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Research interests

• Selective attention
• Working memory
• Cognitive control and ageing
• Processing of emotional music and language

 

Teaching

Psychology B.Sc.

• Memory (Summer 2015, 2016, 2017)
• Experimental course (Summer 2015, 2017)

Psychology M.Sc.

• Cognitive neurosciences (Winter 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18)
• Methods of cognitive neurosciences (Winter 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18)

 

Tasks

• Advice and assistance for minor subjects, B.Sc. Psychology
• Homepage design

 

Third-party funded research projects

• RWTH Start-Up 2015, funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments, German Research Foundation (DFG)

 

Publications

• Nolden, S., Rigoulot, S., Jolicoeur, P., & Armony. J. (2017). Effects of musical expertise on oscillatory brain activity in response to emotional sounds. Neuropsychologia, 103, 96-105.
• Seibold, J. C., Nolden, S., Oberem, J., Fels, J., & Koch, I. (in press). Intentional Preparation of Auditory Attention-Switches: Explicit Cueing and Sequential Switch-Predictability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
• Hirsch, P., Nolden, S., Philipp, A. M., & Koch, I. (2017). Hierarchical task organization in dual tasks: Further evidence for higher-level task representations. Psychological Research. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0851-0
• Nolden, S., & Koch, I. (2017). Cognitive control of auditory selective attention to long or short melodic patterns. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 79(4), 1132-1146.
• Hirsch, P., Nolden, S., & Koch, I. (2017). Higher-order cognitive control in dual tasks: Evidence from task-pair switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(3), 567-580.
• Nolden, S. (2015). Brain activity related to the retention of tones in auditory short-term-memory. In: P. Jolicoeur, C. Lefebvre, & J. Martinez-Trujillo (Eds.), Mechanisms of Sensory Working Memory. Attention and Performance XXV (pp. 201-2014). London, UK: Academic Press.
• Janczyk, M., Nolden, S., & Jolicoeur, P. (2015). No differences in dual-task costs between forced- and free-choice tasks. Psychological Research, 79(3), 463-477.
• Alunni-Menichini, K., Guimond, S., Bermudez, P., Nolden, S., Lefebvre, C., & Jolicoeur, P. (2014). Saturation of auditory short-term memory causes a plateau in the sustained anterior negativity potential. Brain Research, 1592, 55-64.
• Grimault, S., Nolden, S., Lefebvre, C., Vachon, F., Hyde, K., Peretz, I., & Zatorre, R., Robitaille, N., & Jolicoeur, P. (2014). Brain activity is related to individual differences in the number of items stored in auditory short-term memory for pitch: evidence from magnetoencephalography. NeuroImage, 94, 96-106.
• Nolden, S., Bermudez, P., Alunni-Menichini, K., Lefebvre, C., Grimault, S., & Jolicoeur, P. (2013). Electrophysiological correlates of the retention of tones differing in timbre in auditory short-term memory. Neuropsychologia, 51(13), 2740-2746.
• Nolden, S., Grimault, S., Guimond, S., Lefebvre, C., Bermudez, P., & Jolicoeur, P. (2013). The retention of simultaneous tones in auditory short-term memory: a magnetoencephalography study. NeuroImage, 82, 384-392.
• Nolden, S., Haering, C., Kiesel, A. (2012). Assessing intentional binding with the method of constant stimuli. Consciousness and Cognition, 21(3), 1176-1185.
• Guimond, S., Vachon, F., Nolden, S., Lefebvre, C., Grimault, S., & Jolicoeur, P. (2011). Electrophysiological correlates of the maintenance of the representation of pitch objects in acoustic short-term memory. Psychophysiology, 48(11), 1500-1509.