Neele Elbersgerd, M.Sc.
Reserarch Associate
Cognitive Psychology
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Academic CV
| since 2025 | Ph.D. Student, RTG Emotional Learning and Memory |
| 2021 - 2024 | M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Focus: Computational Neuroscience, Lernen und Entscheiden |
| Master’s Thesis | Using Reinforcement Learning to investigate Fluctuations of Subjective Values Due to Irrelevant Features |
| 07/2023 - 12/2023 | Exchange Postgraduate Student, University of Melbourne, Australia Focus: Statistical Learning and Science Communication |
| 2017 - 2021 | B.Sc. Psychology, University of Potsdam, Germany |
| Bachelor’s Thesis | Comparing two Physiological Indicators of Fear Acquisition using Multivariate Multilevel Models |
Publications
Lange, L., Zhang, Q., MacLellan, C. J., & Wu, Y. (2025) Training Humans for Robust Human-Agent Teaming: Knowing When to Engage with an AI Partner. Proceedings of the 2025 AAAI Spring Symposium Series.
Lange, L., Yenney, J., & Wu, Y. C. (2025). Dynamic VR Modulation with EEG Feedback for Psychedelic Simulation. 2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops.
Lange, L., Sankar, V. V., Appelbaum, L. G., Broderick, R. C., Cai, Y., Chordiya, P., Jung, T. P., Spurzem, G., & Wu, Y. C. (2025). Decoding Psychological Stress during Laparoscopic Surgery Training: Insights from EEG. 31st International Conference ICONIP 2024.
Lange, L., Yenney, J., & Wu, Y. C. (2025). Bridging Psychedelic VR and BCI: Enhancing User Experience through Adaptive EEG-Guided Neural Modulation. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (pp. 1-7).
Paul, K., Beauducel, A.,Hennig, J., Hewig, J., Hildebrandt, A., Kührt, C., Lange, L., Mueller, E.M., Osinsky, R., Porth, E., Riesel, A., Rodrigues, J., Scheffel, C., Short, C.A., Stahl, J., Strobel, A., Wacker, J. (2024). Frontal alpha asymmetry as a marker of approach motivation? Insights from a cooperative forking path analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Beauducel, A., Scheuble-Cabrera, V., Hennig, J., Hewig, J., Hildebrandt, A., Kührt, C., Lange, L., Mueller, E.M., Osinsky, R., Paul, K., Porth, E., Riesel, A., Rodrigues, J., Scheffel, C., Short, C.A., Stahl, J., Strobel, A., Wacker, J. (2024). The association of dispositional anxiety with the NoGo N2 under relaxation instruction vs. speed/accuracy instruction. Biological Psychology, 192, 108850.
Wu, Y. C., Lange, L., Yenney, J., Zhang, Q., & Harpstead, E. (2024). Scaffolded versus Self-Paced Training for Human-Agent Teams. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction.
Lange, L. (2023). Exploring neural dynamics of performance monitoring: a comprehensive series of EEG studies on cognitive control across contexts (Doctoral dissertation, Universität Osnabrück).
Lange, L., Kisker, J., & Osinsky, R. (2023). Midfrontal mechanisms of performance monitoring continuously adapt to incoming information during outcome anticipation. Neuroimage: Reports, 3(3), 100182.
Schöne, B., Kisker, J., Lange, L., Gruber, T., Sylvester, S., & Osinsky, R. (2023). The reality of virtual reality. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1093014.
Lange, L., Rommerskirchen, L., & Osinsky, R. (2022). Midfrontal Theta Activity Is Sensitive to Approach–Avoidance Conflict. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(41), 7799–7808.
Kisker, J., Lange, L., Flinkenflügel, K., Kaup, M., Labersweiler, N., Tetenborg, F., Ott, P., Gundler, C., Gruber, T., Osinsky, R., & others. (2021). Authentic fear responses in virtual reality: A mobile EEG study on affective, behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of fear. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 106.
Rommerskirchen, L., Lange, L., & Osinsky, R. (2021). The reward positivity reflects the integrated value of temporally threefold-layered decision outcomes. Psychophysiology, 58(5), e13789.
Springer, A., Ohlendorf, F., Schober, J., Lange, L., & Osinsky, R. (2021). Do food images as action outcomes evoke a reward positivity? Brain and Cognition, 154, 105804.
Lange, L., & Osinsky, R. (2020). Aiming at ecological validity–Midfrontal theta oscillations in a toy gun shooting task. European Journal of Neuroscience.
Dworazik, N., Kärtner, J., Lange, L., & Köster, M. (2019). Young Children Respond to Moral Dilemmas Like Their Mothers. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2683.
Research Focus
How stressful encounters bias memory for surrounding events
Scientific Work and Internships
| 10/2022 - 01/2023 | Research Internship in the RG NeuroCode at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin |
| 02/2022 - 07/2023 | Student Research Assistant in the RG NeuroCode at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin |
| 04/2021 - 06/2021 | Research Internship in the Mind and Brain ENIGMA Project at Charité Berlin |
| 09/2020 - 02/2022 | Student Research Assistant at the Department of Biological Psychology at the University of Potsdam, Germany |
| 2018 - 2021 | Teaching & Research Assistant at the Department of Research Methods in Human Sciences at the University of Potsdam, Germany |