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Prof. Dr. Axel Mecklinger
Contact: Tel: 0049-(0)681-302-6510 or -6515
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Prof. Dr. Axel Mecklinger
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German
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Date of Birth
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May 15, 1961
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Experimental Neuropsychology Unit Postfach 151150 D-66041 Saarbrücken
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++49-681-302 6515 /6510 (work) ++49-681-9273299 (home)
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1982-1986 |
Psychology at the Free University of Berlin
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1984 |
Prediploma in Psychology
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1986 |
Diploma in Psychology
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1991 |
Ph.D. in Psychology, Free University of Berlin Dissertation: Gedächtnissuchprozesse: Eine Analyse ereigniskorrelierter Potentiale und der EEG Spontanaktivität [Memory search processes: A combined analysis of event-related potentials and spontaneous EEG activity]
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Dec 1997 |
Habilitation in Psychology, University of Leipzig Habilitation Thesis: Orte und Objekte Elektrophysiologische Studien zum visuellen Arbeitsgedächnis [Places and Objects: Electrophysiological studies on visual working memory]
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March 1998 - Sep 2000
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Privatdozent at the University of Leipzig
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1987-1992
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Research assistant in Biological Psychology, Psychology Department, Free University of Berlin
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March 1990 & July 1993
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Research visits: Psychology Department, University of California in San Diego (UCSD) (A. Osman) and Psychology Department, Columbia University, New York (G. Gratton) |
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1992-1995 |
Research assistant in Cognitive Psychology, Psychology Department, Free University of Berlin |
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1995-1998 |
Scientific Staff Member, Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig |
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June 1998 |
Research stay: Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience, CNRS, Marseille (France) |
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1999-2000 |
Senior Research Scientist (C3 Position), Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig |
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Oct 2000 - Feb 2001 |
Full Professor of Psychology (C3), Saarland University, Saarbrücken |
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Dec 2000 |
Offer for a full professorship "Cognitive Neuroscience", Psychology Department, University of Amsterdam |
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March 2001 |
Research visit: Cognitive Electrophysiology Laboratory, New York Psychiatric Hospital, USA. (D. Friedman) |
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March 2001 |
Full Professor of Psychology (C4), Saarland University, Saarbrücken |
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May 2002 |
Organisation of the International Conference "Binding in Human Memory: A Neurocognitive Approach", Saarland University, Saarbrücken |
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Oct 2002 - Oct 2004 |
Managing Professor, Psychology Department, Saarland University, Saarbrücken |
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Since Sept 2003 |
Speaker of the DFG Research Group FOR 448: Binding: Functional Architecture, Neuronal Correlates and Onthogenesis |
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January 2004 |
Offer for a full professorship "Allgemeine Psychologie", Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena |
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Jan 2003 - Dec 2005 |
Associate Editor: PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY |
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March 2007 |
Organisation of the 8th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science at Saarland University (250 Participants) |
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Oct 2007 - Oct 2008 |
Managing Professor, Psychology Department, Saarland University, Saarbrücken |
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Since April 2008 |
Speaker of the International Research Training Group "Adaptive minds" |
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Since May 2008 |
Action Editor: BRAIN & COGNITION |
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Apr 1989 - Oct 1989 |
Research fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of lllinois in Champaign/Urbana, USA
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June 1994 |
Participant of the 1994 European Summerschool on Cognitive Neuroscience
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Sep 1994 |
Research fellow at the Armstrong Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio (Windows On Science Program of the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research) |
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June 1992 |
Nachwuchswissenschaftlerpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendungen [Early career award of the German Psychophysiology Society] |
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April 1994
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Federation Prize of the European Federation of Psychophysiology Societies |
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Oct 1999 |
Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychophysiology Society for Psychphysiological Research |
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Research grants of the German Science Foundation (DFG): "Neurotopologische und temporale Organisation der Sprachverarbeitung" [Neurotopological and temporal aspects of language processing] (together with A.D. Friederici) |
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1992-1994 |
(1) "Syntaktische und lexikalische Prozesse" [Syntactic and lexical processes] |
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1994-1996 |
(2) "Die Verarbeitung struktureller Information" [Processing structural information] |
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1996-1998 |
(3) "Interaktion von syntaktischen, semantischen und Gedächtnisprozessen" [Interactions between syntactic, semantic and memory processes]
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DFG Research Group (FOR 309): Working Memory: Input, Rehearsal and Retrieval Processes |
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1998-2001 |
Rehearsalfunktionen des visuellen Arbeitsgedächtnis [Rehearsal in visual working memory] (together with A.D. Friederici) |
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1998-2001 |
Priming von Figur-Grund-Bildungsprozessen durch synchrone 40Hz Oszillationen figuraler Elemente [Priming of Figure- Ground-Segmentation Processes by synchronous 40 Hz Oscillations] (together with H. Müller) |
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2001-2003 |
Repräsentationsformate des visuellen Arbeitsgedächtnisses [Representation formats in visual working memory] (together with A.D. Friederici] |
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DFG Research Group (FOR 448): |
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2002-2004/ 2005-2007 |
Binding: Functional architecture, neuronal correlates and onthogenesis Merkmalsbindung und Erinnern [Feature binding and recognition memory] |
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DFG Collaborative Research Center (SFB 378): Resource adaptive cognitive processes |
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2002-2004 |
Functional and psychophysiological analyses of visual working memory (together with Hubert Zimmer) |
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2005-2007 |
Task-specific encoding and recoding within working memory (together with Hubert Zimmer) |
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2005-2007 |
Aging, Resources, Cognition and Error-induced learning (together with Jutta Kray) |
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2008- |
Diagnosis of memory processes in children with perinatal disorders and their controls (DFG: Ki 1399/1-1) (together with Kerstin Kipp) |
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2008- |
International Research Training Group: Adaptive minds: Neural and Environmental Constraints on Learning and Memory (IRTG: 1457) |
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Since 1992 |
Member of the Society for Psychophysiological Research |
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Since 1993 |
Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie |
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Since 1993 |
Member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society |
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Neurocognition of Memory and Language; Executive functions; Spatiotemporal brain imaging (EEG; MEG, fMRI); Neuropsychological disorders (Amnesia); |
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Acta Psychologia / Biological Psychology / Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Brain / Cerebral Cortex / Cognitive Brain Research / International Journal of Psychophysiology /Journal of Psychophysiology / Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience / Kognitionswissenschaft / Psychological Research / Psychological Science / Psychophysiology / Neuron / Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie |
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