Theses
At NNU, theses for the BSc Psychology as well as for the MSc Cognitive Neuroscience can be carried out. We are also happy to support MSc theses from other areas if they match with our expertise.
Here is a list (not complete) of BSc and MSc theses that have been supervised by NNU staff in recent years:
Master theses (Primary Supervision from NNU)
- The Effects of tDCS over left PCC on tactile Working Memory, (2023) MSc Cognitive Neuroscience
- The effects of memory load and rehearsal rate on tactile working memory: An fMRI study (2022) MSc Social- Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- Approaching Mosquitos - Perception of peripersonal space for dynamic naturalistic stimuli (2022) MSc SCAN
- Investigating thalamo-cortical connectivity in different altered states of consciousness. (2022) MSc Brain and Cognitive Science.
- Neural correlates of tactile long-term memory – an fMRI study, (2022) MSc Social- Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- Neuronal Representation of Visual Numerosity during Working Memory – Using MVPA in an fMRI study. (2019) MSc Cognitive Science
- Tactile rehearsal – and EEG study. (2019) MSc Mind and Brain.
- Embodied emotional perception: The interaction between negative emotion and the self-relevance of body parts investigated with virtual reality and fMRI. (2018) MSc Social- Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- An EEG Study on Multi-Modal Integration Failures during the Ganzfeld-Experience. (2017) MSc Cognitive Science
- The Ganzfeld Experience: Characterizing Multimodal Integration Failure using Resting State fMRI and Psychometric Measures. (2016) MSc Cognitive Science
- Meta-Analysis of resting-state fMRI: The Feasibility of Establishing Valid Links Between Phenomenology and Resting-State Connectivity Data. (2016) MSc Cognitive Science
- Dynamic integration of early sensory areas supports perceptual awareness: An fMRI study on somatosensory target detection. (2016) MSc Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
- Neuronal representation of vibrotactile working memory content. (2015) MSc Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- The shared neuronal representations underlying Imagined and Maintained tactile stimuli (2015) MSc SCAN
- Somatosensory mismatch negativity in a Markov-Chain Roving paradigm (2015) MSc SCAN
- The influence of Mindset on Neural Correlates during Motor Skill Acquisition (2014) MSc SCAN
- The Contribution of Encoding and Maintenance Deficits to Working Memory Impairment in schizophrenia: An EEG Study (2013) MSc SCAN
Master theses (Co-Supervision from NNU)
- Brain Correlates of Threat and Appetative Drug Cue Processing and Their Relationship to Craving, Self-Efficacy and Helplessness in Quitting Motivated Smokers (2023) MSc SCAN
- Exploring uncertainly measures in fMRI decoding (2023) MSc SCAN
- The role of image background on the temporal dynamics of object processing (2023) MSc SCAN
- Gaze Bias dynamics in adolescence: Associations between gaze, choice, and age in food-related value-based decisions (2023) MSc SCAN
- A Longitudinal Analysis of Reinforcement Learning in Early Childhood (2023) MSc SCAN
- Modelling the production of existing and novel words in the Taboo game paradigm (2023) MSc SCAN
- The Effects of tDCS over the Left Posterior Parietal Cortex on Tactile Working Memory Performance (2023) MSc SCAN
- Neural Correlates in Response to Fear Faces in Children with War and Displacement Trauma (2022) MSc SCAN
- Predicting Smoking Status and Severity: A Machine Learning Approch (2022) MSc SCAN
- Explicit and Implicit Measures of Approach-Avoidance in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual ImpairmentCirculatory dipeptidyl peptidase 3 (DPP3): A biomarker for early prediction of brain injury and social cognition impairment after aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (2022) MSc SCAN
- Modeling Homologous Language Pathways in Chimpanzee Brains (2022) MSc SCAN
- The influence of proper names versus category labels on concept learning (2022) MSc SCAN
- Differently valanced affective images regulate approach-avoidance-reactions in humans (2022) MSc SCAN
- Semantic versus lexical violations in Persian phrasal verbs: An EEG experiment (2022) MSc SCAN
- Evaluating the Impact of anodal tDCS over the left DLPFC on working memory (2022) MSc SCAN
- Exercise, Cognitive, Multimodal Training & WMH (2022) MSc SCAN
- Neural Correlates of Tactile Long-Term Memory - An fMRI Study (2022) MSc SCAN
- Neurophysiological and Behavioral Markers of E/I Ratio (2022) MSc SCAN
- Modelling random dot motion perceptual decisions (2022) MSc SCAN
- The Influence of Value Information on the Access of Visual Stimuli to Awareness (2022) MSc SCAN
- Belief-state based decision making under uncertainly in a spatial search task (2022) MSc SCAN
- Temporal dynamics of syntactic composition: An EEG study on two-word phrasal processing (2022) MSc SCAN
- Weight loss and risky decision making in obesity. Effects of a diet intervention. (2022) MSc SCAN
- Analysis methods for synchrony in inter-brain functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data (2022) MSc SCAN
- A Multilabel Approach to Sentiment Analysis: Adaptation to Discrete Emotion Labels (2021) MSc SCAN
- Confound control for machine learning-based Alzheimer's disease detection based on structural MRI data (2021) MSc SCAN
- A Methodological Evaluation of Meta-Analyses in tDCS – Motor Learning Research (2021) MSc SCAN
- The Relationship Between the N400 as a Semantic Prediction Error and Implicit Memory (2021) MSc SCAN
- The relationship between stochastic electrophysiological activity in motor areas and voluntary movement decisions (2021) MSc SCAN
- Differences in effective connectivity between children and adults during task-switching (2021) MSc SCAN
- Functional connectivity analysis and whole-brain modelling of rsMEG signal in schizophrenia (2020) MSc SCAN
- Frequentist asymptotics of variational Laplace (2020) MSc SCAN
- Neural Flexibility and Stress Resilience: Dynamic Reconfiguration of Brain Networks under Stress (2020) MSc SCAN
- Perception of Data Visualizations with Multiple Circular Variables (2020) MSc SCAN
- Neural Dynamics of Scene Viewing (2019) MSc SCAN
- Epilepsy biomarker from a network perspective: An exploratory data analysis of resting-state effective connectivity in mTLE (2019)
- The computational mechanism of perceptual causality: A Bayesian approach (2019)
- Visceral Signals: The Heartbeat Evoked Potential (2018)
- Embodied emotional perception: The interaction between negative Emotion and the self-relevance of body parts investigated with virtual reality and fMRI (2018)
- Modeling the N400 as an Update in Semantic Feature Probabilities (2018)
- Hierarchical Frequency Tagging with fMRI: A new approach to investigate hypotheses of predictive coding. (2018) MSc SCAN
- Preliminary results indicate no impairments in a continuous visuomotor integration task in schizophrenia patients compared to healthy controls (2018) MSc SCAN
- Neural Correlates of Decisions from Experience (2017) MSc SCAN
- Investigation of the relationship of the P3 to indices of noradrenergic activity (2017) MSc SCAN
- Understanding the Role of Ongoing Oscillatory Phase for Visual Perception: An Analysis of Phase Opposition (2016) MSc SCAN
- Social Instruction-based Task-sets (2016) MSc SCAN
- Do you know the answer to your question? Brain correlates of question types (2016) MSc SCAN
- A General probabilistic formulation of integrated information (2015) MSc SCAN
- Evaluating nonlinear coregistration of BOLD EPI and T1w images (2014) MSc SCAN
Bachelor theses
- An empirical investigation of the subjective experience induced by Flicker Light Stimulation at varying frequencies and rhythmicities (2022) BSc Psychologie.
- Integration in der Substanz-unterstützten Therapie (2022) BSc Psychologie
- Evidence for the improvement of memory performance by the Loci method: A literature Overview. (2021) BSc Psychologie
- Imagining touch – An fMRI-data analysis on tactile stimulation and its imagery. (2021) BSc Psychologie
- Effects of load and rehearsal of tactile working memory: An fMRI study. (2021) BSc Psychology
- Differences and similarities of psychotic symptoms and pharmacologically induced states. (2020) BSc Psychology
- The Afterglow phenomenon – Subacute effects of serotonergic psychedelics. A systematic literature analysis. (2020) BSc Psychology
- Numerosity Processing in the Human Brain: Behavioral Characterization in the Context of an fMRI Working Memory Study.(2019) BSc Psychology
- A behavioral study on the psychometric characterization of subjective experiences during flicker-induced visual hallucinations. (2019) BSc Psychology
- The standardized qualification of retrospective, subjective experiences of hypnosis and the potential for treating anxiety and enhancing the quality of life in cancer patients. (2019) BSc Psychology
- A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study on the processing of spatial stimulus information in the tactile and visual modality. (2018)
- Developing a Predictive Coding Taxonomy for Alterations of Consciousness. (2018) BSc Cognitive Science
If you are interested in carrying out a BSc or MSc thesis at NNU, we recommend that you research what kind of empirical work has been carried out at NNU in recent years by looking at the publications of the working group. You can also research the topics currently being worked on at NNU. To help us assess whether NNU is a good fit for your interests and background, please send us a brief description of your motivation and a CV by e-mail.