Daniel Janko

M. Sc. Psychologie

Born 1998, Pardubice (Czech Republic) 

  • Since 09/2024: PhD Student, Neuropsychology, IPSY, OVGU Magdeburg (Supervisor: Prof. Ullsperger)

PhD Topic: Updating and Usage of Cognitive Maps Under Uncertainty and Prediction Errors: Interactions Between Error Monitoring Structures and Hippocampal Circuits (Part of the Synage Training Group)

  • 08/2024 M.Sc. Cognitive Science, University of Potsdam, Germany

Thesis: ‘Neural Mechanisms of Arithmetic Learning in Adults’

  • 08/2021 B.Sc. Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Research interests: 

    • Cognitive maps and navigation (physical and conceptual spaces) 
    • Prediction error adaptation 
    • Interaction between PFC and hippocampus/entorhinal cortex 
    • Bayesian statistics
    • Bayesian computational cognitive models
    • fMRI - univariate, MVPA, RSA

Supervision:

  • I am open to supervision of bachelor’s and master’s thesis (in English) on the topics listed above topics. 

Contact:daniel.janko@ovgu.de

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