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Personal Information

Veith Weilnhammer, Dr. med.
veith.weilnhammer@gmail.com

Research Experience

Fellow of the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley, since 2023
Clinician Scientist and Postdoctoral Fellow, Visual Perception Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Charité Berlin, 2015 - 2023
Research Doctorate (MD), Supervisor: Prof. Philipp Sterzer, 2015
Minerva Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, Supervisor: Prof. Rafi Malach, 2013
MD Candidate, Visual Perception Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Charité Berlin, 2011 - 2014

Post-Graduate Medical Training

Board Certification in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 2023
Psychotherapist in Training, Center for Psychotherapy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, 2016 - 2023
Resident Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Charité Berlin, 2015 - 2023

Education

Medical Licensure, Department of Health, Berlin, Germany, 2015
Second Medical State Examination, 2014
Medical School Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 2010 - 2011
Undergraduate Research Training Course in Theoretical Neuroscience, Supervisor: Prof. Klaus Pawelzik, German Academic Scholarship Foundation, 2008 - 2010
First Medical State Examination, 2009
Medical School Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, 2007 - 2015
Studium Generale, Leibniz Kolleg, Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2006 - 2007

Grants and Fellowships

Clinician Scientist, Berlin Institute of Health, 2019 - 2022
Junior Clinician Scientist, Berlin Institute of Health, 2017 - 2018
Short-Term Research Grant, Minerva Foundation, Max-Planck-Society, 2013

Scholarships

German Academic Scholarship Foundation, 2007 - 2015

Publications

Frontoparietal Cortex Mediates Perceptual Transitions in Bistable Perception

Weilnhammer VA, Ludwig K, Hesselmann G, Sterzer P. Frontoparietal Cortex Mediates Perceptual Transitions in Bistable Perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(40). 16009 - 16015.

Revisiting the Lissajous Figure as a Tool to Study Bistable Perception

Weilnhammer VA, Ludwig K, Hesselmann G, Sterzer P. Revisiting the Lissajous Figure as a Tool to Study Bistable Perception. Vision Research 2014, 98. 107 - 112.

Perceptual Stability of the Lissajous Figure is modulated by the Speed of Illusory Rotation

Weilnhammer VA, Sterzer P, Hesselmann G (2016) Perceptual Stability of the Lissajous Figure Is Modulated by the Speed of Illusory Rotation. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0160772.

Learning what to See in a Changing World

Schmack K, Weilnhammer VA, Heinzle J, Stephan KE, Sterzer P. Learning what to See in a Changing World. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2016, 10.

Psychotic experiences and overhasty inferences are related to maladaptive learning

Stuke HE, Stuke HA, Weilnhammer VA, Schmack K. Psychotic experiences and overhasty inferences are related to maladaptive learning. PLOS Computational Biology 2017. 13(1):e1005328.

A predictive coding account of bistable perception - a model-based fMRI study

Weilnhammer VA, Stuke H, Hesselmann G, Sterzer P, Schmack K. A predictive coding account of bistable perception - a model-based fMRI study. PLOS Computational Biology 2017. 15; 13(5):e1005536.

Delusion Proneness is Linked to a Reduced Usage of Prior Beliefs in Perceptual Decisions

Stuke H, Weilnhammer VA, Sterzer P, Schmack K. Delusion Proneness is Linked to a Reduced Usage of Prior Beliefs in Perceptual Decisions. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2018.

The Neural Correlates of Hierarchical Predictions for Perceptual Decisions

Weilnhammer VA, Stuke H, Hesselmann G, Sterzer P, Schmack K. The Neural Correlates of Hierarchical Predictions for Perceptual Decisions. The Journal of Neuroscience 2018. 38(21), 5008-5021.

Psychotic Experiences in Schizophrenia and Sensitivity to Sensory Evidence

Weilnhammer VA, Lukas R, Eckert AL, Stuke H, Heinz A, Sterzer P. Psychotic Experiences in Schizophrenia and Sensitivity to Sensory Evidence. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2020.

Overly Strong Priors for Socially Meaningful Visual Signals Are Linked to Psychosis Proneness in Healthy Individuals

Heiner Stuke, Elisabeth Kress, Veith Andreas Weilnhammer, Philipp Sterzer, Katharina Schmack. Overly Strong Priors for Socially Meaningful Visual Signals Are Linked to Psychosis Proneness in Healthy Individuals. Frontiers in Psychology 2021.

Bistable Perception Alternates between Internal and External Modes of Sensory Processing

Weilnhammer VA, Chikermane M, Sterzer P. Bistable perception alternates between internal and external modes of sensory processing. iScience 2021.

An Active Role of Inferior Frontal Cortex in Conscious Experience

Weilnhammer VA, Fritsch M, Chikermane M, Eckert AL, Kanthak K, Stuke H, Kaminski J, Sterzer P. An Active Role of Inferior Frontal Cortex in Conscious Experience. Current Biology 2021.

Humans and mice fluctuate between external and internal modes of sensory processing

Weilnhammer VA, Heiner S, Eckert A-L, Standvoß K, Sterzer P. Humans and mice fluctuate between external and internal modes of sensory processing. bioRxiv 2021.

Associative learning under uncertainty in adults with autism: Intact learning of the cue-outcome contingency, but slower updating of priors

Sapey-Triomphe LA, Weilnhammer VA, Wagemans J. Associative learning under uncertainty in adults with autism: Intact learning of the cue-outcome contingency, but slower updating of priors. Autism 2021.

Autobiographical Script-Driven Imagery Has No Detectable Effect on Emotion Regulation in Healthy Individuals

Köhler S, Weilnhammer VA, Walter H, Erk S, Sterzer P, Guhn A. Autobiographical Script-Driven Imagery Has No Detectable Effect on Emotion Regulation in Healthy Individuals. Neuropsychobiology 2021.

Sparse models for predicting psychosocial impairments in patients with PTSD: An empirical Bayes approach

Stuke H, Priebe K, Weilnhammer VA, Stuke Ha, Schoofs N. Autobiographical Script-Driven Imagery Has No Detectable Effect on Emotion Regulation in Healthy Individuals. Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy 2022.

Sensory and environmental uncertainty in perceptual decision-making

Merve F, Weilnhammer VA, Thiele P, Heinz A, Sterzer P. AEnvironmental uncertainty modulates perceptual decision-making when sensory signals are imprecise. iScience 2023.

The construction of unambiguous conscious experiences from ambiguous sensory information

Weilnhammer VA. The construction of unambiguous conscious experiences from ambiguous sensory information. Habilitation treatise, defended 23/10/2023. FU Refubium, http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-40937.

Neural correlates of hierarchical predictive processes in autistic adults

Sapey-Triomphe LA, Pattyn L, Weilnhammer VA, Sterzer P, Wagemans J. Neural correlates of hierarchical predictive processes in autistic adults. Nature communications 2023.

Sensory processing in humans and mice fluctuates between external and internal modes

Weilnhammer VA, Stuke H, Standvoss K, Sterzer P. Sensory processing in humans and mice fluctuates between external and internal modes. PLOS Biology 2023.