Veith Weilnhammer

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley

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I am a neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and psychotherapist. I work on digital technologies to better understand, predict, and improve mental health.

I am particularly interested in how humans make sense of ambiguous situations: How do people extract meaning from noisy data? How do they apply what they’ve learned to new but uncertain contexts? And what behavioral strategies help them avoid falling into self-fulfilling prophecies – for instance, seeing what they expect rather than what is actually there?


selected publications

  1. N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor hypofunction causes recurrent and transient failures of perceptual inference
    Veith Weilnhammer, Marcus Rothkirch, Deniz Yilmaz, and 6 more authors
    Brain, Jan 2025
  2. Dynamic predictive templates in perception
    Veith Weilnhammer, Yuki Murai, and David Whitney
    Current Biology, Aug 2024
  3. Sensory processing in humans and mice fluctuates between external and internal modes
    Veith Weilnhammer, Heiner Stuke, Kai Standvoss, and 1 more author
    PLOS Biology, Aug 2023
  4. An active role of inferior frontal cortex in conscious experience
    Veith Weilnhammer, Merve Fritsch, Meera Chikermane, and 5 more authors
    Current Biology, Jul 2021