Research Areas

  •   Context effects on adaptive behaviour (flexibility/stability trade-off)
  •   Interoceptive predictive coding
  •   Role of dopamine
  •   Predictive processing in neuropsychiatric disorders

Research population

Healthy participants, clinical populations (Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, frontotemporal dementia)

Research methods

fMRI, EEG, SCR

Selected Publications

Trempler, I., Bürkner, P. C., El-Sourani, N., Binder, E., Reker, P., Fink, G. R., & Schubotz, R. I. (2020). Impaired context-sensitive adjustment of behaviour in Parkinson's disease patients tested on and off medication: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 116674.

El-Sourani, N., Trempler, I., Wurm, M. F., Fink, G. R., & Schubotz, R. I. (2020). Predictive Impact of Contextual Objects during Action Observation: Evidence from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(2), 326-337.

Trempler, I., Binder, E., El-Sourani, N., Schiffler, P., Tenberge, J.-G., Schiffer, A.-M., Fink, G.R., Schubotz, R.I. (2018). Association of grey matter changes with stability and flexibility of prediction in akinetic-rigid Parkinson's disease. Brain Structure and Function, 223(5), 2097-2111

Trempler, I., Schiffer, A. M., El-Sourani, N., Ahlheim, C., Fink, G. R., & Schubotz, R. I. (2017). Frontostriatal contribution to the interplay of flexibility and stability in serial prediction. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 29(2), 298-309.

Paschke, L. M., Dörfel, D., Steimke, R., Trempler, I., Magrabi, A., Ludwig, V. U., ... & Walter, H. (2016). Individual differences in self-reported self-control predict successful emotion regulation. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 11(8), 1193-1204.

Academic CV

since 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology (Biological Psychology), University of Münster
2019 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Psychology, University of Münster
2013 - 2019 Doctoral student, Department of Psychology (Biological Psychology) and “Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience”, University of Münster
2013 M.Sc. Psychology (University of Münster)
2010 B.A. Philosophy-Neurosciences-Cognition (University of Magdeburg)