Pamela Baess

Dr. rer. nat. Pamela Baess

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Fields of work:

  • Department of Psychology [Academic Staff]
  • Kommission zur Vergabe leistungsbezogener Mittel im FB 1 [Members - Vorsitz]
  • Auswahlkommission Lore-Auerbach-Stipendien / Deutschlandstipendien Fachbereich 1 [Delegates (Academic Staff)]

Biographical Sketch

since 06/2014Research staff and Lecturer, Department of General Psychology, University of Hildesheim
01/2013 - 05/2014Work group leader (executive functions) and researcher, Transfer centre of Neuroscience, University of Ulm
08/2010 - 12/2012Postdoctoral researcher, Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
02/2009 - 07/2010Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
05/2009

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) University of Leipzig, Germany

Topic: Processing of self-initiated sounds: Evidence from EEG studies

02/2006 - 01/2009PhD student in the graduate programme "functions of attention in cognition", Department of Biological including Cognitive Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany
10/2000 - 01/2006Studies of Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany

 

Lehre

mehr als 71 Lehrveranstaltungen im Bachelor und Master Psychologie sowie für Studierende mit  

                     Nebenfach Psychologie und Studierende des Lehramts

Ausgewählte Lehrveranstaltungen

  • für Nebenfächler:
    • Vorlesungsreihe „Allgemeine Psychologie“ für Studierende des Nebenfachs
    • Methoden und Experimentalprogramme der Psychologie
    • Projektband Psychologie „Soziale Kognition“
  • im Bachelor Psychologie:
    • Empirisch-Experimentelle Praxis 1 und 2
    • Cultural Psychology
    • Spatial cognition: A journey including spatial compatibility, action control, spatial memory, spatial language and ergonomics
    • Action science
  • im Master Psychologie:
    • social cognition: Making up the mind
    • Open Minds
    • Implicit and explicit measures for research with focus on migration
    • Sensory attenuation: one term, different concepts
    • From the self and sense of agency to joint action: a literature seminar

Research Interests

  • Interplay between spatial compatibility effects and Gestalt features of the stimuli
  • cross-cultural comparison of spatial compatibility effects
  • joint action: sharing a task between different actors
  • N1 sensory attenuation
  • Self vs. Other differentiation and sense of agency
  • application of implicit attitude measures for applied research questions

 

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

[21]     Hackländer, R. P., Baess, P., & Bermeitinger, C. (accepted). Smells like... no evidence that odors influence the attentional blink. Attention Perception & Psychophysics.

[20]     Viegas, L. M., Bermeitinger, C., & Baess, P. (2024). Negative or positive left or right? The influence of attribute label position on IAT effects in picture-word IATs and word IATs. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241275941

[19]     Baess, P., Ecker, U. K. H., Janssen, S. M. J., Jin, Z., & Bermeitinger, C. (2023). What Simon "knows" about cultural differences: The influence of cultural orientation and traffic directionality on spatial compatibility effects. Memory and Cognition, 51(3), 526-542.

[18]     Bermeitinger, C., Hacklaender, R., Baess, P., Kappes, C., & Meinhard, M. (2022). Inemotional blindness: Lower detection rates for unexpected stimuli in negative compared to positive emotions. Open Psychology, 4: 292-305.

[17]     Jin, Z., Shomura, K., Bermeitinger, C., Zhu, X., De Paula Couto, M. C. P., Wu, L., & Baess, P. (2022). Editorial: Twenty years after implicit association test: The role of implicit social cognition in human behavior. Front Psychol, 13, 919658.

[16]     Schäfer, S., Baess, P., & Frings, C. (2022) Relevant to me - The integration of other people into the self-concept happens and depends on their current relevance. Discover Psychology, 2, 25. 

[15]     Cracco, E., Genschow, O. & Baess, P. (2022). Top-down social modulation of perception-action coupling. Editorial for special issue, Acta Psychologia, 222, 103481, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691821002316

[14]     Jacobsen, T., Baess, P., Roye, A., Winkler, I. & Schröger, E. (2021). Word class and word frequency in the MMN looking glass. Brain and Language, 218, 104964.

[13]     Klaffehn, A., Baess, P., Kunde, W. & Pfister, R. (2019). Sensory attenuation prevails when controlling for temporal predictability of self- and externally generated tones. Neuropsychologia, 132(107145), 1-9

[12]     Baess, P., Weber, T., & Bermeitinger, C. (2018). Sharing different reference frames: How stimulus setup and task setup shape egocentric and allocentric Simon Effects. Frontiers in Psychology.

[11]     Baess, P., & Prinz, W. (2017). Face/agent interference in individual and social context. Social Cognition, 35(2), 146-162.

[10]     Zhdanov, A., Nurminen, J., Baess, P., Hirvenkari, L., Jousmäki, V., Mäkelä, J. P., Mandel, A., Hari, R., Parkkonen, L. (2015). An internet-based real-time audiovisual link for dual MEG recordings. PLoS One, 10(6), e0128485.

[9]       Baess, P., & Prinz, W. (2015). My partner is also in my mind: Social context-driven modulation of the visual N1 response. Experimental Brain Research, 233(1), 105-113.

[8]       Baess, P., Zhdanov, A., Mandel, A., Hirvenkari, L., Parkkonen, L., Jousmäki, V., Mäkelä, J.P., & Hari, R. (2012). MEG dual scanning: Technical procedure to study real-time social interaction. Fronties in Human Neuroscience, 6, 83.

[7]       Horvath, J. Maess, B., Baess, P., Tóth, A. (2012). Action-sound coincidences suppress evoked responses of the human auditory cortex in EEG and MEG. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(9), 1919-1931.

[6]       Grimm, F., Schröger, E., Baess, P., & Kotz, S. A. (2012). The cerebellum generates auditory predictions: ERP lesion data. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(3), 689-706.

[5]       Wenke, D., Atmaca, S., Holländer, A., Baess, P., Liebelt, R., & Prinz, W. (2011). What is shared in joint action? Co-representation, response conflict, and agent identification. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2(2), 147-172.

[4]       Baess, P. Horváth, J., Jacobsen, T., & Schröger, E. (2011). Selective suppression of self-triggered sounds: An EEG study. Psychophysiology, 48, 1276-83.

[3]       Baess, P., Widmann, A., Roye, A., Schröger, E., & Jacobsen, T. (2009). Attenuated human auditory middle latency responses and evoked 40 Hz response to self-generated  sounds. Europ J Neurosci, 29, 1514-1521.

[2]       Baess, P., Jacobsen, T., & Schröger, E. (2008). Suppression of the auditory N1 event-related potential component with unpredictable self-initiated tones: Evidence for internal forward models with dynamic stimulation. Int J Psychophys, 70, 137-143.

[1]       Grimm, S., Schröger, E., Bendixen, A., Baess, P., Roye, A. & Deouell, L.Y. (2008). Optimizing the auditory distraction paradigm: Behavioral and event-related potential effects in a lateralized multi-deviant approach. Clinical Neurophysiology, 119, 934-947.  

 

Monographs & book chapters

Baess, P. & Fenkse, P. (Hrsg.) (2020). Paradigmen der Kognitiven Psychologie: Sportpsychologie – Anwendung in der Sportpsychologie. Hildesheim: Universitätsverlag Hildesheim.

Baess, P. (2019). Kurzstichwörter zu den Begriffen “Sense of Agency”, “joint Simon Effekt” und “sensory attenuation”. J. Funke & M. Wirtz (Hrsg.). Dorsch – Lexikon der Psychologie. Bern: Hogrefe.

Bermeitinger, C. & Baess, P. (2018). Gedächtnis und Wissensabruf. In J. Strohmer (Hrsg.). Herausgeberwerk zur Darstellung zentraler psychologischer Inhaltsbereiche für Fachkräfte in Kita, Krippe und Hort.Bern: Hogrefe. 

Baess, P. & Brandes, C. (2015). Gedächtnisabruf. IN: C. Bermeitinger (Ed.). Paradigmen der Kognitiven Psychologie: Stimmung II. Berlin: Uni-Edition.

Baess, P. (2010). Processing of self-initiated sounds: Evidence from EEG. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsbuchverlag.