Publications

Complete list of research publications

Verra, L., Spitzer, B., Schuck, N. W., & Zika, O. (2025). Increased Generalisation In Trait Anxiety Is Driven By Aversive Value Transfer Not Reduced Perceptual Discrimination. PsyArXiv (preprint under reveiw).

Graham, T. A., & Spitzer, B. (2025). Asymmetric learning and adaptability to changes in relational structure during transitive inference. Communications Psychology (accepted). ★ Highlighted

McClary T, Ciranka S., Buchberger E.S., Spitzer, B., Lindenberger U., Ngo, Chi, Werkle-Bergner,M. (2025). Generalization from early to middle childhood. PsyArXiv (preprint).

Born, F., & Spitzer, B. (2025). Long-term effects of working memory retrieval from prioritized and deprioritized states. BioRxiv (preprint under review). ★ Highlighted

Muttenthaler, L., Greff, K., Born, F., Spitzer, B., Kornblith, S., Mozer, MC., Müller, K-R., Unterthiner, T., Lampinen, AK. (2024). Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels. arXiv (preprint).

Linde-Domingo, J., & Spitzer, B. (2024). Geometry of visuospatial working memory information in miniature gaze patterns. Nature Human Behaviour. ★ Highlighted

Clarmann von Clarenau, V., Appelhoff, S., & Spitzer, B. (2024). Over- and underweighting of extreme values in decisions from sequential samples. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Kerrén, C., Linde-Domingo, J., & Spitzer, B. (2023). Prioritization of semantic over visuo-perceptual aspects in multi-item working memory. BioRxiv (preprint).

Appelhoff, S., Hertwig, R., & Spitzer, B. (2023). Control over sampling boosts numerical evidence processing in human decisions from experience. Cerebral Cortex.

Ciranka, S., Linde-Domingo, J., Padezhki, I., Wicharz, C., Gutscher, T., Wu, C. M., Spitzer, B., & van den Bos, W. (2022). Asymmetric reinforcement learning facilitates human inference of transitive relations. . Nature Human Behaviour.

Appelhoff, S., Hertwig, R., & Spitzer, B. (2022). EEG-representational geometries and psychometric distortions in approximate numerical judgment. PLoS Computational Biology.

Juechems, K.*, Balaguer, J.*, Spitzer, B.*, & Summerfield, C.* (2021). Optimal utility and probability functions for agents with finite computational precision. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Luyckx, F., Spitzer, B., Blangero, A., Tsetsos K., Summerfield, C. (2020). Selective Integration during Sequential Sampling in Posterior Neural Signals. Cerebral Cortex.

Luyckx, F., Nili, H., Spitzer, B., & Summerfield, C. (2019). Neural structure mapping in human probabilistic reward learning. eLife.

Herding, J., Ludwig, S., von Lautz, A., Spitzer, B., & Blankenburg, F. (2019). Centro-parietal EEG potentials index subjective evidence and difficulty during perceptual decision making. NeuroImage.

Spitzer, B., Waschke, L., & Summerfield, C. (2017). Selective overweighting of larger magnitudes during noisy numerical comparison. Nature Human Behaviour.

Christophel, C., Klink, P.C., Spitzer, B., Roelfsema, P.R., Haynes, J.D. (2017). The distributed nature of working memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.