Research

Context

Determining whether two stimuli should evoke the same (stable) response or lead to a transition requires inferring how stimulus properties generalize relative to the context. Here, we focus on how the context in which an item is embedded helps or hinders its processing. Successful context processing makes us skilled in scene and object perception, while overgeneralization leads to disorders like phobias.

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Aizenman, A. M., Gegenfurtner, K. R., & Goettker, A. (2024).
Oculomotor routines for perceptual judgments.
Journal of Vision, 24(5), 3-3.

Aubret, A., Ernst, M.R., Teulière, C., & Triesch, J. (2023).
Time to Augment Contrastive Learning.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR).

Aubret, A., Teulière, C., & Triesch, J. (2022).
Toddler-inspired embodied vision for learning object representations.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Development and Learning (ICDL).

Aubret, A., Teulière, C., & Triesch, J. (2024) (2024).
Self-supervised visual learning from interactions with objects.
European Conference on Computer Vision, 54-71.

Aubuchon, C., Emily, A., Domini, F., Muryy, A., & Fleming, R. W. (2025).
Perceived 3D shape of mirror-like objects: interactions of monocular and binocular cues.
Journal of Vision, 25(9), 2483-2483.

Aubuchon, C., Vergne, R., Cholewiak, S. A., Kunsberg, B., Holtmann-Rice, D., Zucker, S., & Fleming, R. (2024).
(2024). Orientation fields predict perception of 3D shape from shading.

Bahmani, S., Hahn, O., Zamfir, E., Araslanov, N., Cremers, D., & Roth, S. (2022).
Semantic Self-adaptation: Enhancing Generalization with a Single Sample. Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).

Baltaretu, B. R., Schuetz, I., Võ, M. L. H., & Fiehler, K. (2024).
Scene semantics affects allocentric spatial coding for action in naturalistic (virtual) environments.
Scientific Reports, 14(1), 15549.

Baykan, C., & Schütz, A. C. (2025).
Electroencephalographic Responses to the Number of Objects in Partially Occluded and Uncovered Scenes.
Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 37(1), 227-238.

Baykan, C., & Schütz, A. C. (2025).
Eye movements do not preferentially test inferences in the blind spot.
Scientific Reports, 15, 43589.

Baykan, C., Mamassian, P., & Schütz, A. C. (2025).
Confidence in auditory perceptual completion.
Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2025(1), niaf018.

Baykan, C., Mamassian, P., & Schütz, A. C. (2026).
Low confidence for perceptual completion of partially occluded objects.
Journal of Vision, 26(1), 4, 1–14.

Beitner, J., Helbing, J., David, E. J., & Võ, M. L. H. (2024).
Using a flashlight-contingent window paradigm to investigate visual search and object memory in virtual reality and on computer screens.
Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8596.

Bellagente, M., Brack, M., Teufel, H., Friedrich, F., Deiseroth, B., Eichenberg, C., Kersting, K., ... & Weinbach, S. (2024).
Multifusion: Fusing pre-trained models for multi-lingual, multi-modal image generation.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36.

Bittermann, A., Petrule, C., Ritter, V., Haberkamp, A., Hofmann, S. G., & Rief, W. (2025).
Research on translational psychological treatment: A comprehensive bibliometric analysis.
Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.

Borovska, P., & de Haas, B. (2024).
Individual gaze shapes diverging representations in inferior temporal cortex.

Borovska, P., & de Haas, B. (2024).
Individual gaze shapes diverging neural representations.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(36), e2405602121.

Borovska, P., de Haas, B. (2022).
Extrafoveal faces modulate the dynamics of scene viewing.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Brack, M., Friedrich, F., Hintersdorf, D., Struppek, L., Schramowski, P., & Kersting, K. (2024).
SEGA: Instructing text-to-image models using semantic guidance.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36.

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.

Brack, M., Schramowski, P., Deiseroth, B., & Kersting, K. (2023).
Illume: Rationalizing vision-language models through human interactions.

Brand, T. K., Schütz, A. C., Müller, H., Maurer, H., Hegele, M., & Maurer, L. K. (2024).
Sensorimotor prediction is used to direct gaze toward task-relevant locations in a goal-directed throwing task.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 132(2), 485-500.

Brand, T. K., Schütz, A. C., Müller, H., Maurer, H., Hegele, M., & Maurer, L. K. (2025).
Predicted task success and outcome history mediate eye movements toward locations with high informational or motivational value.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 134(2), 568-579.

Broda, M. D., & de Haas, B. (2022).
Individual differences in looking at persons in scenes.
Journal of Vision, 22(12), 9-9.

Broda, M. D., & de Haas, B. (2022).
Individual fixation tendencies in person viewing generalize from images to videos.
i-Perception, 13(6), 20416695221128844.

Broda, M. D., & de Haas, B. (2024).
Individual differences in human gaze behavior generalize from faces to objects.
roceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(12), e2322149121.

Broda, M. D., Borovska, P., & de Haas, B. (2024).
Individual differences in face salience and rapid face saccades.

Broda, M. D., Borovska, P., & de Haas, B. (2024).
Individual differences in face salience and rapid face saccades.
Journal of Vision, 24(6), 16-16.

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.

Broda, M. D., Borovska, P., Kollenda, D., Linka, M., de Haas, N., de Haas, S., & de Haas, B. (2024).
Estimating the human bottleneck for contact tracing.
PNAS nexus, 3(7).

Broda, M. D., Haddad, T., & de Haas, B. (2023).
Quick, eyes! Isolated upper face regions but not artificial features elicit rapid saccades.
Journal of Vision, 23(2), 5-5.

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.

Carter, A. A., & Kaiser, D. (2024).
An object numbering task reveals an underestimation of complexity for typically structured scenes.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-10.

Cavdan, M., Kapucu, A., Doerschner, K., & Drewing, K. (2024).
Happiness promotes global processing in haptic perception.
bioRxiv, 2024-07.

Cheeseman, J. R., Ferwerda, J. A., Morimoto, T., & Fleming, R. W. (2025).
Gloss discrimination: Toward an image-based perceptual model.
Journal of Vision, 25(10), 6.

Cheeseman, J. R., Fleming, R. W., & Schmidt, F. (2022).
Scale ambiguities in material recognition.
iScience, 25(3):103970.

David, E., & Vo, M. L. H. (2024).
SPHEER: a rich dataset of time-resolved gaze and head movements in virtual reality.
Journal of Vision, 24(10), 906-906.

David, E., Gutiérrez, J., Võ, M. L. H., Coutrot, A., Da Silva, M. P., & Le Callet, P. (2024).
The Salient360! toolbox: Handling gaze data in 3D made easy.
Computers & Graphics, 103890.

Davidson, C., Shing, Y. L., McKay, C., Rafetseder, E., & Wijeakumar, S. (2023).
The first year in formal schooling improves working memory and academic abilities.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101205.

Davidson, Ch., Shing, Y. L., McKay, C. Rafetseder, E., & Wijeakumar, S. (2023).
The first year in formal schooling improves working memory and academic abilities.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101205.

Dehn, K. I., Maiello, G., Hartmann, F. T., Morgenstern, Y., Hawkins, S. J., Offner, T., ... & Fleming, R. W. (2025).
Human shape perception spontaneously discovers the biological origin of novel, but natural, stimuli.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 22(226), 20240931.

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.

Deiseroth, B., Deb, M., Weinbach, S., Brack, M., Schramowski, P., & Kersting, K. (2024).
Atman: Understanding transformer predictions through memory efficient attention manipulation.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36.

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.

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

Eckert, A., Blume, J. S., Knopp, B., Schütz, A. C., & Endres, D. (2024).
Distinct Biases Shape Perceptual Inference Dynamics Along the Autism-Psychosis Spectra.

Ehrlich, I., Ortiz-Tudela, J., Tan, Y. Y., Muckli, L., & Shing, Y. L. (2024).
Mnemonic but not contextual feedback signals defy dedifferentiation in the aging early visual cortex.
Journal of neuroscience, 44(16).

Endres, J., Hahn, O., Corbière, C., Schaub-Meyer, S., Roth, S., & Alahi, A. (2025).
Boosting Omnidirectional Stereo Matching with a Pre-trained Depth Foundation Model.
Proc of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

Endres, J., Hahn, O., Corbière, C., Schaub-Meyer, S., Roth, S., & Alahi, A. (2025).
Boosting Omnidirectional Stereo Matching with a Pre-trained Depth Foundation Model.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

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

Faßbender, L., Falck, J., López, F. M., Shing, Y. L.,Triesch, J., Schwarzer, G. (2025).
A comparison of force adaptation in toddlers and adults during a drawer opening task.
Scientific Reports, 15(1), 3699.

Filip, J., Dechterenko, F., Schmidt, F., Lukavsky, J., Kotera, J., Vilimovska, V., & Fleming, R. W. (2025).
Material fingerprinting: predicting human perception of material appearance through psychophysical analysis and neural networks.
Royal Society Open Science, 12(11).

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.

Filip, J., Lukavský, J., Děchtěrenko, F., Schmidt, F., & Fleming, R. W. (2024).
Perceptual dimensions of wood materials.
Journal of Vision, 24(5), 12.

Flachot, A., Akbarinia, A., Schütt, H. H., Fleming, R. W., Wichmann, F. A., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2022).
Deep neural models for color classification and color constancy.
Journal of vision, 22(4), 17-17.

Friedrich, F., Hämmerl, K., Schramowski, P., Brack, M., Libovický, J., Fraser, A., & Kersting, K. (2025).
Multilingual text-to-image generation magnifies gender stereotypes.
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 19656-19679.

Friedrich, F., Stammer, W., Schramowski, P., & Kersting, K. (2023).
A typology for exploring the mitigation of shortcut behaviour.
Nature Machine Intelligence, 5(3), 319-330.

Friedrich, F., Stammer, W., Schramowski, P., Kersting, K. (2023).
Revision Transformers: Instructing Language Models to Change their Values. In
Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI).

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.

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.

Goettker, A., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2024).
Individual differences link sensory processing and motor control.
Psychological Review.

Goktepe, N., & Schütz, A. C. (2023).
Familiar objects benefit more from transsaccadic feature predictions.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-13.

Goktepe, N., & Schütz, A. C. (2023).
Familiar objects benefit more from transsaccadic feature predictions.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-13.

Goktepe, N., & Schütz, A. C. (2024).
Frequency-specific and periodic masking of peripheral characters by delayed foveal input.
In Scientific Reports 14(1), 4642.

Goll, Z. R., Schmidt, F., A-Izzeddin, E. J., Aubuchon, C., Kiliç, F., & Fleming, R. W. (2025).
Spatio-chromatic cues in shape and material perception.
Journal of Vision, 25(9), 2088-2088.

Gong, X., Hahn, O., Reich, C., Singh, K., Schaub-Meyer, S., Cremers, D., & Roth, S. (2025).
Motion-Refined DINOSAUR for Unsupervised Multi-Object Discovery.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops.

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

Grössle, I. M., Schubö, A., & Tünnermann, J. (2023).
Testing a relational account of search templates in visual foraging.
Scientific Reports, 13(1) ,12541

Guerrero‐Viu, J., Subias, J. D., Serrano, A., Storrs, K. R., Fleming, R. W., Masia, B., & Gutierrez, D. (2024).
Predicting Perceived Gloss: Do Weak Labels Suffice?.
Computer Graphics Forum (43)2, e15037.

Hahn, O., Araslanov, N., Schaub-Meyer, S., & Roth, S. (2024).
Boosting Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation with Principal Mask Proposals.
arXiv preprint2404.16818.

Hahn, O., Reich, C., Araslanov, N., Cremers, D., Rupprecht, C., & Roth, S. (2025).
Scene-Centric Unsupervised Panoptic Segmentation.
Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 24485-24495.

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.

Härle, R., Friedrich, F., Brack, M., Wäldchen, S., Deiseroth, B., Schramowski, P., & Kersting, K. (2025).
Measuring and Guiding Monosemanticity.
arXiv preprint, 2506.19382.

Helbing, J., Draschkow*, D., & Võ*, M. L.-H. (2022).
Auxiliary scene-context information provided by anchor objects guides attention and locomotion in natural search behavior.
Psychological science, 33(9), 1463–1476.

Helbing, J., Draschkow, D., & Võ, M. L. H. (2025).
Incidental Encoding of Objects during Search Is Stronger Than Intentional Memorization due to Increased Recollection Rather Than Familiarity.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-20.

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.

Hermann, A., Benke, C., Blecker, C. R., de Haas, B., He, Y., Hofmann, S. G., ... & Kirchner, L. (2024).
Study protocol TransTAM: Transdiagnostic research into emotional disorders and cognitive-behavioral therapy of the adaptive mind.
BMC psychiatry, 24(1), 657.

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

Hesse, R., Fischer, J., Schaub-Meyer, S., & Roth, S. (2025).
Disentangling Polysemantic Channels in Convolutional Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 4799-4803.

Hesse, R., Schaub-Meyer, S., & Roth, S. (2021).
Fast axiomatic attribution for neural networks.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 34(2), 19513-19524.

Hesse, R., Schaub-Meyer, S., & Roth, S. (2023).
Funnybirds: A synthetic vision dataset for a part-based analysis of explainable ai methods.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 3981-3991.

Hesse, R., Schaub-Meyer, S., & Roth, S. (2024).
Benchmarking the attribution quality of vision models.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 37, 97928-97947.

Hesse, R., Schaub-Meyer, S., & Roth, S. (2023) (2023).
Content-adaptive downsampling in convolutional neural networks.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 4544-4553.

Hilbert, K., Böhnlein, J., Meinke, C., Chavanne, A., Langhammer, T., Stumpe, L., Winter, N., Kircher, T., Rief, W., Straube, B., Roesmann, K., Leehr, E.J., Dannlowski, U., & Lueken, U., (2024).
Lack of evidence for predictive utility from resting state fMRI data for individual exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy outcomes: A machine learning study in two large multi-site samples in anxiety disorders.
NeuroImage, 295, 120639.

Jevtić, A., Reich, C., Wimbauer, F., Hahn, O., Rupprecht, C., Roth, S., & Cremers, D. (2025).
Feed-Forward SceneDINO for Unsupervised Semantic Scene Completion.
Proc. of the Twentieth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision.

Jevtić, A., Reich, C., Wimbauer, F., Hahn, O., Rupprecht, C., Roth, S., & Cremers, D. (2025).
Feed-Forward SceneDINO for Unsupervised Semantic Scene Completion.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Kaiser, D., Stecher, R., Dörschner-Boyaci, K. (2023).
EEG decoding reveals neural predictions for naturalistic material behaviors.
bioRxiv preprint

Kallmayer, A., & Vo, M. (2024).
Time-resolved brain activation patterns reveal hierarchical representations of scene grammar when viewing isolated objects.
Journal of Vision, 24(10), 655-655.

Kallmayer, A., & Võ, M. L. H. (2024).
Anchor objects drive realism while diagnostic objects drive categorization in GAN generated scenes.
Communications Psychology, 2(1), 68.

Kallmayer, A., Võ, M. L. H., & Draschkow, D. (2023).
Viewpoint dependence and scene context effects generalize to depth rotated three-dimensional objects.
Journal of Vision, 23 (10), 9.

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.

Kamath, R., Mitchell, R., Paul, S., Kersting, K., & Mundt, M. (2024).
BOWL: A Deceptively Simple Open World Learner.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2402.04814.

Kirchner, L., Eckert, A. L., Berg, M., Endres, D., Straube, B., & Rief, W. (2024).
An active inference approach to interpersonal differences in depression.
New Ideas in Psychology, 74, 101092.

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

Kirchner, L., Kloft, M., Arias Martín, B., Berg, M., Anjedanimoghadamaraghi, P., Schäfer, L., & Rief, W. (2023).
Measuring dysfunctional interpersonal beliefs: validation of the Interpersonal Cognitive Distortions Scale among a heterogeneous German-speaking sample.
BMC psychiatry, 23(1), 702.

Kirchner, L., Kloft, M., Berg, M., & Rief, W. (2022).
Measuring Dysfunctional Interpersonal Beliefs: Validation of the Interpersonal Cognitive Distortions Scale among a German-speaking Sample.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Kirchner, L., Kube, T., Berg, M., Eckert, A. L., Straube, B., Endres, D., & Rief, W. (2024).
Social expectations in depression.
Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-15.

Kirchner, L., Kube, T., D'Astolfo, L., Strahler, J., Herbstreit, R., & Rief, W. (2023).
How to modify expectations of social rejection? An experimental study using a false-feedback paradigm.
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 81, 101859.

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

Kirchner, L., Rief, W., Müller, L., Buchwald, H., Fuhrmann, K., & Berg, M. (2024).
Depressive symptoms and the processing of unexpected social feedback: Differences in surprise levels, feedback acceptance, and “immunizing” cognition.
Plos one, 19(8), e0307035.

Kollenda, D., de Haas, B. (2022).
The influence of familiarity on memory for faces and mask wearing.
Cognitive Research, 7(1).

Kollenda, D., Reher, A. S. V., & de Haas, B. (2024).
Individual gaze predicts individual scene descriptions.

Kollenda, D., Reher, A. S., & de Haas, B. (2025).
Individual gaze predicts individual scene descriptions.
Scientific Reports, 15(1), 9443.

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.

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

Krugliak, A., Draschkow, D., Võ, M. L. H., & Clarke, A. (2023).
Semantic object processing is modulated by prior scene context.
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience,1-10.

Kuhn, D. A., Tünnermann, J., & Schubö, A. (2025).
Picking the right piece: Action intentions shape visual search and action planning in human multi-target-foraging.
iScience, 28(6).

Lepori, F., Hartmann, F. T., Dehn, K. I., Chessa, M., Fleming, R. W., & Maiello, G. (2025).
Does precision grip research extend to unconstrained, multidigit grasping?.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 133(6), 1836-1843.

Liao, C., Cheeseman, J., Schmidt, F., Fleming, R. W., & Xiao, B. (2025).
Visual Adaptation of Complex Material Appearances.
Journal of Vision, 25(9), 2223-2223.

Linka, M., Broda, M. D., Alsheimer, T. A., de Haas, B., & Ramon, M. (2022).
Characteristic fixation biases in Super-Recognizers.
Journal of Vision, in press.

Linka, M., Karimpur, H., & de Haas, B. (2024).
Protracted development of gaze behaviour.

Linka, M., Karimpur, H., & de Haas, B. (2025).
Protracted development of gaze behaviour.
Nature Human Behaviour (2025), 1-11.

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

Linka, M., Sensoy, Ö., Karimpur, H., Schwarzer, G., de Haas, B. (2023).
Free viewing biases for complex scenes in preschoolers and adults.
Sci Rep, 13, 11803.

López, F. M., & Triesch, J. (2025).
Hierarchical Residuals Exploit Brain-Inspired Compositionality.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16003.

López, F. M., & Triesch, J. (2025).
Hierarchical Residuals Exploit Brain‑Inspired Compositionality.
2025 European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN).

López, F. M., Lenz, M., Fedozzi, M., Aubret, A., & Triesch, J. (2025).
MIMo grows! Simulating body and sensory development in a multimodal infant model.
2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL).

López, F. M., Shi, B. E., & Triesch, J. (2023).
Eye-Hand Coordination Develops from Active Multimodal Compression.
2023 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) ,437-442.

Lopez, F. M., Shi, B. E., & Triesch, J. (2024).
Prioritizing Compression Explains Human Perceptual Preferences.
Intrinsically-Motivated and Open-Ended Learning Workshop@ NeurIPS2024.

Maier, P. M., Schommartz, I., Iggena, D., Finke, C., Ploner, C. J., & Shing, Y. L. (2024).
Development of spatial memory consolidation: A comparison between children and adults.
Developmental Psychology.

Malik, A., Yu, Y., Boyaci, H., & Doerschner, K. (2025).
Perceiving Material Qualities from Moving Contours.
bioRxiv, 2025-07.

Markov, Y. A., & Võ, M. L. H. (2025).
Scene consistency enhances state representations of real-world objects.
Scientific Reports, 15(1), 18581.

Markov, Y., Vo, M. L. H., & Wolfe, J. M. (2024).
VowelWorld 2.0: Using artificial scenes to study semantic and syntactic scene guidance.
Journal of Vision, 24(10), 920-920.

Matsingos, A., Wilhelm, M., Noor, L., Yildiz, C., Rief, W., Hofmann, S. G., ... & Kircher, T. (2024).
Hype or hope? High placebo response in major depression treatment with ketamine and esketamine: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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