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Maria Wimber
Postdoctoral Fellow, Memory Group
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Contact details
| E-mail address: | maria.wimber@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk |
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1223 355294 |
| Direct line: | +44 (0)1223 +44 (0)1223 273619 |
| Fax: | +44 (0)1223 359062 |
| Address: | MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF |
Research areas
I am interested in the cognitive and neural processes underlying episodic memory, that is, long-term memory for past events. My main focus is on the processes that are engaged during the retrieval of past episodes. How does the brain manage to selectively reactivate the sought-after information, given the enormous amount of information that accumulates in memory across a lifetime? I have used functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and electrophysiological (EEG) methods to elucidate the nature of the brain processes supporting selective remembering. More recently, I have also investigated the brain processes associated with the formation of durable memory traces (encoding), and especially the question how our ongoing cognitive and neural processing determines which aspects of an experience get stored into memory, and which don't.
Publications:
Schott BH, Wuestenberg T, Wimber M, Fenker D, Zierhut K, Seidenbecher CI, Heinze HJ, Walter H, Duzel E, Richardson-Klavehn A (in press). The relationship between level of processing and hippocampal-cortical functional connectivity during episodic memory formation in humans. Human Brain Mapping.
Hanslmayr S, Volberg G, Wimber M, Raabe M, Greenlee MW, Bäuml KHT (2011). The relationship between brain oscillations and BOLD signal during memory formation: a combined EEG-fMRI study. Journal of Neuroscience 31:15674-15680.
Wimber M, Schott BH, Wendler F, Seidenbecher CI, Behnisch G, Macharadze T, Bäuml KHT, Richardson-Klavehn A (2011). Prefrontal dopamine and the dynamic control of human long-term memory. Translational Psychiatry e15; doi:10.1038/tp.2011.15
Wimber M, Heinze H-J, Richardson-Klavehn A (2010). Distinct fronto-parietal networks set the stage for later perceptual identification priming and episodic recognition memory. Journal of Neuroscience 30:13272-13280.
Richardson-Klavehn A, Magno E, Markopoulos G, Sweeney-Reed CM, Wimber M (2009). On the intimate relationship between neurobiology and function in the theoretical analysis of human learning and memory. In F. Rösler, C. Ranganath, B. Röder, & R.H. Kluwe (Eds.), Neuroimaging and psychological theories of human memory. New York: Oxford University Press.
Wimber M, Rutschmann RM, Greenlee MW, Bäuml KHT (2009). Retrieval from episodic memory: neural mechanisms of interference resolution. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21:538-549.
Wimber M, Bäuml KHT, Bergström Z, Markopoulos G, Heinze H-J, Richardson-Klavehn A (2008). Neural Markers of Inhibition in Human Memory Retrieval. Journal of Neuroscience 28:13419-13427.
Hanslmayr S, Pastötter B, Bäuml KHT, Gruber S, Wimber M, Klimesch W (2008). The electrophysiological dynamics of interference during the Stroop task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 20:215-25.