• metacognition
• cognitive modelling
• mathematical modelling of behaviour,
• perceptual decision making
• decision confidence
• visual awareness
• metapsychology

• since 2024: Substitute professor at the Chair for General Psychology, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• since 2023: Research Fellow at the Faculty Society and Economics, Rhine Waal University of Applied Sciences, Cleves (currently on sabbatical leave)
• 2021 - 2024: Habilitation in Psychology at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Yearly prize for the best Habilitation at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
• 2016-2023: Research Fellow (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit) the Professorship for General Psychology II, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• 2015-2016: Research Assistant at the Professorship for General Psychology II, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• 2012-2016: PhD in Systemic Neurosciences at the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Munich
• 2012-2015: Research Assistant at the Chair for General and Experimental Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich

Rausch, M. & Hellmann, S. (2024). statConfR: Models of Decision Confidence and Metacognition. [R package version 0.1.1]. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/statConfR/index.html

Hellmann, S. & Rausch, M. (2024). dynConfiR: Dynamic Models for Confidence and Response Time Distributions. [R package version 0.0.4]. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dynConfiR

Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Alarie, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Aldoh, A., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Azevedo, F., Baker, B. J., Barth, C. L., Beitner, J., Brick, C., Brohmer, H., … Rausch, M., … Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12(8), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101

Mushtaq, F., Welke, D., Gallagher, A., Pavlov Y. G., Kouara, L., Bosch-Bayard, J., van den Bosch J. J. F., Arvaneh, M., Bland A. R., Chaumon, M., Borck, C., He, X., Luck, S. J., Machizawa, M. G., Pernet, C., Puce, A., Segalowitz, S., Rogers, C., Awais, M., … Rausch, M., … Valdez-Sosa, P. (2024). One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1437–1443. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01941-5

Hellmann, S., Zehetleitner, M., & Rausch, M. (2024). Confidence is influenced by evidence accumulation time in dynamical decision models. Computational Brain & Behavior, 7, 287 – 313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-024-00205-9

Rausch, M., Hellmann, S., & Zehetleitner, M. (2023). Measures of metacognitive efficiency across cognitive models of decision confidence. Psychological Methods. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000634

Rausch, M., & Zehetleitner, M. (2023). Evaluating false positive rates of standard and hierarchical measures of metacognitive accuracy. Metacognition & Learning, 18, 863–889. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09353-y

Hellmann, S., Zehetleitner, M., & Rausch, M. (2023). Simultaneous modeling of choice, confidence, and response time in visual perception. Psychological Review, 130(6), 1521-1543. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000411

Rausch, M., Hellmann, S., & Zehetleitner, M. (2021). Modelling visibility judgments using models of decision confidence. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 83(8), 3311-3336. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02284-3

Rausch, M., Zehetleitner, M., Steinhauser, M., & Maier, M. E. (2020). Cognitive modelling reveals distinct electrophysiological markers of decision confidence and error monitoring. NeuroImage, 218, 116963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116963

Rahnev, D., Desender, K., Lee, A. L. F., Adler, W. T., Aguilar-Lleyda, D., Akdoğan, B., Arbuzova, P., Atlas, L. Y., Balcı, F., Bang, J. W., Bègue, I., Birney, D. P., Brady, T. F., Calder-Travis, J., Chetverikov, A., Clark, T. K., Davranche, K., Denison, R. N., … Rausch, M., … Zylberberg, A. (2020). The Confidence Database. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 317–325. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0813-

Rausch, M., & Zehetleitner, M. (2019). The folded X-pattern is not necessarily a statistical signature of decision confidence. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(10), e1007456. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007456

Rausch, M., Hellmann, S., & Zehetleitner, M. (2018). Confidence in masked orientation judgments is informed by both evidence and visibility. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 80(1), 134–154. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1431-5

Schlagbauer, B., Rausch, M., Zehetleitner, M., Müller, H. J., & Geyer, T. (2018). Contextual cueing of visual search is associated with greater subjective experience of the search display configuration. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 4(1), niy001. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niy001

Rausch, M., & Zehetleitner, M. (2017). Should metacognition be measured by logistic regression? Consciousness and Cognition, 49, 291–312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.02.00

Rausch, M., & Zehetleitner, M. (2016). Visibility is not equivalent to confidence in a low contrast orientation discrimination task. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 591. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00591

Rausch, M., Müller, H. J., & Zehetleitner, M. (2015). Metacognitive sensitivity of subjective reports of decisional confidence and visual experience. Consciousness and Cognition, 35, 192–205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.02.011

Rausch, M., & Zehetleitner, M. (2014). A comparison between a visual analogue scale and a four point scale as measures of conscious experience of motion. Consciousness and Cognition, 28(1), 126–140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.06.012

Zehetleitner, M., & Rausch, M. (2013)*. Being confident without seeing: What subjective measures of visual consciousness are about. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 75(7), 1406–1426. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-013-0505-2