Marius Boeltzig, M.Sc.
phd student
Institut für Psychologie
Fliednerstraße 21
D-48149 Münster
room Fl 310b
phone: +49 (0) 251 / 83 34101
E-Mail: marius.boeltzig [a] uni-muenster.de
Academic CV
Since October 2022
Doctoral student and research associate, University of Münster, Biological Psychology
2021 – 2022
Research assistant, Lund University, Memory Lab
Project about social influences on associative inference
2021 – 2022
Research intern, University of Granada, Memory & Language Research Group
Project about retrieval-induced forgetting using EEG and tDCS
2021 – 2022
Academic assistant, University of Hagen, Psychological Methods and Evaluation
2019 – 2021
Master of Science in Psychology, Lund University
2016 – 2018
Student assistant and tutor, University of Potsdam
Assistant in Cognitive and Biological Psychology
Tutor for introduction into scientific methods
Tutor for statistics
2016 – 2017
Erasmus exchange semester, University of Wrocław
2014 – 2018
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Potsdam
Academic Interest
- Episodic memory
- Mnemonic flexibility
- Social influences on memory
- Neural basis of memory processes
Publications
Boeltzig, M., Johansson, M., & Bramão, I. (2023). Ingroup sources enhance associative inference. Communications Psychology, 1, Article 40. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00043-8
Conference Contributions
Liedtke, N., Boeltzig, M., Schubotz, R. I. (2023). Learning from quantified episodic prediction errors: Individual biases in gist revision. Poster at Generative Episodic Memory: Interdisciplinary perspectives from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy. Bochum, Germany.
Boeltzig, M., Liedtke, N., Schubotz, R. I. (2023). Learning from quantified episodic prediction errors: Individual biases in gist revision. Poster at Berlin-Bochum Memory Symposium. Berlin, Germany.
Project
Learning from quantified episodic prediction errors: Individual biases in gist revision
Memories do not only carry information about the past. Instead, they also help us predict future events and generate expectations about what will happen next in a given situation. When a memory is retrieved in order to generate predictions, it enters a state of malleability and can be modified if the prediction was wrong (prediction error; PE). We are interested in the mechanism of memory modification in response to PEs and aim to investigate the nature of PEs that are capable of changing memories.
Complementary to a prior project, in which the quality of PEs was manipulated, we will vary the strength of PEs quantitatively. Furthermore, we will make use of social interactions as highly naturalistic stimuli. A paradigm encompassing several experimental sessions will be employed, in which the brain activity of participants will be measured both during encoding and during retrieval of episodes using fMRI.