Publications

Preprints

Lu Z*, Doerig A*, Bosch V*, Krahmer B, Kaiser D*, Cichy RM*, Kietzmann TC*. *contributed equally (submitted).
End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour: moving beyond convolutions.
arXiv preprint
Klink H., Kaiser D., Stecher R., Ambrus GG*, Kovács G*. (submitted). *contributed equally
Your place or mine? The neural dynamics of personally familiar scene recognition suggests category independent familiarity encoding.
bioRxiv preprint
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López, F. M., & Triesch, J. (2025).
Hierarchical Residuals Exploit Brain-Inspired Compositionality.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16003.
Nara, S., Becker, L., Hillebrand, L., Xiang, R., & Kaiser, D. (2025).
Dynamic neural representations of scene beauty are relatively unaffected by stimulus timing and task.
bioRxiv, 2025-04.
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Morimoto, T., Akbarinia, A., Storrs, K. R., Cheeseman, J. R., Smithson, H. E., Gegenfurtner, K. R., & Fleming, R. W. (2025).
Human gloss perception reproduced by tiny neural networks.
bioRxiv preprint: 2025-05.
Steinmann, D., Stammer, W., Wüst, A., & Kersting, K. (2025).
Object Centric Concept Bottlenecks.
arXiv preprint: 2505.24492.
Chen, J., Kshirsagar, A., Heller, F., Andreu, M. G., Belousov, B., Schneider, T., Lin, L. P., Doerschner, K., Drewing, K., & Peters, J. (2025).
Investigating Active Sampling for Hardness Classification with Vision-Based Tactile Sensors.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13231.
Nonnengießer, F., Kshirsagar, A., Belousov, B., & Peters, J. (2025).
In-Hand Object Pose Estimation via Visual-Tactile Fusion.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.10787.
van Dyck, L. E., Hebart, M. N., & Dobs, K. (2025).
Multidimensional feature tuning in category-selective areas of human visual cortex.
bioRxiv, 2025-06.
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Malik, A., Yu, Y., Boyaci, H., & Doerschner, K. (2025).
Perceiving Material Qualities from Moving Contours.
bioRxiv, 2025-07.
Zika, S., Chang, K., Orhon, A., Kruper, J., Rokem, A., & Grotheer, M. (2025).
Cortical and white matter T1w/T2w development proceed in concert during early infancy.
bioRxiv preprint: 2025-07.
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Aguilera Gonzalez, V. A., Cetin, G., Zika, S., Schulz, A., Pirsch, M., Dalski, A., & Grotheer, M. (2025).
A fast and child-friendly localizer for the identification of ITG-math based on its preference for mathematical processing.
bioRxiv preprint: 2025-08.
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Kämmer, L., Kroell, L. M., Knapen, T., Rolfs, M., & Hebart, M. N. (2025).
Feedback of peripheral saccade targets to early foveal cortex.
eLife, 14.
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Linde-Domingo, J., Ortiz-Tudela, J., Völler, J., Hebart, M. N., & González-García, C. (2025).
Determinants of visual ambiguity resolution.
bioRxiv preprint: 2025-05.
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Teichmann, L., Hebart, M. N., & Baker, C. I. (2025).
Dynamic representation of multidimensional object properties in the human brain.
bioRxiv preprint: 2023-09.
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Kiniklioglu, M., & Kaiser, D. (2025).
Characterizing Surround Suppression with Dynamic Natural Scenes.
bioRxiv preprint: 2025-08.
Friedrich, F., Welsch, T. G., Brack, M., Schramowski, P., & Kersting, K. (2025).
Beyond Overcorrection: Evaluating Diversity in T2I Models with DIVBENCH.
arXiv preprint: 2507.03015.
Härle, R., Friedrich, F., Brack, M., Wäldchen, S., Deiseroth, B., Schramowski, P., & Kersting, K. (2025).
Measuring and Guiding Monosemanticity.
arXiv preprint, 2506.19382.
Brack, M., Katakol, S., Friedrich, F., Schramowski, P., Ravi, H., Kersting, K., & Kale, A. (2025).
How to Train your Text-to-Image Model: Evaluating Design Choices for Synthetic Training Captions.
arXiv preprint, 2506.16679.
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Woydt, T., Willig, M., Wüst, A., Helff, L., Stammer, W., Rothkopf, C. A., & Kersting, K. (2025).
Fodor and Pylyshyn's Legacy-Still No Human-like Systematic Compositionality in Neural Networks.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.01820
Delfosse, Q., Blüml, J., Tatai, F., Vincent, T., Gregori, B., Dillies, E., ... & Kersting, K. (2025).
Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents are not even close to Human Intelligence.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.21731.
Schuhmann, C., Kaczmarczyk, R., Rabby, G., Friedrich, F., Kraus, M., Kalyan, K., Kersting, K., & Auer, S. (2025).
EmoNet-Face: An expert-annotated benchmark for synthetic emotion recognition.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2505.20033.
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Ye, Z., Arenz, O., & Kersting, K. (2025).
Learning from Less: Guiding Deep Reinforcement Learning with Differentiable Symbolic Planning.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2505.11661.
Friedrich, F., Tedeschi, S., Schramowski, P., Brack, M., Navigli, R., Nguyen, H., ... & Kersting, K. (2025).
Llms lost in translation: M-alert uncovers cross-linguistic safety gaps.
ICLR 2025 Workshop on Building Trust in Language Models and Applications.
Palenicek, D., Vogt, F., & Peters, J. (2025).
Scaling CrossQ with Weight Normalization.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2506.03758.
Wiebe, F., Turcato, N., Libera, A. D., Choe, J. S. B., Choi, B., Faust, T. L., Peters, J., ... & Kumar, S. (2025).
Reinforcement Learning for Robust Athletic Intelligence: Lessons from the 2nd'AI Olympics with RealAIGym'Competition.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2503.15290.
Zöngür, B., Hesse, R., & Roth, S. (2025).
Activation Subspaces for Out-of-Distribution Detection.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2508.21695.
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Hesse, R., Bağcı, D., Schiele, B., Schaub-Meyer, S., & Roth, S. (2025).
Beyond Accuracy: What Matters in Designing Well-Behaved Models?.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2503.17110
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Schaumlöffel, T., Aubret, A., Roig, G., & Triesch, J. (2025).
Human Gaze Boosts Object-Centered Representation Learning.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2501.02966.
Meisler, S. L., Kubota, E., Grotheer, M., Gabrieli, J., & Grill-Spector, K. (2024).
A practical guide for combining functional regions of interest and white matter bundles.
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Eckert, A., Blume, J. S., Knopp, B., Schütz, A. C., & Endres, D. (2024).
Distinct Biases Shape Perceptual Inference Dynamics Along the Autism-Psychosis Spectra.
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Eckert, A., Fuehrer, E., Schmitter, C., Straube, B., Fiehler, K., & Endres, D. (2024).
Modelling Sensory Attenuation as Bayesian Causal Inference across two Datasets.
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Schmitter, C. V., Pazen, M., Uhlmann, L., van Kemenade, B. M., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2024).
Predictive neural processing of self-generated hand and tool actions in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and healthy individuals.
OSFPreprints
Streiling, K., Schulke, R., van Dam, L. C., & Straube, B. (2024).
Choice-and trial-history effects on causality perception in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder.
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Linka, M., Karimpur, H., & de Haas, B. (2024).
Protracted development of gaze behaviour.
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Broda, M. D., Borovska, P., Kollenda, D., Linka, M., de Haas, N., de Haas, S., & de Haas, B. (2024).
Estimating the memory bottleneck for contact tracing.
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Broda, M. D., Borovska, P., & de Haas, B. (2024).
Individual differences in face salience and rapid face saccades.
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Kollenda, D., Reher, A. S. V., & de Haas, B. (2024).
Individual gaze predicts individual scene descriptions.
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Böhm, A., Schneider, T., Belousov, B., Kshirsagar, A., Lin, L., Doerschner, K., ... & Peters, J. (2024).
What matters for active texture recognition with vision-based tactile sensors.
arXiv preprint 2403, 13701.
Hahn, O., Araslanov, N., Schaub-Meyer, S., & Roth, S. (2024).
Boosting Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation with Principal Mask Proposals.
arXiv preprint2404.16818.
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Gao, X., Yang, J., Li, C., Guo, X., Wang, Y., Qu, Z., ... & Yuan, B. (2024).
How do we imagine a speech? A triple network model for situationally simulated inner speech.
bioRxiv preprint ,2024-07.
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Xie, S., Singer, J. J., Yilmaz, B., Kaiser, D., & Cichy, R. M. (2024).
The representational nature of spatio-temporal recurrent processing in visual object recognition.
bioRxiv preprint ,2024-07.
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Wang, G., Chen, L., Cichy, R. M., & Kaiser, D. (2024).
Enhanced and idiosyncratic neural representations of personally typical scenes.
bioRxiv preprint ,2024-07.
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Stecher, R., Cichy, R. M., & Kaiser, D. (2024).
Decoding the contents of visual brain rhythms.
Researchgate preprint
Yeh, L. C., Bardelang, M., & Kaiser, D. (2024).
Cortical alpha rhythms interpolate occluded motion from natural scene context.
bioRxiv preprint, 2024-10.
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Schroeger, A., Goettker, A., Braun, D. I., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2024).
Keeping your eye, head, and hand on the ball: Rapidly orchestrated visuomotor behavior in a continuous action task.
bioRxiv preprint 2024-12.
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Kallmayer, A., Zacharias, L., Jetter, L., & Võ, M. L. (2024).
More than meets the eye: Neural evidence for scene grammar representations during individual object processing.
PsyArxiv, 10.
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Filip, J., Dechterenko, F., Schmidt, F., Lukavsky, J., Vilimovska, V., Kotera, J., & Fleming, R. W. (2024).
Material Fingerprinting: Identifying and Predicting Perceptual Attributes of Material Appearance.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2410.13615.
Steinmann, D., Stammer, W., Friedrich, F., & Kersting, K. (2024).
Learning to intervene on concept bottlenecks.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.13453.
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Stammer, W., Friedrich, F., Steinmann, D., Brack, M., Shindo, H., & Kersting, K. (2024).
Learning by self-explaining.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08395.
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Steinmann, D., Divo, F., Kraus, M., Wüst, A., Struppek, L., Friedrich, F., & Kersting, K. (2024).
Navigating shortcuts, spurious correlations, and confounders: From origins via detection to mitigation.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.05152.
Kraus, M., Steinmann, D., Wüst, A., Kokozinski, A., & Kersting, K. (2024).
Right on time: Revising time series models by constraining their explanations.
arXiv preprint:2402.12921
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Cavdan, M., Kapucu, A., Doerschner, K., & Drewing, K. (2024).
Happiness promotes global processing in haptic perception.
bioRxiv, 2024-07.
Amme, C., Sulewski, P., Spaak, E., Hebart, M. N., König, P., & Kietzmann, T. C. (2024).
Saccade onset, not fixation onset, best explains early responses across the human visual cortex during naturalistic vision.
bioRxiv preprint<:/em> 2024-10.
Kaniuth, P., Mahner, F. P., Perkuhn, J., & Hebart, M. N. (2024).
A high-throughput approach for the efficient prediction of perceived similarity of natural objects.
bioRxiv preprint: 2024-06.
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Härle, R., Friedrich, F., Brack, M., Deiseroth, B., Schramowski, P., & Kersting, K. (2024).
SCAR: Sparse conditioned autoencoders for concept detection and steering in LLMs.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2411.07122.
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Wüst, A., Woydt, T., Helff, L., Ibs, I., Stammer, W., Dhami, D. S., ... & Kersting, K. (2024).
Bongard in Wonderland: Visual Puzzles that Still Make AI Go Mad?.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2410.19546.
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Poonia, H., Willig, M., Yu, Z., Zečević, M., Kersting, K., & Dhami, D. S. (2024).
$\chi $ SPN: Characteristic Interventional Sum-Product Networks for Causal Inference in Hybrid Domains.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2408.07545.
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Deiseroth, B., Brack, M., Schramowski, P., Kersting, K., & Weinbach, S. (2024).
T-FREE: Subword tokenizer-free generative LLMs via sparse representations for memory-efficient embeddings.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2406.19223.
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Helff, L., Friedrich, F., Brack, M., Kersting, K., & Schramowski, P. (2024).
Llavaguard: An open vlm-based framework for safeguarding vision datasets and models.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2406.05113.
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Kraus, M., Divo, F., Steinmann, D., Dhami, D. S., & Kersting, K. (2024) (2024).
United We Pretrain, Divided We Fail! Representation Learning for Time Series by Pretraining on 75 Datasets at Once.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2402.15404.
Busch, F. P., Kamath, R., Mitchell, R., Stammer, W., Kersting, K., & Mundt, M. (2024).
Where is the truth? the risk of getting confounded in a continual world.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2402.06434.
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Kamath, R., Mitchell, R., Paul, S., Kersting, K., & Mundt, M. (2024).
BOWL: A Deceptively Simple Open World Learner.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2402.04814.
Ody, E., Kircher, T., Straube, B., & He, Y. (2024).
Voluntary action sharpens sensory prediction and facilitates neural processing of contingent sensory stimuli.
bioRxiv preprint: 2024-12.
Nguyen, D. H., Schneider, T., Duret, G., Kshirsagar, A., Belousov, B., & Peters, J. (2024).
TacEx: GelSight Tactile Simulation in Isaac Sim--Combining Soft-Body and Visuotactile Simulators.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2411.04776.
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Kaidanov, O., Al-Hafez, F., Suvari, Y., Belousov, B., & Peters, J. (2024).
The Role of Domain Randomization in Training Diffusion Policies for Whole-Body Humanoid Control.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2411.01349.
Helmut, E., Dziarski, L., Funk, N., Belousov, B., & Peters, J. (2024).
Learning force distribution estimation for the gelsight mini optical tactile sensor based on finite element analysis.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2411.03315.
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Straub, D., Niehues, T. F., Peters, J., & Rothkopf, C. A. (2024).
Inverse decision-making using neural amortized Bayesian actors.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2409.03710.
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Meser, M., Bhatt, A., Belousov, B., & Peters, J. (2024).
Mujoco mpc for humanoid control: Evaluation on humanoidbench.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2408.00342.
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Palenicek, D., Gruner, T., Schneider, T., Böhm, A., Lenz, J., Pfenning, I., ... & Peters, J. (2024).
Learning tactile insertion in the real world.
arXiv preprint arXiv:. 2405.00383.
Grotheer, M., Bloom, D., Kruper, J., Richie-Halford, A., Zika, S., Aguilera Gonzalez, V.A., Yeatman, J.D., Grill-Spector, K., Rokem, A. (2023).
Human white matter myelination rate slows down at birth.
bioRxiv preprint
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Foxwell, M.J.*, Wang, G.*, Cichy, R.M., Pitcher, D., Kaiser, D. (2023). *contributed equally
Individual differences in internal models explain idiosyncrasies in scene perception.
PsyArXiv Preprints
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Kaiser, D., Stecher, R., Dörschner-Boyaci, K. (2023).
EEG decoding reveals neural predictions for naturalistic material behaviors.
bioRxiv preprint
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Goupil, N., Kaiser, D., Papeo, L. (2023).
Category-specific effects of high-level relations in visual search.
OSF preprint
Goupil, N., Kaiser, D., Papeo, L. (2023).
Alpha-frequency feedback to early visual cortex orchestrates coherent natural vision.
bioRxiv preprint
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Falck, J., Zhang, L., Raffington, L., Mohn, J. J., Triesch, J., Heim, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2023).
Longitudinal Changes in Value-based Learning in Middle Childhood: Distinct Contributions of Hippocampus and Striatum.
bioRxiv preprint
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Kirchner, L., Rief, W., Müller, L., Buchwald, H., Fuhrmann, K., & Berg, M. (2023).
Processing Unexpected Social Feedback in Depression: Differences in Feedback Acceptance and Immunizing Cognition.
PsyArXiv Preprints
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Eckert, A. L., Pawlowski, J., Rief, W., Endres, D., & Kirchner, L. (2023).
Simulating Active Inference of Interpersonal Context Within and Across Mental Disorders.
PsyArXiv Preprints
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Stecher, R., & Kaiser, D. (2023).
Imaginary scenes are represented in cortical alpha activity.
bioRxiv, 2023-10.
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Kirchner, L., Rief, W., Müller, L., Buchwald, H., Fuhrmann, K., & Berg, M. (2023).
Processing Unexpected Social Feedback in Depression: Differences in Feedback Acceptance and Immunizing Cognition.
PsyArXiv Preprints
Chen, L., Cichy, R. M., & Kaiser, D. (2023).
Coherent categorical information triggers integration-related alpha dynamics.
bioRxiv, 2023-12.
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König, A., Bremmer, F., Dowiasch, S. (2023).
Quantitative comparison of a mobile, tablet-based and two stationary, video-based eye-trackers.
bioRxiv, 2023-06.
Engel, D., Greulich, R. S., Parola, A., Vinehout, K., Dowiasch, S., Waldthaler, J., ... & Bremmer, F. (2023).
Convolutional neural network reveals frequency content of medio-lateral COM body sway to be highly predictive of Parkinson's disease.
medRxiv, 2023-05.
Dalski, A., Kular, H., Jorgensen, J. G., Grill-Spector, K., & Grotheer, M. (2023).
RECOWNs: Both mOTS-words and pOTS-words prefer emoji stimuli over text stimuli during a reading task.
bioRxiv
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Wroblewski, A., Hollandt, M., Yang, Y., Ridderbusch, I.C., Pietzner, A., Szeska, C., Lotze, M., Wittchen, H.-U., Heinig, I., Pittig, A., Arolt, V., Koelkebeck, K., Rothkopf, C.A., Adolph, D., Margraf, J., Lueken, U., Pauli, P., Herrmann, M.J., Winkler, M.H., Ströhle, A., Dannlowski, U., Kircher, T., Hamm, A.O., Straube, B.* & Richter, J.* (2022). *contributed equally
Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear: How Intolerance of Uncertainty and Trait Anxiety impact fear acquisition, extinction and the return of fear.
PsyArXiv Preprints
Kirchner, L., Eckert, A., Berg, M., Endres, D., Straube, B., & Rief, W. (2022).
Better safe than sorry? - An active inference approach to biased inference on social contexts in depression.
PsyArXiv Preprints
Borovska, P., de Haas, B. (2022).
Extrafoveal faces modulate the dynamics of scene viewing.
PsyArXiv Preprints
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Kessler, F., Frankenstein, J., & Rothkopf, C. A. (2022).
A Dynamic Bayesian Actor Model explains Endpoint Variability in Homing Tasks.
bioRxiv
Linka, M., Sensoy, Ö., Karimpur, H., Schwarzer, G., de Haas, B. (2022).
Attentional biases in free viewing of complex scenes in preschoolers and adults.
PsyArXiv Preprints
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Yu, Z., Dhami, D. S., & Kersting, K. (2021).
Sum-Product-Attention Networks: Leveraging Self-Attention in Probabilistic Circuits.
arXiv preprint
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Zečević, M., Dhami, D. S., Rothkopf, C. A., & Kersting, K. (2021).
Structural Causal Interpretation Theorem.
arXiv preprint
McKay, C., Wijeakumar, S., Rafetseder, E., & Shing, Y. L. (2021).
Disentangling Age and Schooling Effects on Inhibitory Control Development: An fNIRS Investigation.
bioRxiv
Gregorova, K., Turini, J., Gagl, B., & Vo, M. L. H. (2021).
Access to meaning from visual input: Object and word frequency effects in categorization behavior.
PsyArXiv Preprints
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