Prof. Lilian Weber
Principal Investigator
lilian.weber@uni-osnabrueck.de
Lilian is a professor for Cognitive Modelling at the Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, where she heads the MIC lab.
Lab Culture
Staff
Current members
Dr. phil. habil. Annette Hohenberger
Lecturer
Dr. Frank Hezemans
Postdoctoral Scientist
Studying the computational and neuropharmacological determinants of motivational and cognitive control.
Felix Marxen
Student Assistant
Currently pursuing a Master's in Cognitive Science, with interests in computational and causal modeling, robotics, and linguistics, while navigating a never-ending collection of side quests and social endeavors.
Carlotta Ruths
Student Assistant
Currently finishing a Bachelor of Cognitive Science with an exciting study on Sleep Deprivation (see SLEPS study). Otherwise involved in TUS projects or found dancing somewhere.
Marieke Schmiesing
Student Assistant
Janine Steinke
Secretary
since Sep 2026
Zakieh Hassanzadeh
Incoming PhD Student
Current thesis students
Muazzez Deniz Barut
The role of mind attribution and trust in human-AI cooperation: The effect of partner type in a repeated prisoner's dilemma
Tito Duarte
MSc thesis — title to follow
since Jul 2026
Carolin Hildebrandt
Effects of political attitude, media consumption and modality of presentation on the confirmation bias
Sajjad Homayouni
Local versus global estimation of volatility in the brain
since Aug 2026
Marisa Ortlieb
What would an inventor do? Role-induced exploration and problem-solving during tool use and tool innovation in preschool children
Ali Haydar Özgün
Looking at the relationship between sexual violence against women within marriage and coping strategies in Turkey
Jila Petsch
MSc thesis — title to follow
since Apr 2026
Yulia Terekhova
MSc thesis — title to follow
since Apr 2026
Stella Thiele
MSc thesis — title to follow
since Aug 2026
Leslie Wolk
Lucid dreaming: Neurochemical, neurophysical and psychological dynamics, through the lense of A.I. principles
since Aug 2026
Belana Floßbach
Continuous inference task loss versus win framing
since Jul 2026
Frederic Hannowsky
Two-timescale belief nodes for history-dependent gating in Bayesian inference
Ferdinand Lengsfeld
Emotion-induced distortions of time perception: Arousal and attention in prospective interval timing
Anna Joline Lippold
Neural efficiency meets stress: Attention and coping in gifted individuals
Natalie Ludwig
The additive bias in cross-cultural perspective
Eva Mazur
Context-dependent belief updating about emotional faces under partial sleep deprivation - behavioural and EEG evidence
since Jul 2026
Nico Pfeifer
Towards within-trial dynamics of belief updating: Continuous-time EEG response simulation based on the discrete generalised hierarchical Gaussian filter
since Jun 2026
Jonas Rickers
How do we win people for sustainable action?
Carlotta Ruths
The Impact of Partial Sleep Deprivation on Mismatch Negativity
since Jul 2026
Liv Schröder
The effect of volatility and noise instructions on belief updating in an ambiguous environment
since Jun 2026
Leonard Schwanke
The psychology of "us vs. them": Strategies for mitigating in-group favoritism in globalized environments
Malin Tausch
Investigating the effects of ketamine on interoceptive signal processing using HEPs
since Jun 2026
Jan Eric Wiemann
BSc thesis — title to follow
since Aug 2026
Past members
Deniz M. Gun
Student Assistant
Feb 2026 – Sep 2026
Past thesis students
Boon Tao Chew
Bearing of cognitive load on reformulation behavior: a quasi-experimental study on information retrieval
Apr 2025 – Oct 2025
Deniz M. Gun
Integrative Signatures of Valence in Homeostatic Reinforcement Learning: A Neurocomputational Study
Feb 2026 – Jul 2026
Franca Klausing
Anger, outrage & denial facing the climate crisis. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people's lived experiences
Sep 2025 – Mar 2026
Benedikt Küppers
Heteronormativity and violence
Jul 2025 – Jan 2026
Eva Kuth
Pattern matching or intuitive physics? Comparing the core knowledge of large language models and children
Sep 2025 – Mar 2026
Maylin Demir
Social-cognitive development in early childhood: How caregiving, peer relations and environmental conditions shape theory of mind, emotion understanding and perspective-taking
Apr 2026 – Jul 2026
Franziska Plate
Motivational mechanisms in self-affirmation: a neurocognitive integration
Feb 2026 – May 2026
Escha Sarwar
The impact of NMDA antagonism on the mismatch negativity
May 2026 – Jul 2026
Ruby Wright
BSc thesis — title to follow
Jan 2026 – Jul 2026