Fabian Schneider

Fabian Schneider

PhD Student

Institute of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Fabian is interested in predictive coding as a way of bridging the gaps between language comprehension, memory maintenance, and updating. Before joining the lab, he obtained a graduate degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from Radboud University and the Donders Institute, as well as an undergraduate degree in Language, Literature, Culture from the University of Gießen. In his PhD, he aims to improve our understanding of how semantic priors are represented, used, and updated.

Publications

2026
The Influence of Prior Precision on the Inference of Hidden Causes
bioRxiv2026Preprint
Sensory sharpening and semantic prediction errors unify competing models of predictive processing in human speech comprehension
PLOS Biology, 24(1), e30035882026