Dr. Anne Voormann
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Research Projects
I'm interested in human cognition. More specifically, I'm interested in human memory, human perception and visual attention, sequential effects arising during task performance as well as their applied field of human-machine interaction.
Within memory, I'm doing research on the processes involved in recognition memory. More specifically, I examine the processes differing between multiple recognition decisions and simple recognition decisions, via cognitive modeling. Additionally, I investigate the role of guessing during recognition decisions and the importance of mis-detection as a necessary process within recognition decisions.
In another line of research I focus on sequential effects occurring in different areas of cognitive psychology (e.g., visual attention, interference tasks, task-switching). My aim is to find common aspects of those phenomenon and ideally a common way to model these effects.
Furthermore, to apply the knowledge about fundamental human cognition gained from the previous two projects, I'm also interested in human-machine interaction. More specifically, we aim to investigate the impact of vibration on cognitive performance.
Biography
Since 04.2023 | Post-doc position at Allgemeine Psychologie, University of Freiburg |
12.2022 – 02.2023 | Guest researcher in the lab of Prof. Jeffrey Miller, University of Otago |
04.2022 – 09.2022 | Post-doc Position at Research Training Group "Statistical Modelling in Psychology" (DFG, GRK 2277), University of Mannheim |
January 2021 | Dissertation on Evaluating processes involved in recognition decisions using different model comparison techniques, University of Freiburg (Supervisor: Prof. Klauer) |
10.2020 - 03.2022 | Research assistant at the Reinhart Koselleck project (DFG KI 614/39-1), social psychology and methodology, University of Freiburg |
10.2017 – 09.2020 | Ph.D Position at Research Training Group "Statistical Modelling in Psychology" (DFG, GRK 2277), social psychology and methodology,University of Freiburg |
2015 - 2017 | M. Sc. Psychology: Cognitive Psychology, Learning, and Work, University of Freiburg |
2012 - 2015 | B. Sc. Psychology, University of Freiburg |
Publications
Voormann, A., & Miller, J. (2024). Sequential Effects on Reaction Time Distributions: Commonalities and Differences Across Paradigms. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 68, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.395
Voormann, A., Rothe-Wulf, A., Meyer-Grant, C. G., & Klauer, K. C. (2024). Sometimes memory misleads: Variants of the error-speed effect strengthen the evidence for systematically misleading memory signals in recognition memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02534-z
Voormann, A., Meyer-Grant, C. G., Rothe-Wulf, A., & Klauer, K. C. (2024). Do moments of inattention during study cause the error-speed effect for targets in recognition-memory tasks? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02475-7
Voormann, A., Spektor, M. S., & Klauer, K. C. (2021). The simultaneous recognition of multiple words: A process analysis. Memory and Cognition, 49, 787-802. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01082-w
Voormann, A., Rothe-Wulf, A., Starns, J. J., & Klauer, K. C. (2021). Does speed of recognition predict two-alternative forced-choice performance? Replicating and extending Starns, Dubé, and Frelinger (2018). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(1), 122-134. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820963033
Invited Talks
Voormann, A., & Miller, J. (2024). All the same? Comparing response time distributions of sequential effects of the visual search, two-choice RT, interference, and task-switching paradigm. Colloquium of the chair Human Factors (Martin Baumann). Ulm, Germany.
Voormann, A., & Miller, J. (2024). All the same? Comparing response time distributions of sequential effects of the visual search, two-choice RT, interference, and task-switching paradigm. Colloquium of the chair Research Methods and Cognitive Psychology (Markus Janczyk). Bremen, Germany.
Voormann, A. , Spektor, M. S., & Klauer, K. C. (2020). Investigating paired-word recognition: Memory mechanisms and model validation. Colloquium of the chair Experimental Psychology (Arndt Bröder). Mannheim, Germany.
Conference Contributions
Voormann, A., Lindenmann, A., Fotler, D., Rodríguez, A., Matthiesen, S., & Kiesel, A. (2024). Does the perception of hand-arm vibration interfere with cognitive control?. 66. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Regensburg, Germany. (Talk) Voormann, A., Rodríguez, A., Lindenmann, A., Fotler, D., Matthiesen, S., & Kiesel, A. (2023). Influences of hand-arm vibration on human cognition. Summer school for human factors. Chemnitz, Germany. (Poster) Voormann, A., & Miller, J. (2023). Comparing sequential effects across paradigms using a modelling approach. 23rd conference of the european society of conitive psycholoy. Porto, Portugal. (Poster) Voormann, A., & Dignath, D. (2022). Domain-general as well as task-specific influences of cognitive control: A reanalysis using the diffusion model for conflict tasks. 22nd conference of the european society of conitive psycholoy. Lille, France. (Talk) Voormann, A., Spektor, M. S., & Klauer, K. C. (2022). Validating models for paired word recognition using selective influence studies. 64. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Köln, Germany. (Talk) |
Voormann, A. & Meyer-Grant, C. (2022). Modelling Cognition (1): Model Development, Comparison, Validation and Application and Modelling Cognition (2): Understanding Memory via Modelling. 64. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Köln, Germany. (Symposia) |
Voormann, A., Spektor, M. S., & Klauer, K. C. (2021). Evaluating an MPT model for paired-word recognition. 15th Conference of the Section Methods and Evaluation. Mannheim, Germany. (Talk) |
Voormann, A., Rothe-Wulf, A., Starns, J.J., & Klauer, K. C. (2021). Is misremembering crucial for recognition memory? An investigation of the error speed effect. 63. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Ulm, Germany. (Talk) |
Voormann, A. (2020). Statistical Models in Psychology (1): Development and Validation and Statistical Models in Psychology (2): Application. 62. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Jena, Germany. (Symposia; cancelled due to the pandemia) |
Voormann, A., Spektor, M. S., & Klauer, K. C. (2020). Evaluating memory models for paired-word recognition. 62. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Jena, Germany. (Talk; cancelled due to the pandemia) |
Voormann, A. (2019). Investigating mechanisms underlying paired-word recognition using continuous and discrete-state models. Talk given at the 34th IOPS/SMiP Summer Conference, 13-14 June 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands. (Talk) Voormann, A. (2019): Validating discrete and continuous memory models for paired-word recognition: a base-rate manipulation study. 21st Conference of the European Society for Cognitve Psychology, Tenerife, Spain. (Poster) Voormann, A., Spektor, M. S., & Klauer, K. C. (2019). Investigating paired word recognition: A comparison of continuous and discrete-state models. In 61. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. London, UK. (Poster) Voormann, A., Dittrich, K., Schimpf, N., & Klauer, K. C. (2018). Examining the mechanisms underlying the item-specific proportion congruent effect using the process dissociation procedure. In 60. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Marburg, Germany. (Poster) |
External Funding
Summer School on cognitive modelling for bachelor and master students (together with Raphael Hartmann) - funded by Studierendenvorschlagsbudget of the student association Freiburg | 6,708.40 € |