News 2026

Our first speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the summer semester 2026 is Prof. Dr. Ines Bramao from the Lund University, Sweden
 

• Time: April 23rd, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
• Location: Room Lecture Hall 40, Department of Psychology, Fliednerstraße 21, MasterClass directly afterwards

We congratulate Dr. Falko Mecklenbrauck on successfully defending his thesis "Still Dwelling in the Rich Club? - The Role of Structural Hubs and Cortical Chronoarchitecture in the Processing of Hierarchically Nested Stimuli" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof.'in Dr. Ricarda Schubotz, Prof. Dr. Joachim Groß and Prof. Dr. Moritz Wurm.

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.

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. 

 

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.

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