July 24th from 10:00 - 15:00, Ground floor seminar room, Maria-von-Linden Str. 6 For the cognitive science community here in Tübingen, the annual Cogsci conference (https://cognitivesciencesociety.or...

The brain explorer app for Apple and Android tests your brain functions and helps researchers to understand the brain. Explore your brain power and how brain functions are important for mental health.

Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Edelsbrunner et al. Educational Psychology Review, 37, 1–43, 2025 recently published a systematic review and meta-analysis of Cronbach's alphas in domain-specific knowledge tests. While appreciating…

Two days ago, four Dutch universities announced discontinuing their English-speaking psychology bachelor programs (1, 2). I will briefly explain (1) how this decision came to be, (2) why this is such ...

Seminar announcement: Andrea Reiter (Germany), 27 March 2025

1 – Reward Learning This is one of a pair of blogs on moving ‘beyond motivation’ in the classroom. I’ve always struggled with ‘motivation’ in the classroom. Not my own (well, sometimes), but with u…

Behavioural experiments to study decision-making in response to context-dependent accumulation of evidence provide testable models that are consistent with the heterogeneity in neural signatures among...

Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...