Research Interests

In my research, I want to understand how human memory works. Which structures are involved in certain processes, in what form and when. The concept of memory also includes mental time travel into the future. I am also interested in the question of how faces and bodies are processed in the brain. As part of this research, I offer comprehensive diagnostics for people who have so-called prosopagnosia (face blindness). I also work in clinical neuropsychology. As part of this work, I run the Neuropsychological Therapy Centre together with Prof. Dr. Patrizia Thoma and I am involved in the further training of psychological psychotherapists to become clinical neuropsychologists. People with acquired brain damage, e.g. after a stroke or car accident, are treated at the Neuropsychological Therapy Centre. Research is also carried out at the Neuropsychological Therapy Centre. I am interested in the question of how mild cognitive impairment can be treated therapeutically in the context of normal ageing (https://www.go4cognition.de/). We have currently developed a new therapy/training procedure that was designed precisely for the treatment of these problems. The research methods I use are functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalogram (EEG).