News 2026

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PhD for Rosari Naveena Selvan

We congratulate Dr. Rosari Naveena Selvan on successfully defending her thesis "The Predictive Brain in Action: Multimodal Evidence for
Hierarchical Predictive Processing at Action Boundaries" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof.'in Dr. Ricarda Schubotz, Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe and Prof. Dr. Florentin Wörgötter.

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New OCC PhD Student - Larissa Stähler

In our OCC PhD Program we welcome Larissa Stähler. Her PhD project is funded by the Innovative Medical Research (IMF) of the University Hospital Münster. The project is supervised by OCC members Prof. Dr. Thomas Straube, Apl. Prof. Dr. Jens Bölte and Dr. Insa Schloßmacher. 

 

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New OCC PhD Student - Michelle Kuhn

In our OCC PhD Program we welcome Michelle Kuhn. She works in the team at the Institute of Psychology. The project is supervised by OCC members Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe, Prof. Dr. Niko Busch and Dr. Krischan Koerfer. 

 

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PhD for Jana Masselink

We congratulate Dr. Jana Masselink on successfully defending her thesis "The Trinity of Oculomotor Learning: Recalibrating Visual Space, Motor Space, and Internal Movement Predictions" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe, Prof. Dr. Heiko Wagner and Prof.'in Dr. Rebekka Lencer.

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Prof. Dr. Guillaume S Masson

How it looks matters. Motion processing for perception and action

Our next speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the winter semester 2025/26 is Prof. Dr. Guillaume S Masson from the Aix-Marseille University, France
 

  • Time: January 21, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
  • Location: Room 129, Department of Psychology, Fliednerstraße 21, MasterClass directly afterwards