Rebecca Overmeyer, PhD
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research associate
NameDr. Rebecca Overmeyer
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Short CV
Rebecca Overmeyer has been working at the Chair of Addiction Research since 2018, originally affiliated with the Collaborative Research Center 940 “Volition and Cognitive Control.” Rebecca’s research focuses on investigating how impulsivity and compulsivity transdiagnostically affect cognitive control and error processing in mental disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and substance use disorders, as well as in at-risk populations. The goal of Rebecca’s work is to link neurobiological mechanisms measured in the laboratory with everyday behavior. To do this, they use methods including EEG and Ecological Momentary Assessment.
Academic Background
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Since 2018: Research Associate, Chair of Addiction Research, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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2024–2025: Psychotherapist in Training, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
Education
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2025: License in Psychological Psychotherapy (specialization in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
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2023: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.; 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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2011–2017: B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience in Freiburg, Madison (USA, Fulbright Scholarship), and Dresden
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
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Rebecca is a funded member of the Scientific Network for Experimental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy Scientific Network for Experimental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy (SNEPP).
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., Kräplin, A., Goschke, T., & Endrass, T. (2026). The association between the error-related negativity and self-control is moderated by impulsivity and compulsivity. Communications Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-026-00446-3
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
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., 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, 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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