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 DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
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.