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Dr Alodie Rey-Mermet

  1. UniDistance Suisse
  2. Faculty of Psychology
Alodie Rey-Mermet
Post-doctoral Researcher

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Since April 2020, I am an advanced post-doc at the Faculty of Psychology at UniDistance Suisse. I am interested in how attentional control - that is, our ability to supervise and control ongoing thoughts and actions - works. In one line of research, I investigate control processes using an experimental approach (e.g., to understand how control processes interact). In another line of research, I used a correlational approach to determine whether control processes can be measured as a psychometric construct. To pursue this research, I have recently acquired a grant from the Swiss National Sciences Foundation for the research project “The current challenge in attentional-control research: Establishing reliable and valid measures”.

I studied Psychology at the University of Bern (Switzerland), where I graduated in 2008. In 2012, I received my PhD in Psychology from the University of Bern for my research into the control processes occurring after a conflict situation. From 2014 to 2016, I extended my research into individual differences in attentional control at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). In 2016, I moved to the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany). There, I pursued my research on attentional control by combining the experimental approach with electro-encephalography.

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At UniDistance Suisse, the challenge has been launched: Is it possible to measure with reliability and validity how we control our attention?

A research project, led by Alodie Rey-Mermet and funded by the SNSF, has just started at the Faculty of Psychology of UniDistance…

At UniDistance Suisse, the challenge has been launched: Is it possible to measure with reliability and validity how we control our attention?

Research focus

  • Attentional control (also referred to as cognitive control or executive functions)
  • Memory (e.g., working memory, episodic memory, prospective memory)
  • Experimental approach vs. correlational/individual-differences approach
  • Structural equation modeling, linear mixed modeling, Brinley analysis, state-trace analysis
  • Healthy aging
  • Neurophysiology (EEG, ERPs)

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Research projects

The current challenge in attentional-control research: Establishing reliable and valid measures
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Rey-Mermet Alodie // SINGMANN Henrik // Kempkens Niels Oliver // Hoefler Natalia
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.11.2022
End: 31.10.2026
Psychology
The current challenge in attentional-control research: Establishing reliable and valid measures
Rey-Mermet Alodie // SINGMANN Henrik // Kempkens Niels Oliver // Hoefler Natalia
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.11.2022
End: 31.10.2026
Psychology

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Experimental psychology & cognitive neurosciences

Faculty of Psychology

Attentional Control Project

Faculty of Psychology

The Interplay of Time-of-day and Chronotype Results in No General and Robust Cognitive Boost
2023-01 | Collabra: Psychology
DOI: 10.1525/collabra.88337
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Rothen, N.
Journal article Peer-reviewed
On the relationship between mind wandering and mindfulness
2022-01 | Scientific Reports
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-11594-x
  • Belardi, A.
  • Chaieb, L.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Mormann, F.
  • Rothen, N.
  • Fell, J.
  • Reber, T.P.
Journal article
Multiplicative priming of the correct response can explain the interaction between Simon and flanker congruency
2021-01 | PLoS ONE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248172
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Gade, M.
  • Steinhauser, M.
Journal article Peer-reviewed
Assessing the Evidence for Asymmetrical Switch Costs and Reversed Language Dominance Effects – A Meta-Analysis
2021-01 | Journal of Cognition
DOI: 10.5334/JOC.186
  • Gade, M.
  • Declerck, M.
  • Philipp, A.M.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Koch, I.
Journal article
Erratum: Assessing the evidence for asymmetrical switch costs and reversed language dominance effects – A meta-analysis (Journal of Cognition (2021) 4:1 (55) DOI:10.5334/joc.186)
2021-01 | Journal of Cognition
DOI: 10.5334/JOC.195
  • Gade, M.
  • Declerck, M.
  • Philipp, A.M.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Koch, I.
Journal article
Interference control in working memory: Evidence for discriminant validity between removal and inhibition tasks
2020-01 | PLoS ONE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243053
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Singh, K.A.
  • Gignac, G.E.
  • Brydges, C.R.
  • Ecker, U.K.H.
Journal article Peer-reviewed
Age-related deficits in the congruency sequence effect are task-specific: An investigation of nine tasks
2020-01 | Psychology and Aging
DOI: 10.1037/pag0000414
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Gade, M.
Journal article
Finding an interaction between Stroop congruency and flanker congruency requires a large congruency effect: A within-trial combination of conflict tasks
2020-01 | Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-019-01914-1
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
Journal article
Simon says-on the influence of stimulus arrangement, stimulus material and inner speech habits on the simon effect
2020-01 | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000789
  • Gade, M.
  • Paelecke, M.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
Journal article
Does Process Overlap Theory Replace the Issues of General Intelligence with the Issues of Attentional Control?
2019-01 | Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.06.004
  • Schubert, A.-L.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
Journal article
Is executive control related to working memory capacity and fluid intelligence?
2019-01 | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000593
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Gade, M.
  • Souza, A.S.
  • von Bastian, C.C.
  • Oberauer, K.
Journal article
Same same but different? Modeling N-1 switch cost and N-2 repetition cost with the diffusion model and the linear ballistic accumulator model
2019-01 | Acta Psychologica
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.05.010
  • Hartmann, E.-M.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Gade, M.
Journal article
Sequential conflict resolution under multiple concurrent conflicts: An ERP study
2019-01 | NeuroImage
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.031
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Gade, M.
  • Steinhauser, M.
Journal article
After-effects without monitoring costs: The impact of prospective memory instructions on task switching performance
2018-01 | Acta Psychologica
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.04.010
  • Meier, B.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
Journal article
Inhibition in aging: What is preserved? What declines? A meta-analysis
2018-01 | Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-017-1384-7
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Gade, M.
Journal article
Should we stop thinking about inhibition? Searching for individual and age differences in inhibition ability
2018-01 | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000450
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Gade, M.
  • Oberauer, K.
Journal article
How long-lasting is the post-conflict slowing after incongruent trials? Evidence from the Stroop, Simon, and flanker tasks
2017-01 | Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-017-1348-z
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Meier, B.
Journal article
Post-conflict slowing after incongruent stimuli: from general to conflict-specific
2017-01 | Psychological Research
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-016-0767-0
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Meier, B.
Journal article
Contextual within-trial adaptation of cognitive control: Evidence from the combination of conflict tasks
2016-01 | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000229
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Gade, M.
Journal article
Turning univalent stimuli bivalent: Synesthesia can cause cognitive conflict in task switching
2015-01 | Cognitive Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2015.1017449
  • Meier, B.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Rothen, N.
Journal article Peer-reviewed
Age affects the adjustment of cognitive control after a conflict: Evidence from the bivalency effect
2015-01 | Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition
DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2014.889070
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Meier, B.
Journal article
More conflict does not trigger more adjustment of cognitive control for subsequent events: A study of the bivalency effect
2014-01 | Acta Psychologica
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.11.005
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Meier, B.
Journal article
An orienting response is not enough: Bivalency not infrequency causes the bivalency effect
2013-01 | Advances in Cognitive Psychology
DOI: 10.2478/v10053-008-0142-9
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Meier, B.
Journal article
Episodic context binding in task switching: Evidence from amnesia
2013-01 | Neuropsychologia
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.01.025
  • Meier, B.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Woodward, T.S.
  • Müri, R.
  • Gutbrod, K.
Journal article
Recognition memory across the lifespan: The impact of word frequency and study-test interval on estimates of familiarity and recollection
2013-01 | Frontiers in Psychology
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00787
  • Meier, B.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Rothen, N.
  • Graf, P.
Journal article
The bivalency effect represents an interference-triggered adjustment of cognitive control: An ERP study
2013-01 | Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-013-0160-z
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Koenig, T.
  • Meier, B.
Journal article
Beyond feature binding: Interference from episodic context binding creates the bivalency effecty in task-switching
2012-01 | Frontiers in Psychology
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00386
  • Meier, B.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
Journal article
Beyond monitoring: After-effects of responding to prospective memory targets
2012-01 | Consciousness and Cognition
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.09.003
  • Meier, B.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
Journal article
The bivalency effect: Adjustment of cognitive control without response set priming
2012-01 | Psychological Research
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-011-0322-y
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Meier, B.
Journal article
The bivalency effect: Evidence for flexible adjustment of cognitive control
2012-01 | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
DOI: 10.1037/a0026024
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Meier, B.
Journal article
The bivalency effect in task switching: general and enduring
2009-01 | Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
DOI: 10.1037/a0014311
  • Meier, B.
  • Rey-Mermet, A.
  • Woodward, T.S.
  • Graf, P.
Journal article

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