PD Dr. habil. Cora Titz

Curriculum Vitae

• 1994-1995 undergraduate studies of Psychology at the university of Saarbruecken, Germany
  
• 1995-2001 undergraduate studies of Psychology at the university of Goettingen, Germany
  
• 2001-2007 pre- and postdoctoral research fellow at the university of Goettingen, Germany
  
• 2005 PhD in Psychology at the university of Goettingen (Title of the thesis: Age comparison of susceptibility to interference in cognitive performance: A critical evaluation of models and empirical evidence)
  
• Since July 2007: postdoctoral research fellow at the German Institute for International Educational Research, Center for Education and Development (DIPF) 
• Since October 2010: Stand-in-professor for Educational Psychology at the university of Göttingen.
  

Research interests

• aging and cognition
  
• development of central executive processes
  
• working memory
• attention
• aging and education 
• life long learning
  
• cognitive plasticity over the life span
  

Selected Publications (peer-reviewed)

• Titz, C. & Verhaeghen, P. (2010). Aging and Directed Forgetting in Episodic Memory: A Meta-Analysis. Psychology & Aging, 25(2), 405-411.
  
• Titz, C, Behrendt, J. & Hasselhorn, M. (2010). Tomatoes and apples or red and green lines: Are age-related interference effects based on competition among concepts or percepts? Ex-perimental Aging Research, 36(3), 346 - 358.
  
• Titz, C., Behrendt, J., Menge U. & Hasselhorn, M. (2008). A reassessment of negative priming within the inhibition framework of cognitive aging: There is more in it than previously believed. Experimental Aging Research, 34, 340-366.