Anna-Lena Eckert

@eckertal.bsky.social

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Post-doc computational psychiatry @ UCL 🧠 working on psychosis, planning, RNNs 🎓PhD: BCCN Berlin 🌍Post-doc #1: Uni Marburg 👟 runner 👩‍🎓 1st gen - she,her 🌐 https://eckertal.github.io/personal-website

On a boat with a group of brilliant and delicious young scientists from around the world
Beautiful Bodensee in southern Germany with a view of Lindau Island, with bright blue skies and a mountain range in the background.
German edition of the lonely planet guide book "Flight-free Europe: 80 inspiring and sustainable trip ideas"
Piloting a VR experiment in a funny looking motion capture suit
Explaining the hollow mask illusion at the science fair: We do not perceive the "inside" (concave) of the mask, but it pops out and we perceive it as if it were a normal (convex) mask. Very quirky brains!
Standing in front of my conclusion slide that has a quote from Richards & Lillicrap 2022: "brains are either literally computers or not very much like computers at all"
A picture of our symposiums speakers in the lecture hall with a great view of Wuerzburg and blue skies in the background!
A scientist putting his lab on fire because of a bug in his code!
Me and my boss in front of a part of the Marburg super computer, photo by C. Thölken
Simulated psychometric functions for Exp. 2, where the passive function is shifted towards the left, indicating better detection performance in passive trials.
A factor graph representation of the Bayesian graphical network we used to model the data of Experiment 1.
An image of a hand holding a lever on the left, and a screen showing a hand holding a lever on the right.
A finger stroking over a plastic object where the first half is smooth and the second half is structured.
image showing the paper's title: Modelling Sensory Attenuation as Bayesian Causal Inference across two datasets.