Nadine Diersch

Postdoctoral Researcher

Aging & Cognition Research Group
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
Leipziger Str. 44
39120 Magdeburg
Germany

E-Mail: nadine.diersch@dzne.de
Phone: +49 391 / 67 245 86

Curriculum Vitae

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Research Interests

My PhD research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences focused on age-related changes in the perception of our social environment and I used techniques from both experimental psychology (e.g., behavioral performance measures, psychophysics) and functional neuroimaging (fMRI) to study how aging and motor familiarity impact on the ability to anticipate others’ actions. I continued this line of research at Bangor University to investigate in how far action prediction performance can be predicted by specific neural activation patterns and characteristics of the observer. At the DZNE, I aim to further characterize age-related patterns of change in the brain with the focus on the perception of our spatial environment and find new ways to improve navigational abilities in older adults.