Publications

PhD Dissertations:

Gumbsch, C. (2024). Learning event-based temporal abstractions for hierarchical prediction and planning (Doctoral dissertation, [Universität Tübingen]).

Kollakowski, N.-A. (2024). The implicit self in infancy: When, how, and why? [Doctoral dissertation, LMU München, Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN)]. https://doi.org/10.5282/edoc.34045

Langer, C. (2024). Information integration in embodied systems [Doctoral dissertation, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg]. https://doi.org/10.15480/882.13079

Möller, T. J. (2024). Bridging minds and machines: A unified approach to understanding self-disorders through computational psychiatry, neuroscience, and robotics (Doctoral dissertation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Jahanian Najafabadi, A. (2023). Extending the body in augmented reality: Behavioral and neural correlates of body schema plasticity during virtual tool-use in young and old adults [Doctoral dissertation, Constructor University Bremen].

Grewe, C. M. (2023). An extended 3D morphable face model with applications in experimental psychology [Doctoral dissertation, Technische Universität Berlin].

Liesner, M. (2022). I control it, but does it mean it is part of me? How the relationship between body movements and controlled object movements influences the sense of agency and the sense of ownership [Doctoral dissertation, University of Würzburg].

Tekülve, J. (2021). A neural process model of intentionality implemented on an autonomous robot [Doctoral dissertation, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ruhr-University Bochum].

Habilitations:

Kaltwasser, L. (2025). Me & I: Conceptual and empirical perspectives on the self and emotion in social context [Habilitation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin].

Eppe, M. (2024). Computational and cognitive mechanisms of intelligent behavior [Habilitation, Data Science Foundations Institute, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)].

Bekrater-Bodmann, R. (2022). Body plasticity in limb amputees: Implications for the treatment of phantom limb pain [Habilitation, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg].

Johannsen, L. (2021). Haptic interactions that alter the control of body balance: From single and paired individuals to human-robot interactions [Habilitation, RWTH Aachen University].

2025

Bekrater-Bodmann, R. (2025). The German adaptation of the Amputee Body Image Scale and the importance of psychosocial adjustment to prosthesis use. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 6204. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-90737-2

Diers, M., Schredl, M., Flor, H., & Bekrater-Bodmann, R. (2025). Body representation in dreams of congenital and early-life amputees. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 9919. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83000-7

Günter C, Heimburger N, Franklin DW, and Leib, R (2025) Grip and manipulation forces are controlled independently in a coupled bimanual task. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. 22:56. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-025-01600-4

Heidersberger, J., Kaiser, J., Jadav, S., Mihić Zidar, L., Curioni, A., Johannsen, L., & Lee, D. (2025). Partner familiarity enhances performance in a manual precision task. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 23381. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-03341-9

Heinrich, N. W., von Engelhardt, R., Österdiekhoff, A., Kopp, S., & Russwinkel, N. (2025). Towards a Bayesian Cognitive Model of Self-Belief Updating. Proceedings of International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2025).

Jahanian Najafabadi, A., Botev, J., Sun, N., & Kroger, C. (2025, March). Virtual Tool Embodiment in Simulated Gravity Conditions. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on IMmersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (pp. 65-71). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3712677.3720468

Jahanian-Najafabadi, A., Küster, D., Putze, F., & Godde, B. (2025). Task Load Affects Tool Embodiment During Virtual Tool-use Training with Visual and Visuo-tactile Modalities in Healthy Aging. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 6, 1637212. https://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2025.1637212

Kadambi, A., Laukaityte, U., Skolits, W., Deane, G. & Kaltwasser, L. (in print). The Self as a Multilevel System. In F. De Brigard & W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Eds.), Neuroscience and Philosophy (Vol. 2). MIT Press.

Kollakowski, N. A., Pletti, C., & Paulus, M. (2025). Maternal Interaction Relates to Neural Processing of Self‐Related Multisensory Information in 5‐Month‐Olds. Developmental Science, 28(3), e70009. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70009

Maselli, A., Musculus, L.1,3,5, Moretti, R., Avella, A., Raab, M., & Pezzulo, G. (2025). Whole-body coarticulation reflects expertise in sport climbing. Journal of Neurophysiology, 133(4), 1016–1033. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00341.2024

Musculus, L., Ruggeri, A., Juppen, L., & Raab, M. (2025). Theory-driven development of an embodied-planning paradigm: Integrating methods for advancing theory. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 14(1), 214–230. https://doi.org/10.1037/spy0000356

Schulleri, K. H., Lee, D., & Johannsen, L. (2025). The balance stabilising benefit of social touch: Influence of an individual’s age and the partner’s relative body characteristics. PLOS ONE, 20(6), e0314946. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314946

Spisak, J., Benad, J., Heidersberger, J., Verschoor, S., Lanillos, P., Lee, D., Eppe, M., Wermter, S., Hoffmann, M., Popescu, S. T. (2025, September). Computational models of the emergence of self-exploration in 2-month-old infants. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Tünte, M., Hoehl, S., Wunderwald, M., Bullinger, J., Boyadziheva, A., Maister, L., Elsner, B., Tsakiris, M., Kayhan, E. (2025) Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life, eLife, 12, RP91579. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.91579.4

Vanoncini, M., Kayhan, E., Elsner, B., Wunderwald, M., Wallot, S., Hoehl, S. and Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2025), Individual Differences in Infants’ Speech Segmentation Performance: The Role of Mother-Infant Cardiac Synchrony. Infancy, 30, e70020. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70020

Yan, Y., Li, C., & Lee, D. (2025, September). Personalized Motion Retargeting through Bidirectional Human-Robot Imitation. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

2024

Abalakin, N., Heinrich, N. W., Ōsterdiekhoff, A., Kopp, S., & Russwinkel, N. (2024). Allocation of Fixational Eye Movements in Response to Uncertainty in Dynamic Environments. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1173z7tg

Allgeuer, P., Ali, H., & Wermter, S. (2024, September). When Robots Get Chatty: Grounding Multimodal Human-Robot Conversation and Collaboration. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (pp. 306–321). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72341-4_21

Bekrater-Bodmann, R., Kehl, I., Giordano, A., & Franchignoni, F. (2024). Rasch validation of the German version of the Prosthesis Embodiment Scale for lower limb amputees and proposal of a revised version. Disability and Rehabilitation, 46(7), 1400-1407. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2023.2199220

Cabbai, G., Kühnapfel, C., Fingerhut, J., Kaltwasser, L., Prinz, J. J., & Pelowski, M. (2024). Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2dkfx

Coons, J. I., Langer, C., & Ruddy, M. (2024). Classical iterative proportional scaling of log-linear models with rational maximum likelihood estimator. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 164, 109043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2023.109043

Falahi, P., Jahanian Najafabadi, A., Kazemi, R., & Hatami, J. (2024, October 3). Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the right temporoparietal junction and left angular gyrus does not alter sense of joint agency in musical rhythmic coordination task: A pilot study [Preprint]. OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7u6zt

Guendelmann, S., Kaltwasser, L., Gallese, V., & Dziobek, I. (2024). Brain mechanisms underlying the modulation of heart rate variability when accepting and reappraising emotions. Scientific Reports, 14, 18756. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68352-4

Günter, C., Figueredo, L., Hermsdörfer, J., & Franklin, D. W. (2024, November). Passer Kinematic Cues for Object Weight Prediction in a Simulated Robot-Human Handover. In 2024 IEEE-RAS 23rd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (pp. 173-180). IEEE.

Heinrich, N. W., Österdiekhoff, A., Kopp, S., & Russwinkel, N. (2024). Developing and Evaluating a Computational Cognitive Model of Sensorimotor Grounded Action Selection Based on Eye-movement Behavior. In Proceedings of International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2024). https://www.frankritter.com/papers/ICCM2024Proceedings.pdf

Heinrich, N. W., Ōsterdiekhoff, A., Kopp, S., & Russwinkel, N. (2024). Goal-directed Allocation of Gaze Reflects Situated Action Control in Dynamic Tasks. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xb381cm
Langer, C., Ay, N.; Outsourcing Control Requires Control Complexity. Artif Life 2024; 30 (4): 486–507.

Langer, C., Georgie, Y. K., Porohovoj, I., Hafner, V. V., & Ay, N. (2025, September). Analyzing Multimodal Integration in the Variational Autoencoder from an Information-Theoretic Perspective. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Leib, R., Howard, I. S., Millard, M., & Franklin, D. W. (2024). Behavioral motor performance. Comprehensive Physiology, 14(1), 5179-5224. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphy.c220032

Mittenbühler, M., Schwöbel, S., Dignath, D., Kiebel, S., & Butz, M. V. (2024). A Rational Trade-Off Between the Costs and Benefits of Automatic and Controlled Processing. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46).

Möller, T. J., Wunderwald, M., & Tünte, M. (2024). Real-time ecg analysis with the ardmob-ecg: A comparative assessment. In A. Ahmed & J. Picone (Eds.), Machine learning applications in medicine and biology (pp. 151-166). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0 31-51893-5_6

Mylius, M., Guendelman, S., Iliopolous, F., Gallese, V., & Kaltwasser, L. (2024). Meditation expertise influences response bias and prestimulus alpha activity in the somatosensory signal detection task. Psychophysiology, e14712. http://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14712

Nikolovska, K., Pohl, J., Hommel, B., Kappas, A., & Maurelli, F. (2024, August). The Impact of Social Inter-Robot Encounters on User Perception. In 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN) (pp. 238-243). IEEE.

Nikolovska, K., Pohl, J., Hommel, B., Kappas, A., & Maurelli, F. (2024). User Perception of Robot Behavior as a Function of Previous Experience with Robots. In 2024 16th International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.

Ö Österdiekhoff, A., Heinrich, N. W., Rußwinkel, N., & Kopp, S. (2024, July). Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Hierarchical Control for Dynamic Uncertain Environments. In K. Arai (ed), Intelligent Systems Conference (pp. 626-642). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org./10.1007/978-3-031-66428-1_39

Ōsterdiekhoff, A., Heinrich, N. W., Russwinkel, N., & Kopp, S. (2024). Sense of Control in Dynamic Multitasking and its Impact on Voluntary Task-Switching Behavior. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/43g8p1s3

Rashich, K., Georgie, Y. K., & Hafner, V. V. (2024, November). Human-Like Movement Measures for a Humanoid Robot. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (pp. 438-440). https://doi.org/10.1145/3687272.3690909

Spisak, J., Kerzel, M., & Wermter, S. (2024, June). Robotic Imitation of Human Actions. In IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning. 10.1109/ICDL61372.2024.10644215

Steinmassl, K., & Paulus, M. (2024). Malleability of the sense of bodily self in early childhood: 5-and 6-year-old children show the enfacement illusion. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 246, 105990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105990

Theuer, J. K., Koch, N. N., Gumbsch, C., Elsner, B., & Butz, M. V. (2024). Modeling the Emergent Development of Inference-based Goal Anticipation in Infants. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46).

Theuer, J. K., Koch, N. N., Gumbsch, C., Elsner, B., & Butz, M. V. (2024). Infants infer and predict coherent event interactions: Modeling cognitive development. Plos one, 19(10), e0312532. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312532

Vanoncini, M., Hoehl, S., Elsner, B., Wallot, S., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Kayhan, E. (2024). Mother-infant social gaze dynamics relate to infant brain activity and word segmentation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 65, 101331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101331

2023

Grewe, C. M., Liu, T., Hildebrandt, A., & Zachow, S. (2023). The open virtual mirror framework for enfacement illusions: Enhancing the sense of agency with avatars that imitate facial expressions. Behavior research methods, 55(2), 867-882. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01761-9

Heinrich, N. W., Österdiekhoff, A., Kopp, S., & Russwinkel, N. (2023). A Straightforward Implementation of Sensorimotor Abstraction in a Two-Layer Architecture for Dynamic Decision-Making. In Proceedings of International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2023). https://www.frankritter.com/papers/ICCM2023Proceedings.pdf

Jahanian Najafabadi, A. J., Küster, D., Putze, F., & Godde, B. (2023). Emergence of sense of body ownership but not agency during virtual tool-use training is associated with an altered body schema. Experimental Brain Research, 241(7), 1721-1738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06644-3

Jahanian Najafabadi, A., Küster, D., Putze, F., & Godde, B. (2023). Tool-use training in augmented reality: plasticity of forearm body schema does not predict sense of ownership or agency in older adults. Experimental Brain Research, 241(7), 1739-1756. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06645-2

Kerzel, M., Allgeuer, P., Strahl, E., Frick, N., Habekost, J.-G., Eppe, M., & Wermter, S. (2023). NICOL: A Neuro-Inspired Collaborative Semi-Humanoid Robot That Bridges Social Interaction and Reliable Manipulation. IEEE Access, 11, 123531–123542. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3329370

Kollakowski, N.-A, Mammen, M., Paulus, M. (2023). What is the implicit self in infancy? A classification and evaluation of current theories on the early self. Cognitive Development, 68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101394

Liu, Y., Leib, R., & Franklin, D. W. (2023). Follow the force: Haptic communication enhances coordination in physical human-robot interaction when humans are followers. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(10), 6459-6466. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2023.3307006.

Michel, Y., Schulleri, K. H., Johannsen, L., Lee, D. (2023). Coordination tending towards an anti-phase relationship determines greater sway reduction during entrainment with a simulated partner. Human Movement Science 89. 103090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2023.103090

Möller, T., Georgie, Y., Voss, M., & Kaltwasser, L. (2022, December). An Arduino based heartbeat detection device (ArdMob-ECG) for real-time ECG analysis. In 2022 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB) (pp. 1-3). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SPMB55497.2022.10014819

Österdiekhoff, A., Heinrich, N., Russwinkel, N., & Kopp, S. (2023). Towards an hierarchical model-based reinforcement learning approach to dynamic decision-making in uncertain environment. 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, February 22-24, 2023.

Spisak, J., Kerzel, M., & Wermter, S. (2023, September). Clarifying the Half Full or Half Empty Question: Multimodal Container Classification. In International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (pp. 444-456). Springer Nature Switzerland.

2022

Aerdker, S., Feng, J., & Schöner, G. (2022). Habituation and Dishabituation in Motor Behavior: Experiment and Neural Dynamic Model. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 717669. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.717669

Bekrater-Bodmann, R. (2022). Mind over matter: perceived phantom/prosthesis co-location contributes to prosthesis embodiment in lower limb amputees. Consciousness and Cognition, 98, 103268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103268

Butz, M. V. (2022). Resourceful event-predictive inference: The nature of cognitive effort. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 867328 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.867328

Diers, M., Krumm, B., Fuchs, X., Bekrater-Bodmann, R., Milde, C., Trojan, J., Foell, J., Becker, S., Rümenapf, G., & Flor, H. (2022). The prevalence and characteristics of phantom limb pain and non-painful phantom phenomena in a nationwide survey of 3,374 unilateral limb amputees. Journal of Pain, 23(3), 411-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2021.09.003

Gumbsch, C., Adam, M., Elsner, B., Martius, G., & Butz, M.V. (2022). Developing hierarchical anticipations via neural network-based event segmentation. In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2022) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL53763.2022.9962224

Hafner, V., Hommel, B., Kayhan, E, Lee, D., Paulus, M., & Verschoor, S. (2022). Editorial: The Mechanisms Underlying the Human Minimal Self. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 961480. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.961480

Kahl, S., Wiese, S., Russwinkel, N., & Kopp, S. (2022). Towards autonomous artificial agents with an active self: modeling sense of control in situated action. Cognitive Systems Research, 72, 50-62. https_//doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2021.11.005

van Oostrum, J., Müller, J., & Ay, N. (2023). Invariance properties of the natural gradient in overparametrised systems. Information geometry, 6(1), 51-67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41884-022-00067-9

Schulleri, K. H., Johannsen, L., Michel, Y., & Lee, D. (2022). Sex differences in the association of postural control with indirect measures of body representations. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 4556. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07738-8

Vanoncini, M., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Elsner, B., Hoehl, S., & Kayhan, E. (2022). The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 69, 101772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101772.

2021

Adam, M., Gumbsch, C., Butz, V.M., & Elsner, B. (2021). The impact of action effects on infants’ predictive gaze shifts for a non-human grasping action at 7-, 11-, and 18 months. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 695550. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.695550

Ay, N. (2021). Confounding ghost channels and causality: A new approach to causal information flows. Vietnam journal of mathematics, 49(2), 547-576. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10013-021-00511-w

Bekrater-Bodmann, R. (2021). Factors associated with prosthesis embodiment and its importance for prosthetic satisfaction in lower limb amputees. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 14, 604376. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2020.604376

Bekrater-Bodmann, R., Reinhard, I., Diers, M., Fuchs, X., & Flor, H. (2021). Relationship of prosthesis ownership and phantom limb pain: results of a survey in 2383 limb amputees. Pain, 162(2), 630-640. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002063

Bliek, A., Bekrater-Bodmann, R., & Beckerle, P. (2021). Cognitive models of limb embodiment in structurally varying bodies: A theoretical perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 716976. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.716976

Boyadzhieva, A., & Kayhan, E. (2021). Keeping the Breath in Mind: Respiration, Neural Oscillations, and the Free Energy Principle. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 647579. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.647579

Ciria, A., Schillaci, G., Pezzulo, G., Hafner, V.V. & Lara, B. (2021). Predictive Processing in Cognitive Robotics: a Review. Neural Computation, 33(5), 1402–1432. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2101.06611

Elsner, B., & Adam, M. (2021). Infants’ goal prediction for simple action events: The role of experience and agency cues. Topics in Cognitive Science, 13, 45–62. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12494

Eppe, M., Hafner, V.V., Nagai, Y., Wermter, S. (Eds.) (2021). Editorial. Special Issue on Developmental Robotics. KI – Künstliche Intelligenz. German Journal of Artificial Intelligenc, 35(1). https://www.springerprofessional.de/ki-kuenstliche-intelligenz-1-2021/19012622

Fritsch, A., Lenggenhager, B., & Bekrater-Bodmann, R. (2021). Prosthesis embodiment and attenuation of prosthetic touch in upper limb amputees–A proof-of-concept study. Consciousness and Cognition, 88, 103073. doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.103073

Forch, V., & Hamker, F. H. (2021). Building and Understanding the Minimal Self. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 716982. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.716982

Godde, B., Küster, D., Putze, F., & Jahanian Najafabadi, A. (2021, March). Learning-induced changes in cortical resting-state and task-related EEG during and after virtual tool-use training [Conference presentation abstract]. In Proceedings of the 63rd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Ulm, Germany.

Grewe, C. M., Liu, T., Kahl, C., Hildebrandt, A., & Zachow, S. (2021). Statistical learning of facial expressions improves realism of animated avatar faces. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2, 619811. https://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2021.619811

Gumbsch, C., Adam, M., Elsner, B., & Butz, M.V. (2021). Emergent goal-anticipatory gaze in infants via event-predictive learning and inference. Cognitive Science, 45, e13016. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13016

Hessfeld, V., Schulleri, K. H., & Lee, D. (2021, November). Assessment of balance instability by wearable sensor systems during postural transitions. In 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) (pp. 4755-7459). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/embc46164.2021.9631072

Jahanian Najafabadi, A., Küster, D., Putze, F., Godde, B. (2021). Tool-use Training in Augmented Reality: Effects on tactile localization of tactile stimuli on the fingers and associated cortical processing as revealed with EEG [Conference presentation abstract]. In Proceedings of the 63rd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Ulm, Germany.

Kehl, I., & Bekrater-Bodmann, R. (2021). Prothesenverkörperung und Phantomschmerz. Orthopädie Technik, 72(5), 44-48.

Langer, C., & Ay, N. (2021). How morphological computation shapes integrated information in embodied agents. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 716433. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.716433

Ma, K., Qu, J., Yang, L., Zhao, W., & Hommel, B. (2021). Explicit and implicit measures of body ownership and agency: affected by the same manipulations and yet independent. Experimental Brain Research, 239(7), 2159-2170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06125-5

Möller, T. J., Georgie, Y. K., Schillaci, G., Voss, M., Hafner, V. V., & Kaltwasser, L. (2021). Computational models of the “active self” and its disturbances in schizophrenia. Consciousness and Cognition, 93, 103155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103155

Musculus, L., Ruggeri, A., & Raab, M. (2021). Movement matters! Understanding the developmental trajectory of embodied planning. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 957. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633100

Musculus, L., Tünte, M. R., Raab, M., & Kayhan, E. (2021). An embodied cognition perspective on the role of interoception in the development of the minimal self. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 716950. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.716950

Nguyen, P. D., Georgie, Y. K., Kayhan, E., Eppe, M., Hafner, V. V., & Wermter, S. (2021). Sensorimotor representation learning for an “active self” in robots: a model survey. KI-Künstliche Intelligenz, 35(1), 9-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-021-00703-z

Saetta, G., Ho, J. T., Bekrater-Bodmann, R., Brugger, P., Dijkerman, C. H., & Lenggenhager, B. (2021). Limb apparent motion perception: Modification by tDCS, and clinically or experimentally altered bodily states. Neuropsychologia, 162, 108032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108032

Tannert, I., Schulleri, K. H., Michel, Y., Villa, S., Johannsen, L., Hermsdörfer, J., & Lee, D. (2021, November). Immediate effects of vibrotactile biofeedback instructions on human postural control. In 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) (pp. 7426-7432). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630992

2020

Adam, M., & Elsner, B. (2020). The impact of salient action effects on 6-, 7-, and 11-month-olds’ goal-predictive gaze shifts for a human grasping action. PLoS ONE, 15(10), e0240165. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240165

Ay, N. (2023). On the locality of the natural gradient for learning in deep Bayesian networks. Information Geometry, 6(1), 1-49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41884-020-00038-y

Ay, N., Polani, D., & Virgo, N. (2019). Information decomposition based on cooperative game theory [Preprint]. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1910.05979

Bekrater-Bodmann, R. (2020). Perceptual correlates of successful body–prosthesis interaction in lower limb amputees: psychometric characterisation and development of the Prosthesis Embodiment Scale. Scientific reports, 10(1), 14203. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70828-y

Bekrater-Bodmann, R., Azevedo, R. T., Ainley, V., & Tsakiris, M. (2020). Interoceptive awareness is negatively related to the exteroceptive manipulation of bodily self-location. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 562016. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.562016

Bekrater-Bodmann, R., Reinhard, I., Diers, M., Fuchs, X., & Flor, H. (2021). Relationship of prosthesis ownership and phantom limb pain: results of a survey in 2383 limb amputees. Pain, 162(2), 630-640. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002063

Elsner, B., & Adam, M. (2021). Infants’ goal prediction for simple action events: The role of experience and agency cues. Topics in Cognitive Science, 13(1), 45-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12494

Hafner, V. V., Loviken, P., Pico Villalpando, A., & Schillaci, G. (2020). Prerequisites for an artificial self. Frontiers in neurorobotics, 14, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2020.00005

Jahanian Najafabadi, A., Küster, D., Putze, F., Hunter, M., & Godde, B. (2020, July). Tool-use training in augmented reality: Changes on forearm body schema and somatosensory representation [Conference presentation]. FENS Forum of Neuroscience Conference, Glasgow/Virtual, Scotland.

Kerzel, M., Abawi, F., Eppe, M., & Wermter, S. (2020). Enhancing a neurocognitive shared visuomotor model for object identification, localization, and grasping with learning from auxiliary tasks. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 14(4), 1331-1343. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCDS.2020.3028460

Küster, D., & Swiderska, A. (2021). Seeing the mind of robots: Harm augments mind perception but benevolent intentions reduce dehumanisation of artificial entities in visual vignettes. International Journal of Psychology, 56(3), 454-465. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12715

Küster, D., Swiderska, A., & Gunkel, D. (2021). I saw it on YouTube! How online videos shape perceptions of mind, morality, and fears about robots. new media & society, 23(11), 3312-3331. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820954199

Langer, C., & Ay, N. (2020). Complexity as Causal Information Integration. Entropy, 22(10), 1107. https://doi.org/10.3390/e22101107

Liesner, M., Kirsch, W., & Kunde, W. (2020). The interplay of predictive and postdictive components of experienced selfhood. Consciousness and Cognition, 77, 102850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2019.102850

Liesner, M., Kirsch, W., Pfister, R., & Kunde, W. (2020). Spatial action–effect binding depends on type of action–effect transformation. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 2531-2543. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02013-2

Putze, S., Alexandrovsky, D., Putze, F., Höffner, S., Smeddinck, J. D., & Malaka, R. (2020). Breaking The Experience: Effects of Questionnaires in VR User Studies. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-15). https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376144

Putze, F., Küster, D., Urban, T., Zastrow, A., & Kampen, M. (2020, October). Attention Sensing through Multimodal User Modeling in an Augmented Reality Guessing Game. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 33-40). https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3418865

Röder, F., Eppe, M., Nguyen, P. D., & Wermter, S. (2020, September). Curious hierarchical actor-critic reinforcement learning. In International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (pp. 408-419). Springer International Publishing.

Seiler, J., Schäfer, N., Latsch, B., Chadda, R., Hessinger, M., Beckerle, P., & Kupnik, M. (2020). Wearable Vibrotactile Interface Using Phantom Tactile Sensation for Human-Robot Interaction. In I. Nisky, J. Hartcher-O’Brien, M. Wiertlewski, J. Smeets (Eds.), Haptics: Science, Technology, Applications. EuroHaptics 2020 (pp. 380-388). Springer.

Tekülve, J., & Schöner, G. (2020). A neural dynamic network drives an intentional agent that autonomously learns beliefs in continuous time. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 14(1), 90-101. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCDS.2020.3013768

Zhang, X., Hommel, B., & Ma, K. (2021). Enfacing a female reduces the gender–science stereotype in males. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(4), 1729-1736. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02241-0

2019

Eppe, M., Nguyen, P. D., & Wermter, S. (2019). From semantics to execution: Integrating action planning with reinforcement learning for robotic causal problem-solving. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 6, 123. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2019.00123

Georgie, Y. K., Schillaci, G., & Hafner, V. V. (2019, August). An interdisciplinary overview of developmental indices and behavioral measures of the minimal self. In 2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) (pp. 129-136). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/DEVLRN.2019.8850703

Rothgangel, A., & Bekrater-Bodmann, R. (2019). Mirror therapy versus augmented/virtual reality applications: towards a tailored mechanism-based treatment for phantom limb pain. Pain Management, 9(2), 151-159. https://doi.org/10.2217/pmt-2018-0066

Schmid, K., Vitay, J., & Hamker, F. H. (2019). Forward models in the cerebellum using reservoirs and perturbation learning. In 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. Berlin, Germany: Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.

Associated Projects Publications

Böffel, C., & Müsseler, J. (2020). Taking time to take perspective? Rapidly changing reference frames in the avatar-Simon task. Acta Psychologica, 204, 103005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103005

Böffel, C., & Müsseler, J. (2019). Action effect consistency and body ownership in the avatar-Simon task. PLoS One, 14(8), e0220817. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220817

Schillaci, G., Ciria, A., & Lara, B. (2020, October). Tracking emotions: intrinsic motivation grounded on multi-level prediction error dynamics. In 2020 Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) (pp. 1-8). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL-EpiRob48136.2020.9278106

von Salm-Hoogstaeten, S., Bolzius, K., Müssler, J. (2020). Seeing the world through the eyes of an avatar? Comparing perspective taking and referential coding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perspective and Performance, 46(3), 264-273. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000711