Mona is super excited to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant looking at how our emotions influence how we represent and use knowledge of the world to guide flexible decisions. We will recruit new PhD students and Postdocs. Please get in touch if you are interested.

We are excited to welcome Rishi Sayanthakumar to the lab as a Research Assistant. 

We are excited to welcome Angela Scarci to the lab as an Intern.

Witkowski PP, Rondot LJH, Kurth-Nelson Z, Garvert MM, Dolan RJ, Behrens TEJ, Boorman E (2025) Neural mechanisms of credit assignment for delayed outcomes during contingent learning eLife 13:RP101841

We are excited to welcome Jana Ludwig to the lab as a PhD student.

Su Z, Garvert MM, Zhang L, Vogel TA, Cutler J, Husain M, Manohar SG, Lockwood PL (2025). Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting  PLoS Biology 23 (4), e3003079 

Garvert MM*, McFadyen J*, Linke S, McCloud T, Meyer SS, Sobanska S, Sharp PB, Long A, Huys QJM*, Ahmadi M (2025). Safety and efficacy of modular digital psychotherapy for social anxiety: randomized controlled trial.. Journal of Medical Internet Research 27: e64138.

Zheng XY, Garvert MM, den Ouden HEM, Horstman LI, Richter D, Cools R (2025) Abstract rule generalization for composing novel meaning recruits a frontoparietal control network. Imaging Neuroscience 3 IMAG.a.963.

Su Z, Garvert MM, Zhang L, Manohar SG, Vogel TA, Thomas L, Balsters J, Husain M, Apps MAJ, Lockwood P (2024). Older adults are more susceptible to impulsive social influence. Commun Psychol 2, 87 (2024).

Nitsch A, Garvert MM, Bellmund JLS, Schuck NW, Doeller CF (2024). Grid-like entorhinal representation of an abstract value space during prospective decision making. Nature Communications 15, 1198

Zheng XY, Hebart MN, Grill F, Dolan RJ, Doeller CF, Cools R, Garvert MM (2024). Parallel cognitive maps for multiple knowledge structures in the hippocampal formation. Cerebral Cortex 34 (2):bhad485

Demircan C, Saanum T, Pettini L, Binz M, Baczkowski BM, Kaanders P, Doeller CF, Garvert MM, Schulz E (2024). Evaluating alignment between humans and neural network representations in image-based learning tasks. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37:122406-122433

I am excited to join the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Würzburg as an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) and look forward to becoming part of Würzburg's thriving research community! 

Moneta N, Garvert MM, Heekeren HR, Schuck NW (2023). Task state representations in vmPFC mediate relevant and irrelevant value signals and their behavioral influence. Nature Communications; 14(1):3156

Garvert MM, Saanum T, Schulz E, Schuck NW, Doeller CF (2023). Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization. Nature Neuroscience;26(4):615-626

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