Prof. Dr. Nicola Ferdinand
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Entwicklung kognitiver Funktionen über die Lebensspanne, insbesondere Fehler- und Feedbackverarbeitung, exekutive Kontrolle, implizites und explizites Lernen und Gedächtnis
- Einfluss motivationaler und emotionaler Aspekte auf die kognitive Entwicklung
- Förderung von Lernprozessen
- Neurophysiologische Korrelate entwicklungsbedingter Veränderungen
Ausgewählte Publikationen
- Ferdinand, N.K., & Hilz, M. (2020). Emotional feedback ameliorates older adults’ feedback-induced learning. PLOSOne, 15(4): e0231964. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231964
- Gajewski, P. D., Ferdinand, N. K., Kray, J., & Falkenstein, M. (2018). Understanding sources of adult age differences in task switching: Evidence from behavioral and ERP studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 92, 255–275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.05.029
- Ferdinand, N. K., & Czernochowski, D. (2018). Motivational Influences on Performance Monitoring and Cognitive Control Across the Adult Lifespan. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1018. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01018
- Ferdinand, N. K., & Kray, J. (2017). Does language help regularity learning? The influence of verbalizations on implicit sequential regularity learning and the emergence of explicit knowledge in children, younger and older adults. Developmental Psychology, 53(3), 597–610. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000262
- Ferdinand, N. K., Becker, A. M. W., Kray, J., & Gehring, W. J. (2016). Feedback processing in children and adolescents: Is there a sensitivity for processing rewarding feedback? Neuropsychologia, 82, 31–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.01.007
- Ferdinand, N. K., & Kray, J. (2014). Developmental changes in performance monitoring: How electrophysiological data can enhance our understanding of error and feedback processing in childhood and adolescence. Behavioural Brain Research, 263, 122–132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.01.029
- Ferdinand, N. K., & Opitz, B. (2015). Different aspects of performance feedback engage different brain areas: Disentangling valence and expectancy in feedback processing. Scientific Reports, 4(1), 5986. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep05986
- Ferdinand, N. K., Mecklinger, A., Kray, J., & Gehring, W. J. (2012). The processing of unexpected positive response outcomes in the mediofrontal cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(35), 12087–12092. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1410-12.2012
