Research
Data Hub
We have established the TAM Data Hub for storing, mining and publishing data to make them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). The Data Hub is particularly useful for understanding natural behavior, working on longitudinal questions, and combining data from healthy individuals and patients with mental disorders. It is a fundamental scientific tool for resolving the complexities of the human mind addressed in the five Key Areas. For more details see Public Outreach - Infrastructure.
The Data Hub technical services and its harmonized research data management workflow are described in the
DataHub User Manual. You will also find information on how to register for access. After setting up VPN, registered users have access to:
- TAM GitLab: Collaborative version control, storage and exchange of data and code, project management, wikis, automation tools, ...
- TAM DataHub Repository: Publication of data and code with DOI
- Jupyter\HPC: Powerful interactive compute in a high performance compute infrastructure
- MaRC3: High performance compute on the HPC cluster in Marburg
- Various other services provided by Marburg University.
Using the Data Hub infrastructure is strongly encouraged by our research data management policy: Brand, O., Endres, D., Pfarr, J. K., Berger, C., Lenze, S., Fiehler, K., & Fleming, R. W. (2023). The Adaptive Mind Data and Code Policy.
New project-related publications
Oculomotor routines for perceptual judgments.
Journal of Vision, 24(5), 3-3.
Different contributions of efferent and reafferent feedback to sensorimotor temporal recalibration.
Scientific Reports, 11(1).
Modeling Reward Learning Under Placebo Expectancies: A Q-Learning Approach.
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Electroencephalographic Responses to the Number of Objects in Partially Occluded and Uncovered Scenes.
Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 37(1), 227-238.
Eye movements do not preferentially test inferences in the blind spot.
Scientific Reports, 15, 43589.
Confidence in auditory perceptual completion.
Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2025(1), niaf018.
Low confidence for perceptual completion of partially occluded objects.
Journal of Vision, 26(1), 4, 1–14.
What matters for active texture recognition with vision-based tactile sensors.
arXiv preprint 2403, 13701.
Individual gaze shapes diverging representations in inferior temporal cortex.
Individual gaze shapes diverging neural representations.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(36), e2405602121.
Extrafoveal faces modulate the dynamics of scene viewing.
PsyArXiv Preprints
Sensorimotor prediction is used to direct gaze toward task-relevant locations in a goal-directed throwing task.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 132(2), 485-500.
Predicted task success and outcome history mediate eye movements toward locations with high informational or motivational value.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 134(2), 568-579.
Individual differences in looking at persons in scenes.
Journal of Vision, 22(12), 9-9.
Individual fixation tendencies in person viewing generalize from images to videos.
i-Perception, 13(6), 20416695221128844.
Individual differences in human gaze behavior generalize from faces to objects.
roceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(12), e2322149121.
Individual differences in face salience and rapid face saccades.
Individual differences in face salience and rapid face saccades.
Journal of Vision, 24(6), 16-16.
Estimating the memory bottleneck for contact tracing.
Estimating the human bottleneck for contact tracing.
PNAS nexus, 3(7).
Quick, eyes! Isolated upper face regions but not artificial features elicit rapid saccades.
Journal of Vision, 23(2), 5-5.
Modelling sensory attenuation as Bayesian causal inference across two datasets.
PloS one, 20(1), e0317924.
A Bayesian model for chronic pain.
Frontiers in Pain Research, 152.
Simulating Active Inference of Interpersonal Context Within and Across Mental Disorders.
PsyArXiv Preprints
Distinct Biases Shape Perceptual Inference Dynamics Along the Autism-Psychosis Spectra.
Modelling Sensory Attenuation as Bayesian Causal Inference across two Datasets.
Boosting Omnidirectional Stereo Matching with a Pre-trained Depth Foundation Model.
Proc of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
Boosting Omnidirectional Stereo Matching with a Pre-trained Depth Foundation Model.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
Convolutional neural network reveals frequency content of medio-lateral COM body sway to be highly predictive of Parkinson's disease.
medRxiv, 2023-05.
Deep neural models for color classification and color constancy.
Journal of vision, 22(4), 17-17.
Individual differences link sensory processing and motor control.
Psychological Review.
Familiar objects benefit more from transsaccadic feature predictions.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-13.
Familiar objects benefit more from transsaccadic feature predictions.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-13.
Frequency-specific and periodic masking of peripheral characters by delayed foveal input.
In Scientific Reports 14(1), 4642.
Study protocol TransTAM: Transdiagnostic research into emotional disorders and cognitive-behavioral therapy of the adaptive mind.
BMC psychiatry, 24(1), 657.
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.
Improving saliency models' predictions of the next fixation with humans' intrinsic cost of gaze shifts.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (pp. 2104-2114).
The effect of self- vs. externally generated actions on timing, duration and amplitude of BOLD response for visual feedback processing.
Human Brain Mapping, in press.
A Dynamic Bayesian Actor Model explains Endpoint Variability in Homing Tasks.
bioRxiv
Human navigation strategies and their errors result from dynamic interactions of spatial uncertainties.
Nature Communications, 15(1), 5677.
Better safe than sorry? - An active inference approach to biased inference on social contexts in depression.
PsyArXiv Preprints
Social expectations in depression.
Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-15.
The influence of familiarity on memory for faces and mask wearing.
Cognitive Research, 7(1).
Individual gaze predicts individual scene descriptions.
Individual gaze predicts individual scene descriptions.
Scientific Reports, 15(1), 9443.
Staring down the elevator shaft: Postural responses to virtual heights in an indoor environment.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci).
Inferring Height-Induced Changes in Postural Control via Inverse Optimal Control.
Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN).
Predictive use of environmental regularities requires action relevance.
Scientific Reports, 16, 1596.
Temporal recalibration in response to delayed visual feedback of active versus passive actions: An fMRI study.
Resting-state functional connectivity in anxiety disorders: a multicenter fMRI study.
Molecular psychiatry, 30(4), 1548-1557.
What to target? Interventions to modulate key mechanisms underlying the trajectories of affective disorders in the transregional collaborative research center 393.
Der Nervenarzt, 1-7.
Characteristic fixation biases in Super-Recognizers.
Journal of Vision, in press.
Protracted development of gaze behaviour.
Nature Human Behaviour (2025), 1-11.
Attentional biases in free viewing of complex scenes in preschoolers and adults.
PsyArXiv Preprints
Free viewing biases for complex scenes in preschoolers and adults.
Sci Rep, 13, 11803.
Action-based predictions affect visual perception, neural processing, and pupil size, regardless of temporal predictability.
NeuroImage, 263, 119601.
Hype or hope? High placebo response in major depression treatment with ketamine and esketamine: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Frontiers in psychiatry, 15, 1346697.
A model of selection history in visual attention.
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 43(43), 707-713.
Sensorimotor processes are not a source of much noise: sensorimotor and decision components of reaction times.
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Underestimation of the number of hidden objects.
Journal of Vision, 23(2):1, 1–20.
Learning Particle Dynamics Subject to Rigid Body Manipulations Using Graph Neural Networks.
The Fourth Learning on Graphs Conference.
Human gloss perception reproduced by tiny neural networks.
bioRxiv preprint: 2025-05.
Modeling aberrant volatility estimates in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Differential Effects of Self‐Initiated, Externally Triggered, and Passive Movements on Action‐Outcome Processing: Insights From Sensory and Motor‐Preparatory Event Related Potentials.
European Journal of Neuroscience, 62(5), e70236.
Pre-movement event-related potentials and multivariate pattern of EEG encode action outcome prediction. Human Brain Mapping.
Voluntary action sharpens sensory prediction and facilitates neural processing of contingent sensory stimuli.
bioRxiv preprint: 2024-12.
Perception of self-generated and externally-generated visual stimuli: Evidence from EEG and behavior.
Psychophysiology, e14295.
Robust generalization of tuning to self-induced sensation.
iScience, 28(6).
Behavioural and functional evidence revealing the role of RBFOX1 variation in multiple psychiatric disorders and traits.
Molecular Psychiatry, 1–10.
A computational model for angular velocity integration in a locust heading circuit.
PLOS Computational Biology, 20(12), e1012155.
A Model for Optic Flow Integration in Locust Central-Complex Neurons Tuned to Head Direction.
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active and passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder.
Schizophrenia, 11(1), 109.
Aberrant preparation of hand movement in schizophrenia spectrum disorder: An fMRI study.
Brain Communications, 7(2), fcaf148.
Neural adaptation of cingulate and insular activity during delayed fear extinction: A replicable pattern across assessment sites and repeated measurements.
NeuroImage, 237, 118157.
Color constancy mechanisms in virtual reality environments.
Journal of Vision, 24(5) ,6-6.
Computational elements of natural vision.
Journal of Vision, 25(12), 4-4.
Models of vision need some action.
Behavioral Brain Science, 46:e405.
Predictive neural processing of self-generated hand and tool actions in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and healthy individuals.
OSFPreprints
Neural correlates of temporal recalibration to delayed auditory feedback of active and passive movements.
Human Brain Mapping.
Large pre-trained language models contain human-like biases of what is right and wrong to do.
Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(3), 258-268.
Object center of mass predicts endpoints for free-hand pointing in virtual reality.
Journal of Vision, 24(10), 615-615.
Reinforcement learning with non-exponential discounting.
Neural Information Processing Systems.
Inverse optimal control adapted to the noise characteristics of the human sensorimotor system.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 34, 9429-9442.
Within-subject confidence intervals for pairwise differences in scatter plots.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-14.
A review of the costs of eye movements.
Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-14.
Balancing on the Edge: Review and Computational Framework on the Dynamics of Fear of Falling and Fear of Heights in Postural Control.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (46).
A simple optical flow model explains why certain object viewpoints are special.
bioRxiv,2023-10.
Putting perception into action with inverse optimal control for continuous psychophysics.
Elife 11,e76635.
Inverse decision-making using neural amortized Bayesian actors.
arXiv preprint arXiv: 2409.03710.
Probabilistic inverse optimal control for non-linear partially observable systems disentangles perceptual uncertainty and behavioral costs.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36.
Speech-gesture mismatch detection in individuals with high vs. low schizotypal traits.
International Consortium on Schizotypy Research, ICSR 2022.
Subdimensions of social‐communication behavior in autism—A replication study.
JCPP Advances, e12077.
Physical reasoning during motor learning aids people in transferring mass, but not motor control mappings.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (47).
People use Newtonian physics in intuitive sensorimotor decisions under risk. In
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45).
Tactile suppression during movement as optimal integration of somatosensory feedback across time.
bioRxiv, 2026-02.
Modelling dataset bias in machine-learned theories of economic decision-making.
Nature Human Behaviour, 1-13.
Bayesian Classifier Fusion with an Explicit Model of Correlation.
In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (pp. 2282-2310). PMLR.
Interaction of dynamic error signals in saccade adaptation.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 129, 717-723.
Trade-off between search costs and accuracy in oculomotor and manual search tasks.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 133(5), 1350-1367.
Fodor and Pylyshyn's Legacy-Still No Human-like Systematic Compositionality in Neural Networks.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.01820
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.
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
Structural Causal Interpretation Theorem.
arXiv preprint