Maik Mylius

I completed my Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in 2017, the title of my thesis was "Sleep Supports Selective Enhancement of Memories that are Relevant for the Future". During my bachelor's, I spent a semester abroad at the University of Cape Town in 2015. I have a Master of Arts in Mind and Brain-Track Mind at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain (graduate school of Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), which I completed in 2021. The title of my master's thesis was "Meditation and Body Awareness". Afterwards, I received a Humboldt Research Track Scholarship for the transition to a PhD.

Information-theoretic Models of Curiosity in Hierarchical Models of the World

The project aims to uncover information-theoretic principles guiding curious behaviour in children and uses behavioural experiments with eye-tracking and computational models to identify information-theoretic quantities that drive internally motivated information-seeking and learning.

Computational modelling, (probabilistic) machine learning, perception and learning, intrinsic motivation, earlier work on interoception, EEG and mindfulness

• Seabra, J. P., Kaltwasser, L., Mylius, M., & Gallese, V. (2022). Artistic expertise shapes face perception: An alpha frequency and N170 study on portraiture. NeuroImage, 2(3), 100117
• Mylius, M., Guendelman, S., Iliopoulos, F., Gallese, V., Kaltwasser, L. (2023). Meditation expertise influences response bias and prestimulus alpha activity in the somatosensory signal detection task