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Dr P. (Philipp) Musfeld

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Psychological Methods
Area of expertise: Memory and Learning, Cognitive Modeling, Bayesian Statistics
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 129
Postal address
  • Postbus 15906
    1001 NK Amsterdam
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    I am an experimental cognitive psychologist with a strong background in methods and analytics, currently working in the Psychological Methods Group at the University of Amsterdam. Most of my research focuses on fundamental processes of human memory and learning, and I use statistical and computational modeling to formalize and test theoretical ideas about cognitive processes. In addition, I also work on Bayesian statistics, theory development, open science, and the improvement of (psychological) science.

  • Publications

    2025

    • Lange, J., Freyer, N., Musfeld, P., Schönbrodt, F., & Leising, D. (2025). A Checklist for Incentivizing and Facilitating Good Theory Building. Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000604
    • Rodriguez, A., Musfeld, P., & Bartsch, L. M. (2025). The Flexibility of Working Memory in Drawing on Episodic Long-Term Memory Representations in Serial Recall. Journal of Cognition, 8(1), 40. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.451

    2024

    • Bartsch, L. M., & Musfeld, P. (2024). Delayed memory for complex visual stimuli does not benefit from distraction during encoding. Memory and Cognition, 52(8), 1833-1851. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-023-01471-x
    • Dames, H., Musfeld, P., Popov, V., Oberauer, K., & Frischkorn, G. T. (2024). Responsible Research Assessment Should Prioritize Theory Development and Testing Over Ticking Open Science Boxes: Meta-Psychology. Meta-Psychology, 8. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2023.3735
    • Musfeld, P., Dutli, J., Oberauer, K., & Bartsch, L. M. (2024). Grouping in working memory guides chunk formation in long-term memory: Evidence from the Hebb effect. Cognition, 248, 105795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105795
    • Musfeld, P., Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2024). Testing expectations and retrieval practice modulate repetition learning of visuospatial arrays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 50(5), 740-758. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001298

    2023

    • Musfeld, P., Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2023). Repetition learning is neither a continuous nor an implicit process. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(16), Article e2218042120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2218042120

    2025

    2022

    • Gärtner, A., Leising, D., Freyer, N., Musfeld, P., Lange, J., & Schönbrodt, F. D. (2022). Responsible Research Assessment II: A specific proposal for hiring and promotion in psychology. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5yexm
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