Dr. Sophie Nolden

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

March 2025

• Multitasking and episodic memory over the lifespan
• Brain activity related to mnemonic mechanisms over the lifespan
• Attention and working memory
• Cognitive control and aging

2025

• Nolden, S., & Stojanova, B. (in press). Change, uncertainty, and scientific thinking: How is the scientific method related to adaptive behaviour in uncertain environments? To appear in: In: S.-I. Bibli, S. Fehlings, J. Ortiz-Tudela, S. Paulau, & M. Ressel (Eds.), Connectivity. Networks. Flows. Schriftenreihe der Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe, 2. Franz-Steiner-Verlag.
• Nolden, S., Ortiz-Tudela, J., & Fehlings, S. (in press). Art meets academia: An interview about the pictures in this book. To appear in: In: S.-I. Bibli, S. Fehlings, J. Ortiz-Tudela, S. Paulau, & M. Ressel (Eds.), Connectivity. Networks. Flows. Schriftenreihe der Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe, 2. Franz-Steiner-Verlag.
• Nolden, S., Bein, O., Shing, Y. L. (in press). Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing (POEM). Editorial to the special issue POEM. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
• Nolden, S., Turan, G., Bein, O., Davachi, L., Shing, Y. L. (in press). The impact of mnemonic prediction errors on episodic memory: A lifespan study. Developmental Psychology.
• Paul, K., Angus, D., Bublatzky, F., Wüllhorst, R., Endrass, T., Greenwood, L.-M., Hajcak, G., Jack, B., Korinth, S., Kroczek, L., Lucero, B., Mundorf, A., Nolden, S., Peterburs, J., Pfabigan, D., Schettino, A., Severo, M. C., Shing, Y. L., Turan, G., & Pourtois, G. (2025). Revisiting the electrophysiological correlates of valence and expectancy in reward processing – A Multi-lab replication. Cortex, 184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.12.017

2024

• Turan, G., Spiertz, V., Bein, O., Shing, Y. L., & Nolden, S. (2024). Unexpected Twists: Electrophysiological Correlates of Encoding and Retrieval of Events Eliciting Prediction Error. Psychophysiology, 62. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14752.
• Nolden, S., Turan, G., Güler, B., & Günseli, E. (2024). Prediction error and event segmentation in episodic memory. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 157, 105533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105533.

2023

• Nolden, S., & Koch, I. (2023). Preparing auditory task switching in a task with overlapping and non-overlapping response sets. Psychological Research, 87, 2228–2237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01796-x
• Ortiz-Tudela, J., Nolden, S., Pupillo, F., Ehrlich, I., Schommartz, I., Turan, G., & Shing, Y. L. (2023). Not what U expect: Effects of Prediction Errors on Item Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 2160–2176. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001367

2022

• Loh, K., Fintor, E., Nolden, S.*, & Fels, J.* (2022). Children’s intentional switching of auditory selective attention in spatial and noisy acoustic environments in comparison to adults. Developmental Psychology, 58, 69–82. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001239 * Shared senior authorship

2021

• Nolden, S.*, Brod, G.*, Meyer, A.-K., Fandakova, Y., & Shing, Y. L. (2021). Neural correlates of successful memory encoding in kindergarten and early elementary school children: Longitudinal trends and effects of schooling. Cerebral Cortex, 31, 3764–3779. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab046 *Equal contribution

2020 and before

• Eben, C., Koch, I., Jolicoeur, P., & Nolden, S. (2020). The persisting influence of unattended auditory information: Negative priming in intentional auditory attention switching. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 1835–1846. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01909-y
• Seibold, J. C., Koch, I., Nolden, S., Proctor, R. W., Vu, K.-P. L., & Schuch, S. (2019). Response repetitions in auditory task switching: The influence of spatial response distance and of the response-stimulus interval. Acta Psychologica, 199, 102875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102875
• Seibold, J. C., Nolden, S., Oberem, J., Fels, J., & Koch, I. (2019). The binding of an auditory attention location to a judgement: A two-component switching approach. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 2056–2067. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819829422
• Nolden, S., Ibrahim, C., & Koch, I. (2019). Cognitive control in the cocktail party: Preparing selective attention to dichotically presented voices supports distractor suppression. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 727–737. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-018-1620-x
• Seibold, J. C., Nolden, S., Oberem, J., Fels, J., & Koch, I. (2018). Auditory Attention Switching and Judgement Switching – Exploring multi-component task representations. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 80, 1823–1832. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-018-1557-0
• Hirsch, P., Nolden, S., Declerck, M., & Koch, I. (2018). Common cognitive control processes underlying performance in task-switching and dual-task contexts. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 14, 62–74. https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0239-y
• Hirsch, P., Nolden, S., Philipp, A. M., & Koch, I. (2018). Hierarchical task organization in dual tasks: Further evidence for higher-level task representations. Psychological Research, 82, 759–770. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0851-0
• Seibold, J. C., Nolden, S., Oberem, J., Fels, J., & Koch, I. (2018). Intentional Preparation of Auditory Attention-Switches: Explicit Cueing and Sequential Switch-Predictability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 1382–1395. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1344867
• Nolden, S., Rigoulot, S., Jolicoeur, P., & Armony. J. (2017). Effects of musical expertise on oscillatory brain activity in response to emotional sounds. Neuropsychologia, 103, 96–105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.07.014
• Nolden, S., & Koch, I. (2017). Intentional switching of auditory attention between long and short sequential tone patterns. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 79, 1132–1146. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1298-5
• Hirsch, P., Nolden, S., & Koch, I. (2017). Higher-order cognitive control in dual tasks: Evidence from task-pair switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43, 567–580. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000309
• Nolden, S. (2015). Brain activity related to the retention of tones in auditory short-term-memory. In: P. Jolicoeur, C. Lefebvre, & J. Martinez-Trujillo (Eds.), Mechanisms of Sensory Working Memory. Attention and Performance XXV (pp. 201–214). London, UK: Academic Press.
• Janczyk, M., Nolden, S., & Jolicoeur, P. (2015). No differences in dual-task costs between forced- and free-choice tasks. Psychological Research, 79, 463–477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-014-0580-6
• Alunni-Menichini, K., Guimond, S., Bermudez, P., Nolden, S., Lefebvre, C., & Jolicoeur, P. (2014). Saturation of auditory short-term memory causes a plateau in the sustained anterior negativity potential. Brain Research, 1592, 55–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2014.09.047
• Grimault, S., Nolden, S., Lefebvre, C., Vachon, F., Hyde, K., Peretz, I., & Zatorre, R., Robitaille, N., & Jolicoeur, P. (2014). Brain activity is related to individual differences in the number of items stored in auditory short-term memory for pitch: evidence from magnetoencephalography. NeuroImage, 94, 96–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.03.020
• Nolden, S., Bermudez, P., Alunni-Menichini, K., Lefebvre, C., Grimault, S., & Jolicoeur, P. (2013). Electrophysiological correlates of the retention of tones differing in timbre in auditory short-term memory. Neuropsychologia, 51, 2740–2746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.010
• Nolden, S., Grimault, S., Guimond, S., Lefebvre, C., Bermudez, P., & Jolicoeur, P. (2013). The retention of simultaneous tones in auditory short-term memory: a magnetoencephalography study. NeuroImage, 82, 384–392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.06.002
• Nolden, S., Haering, C., Kiesel, A. (2012). Assessing intentional binding with the method of constant stimuli. Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 1176–1185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2012.05.003
• Guimond, S., Vachon, F., Nolden, S., Lefebvre, C., Grimault, S., & Jolicoeur, P. (2011). Electrophysiological correlates of the maintenance of the representation of pitch objects in acoustic short-term memory. Psychophysiology, 48, 1500–1509. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01234.x