Selected Publications

(2020). Estimating the number of clusters via a corrected clustering instability. In Computational Statistics.

Project Preprint

(2019). Mouse-tracking: Detecting Types in Movement Trajectories. In A handbook of process tracing methods.

Project Book chapter

(2019). New Perspectives on the Aging Lexicon. In TiCS.

Project Preprint

(2018). A meta-analytic review of two modes of learning and the description-experience gap. In Psychological Bulletin.

Project Journal article

Further Publications

More Publications

(2020). Estimating the number of clusters via a corrected clustering instability. In Computational Statistics.

Project Preprint

(2020). Myopia drives reckless behavior in the face of over-taxation. In PsyArXiv.

Project Preprint

(2020). Cognitive Network Science: A New Frontier. In Complexity.

Project Preprint

(2020). Online sensory feedback during active search improves tactile localization. In JEP:HPP.

Preprint

Recent Posts

The Center for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Switzerland, seeks applicants for 1 Doctoral Position (3 years) The position is available from January 2021, but later starting dates are possible. Job description Candidates will be working under the supervision of Dr. Dirk Wulff (https://www.dirkwulff.org) and should be interested in studying individual and age differences in cognitive and decision processes using network analytics and computational modeling.

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The Aging Lexicon Project seeks to understand adult age differences in the development of lexical and semantic knowledge.

On June 7-9, 2018, the Symposium on The Aging Lexicon gathered in Basel experts in Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience, and related fields to discuss open issues concerning the aging lexicon.

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Projects

Lexicon

Research on semantic networks and their lifespan development.

Tools

Methods for studying and modeling human cognition

Software


manco-dev - A python-based GUI for semi-manual spell-correction and word processing.



memnet - R package offering efficient implementations of network science tools to facilitate research into human (semantic) memory containing, in its current version, methods to infer networks from verbal fluency data, network growth models, (switcher-) random walk processes, and tools to analyze and visualize networks. To deliver maximum performance the majority of the code is written in C++. vignette, dev

cstab - R Package for the selection of the number of clusters via normalized clustering instability and other methods. web, dev

mousetrap - R package for the analysis of mouse movements in computerized experiments, a method becoming increasingly popular in the cognitive sciences. The mousetrap package offers functions for importing, preprocessing, analyzing, aggregating, and visualizing mouse-tracking data. article, dev

choicepp-dev - R development package for the analysis and high-performance simulation of risk decision making, including, e.g., models of Cumulative Prospect Theory, Decisions from Experience, Heuristics.

spreadr-dev - R development package for the simulation of the spreading of activation among nodes in a network.

Data

Wulff, D. U., Hills, T. T., & Hertwig, R. (2015). How short-and long-run aspirations impact search and choice in decisions from experience. Cognition, 144, 29-37.

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Wulff, D. U., Mergenthaler-Canseco, M., & Hertwig, R. (2018). A meta-analytic review of two modes of learning and the description-experience gap. Psychological Bulletin, 144(2), 140-176.

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Teaching

Spring 2020

Data analytics for Psychology and Business - practice seminar on using data analytic tools to generate insight for Psychological research and Business purposes.

Introduction to neural networks - seminar on the theoretical foundations and implementation of deep neural networks and their uses in cognitive research.

Fall 2020

What are good decisions? - theoretical seminar discussing in historical order foundational texts on the question of rationality and normative decision making.

Natural language processing - seminar on using the analysis of digitized text for psychological discovery and theory testing.

R Courses

The R Bootcamp - R courses introducing academics and professionals to data science and applied machine learning with R.

Contact

  • Missionsstrasse 64A, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • By appointment