We study how the mind Makes Sense of time, space, and uncertainty
Research in perception, attention, and Bayesian cognition — explained for everyone.
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Attention & context
How does the brain construct the experience of time and why does it sometimes get it wrong? Our research investigates sequential dependencies, context effects, timing models, and the neural signatures of temporal processing across seconds to minutes.
Attention Guidance, Context Learning and Suppression
Bayesian inference
Perception is not passive; the brain constantly combines prior knowledge with new sensory evidence to form beliefs about the world. Our work examines prediction errors, prior updating, and computational models of this inferential process.
Perception as Bayesian inference
Time perception
Familiar environments help the brain focus on what matters and ignore what doesn't. Our research explores how spatial regularities, contextual cueing, and cross-modal signals shape selective attention in complex scenes.
Time Perception
Curious Minds — latest
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Time perception
Your phone steals time twice
You pick up your phone to check one message. An hour later, you look up…
Mar 2026
Time perception
How does saccade distort the time we experience?
Have you ever glanced at a clock and felt like the second hand paused for…
Apr 2025
Time perception
TEDx talk on decisions under time pressure
Have you ever wondered why we often make snap decisions under pressure, even when they…
Dec 2024
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Research
Distinct hippocampus codes for contextual cueing
Humans can learn to use repeated visual environments to find important objects more efficiently. When…
Jan 2026
Research
Domain-specific vs domain-general prediction errors
A new study by Plank and colleagues (2025) challenges previous assumptions about how individuals with…
Oct 2025
Research
How Distractors Summon but Do Not Engage Attention
Congratulations to Dr. Shao-Yang Tsai, whose latest study has just been published in Cortex! This…
Sep 2025
Talk at MPI Tübingen: One Process, Two Biases
On 27 March 2026, Zhuanghua Shi gave an invited talk at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen,…
Lab news · Mar 2026
LMU-ChaN Workshop 2025: A Celebration of International Collaboration
October 29-31, 2025 | LMU Munich, Germany We are delighted to share highlights from the successful LMU-China Academic Network (LMU-ChaN)…
Lab news · Nov 2025
MSense hosts 2nd Workshop of Erasmus+ VET
The collaboration between LMU Munich, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, and Çanakkale Technopark continued with the 2nd workshop of the EU…
Lab news · Dec 2024
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