Neurocognition of Language

Franziska Preusse

PhD Student

Phone: ++49-30-450539023

Email: franziska.preusse[at]charite.de

Homepage: http://www.berlin-neuroimaging-center.de

Research interests

neural correlates of intelligence and reasoning

mathematical cognition

educational neuroscience

FMRI

eye tracking

Project

Principle investigators:

Prof. Dr. Isabell Wartenburger
Prof. Dr. Elke van der Meer

Current support:

BMBF NIL Neuroscience ~ Instruction ~ Learning

Berlin School of Mind and Brain

Berlin NeuroImaging Center

Publications:

Articles:

Preusse, F., van der Meer, E., Deshpande, G., Krueger, F., Wartenburger, I. (2011). Fluid intelligence allows flexible recruitment of the parieto-frontal network in analogical reasoning. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5(22). doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00022

Preusse, F., van der Meer, E., Ullwer, D., Brucks, M., Krueger, F., Wartenburger, I. (2010). Long-term characteristics of analogical processing in high-school students with high fluid intelligence: an fMRI study. ZDM The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 42(6), 635-647.

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.

Posters:

Preusse, F., van der Meer, E., Wartenburger, I. (June 2010). Fluid intelligence modulates cerebral correlates of processing geometric analogies. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Barcelona, Spain.

Mehnert, J., Preusse, F., Margulies, D.S., Villringer, A., van der Meer, E., Wartenburger, I. (June 2010). Intelligence modulates deactivation of the default-mode network. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Barcelona, Spain.

Preusse, F., van der Meer, E., Ullwer, D., Wartenburger, I. (June 2010). All roads lead to Rome!? Fluid intelligence and geometric reasoning performance – integrating results from three different methods. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Special Interest Group "Neuroscience and Education" of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) in Zurich, Switzerland.

Preusse, F., Landgraf, S., van der Meer, E., Wartenburger, I. (August 2009). LOOK AT THIS! High-school students with high fluid intelligence use shorter fixation durations in a geometric reasoning task. Poster presented at the 15th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM) in Southampton, UK.

Ullwer, D., Bornemann, B., van der Meer, E., Wartenburger, I., Preusse, F., Ries, J., Horn, J., Foth, M. (July 2009). Resource Allocation and Problem Solving Strategies During a Geometric Analogy Task in Individuals Differing in Fluid Intelligence. Poster presented at the 2^nd International Analogy Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Preusse, F., Wartenburger, I., Foth, M., van der Meer, E. (March 2008). Mechanismen der Verarbeitung mathematischer Anforderungen bei mathematisch hochbegabten Schuelern. Poster presented at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) in Marburg, Germany.

Talks:

Preusse, F., van der Meer, E., Wartenburger, I. (Oct 2010). Fluid intelligence modulates cerebral correlates of processing geometric analogies. Talk presented at the 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science (KogWis) in Potsdam, Germany

Landgraf, S., Amado, I., Preusse, F., Purkhart, R., Krebs, M.-O., Olié, J.-P., van der Meer, E. (August 2009). Different task, different strategy? Inflexible information acquisition mediates visuo-spatial task performance in chronic schizophrenia patients. Talk presented at the 15th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM) in Southampton, UK.

Preusse, F., Ullwer, D., van der Meer, E., Heekeren, H.R., Kramer, J., Wartenburger, I. (March 2009). Usage of strategies solving an abstract mathematical task. A combined fMRI and eye-movement analysis. Talk presented at the EARLI Advanced Study Colloquium "Cognitive Neuroscience Meets Mathematics Education" in Brugge, Belgium.

Preusse, F., Foth, M., van der Meer, E., Wartenburger, I. (July 2008). Learning Induced Improvements in Mathematical Cognition: Cerebral Correlates and Sources of Individual Differences. Talk presented at the XXIX International Congress of Psychology (ICP) in Berlin, Germany.