The University of Western Australia

Asst/Prof Ullrich Ecker

Research Assistant Professor
Research Section (Psychology)

Contact details

Address

Research Section (Psychology)
The University of Western Australia (M304)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 3257

Fax

6488 1006

Email

ullrich.ecker@uwa.edu.au

Personal homepage

www.cogsciwa.com

Qualifications

DipPsych PhD Saarland

Biography

APD Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council (2011-2015)
PhD (2007) and Dipl.Psych. (2003) from Saarland University, Germany

Key research

Binding in memory

Memory updating

Continued influence of misinformation

Publications

Hasan, A., Wobrock, T., Falkai, P., Schneider-Axmann, T., Guse, B., Backens, M., Ecker, U. K. H., Heimes, J., Scherk, H., & Gruber, O. (in press).
Hippocampal integrity and neurocognition in first-episode schizophrenia: A multidimensional study.
World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.

Kueper, K., Groh-Bordin, C., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (in press).
Electrophysiological correlates of exemplar-specific processes in implicit and explicit memory.
Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Farrell, S., & Brown, G. D. A. (in press).
Models of cognition and (unnecessary?) constraints from neuroscience: A case study involving consolidation.
Australian Journal of Psychology.

Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Swire, B., & Chang, D. (2011).
Correcting false information in memory: Manipulating the strength of misinformation encoding and its retraction.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 570-578.

Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Apai, J. (2011). Terrorists brought down the plane!—No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 283-310.

Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Tang, D. T. W. (2010). Explicit warnings reduce but do not eliminate the continued influence of misinformation. Memory & Cognition, 38, 1087-1100.

Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., Yang, L. X., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2010). A working memory test battery for Matlab. Behavior and Research Methods, 42, 571-585.

Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2010). Remembering perceptual features unequally bound in Object and Episodic tokens: Neural mechanisms and their electrophysiological correlates. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 34, 1066-1079.

Wobrock, T., Hasan, A., Malchow, B., Wolff-Menzler, C., Guse, B., Lang, N., Schneider-Axmann, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Falkai, P. (2010). Increased cortical inhibition deficits in first-episode schizophrenia with comorbid cannabis abuse. Psychopharmacology, 208, 353-363.

Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Chee, A. E. H. (2010). The components of working memory updating: An experimental decomposition and individual differences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Ecker, U. K. H., Arend, A. M., Bergström, K., & Zimmer, H. D. (2009). Verbal predicates foster recollection but not familiarity of a task-irrelevant feature—an ERP study. Consciousness & Cognition, 18, 679-689.

Wobrock, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Scherk, H., Schneider-Axmann, T., Falkai, P., & Gruber, O. (in press). Cognitive impairment of executive function as a core symptom of schizophrenia. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.

Bermeitinger, C., Goelz, R., Johr, N., Neumann, M., Ecker, U. K. H., & Doerr, R. (2009). The hidden persuaders break into the tired brain. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 320-326.

Ecker, U. K. H., & Zimmer, H. D. (2009). ERP evidence for flexible adjustment of retrieval orientation and its influence on familiarity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1907-1919.

Wobrock, T., Schneider, M., Kadovic, D., Schneider-Axmann, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Retz, W., Rösler, M., & Falkai, P. (2008). Reduced cortical inhibition in first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 105, 252-261.

Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., & Groh-Bordin, C. (2007). The influence of object and background color manipulations on the electrophysiological indices of recognition memory. Brain Research, 1185, 221-230.

Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., & Groh-Bordin, C. (2007). Color and context: An ERP study on intrinsic and extrinsic feature binding in episodic memory. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1483-1501.

Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., Groh-Bordin, C., & Mecklinger, A. (2007). Context effects on familiarity are familiarity effects of context - An electrophysiological study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 64, 146-156.

Groh-Bordin, C., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2006). Has the butcher on the bus dyed his hair? When color changes modulate ERP correlates of familiarity and recollection. NeuroImage, 32, 1879-1890.

Zimmer, H. D., Steiner, A., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2002). How "implicit" are implicit color effects in memory? Experimental Psychology, 49, 120-131.


Conference papers (peer reviewed)

Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2009). Components of working memory updating. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 347-352). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.


Books

Ecker, U. K. H. (2007). Objects in context. The neurocognitive representation, binding, and processing of object and context features in recognition memory – An electrophysiological approach. Saarbruecken, Germany: VDM.

Book chapters

Ecker, U. K. H., Groh-Bordin, C., & Zimmer, H. D. (2004). Electrophysiological correlates of specific feature binding in remembering – Introducing a neurocognitive model of human memory. In A. Mecklinger, H. D. Zimmer, & U. Lindenberger (Eds.), Bound in Memory – Insights from Behavioral and Neuropsychological Studies (pp.159-193). Aachen, Germany: Shaker.

Funding received

ARC

Languages

German, English

Memberships

Association for Psychological Science
Cognitive Science Society
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie

Honours and awards

2011 UWA Outstanding Young Investigator Award

2009 Postdoctoral Award for "Best work accepted for publication by a UWA early-career researcher"

Teaching

PSYC2215 - Cognitive Psychology

Current projects

Memory consolidation--Integrating cognitive science and neuroscience approaches to how we remember and how we forget", with M Maybery (UWA), G Brown (Warwick) & R Henson (Cambridge), ARC Discovery, AU$422,000

Research profile

Research profile and publications