Akademischer Bildungsweg

1986-92     Studium der Psychologie an der Universität Düsseldorf

1992          Diplom in Psychologie (“mit Auszeichnung”)

                 Diplomarbeit: „Bewegungsrichtungswahrnehmung in Random-Dot-Kinematogrammen:  

                                      Psychophysik und VEPs“

1992-96      Doktorand an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

1996          Promotion zum Dr. rer. nat. (magna cum laude)

                Dissertation:„Das bewegungsrichtungsevozierte Potential und die Wahrnehmung komplexer

                                  Bewegungsmuster“

2004           Habilitation an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

                  Habilitationsschrift: „Die Dynamik des bewussten Sehens: Untersuchungen zur Interaktion

                                           zwischen selektiver Aufmerksamkeit und expliziter Reizwahrnehmung“

Berufliche Tätigkeiten

1992-95      Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Physiologische Psychologie, Universität  Düsseldorf (Prof. Dr. E.R. Wist)

1996-98      Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Biologische Psychologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Prof. Dr. F. Rösler)

1998-02      Wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Prof. Dr. P. Stoerig)

2002-04      Juniorprofessor für Experimentelle Neuropsychologie an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

2004-06      Hochschuldozent an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

2006-08      W2-Professor (auf Zeit) an der FU Berlin

10/2008      W2-Professor für Allgemeine Psychologie und Neuropsychologie an der FU Berlin (Nachfolge: Prof. Dr. Rainer Bösel)

Lehrtätigkeit

Übersicht 1992 - 2013:

Vorlesungen im Bereich der Allgemeinen Psychologie (Wahrnehmung, Lernen, Gedächtnis), Biopsychologie (Einführung, Vertiefung, Neurokognitive Methoden), und in der Klinischen Neuropsychologie (Störungsbilder und -theorien, Diagnoseverfahren).

Seminare in den Bereichen Allgemeine Psychologie I und II (Wahrnehmung, Aufmerksamkeit, Denken und Problemlösen), „Biologische Psychologie“ (u.a. Lateralisierung von Hirnfunktionen), „Angewandte Physiologische Psychologie“ (u.a. Rehabilitationsmethoden, Entwicklungsneuropsychologie), und „Methoden der Physiologischen Psychologie“ (u.a. Augenbewegungsmessungen).

Praktika in den Bereichen „Allgemeine Psychologie“ (Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum), „Methoden der Physiologischen Psychologie“ (Elektrophysiologische Messmethoden), „Angewandte Physiologische Psychologie“ (u.a. Diagnostik und Rehabilitation in der Klinischen Neuropsychologie) „Grundlagen der Physiologischen Psychologie (u.a. Visuelle Verarbeitung).

Akademische Selbstverwaltung

-           Prodekan des Fachbereichs „Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie“ (2011-13)

-           Vorsitzender des Prüfungsausschusses Diplomstudiengang Psychologie

-           Mitglied des Fachbereichsrates Erziehungswissenschaft & Psychologie (2009-13)

-           Mitglied der Kommission zur Verleihung des Ernst-Reuter-Preises

-           Mitglied der Strukturkommission Psychologie, FU Berlin

-           Mitglied in verschiedenen Berufungs- und Habilitationskommissionen

Gutachtertätigkeit

-                     Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

-                     Medical Research Council (MRC, UK)

-                     Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

Modulverantwortlichkeiten

Bachelor-Studiengang Psychologie:

Modul Biopsychologie

Modul Grundlagen der Allgemeinen Psychologie

Modul Medizinische und Pharmakologische Grundlagen der Psychotherapie 

Masterstudiengang Psychologie:

Modul Grundlagen/Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung

Venia im Fach Psychologie

siehe Seite "Forschung"

Publication list

Papers (peer-review)

Wist E.R., Gross J.D. & Niedeggen M. (1994). Motion aftereffects with random-dot checkerboard kinematograms: relation between psychophysical and VEP measures. Perception, 23, 1155-62.

Probst T., Loose R., Niedeggen M. & Wist E.R. (1995). Processing of visual motion direction in the fronto-parallel plane in the stationary and moving observer. Behavioural Brain Research, 70, 133-144.

Rösler F., Bajric J., Heil M., Hennighausen E., Niedeggen M., Pechmann, T., Röder B., Rüsseler J. & Streb J. (1997). Gedächtnisspuren im EEG. Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 44, 4-37.

Niedeggen M. & Wist E.R. (1998). Motion evoked potentials parallel the consistency of coherent motion perception in humans. Neuroscience Letters, 246, 61-64.

Niedeggen M. & Rösler F. (1999). N400 effects reflect activation spread during retrieval of arithmetic facts. Psychological Science, 10, 271-276.

Niedeggen M. & Rösler F. (1999). Processing of incongruous mental calculation problems: Evidence for an arithmetic N400 effect. Psychophysiology, 36, 307-324.

Niedeggen M. & Wist E.R. (1999). Characteristics of visual evoked potentials generated by motion coherence onset. Cognitive Brain Research, 8, 92-105.

Sahraie A., Milders M. & Niedeggen M. (2001). Attention induced motion blindness. Vision Research, 41, 1613-1617.

Azari N.P., Nickel J., Wunderlich G., Niedeggen M., Hefter H., Tellmann L., Herzog H., Stoerig P., Birnbacher D. & Seitz R.J. (2001). Neural correlates of religious experience. European Journal of Neuroscience, 13, 1649-52.

Kleiser R., Wittsack J., Niedeggen M., Goebel R. & Stoerig P. (2001). Is V1 necessary for conscious vision in areas of relative cortical blindness? Neuroimage, 13, 654-61.

Niedeggen M., Wichmann P. & Stoerig P. (2001). Change blindness and time to consciousness. European Journal of Neuroscience, 14, 1719-1726.

Toni I., Thoenissen D., Zilles K. & Niedeggen M. (2002). Movement preparation and working memory: A behavioural dissociation. Experimental Brain Research, 142, 158-162.

Niedeggen M., Sahraie A., Hesselmann G., Milders M. & Blakemore C. (2002). Is experimental motion blindness due to sensory suppression? An ERP approach. Cognitive Brain Research, 13, 241-247.

Mayr, S., Niedeggen, M., Buchner, A., Pietrowsky, R. (2003). ERP correlates of auditory negative priming. Cognition, 90, B11-B21.

Niedeggen, M., Heil, M., Ludowig, E., Rolke, B., Harris, C.L. (2004): Semantic processing of illusory words: An ERP approach. Neuropsychologia, 42, 745-753.         

Niedeggen, M., Hesselmann, G., Sahraie, A., Milders, M. & Blakemore, C. (2004): Probing the prerequites for motion blindness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 584-597.

Milders, M., Hay, J., Sahraie, A., & Niedeggen, M. (2004). Central inhibition ability modulates attention-induced motion blindness. Cognition, 94, B23-33.

Hesselmann, G., Niedeggen, M., Sahraie, A. & Milders, M (2006): Specifying the distractor inhibition account of attention-induced motion blindness. Vision Research, 46, 1048-1056.

Niedeggen, M., Heil, M. & Harris, C (2006): “Winner-take-all” competition among real and illusory words. NeuroReport, 17, 493-497.

Niedeggen, M., Hesselmann, G., Saharie, A., Milders, M. (2006): ERPs predict the appearance of global motion stimuli in temporal selection tasks. Brain Research 1097, 205-215.

Barnikol, U., Dammers, J., Wuttich, S., Amunts, K., Zilles, K., Niedeggen, M., & Tass, P. (2006): Pattern reversal visual evoked responses of V1/V2 and V5/MT as revealed by MEG combined with probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps. Neuroimage.

Mayr, S., Niedeggen, M., Buchner, A., Orgs, G. (2006): The level of reaction times determines the ERP correlates of auditory negative priming. Journal of Psychophysiology, 20, 186-193.

Prieto, E.A., Barnikol, U., Wuttich, S., Amunts, K., Zilles, K., Niedeggen, M., & Tass, P. (2007): Temporal activation pattern of V1/V2 and V5 during visual motion processing: an approach using MEG and probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps. Neuroimage, 37, 1384-1395.

Hesselmann, G., Allan, J.L, Sahraie, A., Milders, M, Niedeggen, M. (2009): Inhibition related impairments of coherent motion perception in the attention-induced motion blindness paradigm Spatial Vision, 22, 493-509.

Mayr, S., Hauke, R., Buchner, A., Niedeggen, M. (2009): No evidence for a cue mismatch in negative priming. Q. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 645-652.

Gutz, L., Küpper, C., Renneberg, B., & Niedeggen, M. (2011) Processing social participation: An ERP study. NeuroReport, 22, 453-458.

Michael, L., Hesselmann, G., Kiefer, M., & Niedeggen, M. (2011): Distracter-induced blindness for orientation changes and motion coherence. Vision Research, 51, 1781-1787.

Wojtecki, L., Elben, S., Timmermann, L., Reck, C., Maarouf, M., Jörgens, S., Ploner, M., Südmeyer, M., Groiss, S.J., Sturm, V., Niedeggen, M., & Schnitzler, A. (2011): Modulation of human time processing by subthalamic deep brain stimulation. PLoS One, 6, e24589.

Niedeggen, M., Hesselmann, G., & Michael L. (2012): Closing the gates to consciousness: Cumulative frontal negativity is related to distractor-induced blindness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(6), 1294-1304.

Weschke, S. & Niedeggen, M. (2012): Effects of moderate alcohol consumption on visual contrast and motion processing. Psychophysiology, 49(6), 833-841.

Kiefer, M., Ansorge, U., Haynes, J.D., Hamker, F., Mattler, U., Verleger, R., & Niedeggen., M. (2011) Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of conscious and unconscious visual perception: From a plethora of phenomena to general principles. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 7, 55-67.

Michael, L., Kiefer, M., & Niedeggen, M. (2012): The influence of distracter and target features on distracter induced blindness. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 8(1), 62-69.

Verleger, R. Smigasiewicz, K., Michael, L., & Niedeggen., M. (2012) Effects of premature lure stimuli on 2nd target identification in rapid serial visual presentation: Inhibition induced by lures or by the 1st target?. Psychophysiology, 49(9), 1254-65.

Ulm, L., Wohlrapp, D., Meinzer, M., Steinicke, R., Schatz, A., Denzler, P., Klehmet, J., Dohle, C., Niedeggen, M., Meisel, A:, Winter, Y. (2012). A Circle-Monitor for computerised assessment of visual neglect in peripersonal space. PlosOne. 8(2),

Mehnert, J., Brunetti, M., Steinbrink, J., Niedeggen, M. & Dohle, C. (2013): Effect of the mirror illusion on activation in precuneus assessed with near-infrared spectroscopy. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 18(6).

Weschke, S. & Niedeggen, M. (2013): The effect of the physical presence of co-players on perceived ostracism and event-related brain potentials in the Cyberball paradigm. PLOS One, 8(8).

Niedeggen, M., Sarauli, N., Cacciola, S., Weschke, S. (2014):Are there benefits of social overinclusion? Behavioral and ERP effects in the cyberball paradigm. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Nov (19).

Gutz L, Renneberg B, Roepke S, Niedeggen M. (2015). Neural processing of social participation in borderline personality disorder and social anxiety disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124(2), 421-431.

Niedeggen M, Busch NA, Winther GN. (2015). The state of a central inhibition system predicts access to visual targets: An ERP study on distractor-induced blindness (DIB). Consciousness and Cognition;35:295-307

Ebner C, Schroll H, Winther G, Niedeggen M, Hamker FH. (2015). Open and closed cortico-subcortical loops: A neuro-computational account of access to consciousness in the distractor-induced blindness paradigm. Consciousness and Cognition 35:308-18

Breitmeyer BG, Kiefer M, Niedeggen M. (2015). Exploring the visual (un)conscious.Conscious Cogn. 2015 Sep;35:178-84.

Weschke S, Niedeggen M. (2015). ERP effects and perceived exclusion in the Cyberball paradigm: Correlates of expectancy violation? Brain Res. 2015 Oct 22;1624:265-274

Brunetti M, Morkisch N, Fritzsch C, Mehnert J, Steinbrink J, Niedeggen M, Dohle C. (2015). Potential determinants of efficacy of mirror therapy in stroke patients--A pilot study.Restor Neurol Neurosci. 2015;33(4):421-34.

Roa Romero Y, Keil J, Balz J, Niedeggen M, Gallinat J, Senkowski D. (2016). Alpha-Band Oscillations Reflect Altered Multisensory Processing of the McGurk Illusion in Schizophrenia.Front Hum Neurosci. 2016 Feb 12;10:41.

Weschke S, Niedeggen M. (2016). Target and Non-Target Processing during Oddball and Cyberball: A Comparative Event-Related Potential Study.PLoS One. 2016 Apr 21;11(4).

Niedeggen M, Kerschreiter R, Hirte D, Weschke S. (2017). Being low prepares for being neglected: Verticality affects expectancy of social participation. Psychon Bull Rev. 2017 Apr;24(2):574-581.

Lubitz AF, Eid M, Niedeggen M. (2018) Complainer Profile Identification (CPI): properties of a new questionnaire on subjective cognitive complaints. Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn. 2018 Jan;25(1):99-121.

Balz J, Roa Romero Y, Keil J, Krebber M, Niedeggen M, Gallinat J, Senkowski D. (2016). Beta/Gamma Oscillations and Event-Related Potentials Indicate Aberrant Multisensory Processing in Schizophrenia.Front Psychol. 2016 Dec 6;7:1896.

Winther GN, Niedeggen M. (2017) Distractor-Induced Blindness: A Special Case of Contingent Attentional Capture?Adv Cogn Psychol. 2017 Mar 31;13(1):52-63.

Lubitz AF, Niedeggen M, Feser M. (2017) Aging and working memory performance: Electrophysiological correlates of high and low performing elderly. Neuropsychologia. 2017 Nov;106:42-51.

Winther GN, Niedeggen M. (2017) Adaptability and specificity of inhibition processes in distractor-induced blindness.Psychophysiology. 2017 Dec;54(12):1882-1898.

Tiedt HO, Benjamin B, Niedeggen M, Lueschow A. (2018) Phenotypic Variability in Autosomal Dominant Familial Alzheimer Disease due to the S170F Mutation of Presenilin-1. Neurodegener Dis. 2018;18(2-3):57-68

Weinbrecht A, Niedeggen M, Roepke S, Renneberg B. (2018) Feeling excluded no matter what? Bias in the processing of social participation in borderline personality disorder. Neuroimage Clin. 2018 Apr 26;19:343-350.

Schuck, K., Kerschreiter, R., Niedeggen M, (2018) Violated Expectations in the Cyberball Paradigm: Testing the Expectancy Account of Social Participation With ERP. Front. Psychol., 25 September 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01762

Lubitz AF, Eid M, Niedeggen M. (2019) Psychosocial and Cognitive Performance Correlates of Subjective Cognitive Complaints in Help-Seeking Versus Non-Help-Seeking Community-Dwelling Adults. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 2019 Jun 18

Lischetzke T, Cugialy M, Apt T, Eid M, Niedeggen M (2019) Are Those Who Tend to Mimic Facial Expressions Especially Vulnerable to Emotional Contagion? Journal of Nonverbal Behaviour.

Niedeggen M, Kerschreiter R, Schuck K (2019) Loss of control as a violation of expectations: Testing the predictions of a common inconsistency compensation approach in an inclusionary cyberball game. PLoS One. 2019 Sep 9;14(9):e0221817. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221817.

Verleger R, Śmigasiewicz K, Michael L, Heikaus L, Niedeggen M.(2019). Get Set or Get Distracted? Disentangling Content-Priming and Attention-Catching Effects of Background Lure Stimuli on Identifying Targets in Two Simultaneously Presented Series. Brain Sci. 2019 Dec 11;9(12):365. doi: 10.3390/brainsci9120365.

Kraus N, Niedeggen M, Hesselmann G.(2021). Trait anxiety is linked to increased usage of priors in a perceptual decision making task. Cognition. 2021 Jan;206:104474. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104474. 

Kern L, Niedeggen M. (2021).  Distractor-induced deafness: The effect of multiple auditory distractors on conscious target processing. Cortex. 2021 Jan;134:181-194. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.10.015.

Michail G, Senkowski D, Niedeggen M, Keil J. (2021). Memory Load Alters Perception-Related Neural Oscillations during Multisensory Integration. J Neurosci. 2021 Feb 17;41(7):1505-1515. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1397-20.2020. 

Weinbrecht A, Niedeggen M, Roepke S, Renneberg B. (2021). Processing of increased frequency of social interaction in social anxiety disorder and borderline personality disorder. Sci Rep. 2021 Mar 9;11(1):5489. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-85027-6.

Kern L, Niedeggen M. (2021).  ERP signatures of auditory awareness in cross-modal distractor-induced deafness. Conscious Cogn. 2021 Nov;96:103241. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2021.103241.

Kraus N, Niedeggen M, Hesselmann G. (2022). Negative affect impedes perceptual filling-in in the uniformity illusion. Conscious Cogn. 2022 Feb;98:103258. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2021.103258. 

Kern L, Niedeggen M. (2023).  Are auditory cues special? Evidence from cross-modal distractor-induced blindness. Atten Percept Psychophys. 2023 Apr;85(3):889-904. doi: 10.3758/s13414-022-02540-0. 

Rekers S, Niedeggen M. (2022). Intuitive assessment of spatial navigation beyond episodic memory: Feasibility and proof of concept in middle-aged and elderly individuals. PLoS One. 2022 Sep 16;17(9):e0270563. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270563.

Fang X, Yang YF, Kerschreiter R, Niedeggen M. (2022). From Loss of Control to Social Exclusion: ERP Effects of Preexposure to a Social Threat in the Cyberball Paradigm. Brain Sci. 2022 Sep 10;12(9):1225. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12091225.

Niedeggen M, Fang X, Yang YF, Kerschreiter R. (2023).  Electrophysiological evidence for sensitization effects elicited by concurrent social threats. Sci Rep. 2023 Jul 28;13(1):12285. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-39456-0.

Werrmann M, Schegolevska A, Eid M, Niedeggen M. (2023). Uncovering mnestic problems in help-seeking individuals reporting subjective cognitive complaints.Sci Rep. 2023 Sep 14;13(1):15266. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-42527-x.

Werrmann M, Niedeggen M. (2023). Age-Specific Effects of Visual Feature Binding. Brain Sci. 2023 Sep 29;13(10):1389. doi: 10.3390/brainsci13101389.

Fang X, Kerschreiter R, Yang YF, Niedeggen M. (2024).  Preexposure to one social threat alters responses to another social threat: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2024 Feb;24(1):126-142. doi: 10.3758/s13415-023-01151-y. 

Hanke S, Niedeggen M. (2024). Event-related potentials of stimuli inhibition and access in cross-modal distractor-induced blindness. PLoS One. 2024 Oct 23;19(10):e0309425. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309425. 

Werrmann M, Gür-Tok Y, Eid M, Niedeggen M. (2025). Predictive value of an unsupervised web-based assessment of the neuropsychological function. Sci Rep. 2025 Jan 10;15(1):1645. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-85614-x.

Yang YF, Fang X, Niedeggen M. (2025). Direct and averted gaze modulate the event-related brain responses to social exclusion signals. Sci Rep. 2025 Apr 18;15(1):13396. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-97840-4.

Books and Published Test Manuals

Niedeggen, M. & Jörgens, S. (2005) Visuelle Wahrnehmungsstörungen. Hogrefe-Verlag, Göttingen. 

Niedeggen, M. & Hoffmann, S. (2015) Computer-based Assessment of Visual Functions (CAV). Hogrefe-Verlag, Göttingen.

Lubitz, A. & Niedeggen, M. (2018) Screening Exekutiver Funktionen (SEF). Hogrefe-Verlag, Göttingen.

Book Chapters 

Niedeggen, M. & Wist, E.R. (1998). The physiological substrate of motion aftereffects. In G. Mather, F. Verstraten & S. Anstis (Hrsg.), The Motion Aftereffect (S. 125-157). MIT Press, Cambridge-Massachusetts.

Rösler, F., Jost, K., & Niedeggen, M (2006). Psychophysiological evidence for binding and unbinding arithmetic knowledge representations. In H. Zimmer, A. Mecklinger, & U. Lindenberger (Hrsg.), Handbook of Binding and Memory: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Niedeggen, M. (2007). Visuelle Wahrnehmungsstörungen. In M. Hermann & S. Gauggel (Hrsg.), Neuro- und Biopsychologie. Hogrefe-Verlag, Göttingen.

Niedeggen, M. (2007). Therapie von Wahrnehmungsstörungen. In M. Hermann & S. Gauggel (Hrsg.), Neuro- und Biopsychologie. Hogrefe-Verlag, Göttingen.

Niedeggen, M. (2014). Rezension: VOSP. In D. Heinemann & S. Gauggel (Hrsg.), Handbuch Neuropsychologischer Testverfahren. Hogrefe-Verlag, Göttingen.

Niedeggen, M. (2014). Rezension: VOT. In D. Heinemann & S. Gauggel (Hrsg.), Handbuch Neuropsychologischer Testverfahren. Hogrefe-Verlag, Göttingen.