Dr. Stephanie Theves
Main Focus
- Cognitive maps for concept learning: How do we extract commonalities and mark distinctions across experiences to build organised knowledge? How is conceptual knowledge represented in the brain to be used flexibly, i.e. to infer never experienced relations and to understand new matters?
- What are the neural processing mechanisms critical to successful problem-solving?
Selected publications
Theves, S.; Fernández, G.; Doeller, C. F.: The hippocampus encodes distances in multidimensional feature space. Current Biology 29 (7), S. 1226 - 1231.e3 (2019)
Theves, S.; Fernández, G.; Doeller, C. F.: The hippocampus maps concept space, not feature space. The Journal of Neuroscience 40 (38), S. 7318 - 7325 (2020)
Theves, S.; Neville, D. A.; Fernández, G.; Doeller, C. F.: Learning and representation of hierarchical concepts in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience 41 (36), S. 7675 - 7686 (2021)
Curriculum Vitae
Career
since 2022
Research Group Leader
Minerva Fast Track Group Neural Codes of Intelligence
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany
Faculty, International Max Planck Research School COMP2PSYCH
Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
Faculty, International Max Planck Research School CoNI
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
2019-2022
Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany
2015-2019
PhD candidate
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior
Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Education
M.Sc. in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
B.Sc. in Psychology, Innsbruck University, Austria
Awards
2021 Minerva Fast Track Fellowship awarded by the Max Planck Society
2021 Otto Hahn medal of the Max Planck Society