Dr. Kerstin Fröber

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsGeneral, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
Keywordskognitive Flexibilität, Aufgabenwechsel, kognitives Altern

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityRegensburg
InstitutionUniversität Regensburg
InstituteInstitut für Psychologie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ulrich MayrDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2018

Programme(s)

2017Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2021Jurczyk, V. and Fröber, Kerstin and Dreisbach, G.: Bottom-up influences on voluntary task switching in different reward contexts?. In: Acta Psychologica, 217, 2021, 103312
2021Fröber, Kerstin and Dreisbach, Gesine: How Sequentially Changing Reward Prospect Modulates Meta-control: Increasing Reward Prospect Promotes Cognitive Flexibility. In: Cognitive, affective {\&} behavioral neuroscience, 21, 2021, 534--548
2021Fröber, Kerstin and Thomaschke, Roland: In the dark cube: Movie theater context enhances the valuation and aesthetic experience of watching films. In: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15, 2021, 528--544
2020Jurczyk, V. and Mittelstädt, V. and Fröber, Kerstin: Does temporal predictability of tasks influence task choice?. In: Psychological Research, 2020,
2020Fröber, Kerstin and Pittino, Ferdinand and Dreisbach, Gesine: How sequential changes in reward expectation modulate cognitive control: Pupillometry as a tool to monitor dynamic changes in reward expectation. In: International journal of psychophysiology, 148, 2020, 35--49
2020Chiu, Yu-Chin and Fröber, Kerstin and Egner, Tobias: Item-specific priming of voluntary task switches. In: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 46, 2020, 434--441
2019Jurczyk, Vanessa and Fröber, Kerstin and Dreisbach, Gesine: Increasing reward prospect motivates switching to the more difficult task. In: Motivation Science, 5, 2019, 295--313
2019Fröber, Kerstin and Pfister, Roland and Dreisbach, Gesine: Increasing reward prospect promotes cognitive flexibility: Direct evidence from voluntary task switching with double registration. In: Quarterly journal of experimental psychology, 72, 2019,
2019Dreisbach, Gesine and Fröber, Kerstin: On How to Be Flexible (or Not): Modulation of the Stability-Flexibility Balance. In: Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 2019, 3--9
2019Dreisbach, Gesine and Fröber, Kerstin and Berger, Anja and Fischer, Rico: Unexpected conflict signals loom larger in a positive context: Evidence from context specific control adjustments. In: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 45, 2019, 1398--1409
2018Mendl, Jonathan and Fröber, Kerstin and Dolk, Thomas: Are You Keeping an Eye on Me? The Influence of Competition and Cooperation on Joint Simon Task Performance. In: Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2018, 1361
2018Fischer, Rico and Fröber, Kerstin and Dreisbach, Gesine: Shielding and relaxation in multitasking: Prospect of reward counteracts relaxation of task shielding in multitasking. In: Acta psychologica, 191, 2018, 112--123
2018Fröber, Kerstin and Raith, Lisa and Dreisbach, Gesine: The dynamic balance between cognitive flexibility and stability: The influence of local changes in reward expectation and global task context on voluntary switch rate. In: Psychological Research, 82, 2018, 65--77
2018Czaczkes, Tomer J. and Koch, Alexandra and Fröber, Kerstin and Dreisbach, Gesine: Voluntary switching in an invertebrate: The effect of cue and reward change. In: Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition, 44, 2018, 247--257
2017Fröber, Kerstin and Dreisbach, Gesine: Keep flexible - Keep switching! The influence of forced task switching on voluntary task switching. In: Cognition, 162, 2017, 48--53
2017Fröber, Kerstin and Stürmer, Birgit and Frömer, Romy and Dreisbach, Gesine: The role of affective evaluation in conflict adaptation: An LRP study. In: Brain and Cognition, 116, 2017, 9--16
2016Fröber, Kerstin and Dreisbach, Gesine: How performance (non-)contingent reward modulates cognitive control. In: Acta Psychologica, 168, 2016, 65--77
2016Fröber, Kerstin and Dreisbach, Gesine: How sequential changes in reward magnitude modulate cognitive flexibility: Evidence from voluntary task switching. In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 2016, 285--295
2014Fröber, Kerstin and Dreisbach, Gesine: The differential influences of positive affect, random reward, and performance-contingent reward on cognitive control. In: Cognitive, affective {\&} behavioral neuroscience, 14, 2014, 530--547
2012Fröber, Kerstin and Dreisbach, Gesine: How positive affect modulates proactive control: Reduced usage of informative cues under positive affect with low arousal. In: Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 2012, 265