Dr. Gerrit Höltje

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

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Dr. Gerrit Höltje

Universität des Saarlandes
FR Psychologie

Campus A1 3
D-66123 Saarbrücken

Raum 1.21
Telefon (+49) 681/ 302 71005
Fax (+49) 681/ 302 6516

gerrit.hoeltje(at)uni-saarland.de

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

  • Prediction errors in different domains (e.g., feedback processing, language comprehension), and how they affect episodic memory formation and retrieval.
  • Electrophysiology; Event-Related Potentials

Education

  • 2009–2013: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Psychology, Saarland University, Germany
  • 2013-2016: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Psychology, Saarland University, Germany
  • 2016-2020: Ph.D. in Psychology, Saarland University. Dissertation: „Interactions between immediate and delayed feedback processing and memory encoding: An investigation using event-related potentials“, doi:10.22028/D291-32889

Career

  • 10/2010 - 09/2011: Tutor for Quantitative Methods, General Psychology and Methodology, Saarland University, Germany
  • 03/2011 - 12/2014: Student research assistant, International Research Training Group "Adaptive Minds" (IRTG 1457), Saarland University, Germany
  • 08/2011 - 09/2011: Research Intern, General Psychology and Methodology, Research Group "Brain and Cognition", Saarland University, Germany
  • 01/2013 - 02/2013: Research Intern, General Psychology and Methodology, Research Group "Cognition and Action", Saarland University, Germany
  • 02/2015 - 04/2015: Intern, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Neuropsychology Department, Leipzig, Germany
  • Since 05/2016: PhD student, International Research Training Group “Adaptive Minds” (IRTG 1457), Saarland University, Germany

Ad hoc reviewer for

  • Acta Psychologica
  • BMC Psychology
  • Brain & Cognition
  • Brain Research
  • Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Scientific Reports

Publications

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

2022

Höltje, G., & Mecklinger, A. (2020). Benefits and costs of predictive processing: How sentential constraint and word expectedness affect memory formation. Brain Research, 1788, 147942.

2020

Höltje, G., & Mecklinger, A. (2020). Feedback timing modulates interactions between feedback processing and memory encoding: Evidence from event-related potentials. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 20, 250–264.

2019

Höltje, G., Lubahn, B., & Mecklinger, A. (2019). The congruent, the incongruent, and the unexpected: Event-related potentials unveil the processes involved in schematic encoding. Neuropsychologia, 131(August), 285–293.

2018

Höltje, G., & Mecklinger, A. (2018). Electrophysiological Reward Signals Predict Episodic Memory for Immediate and Delayed Positive Feedback Events. Brain Research, 1701, 64-74.

 

Published Abstracts

2017

Höltje, G., & Mecklinger, A. (2017). Good Feedback, Better Memory: How Positive Feedback in an Associative Learning Task Enhances Recognition Memory for Unrelated Pictures. In Psychophysiology (Vol. 54, pp. S40–S175).

 

Conference Contributions

Höltje, G., & Mecklinger, A. (2021, March). The Secret Lifes of (Dis-)Confirmed Predictions: How Sentence Constraint and Word Expectedness Affect Memory Formation. Poster presented at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Höltje, G., & Mecklinger, A. (2020, May). Memory for Feedback Events Depends on Feedback Valence and Timing: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. Poster presented at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Mecklinger, A., Höltje, G., Ranker, L., Eschmann, K. (2020, May). Unexpected but plausible: The consequences of disconfirmed predictions for episodic memory formation. Poster presented at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Höltje, G., & Mecklinger, A. (2018, August). Dopaminergic Reward Prediction Errors Boost Episodic Memory for Feedback Events: Further Evidence from ERPs and Single Trial EEG Data. Poster presented at the “Eighth Annual JAGS and WinBUGS Workshop – Bayesian Modeling for Cognitive Science” in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Höltje, G., & Mecklinger, A. (2017). Good Feedback, Better Memory: How Positive Feedback in an Associative Learning Task Enhances Recognition Memory for Unrelated Pictures. In Psychophysiology (Vol. 54, p. S57).