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Edgar Erdfelder is affiliated with the University of Mannheim in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the field of neuroscience, with a specialized emphasis on cognitive neuroscience. Their scholarly output spans related subfields including education, experimental and cognitive psychology, statistics and probability, and social psychology.

The main topics of Edgar Erdfelder's work explore multiple aspects of memory and neural processes. Key subjects include:

  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Edgar Erdfelder has published in several academic venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Psychologische Rundschau
  • Psychological Methods
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Journal of Mathematical Psychology
  • Psychological Bulletin

Recent publications by Edgar Erdfelder include:

  • The sleep benefit in episodic memory: An integrative review and a meta-analysis. (2021) Psychological Bulletin
  • How to develop, test, and extend multinomial processing tree models: A tutorial. (2023) Psychological Methods
  • How can I use it? The role of functional fixedness in the survival-processing paradigm. (2020) Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Adaptive Memory: Independent Effects of Survival Processing and Reward Motivation on Memory. (2020) Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Survival processing modulates the neurocognitive mechanisms of episodic encoding. (2020) Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience

Collaborations are a consistent feature in Edgar Erdfelder's career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Daniel W. Heck
  • Meike Kroneisen
  • Siri-Maria Kamp
  • Martin Schnuerch
  • Conny H. Antoni

Best Publications

  • G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences

    Franz Faul;Edgar Erdfelder;Albert Georg Lang;Axel Buchner

  • Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: tests for correlation and regression analyses.

    Franz Faul;Edgar Erdfelder;Axel Buchner;Albert-Georg Lang

  • GPOWER: A general power analysis program

    Edgar Erdfelder;Franz Faul;Axel Buchner

  • GPOWER: a priori, post-hoc, and compromise power analyses for MS-DOS [Computer Program]

    F Faul;E Erdfelder

  • A short tutorial of GPower

    Susanne Mayr;Edgar Erdfelder;Axel Buchner;Franz Faul

  • Source discrimination, item detection, and multinomial models of source monitoring.

    Ute J. Bayen;Kevin Murnane;Edgar Erdfelder

  • Multinomial processing tree models: A review of the literature.

    Edgar Erdfelder;Tina-Sarah Auer;Benjamin E. Hilbig;André Aßfalg

  • Toward unbiased measurement of conscious and unconscious memory processes within the process dissociation framework

    Axel Buchner;Edgar Erdfelder;Bianca Vaterrodt-Plünnecke

  • A New Strategy for Testing Structural Equation Models

    Morten Moshagen;Edgar Erdfelder

  • On the plasticity of the survival processing effect.

    Meike Kroneisen;Edgar Erdfelder

  • Decomposing the hindsight bias: A multinomial processing tree model for separating recollection and reconstruction in hindsight.

    Edgar Erdfelder;Axel Buchner

  • Hindsight Bias from 3 to 95 Years of Age

    Daniel M. Bernstein;Edgar Erdfelder;Andrew N. Meltzoff;William Peria

  • The relatedness effect on judgments of learning: A closer look at the contribution of processing fluency

    Monika Undorf;Edgar Erdfelder

  • On the Irrelevance of Semantic Information for the llIrrelevant Speech Effect

    Axel Buchner;Lisa Irmen;Edgar Erdfelder

  • Judgments of learning reflect encoding fluency : conclusive evidence for the ease-of-processing hypothesis

    Monika Undorf;Edgar Erdfelder

  • Hindsight bias in political elections

    Hartmut Blank;Volkhard Fischer;Edgar Erdfelder

  • Comment: Process-dissociation measurement models: Threshold theory or detection theory?

    Edgar Erdfelder;Axel Buchner

  • The abstract selection task: new data and an almost comprehensive model.

    Karl Christoph Klauer;Christoph Stahl;Edgar Erdfelder

  • One-Reason Decision Making Unveiled: A Measurement Model of the Recognition Heuristic.

    Benjamin E. Hilbig;Edgar Erdfelder;Rüdiger F. Pohl

  • Extending multinomial processing tree models to measure the relative speed of cognitive processes

    Daniel W. Heck;Edgar Erdfelder

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel M. Bernstein
Daniel M. Bernstein Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Axel Buchner
Axel Buchner Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Benjamin E. Hilbig
Benjamin E. Hilbig University of Koblenz and Landau
Morten Moshagen
Morten Moshagen University of Ulm
Mario Gollwitzer
Mario Gollwitzer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Markus Bühner
Markus Bühner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Birgit Spinath
Birgit Spinath Heidelberg University
Cornelius J. König
Cornelius J. König Saarland University
Thomas Fydrich
Thomas Fydrich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine

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