Dominik Straub

I’m a PhD student in the Psychology of Information Processing group at the Centre for Cognitive Science, TU Darmstadt.

I am interested in probabilistic models of perception and action in naturalistic sequential tasks. To understand the uncertainties, intrinsic costs of behavior, and subjective internal models involved in these tasks, I use computational modeling techniques including inverse optimal control and Bayesian inference.

I am into books, movies, and cooking.

news

Apr 21, 2023	New paper out today in Psychological Research: Huaiyong Zhao, Dominik Straub, Constantin A. Rothkopf: People learn a two-stage control for faster locomotor interception
Apr 6, 2023	Our submission to CogSci 2023 was accepted! Fabian Tatai, Dominik Straub, Constantin A. Rothkopf: ‘People use Newtonian physics in intuitive sensorimotor decisions under risk’
Sep 29, 2022	My paper with Constantin Rothkopf ‘Putting perception into action with inverse optimal control for continuous psychophysics’ has been published in eLife!
Jun 30, 2022	Our keynote & tutorial ‘Putting perception into action: Inverse optimal control for continuous psychophysics’ has been accepted to the 2022 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN).
Feb 23, 2022	I will be receiving a John I. Yellott Travel Award at the 2022 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

selected publications [view all]

eLife

Putting perception into action with inverse optimal control for continuous psychophysics

Dominik Straub, and Constantin A Rothkopf

eLife, 2022

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@article{straub2022putting,
  title = {Putting perception into action with inverse optimal control for continuous psychophysics},
  author = {Straub, Dominik and Rothkopf, Constantin A},
  editor = {Diedrichsen, Jörn and Gold, Joshua I},
  volume = {11},
  journal = {eLife},
  issn = {2050-084X},
  publisher = {eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd},
  year = {2022},
  month = sep,
  pub_date = {2022-09-29},
  pages = {e76635},
  citation = {eLife 2022;11:e76635},
  doi = {10.7554/eLife.76635},
  talk = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbO9n6_mNE},
}

NeurIPS

Inverse optimal control adapted to the noise characteristics of the human sensorimotor system

Matthias Schultheis*, Dominik Straub*, and Constantin A Rothkopf

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021

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@article{schultheis2021inverse,
  title = {Inverse optimal control adapted to the noise characteristics of the human sensorimotor system},
  author = {Schultheis*, Matthias and Straub*, Dominik and Rothkopf, Constantin A},
  journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume = {34},
  year = {2021},
}

FrontPsychol

Looking for image statistics: active vision with avatars in a naturalistic virtual environment

Dominik Straub, and Constantin A Rothkopf

Frontiers in psychology, 2021

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@article{straub2021looking,
  title = {Looking for image statistics: active vision with avatars in a naturalistic virtual environment},
  author = {Straub, Dominik and Rothkopf, Constantin A},
  journal = {Frontiers in psychology},
  volume = {12},
  pages = {431},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Frontiers},
}