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Stefan Radev is the 6th SMiP PhD Candidate to hand in his dissertation. The cumulative thesis is titled “Deep learning architectures for amortized Bayesian inference in cognitive modeling” and was submitted on 15 March 2021 at the University of Heidelberg. Congratulations, Stefan, and good luck for ...

The SMiP equal opportunities committee happily announces that  the next meeting of the event series “February of failures” will take place on 23 March 2021 (12:30 – 13:30), with Mandy Hütter and Edgar Erdfelder sharing their experiences and discussing „normal“ setbacks in academic careers, and  ...

The RTG SMiP calls for applications for its PhD program starting in October 2021.

Michael von Krause is the 5th SMiP PhD Candidate to hand in his dissertation. The cumulative thesis is titled “Using the diffusion model to study individual differences” and was submitted on 25 February 2021 at the University of Heidelberg. Congratulations, Mischa, and good luck for the disputation ...

The program for the Spring Summer Semester 2021 available online. Registrations are open until 28 February 2021.

Anne Voormann is the fourth PhD Candidate of the Research Training Group SMiP who successfully completed her dissertation project. Her dissertation thesis is titled “Evaluating processes involved in recognition decisions using different model comparison techniques” and the disputation took place on ...

Raphael Hartmann successfully completed his dissertation project. His disputation took place on 18 January 2021. Unfortunately, due to the corona containment measures, visitors were not allowed at the thesis defense. Congratulations, Raphael!!! Raphael Hartmann is now postdoc at the University of ...

On October 23 and 24 the SMiP group met for its fall winter retreat 2020 – this year in a digital environment due to the corona situation. We got to know the newest SMiP cohort, listened to interesting talks by SMiP members and a keynote talk by our external guest, Anna-Lena Schubert (University of ...

On October 14 the new SMiP Cohort 2020 started with the qualification program. It was the first opportunity to meet the fellow PhD Candidates, the SMiP coordinators, the group's post doc, Martin Schnuerch, as well as its speaker, Thorsten Meiser, in person in Mannheim. We are looking forward to ...

Franziska Bott is the second PhD Candidate of the Research Training Group SMiP who successfully completed her dissertation project. Her dissertation thesis is titled “Thesis: New Insights Into Cognitive Processes in Pseudocontingency Inference by Means of Experimental Methods and Statistical ...