Hans Kirschner

About Me

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Markus Ullsperger at Otto-von-Guericke-University. My research explores how the brain combines information over multiple timescales to facilitate adaptive, goal-directed behaviour. I investigate this problem in health and disease using a combination of experimental and computational tools.

I enjoy teaching cognitive neuroscience, statistics, and methods. I've taught courses on these topics at undergraduate and graduate level. Moreover, I am regularly invited to teach workshops on advanced EEG single-trial analyses.

Besides research, I am a proud dad and music enthusiast. I studied music on a University of Exeter music scholarship during my time as a PhD student. In my current music project The Monotrones, we are mixing dub and reggae with a sprinkling of spicy bass, finished off with a pinch of punk.

News

• [May 2024] We contributed an article in German to Neuro Aktuell on computational psychiatry and neuro-computational deficits in depression and schizophrenia. Have a read here.

• [Feb. 2024] Die Welt featured our work on inflexible learning dynamics in depression and schizophrenia

Preprints

• Methamphetamine-induced adaptation of learning rate dynamics depend on baseline performance
  Kirschner, H, Molla, H. M.,Nassar, M. R.,de Wit, H., & Ullsperger, M.
  [Preprint]

• Error-driven upregulation of memory representations.
  Weuthen, A., Kirschner, H., & Ullsperger, M.
  [Preprint]

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Cortical β Power Reflects a Neural Implementation of Decision Boundary Collapse in Speeded Decisions
  Kirschner, H., Fischer, A. G., Danielmeier, C.,Klein, T. A., & Ullsperger, M. (2024)
  Journal of Neuroscience
  [PDF] [Code & Data]

• Transdiagnostic inflexible learning dynamics explain deficits in depression and schizophrenia
  Kirschner, H., Nassar, M. R., Fischer, A. G., Frodl, T., Meyer-Lotz, G., Froböse, S., Seidenbecher, S., Klein, T. A., & Ullsperger, M. (2024).
  Brain
  [PDF]

• The medial frontal cortex, performance monitoring, cognitive control, and decision making
  Kirschner, H., & Ullsperger, M. (2024).
  Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Elsevier.
  [PDF]

• Unraveling the influence of trial-based motivational changes on performance monitoring stages in a flanker task.
  Overmeyer, R., Kirschner, H., Fischer, A. G., & Endrass, T. (2023).
  Scientific Reports
  [PDF]

• Feedback-related EEG dynamics separately reflect decision parameters, biases, and future choices.
  Kirschner, H., Fischer, A. G., & Ullsperger, M. (2022).
  Neuroimage
  [PDF] [Code & Data]

• Beyond a blunted ERN - Biobehavioral correlates of performance monitoring in schizophrenia
  Kirschner, H., & Klein, T. A. (2022).
  Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  [PDF]

• Disentangling performance-monitoring signals encoded in feedback-related EEG dynamics.
  Kirsch, F.(+), Kirschner, H.(+), Fischer, A. G., Klein, T. A., & Ullsperger, M. (2022).(+ equal)
  Neuroimage
  [PDF]

• A Biobehavioural Approach to Understand How Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Reduces Dispositional Negative Self-Bias in Recurrent Depression
  Kirschner, H., Kuyken, W., & Karl, A. (2022).
  Mindfulness
  [PDF]

• Neural and behavioral traces of error awareness.
  Kirschner, H., Humann, J., Derrfuss, J., Danielmeier, C., & Ullsperger, M. (2021).
  Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
  [PDF]

• Soothing Your Heart and Feeling Connected: A New Experimental Paradigm to Study the Benefits of Self-Compassion.
  Kirschner, H., Kuyken, W., Wright, K., Roberts, H., Brejcha, C., & Karl, A. (2019). Soothing Your
  Clinical Psychological Science
  [PDF]

• Psychophsyiological reactivity during uncertainty and ambiguity processing in high and low worriers.
  Kirschner, H., Hilbert, K., Hoyer, J., Lueken, U., & Beesdo-Baum, K. (2016).
  Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  [PDF]

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