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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.

• Manual: ISBN 978-3-96424-030-9, https://dx.doi.org/10.18442/195
• Playing cards: ISBN 978-3-96424-054-5
• Material templates, game & instruction boards: ISBN 978-3-96424-053-8
• Craft story: ISBN 978-3-96424-052-1, https://dx.doi.org/10.18442/196