Joined OCC in 2019
Research Project
Despite the ubiquitous nature of the alpha rhythm (oscillations in the range of 8-12 Hz) in the brain, the functional role of cortical alpha oscillations remains a matter of debate. Synchronization in the alpha band was long considered to represent a state of cortical inactivity. However, this assumption has been challenged by studies showing an increase in alpha synchronization for task modulated changes of spatial attention and during cognitively demanding memory processes. My interest is to understand how alpha oscillations are involved in memory processes, particularly in the short-term memory range, and I investigate this topic by combining electrophysiological (EEG) and modelling approaches.
PhD Committee
Prof. Dr. Niko Busch
Prof. Dr. Ricarda Schubotz
Dr. Maximilian Bruchmann
Publications
Schroeder S. C. Y, Ball F., Busch N.A. (2018). The Role of Alpha Oscillations in Distractor Inhibition during Memory Retention. European Journal of Neuroscience, 48(7), 2516–2526.
Conference Contributions
Schroeder S. C. Y., Ball F., Busch N. A. (2018). Ignoring the irrelevant: Alpha oscillations do not affect distractor inhibition during working memory retention. 4th Symposium on cutting-edge methods for EEG research (CuttingEEG), Paris, France.
Schroeder S. C. Y., Ball F., Busch N.A. (2017). The role of alpha oscillations in memory maintenance and distractor inhibition. 13th International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Schroeder S. C.Y., Ball F., Busch N.A. (2017). The role of alpha oscillations in memory maintenance
and distractor inhibition. 40th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Berlin, Germany.
Schroeder S. C. Y. (2016). Cluster statistics for EEG data. XLAB Symposium, Nuthetal, Germany.
Schroeder S. C. Y., Ball F., Busch N.A. (2016). Ignoring the Irrelevant: The Role of Neural Oscillations in Short-Term Memory. 5th Experimental Psychology Workshop for PhD students (A-Dok), Freiburg, Germany.
Schroeder S. C. Y., Ball F., Busch N. A. (2015). The role of alpha oscillations in distractor inhibition
during memory maintenance. 26th Neurobiology Workshop for PhD students (NeuroDoWo), Cologne, Germany.
Busch N. A., Schroeder S. C. Y., Ball F. (2015). Effects of load and distraction on alpha oscillations in a visual short-term-memory task. 57th Annual Meeting of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Hildesheim, Germany.
CV
| 2014 | M.Sc. in Biology at the Free University of Berlin |
| 2015–2016 | Research associate at the University of Magdeburg |
| 2017 | Vising student at the University of Cambridge |
| 2018 | Vising student at the Paris Descartes University |
| 2016-present | PhD student at the University of Münster |