ResearchSeminar @TUMNIC

Research Seminars, Winter Semester 2025/2026

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE
16.10.2025	Andrea Alamia, CNRS Toulouse	Predictive Coding and Traveling Waves
23.10.2025	Nils Winter, University of Münster	Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Major Depressive Disorder: A Precision Psychiatry Perspective
30.10.2025	Jordan O’Byrne, McGill University	Criticality and the spin-glass model for understanding states of altered consciousness and cognition
06.11.2025	Julia Rodriguez-Sanchez, Yale & UCL	Neurophysiological signatures of psychotic symptom onset
13.11.2025	Gabriel Hoffmann, TUM	BOLD-based cerebrovascular reactivity is influenced by baseline cerebral blood volume and oxygen metabolism in humans
20.11.2025	Mahnaz Ashrafi, TUM	Metabolism-Weighted Centrality: An Activity-Aware Model of the Human Brain Connectome
27.11.2025	Alban Voppel, McGill University	Deep learning with Language in Psychosis Spectrograms and LLMs
04.12.2025	Andreea Diaconescu, University of Toronto	Neurocomputational approaches for scalable psychosis detection: from lab‑based neuroimaging to real‑world digital tasks.
11.12.2025	Katie Lavigne, McGill University	High-resolution psychiatry: Bridging spatial and temporal precision for cognitive and brain health.
18.12.2025	William Palmer, Yale	Discovering Cognitive and Computational Mechanisms underlying Visual Disturbances in Early Psychosis using Ecologically Valid Scenes
08.01.2026	Gerard Derosiere, University of Lyon	Neural bases of action decisions
15.01.2026	Micah Allen, Aarhus University	TBA
22.01.2026	Vincent Wohlfarth	Deep Learning-based Segmentation of Perfusion MRI
29.01.2026	Ondrej Zika, Karolinska Institututet & Bielefeld University	The role of internalizing symtpoms in contextual inference
05.02.2026	Bernadette Jansma, Maastricht University	Fixation related potential in natural reading

Research Seminars, Sommer Semester 2025

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE
24.04.25	Mariyana Cholakova, TUM	Assessing the Influence of Brain States from fMRI in upcoming visual Confidence using DyNeMo and a Hidden Markov Model Approach
***Public Holiday***
08.05.25	Julian McGinnis, TUM	Biomedical Imaging in the Era of Neural Fields
15.05.25	Stefan Heim, Universität Aachen	Disruptions of Language Production in Schizophrenia: A Neurocognitive Perspective
22.05.25	Frederike Stein, Philipps-Universität Marburg	Linking Speech Patterns to Brain Structure in Affective and Psychotic Disorders: An Integrative Natural Language Processing Approach
***Public Holiday***
05.06.25	Alessandro Grecucci, University of Trento	Brains at the border: structural and functional alterations in adolescents with borderline personality disorder
12.06.25	Bridget King, King’s College London	Metabolite profile in schizophrenia: a spectroscopy mega-analysis
***Public Holiday***
26.06.25	Sebnem Pideci, TUM/GSN	Resting State Transition Dynamics of Functional Connectivity in OCD
03.07.25	Sangcheon Choi, TUM	Spectral disruption of inter-hemispheric resting-state BOLD coherence at vasomotor frequency (~0.1 Hz) links vascular dysfunction to functional connectivity loss in carotid artery stenosis.
10.07.25	Sebastian Hellmann, TUM	Models of Confidence and Visibility in Perceptual Decisions
17.07.25	Pietro Marcolongo, Erasmus TUM/PaduaUni	Synthetic CMRO2 maps based on quantitative MRI

Research Seminars, Winter Semester 2024/2025

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE
19.09.24	Isabella Goodwin, Melbourne University	Bayesian accounts of perceptual decisions in the nonclinical continuum of psychosis
26.09.24	Verena Demler, TUM	Alterations in the language network predict an overweighting of prior beliefs and non-clinical hallucinations during predictive sentence processing
***Public Holiday***
10.10.24	Melissa Thalhammer, TUM	Individual heterogeneity of cortical brain measures after preterm birth
17.10.24	Ruan Hanyang, TUM	Topological data analysis and machine learning applications in fMRI
24.10.24	Anna-Lena Eckert, Uni Marburg	Bayesian graphical networks for perceptual inference and decision-making
07.11.24	Clara Weyer, LMU	Multilevel Brain-Inflammation Signatures in the Early Stages of Psychosis and Depression
21.11.24	Elisa Saks, TUM	Fast and Non-Invasive Oxygen Extraction Fraction Mapping”
28.11.24	Sangcheon Choi, TUM	From layers to whole brains, from time to frequency, and from rodents to humans in fMRI
05.12.24	Franziska Knolle, TUM	Alterations in predictive language processing in different stages of psychosis: links to dopamine and glutamate
12.12.24	Viktor Neumaier & Moritz Bonhoeffer, TUM	Ventricular border movement drives CSF flow and clearance in the human brain/Impaired CSF flow and clearance in Schizophrenia
16.01.25	Victoria Hohendorf, TUM	Distinct behavioural and neuronal signatures in delayed response and working memory tasks of mice and man
23.01.25	Ioanna Amaya, Charité	Using flicker light stimulation to unravel the distinct changes in thalamocortical connectivity associated with visual hallucinatory phenomena
30.01.25	Anja Betz, LMU	Imaging in pediatric mild traumatic brain injury
06.02.2025	Miro Grundei, FU Berlin, NNU	Modelling mismatch responses across the somatosensory, auditory and visual domain.
13.02.25	Laura Schiffl, TUM	Right-hemispheric language processing in aphasia at single-neuron resolution
20.02.25	Anjali Bhat, UCL	In vitro neurons learn to play Pong (and a précis on precision neuroimaging with LSD)
27.02.25	Roman Belenya, TUM	Metabolic connectivity mapping: adding direction to functional connections

Research Seminars, Sommer Semester 2024

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE
18.04.24	Mahnaz Ashrafi, TUM	The Brain’s Energy Budget: Integrating Information Costs and Metabolic Demand Along the Brain Connectome
25.04.24	Anna Yurova/ Irene Plank, LMU	Using predictive coding to investigate the specificity of emotion recognition aberrances in autism
02.05.24	Rasa Gulbinaite, Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience	Resonance phenomena at macro- and mesoscales of neural activity
***Public Holiday***
16.05.24	Kay Thurley, LMU	Probing magnitude estimation and its neural basis
23.05.24	Malika Ihle, LMU	How to make your research credible?
06.06.24	Tal Geffen, Charité Berlin	Functional connectivity gradients and their association with thought-patterns in patients with schizophrenia suffering from negative symptoms
13.06.24	Teresa Katthagen, Charité Berlin	TBA
20.06.24	Ludovica Mana, UPF	Exploring remission processes in Psychotic Disorders Through Whole-Brain Connectivity Models
18.07.24	Daniel Hauke, UCL	Computational modelling to probe excitatory and inhibitory cell function with EEG
25.07.24	Charline Peylo, UZH	Oscillatory signatures of predictions in social and sensory perception

Research Seminars, Winter Semester 2023/2024

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE
12.10.23	Mahya Aramoon, TUM	Impact of vasomotion on resting state BOLD signal fluctuations – a modeling study
19.10.23	Gemma Learmonth, University of Stirling	Is it all a sham? The importance of double-blinded control conditions in electrical neurostimulation
26.10.23	Onur Icin, TUM	Chaos in the Mind: Approaches to Calculating Brain Entropy in rs-fMRI of People with OCD
02.11.23	Luca Tarasi, University of Bologna	Autistic and schizotypal traits shape neural markers of predictive inference
09.11.23	Paul Taylor, LMU	TMS studies of visual cognition: what does TMS-induced activity “mean” at the psychological level?
16.11.23	Chris Donkin, LMU	***postponed to Feb 22***
23.11.23	Sofiia Rappe, Ruhr-University Bochum	Predictive processing models for explaining positive symptoms in psychosis: hallucinations, delusions, and confabulations.
30.11.23	Kelly Diederen, King’s College London	Simultaneous learning of noise and volatility and its association with symptoms of psychiatric illness
07.12.23	Daniela Rodriguez, TUM-NIC	tDCS effects on Inhibition in OCD
14.12.23	Katharina Hirschmüller, TUM	***cancelled***
11.01.24	Artyom Zinchenko, LMU	Context Matters: Investigating the Role of Contextual Information in Attentional Guidance.
18.01.24	Isabelle Ripp, LMU	Unveiling the Interconnected Nature of Cognition: Reinforcement Learning and Working Memory as Manifestations of Cognitive Mapping.
01.02.24	Philipp Sterzer, University of Basel	Priors, strong and weak: A predictive-processing account of psychosis.
08.02.24	Clara Seifert, TUM	Apraxia and the tool use network
22.02.24	Chris Donkin, LMU	Getting rid of bias in decision making
21.03.24	Melanie Ganz-Benjaminsen, University of Copenhagen	AI applications in MRI: What About Generalizability, Bias and Fairness?

Research Seminars, Sommer Semester 2023

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE
27.04.23	Tobias Bernklau, TUM	Striatal dopamine teaching signals reflect an agent’s perceived locus of control
04.05.23	Sonja Kotz, Maastricht University	Little brain but big contributions – how the cerebellum engages in (temporal) prediction
11.05.23	Clara Boudriot & Christiane Eipert, TUM	Global neuronal activity drives cerebrospinal fluid motion mediated by brain blood volume changes in humans
25.05.23	Thorsten Pachur, TUM	How attention shapes decision making under risk
01.06.23	Arkady Zgonnikov, TU Delft	What is driving the driver? Cognitive process modeling of decision making in traffic
15.06.23	Werner Seitz, LMU	Learning mechanisms in contextual cueing revealed by oculomotor behavior
22.06.23	Franziska Richter, TUM	CVR in White Matter
29.06.23	Hannah Eichhorn, TUM	Deep learning for motion correction of T2*-weighted MRI
06.07.23	Elisabeth Sterner, TUM	Predictive language processing and oscillations ***POSTPONED***
13.07.23	Pantelis Leptourgos, Université de Lille	A tale of two symptoms: Computational (and neural) underpinnings of hallucinations and paranoia
20.07.23	Sebastian Schneider, TUM	Hemodynamic-vascular influences on resting-state BOLD functional connectivity: Dependence on types of connectivity and brain organization

Research Seminars, Winter Semester 2022/2023

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE
22.09.22	Lorenzo Pasquini, UCSF	Dissociable signatures of dynamic autonomic nervous system activity are present during emotions and at rest
29.09.22	Anna Dewenter, LMU	Diffusion markers for cerebral small vessel disease
06.10.22	Benjamin Gagl, Uni Köln	Combining neurocognitive-computational models and machine learning to implement individualized diagnostic and treatment procedures to increase reading skills
20.10.22	Valentin Riedl, TUM	Imaging the energetic brain
27.10.22	Nooshin Javaheripour, Uni Jena	Transient brain functional activity in major depressive disorder: state and trait features
10.11.22	Helen Blank, UKE	Predictive processing in social perception – How our priors determine how we perceive speech and faces
17.11.22	Pritha Sen/Elisabeth Sterner, TUMNIC	Model free and model based decision making in OCD/Active inference modelling of the Go-No-Go task in early psychosis
01.12.22	Rachel Nuttall, TUM	Exploring changes in cortical and basal forebrain functional connectivity during emergence from sevoflurane general anaesthesia
08.12.22	Samiar Epp, TUM	Quantitative MRI: Challenging assumptions about fMRI BOLD
15.12.22	Moritz Köster, Uni Regensburg	Infants’ developing concepts of the world
19.01.23	Verena Demler, TUM	Association between increased anterior cingulate glutamate and  psychotic-like symptoms
26.01.23	Sebastian Schneider, TUM	Local and systemic hemodynamic-vascular influences on resting-state BOLD functional connectivity in humans
02.02.23	Giacomo Novembre, Italian Institute of Technology	Multiperson Brain Stimulation
16.02.23	Claudia Freigang, Hearing Diagnostics	How I turned a research-inspired idea into a start-up
02.03.23	Tristan Bekinschtein, University of Cambridge	Neural dynamics of predictive processing

Research Seminars, Sommer Semester 2022

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE
31.03.22	Ana Pinheiro, Uni of Lisbon	Auditory-visual hallucinations and the cerebellum
07.04.22 (2PM)	Magaret Westwater, Yale University/Oxford University	Characterizing the neural and behavioral correlates of genetic risk for disordered eating in the ABCD cohort
27.04.22	Gabriel Castrillon, TUMNIC	Excessive energy in the human brain is related to slow, metabotropic neuromodulation
05.05.22	Felix Brandl, Psychiatry TUM	Neurocognitive mechanisms of social anhedonia in schizophrenia and major depression
12.05.22	Samira Epp, TUMNIC	Lack of deactivations in default mode regions when looking at quantitative oxygen metabolism data: project presentation
19.05.22	Alyssa Torske, TUMNIC	Mindfulness Training and its Effects on Resting State Functional Connectivity
02.06.22	Elisabeth Friedrich, LMU	Interpersonal Predictive Coding can lead to illusory social perception: An EEG study on the trail of the Bayesian ghost
09.06.22	Andre Hechler, TUMNIC	Predictions and prediction errors show distinct patterns in cortical oxygen consumption that scale with subjective confidence
23.06.22	Sebastian Schneider, TUMNIC	Linking cerebral blood flow with regional gene expression in unilateral carotid artery stenosis – an imaging transcriptomics approach
30.06.22	Melissa Thalhammer, TUMNIC	Paper presentation: Cell type-specific manifestations of cortical thickness heterogeneity in schizophrenia
07.07.22	Gabriel Hoffmann, Neuroradiology, TUM	Advanced ASL imaging
14.07.22	Erich Schroeger, Leipzig University	The role of internal models for hearing.
21.07.22	Fabian Hirsch/Afra Wohlschläger, TUMNIC	Controlling for artifical correlations in functional connectivity dynamics
28.07.22	Ronja Berg, Neuroradiology, TUM	Optimizing quantitative structural magnetic resonance imaging to quantify various brain tissue parameters for clinical applications

Research Seminars, Winter Semester 2021/2022

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE
07.10.21	Jakob Kaminski, Charité Berlin	Cognitive deficits and its relation to glutamate alterations in patients with schizophrenia
14.10.21	Merit Bruckmaier, LMU	Neural correlates of context-based prediction – EEG and fMRI approaches
28.10.21	Antonia Neubauer, TUMNIC	Aberrant claustrum structure in preterm-born neonates
11.11.21	Franziska Knolle, TUMNIC	Predictive language processing is altered in high schizotypy – preliminary data and future directions.
18.11.21	Torgeir Moberget, Oslo University Hospital	The cerebellum and schizophrenia.
25.11.21	Samira Epp, TUMNIC	Relation of the positive and negative BOLD response to quantitative MRI: project presentation
02.12.21	Daniela Rodriguez, TUMNIC	Neurphysiological complexity of Brain Stimulation
09.12.21	Julia Schulz, TUMNIC	Alterations of the cholinergic system across the schizophrenia spectrum
16.12.21	Cilia Jaeger, TUMNIC	Project Update: Alpha-modulated BOLD connectivity during rhythmic visual stimulation
13.01.21	Ana Pinheiro, University of Lisbon	Auditory-visual hallucinations and the cerebellum ***POSTPONED***
20.01.22	Maria Mora, TUMNIC	Effects of a Web-Based Mindfulness Training on Cerebral Blood Flow
27.01.22	Paul Taylor, LMU	Perception and attention during real and simulated self-motion
03.02.22	Sebastian Schneider, TUMNIC	Influence of NVC impairments on resting-state BOLD functional connectivity
10.02.22	Lara Wallenstein, Uni Konstanz	Cross-modal decoding of emotional expressions – mirror neurons in social cognition
17.02.22	Leonie Kram, TUMNIC	CompreTUM: Testing the Feasibility of a New Language Comprehension Task for Stimulation-Based Language Mapping in Patients with Severe Expressive Aphasia and Healthy Controls
24.02.22	Katharina Bracher, TUMNIC	Identifying individuals with early psychosis using behavioural and brain data: A clustering approach

Research Seminars, Summer Semester 2021

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE
14.01.21	Antonia Bose, TUMNIC	Tracking the circadian rhythm of cerebral energy metabolism during varying states of body energy metabolism in healthy individuals
21.01.21	Lisa Ronan, Uni of Cambridge	Applying machine leaning to f/MRI data POSTPONED
28.01.21	Cilia Jaeger, TUMNIC	Early BOLD response of entrained alpha during visual stimulation
04.02.21	Sebastian Schneider, TUMNIC	Influence of perfusion components on blood oxygenation functional connectivity
11.02.21	Christine Preibisch, TUMNIC	Impact of neurovascular coupling delays on BOLD-functional connectivity at rest – using NVC modelling to understand BOLD-FC changes in patients withperfusion delays
25.02.21	Felix Brandl, TUMNIC/Psychiatry	Neurocognitive mechanisms of executive dysfunction in schizophrenia
04.03.21	Julian Wenzel, University of Cologne	The potential of machine learning for translational psychiatry
11.03.21	Juliana Zimmermann, TUMNIC	A neurophysiological-metabolic model for burst suppression
18.03.21	Alexander Soutschek, LMU	Self-control beyond impulse inhibition
25.03.21	Tobias Ruzok, TUMNIC	Prematurity, Hypothalamus and Body Growth
01.04.21	EASTER BREAK
08.04.21	André Hechler, TUMNIC	Preliminary data discussion: Metabolic efficiency of predictive coding
15.04.21	Jakob Kaiser, LMU	The Role Of Midfrontal Theta Oscillations For Cognitive Control
22.04.21	Afra Wohlschlaeger, TUMNIC	Kuramoto Coupling between Intrinsic Connectivity Networks (ICNs) in Schizophrenic Patients in Remission
29.04.21	Katharina Krueger, Uni of Pittsburgh	Xing et al. 2019: IDH genotypes differentiation in glioblastomas using DWI and DSC-PWI in the enhancing and peri-enhancing region
20.05.21	Fabian Hirsch, TUMNIC	Modelling resting-state dynamics with Kuramoto coefficients
27.05.21	Zarah Le Houcq Corbi, LMU	Mindfulness training as a method to improve self-control
10.06.21	Leoni Kram, TUMNIC	“Longitudinal structural and molecular neuroimaging in agrammatic primary progressive aphasia” by Tetzloff et al., 2018
24.06.21	Lisa Ronan, Uni Cambridge	Exploring the link between obesity and brain structure
01.07.21	Joost Haarsma, UCL	Laminar 7T and predictive coding
08.07.21	Samira Epp, TUMNIC	Metabolic foundation of fMRI activations and deactivations – project discussion
15.07.21	Juliana Zimmermann, TUMNIC	Studying brain dynamics under effects of Sevoflruane anesthesia via the Fano Factor
22.07.21	Sarah Daimer, LMU	Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on schizotypy“  oder nur “The impact of COVID-19 on schizotypy
29.07.21	Alyssa Torske, TUMNIC	iOS App Development Project | Mindful Eating

Research Seminars in 2020

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE
12.12.19	Franziska Knolle, TUMNIC	Feature-specific prediction errors for visual mismatch, 2019, Stefanics et al
16.01.20	Felix Brandl, TUMNIC	Kroemer et al 2019: L-DOPA reduces model-free control of behavior by attenuating the transfer of value to action.
23.01.20	Maria Mora, TUMNIC	High resolution continuous arterial spin labeling of human cerebral perfusion using a separate neck tagging RF coil, 2019, Mora et al
06.02.20	Franziska Knolle, TUMNIC	https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-018-0118-6#Tab2
13.02.20	Lena Bauer, UNI JENA/ Afra Wohlschlaeger, TUMNIC	Treating resting state networks as coupled oscillators: Solving the Kuramoto model on empirical fMRI data.
20.02.20	Valentin Riedl, TUMNIC	Brodt et al (2018) „Fast track to the neocortex: A memory engram in the posterior parietal cortex“. Science 362: 1045–48.
05.03.20	Kathrin Koch, TUMNIC	Bu et al 2019: Investigating the predictive value of different resting-state functional MRI parameters in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
12.03.-02.04	Cancelled	COVID-19
09.04.20	Sebastian Schneider, LMU	Drew, 2019: Vascular and neural basis of the BOLD signal.
16.04.20	Antonia Bose, TUMNIC	https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-25313-y
23.04.20	Jan Kappes, TUMNIC	Lee & Frangou 2017
30.04.20	Andre Hechler, TUMNIC	Effective learning is accompanied by high-dimensional and efficient representations of neural activity. Nature Neuroscience, 22(6), 1000–1009.
07.05.20	Cilia Jaeger, TUMNIC	https://www.pnas.org/content/114/51/E11047
14.05.20	Juliana Zimmermann, TUMNIC	The Basal Forebrain Regulates Global Resting-State fMRI Fluctuations
21.05.20	Samira Epp, TUMNIC	Hahn et al. (2020): Reconfiguration of functional brain networks and metabolic cost converge during task performance.
28.05.20	PUBLIC HOLIDAY
04.06.20	Alyssa Torske, TUMNIC	Garrison, 2013: Real-time fMRI links subjective experience with brain activity during focused attention
11.06.20	PUBLIC HOLIDAY
18.06.20	Teresa Katthagen, Charite Berlin	Striatal Dopamine and Reward Prediction Error Signaling in Unmedicated Schizophrenia Patients
25.06.20	Andrea Greve, MRC CBU	The impact of expectations and prior knowledge on episodic memory
02.07.20	Gemma Modinos, King’s College London	Neural correlates of aberrant salience in psychosis risk and onset
09.07.20	Qiong Wu, TUMNIC	Pichet Binette A, et al: Morphometric Network Differences in Ageing Versus Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia.
16.07.20	Roberto Viviani, Uni Innsbruck	Rewarding context/opportunity costs: neural correlates and individual differences
23.07.20	Franziska Knolle TUMNIC	The Impact of the COVID19 Pandemic on Mental Health
30.07.-03.09.	TERM BREAK
17.09.20	Rachel Nuttall, TUMNIC	Evoked responses to flicker relative to intrinsic frequency vary across alpha generators
24.09.20	Valentin Riedl, TUMNIC	Open Science – Better Science?
01.10.20	Graham Murray, Uni of Cambridge	Brain prediction error signalling in early psychosis.
15.10.20	Katarzyna Kurcyus, TUMNIC	Quantitative imaging of ATP in the human brain.
22.10.20	Franziska Knolle, TUMNIC	Paradigm Presentation: Semantic Predictions within the Predictive Coding Framework
29.10.20	Maria Mora, TUMNIC	Increased mid-Cingulate Cortex Activation in the Alerting Network of Attention after a 31 Days Web-Based Mindfulness Training
05.11.20	Samira Epp, TUMNIC	MRI imaging for dummies – BOLD and quantitative BOLD.
19.11.20	Alyssa Torske, TUMNIC	A Meta-Analysis Localizing the Human Brain Response to Olfactory and Food Stimuli.
26.11.20	Daniela Rodriguez Manrique, TUMNIC	Work in progress: Effects of tDCS on response inhibition and neuronal activity in OCD.
03.12.20	André Hechler, TUMNIC	Bowring et al (2019). Exploring the impact of analysis software on task fMRI results.
17.12.20	Franziska Knolle, TUMNIC	Sheep models: Opportunities for cognitive neuroscience.