Dr. rer. nat. Annika Dix

• Augmented multimodal perception and interaction in human-machine interactions
• Decision-making and problem-solving processes (perceptual decision-making, sequential decision-making, mathematic problem solving) …
• … and influencing factors (e.g., age, cognitive abilities, expertise, instruction, task design

Current projects:

• CeTI: Centre for Tactile Intelligence with Human-in-the-Loop
• Number Sense & Motivation: Math skill learning – neurocognitive mechanisms of effects of performance monitoring and motivation

Former projects:

• Intervention & Plasticity (TRAIN-STIM): Enhancing flexible cognitive control and decision making in older adults by applying training and non-invasive brain stimulation methods
• PhD project: “Count on the brain: using EEG oscillations and eye movements to disentangle intelligent problem-solving in math”

• Kognitive, soziale und emotionale Entwicklung in Kindheit und Jugend (teacher training)
• Kognitive Primärfunkionen (Psychology)
• Embodied Cognition (Psychology)
• Embodied Artificial Intelligence (Computer Sciences)

Dix, A., & Li, S. C. (2020). Incentive motivation improves numerosity discrimination: Insights from pupillometry combined with drift-diffusion modelling. Sci Rep, 10(1), 2608. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59415-3

Antonenko, D., Thams, F., Uhrich, J., Dix, A., Thurm, F., Li, S.-C., . . . Flöel, A. (2019). Effects of a Multi-Session Cognitive Training Combined With Brain Stimulation (TrainStim-Cog) on Age-Associated Cognitive Decline – Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Phase IIb (Monocenter) Trial. Front Aging Neurosci, 200. doi:10.3389/fnagi.2019.00200

Dix, A., Wartenburger, I., & van der Meer, E. (2016). The role of fluid intelligence and learning in analogical reasoning: How to become neurally efficient? Neurobiol Learn Mem, 134 Pt B, 236-247. doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2016.07.019

Dix, A. (2016). Count on the brain - using EEG oscillations and eye movements to disentangle intelligent problem-solving in math. Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin.doi:10.18452/17411

Dix, A., & van der Meer, E. (2015). Arithmetic and algebraic problem solving and resource allocation: The distinct impact of fluid and numerical intelligence. Psychophysiology, 52, 544–554. doi:10.1111/psyp.12367

Dix, A., Foth, M., Nowacka, N., Ries, J., Ullwer, D., Wartenburger, I., Warmuth, E., & van der Meer, E. (2011). Mathematical Cognition: Psychophysiological Correlates, Domain Impacts and Sources of Individual Differences. In Özyurt, J., Anschütz, A., Bernholt, S., & Lenk, J. (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cognition, Education, and the Brain. Hanse Studies, Vol. 7 (pp. 57-62). Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8142-2242-4

Talks

• Kang, K., Dix, A., Spliethoff, L., Passow, S., & Li, S.-C. (2019, September). Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on attentional control and decision making. Talk presented in the Symposium "Modulating sensory, motor, and cognitive functions by training interventions and non-invasive brain stimulations: Results from the TRAINSTIM project." (Conveners: Stefan Getzmann) at the 13th International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME) in Dortmund, Germany.
• Passow, S., Dix, A., Dajkic, D., Gohil, K., & Li, S.-C. (2017, September). Challenges in inducing neuroplasticity with non-invasive brain stimulations in old age: Comparing effects of transcranial electrical stimulation on cognition and memory in adult development. Talk presented in the Symposium “Neurocognitive Plasticity in Old Age [Neurokognitive Plastizität im hohen Alter]” (Conveners: Shu-Chen Li and Michael Nitsche) at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the GNP, Konstanz, Germany.
• Passow, S., Dix, A., & Li, S.-C. (2017, April). Age-dependent effects of non-invasive brain stimulatinon on decision making [Altersunterschiede in den Effekten nicht-invasiver Hirnstimulation auf Entscheidungsfindungsprozesse]. Talk presented in the Symposium “Training and non-invasive brain stimulation in the aging brain [Training und nicht-invasive Hirnstimulation im alternden Gehirn]” (Conveners: Agnes Flöel and Shu-Chen Li) at the 61st Annual Meeting of the DGKN, Leipzig, Germany.
• Dix, A, & Li, S.-C. (2017, March). Reward your number sense! How incentive motivation improves the approximate number system during development. Talk presented at the 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists in Dresden, Germany
• Dix, A. (2017, February). Mathematical abilities: Why are some of us more gifted than others and how can we use incentive motivation to improve performance. Invited talk presented in the Alumni Talk Series of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain in Berlin, Germany.
• Dix, A., Wartenburger, I., van der Meer, E. (2015, March). Brainy Math Cognition: The Impact of Fluid Intelligence on Strategy Use in Arithmetic and Algebra. Talk presented in the Symposium "Numerical Cognition II" (Convener: André Knops) at the 57th Conference of Experimental Psychologists [57. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP)] in Hildesheim, Germany.
• Dix, A., Foth, M., Nowacka, N., Ries, J., Ullwer, D., Wartenburger, I., Warmuth, E.. & van der Meer, E. (2011, September). Mathematical cognition: psychophysiological correlates, domain impacts and sources of individual differences. Talk presented at the 29th International Pupil Colloquium in Tübingen, Germany.
• Dix, A., Foth, M., Nowacka, N., Ries, J., Ullwer, D., Wartenburger, I., Warmuth, E., & van der Meer, E. (2011, März). Mathematische Kognition: Domänenspezifische Effekte und Quellen individueller Unterschiede. Vortrag präsentiert auf der 53. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) [53rd Conference of Experimental Psychologists] in Halle (Saale), Deutschland.
• Dix, A., Foth, M., Nowacka, N., Ries, J., Ullwer, D., Wartenburger, I., Warmuth, E., & van der Meer, E. (2011, March). Mathematical Cognition: Psychophysiological Correlates, Domain Impacts and Sources of Individual Differences. Talk presented at the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience, Educational Research and Cognitive Modeling in Delmenhorst, Hildesheim.

Poster

• Spliethoff, L.*, Dix, A.*, & Li, S.-C. (2019, September). Mechanisms of motivational modulation of numerosity perception in adolescents and young adults: effects of incentives on performance and pupil dilation. Poster presented at PaEpsy Meeting 2019 – The joint conference of the Sections Educational Psychology and Developmental Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) [PaEpsy 2019 – Gemeinsame Tagung der Fachgruppen Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie] in Leipzig, Germany

• Chen, H.-Y., Thurm, F., Dix, A., Smolka, M. N., Li, S.-C. (2019, June). Effects of decision-aids in enhancing value representations during decision-making in younger and older adults. Poster presented at 45th Annual Meeting "Psychologie und Gehirn" (PuG) [45. Jahrestagung Psychologie und Gehirn] in Dresden, Deutschland.

• Dix, A., & Li, S.-C. (2018, August). Using diffusion modeling and pupillometric measures to characterize incentive motivational effects on numerosity discrimination in teens and young adults. Poster presented at 6th Annual Flux Congress in Berlin, Germany.
• Dix, A., & Li, S.-C. (2017, June). How incentive motivation improves the number sense – insights from a developmental and multi-methodological approach. Poster presented at the International Workshop “Brain Dynamics on Multiple Scales – Paradigms, their Relations, and Integrated Approaches” in Dresden, Germany.
• Dix, A., Wartenburger, I., & van der Meer, E. (2016, June). Number cruncher or memory athlete: What brain rhythms tell us about sources of mathematical abilities? Poster presented at the 4th Biennial Meeting of the Special Interest Group (SIG) 22 "Neuroscience and Education" of the EARLI in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Dix, A., Wartenburger, I., & van der Meer, E. (2014, December). The impact of fluid intelligence on strategy selection and on neural efficiency of strategy execution in mathematical cognition. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) in Graz, Austria.
• Dix, A., Wartenburger, I., & van der Meer, E. (2014, December). The impact of fluid intelligence on strategy use. Poster presented at the Annual Poster Presentation at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain in Berlin, Germany.
• Dix, A., Wartenburger, I., & van der Meer, E. (2014, October). The impact of fluid intelligence on strategy selection and execution in mathematical cognition. Poster presented at the Workshop Educational Neuroscience of Mathematics in Tübingen, Germany.
• Dix, A., Wartenburger, I., & van der Meer, E. (2013, December). Mathematical Cognition: The Power of Thinking Strategically. Poster presented at the Annual Poster Presentation at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain in Berlin, Germany.