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Johannes Passecker

Innsbruck Medical UniversityORCID 0000-0002-4366-2691Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Animal Behavior & Cognition· 1 Neuroscience· 1

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Approach:Bayesian inference· 1 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:non-human primate· 1 Organism:rat· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Alexander Wallerus· 1 shared Karl John FristoniD· 1 shared Martin KronbichleriD· 1 shared Philipp SchwartenbeckiD· 1 shared Sofia Castro e Almeida· 1 shared Thomas H. B. FitzGeraldiD· 1 shared Tobias U. HauseriD· 1 shared

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Neurokraken: A fully flexible, open-source, python-based neuroscience behavior platform

Alexander Wallerus, Sofia Castro e Almeida, Johannes Passecker

Neurokraken provides an open-source, Python-based platform for designing and executing flexible behavioral experiments across species and setups.

bioRxiv · Jul 6, 2026 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition

Computational mechanisms of curiosity and goal-directed exploration

Philipp Schwartenbeck, Johannes Passecker, Tobias U. Hauser, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald, Martin Kronbichler, Karl John Friston

The paper presents two computational mechanisms for goal-directed exploration based on different types of information-gain, showing how they induce distinct patterns of Bayes-optimal behavior.

eLife · May 10, 2019Peer-reviewedNeuroscience