Publications of Maria Waltmann

Fröhner, J. H., Waltmann, M., Reiter, A. M. F., Kräplin, A., & Smolka, M. N. (2025). Relevance of probabilistic reversal learning for adolescent drinking trajectories. Addiction Biology, 30. doi:10.1111/adb.70026

Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Reiter, A. M. F., Villringer, A., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. (2024). Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying differential reinforcement learning from wins and losses in obesity with and without binge eating. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 9, 1281–1290.

Scholz, V., Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. (2024). Decrease in decision noise from adolescence into adulthood mediates an increase in more sophisticated choice behaviors and performance gain. PLOS Biology, 22. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002877

Herzog, N., Hartmann, H., Janssen, L., Kanyamibwa, A., Waltmann, M., Kovacs, P., … Horstmann, A. (2024). Working memory gating in obesity is moderated by striatal dopaminergic gene variants. ELife, 13. doi:10.7554/eLife.93369

Herzog, N., Hartmann, H., Janssen, L., Waltmann, M., Fallon, S. J., Deserno, L., & Horstmann, A. (2024). Working memory gating in obesity: Insights from a case-control fMRI study. Appetite, 195. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2023.107179

Aster, H.-C., Waltmann, M., Busch, A., Romanos, M., Gamer, M., Maria van Noort, B., … Deserno, L. (2024). Impaired flexible reward learning in ADHD patients is associated with blunted reinforcement sensitivity and neural signals in ventral striatum and parietal cortex. NeuroImage: Clinical, 42. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103588

Zech, H., Waltmann, M., Lee, Y., Reichert, M., Bedder, R. L., Rutledge, R. B., … Deserno, L. (2023). Measuring self-regulation in everyday life: Reliability and validity of smartphone-based experiments in alcohol use disorder. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 4329–4342.

Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Reiter, A., Villringer, A., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. (2023). Diminished reinforcement sensitivity in adolescence is associated with enhanced response switching and reduced coding of choice probability in the medial frontal pole. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101226

Scholz, V., Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Reiter, A., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. (2023). Cortical grey matter mediates increases in model-based control and learning from positive feedback from adolescence to adulthood. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43, 2178–2189.

Waltmann, M., Schlagenhauf, F., & Deserno, L. (2022). Sufficient reliability of the behavioral and computational readouts of a probabilistic reversal learning task. Behavior Research Methods, 54, 2993–3014.

Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. (2021). Loss of control over eating: A systematic review of task based research into impulsive and compulsive processes in binge eating. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 129, 330–350.

Janssen, L., Herzog, N., Waltmann, M., Breuer, N., Wiencke, K., Rausch, F., … Horstmann, A. (2019). Lost in translation?: On the need for convergence in animal and human studies on the role of dopamine in diet-induced obesity. Current Addiction Reports, 6, 229–257 .

Waltmann, M., O'Daly, O., Egerton, A., McMullen, K., Kumari, V., Barker, G. J., … Modinos, G. (2018). Multi-echo fMRI, resting-state connectivity, and high psychometric schizotypy. NeuroImage: Clinical, 21. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2018.11.013

Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Reiter, A., Villringer, A., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. Neurocomputational mechanisms of differential reinforcement learning from wins and losses in obesity and binge eating. Poster presented at the Computational Psychiatry Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-96F2-3

Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Reiter, A., Villringer, A., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. Diminished reinforcement sensitivity in adolescence is associated with enhanced response switching and reduced coding of choice probability in the medial frontal pole. Poster presented at the Computational Psychiatry Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-96F4-1

Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Reiter, A., Villringer, A., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. Neurocomputational mechanisms of differential reinforcement learning from wins and losses in obesity and binge eating. Poster presented at the Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG), Hamburg, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-96E6-1

Herzog, N., Hartmann, H., Janssen, L. K., Kanyamibwa, A., Waltmann, M., Kovacs, P., … Horstmann, A. Impaired updating of working memory representations in individuals with high BMI. Poster presented at the 10th MindBrainBody Symposium, Berlin, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-F6CC-6

Waltmann, M., & Deserno, L. Retest reliability of a probabilistic reversal learning task: Readouts from raw behaviour. Poster presented at the 16th Leipzig Research Festival of Life Sciences, Studienzentrum der Medizinischen Fakultät, University Leipzig, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-9B8C-F

Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Villringer, A., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. Does enhanced switching between potentially punishing option contribute to maladaptive decision-making in binge-eating disorder? Poster presented at the IMPRS Summer School 2019, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-D84C-5

Breuer, N., Poessel, M., Waltmann, M., Hummel, T., & Horstmann, A. Neural responses to food odors in obesity: Proposal of an fMRI study. Poster presented at the 3rd Nordic Neuroscience Meeting , Helsinki, Finland. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-D85A-5