Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Annette Bolte

Professor VCF

Contact information

Faculty of Science, Department of Psychology
Institute of General Psychology, Biopsychology and Methods of Psychology

Technische Universität Dresden
Zellescher Weg 17, 01069 Dresden

Phone: +49 (0)351 463-33259
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Research Statement

In the CRC I investigate how volitional control processes and the underlying neural mechanism are modulated by emotions and reward processes. Furthermore I am interested in the cognitive mechanisms of intuitive judgments and implicit learning processes. In particular I investigate effects of emotional states on the ability to make intuitive judgments and on the spreading of activation in semantic memory.

Scientific Education

2008	Habilitation (Psychology), Technische Universität Braunschweig; oral examination: 2008; mentor: Prof. Dr. Dirk Vorberg
1999	Dr. rer. nat. (Psychology), Universität Osnabrück; oral examination: 1999; supervirsor: Prof. Dr. Julius Kuhl
1994	Diploma (Psychology), Universität Osnabrück; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Julius Kuhl
1988 – 1994	Study of Psychology, Universität Osnabrück

Professional Experience

Since 08/2011	Senior Lecturer (tenured) / (Privatdozentin)
08/2010 – 07/2011	Interim Professor for General Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden
10/2008 – 07/2010	Senior Lecturer, Technische Universität Dresden
04/2002 – 03/2008	Research Associate (Postdoc), Technische Universität Brauschweig
04/2000 – 03/2002	Post-doctoral fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich (Perception & Action Group; Director: Prof. Wolfgang Prinz)
05/1995 – 03/2000	Doctoral student, Universität Osnabrück

Other Scientific Activities, Honors, Awards

Travel grants 2004 and 2005 (German Research Foundation (DFG); U.S. National Institute of Justice)
Departmental services: Member of the study commission; mentoring interns; Technische Universität Dresden, study coordinator of the Master's Programme Cognitive-Affective-Neuroscience
Reviewer of national and international journals (Cognition and Emotion; Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology)

Selected Publications

Bolte, A. & Goschke, T. (2010). Thinking and emotion: Affective modulation of cognitive processing modes. In B. Glatzeder, V. Goel, & A. von Müller (Eds.), Towards a theory of thinking: Building blocks for a conceptual framework (pp.261-277). Springer Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg.

Bolte, A. & Goschke, T. (2008). Intuition in the context of object perception: Intuitive gestalt judgments rest on the unconscious activation of semantic representations. Cognition, 108, 608-616.

Goschke, T. & Bolte, A. (2007). Implicit learning of semantic category sequences: Response-independent acquisition of abstract sequential regularities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 394-406.

Bolte, A. & Goschke, T. (2005). On the speed of intuition: Intuitive judgments of semantic coherence under different response deadlines. Memory & Cognition, 33, 1248-1255.

Bolte, A., Goschke, T. & Kuhl, J. (2003).Emotion and intuition: Effects of positive and negative mood on implicit judgments of semantic coherence. Psychological Science,14, 416-421.

Goschke, T. & Bolte, A. (2012). On the modularity of implicit sequence learning: Independent acquisition of spatial, symbolic, and manual sequences. Cognitive Psychology, 65, 284-320.