
Project task
Conceptualization and implementation of the psychological measurement protocol
Expertise
Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Aging, Mathematical Modeling of Cognitive Processes
Biography
Biography
Beatrice G. Kuhlmann studied psychology at the University of Mannheim (Germany) and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (USA). At Greensboro, she was a Graduate Assistant in Dayna R. Touron’s Cognitive Aging Lab and completed her Ph.D. in 2013. The same year, she returned to Germany to resume a postdoctoral position in Ute J. Bayen’s Mathematical and Cognitive Psychology Lab at Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf. In February 2015, she was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim where she set up the Mannheim Cognitive Aging Lab. In 2018, she was awarded funding from the German Research Foundation to establish an Emmy Noether research group on source forgetting in younger and older adults. In 2020, she was promoted to Full Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging at the University of Mannheim. Her research interests lie in promoting our understanding and measurement of memory processes (with a special focus on episodic source memory) and age-related changes therein as well as in metacognitive control of memory via strategies. She employs mathematical cognitive modeling techniques in her research and is Co-PI of the DFG-funded Statistical Modeling in Psychology Research Training Group.
Relevant publications
Kaiser, A., Kuhlmann, B. G. & Bosnjak, M. (2018). A meta-analysis of inhibitory-control deficits in patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia. Neuropsychology, 32(5), 615–633. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000460
Kuhlmann, B. G., Kornadt, A. E., Bayen, U. J., Meuser, K. & Wulff, L. (2017). Multidimensionality of younger and older adults’ age stereotypes : the interaction of life domain and adjective dimension. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological and Social Sciences, 72(3), 436–440. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbv049
Kuhlmann, B. G. & Touron, D. R. (2012). Mediator-based encoding strategies in source monitoring in young and older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(5), 1352–1364. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027863
Kuhlmann, B. G. & Touron, D. R. (2016). Aging and memory improvement through semantic clustering: The role of list-presentation format. Psychology and Aging, 31(7), 771–785. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000117
Noeltner, M., Kroenung, J., & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2019). Disarming prejudice: How ease of use mitigates the detrimental effect of IT-based stereotype threat on the IT task performance of older adults. ICIS 2019 Proceedings. 35. https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2019/behavior_is/behavior_is/35