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Dr. Anna-Lena Schubert

Dr. Anna-Lena Schubert
Heidelberg University
Institute of Psychology
Hauptstrasse 47-51
D-69117 Heidelberg

Office Hour: by arrangement

Room A003
Fon +49-(0)6221-54-7354
Fax +49-(0)6221-54-7325
Anna-Lena.Schubert@psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de

Academic Career

Teaching

• Empirical Project Seminar 2
• Introduction to Electrophysiology

Research Interests

• Measurement and manipulation of neurocognitive processes related to general intelligence
• Neurocognitive psychometrics
• Reasoning and thinking
• Mathematical models of cognition

Research Projects with Third-Party Funding

• Scientific Network grant (2020-2023): "Neurocognitive Psychometrics" (ffunded by the German Research Foundation - DFG, SCHU 3266/2-1; with Daniel Schneider, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors Dortmund, und Gidon T. Frischkorn, University of Zurich)
• Project grant (2020-2023): "Neurocognitive psychometrics of individual differences in attentional processes in working memory" (funded by the elite programme for postdocs of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation)
• Project grant (2018-2021): "Neurocognitive process parameters of cognitive abilities" (funded by the German Research Foundation - DFG, SCHU 3266/1-1)
• Project grant (2017-2018): "What makes us smart? - Neurocognitive approaches to explaining the relationship between mental speed and mental abilities by attentional lapses" (with Jan Rummel, Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University; funded by the FRONTIERS fund of the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation - DFG)
• Project grant (2016-2017): "Psychopharmacological manipulation of the self-regulation of cognitive abilities" (with Dirk Hagemann, Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University, and Sabine Herpertz, Department of Psychiatry, Heidelberg University; funded by the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation - DFG)

Publications

• Arnau, S., Löffler, C., Rummel, J., Hagemann, D., Wascher, D. & Schubert, A.-L. (2020). Inter-trial alpha power indicates mind wandering. Psychophysiology. Advanced online publication. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13581
• Klatt, L.-I., Schneider, D., Schubert, A.-L., Hanenberg, C., Lewald, J., Wascher, E., & Getzmann, S. (2020). Unraveling the relation between EEG-correlates of attentional orienting and sound localization performance: a diffusion model approach. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 945-962. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01525
• Lerche, V., von Krause, M., Voss, A., Frischkorn, G. T., Schubert, A.-L. & Hagemann, D. (2020). Diffusion Modeling and Intelligence: Drift Rates Show Both Domain-General and Domain-Specific Relations With Intelligence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advanced online publication. doi: 10.1037/xge0000774
• Schubert, A.-L., Ferreira, M. B., Mata, A., & Riemenschneider, B. (2020). Different cognitive mechanisms explain how cognitive abilities and thinking styles contribute to conflict resolution in reasoning. PsyArXiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/e2tq4
• Schubert, A.-L.* & Frischkorn, G. T.* (2020). Neurocognitve psychometrics of intelligence: How measurement advancements in mental speed unveiled the role of processing speed in intelligence differences. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Advanced online publication. doi: 10.1177/0963721419896365 (*geteilte Erstautorenschaft)
• Schubert, A.-L. & Hagemann, D.(2020). The evidence for Geary’s theory on the role of mitochondrial functioning in human intelligence is not entirely convincing. Journal of Intelligence, 8, 29. doi:10.3390/jintelligence8030029
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., Löffler, C. & Frischkorn, G. T. (2020). Disentangling the Effects of Processing Speed on the Association between Age Differences and Fluid Intelligence. Journal of Intelligence, 8,1. doi: 10.3390/jintelligence8010001
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., Löffler, C., Rummel, J. & Arnau, S. (2020). A chronometric model of the relationship between frontal midline theta functional connectivity and human intelligence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advanced online publication. doi: 10.1037/xge0000865
• Frischkorn, G. T., Schubert, A.-L., & Hagemann, D. (2019). Processing Speed, Working Memory, and Executive Functions: Independent or inter-related predictors of general intelligence. Intelligence, 75, 95-110. doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2019.05.003
• Schubert, A.-L. (2019). A meta-analysis of the worst performance rule. Intelligence, 73, 88-100. doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2019.02.003
• Schubert, A.-L., Frischkorn, G. T., & Rummel, J. (2019). The validity of the online thought-probing procedure of mind wandering is not threatened by variations of probe rate and probe framing. Psychological Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s00426-019-01194-2
• Schubert, A.-L., Nunez, M. D., Hagemann, D. & Vandekerckhove, J. (2019). Individual differences in cortical processing speeds predict cognitive abilities: A model-based cognitive neuroscience account. Computational Brain and Behavior, 2, 64-84. doi: 10.1007/s42113-018-0021-5
• Schubert, A.-L. & Rey-Mermet, A. (2019). Does Process Overlap Theory replace the issues of general intelligence with the issues of attentional control? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, 277-283. doi: 10.31234/10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.06.004
• Frischkorn, G. T.* & Schubert, A.-L.* (2018). Cognitive Models in Intelligence Research: Advantages and Recommendations for their Application. Journal of Intelligence, 6(34), 1–22. doi: 10.3390/jintelligence6030034 (*equal contributions)
• Klotz, A.-L., Tauber, B., Schubert, A.-L., Hassel, A. J., Schroder, J., Wahl, H.-W., . . . Zenthofer, A. (2018). Oral health-related quality of life as a predictor of subjective well-being among older adults-A decade-long longitudinal cohort study. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 46, 631-638. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12416
• Kretzschmar, A., Spengler, M., Schubert, A.-L., Steinmayr, R., & Ziegler, M. (2018). The Relation of Personality and Intelligence—What Can the Brunswik Symmetry Principle Tell Us? Journal of Intelligence, 6(30), 1–38. doi: 10.3390/jintelligence6030030
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., Frischkorn, G. T. & Herpertz, S. (2018). Faster, but not smarter: A psychopharmacological analysis of the relationship between neural processing speed, reaction times and mental abilities. Intelligence. 71, 66-75. doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2018.10.005
• Zaehringer, J. K., Falquez, R., Schubert, A.-L., Nees, F., & Barnow, S. (2018). Neural Correlates of Reappraisal Considering Working Memory Capacity and Cognitive Flexibility. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 12, 1529–154. doi: 10.1007/s11682-017-9788-6
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., & Frischkorn, G. T. (2017). Is general intelligence little more than the speed of higher-order processing? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 1498-1512. doi: 10.1037/xge0000325
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., Voss, A., & Bergmann, K. (2017). Evaluating the model fit of diffusion models with the root mean square error of approximation. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 77, 29-45. doi: 10.1016/j.jmp.2016.08.004
• Schankin, A., Bergmann, K., Schubert, A.-L., & Hagemann, D. (2016). The allocation of attention in change detection and change blindness. Journal of Psychophysiology. doi: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000172
• Frischkorn, G. T., Schubert, A.-L., Neubauer, A. B., Hagemann, D. (2016) The Worst Performance Rule as Moderation: New Methods for Worst Performance Analysis. Journal of Intelligence, 4, 9. doi:10.3390/jintelligence4030009. (PDF)
• Schubert, A.-L., Frischkorn, G. T., Hagemann, D., Voss, A. (2016) Trait Characteristics of Diffusion Model Parameters. Journal of Intelligence, 4, 7, doi:10.3390/jintelligence4030007. (PDF)
• Bergmann, K., Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., & Schankin, A. (2015). Age-related differences in the p3 amplitude in change blindness. Psychological Research, doi:10.1007/s00426-015-0669-6
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., Voss, A., Schankin, A., & Bergmann, K. (2015). Decomposing the Relationship between Mental Speed and Mental Abilities. Intelligence, 51, 28-46. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2015.05.002
• Mata, A., Schubert, A.-L., & B. Ferreira, M. (2014). The role of language comprehension in reasoning: How "good-enough" representations induce biases. Cognition, 133, 457-463. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2014.07.011

Scholarships and Awards

• Best Paper-Award of the Journal of Intelligence für "Cognitive Models in Intelligence Research: Advantages and Recommendations for their Application" (awarded to Gidon T. Frischkorn; 2018)
• Conference travel award for the 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR), Edinburgh, Scotland (2018)
• Poster award of the German association for Psychobiology and Neuropsychology for "A model-based cognitive neuroscience account of the chronometry of human decision making" at the 43rd Conference "Psychologie und Gehirn", Trier, Germany (2017)
• Scholarship awarded by the G.-A.-Lienert-Stiftung promoting young researchers to be trained in biopsychological methods for a four month research visit in the Cognition and Individual Differences Lab at the University of California, Irvine, USA (2016)
• DAAD scholarship for conferences for attending the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology (MathPsych), Newport Beach, USA (2015)
• Society for Mathematical Psychology Student Conference Participation Award (2015)

Invited Talks and Workshops

• Schubert, A.-L. (2020). What makes us smart? Neurocognitve psychometrics of intelligence. Talk presented at the Cognitive Psychology Colloquium of the University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L. (2019). Neurocognitve psychometrics of intelligence. Talk presented at the Cognitive & Developmental Colloquium of the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Schubert, A.-L. (2019). Neurocognitve psychometrics of intelligence: How advancements in the measurement of elementary cognitive processes can help unveil their contribution to individual differences in intelligence. Talk presented at the Chaucer Club of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• Schubert, A.-L. (2019). Neurocognitve psychometrics of intelligence: How advancements in the measurement of elementary cognitive processes can help unveil their contribution to individual differences in intelligence. Talk presented at the DeNC-Gästekolloquium of the University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
• Schubert, A.-L. & Frischkorn, G. T. (2018). An introduction to diffusion model analysis. Workshop at the Leibniz research centre for working environment and human factors (IfADo), Dortmund, Germany
• Schubert, A.-L. (2018). Bayesian statistics with JASP. Workshop for the interdisciplinary young scientists program at the faculty for economics and behavioral sciences in Freiburg, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L. (2017). The relationship between mental speed and mental abilities. Talk presented at the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Frankfurt, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L. (2017). Teaching Open Science: Opportunities and Challenges. Talk presented at the Workshop Research Data Management in Psychology at the Leibniz Institute for Psychologie Information (ZPID), Trier, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L (2017). An introduction to Bayesian statistics using JASP. Workshop at the 43rd Conference "Psychologie und Gehirn", Trier, Deutschland.
• Schubert, A.-L, Hagemann, D. & Frischkorn, G. T. (2016). A closer look at the relationship between mental speed and mental abilities. Talk presented at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, USA.

Conference Contributions

• Arnau, S., Hagemann, D., Rummel, J., Löffler, C., Wascher, E. & Schubert, A.-L. (2019). Inter-trial alpha power – A correlate of mind wandering.Talk presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Washington, USA.
• Löffler, C., Schubert, A.-L., Frischkorn, G. T., Rummel, J. & Hagemann, D. (2019). Exekutive Aufmerksamkeitslücken in Form gedanklichen Abschweifens können den monotonen Anstieg der Worst Performance Rule nicht erklären. Poster presented at the 45th Conference "Psychologie und Gehirn", Dresden, Germany.
• Frischkorn, G. T., Schubert, A.-L. & Hagemann, D. (2019). Basic cognitive processes of intelligence: Bridging the gap between working memory, executive functions and processing speed. Talk presented at the 45th Conference "Psychologie und Gehirn", Dresden, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L., Ferreira, M., Mata, A., & Riemenschneider, B. (2019). Thinking fast, not thinking slow – a drift diffusion model account of belief bias. Talk presented at the 2019 Meeting of the European Mathematical Psychology Group (EMPG 2019), Heidelberg, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L., Frischkorn, G. T., Hagemann, D., Lerche, V., von Krause, M., Voss, A., Nunez, M. D. & Vandekerckhove, J. (2019). Mathematical modeling in cognitive psychometrics. Talk presented at the 21st European Society for Cognitive Psychology Conference (ESCoP), Tenerife, Spain.
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D. & Frischkorn, G. T. (2019). A process-based account of the relationship between mental speed and mental abilities. Talk presented at the 2019 Psychonomic Society Collaborative Symposium at the 21st European Society for Cognitive Psychology Conference (ESCoP), Tenerife, Spain.
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., Löffler, C., Rummel, J., & Arnau. S. (2019). The chronometry of intelligence-related differences in functional connectivity. Talk presented at the 45th Conference "Psychologie und Gehirn", Dresden, Germany.
• Frischkorn, G. T., Schubert, A.-L. & Hagemann, D. (2018). Basic cognitive processes of intelligence: Bridging the gap between working memory, executive functions and processing speed. Talk presented at the 51st Conference of the German Psychology Association (DGPS), Frankfurt, Germany.
• Frischkorn, G. T., Schubert, A.-L. & Hagemann, D. (2018). Basic cognitive processes of intelligence: Bridging the gap between working memory, executive functions and processing speed. Talk presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR), Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Frischkorn, G. T., Schubert, A.-L. & Hagemann, D. (2018). Too much on my mind – Inhibiting irrelevant information impairs reasoning ability. Poster presented at the 2nd Psychonomics International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Löffler, C., Schubert, A.-L., Rummel, J., Frischkorn, G.T., & Hagemann, D. (2018). Die Rolle exekutiver Aufmerksamkeit im Zusammenhang zwischen Informationsverarbeitungsgeschwindigkeit und Intelligenz. Poster presented at the 51st Conference of the German Psychology Association (DGPS), Frankfurt, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L., Frischkorn, G. T., Hagemann, D. & Herpertz, S. (2018). Faster equals smarter? A psychopharmacological analysis of the relationship between mental speed and mental abilities. Talk presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR), Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., & Frischkorn, G. T. (2018). A process-based account of the relationship between mental speed and mental abilities. Talk presented at the 51st Conference of the German Psychology Association (DGPS), Frankfurt, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L., Frischkorn, G. T., Hagemann, D. & Herpertz, S. (2018). A psychopharmacological analysis of the relationship between mental speed and mental abilities. Talk presented at the 44th Conference "Psychologie und Gehirn", Giessen, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L., Nunez, M. D. & Vandekerckhove, J. (2018). A Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience Account Of Individual Differences In Cognitive Abilities. Poster presented at the 2nd Psychonomics International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., & Frischkorn, G. T. (2017). Intelligenzunterschiede – nichts weiter als individuelle Unterschiede in der Informationsverarbeitungsgeschwindigkeit? Talk presented at the 14th professional meeting of the Personality Psychology of the Germany Psychology Association, Munich, Germany.
• Frischkorn, G. T., Schubert, A.-L., & Hagemann, D. (2017). Do Shifting and Inhibition rely on the same or different neural processes? An EEG-study of a shifting task with flanker stimuli. Poster presented at the 43rd Conference "Psychologie und Gehirn", Trier, Deutschland.
• Frischkorn, G. T., Schubert, A.-L., & Hagemann, D. (2017). Examining interactions between inhibition and task shifting: Results from a switching task with flanker stimuli. Talk presented at the 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Dresden, Deutschland.
• Schubert, A.-L., Ferreira, M., Mata, A., & Riemenschneider, B. (2017). Thinking fast, not thinking slow – a drift diffusion model account of Belief Bias. Talk presented at the 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Dresden, Deutschland.
• Schubert, A.-L., Nunez, M. D., Frischkorn, G. T. & Hagemann, D. (2017). A model-based cognitive neuroscience account of the chronometry of human decision making. Poster presented at the 43nd Conference "Psychologie und Gehirn", Trier, Deutschland.
• Hagemann, D., Schubert, A.-L., & Frischkorn, G. T. (2016). Intelligenz ist wesentlich mehr als die Kapazität des Arbeitsgedächtnisses: Eine experimentelle Analyse. Talk presented at the 50th Conference of the German Psychology Association (DGPS), Leipzig, Deutschland.
• Frischkorn, G. T., Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D. (2016, May). Convergent and discriminant validity of ERP latencies and parameters of the diffusion model. Poster presented at the 42nd Conference "Psychologie und Gehirn", Berlin, Germany. (PDF)
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., Frischkorn, G. T. (2016, May). Individual differences in the speed of higher-order processing explain individual differences in general intelligence. Poster presented at the 42nd Conference "Psychologie und Gehirn", Berlin, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., Frischkorn, G. T. (2016, May). Individual differences in the speed of higher-order processing explain individual differences in general intelligence. Talk presented at the 42nd Conference "Psychologie und Gehirn", Berlin, Germany.
• Frischkorn, G. T., Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., Voß, A. (2016, March). The latent state-trait structure of diffusion model parameters. In F. Renkewitz (Chair), Methodology. Talk Session conducted at the 58th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Heidelberg, Germany. (PDF)
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., Bergmann, K., & Voß, A. (2016). Model fit evaluation with the RMSEA facilitates the use of diffusion models in individual differences research. Talk Session conducted at the 58th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Heidelberg, Germany.
• Frischkorn, G. T., Schubert, A.-L., Neubauer, A. B., Hagemann, D. (2015, September). Anwendung von Multi-Level Moderation in Worst Performance Analysen (Application of Multi-level moderation in worst performance analysis). In T. Meiser (Chair), Multi-level Analysis. Talk Session conducted at the 12th Annual Meeting of the unit "Methodology & Evaluation" of the German Psychology Association, Jena, Germany. (PDF)
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., Bergmann, K., & Voß, Andreas (2015). Using the root mean square error of approximation as a goodness-of-fit index in diffusion model analysis. Talk presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology (MathPsych), Newport Beach, USA.
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., & Voß, A., Schankin, A., & Bergmann, K. (2015). The Donder's Fallacy - why additional processing demands cannot be inserted into simple reaction time tasks without affecting a variety of processes. Poster presented at the 41th Conference Psychologie und Gehirn (PUG), Frankfurt, Germany.
• Bergmann, K., Hagemann, D., Schubert, A.-L., & Schankin, A. (2014). The Allocation of Attention in Change Blindness. Poster presented at the 40th Conference Psychologie und Gehirn (PUG), Lübeck, Deutschland.
• Bergmann, K., Schankin, A., Hagemann, D., & Schubert, A.-L. (2014). Individual Differences in Change Blindness. Talk presented at the 56th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Gießen, Deutschland.
• Hagemann, D., & Schubert, A.-L. (2014). Das inverse Problem der Faktorenanalyse. Talk presented at the 49th Conference of the German Psychology Association, Bochum, Deutschland.
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., Voß, A., Schankin, A., & Bergmann, K. (2014). Wie elementar sind elementary cognitive tasks? Eine Zerlegung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Informationsverarbeitungsgeschwindigkeit und Intelligenz. Talk presented at the 49th Conference of the German Psychology Association, Bochum, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., & Voß, A., Schankin, A., & Bergmann, K. (2014). How elementary are elementary cognitive tasks? Poster presented at the 3rd Summer School on Computational Modeling of Cognition, Laufen, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., & Voß, A., Schankin, A., & Bergmann, K.(2014). Is faster always smarter? The relationship between reaction times, diffusion model parameters, ERP latencies and intelligence. Poster presented at the 40th Conference Psychologie und Gehirn (PUG), Lübeck, Germany.
• Schubert, A.-L., Hagemann, D., & Voß, A., Schankin, A. (2013). Is there a unitary neuro-cognitive basis of mental speed? Talk presented at the 16th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Barcelona, Spain.
• Mata, A., Schubert, A.-L., & Ferrera, M. (2013). Good-Enough Representations of Reasoning Problems. Talk presented at the Lisbon-Heidelberg Meeting, Heidelberg, Germany.
• Mata, A., Schubert, A.-L., & Ferrera, M. (2013). Good-Enough Representations of Reasoning Tasks. Talk presented at the 55th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Vienna, Austria.