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Melinda A. Jeglinski (Mende)

Photo: Tobias Jeglinski, Tamjeg Design

Melinda A. Jeglinski is a doctoral candidate in the Potsdam Embodied Cognition Group (PECoG). She holds a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics from University of Constance and received her Master's degree  from Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Her research interests contain a wide spectrum within the cognitive sciences and neuroscience. In particular, she is interested in numerical cognition with a focus on cognition of negative integers and in social neuroscience. She is experienced in the scientific methods EEG, ECG, breath measurement, GSR/skin conductance and cortical stimulation with TMS, TdCS and TaCS.

In her doctoral project with the title  Grounding Negation – Investigations on Negative Numbers and Linguistic Negation she investigates the underlying mechanisms of numerical cognition. Her work aims to inform the general understanding of number processing as well as the processing of abstract concepts - such as negativity - from the perspective of embodiment. This person has no teaching duties.

 

E-Mail: mamendeuni-potsdamde | melinda.a.jeglinskigmailcom

Introduction video

Academia.edu: https://uni-potsdam.academia.edu/MelindaMende

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=de&user=95uT3-oAAAAJ

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melinda-a-jeglinski-mende-7b8a76143/

ORCID: 0000-0002-7462-4495

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Melinda-A-Jeglinski-Geb-Mende

Telephone: +49 7531 9369924

 

Publications

Gianelli, C., Kühne, K., Miklashevsky, A., Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., Canessa, N., & Borghi, A. M. (2023). COVID-19 and the perceived dangerousness of everyday objects: A behavioural online study in Italy and Germany. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.89171

Kühne, K., & Jeglinski-Mende, M. A. (2023). Refraining from interaction can decrease fear of physical closeness during COVID-19. Scientific Reports13, 7700. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34667-x

Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., Fischer, M. H., & Miklashevsky, A. (2023). Below Zero? Universal Distance Effect and Situated Space and Size Associations in Negative Numbers. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 9(1), 145–161. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.6763

Kühne, K., Fischer, M. H, & Jeglinski-Mende, M. A. (2022). During the COVID‑19 pandemic participants prefer settings with a face mask, no interaction and at a closer distance. Scientific Reports, 12: 12777. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16730-1

Kühne, K., Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., Fischer, M. H., & Zhou, Y. (2022). Social robot – Jack of all trades? Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 13, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2022-0002

Kühne, K., & Mende, M. A. (2020). Noli me tangere. Unser peripersonaler Raum in den Corona-Zeiten. The Inquisitive Mind, 4, URL: https://de.in-mind.org/article/noli-me-tangere-unser-peripersonaler-raum-in-den-corona-zeiten

Fischer, M. H., Winter, B., Felisatti, A., Myachykov, A., Mende, M. A., & Shaki, S. (2021). More instructions make fewer subtractions. Frontiers in Psychology 12, 720616. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720616

Mende, M. A. (2017). The combination of EEG hyperscanning and EEG neurofeedback in social interaction. Master Thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin. URL: https://www.academia.edu/37901962/The_Combination_of_EEG_Hyperscanning_and_EEG_Neurofeedback_in_Social_Interaction

Mende, M. A. (2017). Human Language – How are speech sounds perceived and what does the brain do? Brain Sundays – Your Weekly Neuroscience Fix (https://scanberlin.com/category/cognition/). URL: https://www.academia.edu/44241498/Language_Acquisition_Blog

Mende, M. A., & Schmidt, H. (2021). Psychotherapy in the Framework of Embodied Cognition – Does Interpersonal Synchrony Influence Therapy Success? Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 562490. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.562490

Miklashevsky, A., Kulkova, E., Michrev, A., Mende, M. A., & Bertonatti, M. (2021). Book Review: Judgment, Decision-Making, and Embodied Choices. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 665728. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.665728

Müller, V., Perdikis, D., Mende, M. A., and Lindenberger, U. (2021). Interacting brains coming in sync through their minds: An inter-brain neurofeedback study. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1500(1), 48–68. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14605

Mende, M. A. (2019). Alcohol in the Aging Brain – The Interplay between Alcohol Consumption, Cognitive Decline and the Cardiovascular System. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13(713). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00713

Mende, M. A., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2018). Commentary: The mental representation of integers: An abstract-to-concrete shift in the understanding of mathematical concepts. Frontiers in Psychology 9(209). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00209

Books

Kühne, K., & Jeglinski-Mende, M. A. (2023). Sprache und Embodiment. Wiesbaden: Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66385-1

Book chapters

Belli, F., Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., & Kulkova, E. (2024). Physiological methods: Heart rate, breathing, electrodermal activity. In: Felisatti, A., & Fischer, M. H. (eds.). Experimental Methods in Embodied Cognition. How Cognitive Psychologists Approach Embodiment (pp. 70–88). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290698-7

Gianelli, C., Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., Belli, F., & Bertonatti, M. (2024). Correlational methods: EEG, fMRI, fNIRS and neurofeedback. In: Felisatti, A., & Fischer, M. H. (eds.). Experimental Methods in Embodied Cognition. How Cognitive Psychologists Approach Embodiment (pp. 91–108). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290698-9

Laubrock, J., Miklashevsky, A., Kühne, K., Michirev, A., Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., & Felisatti, A. (2024). Continuous methods: Eye tracking, hand tracking, and grip force recording. In: Felisatti, A., & Fischer, M. H. (eds.). Experimental Methods in Embodied Cognition. How Cognitive Psychologists Approach Embodiment (pp. 49–69). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290698-6

Miklashevsky, A., & Jeglinski-Mende, M. A. (2024). Non-experimental psychological methods Questionnaires, tests, and rating studies. In: Felisatti, A., & Fischer, M. H. (eds.). Experimental Methods in Embodied Cognition. How Cognitive Psychologists Approach Embodiment (pp. 151–165). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290698-13

Kühne, K., Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., & Bendel, O. (2022). Tamagotchi on our Couch: Are Social Robots Perceived as Pets?. In: Hakli, R., Mäkelä, P, & Seibt, J. (Hrsg.). Social Robots in Social Institutions. Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2022, 755–759. Amsterdam: IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA220688

Fischer, M. H., Felisatti, A., Kulkova, E., Mende, M. A., & Miklashevsky, A. (2021). Embodied Numbers and Arithmetic. In: Robinson, M.D., & Thomas, L. E. (Hrsg.). Embodied Psychology: Thinking, Feeling, and Acting. Springer: New York. https://10.1007/978-3-030-78471-3

Mende, M. A., Fischer, M. H., & Kühne, K. (2019). The Use of Social Robots and the Uncanny Valley Phenomenon. In: Fischer, M.H., & Zhou, Y. (Hrsg.), AI LOVE YOU – Developments on Human-Robot Intimate Relationships, 41–76. Springer: Berlin. ISBN: 978-3-030-19733-9

Mende, M. A., & Fischer, M. H. (2018). Symmetrie in den Kognitionswissenschaften. In: Petsche, H.-J. (Hrsg.), Grenzen im Fokus der Wissenschaften: Eine multidisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe, 149–166, Trafo Verlagsgruppe Berlin. ISBN: 978-3864-64082-7

Poster presentations and talks

Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., & Kühne, K. (2023). Negation has a size! Number magnitude corresponds with set-size in linguistic negation, V12. Poster-Präsentation im Rahmen des 10. Mind, Brain, Body Symposiums (MBBS), Berlin, 14.–17. März 2023. https://www.academia.edu/99466285/Negation_has_a_size_Number_magnitude_corresponds_with_set_size_in_linguistic_negation

Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., Kühne, K., & Fischer, M. H. (2022). Shaping Negation - Spatial-Numerical Associations in Negative Numbers, B07. Poster-Präsentation im Rahmen des 9. Mind, Brain, Body Symposiums (MBBS), Leipzig, 16.–18. März 2022. https://www.academia.edu/74551626/Shaping_Negation_Spatial_Numerical_Associations_in_Negative_Numbers

Kühne, K., & Jeglinski-Mende, M. A. (2022). Face masks as social instruments? Effects on estimated interpersonal distance and implicit perception of danger during the COVID-19 pandemic. Konferenzpräsentation im Rahmen des22. Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2022), Lille, France, 29.August – 01. September 2022.

Kühne, K., Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., & Bendel, O. (2022). Tamagotchi on our Couch: Are Social Robots Perceived as Pets?. Poster-Präsentation im Rahmen der Robophilosophy Conference 2022, Helsinki, Finnland, 16.–19. August 2022. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.23236.30089

Kühne, K., Fischer, M. H., & Jeglinski-Mende, M. A. (2022). Shaking hands in the face of danger? Interpersonal distance, peripersonal space, pro- and anti-social consequences of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, D08. Poster Präsentation im Rahmen des 9. Mind, Brain, Body Symposiums (MBBS), Leipzig, 16–18. März 2022. https://www.cbs.mpg.de/1922349/d08_k_hne.pdf

Kühne, K., Mende, M. A., Fischer, M. H., & Zhou, Y. (2022). A friend in need: Loneliness and the duration of isolation enhance the acceptance of social robots, 58A (08). Poster-Präsentation im Rahmen des 40. European Workshop in Cognitive Neuropsychology (EWCN), Brixen, Italien, 25.–28. Januar 2022. https://www.academia.edu/79610372/A_friend_in_need_Loneliness_and_the_duration_of_isolation_enhance_the_acceptance_of_social_robots

Mende, M. A., & Fischer, M. H. (2021). Coloring Negation – Selection of Alternatives is Situated in Context, B10. Poster-Präsentation im Rahmen des 8. Mind, Brain, Body Symposiums (MBBS), Leipzig, 15.–18. März 2021. https://www.cbs.mpg.de/1717114/b10_mende.pdf

Mende, M. A., & Fischer, M. H. (2018). Shaping Number Cognition: Space and Size Associations for Negative Numbers, 144(12). Poster-Präsentation im Rahmen des 36. European Workshop in Cognitive Neuropsychology (EWCN), Brixen, Italien, 22.–26. Januar 2018. https://www.academia.edu/44214815/Shaping_Number_Cognition_Space_and_Size_Associations_for_Negative_Numbers