Axel Mecklinger

Axel Mecklinger (born May 15, 1961 in Esslingen am Neckar ) is a German neuropsychologist .

Life

From 1982 to 1986 he studied psychology at the Free University of Berlin and graduated with a diploma. In 1991 he received his doctorate on the subject of memory search processes. He then did research at the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , at the Armstrong Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, at the University of California, San Diego , at Columbia University (all USA), at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Marseille and at the New York Psychiatric Hospital. Mecklinger completed his habilitation in 1997 at the University of Leipzig and has held the chair in the field of psychology since 2000Experimental neuropsychology at the Saarland University .

Services

In 1999/2000 he was head of the “Neurocognition of Memory” research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences . From 2003 to 2009 he was the spokesman for the research group FOR 448 Binding: Functional Architecture, Neuronal Correlates and Onthogenesis, funded by the DFG . Since 2008 he has also been the spokesperson for the International Graduate School Adaptive Minds: Neural and Environmental Constraints on Learning and Memory . His main research interests are neurocognition of memory and language , executive functions and neuropsychological disorders ( amnesia ). For this he uses psychophysiological methods ( EEG , MEG , fMRI ).

Memberships

• Society for Psychophysiological Research
• German Society for Psychology
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Awards

• 1992: "Young Scientist Prize" from the German Society for Psychophysiology and its Applications
• 1994 "Federation Prize" of the European Federation of Psychophysiology Societies
• 1999 "Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology" from the Society for Psychophysiological Research

Fonts

• Memory Search Processes: An Analysis of Event-Correlated Potentials and EEG Spontaneous Activity , Dissertation, Free University Berlin, 1991.
• Handbook of Binding and Memory: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford University Press: NY., 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-852967-5 .
• The control of long-term memory: Brain systems and cognitive processes. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 34: 1055, 2010.

Web links

• Homepage of Axel Mecklinger at Saarland University
• Homepage of the chair