Dr. Stephanie Theves

Main Research Areas

  • Structure-learning and neural concept representations
  • Neural mechanisms of reasoning
  • Neuro-cognitive processing mechanisms underlying intelligence

 

Publikationen

Selected Publications

International Peer-reviewed Journals

Theves, S. (in press). Thinking as analogy-making: Towards a neural process account of general intelligence. 

Theves, S., Schäfer, T., Reisner, V., de Cothi, W., & Barry, C. (2024). Category boundaries modulate memory in a place-cell-like manner. Current biology: CB, S0960-9822(24)01351-4. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.083

Theves, S., Neville, D. A., Fernández, G., & Doeller, C. F. (2021). Learning and Representation of Hierarchical Concepts in Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 41(36), 7675–7686. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0657-21.2021

Theves, S., Fernández, G., Doeller, C. F. (2020). The hippocampus maps concept space, not feature space. The Journal of Neuroscience. 40 (38), 7318–7325. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0494-20.2020

Theves, S., Fernández, G., Doeller, C. F. (2019). The hippocampus encodes distances in multidimensional feature space. Current Biology, 29 (7), 1226 – 1231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.035

Theves, S., Chan, J. S., Naumer, M. J., Kaiser, J. (2020). Improving audio-visual temporal perception through training enhances beta-band activity. Neuroimage, 206, 116312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116312

Book chapters

Theves, S., Grande, X., Duzel, E., Doeller, C. F. (2024). Pattern completion and the medial temporal lobe memory system. In M. J. Kahana, A. D. Wagner (Ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory. New York: Oxford University Press.

Preprints

Schäfer, T.,  Thalmann, M., Schulz, E. Doeller, C.F., Theves, S. (2024). The hippocampus support interpolation into new states during category abstraction. bioRxiv 2024.05.14.594185; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.14.594185

Tenderra, R.M. & Theves, S. (2024). Fluid intelligence relates to neural measures of cognitive map formation. bioRxiv 2024.12.28.630614; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.28.630614

Eperon, A., Doeller, C.F., Theves, S*. & Bottini, R.* (2024). Representation of conceptual affordances in eye movements and the entorhinal cortex. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.21.633955