INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL MEDICINE AND HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH

Dr. Jasmin Kizilirmak

Dr. Jasmin Kizilirmak

Medical faculty
Institute of Social Medicine and Health Systems Research (ISMHSR)
Leipziger Str. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Bldg 2, office 116
Vita

ORCID: 0000-0002-5938-3523, GoogleScholar-Profil, Web of Science ID: ABA-1139-2020

Jasmin Kizilirmak holds a PhD in psychology and has spent many years conducting basic research on learning and memory using cognitive neuroscience methods (EEG, fMRI). Over time, her focus increasingly shifted to applied questions, particularly in the field of neurocognitive ageing and Alzheimer's dementia. After an excursion into higher education and science research – with a focus on career paths to a full professorship – at the German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW), where she is still a guest researcher today, she joined the Institute for Social Medicine and Health Systems Research (ISMG) to help shape the bridge between health science findings and medical practice as part of implementation research.

At the ISMG, Jasmin Kizilirmak coordinates the research network ISA – Implementation Research Saxony-Anhalt, as well as its sub-project A on implementation research in emergency and intensive care medicine. In this context, she is also conducting a study on the use of standardized delirium screening in emergency departments. Although delirium frequently occurs in the emergency departments of elderly patients, it is often not recognized in practice. The study examines the extent to which standardized delirium screenings such as the 4AT are already being used in hospitals in northern Saxony-Anhalt - and what obstacles there are to their implementation.

Jasmin Kizilirmak is also a private lecturer at the Institute of Psychology at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.

Research portal

Research portal Saxony-Anhalt

Publications

Preprint Articles & Articles in Preparation

  1. Kizilirmak, J. M., & Hofmann, Y. E. (in Vorbereitung). Wohlbefinden in der Professur: Was der Tenure-Track verändert.
  2. Luksche, C., Begemann, C., Kizilirmak, J. M., & Röwert, J. (in revision). Formelle und wahrgenommene Bedingungen für faire Tenure-Track-Verfahren. Eine interdisziplinäre Analyse.
  3. Kizilirmak, J. M., & Peter, F. (2025). What influences the time to reach a tenured university professorship? Insights from machine-learning. OSF. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/khfgj_v1
  4. Kizilirmak, J. M., Steinkampf, L.-M., Buchholz, S., & Ordemann, J. (2025). “Beyond Tradition: Successful Career Paths to Full Professorship.” SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/7c6z5.
  5. Soch, J., Richter, A., Schott, B. H., & Kizilirmak, J. M. (2022, December 28). A novel approach for modelling subsequent memory reports by separating decidedness, recognition and confidence. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/u5t82

Peer-reviewed Papers in Scientific Journals

  1. Flanagan, L., Mansur, B. de M., Reichert, C., Richter, A., Golbabaei, S., Kizilirmak, J. M., & Sweeney-Reed, C. M. (2024). Exploring anterior thalamus functional connectivity with cortical regions in prospective memory with ultra-high-field fMRI. Brain Communication (accepted). Preprint on BioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.14.580346
  2. Soch, J., Richter, A., Kizilirmak, J. M., Schütze, H., DELCODE study group, & Schott, B. H. (2024). Reduced expression of fMRI subsequent memory effects with increasing severity across the Alzheimer’s disease risk spectrum. Imaging Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00260
  3. Kizilirmak, J. M., Soch, J., Richter, A., & Schott, B. H. (2024). Age-related differences in fMRI subsequent memory effects are directly linked to local grey matter volume differences. Neurobiology of Aging, 134, 160–164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2023.12.002
  4. Soch, J., Richter, A., Kizilirmak, J. M., Schütze, H., Ziegler, G., DELCODE study group, & Schott, B. H. (2024). Single-value brain activity scores reflect both severity and risk across the Alzheimer’s continuum. Brain, awae149. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awae149
  5. Waschkies, K. F., Soch, J., Darna, M., Richter, A., DELCODE study group, Schott, B. H. & Kizilirmak, J. M. (2023). Machine learning-based classification of Alzheimer’s disease and its at-risk states using personality traits, anxiety, and depression. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 38(10), e6007. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.6007
  6. Schott, B. H., Soch, J., Kizilirmak, J. M., Schütze, H., Assmann, A., Maass, A., Ziegler, G., Sauvage, M., & Richter, A. (2023). Inhibitory temporo-parietal effective connectivity is associated with explicit memory performance in older adults. iScience, 26(10), 107765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107765
  7. Kizilirmak, J. M., Soch, J., Schütze, H., Düzel, E., Feldhoff, H., Fischer, L., Knopf, L., Maass, A., Raschick, M., Schult, A., Yakupov, R., Richter, A., & Schott, B. H. (2023). The relationship between resting-state amplitude fluctuations and memory-related deactivations of the Default Mode Network in young and older adults. Human Brain Mapping, 44(9), 3586–3609. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26299
  8. Richter, A., Soch, J., Kizilirmak, J. M., Fischer, L., Schütze, H., Assmann, A., Behnisch, G., Feldhoff, H., Knopf, L., Raschick, M., Schult, A., Seidenbecher, C. I., Yakupov, R., Düzel, E., & Schott, B. H. (2023). Single-value scores of memory-related brain activity reflect dissociable neuropsychological and anatomical signatures of neurocognitive aging. Human Brain Mapping, 44(8), 3283–3301. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26281
  9. Soch, J., Richter, A., Kizilirmak, J. M., Schütze, H., Schult, A., Düzel, E., & Schott, B. H. (2022). Structural and functional MRI data differentially predict chronological age and behavioral memory performance. eNeuro, 9(6), 14. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0212-22.2022
  10. Billette, O. V., Ziegler, G., Aruci, M., Schütze, H., Kizilirmak, J. M., Richter, A., DELCODE study group, & Maass, A. (2022). Novelty-Related fMRI Responses of Precuneus and Medial Temporal Regions in Individuals at Risk for Alzheimer Disease. Neurology, June. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000200667
  11. Scherger, A.-L., Kizilirmak, J. M., & Folta-Schoofs, K. (2022). Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven. Journal of Child Language, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000922000174
  12. Scherger, A., Urbanczik, G., Ludwigs, T., & Kizilirmak, J. M. (2021). The Bilingual Native Speaker Competence: Evidence From Explicit and Implicit Language Knowledge Using Elicited Production, Sentence-Picture Matching, and Pupillometry. Frontiers in Psychology, 12(September). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717379
  13. Soch, J., Richter, A., Schütze, H., Kizilirmak, J. M., Assmann, A., Behnisch, G., Feldhoff, H., Fischer, L., Heil, J., Knopf, L., Merkel, C., Raschick, M., Schietke, C.-J., Schult, A., Seidenbecher, C. I., Yakupov, R., Ziegler, G., Wiltfang, J., Düzel, E., & Schott, B. H. (2021). A comprehensive score reflecting memory‐related fMRI activations and deactivations as potential biomarker for neurocognitive aging. Human Brain Mapping, 42(14), 4478–4496. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25559
  14. Kizilirmak, J. M., Fischer, L., Krause, J., Soch, J., Richter, A., & Schott, B. H. (2021). Learning by Insight-Like Sudden Comprehension as a Potential Strategy to Improve Memory Encoding in Older Adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 13(June), 1–31. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.661346
  15. Kizilirmak, J. M., Gallisch, N., Schott, B. H., & Folta-Schoofs, K. (2021). Insight is not always the same: differences between true, false, and induced insights in the matchstick arithmetic task. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2021.1912049
  16. Soch, J., Richter, A., Schütze, H., Kizilirmak, J. M., Assmann, A., Knopf, L., Raschick, M., Schult, A., Maass, A., Ziegler, G., Richardson-Klavehn, A., Düzel, E., & Schott, B. H. (2021). Bayesian model selection favors parametric over categorical fMRI subsequent memory models in young and older adults. NeuroImage, 230(November 2020), 117820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117820
  17. Kizilirmak, J. M., Glim, S., Darna, M., & Khader, P. H. (2021). Selective attention to stimulus representations in perception and memory: commonalities and differences. Psychological Research, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01469-z
  18. Kizilirmak, J. M., Schott, B. H., Thürich, H., Richter, A., Sweeney-Reed, C. M., & Richardson-Klavehn, A. (2019). Learning of novel semantic relationships via sudden comprehension is associated with a hippocampus-independent network orchestrated by the mPFC. Consciousness and Cognition, 69(January), 113–132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2019.01.005
  19. Schott, B. H., Wüstenberg, T., Lücke, E., Pohl, I.-M., Richter, A., Seidenbecher, C. I., Pollmann, S., Kizilirmak, J. M., & Richardson-Klavehn, A. (2019). Gradual acquisition of visuospatial associative memory representations via the dorsal precuneus. Human Brain Mapping, 40(5), 1554–1570. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24467
  20. Kizilirmak, J. M., Serger, V., Kehl, J., Öllinger, M., Folta-Schoofs, K., & Richardson-Klavehn, A. (2018). Feelings-of-Warmth Increase More Abruptly for Verbal Riddles Solved With in Contrast to Without Aha! Experience. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(August), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01404
  21. Kizilirmak, J. M., Thuerich, H., Folta-Schoofs, K., Schott, B. H., & Richardson-Klavehn, A. (2016). Neural correlates of learning from induced insight: A case for reward-based episodic encoding. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(Nov), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01693
  22. Kizilirmak, J. M., Galvao Gomes da Silva, J., Imamoglu, F., & Richardson-Klavehn, A. (2016). Generation and the subjective feeling of aha! are independently related to learning from insight. Psychological Research, 80(6), 1059–1074. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-015-0697-2
  23. Kizilirmak, J. M., Wiegmann, B., & Richardson-Klavehn, A. (2016). Problem Solving as an Encoding Task: A Special Case of the Generation Effect. The Journal of Problem Solving, 9(1), 59–76. https://doi.org/10.7771/1932-6246.1182
  24. Kizilirmak, J. M., Rösler, F., Bien, S., & Khader, P. H. (2015). Inferior parietal and right frontal contributions to trial-by-trial adaptations of attention to memory. Brain Research, 1614(2015), 14–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2015.04.012
  25. Kizilirmak, J. M., Rösler, F., & Khader, P. H. (2014). Trial-to-trial dynamics of selective long-term-memory retrieval with continuously changing retrieval targets. Brain and Cognition, 90, 8–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2014.04.013
  26. Kizilirmak, J. M., Rösler, F., & Khader, P. H. (2012). Control processes during selective long-term memory retrieval. NeuroImage, 59(2), 1830–1841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.041
  27. Kopp, B., Kizilirmak, J. M., Liebscher, C., Runge, J., & Wessel, K. (2010). Event-related brain potentials and the efficiency of visual search for vertically and horizontally oriented stimuli. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 10(4), 523–540. https://doi.org/10.3758/CABN.10.4.523

 

Special Issue with Peer-Review (as Editor)

  1. Danek, A. H., & Kizilirmak, J. M. (2021). The whole is more than the sum of its parts – addressing insight problem solving concurrently from a cognitive and an affective perspective. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 33(6–7), 609–615. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2021.1967962

 

Book Chapters and Conference Papers

  1. Kizilirmak, J. M., & Becker, M. (2023). A cognitive neuroscience perspective on insight as a memory process: Encoding the solution. In L. J. Ball & F. Vallée-Tourangeau (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition. Routledge: Oxon, UK.
  2. Becker, M., Cabeza, R. & Kizilirmak, J. M. (2023). A cognitive neuroscience perspective on insight as a memory process: Searching for the solution. In L. J. Ball & F. Vallée-Tourangeau (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition. Routledge: Oxon, UK.
  3. Wernicke, M., Ritter, M. L., Torner, A., Kizilirmak, J. M., Schmidt-Thieme, B., & Folta-Schoofs, K. (2021). STARK - Ein soziales und inklusiv vermitteltes Trainingsprogramm zur Förderung der Raumwahrnehmung und Raumkognition. In C. Bätge, P. Cloos, F. Gerstenberg, & K. Riechers (Eds.), Inklusive Bildungsforschung der frühen Kindheit (1st ed., pp. 28–31). Beltz Juventa.
  4. Behrmann, L., Kizilirmak, J. M., & Utesch, F. (2014). Langfristige Auswirkungen ausbleibenden Strategieunterrichts auf das Lernverhalten von Studierenden und deren Einstellungen zur Schule. In M. Krämer, U. Weger, & M. Zupanic (Eds.), Psychologiedidaktik und Evaluation X (pp. 179–186). https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.958

 

Cognitive Trainings and Manuals

Wernicke, M., Ritter, M. L., Torner, A. J., Kizilirmak, J. M., Schmidt-Thieme B., Folta-Schoofs, K. (2021). STARK – Ein neuropsychologisches Gruppentraining zur inklusiven vorschulischen Förderung der Raumwahrnehmung und Raumkognition. Universitätsverlag Hildesheim.

Short CV

Since 04/2025

 

Associate researcher & project coordinator at University Medicine Magdeburg (UMMD), Institute for Social Medicine and Health Systems Research (ISMG)

Since 01/2025

 

Guest researcher at German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) Hannover

01/2023 –

12/2024

 

Project leader of the professors‘ panel (prof*panel) at DZHW Hannover; guest researcher at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Göttingen

09/2023 –12/2023

 

Substitute for the Professorship of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging an der University of Mannheim

04/2021

 

Habilitation (right to teach) in Psychology at University of Hildesheim

08/2019 – 12/2022

 

Research associate (postdoc) at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Göttingen, Cognitive Geriatric Psychiatry research group

01 – 07/2017

 

Maternity/parental leave

10/2015 – 07/2019

 

Research associate (postdoc) and lecturer at the University of Hildesheim, Institute of Psychology, in the Neurodidactics research group

01 – 06/2015

 

Maternity leave

07/2012 – 09/2015

 

Research associate (postdoc) at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Clinic for Neurology and Stereotactic Surgery, Consciousness and Memory research group

12/2012

 

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Psychology, Philipps University Marburg

05/2009 – 06/2012

 

Research assistant (PhD student) at the Philipps-University Marburg, Institute of Psychology, research group Cognition and Brain

03/2009

 

Diplom in Psychologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig

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