Moritz Bammel

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C11.007
Fon +49.4131.677-2150, moritz.bammel@leuphana.de
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in, Professorship of Psychology, in particular Methodology and Evaluation Research

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Vita

I am a doctoral candidate in psychology with a background in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. My research interests focus on embodied cognition, ecological psychology, and the application of dynamical systems theory in psychology, including nonlinear methods. More generally, I am also interested in how experimental and philosophical questions are intertwined in psychology and cognitive science. In my dissertation project, I study reading comprehension as an embodied phenomenon in naturalistic contexts by using eye-tracking, motion capture, and EEG. Moreover, I use nonlinear methods (recurrence, fractals) to quantify reader-text coupling dynamics and to investigate how these are related to variability in reading comprehension.

Education

since 2024 Doctoral Candidate in Psychology, Leuphana University Lüneburg

2022 - 2024 M.A. Philosophy, Free University Berlin
MA Thesis: “An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Insitutions”

2020 - 2023 M.Sc. Mind and Brain - Track Brain, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University Berlin
MSc Thesis: “Reading Comprehension as Embodied Action: A Nonlinear Analysis of Eye Movement Dynamics“

2016 - 2020 B.Sc. Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University
BSc Thesis: “Studying Neural Correlates of Mind Wandering with Mobile EEG”

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. Scaling-Up Behavior Settings: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Institutions
    Moritz Erich Helmut Bammel (Author) , Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira (Author) , 22.08.2025 , in: Topoi

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. 43. Decoding Spontaneous Thoughts From Brain Resting-State fMRI: Toward Understanding Rumination
    Moritz Erich Helmut Bammel (Author) , Ronald Dekker (Author) , Aaron T. Nakamura (Author) , Amanda M. Lins (Author) , Quentin Huys (Author) , Nicolas W. Schuck (Author) , Ming Bo Cai (Author) , 01.05.2025 , in: Biological Psychiatry, 97, 9, Supplement , p. S112-S113 , 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Conference abstract in journal › Research

  3. Greene’s dual-process moral psychology and the modularity of mind
    Moritz Erich Helmut Bammel (Author) , 20.12.2024 , in: Philosophical Psychology , 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  4. Uncertainty Promotes Neuroreductionism: A Behavioral Online Study on Folk Psychological Causal Inference from Neuroimaging Data
    Moritz Erich Helmut Bammel (Author) , Jona Carmon (Author) , Peter Brugger (Author) , Bigna Lenggenhager (Author) , 01.11.2021 , in: Psychopathology, 54, 6 , p. 298-304

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Statistical Learning and Inference Is Impaired in the Nonclinical Continuum of Psychosis
    Moritz Erich Helmut Bammel (Author) , Ilvana Dzafic (Author) , Roshini Randeniya (Author) , Clare D. Harris (Author) , Marta I. Garrido (Author) , 26.08.2020 , in: The Journal of Neuroscience, 40, 35 , p. 6759–6769

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Reading Comprehension as Embodied Action: Exploratory Findings on Nonlinear Eye Movement Dynamics and Comprehension of Scientific Texts
    Moritz Erich Helmut Bammel (Author) , Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira (Author) , 01.01.2023 California , p. 2333-2340 , 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

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Courses