12/2015 PhD in Psychology

The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Title: “The Good, the Bad, the Complex: Investigating the Behavioural Consequences of EEG Alpha Oscillations in Visual Detection and Selective Attention”. Supervisors: Associate Professor Paul M. Corballis and Professor Ian Kirk

3/2010 Master of Science in Psychology (Diplom)

Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Final grade: Excellent (1.0 passed with distinction) Minor: Computer Science

Master thesis: „Orientation-selective fMRI-adaptation in early visual areas“
Master Thesis was conducted at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany

• 7/2011 – 4/2015 Doctoral Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
• 7/2011 – 12/2014 The University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship
• 9/2014 Student Travel Award of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
• 11/2013 Student Travel Award of the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS)
• 7/2010 – 6/2011 Excellent Student Scholarship for a research stay abroad after graduation (Hölderlin Stipendium)
• 4/2008 – 3/2010 Excellent Student Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation

Memberships in scientific societies:

• Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) and Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)

Academic Services:

• 6/2013 – 3/2015: Student representative on the Emerging Researcher Committee at the Centre for Brain Research, The University of Auckland
• 10/2011- 3/2015: Member of the Brain Waves Students Committee at the Centre for Brain Research, The University of Auckland

Reviewing for scientific journals:

• Brain Topography
• Consciousness and Cognition
• Journal of Neurophysiology
• Neuropsychologia

• 5/2015- current: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
• 7/2011 – 2/2015: Doctoral candidate, School of Psychology, The University of Auckland
• 2/2012 – 11/2014: Tutor, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• 11/2010 – 2/2011: Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; McGovern Institute for Brain Research; Prof. Nancy Kanwisher
• 4/2009 – 4/2010: Student Research Assistant, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Germany Department of General Psychology; Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner
• 9/2008 – 3/2009: Student Research Assistant, Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany; Prof. Wolf Singer
• 10/2007 – 9/2008: Tutor, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany

• Face Learning
• Person Recognition
• Visual perception and attention
• EEG oscillations in cognitive processing
• Aging

Methods used: EEG and classical behavioral methods of experimental psychology

Limbach, K. & Corballis, P. M. (2016), Alpha-power modulation reflects the balancing of task requirements in a selective attention task. Psychophysiology, doi:10.1111/psyp.12774

Limbach, K. & Corballis, P. M. (2016), Prestimulus alpha power influences response criterion in a detection task. Psychophysiology, 53: 1154–1164. doi:10.1111/psyp.12666

Weigelt, S., Limbach, K., Singer, W., & Kohler, A. (2012). Orientation-selective fMRI adaptation in early visual cortex revisited. Human Brain Mapping, 33:707-714.

Publications in preparation:

Limbach, K. & Corballis P.M. (in preparation). Don’t get too excited: High Cortical Excitability is Related to Fast but Incorrect Responses in Visual Discrimination and Selective Attention

Conference presentations:

Limbach, K., Kaufmann, J.M., Wiese, H., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2016). Electrocortical correlates of training face recognition in older adults. Poster at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Geneva, Switzerland

Limbach, K., & Corballis, P.M. (2014). The behavioural effect of attentional EEG alpha modulation is affected by speed-accuracy trade-off. Poster at the 54^th Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Atlanta, USA

Limbach, K., & Corballis, P.M. (2014). Speed-accuracy trade-off influences the effect of attentional EEG alpha modulation. Poster at the 12^th International Conference on Cognitive Neurosciences, Brisbane, Australia

Limbach, K., & Corballis, P.M. (2013). EEG alpha oscillations predict response criterion. Poster at the 4^th Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Melbourne, Australia

Limbach, K., & Corballis, P.M. (2013). EEG alpha oscillations as predictors of detection performance and response criterion. Poster at the 53^rd Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Florence, Italy

Limbach, K., & Corballis, P.M. (2012). EEG alpha oscillations predict variability in visual signal detection. Poster at the 30^th International Australasian winter conference on brain research, Queenstown, New Zealand

Pohl, K., Hüppe, R., & Netter, P.(2007). Coping style and cortisol awakening response (CAR) as predictors of psychobiological reactions to examination stress. Poster at the 13^th meeting of the International Society of the Study of Individual Differences, Gießen, Germany