Curriculum Vitae

PhD student, working titel of thesis: "The electrophysiology of individual differences in executive-dependent decision-making: Differential effects of person-environment interaction in goal-directed behaviour 

2014

Diploma in Psychology (M.Sc. equiv.), Philipps-Universität Marburg
 Title of thesis: "Electrophysiological correlates of outcome monitoring and extraversion in cooperative vs. competitive reward context"

2012

Vordiplom (B.Sc. equiv.) in Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg

2009 - 2014

Studied Psychology at the Philipps-Universität Marburg

Work Experience and Affiliations 

01.2016–04.2016    

Visiting Researcher at the Human Neuroimaging Lab (PI: Dr. Alain Dagher), Montreal Neurological Institut, McGill University. Marburg International Doctorate Travel Programme (IPID4all) 

2014  - 2019   

Research and Teaching Assistant (Wiss. Mitarbeiter), Neuropsychology Unit, Experimental and Biological Psychology Section, Philipps-Universität Marburg 

 02.2014 - 09.2014      

Student Research Assistant, Cognitive Neuroscience of Perception and Action, Experimental and Biological Psychology Section, Philipps-Universität Marburg 

     
 09.2013 - 12.2013      

Research Intern, Anxiety Disorders Research Unit, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin 

Awards 

García Alanis, J.C., Güth, M.R., & Peper, M. (2018). Fronto-parietal oscillations reflect distinct proactive and reactive cognitive control mechanisms in the human brain. 

Publications 

 García Alanis, J. C., Güth, M. R., Chavanon, M. L., & Peper, M. 
   (2024). Neurocognitive dynamics of preparatory and adaptive 
   cognitive control: Insights from mass-univariate and multivariate 
   pattern analysis of EEG data. /PloS one/, /19/(10), e0311319. 
   https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311319

García Alanis, J. C., Baker, T. E., Peper, M., & Chavanon, M. L. 
   (2019). Social context effects on error-related brain activity are 
   dependent on interpersonal and achievement-related traits. 
   /Scientific Reports/, /9/(1), 1728. 
   https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-38417-2 

 Vainik, U., Baker, T. E., Dadar, M., Zeighami, Y., Michaud, A., 
   Zhang, Y., García Alanis, J. C., Misic, B., Collins, D. L., & 
   Dagher, A. (2018). Neurobehavioral correlates of obesity are largely 
   heritable. /Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the 
   United States of America/, /115/(37), 9312–9317. 
   https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718206115 

Bahn, D., Vesker, M., García Alanis, J. C., Schwarzer, G., & 
   Kauschke, C. (2017). Age-dependent positivity-bias in children’s 
   processing of emotion terms. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1268. 
   https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01268 

Congress Contributions 

2018 

 García Alanis, J.C., Güth, M.R., & Peper, M. (2018). Fronto-parietal 
   oscillations reflect distinct proactive and reactive cognitive 
   control mechanisms in the human brain. 44. Tagung der DGPs/DGPA, 
   "Psychologie und Gehirn", 31.05.-02.06.2018, Universität Gießen. 
   [PuG Conference Poster Award 2018] 

Thiele, J.Ch., García Alanis, J.C., Molter, A., & Peper, M. (2018). 
   Risky behaviour in an Iowa Gambling Task is enhanced by an 
   interpersonal competitive context. 44. Tagung der DGPs/DGPA, 
   "Psychologie und Gehirn", 31.05.-02.06.2018, Universität Gießen. 

Ronoh, E.K., García Alanis, J.C., Taentzer, G., & Peper, M. (2018). 
   Induction of unilateral neglect-like behaviour in healthy subjects: 
   Exploring ambulatory assessment techniques. 44. Tagung der 
   DGPs/DGPA, "Psychologie und Gehirn", 31.05.-02.06.2018, Universität 
   Gießen. 

Güth, M.R., García Alanis, J.C., & Peper, M. (2018). Keep calm and 
   carry on: Reduced central-parietal positivity and increased 
   resistance to emotional interference in subjects with psychopathic 
   traits during a continuous performance task. 44. Tagung der 
   DGPs/DGPA, "Psychologie und Gehirn", 31.05.-02.06.2018, Universität 
   Gießen. 

2017 

 *García Alanis, J. C.* & Peper, M. (2017, October). /The time course 
   of cognitive control: New insight under relaxed linearity 
   assumptions./ Poster to be presented at the 57^th Annual Meeting of 
   the Society for Psychophysiological Research (Austria), Vienna, W. 

Güth M.R., *García Alanis, J. C.*, Herholz, P., Peper, M., & Sommer, 
   J. (2017, June). /Comparing multimodal data integration approaches 
   for simultaneous EEG-fMRI recordings/. Poster presented at the 43^rd 
   DGPs/DGPA Tagung Psychologie und Gehirn (Germany), Trier, RP. 

Güth M.R., Herholz, P., *García Alanis, J. C.*, Peper, M., & Sommer, 
   J. (2017, March). /Neural mechanisms of Cognitive Control: Insights 
   from simultaneous EEG/fMRI-recordings/. Poster presented at the 
   12^th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (Germany), 
   Göttingen, NI. 

Güth, M., *García Alanis, J. C.*, & Peper, M. (2017, October). 
   /Electrophysiological correlates of cognitive control and emotion 
   regulation in subjects with psychopathic traits. /Poster to be 
   presented at the 57^th Annual Meeting of the Society for 
   Psychophysiological Research (Austria), Vienna, W. 

Peper, M., Ronoh, E., *García Alanis, J. C.*, Ludwig, J., & 
   Taentzer, G. (2017, September). /"NeglectDetect": Exploring a new 
   mobile assessment and stimulation technique for the remediation of 
   hemineglect-like behaviors./ Poster to be presented at the 32. 
   Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Neuropsychologie (Germany), 
   Konstanz, BW. 

Vainik, U., Baker, T. E., Misic, B., Dahar, M., Zeighami, Y., 
   *García Alanis, J. C.*, Collins, L., Dagher, A. (2017, June). /More 
   than inhibition. Diverse brain structures and cognitive tests 
   associate with body weight/. Poster presentation at the Annual 
   Meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping (Canada), 
   Vancouver, BC. 

2016 

 *García Alanis, J. C.* (2016, February). Performance monitoring ERPs 
   in the context of social interaction. In L. Fellows & A. Dagher 
   (Chair), /Human Neuroimaging Lab Meeting./ Presentation at the 
   Montreal Neurological Institute (Canada), Montreal, QB. 

*García Alanis, J. C.*, Chavanon, M.-L., Musci, C., & Peper, M. 
   (2016, August). /Fronto-parietal oscillatory patterns reflect 
   preparatory top-down control and active behavioural adaption during 
   a continuous performance task/. Poster presentation at the 6^th 
   Motivation and Cognitive Control Symposium (Scotland), St. Andrews 
   (FIF). 

Hammelrath, L., *García Alanis, J. C.*, Güth, M., Chavanon, M.-L., & 
   Peper, M., (2016, May). /The cognitive consequences of supressing 
   emotional expression – an ERP study/. Poster presented at the 
   DGPs/DGPA 42. Tagung Psychologie und Gehirn (Germany), Berlin, BE. 

Güth, M., *García Alanis, J. C.*, Chavanon, M.-L., Hammelrath, L., & 
   Peper, M., (2016, May). /Individual differences in reward 
   sensitivity predict dynamic exertion of cognitive control during 
   emotion suppression/. Poster presented at the DGPs/DGPA 42. Tagung 
   Psychologie und Gehirn (Germany), Berlin, BE. 

Vainik, U., Baker, T. E., *García Alanis, J. C.*, Dagher, A., (2016, 
   May). /Cognitive accuracy partly mediates the negative association 
   between obesity and the thickness of parahippocampal cortex/. Poster 
   presented at the 2^nd  Symposium of JA DeSève Research Chair in 
   Nutrition (Canada), Montreal, QB. 

Peper, M., Chavanon, M.-L., Güth, M.R., Hammelrath, L., & *García 
   Alanis, J. C.* (2016, September). /Emotionsregulation und 
   Arbeitsgedächtnis: Effekte von Ausdruckssuppression unter aversiven 
   Bedingungen auf die kognitive Kontrolle/. Poster presented at the 
   50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (Germany), 
   Leipzig, SN.

Peper, M., Chavanon, M.-L., Güth, M., Hammelrath, L., & *García 
   Alanis, J. C.* (2016, October). /Arbeitsgedächtnis und 
   Emotionsregulation: Effekte emotionaler Beanspruchung auf die 
   prospektive kognitive Kontrolle/. Poster presented at the 31. 
   Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Neuropsychologie (Germany), 
   Würzburg, BY. 

Peper, M., Güth, M., Chavanon, M.-L., & *García Alanis, J. C.* 
   (2016, November). /Cognitive control during voluntary emotion 
   regulation in successful psychopathy/. Poster presented at the 
   Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und 
   Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde (Germany), Berlin, BE. 

2015 

 *García Alanis, J. C.*, Chavanon, M.-L., Baker, T. E. & Peper, M. 
   (2015, October). /Agentic and affiliative extraversion 
   differentially modulate the effects of two social contexts on 
   electrophysiological measures of outcome monitoring/. Poster 
   presented at the 55^th Annual Meeting of the Society for 
   Psychophysiological Research (SPR), Seattle, WA. 

*García Alanis, J. C.*, Chavanon, M.-L., Baker, T. E. & Peper, M. 
   (2015, June). /Effects of interpersonal motivation and social 
   context on error-related brain potentials/. Poster presented at the 
   DGPs/DGPA 41. Tagung Psychologie und Gehirn (Germany), Frankfurt am 
   Main, HE. 

*García Alanis, J. C.*, Chavanon, M.-L., Baker, T. E. & Peper, M. 
   (2015, September). Effects of agentic and affiliative extraversion 
   on electrophysiological measures of performance monitoring during 
   social interaction. In D. Hagemeyer (Chair), /Genetics and 
   Biological Foundations/. Symposium conducted at the DPPD 13. 
   Arbeitstagung der Fachgruppe Differentielle Psychologie, 
   Persönlichkeits-psychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (Germany), 
   Mainz, RP.

Peper, M., *García Alanis, J. C.*, Güht, M., & Chavanon, M.-L. 
   (2015, September). /Effects of gender and psychopathy on 
   motivational conflict processing/. Poster presented at the DPPD 13. 
   Arbeitstagung der Fachgruppe Differentielle Psychologie, 
   Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (Germany), 
   Mainz, RP. 

Former Teaching Activities at UMR: 

Seminars in Neuropsychological Assessment, Experimental Practica, Emotion and Motivation, Social Cognition: 

 SoSe 2017:B-VLPa-Seminar C: Handlungssteuerung - Emotion, Motivation 
   oder Kognition 

WiSe 2016- 2017:B-NP2a-Seminar B: Neuropsychologische Störungsbilder 
   in Neurologie und Psychiatrie (Lehrauftrag) 

WiSe 2016-2017:B-EXP-Praktikum B: Kognitive Kontrolle und 
   zielgerichtete Handlungssteuerung 

SoSe 2016:B-VLPa-Seminar C: Handlungssteuerung - Emotion, Motivation 
   oder Kognition 

SoSe 2015:B-NP3a-Seminar A: Arbeitsfelder der 
   Neurowissenschaftlichen Psychologie II – Neuropsychologische 
   Diagnostik und Rehabilitation 

SoSe 2015:B-NP3a-Seminar B: Arbeitsfelder der 
   Neurowissenschaftlichen Psychologie II – Neuropsychologische 
   Diagnostik und Rehabilitation

WiSe 2014-2015: B-VEWb-Seminar B: Soziale Kognition