Dr. Astrid Schloerscheidt

Lecturer

Contact Details:
Telephone: (+44)(1382) 384595
Email: Astrid Schloerscheidt

Postal Address:
School of Psychology
The University of Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK

Biography

After I obtained my PhD from the University of St. Andrews, I spent three years at the University of Bristol where I continued my work on the electrophysiological correlates of memory retrieval, which had formed the basis of my PhD. I also had the opportunity to collaborate in a number of projects investigating the effects of person perception and stereotypes on person memory. In 2001 I moved to the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto where I worked with Fergus Craik looking at issues concerning memory and ageing. I joined the School of Psychology in Dundee in September 2004.

Research Grouping

Neuroscience and Development

Research Interests

My research focuses on the question ‘How do we remember?’ To investigate this I use experimental methods that include monitoring of the electrical activity of the brain (EEG) while research participants perform memory tests. This work aims to understand the processes that contribute to our ability to form and retrieve memories. Building up a picture of the brain activity underlying these processes also allows me to investigate what happens when memory declines. Here I am interested particularly in the ageing process and the question why some people experience worse memory problems with ageing than others. There are a number of factors that contribute to these individual differences; one of particular interest to me is genetics. Most of the work in my lab at the moment focuses on determining whether particular genes and their polymorphisms affect the electrophysiological correlates of memory retrieval and whether these genes contribute to individual differences in memory abilities in older age.

I am also interested in the various methods that can be applied to analysing EEG data and the integration of EEG with fMRI. I am a member of SINAPSE which aims to improve and integrate functional imaging laboratories across Scotland.

Funding


Awards
Development of Translational Biomarkers of Attention Function £111,794 by the Translational Medicine Research Initiative (Wyeth Inc and Scottish Enterprise www.tmrc.co.uk) with Douglas Potter

Publications


Links	Publications
	Schloerscheidt, A.M. & Rugg, M.D. (2004) The impact of change in stimulus format on the electrophysiological indices of recognition Neuropsychologia, 42, 451-466
	Brandt, K.; Macrae, C.N. & Schloerscheidt, A.M. (2003) Do I know you? Target typicality and recollective experience. Memory, 11, 89-100
	Macrae, C.N., Alnwick, K.M., Milne, A.B. & Schloerscheidt, A.M. (2002) Person perception across the menstrual cycle: Hormonal influences on social-cognitive functioning. Psychological Science, 13, 532-536
	Macrae, C.N, Schloerscheidt, A.M., Bodenhausen G.V. & Milne, A.B. (2002) Creating memory illusions: Expectancy-based processing and the generation of false memories. Memory, 10, 63-80
	Macrae, C.N., Bodenhausen, G.V., Schloerscheidt, A.M. & Milne, A.B. (1999) Tales of the unexpected: Executive processes in person perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 200-213
	Macrae, C.N., Bodenhausen, G.V., Milne, A.B., Castelli, L., Schloerscheidt, A.M. & Greco, S. (1998). On activating exemplars. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 34, 330-354
	Rugg, M.D., Mark, R.E., Walla, P., Schloerscheidt, A.M., Birch, C.S. & Allan K.A. (1998). Dissociation of the neural correlates of implicit and explicit memory. Nature, 39, 595-598
	Rugg, M.D., Walla, P., Schloerscheidt, A.M., Fletcher, P.C., Frith, C.F. & Dolan, R.J. (1998) Neural correlates of depth of processing effects on recollection: Evidence from brain potentials and PET. Experimental Brain Research, 123, 18-23
	Rugg, M.D., Schloerscheidt, A.M. & Mark, R.E. (1998). An electrophysiological comparison of two indices of recollection. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 47-69
	Schloerscheidt, A.M. & Rugg, M.D. (1997) Recognition memory for words and pictures: An event-related potential study. NeuroReport, 8, 3281-3285