Lorena Deuker - Ruhr

Lorena Deuker
Postdoc at Ruhr-University Bochum
Steinkuhlstr. 22
44799 Bochum, Germany
B [email protected]
Scientific Focus
Cognitive neuroscience of memory, decision making, action, consciousness and
free will.
Neuroimaging and electrophysiological methods (high-resolution fMRI, simultaneous EEG/fMRI, EEG/MEG, intracranial EEG).
Multivariate analysis methods (pattern classfication, representational similarity
analysis).
Investigating brain networks with graph theory (especially resting state connectivity)
Dissertation: „Neural correlates of memory consolidation during waking state and sleep “(2014).
Academic Qualifications
2014 PhD (Psychology)
2009 Master of Science (Psychology)
Publications
2015 Hierarchical nesting of slow oscillations, spindles and ripples in the
human hippocampus during sleep, Bernhard P. Staresina, Til Ole Bergmann,
Mathilde Bonnefond, Roemer van der Meij, Ole Jensen, Lorena Deuker, Christian
E. Elger Nikolai Axmacher, Juergen Fell, Nature Neuroscience, 18(11): 1679-86.
2015 Phase-amplitude coupling supports phase coding in human ECoG, Andrew Watrous, Lorena Deuker, Juergen Fell, Nikolai Axmacher, eLife, 4:e07886.
2014 Neural communication patterns underlying conflict detection, resolution and adaptation, Carina Oehrn, Simon Hanslmayr, Juergen Fell,
Lorena Deuker, Nico Kremers, Anne Do Lam, Christian Elger, Nikolai Axmacher,
Journal of Neuroscience, 34(31): 10438-52.
2014 Hippocampal control of repetition effects for associative stimuli: Results from a simultaneous EEG-fMRI study, Human neuroimaging studies
on the hippocampal CA3 region - integrating evidence for pattern separation
and completion, Nico Kremers, Lorena Deuker, Thorsten Kranz, Carina Oehrn,
Juergen Fell, Nikolai Axmacher, Hippocampus.
24(7): 892-902
2014 Human neuroimaging studies on the hippocampal CA3 region - integrating evidence for pattern separation and completion, Lorena Deuker,
Christian F. Doeller, Juergen Fell, Nikolai Axmacher, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 8:64.
2013 Memory consolidation by replay of stimulus-specific neural activity,
Lorena Deuker, Jan Olligs, Juergen Fell, Thorsten Kranz, Florian Mormann,
Christian Montag, Martin Reuter, Christian Elger, Nikolai Axmacher, Journal of
Neuroscience, 33(49): 19373-83.
2013 Playing nice: a multi-methodological study on the effects of social conformity on memory, Lorena Deuker, Anna Renuka Mueller, Christian Montag,
Sebastian Markett, Martin Reuter, Juergen Fell, Peter Trautner, Nikolai Axmacher, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:79.
2012 Are autobiographical memories inherently social? Evidence from an
fMRI study, Linda Wilbers, Lorena Deuker, Juergen Fell, Nikolai Axmacher,
PLoS One, 7(9): e45089.
2009 Reproducibility of graph metrics of human brain functional networks,
Lorena Deuker, Edward T. Bullmore, Marie Smith, Soren Christensen, Pradeep
J. Nathan, Brigitte Rockstroh, Danielle S. Bassett, Neuroimage, 47(4):1460-8.
Employment
since 2015 Postdoc with Prof. Dr. Nikolai Axmacher, Department for Neuropsychology,
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
2013-2015 Postdoc at Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for
Cognitive Neuroimaging, with Dr. Christian F. Doeller, Radboud University,
Nijmegen, Netherlands
2009-2014 PhD student with Prof. Dr. Nikolai Axmacher at University Clinic Bonn, Bonn,
Germany
2007-2008 Student assistant in the Department of Cognitive Psychology (collecting data for
an EEG study) at University of Constance, Germany
2007 Student assistant in the Department of Clinical Psychology (collecting data for
an MEG study) at University of Constance, Germany
Education
2009-2014 Dissertation in Psychology under supervision of Prof. Dr. Martin Reuter and
Prof. Dr. Nikolai Axmacher, University of Bonn, Grade: 0.1 („summa cum laude“,
highest degree), Bonn, Germany
2008-2009 Guest student at University of Cambridge for writing the Master’s thesis „Characterizing Networks of Functional Connectivity in the Human Brain“ under
supervision of Prof. Edward Bullmore, Grade: 1.0 („sehr gut“, highest degree),
Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI), Cambridge, United
Kingdom
2006-2009 Diploma (equivalent of Master of Science) in Psychology, Grade: 1.4 („sehr gut“,
highest degree), University of Constance, Germany
2006 Research internship (6 months) at Goldsmiths College, University of London,
under supervision of Prof. Dr. Alan Richardson-Klavehn and Dr. Jan de Fockert,
London, United Kingdom
2003-2006 Pre-diploma (equivalent of Bachelor’s degree) in Psychology, University of Marburg, Germany
Teaching
2015-2016 Seminar „The whole is more than the sum of its parts: moving from massunivariate to multivariate approaches in cognitive neuroscience“, 3 credit points
(Master), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
2015-2016 Seminar and practical course „Applied neuropsychological methods (MRI)“, 6
credit points (Master), planning and execution of an fMRI study, Ruhr-University
Bochum, Germany
2015 Practical introduction to pattern classification within the course „Toolkit on computational approaches to neuroimaging“, titled „Decoding brain representations –
hands-on session“, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2014-2015 Presentation for the lecture „Cognitive Neuroimaging“ (Bachelor), titled „Advanced topics: Episodic memory and decoding“, Radboud University, Nijmegen,
Netherlands
2014-2015 Course in the framework of the Radboud Summerschool „Introduction to Cognitive
Neuroscience: From Molecule to Behaviour“, titled „Mapping Memories“, Radboud
University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2012-2013 Practical course for students of the „International Graduate School for Theoretical
and Experimemtal Medicine (THEME)“, demonstration the use of simultaneous
EEG/fMRI (4 hours), University of Bonn, Germany
2010-2013 Practical course for students of the Master course „Neuroscience“, demonstration
the use of simultaneous EEG/fMRI (4 hours), University of Bonn, Germany
Supervision
2014-2015 Co-supervision of Naomi de Haas (PhD student)
2013-2015 Co-supervision of Jacob Bellmund (PhD student)
2010-2013 Co-supervision of Anna Müller (medical student), help with planning, design,
data acquisition, analysis and publication of an fMRI study (published in 2013),
Bonn, Germany
2011 Co-supervision of Paula Daniliuc (master student) in the framework of the
„LifeSciences Summer School“, Bonn, Germany
2010-2011 Co-supervision of Linda Wilbers (medical student), help with planning, design,
data acquisition, analysis and publication of an fMRI study (published in 2012),
Bonn, Germany
Conferences
10/2015 Society for Neuroscience (SfN), poster: „Time is memory: dissociating temporal
and sequence coding“, Chicago, U.S.A.
11/2014 Society for Neuroscience (SfN), poster: „Investigating the spatio-temporal organization of episodic memory within a virtual world“, Washington (DC),
U.S.A.
06/2014 Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG), talk: „Detecting the replay of specific memory
content – a pattern classification approach“, Lübeck, Germany
05/2014 Endo-Neuro-Psycho Meeting (ENP), organisation of symposium: „Adaptive memories: how representing the past enables future decision-making“, guest speaker:
Dharshan Kumaran (UCL, London), Lunteren, Netherlands
10/2012 Society for Neuroscience (SfN), poster: „Replay of Neutral and Emotional Memory
Traces for Individual Items in Resting State fMRI“, New Orleans, U.S.A.
09/2012 Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), talk: „Investigating reactivation
of stimulus-specific activity patterns using intracranial EEG and fMRI“, New
Orleans, U.S.A.
06/2012 Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG), poster: „Investigating replay of emotional pictures
in resting state fMRI: a MVPA approach“, Jena, Germany
04/2012 Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), talk: „Memory consolidation by offline reactivation of stimulus-specific activity “, Mannheim, Germany
06/2011 Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG), talk: „Influence of social conformity on recognition
memory“(toghether with Anna Müller), Heidelberg, Germany
01/2011 Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting (ABIM), poster: „Investigating stimulus-specific
neuronal replay during sleep with multi-voxel pattern classification“, Champery,
Switzerland
10/2010 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin, poster: „Towards
investigating stimulus- specific neural replay during sleep“, Bremen, Germany