Dr. Marcus Möschl

Contact information

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

Technische Universität Dresden
Zellescher Weg 17, 01069 Dresden

Phone:+49 (0)351 463-36011
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Research Statement

My research focuses on two central prerequisites for adaptive goal-directed behavior: 1) Our ability to delay executing intended actions until later occasions (prospective memory), and 2) our ability to deactivate intentions once they become irrelevant (e.g., after completion).

More specifically, I am interested in dynamics and properties of cognitive intention representations as well as mechanisms and modulators of carry-over effects from completed intentions that often incur costs during subsequent performance (i.e., aftereffects of completed intentions).

To this aim, my current research concerns the following topics 1) Do cognitive intention representations persist after intention completion? 2) The interplay of cognitive-control functioning and intention deactivation. 3) The impact of demanding situations (e.g., acute stress experiences) on prospective memory and intention deactivation.

Scientific Education

Professional Experience

Selected Publications

Möschl, M., Walser, M., Surrey, C., & Miller, R. (2019). Prospective memory under acute stress: The role of (output) monitoring and ongoing-task demands. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 164, 107046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2019.107046

Möschl, M., Walser, M., Plessow, F., Goschke, T., & Fischer, R. (2017). Acute stress shifts the balance between controlled and automatic processes in prospective memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 144, 53–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.06.002

Walser, M., Goschke, T., Möschl, M., & Fischer, R. (2016). Intention Deactivation: Effects of Prospective Memory Task Similarity on Aftereffects of Completed Intentions. Psychological Research. doi:10.1007/s00426-016-0795-9

Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science.  Science, 349(6251). DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4716

Subprojects

• A1