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News

We are happy to present our newly established Department of Developmental Psychology! [October 2025]

Many thanks to Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Freiburg! Due to their travel grant, Lisa Bender was able to hold her talk at the 21st biennal conference of the European European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) in Graz, Austria. [August 2025]

New Publications

Sophie Nolden‘s editorial for her special issue in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews has been accepted! Check out our special issue on the dynamics of predictive processing! [April 2025]

Sophie Nolden‘s lifespan paper in Developmental Psychology has been accepted! Check it out for latest research on prediction errors and episodic memory over the lifespan! Nolden, S., Turan, G., Bein, O., Davachi, L., Shing, Y. L. (in press). The impact of mnemonic prediction errors on episodic memory: A lifespan study. Developmental Psychology. [April 2025]

Sophie Nolden participated in a multi-lab replication project. Open Science is on a roll in this lab! The paper is a registered report in Cortex. We are happy to share that the final paper has been accepted now. Please have a look on plenty of EEG data on valence and expectancy in reward learning! [March 2025]

Together with an international team of researchers, Tino Endres, Lisa Bender and Dwayne Lieck developed a translingual scale on mental effort and load (MEL-TS) for research in self-regulated learning contexts. The scale was translated and tested in different languages. Check out the paper here! [January 2025]

New paper by Lisa Bender, Laura Hotz and Alexander Renkl on what teachers know and belief about dyscalculia. [December 2024]

Sophie Nolden published a new EEG paper in Psychophysiology as senior author. We are happy to share our new results on prediction error and episodic memory! [December 2024]