Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science

The study on cat sleeping position that we talked about: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00507-X The study on cats and problem solving abilities that was mentioned: https://www.bio.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/bpsy/mam/content/papers/isparta_et.al.2020_12072.pdf The press release (in german): https://news.rub.de/presseinformationen/wissenschaft/2025-07-28-citizen-science-projekt-katzenvideos-machen-fuer-die-forschung Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Literature: Emmorey, K. (2023). Ten things you should know about sign languages. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(5), 387-394. The lab of Dr. Karen Emmorey: https://llcn.sdsu.edu/ Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

The discussed paper: Gotzner, N. (accepted). Does it matter what is said and who said it? The interpretation of Trump’s and Harris’ statements in Republican and Democrat voters. To appear in Open Mind. PsyArXiv: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/a4u52_v1 References: Kuperwasser, I., & Shetreet, E. (2025). Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning. Journal of Pragmatics, 242, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.014 Sperber, D., Clément, F., Heintz, C., Mascaro, O., Mercier, H., Origgi, G., & Wilson, D. (2010). Epistemic vigilance. Mind & Language, 25(4), 359–393. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2010.01394.x Grice, H. P. (1975). Logic and conversation. In Speech acts (pp. 41-58). Brill. The mentioned shirt: https://www.netflix.shop/en-de/products/stranger-things-comfort-colors-t-shirt-beam-me-up Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

References: Kennedy, C., & McNally, L. (2005). Scale structure, degree modification, and the semantics of gradable predicates. Language, 81(2), 345-381. Kennedy, C. (2007). Vagueness and grammar: The semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives. Linguistics and philosophy, 30(1), 1-45. Syrett, K. (2024). Challenges and Strategies for Acquiring Adjectives. Language and Linguistics Compass, 18(6), e70000. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70000 Tribushinina, E. (2018). Acquisition of adjectives across languages and populations: What’s wrong with them? Cahiers Du Centre de Linguistique et Des Sciences Du Langage, (56), 259–275. https://doi.org/10.26034/la.cdclsl.2018.257 Tribushinina, E., Van Den Bergh, H., Kilani-Schoch, M., Aksu-Koç, A., Dabašinskienė, I., Hrzica, G., … & Dressler, W. (2013). The role of explicit contrast in adjective acquisition: A cross-linguistic longitudinal study of adjective production in spontaneous child speech and parental input. First Language, 33(6), 594-616. Ricks, S. L., & Alt, M. (2016). Theoretical principles to guide the teaching of adjectives to children who struggle with word learning: Synthesis of experimental and naturalistic research with principles of learning theory. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 47(3), 181-190. Uhlemann, C., Wartenburger, I., & Hilton, M. (2023). Express yourself! Die Diagnostikinstrumente frühkindlicher Sprachentwicklung FRAKIS und SETK-2 im Vergleich. Spektrum Patholinguistik| 15, 107. Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Sabrina’s linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrina-frohn/ Papers: not THE implicit bias paper but one explaining implicit and explicit bias: “Social Justice in Our Minds, Homes, and Society: The Nature, Causes, and Consequences of Implicit Bias” by Laurie A. Rudman, 10.1023/B:SORE.0000027406.32604.f6 about the implicit association test I mentioned: https://www.projectimplicit.net/nosek/iat/default.html (I was not able to find the study I participated in, but I assume it is similar to this, perhaps was even based on this.) bias in machine translations: „Gender Bias in Machine Translation Systems“ Stefanie Ullmann et al., isbn: 978-3-030-88615-8 “What about em? How Commercial Machine Translation Fails to Handle (Neo-)Pronouns, Lauscher et al., 10.48550/arXiv.2305.16051 comparing LLM and MT “Benchmarking Machine Translation with Cultural Awareness” by Binwei Yao, 10.48550/arXiv.2305.14328 „Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation“, Stanovski et al., 10.18653/v1/P19-1164 machtsprache: https://www.machtsprache.de/ macht.sprache plugins: chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/machtsprache-for-sensitiv/dichlnekfmanlagciihdnkgiefppilol firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/macht-sprache/ interesting reads: „The complexities of linguistic discrimination“, Drożdżowicz et al., 10.1080/09515089.2024.2307993 “On the Translation of Otherness: The Univocal Case of Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, Badenes, 10.7202/1068906ar “Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes”, Garg et al., 10.1073/pnas.1720347115 https://pocolit.com/ Sabrina’s paper: https://publications.waset.org/10014353/bibtex Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

References: https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-artificial-intelligence-9d48adc572100822fdbc3c90d1456bd0 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-lawsuit-teen-suicide.html https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/ https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-created-flirty-chatbots-taylor-swift-other-celebrities-without-permission-2025-08-29/ https://futurism.com/woman-suicide-openai-therapist https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/family-teenager-died-suicide-alleges-openais-chatgpt-blame-rcna226147 https://itif.org/publications/2025/05/21/ai-companions-risk-over-regulation-with-state-legislation/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/companion-ai-emotional-support-chatbots-1.7620087 https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/lifestyle/woman-married-to-an-ai-robot/ https://metro.co.uk/2025/07/14/married-ai-bot-human-wife-doesnt-mind-23628030/ https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo3618528.html https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-13558-002 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922 https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Literature: Bromme, R. (2025). Objektiv und unabhängig, aber auch wirksam für das Gemeinwohl: Vertrauen im Kontext öffentlicher Erwartungen an Wissenschaft. In P. Sandermann & V. Schwenker (Eds.), Trust Issues!? - Vertrauen in modernen Gesellschaften. (pp. 233-243). transcript. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.14361/9783839470879 Bromme, R. (2025). Wissenschaftskommunikation. In P. Pasternack, G. Reinmann, & C. Schneijderberg (Eds.), Hochschulforschung: Forschung über Hochschule und Wissenschaft (pp. 511-520). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748943334 Bromme, R., & Gierth, L. (2021). Rationality and the public understanding of science. In M. Knauff & W. Spohn (Eds.), Handbook of Rationality (pp. 767-776). MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. Bromme, R., Mede, N., Thomm, E., Kremer, B., & Ziegler, R. (2022). An anchor in troubled times: Trust in science before and within the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE 17(2):e0262823. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262823 Bromme, R. & Hendriks, F. (2023). Trust in science: considering whom to trust for knowing what is true. In R.C. Mayer & B. Mayer (Eds.). A Research Agenda for Trust: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 37-49). Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-research-agenda-for-trust-9781802200935.html Bromme, R. (2022). Informiertes Vertrauen in Wissenschaft: Lehren aus der COVID-19 Pandemie für das Verständnis naturwissenschaftlicher Grundbildung (scientific literacy). Unterrichtswissenschaft, 50(3), 331-345. doi:10.1007/s42010-022-00159-6 Hendriks, F. & Bromme, R. (2022). Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing. Science Communication, 44(6), 693-718. doi:10.1177/10755470221137052 Wintterlin, F., Hendriks, F., Mede, N. G., Bromme, R., Metag, J., & Schäfer, M. S. (2022). Predicting public trust in science: The role of basic orientations toward science, perceived trustworthiness of scientists, and experiences with science. Frontiers in Communication, 6:822757. doi:10.3389/fcomm.2021.822757 2021 Bromme, R., & Gierth, L. (2021). Rationality and the public understanding of science. In M. Knauff & W. Spohn (Eds.), Handbook of Rationality (pp. 767-776). MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Order the book: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/nicholas-wright/warhead/9781035013982 Nicholas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-d-wright-bba3a065/ Nicholas on X: https://x.com/nicholasdwright Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Find Sophies works: Website: https://psychosophcomic.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psychosophcomic/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/psychosoph.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/psychosoph/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@psychosophcomic Newsletter: https://16969776.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAIvA9R-8FBixNmAS194n9r-ZlFB5B3PTfFIaoY5Mau_R9ZZYrUpK9w7XYYc3RkHTgVu9N43iut8Ih3p1LXCTdnbRHIf-5l9dFVcXai4bJE6VfmOZk135dXybNLfSjaPby2EB_RR18dnUfXPgnx_-J9-_BvfT8Ntmb2YSL8kLmD19DMMWz0WHIK650MheVjeYVZRQEiBmECBS Personal website: https://elschner.science/ Comics we talked about: Visual Cliff: https://psychosophcomic.com/2024/09/15/babies-in-front-of-the-abyss-the-visual-cliff/ yawning: https://psychosophcomic.com/2022/07/10/put-your-hand-in-front-of-your-mouth-why-do-we-yawn/ Shoutouts: David Spencer: https://www.instagram.com/davidspencerofficial/?hl=en Science & Fiction: https://scienceandfiction.net/ (you can also listen to our episodes with Helena https://open.spotify.com/episode/3HyJyn7pVteKMmHrv8d7To?si=d4qULUSSQpGUoIiH2CytwA, https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/podcast/s2-21-how-does-your-pain-make-me-feelbrain-to-brain-with-dr-helena-hartmann/)

The website of MS Wissenschaft: https://ms-wissenschaft.de/de/ The instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/mswissenschaft/ The recommended show: https://www.zdf.de/shows/mai-think-x-die-show-102 Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

The YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Empathique The channel recommended by Julia: https://www.youtube.com/@ruthmicallef Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Links provided by Evelyne: In-Mind blog (Dutch version) https://nl.in-mind.org In-Mind blog (international version) https://www.in-mind.org Two of my blogs for In-Mind (Dutch only) https://nl.in-mind.org/blog/post/gebruik-koud-water-om-angst-te-verminderen https://nl.in-mind.org/blog/post/ik-heb-het-gedaan-maar-heb-ik-het-ook-echt-gedaan Dutch Brainbee (in Dutch called, “Hersenolympiade”) Https://hersenolympiade.nl/en/ International brain bee https://www.thebrainbee.org/ Festivals I like https://www.dagvandewetenschap.be https://wisenight.eu https://www.pintofscience.be https://www.wetenschapscafe.be/nl Science blogs / stories I like: https://www.eoswetenschap.eu https://scienceandfiction.net/stories/22_to-obey-or-not-to-obey Books I am currently reading: Of my PI https://www.amazon.nl/Just-Following-Orders-Atrocities-Obedience/dp/1009385437 Book from my sister: https://www.amazon.com/Lucifer-Effect-Understanding-Good-People/dp/0812974441 My personal platforms https://www.linkedin.com/in/evelynefraats-research-sciencecommunication-researchgoodsbads-moralbrain-socialbrain?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app https://bsky.app/profile/eic-fraats.bsky.social My lab https://moralsocialbrain.com/ Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected]

Related papers: Langer, K., Wolf, O. T., Merz, C. J., & Jentsch, V. L. (2025). The effects of stress hormones on cognitive emotion regulation: A systematic review and integrative model. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 106040. Langer, K., Jentsch, V. L., & Wolf, O. T. (2023). Rapid effects of acute stress on cognitive emotion regulation. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 151, 106054. Langer, K., Jentsch, V. L., & Wolf, O. T. (2022). Cortisol promotes the cognitive regulation of high intensive emotions independent of timing. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55(9-10), 2684-2698. Langer, K., Hagedorn, B., Stock, L. M., Otto, T., Wolf, O. T., & Jentsch, V. L. (2020). Acute stress improves the effectivity of cognitive emotion regulation in men. Sci. Rep. 10, 11571. Langer, K., Jentsch, V. L., & Wolf, O. T. (2022). Acute stress influences strategy preference when dealing with high intensity emotions in men. Biological Psychology, 169, 108264. Katja’s department: www.cog.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Katja’s researchgate profile: www.researchgate.net/profile/Katja-Langer-4 Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Helena’s website: https://scienceandfiction.net/ The first episode with Helena: https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/podcast/s2-21-how-does-your-pain-make-me-feelbrain-to-brain-with-dr-helena-hartmann/ Helena’s recommendations: https://treatment-expectation.de/ https://www.youtube.com/@maithinkx Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Get a ticket for a live show: https://minkorrekt.de/minkorrekt-live/ Listen to the podcast: https://minkorrekt.de/ The episode on „Ig-Nobelpreise 2024“: https://minkorrekt.de/mi328-ig-nobelpreise-2024/ Nicolas’ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolas_woehrl Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/caroline-gurvich Related papers: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40251875 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41074674 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41122799 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39255423 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35878526 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30154388 Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Papers: Zsido, R. G., Williams, A. N., Barth, C., Serio, B., Kurth, L., Mildner, T., … & Sacher, J. (2023). Ultra-high-field 7T MRI reveals changes in human medial temporal lobe volume in female adults during menstrual cycle. Nature Mental Health, 1(10), 761-771. Gottschewsky, N., Kraft, D., & Kaufmann, T. (2024). Menarche, pubertal timing and the brain: female-specific patterns of brain maturation beyond age-related development. Biology of sex Differences, 15(1), 25. Pletzer, B., Bodenbach, H., Hoehn, M., Hajdari, L., Hausinger, T., Noachtar, I., & Beltz, A. M. (2024). Reproducible stability of verbal and spatial functions along the menstrual cycle. Neuropsychopharmacology, 49(6), 933-941. Pletzer, B., Harris, T. A., Scheuringer, A., & Hidalgo-Lopez, E. (2019). The cycling brain: menstrual cycle related fluctuations in hippocampal and fronto-striatal activation and connectivity during cognitive tasks. Neuropsychopharmacology, 44(11), 1867-1875. Pletzer, B., Harris, T., & Hidalgo-Lopez, E. (2018). Subcortical structural changes along the menstrual cycle: beyond the hippocampus. Scientific reports, 8(1), 16042. Podcast of the International Research Training Group IRTG 2804: Example for the mentioned graph: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44294-025-00078-8/figures/1 Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Related papers: Weidler, T. (2025). The mechanism at hand: A goal-driven approach to modeling the human sensorimotor system. (https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/the-mechanism-at-hand-a-goal-driven-approach-to-modeling-the-huma) Doerig, A., Sommers, R.P., Seeliger, K. et al. The neuroconnectionist research programme. Nat Rev Neurosci 24, 431–450 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-023-00705-w Kriegeskorte, N., Douglas, P.K. Cognitive computational neuroscience. Nat Neurosci 21, 1148–1160 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0210-5 Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

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References: Briggs, R. A., & George, B. R. (2023). What even is gender? (p. 196). Taylor & Francis. Eickers, G. Social Media Experiences of LGBTQ+ People: Enabling Feelings of Belonging. Topoi 43, 617–630 (2024). https://tgeu.org/ Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

References: https://www.carolhay.org/ Hay, C. (2020). Think like a feminist: the philosophy behind the revolution. WW Norton & Company. Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Literature: Guérin, M., Saulnier, F., Cartier, L., Hirnstein, M., Hétu, S., & Juster, R. P. (2025). Explicit Gender Stereotypes and Sexually Polymorphic Cognition by Gender Identity. https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2024/04/09/who-does-what-better-a-non-binary-view/ Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Literature will be added soon. Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Literature: Forstmann, B. U., Ratcliff, R., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2016). Sequential Sampling Models in Cognitive Neuroscience: Advantages, Applications, and Extensions. Annual Review of Psychology, 67(1), 641–666. Forstmann, B. U., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2015). Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience: A Conceptual Introduction. In B. U. Forstmann & E.-J. Wagenmakers (Eds.), An Introduction to Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience (pp. 139–156). Springer. Ging Jehli, N. R., Arnold, L. E., & Van Zandt, T. (2023). Cognitive & attentional mechanisms of cooperation: Implications for incentive designs and computational psychiatry. Ging-Jehli, N. R., Kuhn, M., Blank, J. M., Chanthrakumar, P., Steinberger, D. C., Yu, Z., Herrington, T. M., Dillon, D. G., Pizzagalli, D. A., & Frank, M. J. (2024). Cognitive signatures of depressive and anhedonic symptoms, and affective states, using computational modeling and neurocognitive testing. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, S2451-9022(24)00056-9. Ging-Jehli, N. R., Ratcliff, R., & Arnold, L. E. (2021). Improving neurocognitive testing using computational psychiatry—A systematic review for ADHD. Psychological Bulletin, 147(2), 169–231. Ratcliff, R. (1978). A theory of memory retrieval. Psychological Review, 85(2), 59–108. Smith, P. L., & Ratcliff, R. (2004). Psychology and neurobiology of simple decisions. Trends in Neurosciences, 27(3), 161–168. Van Zandt, T. (2002). Analysis of Response Time Distributions. In Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Methodology in Experimental Psychology (Vol. 4, pp. 461–516). John Wiley & Sons. Wald, A., & Wolfowitz, J. (1949). Bayes Solutions of Sequential Decision Problems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 35(2), 99–102. Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

(1) influence of the mozart effect on US-american education politics in the case of Georgia 1998 (New York Times article from 1998) (2) link between music and neuroendocrinology (two reviews) Kreutz, Gunter, Cynthia Quiroga Murcia, and Stephan Bongard, 'Psychoneuroendocrine Research on Music and Health: An Overview', in Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz, and Laura Mitchell (eds), Music, Health, and Wellbeing (Oxford, 2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 May 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586974.003.0030, Harvey AR (2020) Links Between the Neurobiology of Oxytocin and Human Musicality. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 14:350. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00350 (3) perception of prototypical (musical) movements and the relevance of fluency/smoothness Wöllner, C., Deconinck, F. J. A., Parkinson, J., Hove, M. J., & Keller, P. E. (2012). The perception of prototypical motion: Synchronization is enhanced with quantitatively morphed gestures of musical conductors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(6), 1390–1403. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028130 Vogel, T., Ingendahl, M., & Winkielman, P. (2021). The architecture of prototype preferences: Typicality, fluency, and valence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 187–194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000798 (4) discussion on lullabies as a musical universal Aubinet, S. (2024). Lullabies and Universality: An Ethnographic Review. Cross-Cultural Research, 58(5), 411-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/10693971241272406 (5) functional approach to musical gestures Dahl, S., Bevilacqua, F., & Bresin, R. (2010). Gestures in performance. In musical Gestures (pp. 48-80). Routledge. (6) “chior effect” Kreutz, G., Bongard, S., Rohrmann, S., Hodapp, V., & Grebe, D. (2004). Effects of choir singing or listening on secretory immunoglobulin A, cortisol, and emotional state. Journal of behavioral medicine, 27, 623-635. (7) Musical proto language Fitch, W. T. (2010). The evolution of language. Cambridge University Press. (8) book recommendation Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Literature: Dames, H., & Oberauer, K. (2022). Directed forgetting in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(12), 2990. Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

For the third episode in our new block on the topic attention we are talking to Prof. Paul Verhaeghen. Papers: Baer, R. A., Smith, G. T., Hopkins, J., Krietemeyer, J., & Toney, L. (2006). Using self-report assessment methods to explore facets of mindfulness. Assessment, 13, 27–45. Lipsey, M. W., & Wilson, D. B. (1993). The efficacy of psychological, educational, and behavioral treatment: confirmation from meta-analysis. American Psychologist, 48, 1181–1209. Luders, E. (2014). Exploring age‐related brain degeneration in meditation practitioners. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1307(1), 82-88. Sedlmeier, P., Eberth, J., Schwarz, M., Zimmermann, D., Haarig, F., Jaeger, S., & Kunze, S. (2012). The psychological effects of meditation: a meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 138(6), 1139. Van Vugt, M. K., & Slagter, H. A. (2014). Control over experience? Magnitude of the attentional blink depends on meditative state. Consciousness and cognition, 23, 32-39. Verhaeghen, P. (2021). Mindfulness as attention training: Meta-analyses on the links between attention performance and mindfulness interventions, long-term meditation practice, and trait mindfulness. Mindfulness, 12, 564-581. Books: Amishi Jha (2021). Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day, HarperOne Dan Harris (2014). 10% Happier, Dey Street Books. Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

For the second episode in our new block on the topic attention we are talking to Prof. Ellie Dommett. Recommended resources: Open Access short courses on ADHD: OR https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/understanding-adhd ScienceDaily has some great short articles on ADHD and they are all listed here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain/add_and_adhd/ Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

For the first episode in our new block on the topic attention we are talking to Eirini Kalogeropoulou. References: Simons, D. J., & Chabris, C. F. (1999). Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events. Perception, 28(9), 1059–1074. https://doi.org/10.1068/p2952 Dimigen, O., Sommer, W., Hohlfeld, A., Jacobs, A. M., & Kliegl, R. (2011). Coregistration of eye movements and EEG in natural reading: Analyses and review. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140(4), 552-572.10.1037/a0023885 Degno, F., & Liversedge, S. P. (2020). Eye movements and fixation-related potentials in reading: A Review. Vision, 4(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision4010011 Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

As promised: Vanillekipferl (Vanilla crescents) Ingredients: 250 g wheat flour (type 405, all-purpose) (2 cups) 210 g butter (room temperature) (slightly less than 1 cup) 50 g ground almonds (1/2 cup) 50 g ground hazelnuts (1/2 cup) 90 g sugar (just under 1/2 cup) 1 pinch of salt 100 g powdered sugar (3/4 cup) 4 sachets vanilla sugar (1/4 cup total) Instructions: Knead together the flour, butter, sugar, ground nuts, and salt. Wrap the dough in cling film and place it in the fridge for about 60 minutes. Mix the powdered sugar with the vanilla sugar. Preheat the oven to 175 °C (350°F). Remove walnut-sized lumps from the dough, roll them between your palms, and shape them into crescents (=> kipferl). Place them on a baking tray with some space between them. Bake for approx. 10 - 12 minutes. They are ready when they just start to brown. Allow the kipferl to cool briefly and then carefully push them closer together. Sift the powdered sugar and vanilla sugar mixture generously over them. Leave the finished kipferl to cool completely before serving. Metric measurements were calculated by ChatGPT. If you want to get sure, use a kitchen scale * Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

A short hint: Christopher used the term “Coxi” that just means Cognitive Science or someone studying Cognitive Science. References: An overview over wearables and parkinsons: https://doi.org/10.3390/s22051799 More on the topic of hypomimia: https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14010109 A discussion on limits of in Clinics: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01614-0 The previous episode with Elisa Percolla: https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/podcast/10-neural-correlates-of-parkinsons-disease-brain-to-brain-with-elisa-percolla/ Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

This episode presents research by Marcin Furtak, a Marie-Curie fellow of the OptiVisT ITN. OptiVisT has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 955590 Resources: The episode with Susan Wache on the feelSpace belt: https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/podcast/how-can-we-feel-space-brain-to-brain-with-susan-wache/ The episode with Piper Powell on the feelSpace bracelet: https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/podcast/on-implementing-brains-seeing-with-hands-brain-to-brain-with-piper-powell-special-6/ The first published bracelet paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/9/2949 two papers on the naviBelt: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00037/full https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/21/7384 YOLOv5 code repository and its documentation: https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5 https://docs.ultralytics.com/yolov5/ Marcin’s OptiVisT bio: https://www.optivist.eu/esr-10 The feelSpace website: https://feelspace.de/ Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Doras ongoing study: https://www.drks.de/DRKS00024593 Literature: Gadot, Ron et al. “Efficacy of deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis.” Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, jnnp-2021-328738. 20 Sep. 2022, doi:10.1136/jnnp-2021-328738 Schläpfer, T.E., Kayser, S. “Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression” Klin Neurophysiol 2014; 45: 113–117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0034-1375605 Human Medial Forebrain Bundle (MFB) and Anterior Thalamic Radiation (ATR): Imaging of Two Major Subcortical Pathways and the Dynamic Balance of Opposite Affects in Understanding Depression Volker A. Coenen, M.D. Jaak Panksepp, Ph.D. Trevor A. Hurwitz, M.D. Horst Urbach, M.D. Coenen, V.A.; Schlaepfer, T.E.; Sajonz, B.E.A.; Reinacher, P.C.; Döbrössy, M.D.; Reisert, M. “The Heart Asks Pleasure First”— Conceptualizing Psychiatric Diseases as MAINTENANCE Network Dysfunctions through Insights from slMFB DBS in Depression and Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder. Brain Sci. 2022, 12, 438. https:// doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040438 Deep Brain Stimulation of the Human Reward System for Major Depression—Rationale, Outcomes and Outlook Thomas E Schlaepfer*,1,2, Bettina H Bewernick1, Sarah Kayser1, Rene Hurlemann1 and Volker A Coenen3 A book on the topic: The pleasure shock, Lone Frank Some (german) documentaries: Hunting For Hedonia ( https://vimeo.com/ondemand/huntingforhedonia/363300769?autoplay=1 ) Schrittmacher gegen Depressionen( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZPB2TKUhYE ) Landesschau Baden-Württemberg: Ein Schrittmacher im Hirn bändigt seine Depression ( https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/landesschau-baden-wuerttemberg/ein-schrittmacher-im-hirn-baendigt-seine-depression/swr-bw/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS9hZXgvbzE5MTQzOTA ) Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Literature: Christoffersen, G. R. J. (1997). Habituation: events in the history of its characterization and linkage to synaptic depression. A new proposed kinetic criterion for its identification. Progress in neurobiology, 53(1), 45-66. van den Broeke, E. N., Crombez, G., & Vlaeyen, J. W. (2024). Reconceptualizing sensitization in pain: back to basics. Pain reports, 9(1), e1125. Velasco, E., Flores-Cortes, M., Guerra-Armas, J., Flix-Díez, L., Gurdiel-Álvarez, F., Donado-Bermejo, A., ... & Delicado-Miralles, M. (2024). Is chronic pain caused by central sensitization? A review and critical point of view. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105886. https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/what-is-neurofeedback-therapy/ Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Remifentanyl study: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scitranslmed.3001244 Studies on expectation: https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2023.853490 https://www.iasp-pain.org/resources/fact-sheets/placebo-and-nocebo-effects-the-importance-of-treatment-expectations-and-patient-physician-interaction-for-treatment-outcomes/ https://journals.lww.com/painrpts/fulltext/2024/04000/translating_knowledge_on_placebo_and_nocebo.22.aspx?context=latestarticles Helena’s phd studies: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192030882X https://academic.oup.com/cercorcomms/article/2/3/tgab039/6291206 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976221119727 https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-023-00189-6 Studies on autism: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-007-0486-x https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.813969/full Further websites: www.helenahartmann.com, www.bingellab.de, www.treatment-expectation.de Science and Fiction: www.scienceandfiction.net Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

For our first episode in our thematic block about pain we talked to Dr. Janosch Priebe. In this episode, he goes into detail about chronic pain, how it is different to acute pain and treatment options. References: McCarberg, B., & Peppin, J. (2019). Pain pathways and nervous system plasticity: learning and memory in pain. Pain Medicine, 20(12), 2421-2437. Horn‐Hofmann, C., Scheel, J., Dimova, V., Parthum, A., Carbon, R., Griessinger, N., … & Lautenbacher, S. (2018). Prediction of persistent post‐operative pain: Pain‐specific psychological variables compared with acute post‐operative pain and general psychological variables. European Journal of Pain, 22(1), 191-202. Priebe, J. A., Kerkemeyer, L., Haas, K. K., Achtert, K., Moreno Sanchez, L. F., Stockert, P., … & Toelle, T. R. (2024). Medical app treatment of non-specific low back pain in the 12-month cluster-randomized controlled trial rise-uP: where clinical superiority meets cost savings. Journal of Pain Research, 2239-2255. Toelle, T. R., Utpadel-Fischler, D. A., Haas, K. K., & Priebe, J. A. (2019). App-based multidisciplinary back pain treatment versus combined physiotherapy plus online education: a randomized controlled trial. NPJ digital medicine, 2(1), 34. Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: [email protected] Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

And with this, our first season comes to an end. In our last episode before our summer break, we're talking about one year of podcasting - and honestly: what a year it was! We're taking some weeks of and will be back with new episodes in September. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

References: Jacobs, Kerrin, Achim Stephan, Asena Paskaleva & Wendy Wilutzky (2014). Existential and Atmospheric Feelings in Depressive Comportment. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 21(2), 89-110 (erschienen im März 2015). Ratcliffe, M. 2008. Feelings of being. Phenomenology, psychiatry and the sense of reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Scherer, Klaus (2005). What are emotions? Social Science Information, 44, 695–729. Slaby, J. (2016). Mind invasion: Situated affectivity and the corporate life hack. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 266. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg. 2016.00266 Stephan, Achim (2017). Moods in Layers. Philosophia 45, 1481-1495. doi: 10.1007/s11406-017-9841-0 Stephan, A., & Walter, S. (2020). Situated affectivity. In T. Szanto, & H. Landweer (Eds.), The routledge handbook of the phenomenology of emotion (pp. 299–311). Routledge. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

Why do psychologists need statistics if they study the human mind? Professor Michael Franke studied and taught at Osnabrück University and now teaches at the University of Tübingen. He explains how his scientific pathway led him to study language and formal logic to better understand underlying statistical ideas. He explains the importance of methods in the field of cognitive science and the large impact they have on our understanding of the world. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about the relevance of statistics, why it actually is fascinating to do statistics and where we might need to change our minds when it comes to teaching basic knowledge in the university context. Correction: “The ‘hard-headed cowboy … with a Stradivarius violin’ is NOT by Popper himself, but used by Peter Godfrey-Smith in his book ‘Theory & Reality’ as a description of Popper’s views.” Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

Did you know that your brain keeps sending signals to move your limbs even when your paralyzed? Mo Nipshagen is a PhD candidate at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen. Together with their colleagues, they develop Brain-Computer-Interfaces to enable locked-in and paralyzed patients to interact with the world around them. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about the future of paralysis treatment and how computers can interact with the human brain. Resources: Berezutskaya, J., Saive, AL., Jerbi, K., Gerven, M.v. (2023). How Does Artificial Intelligence Contribute to iEEG Research?. In: Axmacher, N. (eds) Intracranial EEG. Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20910-9_47 Vansteensel, M.J., Pels, E.G., Bleichner, M.G., Branco, M.P., Denison, T.J., Freudenburg, Z.V., Gosselaar, P., Leinders, S., Ottens, T.H., van den Boom, M.A., van Rijen, P.C., Aarnoutse, E.J., & Ramsey, N.F. (2016). Fully Implanted Brain-Computer Interface in a Locked-In Patient with ALS. The New England journal of medicine, 375 21, 2060-2066. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1608085 Anumanchipalli, G.K., Chartier, J., & Chang, E.F. (2019). Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences. Nature, 568, 493 – 498. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1119-1 Ottenhoff, M. C., Verwoert, M., Goulis, S., Colon, A. J., Wagner, L., Tousseyn, S., van Dijk, J. P., Kubben, P. L., & Herff, C. (2023). Decoding executed and imagined grasping movements from distributed non-motor brain areas using a Riemannian decoder. In Frontiers in Neuroscience (Vol. 17). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1283491 https://www.intenseproject.eu Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

What does it mean for a system to be creative? Can humans and machines be creative together? How has the definition of machine creativity changed over the years? Philipp Wicke is an Assistant Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität München and is asking exactly these questions in his research. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about creative computers and how they have developed and further evolved over the past years! References: Boden, Margaret A. “Creativity and artificial intelligence.” Artificial intelligence 103.1-2 (1998): 347-356. Ventura, Dan. “Mere generation: Essential barometer or dated concept.” Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity. Sony CSL, 2016. Gervás, Pablo. “Computational approaches to storytelling and creativity.” AI Magazine 30.3 (2009): 49-49. Veale, Tony. “Exploding the Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity” Bloomsbury, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4411-8172-5.” (2017): 52-54. Varela, Francisco J., Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch. The embodied mind, revised edition: Cognitive science and human experience. MIT press, 2017. Newen, Albert, Leon De Bruin, and Shaun Gallagher, eds. The Oxford handbook of 4E cognition. Oxford University Press, 2018. Di Paolo, Ezequiel A., Elena Clare Cuffari, and Hanne De Jaegher. Linguistic bodies: The continuity between life and language. MIT press, 2018. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

We had the pleasure to talk to Ibrahim Muhip Tezcan about autism. We discuss autistic traits, what neurodiversity and neurotypical means and neuronal differences in autistic people. Muhib tells us more about problems people with autism might face in everyday life, quiet hours in the supermarket and some advantages.   Mentioned / Recommended literature: Paper: Pellicano, E., & Burr, D. (2012). When the world becomes ‘too real’: a Bayesian explanation of autistic perception. Trends in cognitive sciences, 16(10), 504-510. Baron‐Cohen, S. (2017). Editorial Perspective: Neurodiversity–a revolutionary concept for autism and psychiatry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58(6), 744-747. Farmer, G. D., Baron-Cohen, S., & Skylark, W. J. (2017). People with autism spectrum conditions make more consistent decisions. Psychological science, 28(8), 1067-1076. Hu, Y., Pereira, A. M., Gao, X., Campos, B. M., Derrington, E., Corgnet, B., … & Dreher, J. C. (2021). Right temporoparietal junction underlies avoidance of moral transgression in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(8), 1699-1715. Tezcan I. M. (2024). Autism Beyond Deficits: Embracing Neurodiversity in Research. https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/psychology/autism-beyond-deficits-embracing-neurodiversity-in-research/ Books: Silberman, S. (2017). Neurotribes: The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently. Atlantic Books. Grandin, T., & Panek, R. (2013). The autistic brain: Thinking across the spectrum. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.   Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

If you are a victim of sexual digital violence and need help here are some rescources: [ENG+] https://stopncii.org/ [ENG/GER] https://www.uni-jena.de/en/university/central-institutions/interessenvertretungen/equal-opportunities-office/information-about-equality/digital-violence-guide [GER] https://annanackt.com/ What had Steve Jobs to do with the moderation of pornography? What are deepfakes? Annemarie Witschas did her bachelor’s thesis in the field of ethics of AI by looking at pornography. She explains what deep fake pornography is and why it is such an immense problem, especially for woman*. This became particularly clear in a recent case, after the episode was recorded, where deep fake pornography of Taylor Swift was created and spread across the internet. So much, that X (formerly known as twitter) blocked all searches for “#taylorswift”. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about deep fakes and their horrifying use in sexually assaultive contexts. *woman in this context meant as people who are in a body perceived as female Scientific resources: https://osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/bitstream/ds-202311069973/1/pics-2023-001-witschas-porn-power-and-platforms.pdf Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

What is green AI? And can AI even be green? Sustainable use of Artificial Intelligence – what sounds like a clear conflict, is actually a multifaceted problem. Cornelius studies Cognitive Science and works for the DFKI (German Research Facility for Artificial Intelligence). He explains what green AI is, how AI can be used for sustainability and why some AI’s consume more energy than others. He gives us more insight into the work of the DFKI and the important aspects that come with implementing AI for sustainability. Listen to this episode to learn more about what enterprises can do to improve their footprint using AI! Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

More information: https://www.feelspace.de https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25038534/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34770689/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346329375_The_impact_of_the_sensory_augmentation_device_feelSpace_belt_on_spatial_orientation_and_navigation_of_blind_people Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

Do you know someone who has Parkinson’s disease? It is often characterized by trembling hands, but actually has many more aspects. Elisa Percolla is a scientific researcher at the institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück. She wrote her master thesis on Parkinson’s disease and studied the brains of patients with EEG. During the interview Elisa describes her way into the field of cognitive science and how the broadness of the field can sometimes go hand in hand with a feeling of inaccuracy since you can never be equally good at each sub-discipline. She proceeds to explain that we should sometimes be a little more lenient with ourselves. Listen to this episode to learn how symptoms of Parkinson’s disease show, what underlying mechanisms are, and what the current state of research in treatment is! Related literature: – Last discoveries (EEG and alpha frequency band): Özkurt T. E. (2024). Abnormally low sensorimotor alpha band nonlinearity serves as an effective EEG biomarker of Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of neurophysiology, 10.1152/jn.00272.2023. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00272.2023 – Noradrenaline and not just Dopamine: new frontier of Parkinson’s Disease Research Barone, P. (2010). Neurotransmission in Parkinson’s disease: Beyond dopamine. European journal of neurology : the official journal of the European Federation of Neurological Societies, 17:364–76. Delaville, C., De Deurwaerdère, P., and Benazzouz, A. (2011). Noradrenaline and Parkinson’s disease. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 5:31. – Non-motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease (more general) Bodis-Wollner, I., Tzelepi, A., Sagliocco, L., Bandini, F., Mari, Z., Pierantozzi, A., Ogliastro, E., Kim, J., Ko, C., and Gulzar, J. (1998). Visual processing deficit in Parkinson’s disease, pages 606–611. Lees, A., Hardy, J., and Revesz, T. (2009). Spectrum of non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease. Lancet, 373(9680):2055–2066. Kumaresan, M. and Khan, S. (2021). Spectrum of non-motor symptoms in parkin- son’s disease. Cureus, 13. Schapira, A., Ray Chaudhuri, K., and Jenner, P. (2017). Non-motor features of Parkinson’s disease. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 18. Hobson, D., Lang, A., Martin, W., Razmy, A., Rivest, J., Fleming, J., Pourcher, E., and Members, C. (2002). Excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden-onset sleep in parkinson’s disease: A survey by the canadian movement disorders group. JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association, 287:455–463. Kehagia, A. (2016). Neuropsychiatric symptoms in parkinson’s disease: Beyond complications. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 7. Doty, R. (2012). Olfactory dysfunction in parkinson disease. Nature reviews. Neurology, 8:329–39. Kehagia, A., Barker, R., and Robbins, T. (2012a). Cognitive impairment in parkin- son’s disease: The dual syndrome hypothesis. Neuro-degenerative diseases, 11. – Neural correlates of motor and non-motor symptoms correspondence: Marquez, J., Hasan, S. M. S., Siddiquee, M., Luca, C., Mishra, V., Mari, Z., and Bai, O. (2020). Neural correlates of freezing of gait in parkinson’s disease: An electrophysiology mini-review. Frontiers in Neurology, 11. – Previous work on Event-related Potential Components as biomarkers of Impaired Novelty Detection in Parkinson’s Disease: Solıs-Vivanco, R., Ricardo-Garcell, J., Rodrıguez-Camacho, M., Prado-Alcala, R., Rodriguez, U., Rodrıguez-Violante, M., and Rodrıguez-Agudelo, Y. (2011). Involuntary attention impairment in early Parkinson’s disease: An event-related potential study. Neuroscience letters, 495:144–9. Solıs-Vivanco, R., Rodrıguez-Violante, M., Cervantes-Arriaga, A., Justo-Guillén, E., and Ricardo-Garcell, J. (2018). Brain oscillations reveal impaired novelty detection from early stages of parkinson’s disease. NeuroImage: Clinical, 18. Solıs-Vivanco, R., Rodrıguez-Violante, M., Rodrıguez-Agudelo, Y., Schilmann, A., Rodrıguez-Ortiz, U., and Ricardo-Garcell, J. (2015). The p3a wave: A re- liable neurophysiological measure of parkinsońs disease duration and severity. Clinical Neurophysiology, 126. Lagopoulos, J., Gordon, E., Barhamali, H., Lim, C. L., Li, W., Clouston, P., and Morris, J. (1998). Dysfunctions of automatic (p300a) and controlled (p300b) processing in Parkinson’s disease. Neurological research, 20:5–10. – Vibrotactile cueing and Parkinsonian Freezing of Gait Kaiser, V. (2021). The impact of a vibrotactile cueing device on freezing of gait and other gait impairments in parkinson’s disease – a longitudinal study. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder