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Dr. Ullrich Ecker

 

I am a post-doctoral research fellow and was previously at the Brain & Cognition lab at Saarland University in Germany.

Here is my vita: (pdf)

Research Interests

Human memory (episodic memory; recognition memory; implicit memory; working memory)

Feature binding & perceptual specificity of memory

Attentional modulation of memory processes

Failure of memory (due to brain-lesions/-disease or interference in a broader sense)

Brain imaging (esp. event-related potentials (ERPs), also fMRI)

Connectionist, structural equation & multinomial modelling

Neuropsychological diagnostics & behavioural neuropsychology

Clinical-forensic psychology

Grants & Fellowships

 

        2009 "Intrinsic & Extrinsic Binding in Working Memory"; UWA Research Development Award, $20,000

       

        2009-2010 UWA School of Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Development Program; $27,000

 

Publications

Journal articles (peer reviewed; * indicates co-authorship of masters and honours students)

Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & *Tang, D. T. W. (submitted). Explicit warnings reduce but do not eliminate the continued influence of misinformation.

Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., Yang, L. X., & Ecker, U. K. H. (submitted). A working memory test battery for Matlab.

Wobrock, T., Hasan, A., Malchow, B., Wolff-Menzler, C., Guse, B., Lang, N., Schneider-Axmann, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Falkai, P. (under revision). Increased cortical inhibition deficits in first-episode schizophrenia with comorbid cannabis abuse. Psychopharmacology.

Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (invited paper; under revision). Remembering perceptual features unequally bound in Object and Episodic tokens: Neural mechanisms and their electrophysiological correlates. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.

Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & *Apai, J. (submitted). Terrorists brought down the plane!—No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information.

Groh-Bordin, C., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (under revision). A rose is not a rose is not a rose: Electrophysiological correlates of exemplar-specific processes in implicit and explicit memory.

Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & *Chee, A. E. H. (in press). The components of working memory updating: An experimental decomposition and individual differences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.(pdf) This paper won a "best work accepted for publication by a UWA early-career researcher" special commendation award  :-)

Ecker, U. K. H., *Arend, A. M., *Bergström, K., & Zimmer, H. D. (2009). Verbal predicates foster recollection but not familiarity of a task-irrelevant featurean ERP study. Consciousness & Cognition, 18, 679-689.(pdf)

Wobrock, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Scherk, H., Schneider-Axmann, T., Falkai, P., & Gruber, O. (in press). Cognitive impairment of executive function as a core symptom of schizophrenia. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. (pdf)

Bermeitinger, C., *Goelz, R., *Johr, N., *Neumann, M., Ecker, U. K. H., & Doerr, R. (2009). The hidden persuaders break into the tired brain. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 320-326.(pdf)

Ecker, U. K. H., & Zimmer, H. D. (2009). ERP evidence for flexible adjustment of retrieval orientation and its influence on familiarity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1907-1919.(pdf)

Wobrock, T., Schneider, M., Kadovic, D., Schneider-Axmann, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Retz, W., Rösler, M., & Falkai, P. (2008). Reduced cortical inhibition in first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 105, 252-261.(pdf)

Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., & Groh-Bordin, C. (2007). The influence of object and background color manipulations on the electrophysiological indices of recognition memory. Brain Research, 1185, 221-230.(pdf)

Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., & Groh-Bordin, C. (2007). Color and context: An ERP study on intrinsic and extrinsic feature binding in episodic memory. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1483-1501.(pdf)

Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., Groh-Bordin, C., & Mecklinger, A. (2007). Context effects on familiarity are familiarity effects of context - An electrophysiological study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 64, 146-156.(pdf)  
...one of the Top 25 Hottest Articles of the IntJPsychophys (April-June 2007) :-)

Groh-Bordin, C., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2006). Has the butcher on the bus dyed his hair? When color changes modulate ERP correlates of familiarity and recollection. NeuroImage, 32, 1879-1890.(pdf)

Zimmer, H. D., Steiner, A., & *Ecker, U. K. H. (2002). How "implicit" are implicit color effects in memory? Experimental Psychology, 49, 120-131.(pdf)

 

Conference papers (peer reviewed)

        Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2009). Components of working memory updating. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 347-352). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

 

Books and book chapters

Ecker, U. K. H. (2007). Objects in context. The neurocognitive representation, binding, and processing of object and context features in recognition memory – An electrophysiological approach. Saarbruecken, Germany: VDM.  Dissertation, Saarland University, Saarbruecken; also available online
Permanent URL:http://psydok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2007/987/
Permanent URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-psydok-9877

Ecker, U. K. H., Groh-Bordin, C., & Zimmer, H. D. (2004). Electrophysiological correlates of specific feature binding in remembering – Introducing a neurocognitive model of human memory. In A. Mecklinger, H. D. Zimmer, & U. Lindenberger (Eds.), Bound in Memory – Insights from Behavioral and Neuropsychological Studies (pp.159-193). Aachen, Germany: Shaker.(pdf)

 

Book reviews

Ecker, U. K. H. (submitted). Book Review of The Visual World in Memory, edited by J. R. Brockmole. Perception.

 

 

Other not-so-professional "interests"

My (Ex-) band raindog - our latest studio CD 'dive' actually brought us a record deal in Germany :-) - so sorry, no longer downloadable...for our first CD 'from genes to behaviour', click here: progressive.emotional.rock.

My kids Toby & Danny

Traveling (Australia)

Australian Rules Football (Go the Saints! NAB cup premiers 2008 :-) !!!)

 

 

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