Pannebakker, Mw. drs. M.M. (Merel)




Merel Pannebakker is a PhD student at the Cognitive Psychology Lab under supervision of Bernhard Hommel, Richard Ridderinkhof & Guido Band. She investigates the limitations of dual-task performance using behavioural- and EEG-techniques.

Research

Current working memory models suggest how dual-task interference may reflect not only structural (fixed capacity) but also functional processing limitations. Concurrent memory storage, operations and control lose efficiency if the information activated for different tasks is incompatible or not separable. Functional limitations may be specific to concurrent episodic integration, subserving perception-action coupling.

I recently organized a workshop (29 -31 mei) on 'Neurocognitive approaches to control and working memory' with Guido Band and Nelleke van Wouwe.

Publications

  • Pannebakker, M.M., Colzato, L.S., Band, G.P.H, & Hommel, B. (submitted). What do PRP and AB have in common? Acta Psychologica.
  • Colzato, L.S., Van den Wildenberg, W. P. M., Pannebakker, M. M., Van Wouwe, N. C., & Hommel, B. (Submitted). When the eye is quicker than the hand: Evidence for the dopaminergic modulation of inhibitory action control. Neuropsychologia.
  • Pannebakker, M.M., Band, G.P.H., & Ridderinkhof, K.R. (in press). Operation compatibility: a neglected contribution to dual-task costs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
  • Colzato, L.S., Spapé, M., Pannebakker, M.M., & Hommel, B. (2007). Working memory and the Attentional Blink:Blink size is predicted by individual differences in operation span. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14 (6), 1051-1057.

Presentations and posters

  • Pannebakker, M.M., Van Dam, W., Band, G.P.H., Ridderinkhof, K.R., Hommel, B., & Jolicoeur, P. (2008). Does mental rotation affect T2 spatial attention in a dual task? Talk presented at the Neurocognitive approaches to control and working memory workshop, Leiden, May 2008.
  • Pannebakker, M.M., Van Dam, W., Band, G.P.H., Ridderinkhof, K.R., Hommel, B., & Jolicoeur, P. (2008). Spatial attention is affected by mental rotation in a dual task. Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, April 2008.
  • Pannebakker, M.M., Van Dam, W., Band, G.P.H., Ridderinkhof, K.R., Hommel, B., & Jolicoeur, P. (2007). Attention shifting in dual tasks. Talk presented at the proceedings of the XIth meeting of the NVP, Egmond aan Zee, December 2007.
  • Pannebakker, M.M., Band, G.P.H., & Ridderinkhof, K.R. (2007). Investigating dual-task costs with mental rotation. Talk presented at the proceedings of the XVth meeting of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology, Marseille, August 2007.
  • Pannebakker, M.M., Band, G.P.H., & Ridderinkhof, K.R. (2007). The effect of music on the Attentional Blink: an EEG study. Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, May 2007.
  • Pannebakker, M.M., Band, G.P.H., & Ridderinkhof, K.R. (2006). Modulating the effect on Attentional Blink: an EEG study. Poster presented at the NWO Cognition Summerschool 2006, Doorwerth, October 2006.
  • Pannebakker, M. M., Band, G. P. H., Ridderinkhof, K. R. (2005). The influence of task content on dual-task interference. Talk presented at the proceedings of the Xth meeting of the NVP, Egmond aan Zee, December 2005.
  • Pannebakker, M.M., Band, G.P.H., & Ridderinkhof, K.R. (2005). Dual-task interference: Task load or task content? Poster presented at the proceedings of the XIVth meeting of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology, Leiden, September 2005.

Graduate Research School

EPOS

Teaching

1st year courses:

  • Tutorial ‘Introduction in Psychology’
  • Tutorial ‘Psychological computer experiments’
3rd year courses:
  • Bachelor thesis
  • Tutorial ‘Cognitive Neurosciences’
Master course:
  • Labs (EEG) in Cognitive Neuroscience

Courses

  • July 2007: Summerschool ‘DFG program on Executive Functions’, Leiden, The Netherlands. 
  • October 2006: Automnschool “Active memory: pathways through the brain in memory and action.’ Doorwerth, The Netherlands. 
  • August 2006: Summerschool ‘DFG program on Executive Functions’, Bernried, Germany. 
  • July 2005: Tool-kit of Cognitive Neuroscience, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

 
Last Modified: 29-07-2008