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.

My research focuses on how the brain balances exploration and exploitation — whether to rely on prior knowledge or update our beliefs in light of new information. This balance is essential for perception, decision-making, and mental health.

In my work, I apply computational models to games and virtual environments where humans and machines interact. These tools help us understand how we build internal models of the world, when they go off track, and how that can lead to altered experiences of reality.


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