POSITION AT CILS

PI

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Cognitive Psychology: higher cognitive processes (analogical reasoning, mathematical cognition and giftedness, psychological time), scripted knowledge representation, impact of intelligence and gesturing on mental representations, processing and learning, perception and evaluation of urban environment.

Experimental approaches derived from cognitive psychology (reaction time, accuracy), psychophysiology (task-evoked pupillary response, electrodermal activity, eye movements) and neuroscience (fMRT)

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Institute of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Languages of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin

FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

• Fellow, Interdisciplinary Research Center Bielefeld (1992 – 1993)
• Visiting Professor, Universität Bern (1985)
• Visiting Professor, Universität Salzburg (1983)
• Research Fellow, Institute of Psychology, Uniwersytet Warszawski (1981)
• Research Fellow, Université Paris 8 (1979)

EDITORSHIPS / MEMBERSHIPS

• Co-editor, Zeitschrift für Psychologie (Journal of Psychology) (1985 - 2006)

• Member, The German Psychological Society
• Member, Europäische Gesellschaft für Kognitive Psychologie (European Society for Cognitive Science)
• Member, Psychonomic Society
• Member, International Society for the Study of Time
• President, 43. Congress of the German Psychological Society, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (22.-26.9.2002)
• Board Member, German Society for Cognitive Science
• Examination Board, Institute of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Advisory Board, Faculty of Mathematics and Science II (2006 – 2008)

• Bornemann, B., Foth, M., Horn, J., Ries, J., Warmuth, E., Wartenburger, I., & van der Meer, E., (2010). Mathematical cognition – Individual differences in resource allocation. The International Journal of Mathematics Education,42(6),555-567, DOI 10.1007/s11858-010-0253-x
• Kuchinke, L., van der Meer, E., & Krueger, F. (2009). Differences in processing of taxonomic and sequential relations in semantic memory. An fMRI investigation. Brain and Cognition, 69(2), 245-251.
• Raisig, S., Welke, T., Hagendorf, H., & van der Meer, E. (2009). Insights into Knowledge Representation: The influence of amodal and perceptual variables on event knowledge retrieval from memory. Cognitive Science, 33, 1252-1266.
• Raisig, S., Hagendorf, H., & van der Meer, E. (in press). I spy with my little eye: Detection of temporal violations in event sequences and the pupillary response. International Journal of Psychophysiology
• Sassenberg, U., & van der Meer, E. (2010). Do we really gesture more when it’s more difficult? Cognitive Science, 34, 643-664.
• Sassenberg, U., Foth, M., Wartenburger, I., & van der Meer, E. (in press). By show of hands – are you really clever? The Relationship of Reasoning, Gesture Production, and Intelligence. Linguistics
• Strenziok, M., Krueger, F., Heinecke, A., Lenroot, R., Knutson, K., van der Meer, E., Grafman, J. (2010). Developmental Effects of Aggressive Behavior in Male Adolescents Assessed with Structural and Functional Brain Imaging. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, doi:10.1093/scan/nsp036
• van der Meer, E., Beyer, R., Horn, J., Foth, M., Bornemann, B., Ries, J., Kramer, J., Warmuth, E., Heekeren, H., & Wartenburger, I. (2010). Resource Allocation and Fluid Intelligence: Insights from Pupillometry. Psychophysiology, 47, 158-169.
• Wartenburger, I. Heekeren, H.R., Preusse, F., Kramer, J., & van der Meer, E. (2009). Cerebral correlates of analogical processing and their modulation by training. NeuroImage, 48, 291-302
• Wartenburger, I., Kuehn, E., Sassenberg, U., Foth, M., Franz, E.A., & van der Meer, E. (2010). On the relationship between fluid intelligence, gesture production, and brain structure. Intelligence, 38, 193-201.

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Short CV

Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Professor for General Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1988 - 1993)

Habilitation in Psychology (1983)

PhD in Psychology (1979)