Main Focus
Head of Research Area Neurocognitive Foundations of Adaptive Rationality
- Decision making
- Working Memory
- Learning
- Numerical cognition
- Neural oscillations
Curriculum Vitae
2020-now Senior Research Scientist at ARC, MPIB Berlin
2018-2019 Research Scientist at ARC, MPIB Berlin
2016-2017 DFG Research Fellow, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
2013-2015 DFG Principal Investigator, Freie Universität Berlin
Selected Publications
Ciranka, S., Linde-Domingo, J., Padezhki, I., Wicharz, C., Wu, CM., Spitzer, B. (2021). Asymmetric learning facilitates human inference of transitive relations. bioRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.03.437766
Juechems, K*., Balaguer, J.*, Spitzer, B.*, Summerfield, C.* (2021). Optimal utility and probability functions for agents with finite computational precision. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(2), e2002232118.
Kang, Z., Spitzer, B. (2021). Concurrent visual working memory bias in sequential integration of approximate number. Scientific Reports, 11, 5348 (2021)Luyckx, F., Nili, H., Spitzer, B.*, Summerfield, C.* (2019). Neural structure mapping in human probabilistic reward learning. eLife e42816 doi: 10.7554/eLife.42816
Spitzer, B., Waschke, L., Summerfield, C. (2017). Selective overweighting of larger magnitudes during noisy numerical comparison. Nature Human Behaviour, 0145 (2017).
Spitzer, B. & Haegens, S. (2017). Beyond the Status Quo: A Role for Beta Oscillations in Endogenous Content (Re-) Activation. eNeuro, 0170-17.2017
Spitzer, B., Blankenburg, F., Summerfield, C. (2016). Rhythmic gain control during supramodal integration of approximate number. Neuroimage, 129, 470-479.
Spitzer, B., Fleck, S., Blankenburg, F. (2014). Parametric alpha- and beta-band signatures of supramodal numerosity information in human working memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 4293-4302.