Supervision

Completed Ph.D. theses

• Tüttenberg SC (2019)., Durham University.
• Altmann CS (2017). “Effects of facial attractiveness on memory”. Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
• Komes J (2014). “Disentangling older adults’ difficulties in person memory – neurophysiological studies on face and name processing”. Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
• Wolff N (2013). “Behavioral and neural correlates of age and gender-related biases in face recognition memory: The role of expertise and social categorization”. Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
• Stahl J (2010). “Determinants of the own-race bias and neural correlates of own- and other-race face processing”. Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.

M.Sc./Diploma theses

• Ma J (2015). “Effects of attractiveness and ethnic group on ERP correlates of face perception”. Master dissertation in Cognitive Neuroscience, Durham University.
• Tüttenberg S (2014). “Effects of age in cross-modal immediate repetition priming in face recognition: An event-related potential study”. M.Sc. thesis, FSU Jena.
• Atzmüller J (2014). “Effects of aging on semantic priming in face recognition: An event-related brain potential study”. M.Sc. thesis, FSU Jena.
• Krahmer F (2013). “Configural processing of own and unfamiliar faces in body dysmorphic disorder – An EEG study on the inversion effect”. M.Sc. thesis, FSU Jena.
• Altmann CS (2012). “Uncommonly typical. Attractiveness biases in recognition memory for faces irrespective of distinctiveness – an ERP study”. M.Sc. thesis, FSU Jena.
• Engel V (2012). “Deficits in configural face processing in schizotypy – An influence on the own-race bias? An EEG study”. M.Sc. thesis, FSU Jena.
• Lorenz P (2012). „Perception of facial age – the influence of shape and texture“. Diploma thesis, FSU Jena.
• Tuch C (2012). „The influence of expertise on memory for child faces“. Diploma thesis, FSU Jena.
• Kemter K (2011). „The own-gender bias. Influence of gender on memory for faces“. Diploma thesis, FSU Jena.
• Komes J (2010). „The own-age bias in face recognition memory: An ERP study in high and low performing elderly adults“. M.Sc. thesis, University of Erfurt.
• Petzold P (2010). „An EEG study on priming young and old faces in young and old participants“. Diploma thesis, FSU Jena.
• Hansen K (2008). „The other-age effect – Age effects on memory for faces“. Diploma thesis, FSU Jena.
• Stahl J (2007). „Expertise and the other-race effect“. Diploma thesis, FSU Jena.

Undergraduate/B.Sc. theses

I currently supervise eight undergraduate dissertations at Durham University.

• Jeffers L (2016). “ERP correlates of aesthetic judgments of eye colour in blue-eyed males“. Winner of the David Kleinman Dissertation Prize,  Science Faculty, Durham University.
• Pourreza T (2016). “Perceiving attractiveness in blue and brown eyed faces: An ERP study”. Durham University.
• Chen V (2016). “The role of an avatar’s cuteness for decision making in the Prisoner’s Dilemma”. Durham University.
• Friedrich M (2013). “Influence of social group membership on face perception and memory”. FSU Jena.
• Grigutsch LA (2013). “Neural correlates of memory for own- and other-group faces”. FSU Jena
• Blatz L (2012). „Does social categorization result in an own-group advantage for faces? Testing socio-cognitive theories with event-related potentials“. FSU Jena.
• End A (2011). „The role of attentional resources for the own-age bias in recognition memory for unfamiliar faces – An ERP study“. FSU Jena.
• Damm M (2011). „Age effects on sex categorization of faces“. FSU Jena.
• Kachel U (2010). „Examining holistic processing of young and old faces – an ERP study“. FSU Jena.