Mona Garvert

Laufbahn

Seit 2023
Juniorprofessur für Neurowissenschaften
Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Deutschland

2022-2023
Lead Research Scientist
Alena, London, UK

2018-2021
Gruppenleiterin
Abteilung für Psychologie, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften Leipzig, Deutschland

2016-2017
Postdoctoral Researcher
FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford, UK

Ausbildung

2011-2016 Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD in Neuroscience
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, Großbritannien

2008-2010 Master of Science in Neuro-cognitive Psychology
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Deutschland

2007-2008 Master 1 Biosciences
École Normale Superieure de Lyon, Frankreich 

2005-2007 Vordiplom Molekulare Medizin
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Deutschland

Peer-reviewed

Zheng XY, Garvert MM, den Ouden HE, Horstman LI, Richter D & Cools R (2025). Abstract rule generalization for composing novel meaning recruits a frontoparietal control network. Imaging Neuroscience, 3, IMAG-a.

Su Z, Garvert MM, Zhang L, Vogel TA, Cutler J, Husain M, Manohar SG & Lockwood PL (2025). Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting. PLoS biology, 23(4), e3003079.

Demircan C, Saanum T, Pettini L, Binz M, Baczkowski BM, Doeller CF, Garvert MM & Schulz E (2024). Evaluating alignment between humans and neural network representations in image-based learning tasks. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 37, 122406-122433.

Garvert MM, McFadyen J, Linke S, McCloud T, Meyer SS, Sobanska S, Sharp PB, Long A, Huys QJM, & Ahmadi M (2024). Safety and efficacy of a modular digital psychptherapy for social anxiety: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27, e64138.

Su Z, Garvert MM, Zhang L, Manohar SG, Vogel TA, Thomas L, Balsters J, Husain M, Apps MAJ & Lockwood P (2024). Older adults are more susceptible to impulsive social influence. Commun Psychol 2, 87.

Witkowski P, Rondot L, Kurth-Nelson Z, Garvert MM, Dolan RJ, Behrens TE, & Boorman E (2024). Neural mechanisms of credit assignment for delayed outcomes during contingent learning. eLife, 13, RP101841.

Zheng XY, Hebart MN, Grill F, Dolan RJ, Doeller CF, Cools R & Garvert MM (2024). Parallel cognitive maps for multiple knowledge structures in the hippocampal formation. Cerebral Cortex 34 (2):bhad485 

Nitsch A, Garvert MM, Bellmund JLS, Schuck NW, Doeller CF (2024). Grid-like entorhinal representation of an abstract value space during prospective decision making. Nature Communications 15, 1198

Moneta N, Garvert MM, Heekeren HR & Schuck NW (2023). Task state representations in vmPFC mediate relevant and irrelevant value signals and their behavioral influence. Nature Communications, 14(1), 3156.

Garvert MM, Saanum T, Schulz E, Schuck NW, Doeller CF (2023). Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization. Nature Neuroscience (4):615-626

Moneta N, Garvert MM, Heekeren HR, Schuck NW (2023). Task state representations in vmPFC mediate relevant and irrelevant value signals and their behavioral influence. Nature Communications (1):3156

Demircan, C, Pettini, L, Saanum, T, Binz, M, Baczkowski, BM, Doeller, C, Garvert, MM, Schulz, E (2022). Decision-making with naturalistic options. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44). 

Thomas L, Lockwood PL, Garvert MM, Balsters JH (2022). Contagion of temporal discounting value preferences in neurotypical and autistic adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1,14

Baram A, Muller TH, Nili H, Garvert MM & Behrens TEJ (2021). Entorhinal and ventromedial prefrontal cortices abstract and generalise the structure of reinforcement learning problems. Neuron 109(4), 713-723. e7

Wu CM, Schulz E, Garvert MM, Meder B, Schuck NW (2020) Similarities and differences in spatial and non-spatial cognitive maps. PLoS Comput Biol 16(9): e1008149.

Garvert MM, Dolan RJ & Behrens TEJ (2017). A map of abstract relational knowledge in human hippocampal-entorhinal cortex. eLife6: e17086

Barron HC, Garvert MM & Behrens TEJ (2016). Repetition suppression: a means to index neural representations using BOLD, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, B 371: 20150355      

Garvert MM, Moutoussis M, Kurth-Nelson Z, Behrens TEJ & Dolan RJ (2015). Learning-induced plasticity in medial prefrontal cortex predicts preference malleability. Neuron 85: 418-428

Barron, HC, Garvert, MM & Behrens TEJ (2015). Reassessing VMPFC: full of confidence? Nature Neuroscience18, 1064–1066

Engl, E & Garvert, MM (2015). A prophylactic role for creatine in hypoxia? Journal of Neuroscience 35, 9249–9251

Garvert MM, Friston KJ, Dolan RJ & Garrido MI (2014). Subcortical amygdala pathways enable rapid face processing. NeuroImage102: 309-316 

Garvert MM and Gollisch T (2013). Global and local contrast adaptation in retinal ganglion cells. Neuron 77: 915-928   

Preprints

Shi Y & Garvert MM (2025). Forming, selecting and updating cognitive maps to support flexible behavior: relevance for anxiety.

Baram A, Nili H, Barreiros I, Samborska V, Behrens TE & Garvert MM (2024). An abstract relational map emerges in the human medial prefrontal cortex with consolidation. bioRxiv, 2024-10.

Nitsch A, De Haas N, Garvert MM, & Doeller CF (2024). Integrating episodic and spatial context signals in the hippocampus. bioRxiv 

Zheng X, Petukhova A, Roelofs J, Garvert MM, den Ouden H, & Cools R. (2024). This Paper is "Un-rejectable-ish": Learning and Generalization of Novel Compositional Meanings. PsyArXiv. 

Wu CM, Schulz E, Garvert MM, Meder B, Schuck NW (2018) Connecting conceptual and spatial search via a model of generalization. bioRxiv, 258665

1. Lernen und Gedächtnis

2. Neuronale Repräsentationen

3. Cognitive Computational Neuroscience