Journal Articles

1.  Wesolek S, Nierhaus , Ostwald D, Blankenburg F (2026) Somatosensory Evoked BOLD-Signals with Ultra-high Temporal Resolution Human Brain Mapping (in press)

2.  Usée F, Schmidt S, Melzig CA, Ostwald D (2025) Agent-based behavioral modeling of human associative learning in a complex approach-avoidance conflict task PsyArXiv  Data & Code Computational Brain and Behavior 

3. Usée F, Melzig CA, Ostwald D (2024) Use it or lose it: Facilitating the use of interactive data apps in psychological research data sharing Data & Code Europe's Journal of Psychology

4. Lindborg A, Musiolek L, Ostwald D, Rabovsky M (2023) Semantic surprise predicts the N400 brain potential  BioRxiv Data & Code NeuroImage: Reports   

5. Horvath L, Colcombe S, Milham M, Ray S, Schwartenbeck P, Ostwald D (2021) Human belief state-based exploration and exploitation in an information-selective reversal bandit task BioRxiv Data & Code Computational Brain and Behavior

6. Gijsen S, Grundei M, Lange R, Ostwald D, Blankenburg F (2021) Neural surprise in somatosensory Bayesian learning PLoS Computational Biology 

7. Tisdall L, Frey R, Horn A, Ostwald D, Horvath L, Pedroni A, Rieskamp J, Blankenburg F, Hertwig R, Mata R (2020) Brain-behavior associations for risk taking depend on the measures used to capture individual differences Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

8. Krohn S, Froeling M, Leemans A, Ostwald D, Villoslada P, Finke C, Esteban FJ (2019) Evaluation of the 3D fractal dimension as a marker of structural brain complexity in multiple-acquisition MRI Human Brain Mapping 

9. Toelch U, Ostwald D (2018) Digital Open Science – Teaching digital tools for reproducible and transparent researchData & CodePLoS Biology 

10. Starke L, Ostwald D (2017) Variational Bayesian parameter estimation techniques for the general linear modelData & Code Frontiers in Neuroscience 

11. Krohn S, Ostwald D (2017) Computing integrated information Data & Code  Neuroscience of Consciousness 

12. Ostwald D, Starke L (2016) Probabilistic delay differential equation modelling of event-related potentials Data & Code NeuroImage 

13. Mayhew S, Mullinger KJ, Ostwald D, Porcaro C, Bowtell R, Bagshaw AP, Francis ST (2016) Global signal modulation of single-trial fMRI response variability: effect on positive vs. negative BOLD response relationship NeuroImage  

14. Rollings DT, Assecondi S, Ostwald D,  Porcaro C, McCorry D, Bagary M, Soryal I, BagshawAP (2016) Early haemodynamic changes observed in patients with epilepsy, in a visual experiment and in simulations Clinical Neurophysiology 

15. Ostwald D, Starke L, Hertwig R (2015) A normative inference approach for optimal sample sizes in decisions from experience Data &Code Frontiers in Psychology 

16. Assecondi S, Ostwald D, Bagshaw AP (2015) Reliability of information-based integration of EEG and fMRI data: a simulation study Neural Computation 

17. Horn AG, Ostwald D, Reisert M, Blankenburg F (2014) The Structural-Functional Connectome and the Default Network of the Human Brain NeuroImage 

18. Schmidt TT, Ostwald D, Blankenburg F (2014) Imaging tactile imagery: Changes in brain connectivity support perceptual grounding of mental images in primary sensory cortices NeuroImage 

19. Ostwald D, Kirilina E, Starke, Blankenburg F (2014) A tutorial on variational Bayes for latent linear stochastic time-series models Data & Code   Journal of Mathematical Psychology 

20. Herzog SM, Ostwald D (2013) Sometimes Bayesian statistics are better Nature 

21. Mayhew SD, Ostwald D, Porcaro C, Bagshaw AP (2013) Spontaneous EEG alpha oscillation interacts with positive and negative BOLD responses in the visual-auditory cortices and default-mode network NeuroImage  

22. Ostwald D, Spitzer B, Guggenmos B, Schmidt T, Kiebel S, Blankenburg F (2012) Evidence for neural encoding of Bayesian surprise in human somatosensation NeuroImage  

23. Ostwald D, Porcaro C, Mayhew SD, Bagshaw AP (2012) EEG-fMRI based information theoretic characterization of the human perceptual decision system PLoS ONE  

24. Lei X, Ostwald D, Hu J, Qiu C, Porcaro C, Bagshaw AP, Yao D (2011) Multimodal functional network connectivity: an EEG-fMRI fusion in network space PLoS ONE  

25. Ostwald D, Bagshaw AP (2011) Information theoretic approaches to functional neuroimaging Magnetic Resonance Imaging  

26. Porcaro C, Ostwald D, Hadjipapas A, Barnes GA, Bagshaw AP (2011) The relationship between the visual evoked potential and the gamma band investigated by blind and semi-blind methods  NeuroImage  

27. Ostwald D, Porcaro C, Bagshaw AP (2011) Voxel-wise information theoretic EEG-fMRI feature integration NeuroImage

28. Noppeney U, Ostwald D, Werner S (2010) Perceptual decisions formed by accumulation of audiovisual evidence in prefrontal cortex Journal of Neuroscience  

29. Wühle A, Mertiens L, Rüter J, Ostwald D, Braun C (2010) Cortical processing of near-threshold tactile stimuli – an MEG study Psychophysiology  

30. Porcaro C, Ostwald D, BagshawAP (2010) Functional source separation improves the quality of single trial visual evoked potentials recorded during concurrent EEG-fMRI NeuroImage  

31. Ostwald D, Porcaro C, Bagshaw AP (2010) An information theoretic approach to EEG-fMRI integration of visually evoked responses NeuroImage  

32. Ostwald D, Lam J, Li S, Kourtzi Z (2008) Neural codingof global form in the human visual cortex Journal of Neurophysiology 

33. Li S, Ostwald D, Giese M, Kourtzi Z (2007) Flexible coding for categorical decisions in the human brain Journal of Neuroscience  

34. Karpac J, Ostwald D, Bui S, Hunnewell P, Hochgeschwender U (2006) Proopiomelanocortin heterozygous and homozygous null mutant mice develop pituitary adenomas Cellular and Molecular Biology (Noisy-le-grand)  

35. Ostwald D, Karpac J, Hochgeschwender U (2006) Effects on hippocampus of lifelong absence ofglucocorticoids in the proopiomelanocortin null mutant mouse reveal complex relationships between glucocorticoids and hippocampal structure and function Journal of Molecular Neuroscience  

36. Karpac J, Ostwald D, Bui S, Hunnewell P, Shankar M, Hochgeschwender U (2005) Development, maintenance, and function of the adrenal gland in early postnatal proopiomelanocortin-null mutant mice  Endocrinology