Personal data:
Marlene Meyer
born 08 November 1984, in Muenster, Germany [email protected]
Education
Bachelor’s degree
University: University of Osnabrück Faculty/ discipline: Cognitive Science City and Country: Osnabrück, Germany
Period: 2004 until 2007
Date Bachelor’s degree: October 2007 Grade average: very good (B)
Study abroad (within Bachelor study)
University: University of Trento
Faculty/ discipline: Cognitive Science (Faculty in Rovereto) City and Country: Trento, Italy
Period: September 2006 until February 2007
Master’s degree
Faculty/ discipline: research Master Cognitive Neuroscience Track specialization: Action, Perception, Consciousness
Period: 2007 until 2009
Date Master’s degree: September 2009
Degree: cum laude
PhD project
University: Radboud University Nijmegen Faculty/discipline: Donders Centre for Cognition
Title of Research Project: Joint actions in early childhood: Behavioural development and underlying neurocognitive changes
Start of PhD project: October 2009
End of PhD project: August 2013 (expected date: PhD thesis submitted) Supervisor & Promotor: dr. Sabine Hunnius & Prof. dr. Harold Bekkering
Scientific expertise
Disciplines Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroimaging, Cognitive Development.
Keywords developmental cognitive neuroscience, social-cognitive development, joint action, EEG, eye-tracking
Scholarship/funding
PhD Scholarship:
4-year scholarship awarded in the Cognitive Neuroscience TOPtalent Competition (~186.500 euros)Travel grants:
The Developing Brain: Perspectives from typical and atypical Development in Granada, Spain, September 14-17 2011, Travel Bursary (500 euros)
Mirror Neurons: New Frontiers 20 Years after their Discovery in Erice, Italy, August 31- September 6, 2012, Lifelong Learning program 2012/2013, staff training (~880 euros)
2010 International Conference on Infant Studies, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, March 10-14, 2010, Radboud Internationalization Fund: International Mobility Grant (~1300 euros)
2011 SRCD Biennial Meeting - Society for Research in Child Development, in Montreal, Canada, March 31 - April 2, 2011 Radboud Internationalization Fund: International Mobility Grant (~1100 euros)
List of publications and conference participation:
Papers (published)
Meyer, M., Bekkering, H., Paulus, M., & Hunnius, S. (2010). Joint action coordination in 2½-
and 3-year-old children. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, 220.
Meyer, M., Hunnius, S., van Elk, M., van Ede, F., & Bekkering, H. (2011). Joint action
modulates motor system involvement during action observation in 3-year-olds. Experimental Brain
Research, 211, 581-592.
Meyer, M., van der Wel, R., & Hunnius, S. (accepted). Higher-order action planning for
individual and joint object manipulations.
Papers (in preparation)
Meyer, M., Bekkering, H., Janssen, D. J. C., de Bruijn, E. R. A., & Hunnius, S. (in prep).
Neural correlates of feedback monitoring in toddlers.
Meyer, M., Bekkering, H., Haartsen, R., & Hunnius, S. (in prep). The role of action planning
and control in young children’s joint action coordination.
Meyer, M., Sebanz, N., & Hunnius, S. (in prep). The Social Simon effect in preschoolers: Young
children’s sensibility to a social partner.
Janssen, D. J. C., Bekkering, H., Meyer, M., & Hunnius, S. (in prep). The electrophysiological correlate of mismatch between perceptual events, action outcomes and their internal representations in the medial prefrontal cortex.
Stapel, J. C., Hunnius, S., Meyer, M., & Bekkering, H. (in prep). Action prediction in infants
benefits from action experience.
Krause, F., Meyer, M., Bekkering, H., Hunnius, S., & Lindemann, O. (in prep). Is “15”
heavier than “3”: Sensorimotor grounding of numerical concepts in toddlers.
Hunnius, S., Meyer, M., Mandell, D. J., & Bekkering, H., (in prep). Action simulation facilitates categorization learning in infants.
Paper presentations (talks)
2010
2010 International Conference on Infant Studies, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, March 10-14, 2010 Title: Let’s do it together: The development of joint action understanding
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, Markus Paulus, & Harold Bekkering
Workshop on ‘New Perspectives on Joint Action and Task Sharing’, at Max Plank Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany, 8-9 September 2010
Title: Development of joint action coordination in early childhood
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Harold Bekkering, Markus Paulus, & Sabine Hunnius
2011
2011 SRCD Biennial Meeting - Society for Research in Child Development, in Montreal, Canada, March 31 - April 2, 2011
Title: Neurocognitive mechanisms of joint action in 3-year-old children
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, Michiel van Elk, Freek van Ede, & Harold Bekkering
2012
Novel Methods in Developmental Research Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, October 1-2, 2012 Title: Neural Underpinnings of Feedback Monitoring in Toddlers
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Denise Janssen, Ellen R.A. de Bruijn, Harold Bekkering, & Sabine Hunnius
2013
2013 SRCD Biennial Meeting - Society for Research in Child Development, in Seattle, USA, 18-20 April, 2013
Title: Control Yourself to Play Together: Executive Function Skills and Neural Correlates Involved in Collaborative Activity in Toddlers
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sarah Gerson, Harold Bekkering & Sabine Hunnius
Poster presentations
2009
8th Dutch Endo-Neuro-Psycho meeting (ENP) in Doorwerth, The Netherlands, 3-5 June 2009
Title: Development of joint action during early childhood
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, Markus Paulus, Michiel van Elk, & Harold Bekkering 3rd JAM (joint action meeting) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 27-29, 2009
Title: The development of temporal coordination in joint and single actions Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, Markus Paulus, & Harold Bekkering
12th NVP Winter Conference on Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, December 18 & 19 2009
Title: Development of joint action coordination in early childhood
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, Markus Paulus, Michiel van Elk, & Harold Bekkering
2010
7th FENS (Forum of European Neuroscience) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 3-7, 2010
Title: Anticipatory brain processes and the development of joint action coordination in young children
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, Michiel van Elk, & Harold Bekkering
2011
4th JAM (Joint Action Meeting) in Vienna Austria, July 7-9, 2011
Title: Joint action modulates motor system involvement during action observation in 3-year-olds Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, Michiel van Elk, Freek van Ede, & Harold Bekkering The Developing Brain: Perspectives from typical and atypical Development in Granada, Spain, September 14-17 2011
Title: Observing the joint action partner play: Joint action modulates motor system involvement in 3-year-olds
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, Michiel van Elk, Freek van Ede, & Harold Bekkering 2011 SRCD Biennial Meeting - Society for Research in Child Development, in Montreal, Canada, March 31 - April 2, 2011
Title: Does an action observation context facilitate categorization learning in infants?
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, Dorothy J. Mandell, Jannes Dust, Alexander Fraikin, & Harold Bekkering
13th NVP Winter Conference on Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, December 16 & 17 2011
Title: Joint action modulates motor system involvement during action observation in 3-year-olds Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, Michiel van Elk, Freek van Ede, & Harold Bekkering
2012
BCCCD- 2012 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development in Budapest, Hungary, January 12-14, 2012
Title: Neural underpinnings of feedback monitoring in toddlers
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Denise Janssen, Ellen R.A. de Bruijn, Sabine Hunnius, & Harold Bekkering
Development of Executive Functions Workshop in Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 19 & 20, 2012 Title: The role of action prediction and control in young children’s joint action coordination Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, Rianne Haartsen, & Harold Bekkering
Special Note: 2nd poster award
2012 International Conference on Infant Studies, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 7-9, 2012 Title: Neural Underpinnings of Feedback Monitoring in Toddlers
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, Denise Janssen, Ellen R.A. de Bruijn, & Harold Bekkering
Mirror Neurons: New Frontiers 20 Years after their Discovery in Erice, Italy, August 31- September 6, 2012
Title: Joint actions in early childhood: Behavioural development and underlying neurocognitive changes
Authors: Marlene Meyer, Sabine Hunnius, & Harold Bekkering
2013
2013 SRCD Biennial Meeting - Society for Research in Child Development, in Seattle, USA, 18-20 April, 2013
Title: Monitoring others’ errors: An EEG study with 8-month-old infants
Teaching
Lectures & Seminars
2011 Lecture in MA-course Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2010 Tutorial in BA-course Psychology & Practice
2010 Tutorial in BA-course Perception, Action & Development 2011 Tutorial in BA-course Perception, Action & Development 2011 Tutorial in BA-course Introduction to the brain
2012 Tutorial in BA-course Introduction to the brain
Supervision of students
Bachelor students
Rianne Haartsen [honours student], Radboud University Nijmegen, Psychology (2011/2012) Bram Wijnbergen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Psychology (2011)
Estelle Tonk, Radboud University Nijmegen, Psychology (2011) Loes Kellendonk, Radboud University Nijmegen, Psychology (2011) Christina Sieben, Radboud University Nijmegen, Psychology (2011) Kim Harpe, Radboud University Nijmegen, Psychology (2011) Ashley Nijland, Radboud University Nijmegen, Psychology (2011) Julia Paschke, Radboud University Nijmegen, Psychology (2011)
Charlotte Kleinebrahm, Radboud University Nijmegen, Psychology (2011)
Master students
Denise Janssen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Cognitive Neuroscience (2011/2012) Ricarda Braukmann, Radboud University Nijmegen, Cognitive Neuroscience (2011/2012)
Academic activities
Reviewer for
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Brain Research
Developmental Psychology Experimental Brain Research Cerebral Cortex
2006/2007 board member of student-run scientific journal called ‘Nijmegen CNS’.
Memberships
SRCD - Society for Research in Child Development ISIS – International Society for Infant Studies CSS - Cognitive Science Society
Ongoing international collaborations
- Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest, Hungary [Project: The Social Simon Effect in Preschoolers]
- Robrecht van der Wel, Rutgers University, Deparment of Psychology, Camden, US [Project: Higher-order action planning for individual and joint object manipulations]
- Markus Paulus, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Department of Psychology, Munich, Germany [Project: Goal and effect dissociation in infancy]
Societal Relevance
Organization committee
Research afternoon, LUX Nijmegen 2011 – The baby brain
Brain Awareness Week Nijmegen 2012 – Donders Institute open day; A look into the baby brain
