Short CV - Thomas Goschke
Goschke, Thomas, Prof. Dr. phil. habil.
Personal information
Date of birth 14.4.1958, male
Work address Faculty of Psychology, School of Science
Technische Universität Dresden
Zellescher Weg 17, 01062 Dresden
Phone: +49 351 463-34695
Email: thomas.goschke@tu-dresden.de
Current Positions
since 2002 Professor of General Psychology (W3)
since 2003 Director, Institute for General Psychology, Biopsychology and Methods of Psychology
since 2008 Acting Director, Neuroimaging Center, TU Dresden
since 2012 Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 940): “Volition and Cognitive Control: Mechanisms, Modulators, Dysfunctions”
Research Interests
- Cognitive, affective, and neural mechanisms underlying human volition, cognitive control, and intentional action
- Emotional modulation and adaptive regulation of cognitive stability and flexibility
- Neurocognitive mechanisms that give rise to dysfunctions of self-control and maladaptive choices in daily behavior and mental disorders
- Development of an integrative theory of volition and cognitive control and the mechanisms that enable humans to anticipate future outcomes, flexibly adapt behavior to changing contexts, and override impulsive or habitual responses in the service of farsighted choices and long-term goals.
- Philosophical implications of cognitive neuroscience for concepts of free will, autonomy, and personal responsibility
- To investigate neurocognitive mechanisms of cognitive control and volitional action, my group combines behavioral tasks, functional neuroimaging (fMRI), brain stimulation methods (TMS), and ecological momentary assessments of real-life behavior.
Academic Education and Degrees
1999 Habilitation (Psychology), Universität Osnabrück
1992 Dr. phil. (summa cum laude), Universität Osnabrück
1987 Diploma in Psychology (with distinction), Ruhr-Universität Bochum
1979-1987 Studies of Psychology and Philosophy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Professional Experience
since 2022 Faculty Member, International Max Planck Research School Cognitive Neuroimaging, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciencesd
2018 - 2022 Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden
2018 - 2022 Member of the Senate of the TU Dresden (qua office as dean with an advisory vote)
2018 - 2022 Member of the School Committee of the School of Science, TU Dresden
2014 - 2018 Spokesperson of the Department of Psychology, TU Dresden
2012 - 2014 Elected member of the Senate of the TU Dresden
2004 - 2009 Vice Dean and Head of the Department of Psychology, TU Dresden
2003 - 2018 Member of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Science, TU Dresden
since 2003 Director of the Institute for General Psychology, Biopsychology and Methods of Psychology
since 2002 Professor (W3) of General Psychology, TU Dresden
2003 - 2004 Guest Lecturer / Visiting Professor, University Fribourg, Switzerland
2000 - 2002 Senior Scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich (Cognition and Action Unit, Prof. Wolfgang Prinz)
1999 - 2000 Assistant Professor, University Osnabrück
1997 Interim Professor of General Psychology (C4), TU Braunschweig
1995 / 1996 Visiting Faculty Member, Institute for Cognition and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon at Eugene (two stays funded by the DAAD)
1993 - 1999 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, University Osnabrück
1989 - 1990 Fellow, Research Group Mind and Brain, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld
1987 - 1993 Doctoral student, Department of Psychology, University Osnabrück
Further administrative experience
since 2004 Member or chair of numerous professorial search committees (TU Dresden, Max Planck Society)
since 2004 Member in several academic committees (Bachelor-Master-Committee, Committee for Study Affairs, Board of Examiners, committee for the structural development of the faculty)
Selected further Scientific Activities
2021 Member of the Review Panel for the interdisciplinary research initiative “Disruption and Societal Change” (TUDiSC) at the TU Dresden
2019 Guest Editor (with Ben Eppinger and Sebastian Musslick) of a Special Issue on “Meta-control” in Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience
2009 - 2014 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, European Post Graduate School in Addiction Research ESADD
2007 - 2009 Founding member of the Scientific Board of the European Platform for Life Science, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation to support young researcher working at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and the humanities
2005 - 2010 Spokesperson of the interdisciplinary research consortium “Control and Responsibility: On the Nature and Culture of Volition” funded by Volkswagen Foundation
since 1993 Ad-hoc reviewer for research funding agencies (DFG, VW-Stiftung, Canadian Research Council; Max-Planck-Society; International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie; Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft; German Workshop for Artificial Intelligence) and scientific journals (e.g., Psychological Review; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Cognition; Brain Research; Cognitive Brain Research; Neuropsychologia; Neuroimage; Psychophysiology; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Psychological Research; European Journal of Cognitive Psychology)
Organization of conferences, symposia and workshops (Selection)
since 1998 Organization of more than 40 scientific conferences, symposia and workshops, including:
2018 Organizer (with Prof. Veronika Job) of the International Symposium „Volition and Self-Control: From Metaphors to Mechanisms“, Dresden
2017 Bühler-Kolloquium of the Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden
2017 CRC 940 Workshop “Computational modeling of cognitive control”, TU Dresden
2017 Organizer of the 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP, >700 participants) (with co-organizers Clemens Kirschbaum and Annette Bolte)
2015 Organizer of the International Symposium “Have We Banished the Homunculus? Dynamic Regulation, Modulation, and Optimization of Cognitive Control”. Dresden.
2008 Co-organizer of the 9th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science (KogWis) (with Leon Urbas and Boris Velichkovsky)
Research Funding (past 10 years)
Note: In projects with several PIs, the total funding sum is equally distributed among PIs.
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Project leader(s) |
Project title |
Funding source |
Total funding sum (incl. overhead) |
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07/2022-12/2026 |
Goschke, Thomas Smolka, Michael Leech, Robert |
Learning, motivation, and cognitive control as transdiagnostic mechanisms in addiction and depression |
DFG (IRTG 2773) |
2 PhD students (75%); consu-mables |
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07/2020-06/2024 |
Goschke, Thomas Haynes, John-Dylan Möschl, Marcus |
Neurobehavioral mechanisms of shielding and shifting of intentions |
DFG (SFB 940/3; project A1) |
573 T € |
|
07/2020-06/2024 |
Goschke, Thomas Korb, Franziska Walter, Henrik |
Mechanisms of self-control: The role of anticipated emotions and future thinking in reward regulation |
DFG (SFB 940/3; project A6) |
552 T € |
|
07/2020-06/2024 |
Kiebel, Stefan Goschke, Thomas |
Towards a neurocomputational account of meta-control based on Bayesian inference in a context-specific hierarchy of time scales |
DFG (SFB 940/3; project A9) |
290 T € |
|
07/2020-06/2024 |
Goschke, Thomas Bühringer, Gerhard Smolka, Michael |
Volitional dysfunction in self-control failures and addictive behaviors |
DFG (SFB 940/3; project C1) |
716 T € |
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07/2020-06/2024 |
Goschke, Thomas |
Administration and central tasks |
DFG (SFB 940/3; project Z3) |
2,573 T € |
|
07/2016-06/2020 |
Goschke, Thomas Haynes, John-Dylan Walser, Moritz |
Neurobehavioral mechanisms of shielding and shifting of intentions |
DFG (SFB 940/2; project A1) |
614 T € |
|
07/2016-06/2020 |
Goschke, Thomas Korb, Franziska Wolfensteller, Uta |
Mechanisms of self-control: The role of anticipated emotions and future thinking in reward regulation |
DFG (SFB 940/2; project A6) |
614 T € |
|
07/2016-06/2020 |
Kiebel, Stefan Goschke, Thomas |
Computational modelling of cognitive control over multiple trials |
DFG (SFB 940/2; project A9) |
555 T € |
|
07/2016-06/2020 |
Goschke, Thomas Bühringer, Gerhard Smolka, Michael |
Volitional dysfunction in self-control failures and addictive behaviors |
DFG (SFB 940/2; project C1) |
762 T € |
|
07/2016-06/2020 |
Goschke, Thomas |
Administration and central tasks |
DFG (SFB 940/2; project Z3) |
2,153 T € |
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07/2012-06/2016 |
Goschke, Thomas Wolfensteller, Uta |
Mechanisms of self-control: The role of anticipated emotions and future thinking in reward regulation |
DFG (SFB 940/1; project A6) |
497 T € |
|
07/2012-06/2016 |
Bolte, Annette Ruge, Hannes Goschke, Thomas |
Emotional modulation of cognitive control: Effects of positive affect and reward cues on the stability-flexibility balance |
DFG (SFB 940/1; project B1) |
425 T € |
|
07/2012-06/2016 |
Smolka, Michael Goschke, Thomas |
Dopaminergic modulation of meta-control parameters and the stability-flexibility balance |
DFG (SFB 940/1; project B3) |
777 T € |
|
07/2012-06/2016 |
Goschke, Thomas Bühringer, Gerhard Smolka, Michael |
Volitional dysfunction in self-control failures and addictive behaviors |
DFG (SFB 940/1; project C1) |
766 T € |
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07/2012-06/2016 |
Goschke, Thomas |
Administration and central tasks |
DFG (SFB 940/1; project Z3) |
2,216 T € |
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2006- 2011 |
PI: Goschke, Thomas Co-PIs: Wolfgang Prinz Wilhelm Vossenkuhl Sabine Maasen Henrik Walter Sabine Döring |
Kontrolle und Verantwortung: Zur Natur und Kultur des Wollens |
Volkswagen-Stiftung II/80 774 |
700 T € |
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04/2011- 03/2013 |
Goschke, Thomas, (PI) G. Bühringer (Co-PI) |
Sucht als Volitionsstörung: Beeinträchtigungen kognitiver Kontrollfunktionen bei Substanzstörungen am Beispiel der Nikotinabhängigkeit |
DFG GO 720/8-1 |
231 T € |
Publications
115 journal articles, 39 book chapters (90 first or senior authorships)
Google Scholar H-index: 49
10 selected publications from the past 10 years
Clay, G., Mlynski, C., Korb, F. M., Goschke, T.*, & Job, V. (2022). Rewarding cognitive effort increases the intrinsic value of mental labor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(5), e2111785119; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111785119
*shared senior authorship
Krönke, K. M., Mohr, H., Wolff, M., Kräplin, A., Smolka, M. N., Bühringer, G., Ruge, H., & Goschke, T. (2021). Real-Life Self-Control is Predicted by Parietal Activity During Preference Decision Making: A Brain Decoding Analysis. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(5), 936-947. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00913-w
Markovic, D., Goschke, T., & Kiebel, S. J. (2021). Meta-control of the exploration-exploitation dilemma emerges from probabilistic inference over a hierarchy of time scales. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(3), 509-533. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00837-x
Krönke, K. M., Wolff, M., Mohr, H., Kräplin, A., Smolka, M. N., Bühringer, G., & Goschke, T. (2020). Predicting Real-Life Self-Control From Brain Activity Encoding the Value of Anticipated Future Outcomes. Psychological Science, 31(3), 268-279. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619896357
Krönke, K. M., Wolff, M., Shi, Y., Kräplin, A., Smolka, M. N., Bühringer, G., & Goschke, T. (2020). Functional connectivity in a triple-network saliency model is associated with real-life self-control. Neuropsychologia, 149, 107667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107667
Krönke, K. M., Wolff, M., Mohr, H., Kräplin, A., Smolka, M. N., Bühringer, G., & Goschke, T. (2018). Monitor yourself! Deficient error-related brain activity predicts real-life self-control failures. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(4), 622-637. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-018-0593-5
Wolff, M., Krönke, K. M., Venz, J., Kräplin, A., Bühringer, G., Smolka, M. N., & Goschke, T. (2016). Action versus state orientation moderates the impact of executive functioning on real-life self-control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(12), 1635-1653. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000229
Goschke, T. (2014). Dysfunctions of decision-making and cognitive control as transdiagnostic mechanisms of mental disorders: advances, gaps, and needs in current research. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 23 Suppl 1, 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1410
Goschke, T., & Bolte, A. (2014). Emotional modulation of control dilemmas: the role of positive affect, reward, and dopamine in cognitive stability and flexibility. Neuropsychologia, 62, 403-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.07.015
Dshemuchadse, M., Scherbaum, S., & Goschke, T. (2013). How decisions emerge: action dynamics in intertemporal decision making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(1), 93-100. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028499
Teaching and mentoring
- Since 1990: more than 130 lectures and seminars for B.Sc. students in Psychology and M.Sc. students of Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience on a broad range of topics from general psychology and cognitive neuroscience (modules on perception, attention, thinking, problem-solving, language, decision-making, cognitive control and executive functions, learning and memory, motivation, emotion and volition); several courses at summer academies and doctoral workshops (Spring schools of the CRC 940; summer schools of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes; Interdisciplinary College of the Society of Computer Science)
- Karl and Charlotte Bühler award of the Faculty of Psychology for excellent teaching
- Mentor/advisor of more than 30 successfully finished doctoral theses and several habilitation candidates (five of whom received professorships or other tenured academic positions)