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Recent Publications and Preprints
Kuper-Smith BJ, Korn CW (2023) Loss avoidance can increase and decrease cooperation. PDF. Preregistrations: 1, 2, 3, 4, Data & Code.
Frolichs KMM, Rosenblau G, Korn CW (2022) Incorporating social knowledge structures into computational models. Nature Communications. PDF, Preregistration, Data & Code.
Kuper-Smith BJ, Voulgaris A, Briken P, Fuss J, & Korn CW (2022) Social preferences and psychopathy in a sample of male prisoners. PDF, Data & Code.
Flechsenhar A, Kanske P, Krach S, Korn CW, Bertsch K (2022) The (un)Learning of social functions and its significance for mental health. PDF.
Kuper-Smith BJ, Doppelhofer L, Oganian Y, Rosenblau G, Korn CW (2021) Risk perception and optimism bias during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Royal Society Open Science. Link, Preregistration 1, Preregistration 2, Data & Code.
Kuper-Smith BJ, Korn CW (2021) A primer on measuring social preferences with linearly additive decomposed 2x2 games. PDF.
Doppelhofer LM, Hurlemann R, Bach DR, Korn CW (2021) Social motives in a patient with bilateral selective amygdala lesions: Shift in prosocial motivation but not in social value orientation. Neuropsychologia. PDF.
Korn CW, Wolf RC (2021) Negative valence systems in the system of research domain criteria: Empirical results and new developments. Nervenarzt. Link.
Esser R, Korn CW, Ganzer F, Haaker J (2021) L-DOPA modulates activity in the vmPFC, nucleus accumbens and VTA during threat extinction learning in humans. eLife. PDF.
Korn CW, Kerzel M, Redžepović S, Barros P, Heinrich S, Wermter S, Gläscher J (2021) Cross-modal emotion recognition: How similar are patterns between DNNs and human fMRI data? Proceedings of the ICLR2021 Workshop on How Can Findings About The Brain Improve AI Systems? (Brain2AI@ICLR2021). PDF.
Key Publications
Korn CW, Bach DR (2019) Minimizing threat via heuristic and optimal policies recruits hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. Nat Hum Behav 3:733-745. PDF, SOM, News & Views, Behavioral data & code, fMRI data.
Korn CW, Bach DR (2018) Heuristic and optimal policy computations in the human brain during sequential decision-making. Nat Commun 9:1:325. PDF, SOM, Review comments, Behavioral data, fMRI data.
Korn CW, La Rosée L, Heekeren HR, Roepke S (2016) Social feedback processing in borderline personality disorder. Psychol Med 46:3:575-578. Link.
Korn CW, Staib M, Tzovara A, Castegnetti G, Bach DR (2016) A pupil size response model to assess fear learning. Psychophysiology 54:3:330-343. PDF, Data: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Korn CW, Bach DR (2015) Maintaining homeostasis by decision-making. PLoS Comput Biol 11:5:e1004301. PDF, SOM.
Korn CW*, Sharot T*, Walter H, Heekeren HR, Dolan RJ (2014) Depression is related to an absence of optimistically biased belief updating about future life events. Psychol Med 44:579-592. PDF.
Korn CW, Prehn K, Park SQ, Walter H, Heekeren HR (2012) Positively biased processing of self-relevant social feedback. J Neurosci 32:16832-16844. PDF.
Sharot T*, Korn CW*, Dolan RJ (2011) How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality. Nat Neurosci 14:1475-1479. PDF, SOM.
Reviews
Rosenblau G, Frolichs KMM, Korn CW (2023) A neuro-computational social learning framework to facilitate transdiagnostic classification and treatment across psychiatric disorders.
Korn CW, Rosenblau G (2020) How Do Teens and Adults Learn About Other People? Frontiers for Young Minds. PDF.
Bach DR, Castegnetti G, Korn CW, Gerster S, Melinscak F, Moser T (2018) Psychophysiological modelling - current state and future directions. Psychophysiology 55:11:e13214. PDF.
Further Publications
Rosenblau G, Korn CW, Dutton A, Lee D, Pelphrey KA (2020) Neurocognitive mechanisms of social inferences in typical and autistic adolescents. Biol Psychiatry:CCNI 6:8:782-791. Link.
Bach DR, Korn CW, Vunder J, Bantel A (2018) Effect of valproate and pregabalin on human anxiety-like behaviour in a randomised controlled trial. Transl Psychiatry 8:1:157. PDF.
Tzovara A, Korn CW, Bach DR (2018) Human Pavlovian fear conditioning conforms to probabilistic learning. PLoS Comput Biol 14:8:e1006243. PDF, Data: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Jeung H, Walther S, Korn CW, Bertsch K, Herpertz SC (2018) Emotional responses to receiving peer feedback on opinions in borderline personality disorder. Personal Disord 9:6:595-600. Link.
Oganian Y, Heekeren HR, Korn CW (2018) Low foreign language proficiency reduces optimism about the personal future. Q J Exp Psychol 72:1:60-75. Link, Preregistration.
Korn CW, Heekeren HR, Oganian Y (2018) The framing effect in a monetary gambling task is robust in minimally verbal language switching contexts. Q J Exp Psychol 72:1:52-59. Link.
Rosenblau G, Korn CW, Pelphrey KA (2018) A computational account of optimizing social predictions reveals that adolescents are conservative learners in social contexts. J Neurosci 38:4:974-988. Link.
Korn CW, Vunder J, Miró J, Fuentemilla L, Hurlemann R, Bach DR (2017) Amygdala lesions reduce anxiety-like behavior in a human benzodiazepine-sensitive approach-avoidance conflict test. Biol Psychiatry 82:7:522-531. PDF, SOM.
Korn CW, Ries J, Schalk L, Oganian Y, Saalbach H (2017) A hard-to-read font reduces the framing effect in a large sample. Psychonom Bull & Rev 25:2:696-703. Link, Preregistration.
Rusch T, Korn CW, Gläscher J (2017) A two-way street between attention and learning. Neuron 93:2:256-258. Preview on Leong et al. in the same issue. Link.
Korn CW, Bach DR (2016) A solid frame for the window on cognition: Modelling event-related pupil responses. J Vis 16:3:28. PDF.
Korn CW, La Rosée L, Heekeren HR, Roepke S (2016) Processing of information about future life events in borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry Res 30:246:719-724. Link.
Korn CW*, Rosenblau G*, Rodriguez Buritica JM, Heekeren HR (2016) Performance feedback is positively biased as predicted by attribution theory. PLoS One 11:2:e0148581. PDF.
Oganian Y*, Korn CW*, Heekeren HR (2016) Language switching—but not foreign language use per se—reduces the framing effect. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 42:1:140-148. Link.
Prehn K*, Korn CW*, Bajbouj M, Klann-Delius G, Menninghaus W, Jacobs AM, Heekeren HR (2015) The neural correlates of emotion alignment in social interaction. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 10:435-443. Link.
Garrett N*, Sharot T*, Faulkner P, Korn CW, Roiser PR, Dolan RJ (2014) Losing the rose tinted glasses: neural substrates of unbiased belief updating in depression. Frontiers Hum Neurosci 8:639. PDF.
Korn CW, Fan Y, Zhang K, Wang C, Han S, Heekeren HR (2014) Cultural influences on social feedback processing of character traits. Frontiers Hum Neurosci 8:192. PDF.
Castro RV*, Brito M*, Guiot E, Polito M, Korn CW, Hervé D, Girault J-A, Pauperdin-Tritsch D, Vincent P (2013) Striatal neurons have a specific ability to respond to phasic dopamine signals. J Physiol 591:3197-3124. Link.
Meshi D, Biele G, Korn CW, Heekeren HR (2012) How expert advice influences decision making. PLoS One 7:e49748. PDF.
Sharot T, Guitart-Masip M, Korn CW, Chowdhury R, Dolan RJ (2012) How dopamine enhances an optimism bias in humans. Curr Biol 22:1477-1481. PDF, SOM.
Sharot T, Kanai R, Marston C, Korn CW, Rees G, Dolan RJ (2012) Selectively altering belief formation in the human brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109:17058-17062. PDF.