Rebecca Overmeyer, PhD
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research associate
NameDr. Rebecca Overmeyer
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Short CV
Rebecca Overmeyer has been employed at the Chair of Addiction Research since March 2018, working in project C6 ”Cognitive Control in (Disorders of) Impulsivity and Compulsivity“ of the German Collaborative Research Center 940 ”Volition and Cognitive Control“. Rebecca completed their PhD on "Neural correlates of performance monitoring and goal-directed behavior. Disentangling the influences of impulsivity, compulsivity and motivational context." in 2023.
Rebecca studied psychology and neuroscience at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (funded by Fulbright) and the Technische Universität Dresden. For their master‘s thesis, they examined cardiovascular reactivity and its connection to emotion regulation and worry.
Rebecca has advanced clinical training in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Research interests
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Changes in conflict processing, performance monitoring and response inhibition in association with impulsivity and compulsivity, with a focus on obsessive-compulsive disorder and alcohol use disorder
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Neural correlates of different configurations of transdiagnostic psychopathological traits, specifically impulsivity and compulsivity
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Associations of self-control in daily life (ecological momentary assessment) with neural correlates of cognitive control
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Motivational effects in cognitive control
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Open Science Open Science Initiative of the Faculty of Psychology
Awards
- Travel Award of theSociety for Psychophysiological Research (2024 Annual Meeting)
- Posteraward of the German Society of Psychophysiology and its Application (DGPA) (at the 45th Annual Meeting "Psychologie und Gehirn") for the Poster "Real-life self-control failures predict error-related brain activity"
Researchgate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebecca_Overmeyer
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=mOhsn1YAAAAJ&hl=de
Publications
Overmeyer, R., & Endrass, T. (2025). The impact of impulsivity and compulsivity on error processing in different motivational contexts. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01281-5
Dück, K., Wüllhorst, R., Overmeyer, R., & Endrass, T. (2024). On the effects of impulsivity and compulsivity on neural correlates of model-based performance. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 21057. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-71692-w
Overmeyer, R., & Endrass, T. (2024). Disentangling associations between impulsivity, compulsivity, and performance monitoring. Psychophysiology, e14539. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14539
Overmeyer, R., Kirschner, H., Fischer, A.G., & Endrass, T. (2023). Unraveling the influence of trial-based motivational changes on performance monitoring stages in a flanker task. Scientific Reports 13(1), 19180. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45526-0
Overmeyer, R., & Endrass, T. (2023). Cognitive Symptoms link Anxiety and Depression within a validation of the German State-Trait In-ventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA). Clinical Psychology in Europe. https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.9753
Overmeyer, R.*, Dück, K.*, Mohr, H., & Endrass, T. (2023). Are electrophysiological correlates of response inhibition linked to impulsivity and compulsivity? A machine-learning analysis of a Go/Nogo task. Psychophysiology, 00, e014310. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14310
Dieterich, R., Wüllhorst, V., Berghäuser, J., Overmeyer, R., & Endrass, T. (2021). Electrocortical correlates of impaired motor inhibition and outcome processing are related in high binge‐watching. Psychophysiology, 58(6), e13814.
Overmeyer, R., Berghäuser, J., Dieterich, R., Wolff, M., Goschke, T., & Endrass, T. (2021). The error-related negativity predicts self-control failures in daily life. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 616. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.614979
Kilian, C.*, Bröckel, K. L.*, Overmeyer, R., Dieterich, R., & Endrass, T. (2020). Neural correlates of response inhibition and performance monitoring in binge watching. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 158, 1-8.
Overmeyer, R., Fürtjes, S., Ersche, K. D., Ehrlich, S., & Endrass, T. (2020). Self-regulation is negatively associated with habit tendencies: A validation of the German Creature of Habit Scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 163, 110029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110029
* equal contributions