Research Interests
- Developing general theories of cognition, focusing on cognitive processes.
- Understanding how mental representations allow us to interact flexibly with the world.
- Understanding the relevance of cognitive constructs for everyday behavior.
To accomplish this, I combine experimental and individual differences approaches and use computational & statistical models.
Selected Publications
- Thalmann, M. & Schulz E. (2024). The Generalization Artist - Or: How Can We Characterize Human Generalization? Preprint.
- Thalmann, M., Schäfer, T., Theves, S., Doeller, C. F., & Schulz, E. (2024). Task Imprinting: Another Mechanism of Representational Change? Cognitive Psychology, 152, 101670.
- Thalmann, M., Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2019). How does chunking help working memory? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(1), 37–55.
- Jagadish, A. K., Coda-Forno, J., Thalmann, M., Schulz, E., & Binz, M. (2024). Ecologically rational meta-learned inference explains human category learning. Preprint.
- Wu, S., Thalmann, M., & Schulz, E. (2023). Motif Learning Facilitates Sequence Memorization and Generalization. Preprint.
