Dr. Cora Titz

Projects

• Cognitive learning prerequisites across the life-span
• Education Through Language and Writing – BiSS

Curriculum Vitae

2010	stand-in-professor for Educational Psychology at the university of Göttingen
2007	postdoctoral research fellow at the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF)
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)
2001 – 2007	pre- and postdoctoral research fellow at the university of Goettingen, Germany
1995 – 2001	undergraduate studies of Psychology at the university of Goettingen, Germany
1994 – 1995	undergraduate studies of Psychology at the university of Saarbruecken, Germany

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

Publications

• Publications (DIPF database of publications)

Selected Publications

• 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.