LIN Personal

Prof. Dr. Nicole Wetzel

Forschungsgruppenleiterin

Neurokognitive Entwicklung

Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie
Brenneckestr. 6
39118 Magdeburg
Deutschland
Telefon: +49 391 6263 94441
E-Mail: Nicole.Wetzel@lin-magdeburg.de
ORCID: 0000-0002-2352-5366

  • Publikationen

    Publikationen

    Ríos-López P, Selezneva E, Schmitt A, Borke J, Wetzel N. 2025. Maximizing learning: Lesson-related wall decorations support learning while unrelated decorations do not hinder it. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001963

    Streuber S, Wetzel N, Pastel S, Bürger D, Witte K. 2025. Using a virtual reality oddball paradigm to study attention control in complex motor movements. Virtual Reality. 29(2):Article 56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-025-01111-6

    Aurich F, Widmann A, Dercksen T, Korka B, Richter A, Stenner M-P, Wetzel N. 2025. Flexibility and Neural Correlates of Action-Sound Predictions. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.19.644065

    Constant M, Mandal A, Asanowicz D, Panek B, Kotlewska I, Yamaguchi M, Gillmeister H, Kerzel D, Luque D, Molinero S, et al. 2025. A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996). Preregistered Report. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3472y_v2

    Gärtner C, Widmann A, Stenner M-P, Wetzel N. 2025. The Readiness Potential Reflects Detailed Prediction of Action Outcome: Stenner and Wetzel shared senior authorship, equal contribution. Imaging Neuroscience.

    Grandjean A, Mathieu A, Chen S, Widmann A, Wetzel N, Bidet-Caulet A. 2024. Enhancing tonic arousal improves voluntary but not involuntary attention in humans. bioRxiv. (bioRxiv). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.22.586259

    Dercksen TT, Widmann A, Noesselt T, Wetzel N. 2024. Somatosensory omissions reveal action-related predictive processing. Human Brain Mapping. 45(4):Article e26550. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26550

    Bonmassar C, Scharf F, Widmann A, Wetzel N. 2023. On the relationship of arousal and attentional distraction by emotional novel sounds. Cognition. 237:Article 105470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105470

    Dercksen TT, Widmann A, Wetzel N. 2023. Salient omissions-pupil dilation in response to unexpected omissions of sound and touch. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14:Article 1143931. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1143931

    Volkmer S, Wetzel N, Widmann A, Scharf F. 2022. Attentional control in middle childhood is highly dynamic - Strong initial distraction is followed by advanced attention control. Developmental Science. 25(6):Article e13275. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13275

    Debnath R, Wetzel N. 2022. Processing of task-irrelevant sounds during typical everyday activities in children. Developmental Psychobiology. 64(7):Article e22331. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22331

    Wetzel N, Widmann A, Schöllkopf U, Prigge M, Krauel K. 2022. A new paradigm to assess pupil dilation as a marker for a dysfunctional arousal regulation in children with ADHD. PsyArXiv.

    Dercksen T, Widmann A, Noesselt T, Wetzel N. 2022. Somatosensory omissions reveal action-related predictive processing. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8aze5

    Meinhardt-Injac B, Imhof M, Wetzel N, Klatte M, Schlittmeier S. 2022. The Irrelevant Sound Effect on Serial Recall is Independent of Age and Inhibitory Control. Auditory Perception & Cognition. 5(1-2):25 - 45. https://doi.org/10.1080/25742442.2022.2064692

    Scharf F, Widmann A, Bonmassar C, Wetzel N. 2022. A tutorial on the use of temporal principal component analysis in developmental ERP research – Opportunities and challenges. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 54:Article 101072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101072

    Ríos-López P, Widmann A, Aurelie-Bidet-Caulet , Wetzel N. 2022. The effect of background speech on attentive sound processing: A pupil dilation study. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 174:47-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.02.003

    Selezneva E, Wetzel N. 2022. The Impact of Probabilistic Cues on Sound-related Pupil Dilation and ERP Responses in 7–9-year-old Children. Auditory Perception & Cognition. 5(1-2):86 - 106. https://doi.org/10.1080/25742442.2022.2048592

    Debnath R, Wetzel N. 2022. Processing of task-irrelevant sounds during typical everyday activities in children. bioRxiv.

    Dercksen TT, Widmann A, Scharf F, Wetzel N. 2022. Sound omission related brain responses in children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 53:Article 101045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101045

    Selezneva E, Brosch M, Rathi S, Vighneshvel T, Wetzel N. 2021. Comparison of Pupil Dilation Responses to Unexpected Sounds in Monkeys and Humans. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:Article 754604. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.754604

    Wetzel N, Kunke D, Widmann A. 2021. Tablet PC use directly affects children's perception and attention. Scientific Reports. 11(1):Article 21215. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00551-9

    Bonmassar C, Scharf F, Widmann A, Wetzel N. 2021. On the relationship of behavioral distraction and pupil dilation caused by emotional novel sounds. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vyqw8

    Volkmer S, Wetzel N, Widmann A, Scharf F. 2021. Attentional control in middle childhood is highly dynamic - Strong initial distraction is followed by advanced attention control. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rkfg7

    Dercksen TT, Stuckenberg MV, Schröger E, Wetzel N, Widmann A. 2021. Cross-modal predictive processing depends on context rather than local contingencies. Psychophysiology. 58(6):Article e13811. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13811

    Wetzel N, Widmann A, Scharf F. 2021. Distraction of attention by novel sounds in children declines fast. Scientific Reports. 11(1):Article 5308. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83528-y

    Dercksen TT, Widmann A, Schröger E, Wetzel N. 2020. Omission related brain responses reflect specific and unspecific action-effect couplings. NeuroImage. 215:116840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116840

    Wetzel N, Einhäuser W, Widmann A. 2020. Picture-evoked changes in pupil size predict learning success in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 192:Article 104787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104787

    Bonmassar C, Widmann A, Wetzel N. 2020. The impact of novelty and emotion on attention-related neuronal and pupil responses in children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 42:Article 100766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100766

    Wetzel N, Scharf F, Widmann A. 2019. Can't Ignore-Distraction by Task-Irrelevant Sounds in Early and Middle Childhood. Child Development. 90(6):e819-e830. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13109

    Widmann A, Schröger E, Wetzel N. 2018. Emotion lies in the eye of the listener: Emotional arousal to novel sounds is reflected in the sympathetic contribution to the pupil dilation response and the P3. Biological Psychology. 133:10-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.01.010

    Wetzel N, Schröger E. 2018. Auditory attention in children and adults: A psychophysiological approach. Lachmann T, Weiss T, editors. In Invariances in Human Information Processing. 1st ed. New York: Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 223-248. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315169903

    Buttelmann D, Schieler A, Wetzel N, Widmann A. 2017. Infants’ and adults’ looking behavior does not indicate perceptual distraction for constrained modelled actions − An eye-tracking study. Infant Behavior and Development. 47:103-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2017.04.001

    Wetzel N, Buttelmann D, Schieler A, Widmann A. 2016. Infant and adult pupil dilation in response to unexpected sounds. Developmental Psychobiology. 58(3):382-392. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21377

    Wetzel N, Schröger E, Widmann A. 2016. Distraction by novel and pitch-deviant sounds in children. Frontiers in Psychology. 7(DEC):Article 1949. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01949

    Wetzel N. 2015. Effects of the short-term learned significance of task-irrelevant sounds on involuntary attention in children and adults. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 98(1):17-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.06.003

    Max C, Widmann A, Kotz SA, Schröger E, Wetzel N. 2015. Distraction by emotional sounds: Disentangling arousal benefits and orienting costs. Emotion. 15(4):428-437. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039041

    Wetzel N, Schröger E. 2014. On the development of auditory distraction: A review. PsyCh Journal. 3(1):72-91. https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.49

    Wetzel N. 2014. Development of control of attention from different perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology. 5(AUG):Article Article 1000. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01000

    Wetzel N, Schröger E, Widmann A. 2013. The dissociation between the P3a event-related potential and behavioral distraction. Psychophysiology. 50(9):920-930. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12072

    Wetzel N, Widmann A, Schröger E. 2012. Distraction and facilitation-two faces of the same coin?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 38(3):664-674. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025856

    Wetzel N, Widmann A, Schröger E. 2011. Processing of novel identifiability and duration in children and adults. Biological Psychology. 86(1):39-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.10.005

    Ruhnau P, Wetzel N, Widmann A, Schröger E. 2010. The modulation of auditory novelty processing by working memory load in school age children and adults: A combined behavioral and event-related potential study. BMC Neuroscience. 11:Article 126. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-11-126

    Mikkola K, Wetzel N, Leipälä J, Serenius-Sirve S, Schröger E, Huotilainen M, Fellman V. 2010. Behavioral and evoked potential measures of distraction in 5-year-old children born preterm. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 77(1):8-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.03.009

    Bendixen A, Grimm S, Deouell LY, Wetzel N, Mädebach A, Schröger E. 2010. The time-course of auditory and visual distraction effects in a new crossmodal paradigm. Neuropsychologia. 48(7):2130-2139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.004

    Wetzel N, Widmann A, Schröger E. 2009. The cognitive control of distraction by novelty in children aged 7-8 and adults. Psychophysiology. 46(3):607-616. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00789.x

    Wetzel N, Schröger E. 2007. Cognitive control of involuntary attention and distraction in children and adolescents. Brain Research. 1155(1):134-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2007.04.022

    Wetzel N, Schröger E. 2007. Modulation of involuntary attention by the duration of novel and pitch deviant sounds in children and adolescents. Biological Psychology. 75(1):24-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2006.10.006

    Wetzel N, Widmann A, Berti S, Schröger E. 2006. The development of involuntary and voluntary attention from childhood to adulthood: A combined behavioral and event-related potential study. Clinical Neurophysiology. 117(10):2191-2203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2006.06.717

    Wetzel N, Berti S, Widmann A, Schröger E. 2004. Distraction and reorientation in children: A behavioral and ERP study. NeuroReport. 15(8):1355-1358. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.wnr.0000129858.40478.be
  • Drittmittel

    Drittmittel

    2020 - 2025 (DFG)
    "Kontrolle der Aufmerksamkeit bei Kindern: Interaktion zwischen willkürlicher und unwillkürlicher Aufmerksamkeit"

    2018 - 2023 (WGL)
    SAW-2018-LIN-1-NeuroKid: Leibniz-Professorinnenprogramm "Professorship Neurocognitive Development"

    2017 - 2022 (LSA)
    Forschergruppe "Neurokognitive Entwicklung"

    2022 - 2022 (DFG)
    Internationale wissenschaftliche Veranstaltung: "7. Internationale Hörkortextagung" Magdeburg

    2017 - 2021 (DFG)
    "Einflussfaktoren auf unwillkürliche Aufmerksamkeitsprozesse im Kindes- und Erwachsenenalter"

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