Ben Engler

I hold a bachelor’s and master’s degree in psychology (track: cognitive neuroscience) from the University of Salzburg, and I am currently finishing up my master‘s in neurosciences (track: computational neuroscience) at LMU Munich. I conducted my BSc thesis work at the Center for Music in the Brain at Aarhus University and my MSc thesis at Aix-Marseille University. After mainly focusing on behavioral methods (psychophysics, eye tracking) during lab rotations and thesis-related work, I am now excited to incorporate electrophysiological data into my research.

How does curiosity modulate the integration of sampled external information into internal models of the world?

Generally, I am interested in advancing a philosophically informed quantitative science of human behavior, cognition, and the brains involved in it. Easily fascinated, I have enjoyed working on diverse topics including speech and music processing, internal attention, and spontaneous rhythmic behaviors. Currently, I am curious to learn more about the ways we sample information to enrich our internal models of the world.

• Löhnert, B., Engler, B. H., Augsten, N., & Hutzler, F. (2025). The Cognitive Task Ontology (CogiTO) [Data set]. Zenodo.
• Engler, B. H., Hutzler, F., & Hawelka, S. (2025). An extended logarithmic visualization improves forecasting accuracy for exponentially growing numbers, but residual difficulties remain. International Journal of Forecasting, 41(2), 466-474.
• Engler, B. H., Zamm, A., & Møller, C. (2024). Spontaneous rates exhibit high intra-individual stability across movements involving different biomechanical systems and cognitive demands. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 14876.