Maria Rosa Miccoli started her Ph.D. with the iscience group in 2020 and has been a valued member of the team ever since. We are therefore incredibly proud to call her Dr. Miccoli as of July 2025!
When she finished the final presentation of her thesis entitled “Investigating time as a behavioral resource via Internet-based research”, she was greeted with a hat that was still not tall enough to hold all her research ideas.
We wish Dr. Miccoli all the best for her future endeavors and a great start into her advanced scientific career!💪🏾
At the kick-off of this semester’s research colloquium (FoKo), the iscience team was happy to welcome esteemed speakers Dietmar Saupe (Prof. emeritus from University of Konstanz) and Lilly Roth (Ph.D. candidate from University of Tuebingen – co-supervised by Prof. Reips).
Lilly Roth during her talk, Dietmar Saupe on the right
Prof. Saupe gave a thought-provoking talk on computational models of how humans use Likert scales to rate visual objects (e.g. images or videos) and how the information from this type of scale might optimally be used. 💪🏾 He introduced an innovative model to show the information that could otherwise get lost between the lines – of whole numbers, that is. 📊
After that, Lilly Roth showed new data from an ongoing experiment investigating the SNARC effect, denominating the spatial-numerical association of response codes between the left and right. The SNARC effect occurs as humans typically respond to small numbers faster when they need to respond with their left and vice versa with large numbers on the right. However, it is not clear whether this effect is truely continuous (i.e. the larger the more right) or whether it may be more categorical depending on the task (i.e. humans have a subjective boundary between small and large numbers). 🤔 The paper was published in a registered report, now data collection is ongoing. Stay tuned! ✨
We greatly appreciate our speakers as well as everyone who joined the (post-)colloquium in person and online! 🍾
It is no secret that the Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in Psychology (SCiP) and the Psychonomic Society as well as Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) are conference highlights for the iscience team. This year, they were held in the heart of New York City and we were proud to present our current research in the form of several presentations as well as posters. 📊
The team got to (re)connect with fellow researchers from the field and find new opportunities for future collaborations. We enjoyed hearing about the cutting edge of current developments immensly and were impressed by many of the presented works.
This New York style conference lunch was attended by (from left) head of the iscience team Ulf-Dietrich Reips, G*Power creator and Wilhelm-Wundt medal winner Edgar Erdfelder, Maria Rosa Miccoli, Yury Shevchenko, Annika Tave Overlander (three members of isceince), Christopher R. Wolfe, SCiP Organizer Erin Buchanan and SCiP Keynote speaker James Pennebaker. We look forward to the next time!🧠
The semester is coming to an end and just in time for the lecture-free summer, the iScience group got to welcome Alvaro Chacon as a visiting researcher from Chile. Alvaro studies algorithm aversion and held an inspiring talk at the research colloquium of the group (“FoKo”).
Everyone at the talk felt hungry for more learning and good scientific conversations, so we continued with a post-FoKo at L’Osteria in Konstanz! 🍕 Gracias, Alvaro, for staying with us this week and inspiring the group with new ideas on algorithms and continuing to learn.
