Moritz Bammel

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C11.007
Fon +49.4131.677-2150, moritz.bammel@leuphana.de

Werdegang

Mein Hintergrund ist in Kognitionswissenschaft sowie Philosophie des Geistes und derzeit promoviere ich in Psychologie. Meine Forschungsinteressen fokussieren sich auf Verkörperungstheorien innerhalb der Kognitionswissenschaft (embodied cognition, Gibsonian ecological psychology), sowie die Anwendung von Methoden aus der dynamischen Systemwissenschaft in der experimentellen Psychologie, insbesondere nicht linearer Methoden. Etwas allgemeiner interessiere ich mich außerdem für den Zusammenhang von experimentellen und theoretisch-philosophischen Fragestellungen in der Psychologie und Kognitionswissenschaft. In meinem Dissertationsprojekt erforsche ich Leseverstehen als ein verkörpertes Phänomen in naturalistischen Kontexten und nutze dazu Methoden wie Blickbewegungsmessungen, Bewegungsmessungen und Elektroenzephalographie. Außerdem verwende ich nicht lineare Analysemethoden (recurrence, fractals), um Leser-Text Interaktionsdynamiken zu quantifizieren und deren Zusammenhang mit dem jeweiligen Leseverständnis zu untersuchen.

Ausbildung

seit 2024 Doktorand in Psychologie, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

2022 - 2024 M.A. Philosophie, Freie Universität Berlin
Masterarbeit: “An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Insitutions”

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

2016 - 2020 B.Sc. Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück
Bachelorarbeit: ”Studying Neural Correlates of Mind Wandering with Mobile EEG”

Publikationen

Beiträge in Zeitschriften

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

    Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenKonferenz-Abstracts in FachzeitschriftenForschung

  2. Greene’s dual-process moral psychology and the modularity of mind
    Moritz Bammel (Autor*in) , 20.12.2024 , in: Philosophical Psychology , 24 S.

    Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeForschungbegutachtet

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

    Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeForschungbegutachtet

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

    Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeForschungbegutachtet

  5. Scaling-Up Behavior Settings: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Institutions
    Moritz Bammel (Autor*in) , Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira (Autor*in) , in: Topoi , 11 S.

    Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeForschungbegutachtet

Beiträge in Sammelwerken

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

    Publikation: Beiträge in SammelwerkenAufsätze in KonferenzbändenForschungbegutachtet

Lehrveranstaltungen

Experimental psychology tends to approach mind and behavior from a rather static perspective: We ask participants to fill out a questionnaire once and correlate the resulting score to another variable. Similarly, the biological basis of human behavior and psychological experience are often explained by reference to static assignments of specific functional profiles to circumscribed brain areas. In this course, however, we will explore how insights from dynamical systems theory can inform both theorizing and experimental research in psychology. The guiding idea is to use appropriate metaphors and data analysis tools to study how mind and behavior dynamically unfold over time, enabled by flexibly forming and dissolving assemblies of neural, bodily, and environmental structures that change over time and depending on context.

In the first part of the course, we will read and critically discuss theoretical papers that introduce us to dynamical systems theory and how this approach challenges common assumptions in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The aim of the first part of the course is to reflect on the controversies that motivate a dynamical systems approach to psychology.

In the second part of the course, we will adopt the perspective of an experimental psychologist who has developed some sympathy for dynamical systems thinking and who would like to align her research with this paradigm. One of the key implications is that dynamically inclined experimental psychologists like to use time series analysis methods that can handle data originating from an interdependent dynamical system. Students will form working groups, and each group will be tasked to work through materials covering one data analysis technique (e.g. recurrence or fractal analysis) and to perform a small sample analysis in R. At the end of the term, each group will present their results in class.

This course is targeted at students who are interested in conceptual debates in psychology and their practical implications for empirical research. From a methodological perspective, the course will combine close readings and conceptual discussions with the acquisition of new data analysis skills.
Nächster Termin:
Mittwoch, 29.04.2026 um 10:15 Uhr