Stress & Cognition Group
@stresscognition.bsky.social
Cognitive Psychology Lab at the University of Hamburg
Studying memory, decision-making and stress effects 🧠💡PI: Lars Schwabe
https://www.psy.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsbereiche/kognitionspsychologie.html
Studying memory, decision-making and stress effects 🧠💡PI: Lars Schwabe
https://www.psy.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsbereiche/kognitionspsychologie.html
Inspiring days in Ratzeburg 🌿✨ at the 3rd Summer School of @rtg2753.bsky.social on Emotional Learning & Memory. Science, sports, spa – and great talks from our lab on past & future projects! 🧠💡
With @elbersgerd.bsky.social, Kai Schüren, Tim Dressler, @s-vandelangenberg.bsky.social & Antonia Lilja
With @elbersgerd.bsky.social, Kai Schüren, Tim Dressler, @s-vandelangenberg.bsky.social & Antonia Lilja
October 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Inspiring days in Ratzeburg 🌿✨ at the 3rd Summer School of @rtg2753.bsky.social on Emotional Learning & Memory. Science, sports, spa – and great talks from our lab on past & future projects! 🧠💡
With @elbersgerd.bsky.social, Kai Schüren, Tim Dressler, @s-vandelangenberg.bsky.social & Antonia Lilja
With @elbersgerd.bsky.social, Kai Schüren, Tim Dressler, @s-vandelangenberg.bsky.social & Antonia Lilja
GOAT times in the lab 🐐🍻
Excited to (re)welcome Tim Dreßler as a new PhD student, and belated cheers to @elbersgerd.bsky.social & Dr. Leon Lange, who joined our department earlier this summer 🌞
Excited to (re)welcome Tim Dreßler as a new PhD student, and belated cheers to @elbersgerd.bsky.social & Dr. Leon Lange, who joined our department earlier this summer 🌞
September 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
GOAT times in the lab 🐐🍻
Excited to (re)welcome Tim Dreßler as a new PhD student, and belated cheers to @elbersgerd.bsky.social & Dr. Leon Lange, who joined our department earlier this summer 🌞
Excited to (re)welcome Tim Dreßler as a new PhD student, and belated cheers to @elbersgerd.bsky.social & Dr. Leon Lange, who joined our department earlier this summer 🌞
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Grateful for some intense days at #ICON25 in Porto and energised from the people I (re)connected with — so much input, inspiring discussions, and the chance to share my work on hippocampal neurofeedback 🧠 Now moving from brainwaves to ocean waves: recharging with workouts & the sea 🏄🏼♀️🏋🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️
September 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Grateful for some intense days at #ICON25 in Porto and energised from the people I (re)connected with — so much input, inspiring discussions, and the chance to share my work on hippocampal neurofeedback 🧠 Now moving from brainwaves to ocean waves: recharging with workouts & the sea 🏄🏼♀️🏋🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️
New publication from our lab! 👀
We found that memory enhancement from PEs depends on the brain's neural state: theta/alpha activity & pre-error reactivation are key. TMS over the superior parietal cortex altered response bias but not PE-related memory effects 💡
👉 www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...
We found that memory enhancement from PEs depends on the brain's neural state: theta/alpha activity & pre-error reactivation are key. TMS over the superior parietal cortex altered response bias but not PE-related memory effects 💡
👉 www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...
Prediction Error-Related Memory Enhancement Depends on the Neural State Surrounding the Prediction Error Event
Prediction errors (PEs) can enhance memory for preceding events. While such PE-related memory enhancements are critical for understanding adaptive memory, their underlying mechanisms are not fully und...
www.jneurosci.org
September 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
New publication from our lab! 👀
We found that memory enhancement from PEs depends on the brain's neural state: theta/alpha activity & pre-error reactivation are key. TMS over the superior parietal cortex altered response bias but not PE-related memory effects 💡
👉 www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...
We found that memory enhancement from PEs depends on the brain's neural state: theta/alpha activity & pre-error reactivation are key. TMS over the superior parietal cortex altered response bias but not PE-related memory effects 💡
👉 www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...
Hats off to Dr. Kaja Loock, who successfully defended her PhD on July 11th! 🎓👏🏼
Her thesis, "Learning from the Unexpected: How Prediction Errors Shape Episodic Memory Formation," sheds new light on how surprises shape what we remember. 🧠💡
Congrats on this outstanding achievement! 🌟
Her thesis, "Learning from the Unexpected: How Prediction Errors Shape Episodic Memory Formation," sheds new light on how surprises shape what we remember. 🧠💡
Congrats on this outstanding achievement! 🌟
July 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Hats off to Dr. Kaja Loock, who successfully defended her PhD on July 11th! 🎓👏🏼
Her thesis, "Learning from the Unexpected: How Prediction Errors Shape Episodic Memory Formation," sheds new light on how surprises shape what we remember. 🧠💡
Congrats on this outstanding achievement! 🌟
Her thesis, "Learning from the Unexpected: How Prediction Errors Shape Episodic Memory Formation," sheds new light on how surprises shape what we remember. 🧠💡
Congrats on this outstanding achievement! 🌟
🔥 Biannual Team Fun Alert
We took a break from the brain stuff & soaked up some sunshine! ☀️ We got competitive over mini-golf ⛳ and kubb 🪵 (aka Viking Chess), relaxed with a cozy picnic in Planten un Blomen 🌸 and shared too much pizza & laughter 🍕😂
We’re now on Insta too, come follow along 👇🏼
We took a break from the brain stuff & soaked up some sunshine! ☀️ We got competitive over mini-golf ⛳ and kubb 🪵 (aka Viking Chess), relaxed with a cozy picnic in Planten un Blomen 🌸 and shared too much pizza & laughter 🍕😂
We’re now on Insta too, come follow along 👇🏼
July 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🔥 Biannual Team Fun Alert
We took a break from the brain stuff & soaked up some sunshine! ☀️ We got competitive over mini-golf ⛳ and kubb 🪵 (aka Viking Chess), relaxed with a cozy picnic in Planten un Blomen 🌸 and shared too much pizza & laughter 🍕😂
We’re now on Insta too, come follow along 👇🏼
We took a break from the brain stuff & soaked up some sunshine! ☀️ We got competitive over mini-golf ⛳ and kubb 🪵 (aka Viking Chess), relaxed with a cozy picnic in Planten un Blomen 🌸 and shared too much pizza & laughter 🍕😂
We’re now on Insta too, come follow along 👇🏼
📢 On July 1st, our new postdoc Dr. Leon Lange & our new PhD student Neele @elbersgerd.bsky.social (as part of the @rtg2753.bsky.social) joined the lab - a very warm welcome to both! 😍
July 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
📢 On July 1st, our new postdoc Dr. Leon Lange & our new PhD student Neele @elbersgerd.bsky.social (as part of the @rtg2753.bsky.social) joined the lab - a very warm welcome to both! 😍
Today, our postdoc Hendrik Heinbockel received the Best PhD Thesis Award at the Summer Event of the Hamburg Brain School /Center for NeuroScience.
Congratulations! ☀️💐👏🏼 #HamburgNeuro #HBS #HCNS
Congratulations! ☀️💐👏🏼 #HamburgNeuro #HBS #HCNS
July 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Today, our postdoc Hendrik Heinbockel received the Best PhD Thesis Award at the Summer Event of the Hamburg Brain School /Center for NeuroScience.
Congratulations! ☀️💐👏🏼 #HamburgNeuro #HBS #HCNS
Congratulations! ☀️💐👏🏼 #HamburgNeuro #HBS #HCNS
Exciting news from the 14th Germany-wide PhD Thesis Award of @dgps.bsky.social (General Psychology) 🌟
Our postdoc Sarah Koch was awarded 3rd place for her outstanding dissertation, presented at the final symposium in Cologne 🎉👏
Huge congratulations to Sarah and all other finalists!
Our postdoc Sarah Koch was awarded 3rd place for her outstanding dissertation, presented at the final symposium in Cologne 🎉👏
Huge congratulations to Sarah and all other finalists!
June 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Exciting news from the 14th Germany-wide PhD Thesis Award of @dgps.bsky.social (General Psychology) 🌟
Our postdoc Sarah Koch was awarded 3rd place for her outstanding dissertation, presented at the final symposium in Cologne 🎉👏
Huge congratulations to Sarah and all other finalists!
Our postdoc Sarah Koch was awarded 3rd place for her outstanding dissertation, presented at the final symposium in Cologne 🎉👏
Huge congratulations to Sarah and all other finalists!
Our new paper is out! Valentina Krenz et al show that the amygdala response during the initial encounter of an emotional event boosts subsequent remembering through a more precise reinstatement of the event representation during subsequent encounters 💡
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
April 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Our new paper is out! Valentina Krenz et al show that the amygdala response during the initial encounter of an emotional event boosts subsequent remembering through a more precise reinstatement of the event representation during subsequent encounters 💡
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
Excited to have welcomed our new PhD student to the lab! 🧠 Good luck with your research journey, @ivanamarijanovic.bsky.social ! 🍀
www.psy.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsberei...
www.psy.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsberei...
Herzlich Willkommen, Ivana!
www.psy.uni-hamburg.de
April 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Excited to have welcomed our new PhD student to the lab! 🧠 Good luck with your research journey, @ivanamarijanovic.bsky.social ! 🍀
www.psy.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsberei...
www.psy.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsberei...
🔥New paper by Kaja Loock!
In a series of experiments, Kaja, F. Kalbe & L. Schwabe investigated whether PE effects are specific to the predictive stimuli that precede PEs, or if PEs create a temporary period of enhanced, non-selective memory formation.
The results? 👇
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
In a series of experiments, Kaja, F. Kalbe & L. Schwabe investigated whether PE effects are specific to the predictive stimuli that precede PEs, or if PEs create a temporary period of enhanced, non-selective memory formation.
The results? 👇
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
February 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🔥New paper by Kaja Loock!
In a series of experiments, Kaja, F. Kalbe & L. Schwabe investigated whether PE effects are specific to the predictive stimuli that precede PEs, or if PEs create a temporary period of enhanced, non-selective memory formation.
The results? 👇
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
In a series of experiments, Kaja, F. Kalbe & L. Schwabe investigated whether PE effects are specific to the predictive stimuli that precede PEs, or if PEs create a temporary period of enhanced, non-selective memory formation.
The results? 👇
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Great talents looking for #NeuroJobs or #PsychJobs in your network? 🧠🌐
Please share our vacancies!
📝 Deadline March 5th
Please share our vacancies!
📝 Deadline March 5th
We're announcing new openings in our research team! Join us at @uni-hamburg.de and be a part of fascinating work on stress and cognition:
🔹 Post-doc: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
🔹 PhD student: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
We’re excited to welcome new talent 🌟 #NeuroJobs #PsychJobs
🔹 Post-doc: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
🔹 PhD student: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
We’re excited to welcome new talent 🌟 #NeuroJobs #PsychJobs
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February 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Great talents looking for #NeuroJobs or #PsychJobs in your network? 🧠🌐
Please share our vacancies!
📝 Deadline March 5th
Please share our vacancies!
📝 Deadline March 5th
We're announcing new openings in our research team! Join us at @uni-hamburg.de and be a part of fascinating work on stress and cognition:
🔹 Post-doc: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
🔹 PhD student: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
We’re excited to welcome new talent 🌟 #NeuroJobs #PsychJobs
🔹 Post-doc: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
🔹 PhD student: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
We’re excited to welcome new talent 🌟 #NeuroJobs #PsychJobs
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
February 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
We're announcing new openings in our research team! Join us at @uni-hamburg.de and be a part of fascinating work on stress and cognition:
🔹 Post-doc: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
🔹 PhD student: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
We’re excited to welcome new talent 🌟 #NeuroJobs #PsychJobs
🔹 Post-doc: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
🔹 PhD student: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
We’re excited to welcome new talent 🌟 #NeuroJobs #PsychJobs
🚀 Big milestone for Antonia Lilja! Her first first-author paper in her PhD is now online🔥 Findings show that #stress enhances #memory for preceding neutral events—but only if the stressor itself is well remembered. No cueing effects found. Check it out!
learnmem.cshlp.org/content/31/1...
learnmem.cshlp.org/content/31/1...
Stress enhances memory for previously encoded events depending on stressor recall
Peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing basic neuroscience research in the areas of neuronal plasticity, learning and memory
learnmem.cshlp.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🚀 Big milestone for Antonia Lilja! Her first first-author paper in her PhD is now online🔥 Findings show that #stress enhances #memory for preceding neutral events—but only if the stressor itself is well remembered. No cueing effects found. Check it out!
learnmem.cshlp.org/content/31/1...
learnmem.cshlp.org/content/31/1...
New @elife.bsky.social study published! 🚀 Yohimbine modulates memory reconsolidation via hippocampal-cortical reactivation.
fMRI & psychopharma findings on memory by Hendrik Heinbockel, Gregor Leicht, Anthony D. Wagner & Lars Schwabe. 🧠💡 #Neuroscience #Memory
elifesciences.org/articles/100...
fMRI & psychopharma findings on memory by Hendrik Heinbockel, Gregor Leicht, Anthony D. Wagner & Lars Schwabe. 🧠💡 #Neuroscience #Memory
elifesciences.org/articles/100...
Post-retrieval noradrenergic activation impairs subsequent memory depending on cortico-hippocampal reactivation
Impairing effects of post-retrieval noradrenergic but not glucocorticoid activation on future recall are linked to hippocampal reactivation and category-level reinstatement in ventral temporal cortex ...
elifesciences.org
January 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New @elife.bsky.social study published! 🚀 Yohimbine modulates memory reconsolidation via hippocampal-cortical reactivation.
fMRI & psychopharma findings on memory by Hendrik Heinbockel, Gregor Leicht, Anthony D. Wagner & Lars Schwabe. 🧠💡 #Neuroscience #Memory
elifesciences.org/articles/100...
fMRI & psychopharma findings on memory by Hendrik Heinbockel, Gregor Leicht, Anthony D. Wagner & Lars Schwabe. 🧠💡 #Neuroscience #Memory
elifesciences.org/articles/100...
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come work with @stresscognition.bsky.social , @anjariesel.bsky.social , @nicoschuck.bsky.social @christianbuchel.bsky.social, @janhaaker.bsky.social as well as Tania Lincoln, Tobias Donner, Sarah Hohmann, Simone Kühn, Jürgen Gallinat and a bunch of brilliant students!
The graduate programme on emotional memories at @uni-hamburg.de is looking for the next cohort of PhD students (11 positions).
Great programme with lots of interesting projects. Join us!
Deadline: 31.01.2025
The ad: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Graduate Programme: www.emotionalmemory.de
Great programme with lots of interesting projects. Join us!
Deadline: 31.01.2025
The ad: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Graduate Programme: www.emotionalmemory.de
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January 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
come work with @stresscognition.bsky.social , @anjariesel.bsky.social , @nicoschuck.bsky.social @christianbuchel.bsky.social, @janhaaker.bsky.social as well as Tania Lincoln, Tobias Donner, Sarah Hohmann, Simone Kühn, Jürgen Gallinat and a bunch of brilliant students!
📢 The latest special issue of Biological Psychiatry, titled "Stress and Cognition: From Bench to Bedside", is live 🔗!
Co-edited by Lars & @nikosdaskalakis.bsky.social it explores how stress impacts the brain, cognition & mental health—bridging basic research and clinical applications.
Highlights ⬇️
Co-edited by Lars & @nikosdaskalakis.bsky.social it explores how stress impacts the brain, cognition & mental health—bridging basic research and clinical applications.
Highlights ⬇️
Current Issue Table of Contents: Biological Psychiatry
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📢 The latest special issue of Biological Psychiatry, titled "Stress and Cognition: From Bench to Bedside", is live 🔗!
Co-edited by Lars & @nikosdaskalakis.bsky.social it explores how stress impacts the brain, cognition & mental health—bridging basic research and clinical applications.
Highlights ⬇️
Co-edited by Lars & @nikosdaskalakis.bsky.social it explores how stress impacts the brain, cognition & mental health—bridging basic research and clinical applications.
Highlights ⬇️
Start the new year right! Prof. Lars Schwabe shares insights on creating lasting routines and handling setbacks in @spiegel.de podcast Smarter leben (in German). Listen here:
Gewohnheiten laufen automatisiert ab. Deshalb lassen sich vertraute Verhaltensweisen nur schwer ändern. Psychologieprofessor Lars Schwabe erklärt, wie es trotzdem gelingen kann.
Neujahrsvorsätze 2025: Weniger Süßigkeiten, mehr lesen, Sport machen - Podcast
Gewohnheiten laufen automatisiert ab. Deshalb lassen sich vertraute Verhaltensweisen nur schwer ändern. Psychologieprofessor Lars Schwabe erklärt, wie es trotzdem gelingen kann.
www.spiegel.de
January 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Start the new year right! Prof. Lars Schwabe shares insights on creating lasting routines and handling setbacks in @spiegel.de podcast Smarter leben (in German). Listen here:
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💡 📝Apply for the postdoc position at the Cognitive Psychology Lab at @uni-hamburg.de @stresscognition.bsky.social until the 10th of January! All details via www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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January 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
💡 📝Apply for the postdoc position at the Cognitive Psychology Lab at @uni-hamburg.de @stresscognition.bsky.social until the 10th of January! All details via www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Only four days left to apply for this postdoc position in our Cognitive Psychology Lab! 📝🧠
#neurojobs #cognition #vacancy #postdoc
#neurojobs #cognition #vacancy #postdoc
In addition, we're #hiring a new #postdoctoral researcher !
🔎 Focus: stress, emotion & cognition
📍 Hamburg, Germany
💼 Start: 01.04.2025 | Fixed: 2 years
🎓 Requirements: PhD in Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience
More info & apply by 10.01.2025 via the link:
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
🔎 Focus: stress, emotion & cognition
📍 Hamburg, Germany
💼 Start: 01.04.2025 | Fixed: 2 years
🎓 Requirements: PhD in Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience
More info & apply by 10.01.2025 via the link:
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
January 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Only four days left to apply for this postdoc position in our Cognitive Psychology Lab! 📝🧠
#neurojobs #cognition #vacancy #postdoc
#neurojobs #cognition #vacancy #postdoc
🆕 We've opened +2 PhD positions!
🧠 Mechanisms involved in emotion-related alterations of learning and memory in health & disease
👥 Interdisciplinary team: @rtg2753.bsky.social
📽️ Impression: youtu.be/dqdb6cAJlMg
🗓️ 01.07.2025, fixed until 30.06.2028
📬 Deadline: 31.01.2025
More info & apply 🧵👇
🧠 Mechanisms involved in emotion-related alterations of learning and memory in health & disease
👥 Interdisciplinary team: @rtg2753.bsky.social
📽️ Impression: youtu.be/dqdb6cAJlMg
🗓️ 01.07.2025, fixed until 30.06.2028
📬 Deadline: 31.01.2025
More info & apply 🧵👇
Image film of the Research Training Group 2753 "Emotional learning and memory"
YouTube video by RTG 2753
youtu.be
December 17, 2024 at 2:01 PM
🆕 We've opened +2 PhD positions!
🧠 Mechanisms involved in emotion-related alterations of learning and memory in health & disease
👥 Interdisciplinary team: @rtg2753.bsky.social
📽️ Impression: youtu.be/dqdb6cAJlMg
🗓️ 01.07.2025, fixed until 30.06.2028
📬 Deadline: 31.01.2025
More info & apply 🧵👇
🧠 Mechanisms involved in emotion-related alterations of learning and memory in health & disease
👥 Interdisciplinary team: @rtg2753.bsky.social
📽️ Impression: youtu.be/dqdb6cAJlMg
🗓️ 01.07.2025, fixed until 30.06.2028
📬 Deadline: 31.01.2025
More info & apply 🧵👇
Today it was time for our annual winter activity: We hit the lanes for some friendly competition, followed by a visit to Hamburg's Christmas markets. A perfect way to celebrate the season together! 🎳🌟
#Bowling #LabFun #TeamCelebration
#Bowling #LabFun #TeamCelebration
December 13, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Today it was time for our annual winter activity: We hit the lanes for some friendly competition, followed by a visit to Hamburg's Christmas markets. A perfect way to celebrate the season together! 🎳🌟
#Bowling #LabFun #TeamCelebration
#Bowling #LabFun #TeamCelebration
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🎬 We are so excited to share the image film of our Research Training Group, which provides behind-the-scenes insights into the research within the group, the experiences of our PhD students and our goals for the next years! Thank you to everyone who contributed 📽️🧠
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqdb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqdb...
Image film of the Research Training Group 2753 "Emotional learning and memory"
YouTube video by RTG 2753
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:15 PM
🎬 We are so excited to share the image film of our Research Training Group, which provides behind-the-scenes insights into the research within the group, the experiences of our PhD students and our goals for the next years! Thank you to everyone who contributed 📽️🧠
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqdb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqdb...