Master Theses
The Cognitive Neuroscience Unit offers a multitude of options for Master's theses for students (in Biology, Psychology, Computer Science, and Physics).
Interested students are asked to read the information and complete the Questionnaire (in German) and send it back via email.
Email: Master Thesis Application
Our Master Graduates
2025
Andrii Lysenko
Ece Idil - Representation of reach goals in variable workspaces
M.Sc. in Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisors: Alexander Gail, Hansjörg Scherberger
2024
Kacper Księżak - Predicting macaques' choices in a dyadic foraging task.
M.Sc. in Applied Data Science, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
René Burghardt - Modeling a latent space for intercortical functional connectivity.
M.Sc. in Applied Data Science, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Efsun Kavaklıoğlu - Investigating the rhythmicity of attention using continuous psychophysics.
M.Sc. in Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Stefan Treue, Prof. Dr. Anne Schacht
Tina Zahrie - Spatial extent of perceptual learning in an orientation discrimination task.
M.Sc. in Biology and Psychology, Developmental, Neural and Behavioral Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Yashas Ramakrishna - Eye tracking in unrestrained non-human primates. Group: Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
M.Sc. in Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisors: Dr Antonino Calapai and Dr Vladislav Kozyrev
2023
Jannis Hainke - Reaching under uncertain target conditions.
M.Sc. in Developmental, Neural and Behavioral Biology, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen.
Gökberk Guenaydin - Investigating rhythms of feature-based attention in human intracranial EEG recordings
M.Sc. in Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) - Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisor: Tobias Schöberl, Examiners: Stefan Treue, Caspar Schwiedrzik
Ege Kingir - Decoding 'attention to motion' versus 'attention to color' based on human intracranial EEG recordings
M.Sc. in Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisor: Tobias Schöberl, Examiners: Stefan Treue, Melani Wilke
Onur Göktürk - Cortical myelin patterns along visual processing hierarchies in rhesus macaques
M.Sc. in Developmental, Neural and Behavioral Biology, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
2022
Vladyslav Ivanov - Diversity and predictability of dynamic social value-based decision-making
M.Sc. in Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisors: Igor Kagan, Viola Priesemann
2021
Peter Neumann - Using fMRI to investigate effector specificity of free choices using hands and eyes
M.Sc. in Psychology, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Sule Tasliyurt - Behavioral correlates of perceptual confidence and motion perception in a novel, continuous motion tracking paradigm,
Master's thesis in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
Supervisor: Antonino Calapai
Pietro Amerio - Neural correlates of spatial processing and saccadic free-choice in human intracerebral recordings
M.Sc. in Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisors: Igor Kagan, Melanie Wilke
Max Andreas Bosse Hinrichs - Evidence accumulation during auditory and visual perceptual decision-making tasks investigated using human intracranial EEG
M.Sc. in Psychology, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Supervisors: Igor Kagan, Melanie Wilke / Examiner: Annekathrin Schacht
Alexandra Witt - Perturbations of pulvino-cortical circuits in the context of goal-directed behaviour
M.Sc. in Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisor: Igor Kagan, Melanie Wilke
2020
Lukas Amann - Inferring neural dynamics using LFADS for movement decoding in a 3D workspace
M.Sc. in Neuroscience - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Supervisor: Enrico Ferrea / Examiners: Alexander Gail, Hansjörg Scherberger
Max Crayen - The influence of selective attention on perceptual binding of visual features
M.Sc. in Neuroscience - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Supervisor: Abdolmoein Esghaei / Examiners: Stefan Treue, Igor Kagan
Yifan Mayr - Characterization of receptive fields in primate visual area MSTd based on complex dynamic stimuli
M.Sc. in Neuroscience - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Supervisor: Benedict Wild / Examiners: Stefan Treue, Tim Gollisch
2019
Joscha Franke - Adaptation in three-dimensional space
M.Sc. in Psychology, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Supervisors: Enrico Ferrea / Examiners: Alexander Gail, Stefan Treue
Tarana Nigam - Gaze and dyadic interactions in a social decision-making context in rhesus macaques and humans
M.Sc. in Neuroscience - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Supervisors: Sebastian Möller / Examiners: Alexander Gail, Stefan Treue
Marina Slascheva
M.Sc. in Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisors: Igor Kagan, Kristin Kaduk / Examiners:
Yannan Su - Modification of local field potentials by optogenetic stimulation in the frontoparietal cortex
M.Sc. in Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisors: Alexander Gail, Hao Guo / Examiner: Hansjörg Scherberger
2018
Lin Zhou - Training recurrent neural networks for reaching tasks
M.Sc. in Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisors: Hao Guo / Examiners: Alexander Gail, Hanjörg Scherberger
2017
Uwe Zimmermann - Effects of pulvinar microstimulation on target selection
M.Sc. in Developmental, Neural and Behavioral Biology - Georg-August-Universitäy Göttingen
Supervisor: Lydia Gibson / Examiners: Igor Kagan, Melanie Wilke
2016
Isabel Wunder - The effective connectivity in a cortical-striatal-thalamic network during decision making
M.Sc. in Biomechanics, Motor Skills, Movement Analysis - Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Examiners: Britta Krüger, Igor Kagan
2015
Raffaella Bancone - Study of saccade influence on neural latency measurement in monkey
M.Sc. in Neuroscience - Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
Supervisor: Alexander Gail / Examiner: Alexander Gail
Alexander Kratzenberg - Intentional and perceptual aspects of spatial awareness and their neural correlates in the human brain
M.Sc. in Developmental, Neural and Behavioral Biology - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Supervisor: Lukas Schneider / Examiners: Igor Kagan, Melanie Wilke
Philipp Ulbrich - Subjective effort in reaching movement
M.Sc. in Psychology, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisor: Pierre Morel / Examiners: Alexander Gail, Stefan Treue
2014
Kristin Kaduk - Neural mechanisms underlying certainty during post-decision wagering – an fMRI based approach
M.Sc. in Psychology, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisors: Igor Kagan / Examiners: Alexander Gail, Annekathrin Schacht
Sneha Shashidhara - Feature based attention to motion directions in the somatosensory system: A human reaction-time study
M.Sc. in Neuroscience - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Supervisors: Meike Schweisfurth / Examiners: Stefan Treue, Renate Schweizer
2013
Kristin Dannhäuser - Can microsaccades be used to represent (spatial) covert attention or (oculo) motor planning?
M.Sc. in Developmental, Neural and Behavioral Biology - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Supervisor: Stefan Treue / Examiner: Stefan Treue, Alexander Gail
2012
Janina Hüer - An attentional blink in the visual perception of motion
M.Sc. in Biology, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisor: Stefan Treue / Examiner: Stefan Treue
2010
Thiemo Daldup - Interaction of attentional and temporal processes in non-human primates: interference-induced modulation of subjective time perception
M.Sc. in Biology - University of Münster
Supervisor: Kristian Folta-Schoofs / Examiner: Stefan Treue
Mark Kaltenhäuser - Adaptation of goal-directed grasping movements
M.Sc. in Biology, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisor: Stefan Treue / Examiners: Stefan Treue, Ralf Heinrich
Katrin Keller - Interaction of attentional and temporal processing in the human and non-human primate brain
M.Sc. in Biology, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisors: Kristian Folta-Schoofs / Examiners: Stefan Treue, Andre Fiala
Ina Peiker - Feature-based attention modulates perception of complex scenes
M.Sc. in Psychology, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen.
Supervisors: Kristian Folta-Schoofs / Examiners: Stefan Treue
2009
Andreas Schindler - Monocular signals and ultrocular discrimination in the human visual system
Master in Neuroscience - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Examiners: Jens Frahm, Stefan Treue