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Alexandra Hering

Privat-Docent (Unige) and Assistant professor (TiU)

Chemin de Pinchat 22 | 1227 Carouge
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Brief Curriculum Vitae

Education

Professional Experience

Selected publications (10 MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS)

• Laera, G., Del Missier, F., Laloli, S., Zuber, S., Kliegel, M., & Hering, A. (2025). Looking for cues over time: A study on self-initiated monitoring in event-based and time-based prospective memory. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-025-01700-5

• Alimardani, M., Morera, G., & Hering, A. (2024). Virtual Day: A VR Game for Evaluation of Prospective Memory in Older Adults. 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 963–964. https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW62533.2024.00278

• Cipolletta, S., Signorello, D., Zuppiroli, S., Hering, A., Ballhausen, N., Mioni, G., Kliegel, M., Gaspari, M., & Stablum, F. (2024). A focus group study for the design of a web based tool for improving problem-solving in older adults. European Journal of Ageing, 21(1), 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-024-00814-0

• Haines, S. J., Busija, L., Hering, A., Terrett, G., McLennan, S., Wells, Y., Rendell, P. G., & Henry, J. D. (2024). Executive control contributes little to prospective memory function in older age: Evidence from more ecologically valid paradigms. Memory, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2431672

• Laera, G., Brummer, J., Hering, A., Kliegel, M., & Horn, S. (2024). The cost of monitoring in time-based prospective memory. Scientific Reports, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52501-w

• Laera, G., Hering, A., & Kliegel, M. (2023). Assessing time-based prospective memory online: A comparison study between laboratory-based and web-based testing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218231220578.https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231220578

• Laera, G., Mioni, G., Vanneste, S., Bisiacchi, P. S., Hering, A., & Kliegel, M. (2024). Keeping the time: The impact of external clock-speed manipulation on time-based prospective memory. Journal of Cognition, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.388

• Schmidt, N., Menéndez-Granda, M., Münger, R., Reber, T. P., Bayen, U. J., Gümüsdagli, F. E., Hering, A., Joly-Burra, E., Kliegel, M., & Peter, J. (2023). Modulating prospective memory and attentional control with high-definition transcranial current stimulation: Study protocol of a randomized, double-blind, and sham-controlled trial in healthy older adults. PLOS ONE, 18(8), e0289532. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289532

• Seesjärvi, E., Puhakka, J., Aronen, E. T., Hering, A., Zuber, S., Merzon, L., Kliegel, M., Laine, M., & Salmi, J. (2023). EPELI: A novel virtual reality task for the assessment of goal-directed behavior in real-life contexts. Psychological Research, 87(6), 1899–1916. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01770-z

• Verspeek, E. A. M., Brehmer, Y., Jongerling, J., Hering, A., & van Scheppingen, M. A. (2024). Expecting Relocation to a Nursing Home: Longitudinal Links with Functional Limitations, Self Rated Health, and Life Satisfaction. Gerontology, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1159/000541336

Book chapters

Brehmer, Y., & Hering, A. (2024). Biologische Grundlagen kognitiver Trainings. In P. Gellert & H.-W. Wahl (Eds.), Interventionsgerontologie: 100 Schlüsselbegriffe für Forschung, Lehre und Praxis (1. Auflage, pp. 291–298). Verlag W. Kohlhammer.

Kliegel, M., & Hering, A. (2024). Plastizität im höheren Lebensalter. In P. Gellert & H.-W. Wahl (Eds.), Interventionsgerontologie: 100 Schlüsselbegriffe für Forschung, Lehre und Praxis (1. Auflage, pp. 42–48). Verlag W. Kohlhammer.

Ballhausen, N., Hering, A., Rendell, P. G., & Kliegel, M. (2019). Prospective Memory across the Lifespan. In J. Rummel & M. A. McDaniel (Eds.), Prospective Memory (1st ed., pp. 135-156). London: Routledge.

Kliegel, M., Hering, A., Ihle, A., & Zuber, S. (2017). Cognitive training to promote executive functions. In S. A. Wiebe & J. Karbach (Eds.), Executive Function: Development across the life span (1st ed., pp. 200-214). New York: Routledge.

Kliegel, M., Zinke, K., & Hering, A. (2012). Plastizität. In H.-W. Wahl, C. Tesch-Römer, & J. P. Ziegelmann (Eds.), Angewandte Gerontologie - Interventionen für ein gutes Altern in 100 Schlüsselbegriffen (2nd ed., pp. 72-77). Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer.

conference contributions (LAST 5 YEARS)

• Hering, A., Dimri, V., Olaru, G., van Boxtel, G., & Brehmer, Y. (2024, November). Cognition-Personality Interactions: Investigating the Neural Correlates of Extraversion in Decision-Making in Younger and Older Adults. Poster presented at the 65. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York, NY.

• Hering, A., Dimri, V., Olaru, G., van Boxtel, G., & Brehmer, Y. (2024, May). Personality neuroscience in younger and older adults: Investigating the neural correlates of extraversion in decision-making. In C. Pas (Chair), Age-differences in cognitive functioning and information processing, Symposium conducted at the VNOP 2024 Conference, Tilburg, Netherlands.

• Hering, A., Horn, S., & Kliegel., M. (2023, April). The neural correlates of remembering intentions in light of gains and losses in younger and older adults. Poster presented at the 7^th Aging & Cognition Conference, Leuven, Belgium.

• Hering, A., Horn, S., & Kliegel., M.  (2022, August). The influence of gains and losses in younger and older adults’ prospective memory. In K. Schnitzspahn and M. Altgassen (Chairs), New insights on prospective remembering: How motivational, social and emotional variables affect intention completion in young and older adults, Symposium conducted at the 22^nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Lille, France.

• Hering, A. (2022, June). The neural correlates of remembering intentions in light of gains and losses. In J. Peter & S. Horn (Chair), A neuroscience perspective on prospective memory across the lifespan, Symposium conducted at the 47. Jahrestagung Psychologie und Gehirn, Freiburg, Germany.

• Hering, A. (2021, August). Virtual Week. Talk presented at the International Prospective Memory Symposium (iPM Symposium), online symposium organized by Dr. H. Ball, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Texas at Arlington, TX.

• Hering, A., Schnitzspahn, K., Shing, Y. L., & Kliegel, M. (2020, March). Age differences in prospective memory: The role of strategic and associative demands. In J. Billino (Chair), Current trends in experimental ageing research: bringing together perception, cognition, and motor control, Symposium conducted at the 62^nd Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Jena, Germany. ISBN 978-3-95853-593-0 (abstract published; conference cancelled due to COVID-19)

• Hering, A., Langerock, N., & Vergauwe, E. (2019, September). Do prospective memory and working memory share the same attentional resources? In A. Hering & E. Vergauwe (Chairs), Don’t forget to take your medication when cooking dinner: How are working memory and prospective memory related? Symposium presented at the 21^st Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Tenerife, Spain.

• Hering, A., Schnitzspahn, K., Shing, Y. L., & Kliegel, M. (2019, April). The influence of strategies and the cue-action association on prospective memory across the lifespan. Poster presented at the 5^th International Conference on Ageing & Cognition, Zurich, Switzerland.

• Hering, A. (2019, February). Do I remember to take my pills when I am sad? On prospective memory, emotions, and ERPs. Talk presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland.

Invited talks

Hering, A. (2022, November). Kognitives Training und Demenz: Was ist es, wie wirkt es und für wen? Keynote speaker at the 8^th St. Gallener Demenzkongress (St. Gallener congress on dementia), St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Hering, A. (2021, April). Resource Sharing Between Prospective Memory and Working Memory Across the Lifespan. Talk presented at the International Online PM Symposium. Organized by Dr. H. Ball, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Texas at Arlington, TX.

Hering, A. (2019, March). Did I take my medication for breakfast? Prospective memory research across the lifespan. Keynote speaker at the Graduate Symposium Learning and Memory in Cognitive Science, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Hering, A. (2018, July). Do I remember to take my pills when I am sad? On prospective memory, emotions, and ERPs. Talk presented at AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.

Hering, A. (2016, April). Prospective memory: A research tour around remembering intentions. Talk presented at AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN.

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