterner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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! 🙌🧠
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Pritha Sen @prithasen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
📢 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...
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🚨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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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...
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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...
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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.
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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! 🤓
A picture of our symposiums speakers in the lecture hall with a great view of Wuerzburg and blue skies in the background!
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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 👇 www.pug2025.org/de/sessions/...
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Active Inference in Psychiatry: Understanding Mechanisms of Psychopathology | PuG2025
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Elisabeth Sterner @esterner.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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...
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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...
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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...
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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Super excited to share our lates preprint, in collaboration with my amazing students Elisabeth and Verena, Lucy MacGregor (Cambridge) and Chris Mathys (Aarhus): Guided by Expectations: Overweighted Semantic Priors in Schizotypy and their Links to Glutamate osf.io/preprints/ps... A thread🧵:
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