New opinion paper in European Psychologist
In our new paper, we discuss how episodic memory contributes to cognitive flexibility development during childhood. Congratulations to graduate student Gülce Akin on her first publication!
Our Students Among the Winners at the EMPRA Kongress 2025
We congratulate our students who presented their work under the supervision of Shokouh Shomeil Zadeh Shoushtari in the EMPRA Kongress 2025. Their poster was among the top three presentations.
We shared neuroscience at CityCampus Trier
We participated in CityCampus Trier as part of ICAN! We showcased our research on brain development and invited families to try out our lab games and tasks, allowing them to become neuroscientists for a day.
Goodbye semester - and thank you, Greta!
This summer, we gathered to say farewell to the past semester as well as to our student assistant Greta.
New paper: How Metabolites Relate to Brain Changes in Children
In a recent Journal of Neuroscience highlight, ³¹P-MRS demonstrated that developmental changes in energy and membrane metabolites are associated with structural changes in prefrontal gray matter.
New paper in the Journal of Neuroscience
In a new publication, we tested whether task switching challenges children due to protracted development of how multiple task rules are represented in the brain.
New study published
Schwarze et al., 2025 reveals how different training types uniquely shape cognitive control development in children.
We are in the news
Yana Fandakova spoke to "Die Zeit" about our research on learning and brain plasticity in childhood. Click here for the article:
Kritische Entwicklungsfenster: Die wohl krasseste Transformation des kleinen Menschen | ZEIT ONLINE
New special issue
A newly released special issue in European Psychologist on how changes in memory and experience across the lifespan shape our judgments and decisions. Edited by Yana Fandakova together with Sebastian Horn at the University of Zurich and Yee Lee Shing at Goethe University Frankfurt.