Welcome to the Busch-Lab!
You can find all the information about us and our work above.
August 2024: We're looking for you!
You are interested in memory, scene recognition, computer vision? Awesome, the BuschLab at the University of Münster, Germany, is looking for you! We are offering a PhD position as part of our research project "DeepMem: Comparing Scene Representations in Neural Networks and Human Memory," funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for three years.
Why do we remember some events and forget others? Using computer vision and cognitive psychology , we study how scene perception and memory are affected by distinctiveness and typicality. What makes images memorable and how do DNN representations compare to human memory?
The project is a collaboration with Filip Děchtěrenko and Jiří Lukavský, Prague. The position is funded for 3 years at 75% TVL E13, starting around Nov 2024.
Find the official job ad here or feel free to contact us via X for informal questions: BuschlabPsy. We're looking forward to hearing from you!
March 2024
The team of the Busch Lab met for a retreat at the country house Rothenberge in the end of March.
The main focus of the retreat was our research, brainstorming on different topics, lively discussions and some team building activities.
Thank you to everyone for the great stay at the country house Rothenberge.
Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Niko Busch, who received a grant from DFG for his project “The role of typicality in visual scene recognition: A comparison between neural networks and human memories”.
The project investigates human perception and memory of complex visual scenes and how these processes are influenced by the characteristics of the image.
February 2024
Welcome Aron Rupperath, Simon Steibel, Milena Carolin Koch und Mathilde Pöppelmann, our new research assistants!
June 2023
Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Niko Busch and Elena Cesnaite who together with Dr. Ramune Griksiene from the University of Vilnius received the Baltic-German University Liaison Office grant for the collaboration project "Rhythms in the human body: the search for relationships between brain oscillations and fluctuations of sex hormones"! The project of the Baltic-German University Liaison Office is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic Germany.
May 2023
Fascinated by neuroscience research? Apply for an internship with us! We are currently searching for students interested in interning with us this summer. Find all further information here.
February 2023
Welcome Seray-Ezgi Öztekin and Tabea Hildebrand, our new research assistants!
December 2022
You can now find a preprint for the EEGManyPipelines-project here.
Elio, René and Niko published a new preprint!
October 2022
Paul Smith started his PhD in our lab!
June 2022
Burcu Bölükbas will be interning with us for the next three months - welcome!
April 2022
We are very excited to welcome our new Postdocs Anna-Lena Biel and Elena Cesnaite!
Older News
August 2021
Welcome Paul Smith, our newest research assistant!Feb 2021
A new paper by René and Niko, in collaboration with Laura Dugué, is published in the European Journal of Neuroscience:
Distinct contributions of alpha and theta rhythms to perceptual and attentional sampling
Congratulations!Dec 2020
A preprint of the project investigating the replicability of EEG-studies, which Niko is a part of, is now live: click here for #EEGManyLabsNov 2020
Nico and Niko publish another paper: The effect of intrinsic image memorability on recollection and familiarity
Congrats!Oct 2020
Niko and Luca Ronconi publish a new paper together with David Melcher, Markus Junghöfer and Carsten Wolters. Congratulations!
Link: Testing the effect of tACS over parietal cortex in modulating endogenous alpha rhythm and temporal integration windows in visual perceptionSep 2020
Renè and Niko submit a new paper together with Laura Dugué. The preprint:
Theta rhythmic attentional enhancement of alpha rhythmic perceptual samplingAug 2020
After a long break, we finally started collecting data in our lab again!
Check out our lab guide to get an overview of the necessary implemented safety and hygiene measures!Jun 2020
Elsevier Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience publishes a paper by Niko Busch, written in collaboration with Luca Iemi, Jason Samaha and Saskia Haegens.
Find the paper here: Spontaneous Brain Oscillations and Perceptual Decision-MakingNiko, Svea and René attend the virtual VSS. Click here for the poster abstracts:
Contralateral delay activity, but not alpha lateralization, reflects effective gating in visual working memory
Perceptual rhythms are driven by oscillations in visual precisionApr 2020
Niko and Niko publish a new paper in collaboration with Daniel S. Kluger, Marlen Roehe, Moritz F. Wurm and Riccarda I. Schubotz:
Exploitation of local and global information in predictive processingMär 2020
We are welcoming Johanna Seroka as our newest student assistant!Feb 2020
The Journal of Coginitve Neuroscience publishes a new paper by Niko Busch in collaboration with Tobias Feldmann-Wüstefeld and Anna Schübo.
Find the paper here: Failed Suppression of Salient Stimuli Precedes Behavioral ErrorsAdditionally, Wanja Mössing and Nico Broers submit new papers for peer-review. Click here for the preprints:
Lateralized alpha oscillations are irrelevant for the behavioral retro-cueing benefit in visual working memory (Wanja Mössing)
The effect of intrinsic image memorability on recollection and familiarity (Nico Broers)
Congratulations!Aug 2019
Welcome Louisa Henkels, our new student assistant!Jun 2019
Teresa Berther becomes our new student assistant!Mar 2019
Frontiers in Psychology published a new paper of Niko Busch together with Jens Blechert, Anja Lender, Sarah Polk and Kathrin Ohla. Congratulations!
See the paper here:
Food-Pics_Extended—An Image Database for Experimental Research on Eating and Appetite: Additional Images, Normative Ratings and an Updated ReviewFeb 2019
Assistance from Paris! Laurie Gallas starts a research internship at our lab.Oct 2018
Welcome as our newest PhD student, Elio Balestrieri!Jul 2018
Congrats to Niko and Luca Iemi! They published a new paper (Moment-to-moment fluctuations in neural excitability bias subjective perception
rather than decision making) in eNeurounder.
Click here for more information....May 2018
Welcome as our newest PhD student, René Michel!Niko, Wanja and Nico take part in the VSS, Florida. Take a look at Wanja's and Nico's posters!
Apr 2018
New technical equipment for our lab!Jan 2018
Svea's paper (The Role of Alpha Oscillations in Distractor Inhibition during Memory Retention) together with Felix Ball and Niko Busch was accepted for publication in the European Journal of Neuroscience.