Dr. Darinka Trübutschek
Main Research Areas
How does the “lump of meat” between our ears allow us to experience the world and remember those experiences later on? My research aims to understand basic mechanisms of how we perceive and store information about our environment and use that information to pursue our plans and goals. I use behavioral manipulations in conjunction with time-resolved brain electrophysiology (i.e., EEG, MEG, & ECoG) and machine learning to study the following topics:
- Visual and/or memory distortions
- Interaction of perception & memory
- Conscious & non-conscious perception
- Conscious & non-conscious (working) memory
Vita
Education
| Nov 2014 – Oct 2018 | PhD in cognitive neuroscience with Prof. Stanislas Dehaene, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France (summa cum laude) |
| Sept 2012 – June 2013 | Master of Science in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience with Dr. Josselin Houenou, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France (magna cum laude) |
| Sept 2007 – May 2010 | Bachelor of Science with honors in psychology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, USA (valedictorian, summa cum laude) |
Career
| Since Jan 2021 | Post-doctoral research associate with Dr. Lucia Melloni at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
| Jan 2019 – Dec 2020 | Post-doctoral research fellow with Prof. Mark Stokes at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
| Nov 2018 – Dec 2018 | Post-doctoral researcher with Prof. Stanislas Dehaene at Neurospin, France |
| June 2010 – Aug 2012 | Post-baccalaureate fellow in functional neuroimaging with Prof. Tobias Egner at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA |
Publikationen
Publications
Sarafoglou, A., Hoogeveen, S., van den Bergh, D., Aczel, B., Albers, C. J., Althoff, T., Botvinik-Nezer, R., ..., Trübutschek, D., ..., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2024). Subjective evidence evaluation survey for multi-analyst studies (2024). PsyArxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mxje3
Trübutschek, D., & Melloni, L. (2023). Stable perceptual phenotype of the magnitude of history biases even in the face of global task complexity. Journal of Vision,23(8): 4. doi:10.1167/jov.23.8.4.
Ruzzoli, M., Torralba Cuello, M., Molingaro, N., Benwell, C. S. Y., Berkowitz, D., Brignani, D., Falciati, L., …, Trübutschek, D., …, & Veniero, D., (2023). An #EEGManyLabs study to test the role of the alpha phase on visual perception (a replication and new evidence). PsyArxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3dhpx
Trübutschek, D.*, Yang, Y.-F.*, Gianelli, C.*, Cesnaite, E., Fischer, N. L., Vinding, M. C., Marshall, T. R., Algermissen, J., Pascarella, A., Puoliväli, T., Busch, N., & Nilsonne, G. (2022). EEGManyPipelines: A large-scale, grassroots multi-analyst study of electroencephalography analysis practices in the wild. (2023). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02087
Pike, A. C., Atherton, K., Bauer, Y., Crittenden, B. M., van Ede, F., Hall-McMaster, S., von Lautz, A. H., ..., Trübutschek, D., ..., & Noonan, M. P. (2022). 10 simple rules for a supportive lab environment. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(1), 44-48. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01928
Trübutschek, D., Marti, S., Ueberschär, H., & Dehaene, S. (2019). Probing the limits ofactivity-silent, non-conscious working memory. PNAS, 116(28), 14358-14367. Doi: 10.1073/pnas.1820730116
Trübutschek, D., Marti, S., & Dehaene, S. (2019). Temporal-order information can be maintained in non-conscious working memory. Scientific Reports, 9(6484). Doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-42942-z
Trübutschek, D., Marti, S., Ojeda, A., King, J.-R., Mi, Y., Tsodyks, M., & Dehaene, S. (2017). A theory if working memory without consciousness or sustained activity. eLife. Doi: 10.7554/eLife.23871
Naccache, L., Marti, S., Sitt, J. D., Trübutschek, D., & Berkovitch, L. (2016). Why the P3b is still a plausible correlate of conscious access? A commentary on Silverstein et al., 2015. Cortex. Doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.04.003
Coyle, E. F., Fulcher, M., & Trübutschek, D. (2016). Sissies, mama’s boys, and tomboys: Is children’s gender nonconformity more acceptable when nonconforming traits are positive? Archives of Sexual Behavior. Doi: 10.1007/s10508-016-0695-5
Trübutschek, D., & Egner, T. (2012). Negative emotion does not modulate rapid feature integration effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(100). Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00100
Auszeichnungen & Stipendien
Awards & Grants
| 2022 | BIAL Foundation Grant (together with L. Melloni) |
| 2021 | Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship | |
| 2021 | Christiane-Nüsslein-Volhard Fellowship | |
| 2019 | Prix de la chancellerie des universités de Paris | |
| 2018 | Post-doctoral fellowship from the Fondation Fyssen | |
| 2015 | Fellowship to attend the Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Doctoral grant from the Schneider Electric Foundation (co-PI with Prof. Stanislas Dehaene) | |
| 2012 | Doctoral fellowship from the Ecole des Neurosciences de Paris | |
| 2010 | Fellowship in functional neuroimaging from Duke University’s Brain Imaging and Analysis Center | |
| 2010 | Valedictorian of the 2010 graduating class of Washington & Lee University, Robinson Award in English Literature, History, and Social Sciences awarded by Washington & Lee University | |
| 2007–2010 | Washington & Lee University honor roll | |
| 2008 | Psychology Departmental Scholarship awarded by Washington & Lee University, James D. Davidson Memorial Fund Scholarship awarded by Washington & Lee University | |
| 2004 | Congress/Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholarship to fund a 1-year high school exchange in Springfield, VA, USA |
Projekte
- The structure of subjective experience
Consciousness is one of the most fascinating yet least understood aspects of human nature, or perhaps nature at large. Our lives dwell in our conscious experiences: this is where we experience love, we feel the ‘chills’ with a good piece of ...
- Cortical hierarchy of memories
"Perception is never purely in the present–it has to draw on experience of the past.” O. Sacks illustrates a grounding principle in cognitive neuroscience: Eyes are not vision. Instead, seeing is an inferential process, with the brain ...
- Brain inspired consciousness
Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have revived the possibility that we could endow machines with all the higher-order cognitive functions that characterize the mind of non-human and human primates. Much of this optimism derives ...
- The interplay between perception and memory
From the thousands of experiences we have each day, only a few will be remembered. How and why is this so? We are interested in the question of how the continuous living present is broken up into pieces that will be remembered, and the distortion ...