Rebecca Overmeyer, PhD
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research associate
NameDr. Rebecca Overmeyer
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Short CV
Since 2018, I have been working at the Chair of Addiction Research, originally within the Collaborative Research Center 940 “Volition and Cognitive Control”. My research focuses on how impulsivity and compulsivity transdiagnostically influence cognitive control and performance monitoring. The aim of my work is to understand transdiagnostic mechanisms relevant to various mental disorders.
Academic Background
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Studies in Psychology and Neuroscience in Freiburg, Madison (USA, Fulbright Fellowship), and Dresden
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PhD 2023 (summa cum laude): Neural correlates of performance monitoring and goal-directed behavior – Disentangling the influences of impulsivity, compulsivity and motivational context
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License as a cognitive behavioral therapist 2025
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 the Society for Psychophysiological Research (2024 Annual Meeting)
- Poster Award of the German Society of Psychophysiology and its Application (DGPA) (45th Annual Meeting "Psychologie und Gehirn") for the Poster "Real-life self-control failures predict error-related brain activity"
Publications (selected)
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
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 Inventory 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
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
* equal contributions
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