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Overview

Julia Karbach is affiliated with the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with an emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and education.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Toward a Science of Effective Cognitive Training, 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Consistent use of proactive control and relation with academic achievement in childhood, 2020, Cognition
  • Executive functions and problem-solving-The contribution of inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility to science problem-solving performance in elementary school students, 2024, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • RETRACTED: Self-regulation in preschool: Are executive function and effortful control overlapping constructs?, 2022, Developmental Science
  • Changes in quality of life, depression, general anxiety, and heart-focused anxiety after defibrillator implantation, 2021, ESC Heart Failure

Karbach has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. These include:

  • Tanja Könen (17 publications)
  • Tina In-Albon (7 publications)
  • Tanja Lischetzke (6 publications)
  • Julia Anna Glombiewski (6 publications)
  • Monika Daseking (5 publications)

The scientist has published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (5 publications)
  • Developmental Science (3 publications)
  • Journal of Cognitive Enhancement (2 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychology (2 publications)
  • PsycTESTS Dataset (2 publications)

Their main fields of study encompass psychology with a detailed focus on several subfields such as experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and education.

Julia Karbach's primary research topics include:

  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments

Best Publications

  • How useful is executive control training? Age differences in near and far transfer of task-switching training.

    Julia Karbach;Jutta Kray

  • Making Working Memory Work A Meta-Analysis of Executive-Control and Working Memory Training in Older Adults

    Julia Karbach;Paul Verhaeghen

  • Working memory and executive functions: effects of training on academic achievement

    Cora Titz;Julia Karbach

  • Executive control training from middle childhood to adolescence

    Julia Karbach;Kerstin Unger

  • Parental involvement and general cognitive ability as predictors of domain-specific academic achievement in early adolescence

    Julia Karbach;Juliana Gottschling;Marion Spengler;Katrin Hegewald

  • Development and Plasticity of Cognitive Flexibility in Early and Middle Childhood.

    Frances Buttelmann;Frances Buttelmann;Julia Karbach;Julia Karbach

  • Improving Methodological Standards in Behavioral Interventions for Cognitive Enhancement

    C. Shawn Green;Daphne Bavelier;Arthur F. Kramer;Arthur F. Kramer;Sophia Vinogradov

  • Adaptive working-memory training benefits reading, but not mathematics in middle childhood

    Julia Karbach;Tilo Strobach;Torsten Schubert

  • Verbal self-instructions in task switching: a compensatory tool for action-control deficits in childhood and old age?

    Jutta Kray;Jutta Eber;Julia Karbach

  • Practice-related optimization and transfer of executive functions: a general review and a specific realization of their mechanisms in dual tasks

    Tilo Strobach;Tilo Strobach;Tiina Salminen;Tiina Salminen;Julia Karbach;Torsten Schubert;Torsten Schubert

  • University Students' Satisfaction with their Academic Studies: Personality and Motivation Matter.

    F.-Sophie Wach;Julia Karbach;Julia Karbach;Stephanie Ruffing;Roland Brünken

  • Cognitive function in patients with decompensated heart failure: the Cognitive Impairment in Heart Failure (CogImpair-HF) study.

    Ingrid Kindermann;Denise Fischer;Julia Karbach;Andreas Link

  • Burnout risk among first-year teacher students: The roles of personality and motivation

    Corinna Reichl;Corinna Reichl;F.-Sophie Wach;Frank M. Spinath;Roland Brünken

  • Can task-switching training enhance executive control functioning in children with attention deficit/-hyperactivity disorder?

    Jutta Kray;Julia Karbach;Susann Haenig;Christine M. Freitag

  • Training-induced cognitive and neural plasticity

    Julia Karbach;Torsten Schubert

  • The unique contribution of working memory, inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and intelligence to reading comprehension and reading speed

    Verena Johann;Tanja Könen;Julia Karbach

  • Learning strategies and general cognitive ability as predictors of gender- specific academic achievement

    Stephanie Ruffing;F. Sophie Wach;Frank M. Spinath;Roland Brünken

  • Developmental Changes In Switching Between Mental Task Sets: The Influence Of Verbal Labeling In Childhood

    Julia Karbach;Jutta Kray

  • Toward a Science of Effective Cognitive Training

    Claire R. Smid;Julia Karbach;Nikolaus Steinbeis

  • Effects of game-based and standard executive control training on cognitive and academic abilities in elementary school children

    Verena E. Johann;Julia Karbach

  • Preservice teachers’ implicit attitudes toward racial minority students: Evidence from three implicit measures

    Sabine Glock;Julia Karbach

  • Working Memory Training

    Tanja Könen;Tilo Strobach;Julia Karbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank M. Spinath
Frank M. Spinath Saarland University
Jutta Kray
Jutta Kray Saarland University
Torsten Schubert
Torsten Schubert Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Bonnie Auyeung
Bonnie Auyeung University of Edinburgh
Iring Koch
Iring Koch RWTH Aachen University
Gisa Aschersleben
Gisa Aschersleben Saarland University
Daniel L. Segal
Daniel L. Segal University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Susanne M. Jaeggi
Susanne M. Jaeggi University of California, Irvine
Julie Loebach Wetherell
Julie Loebach Wetherell University of California, San Diego
Paolo Ghisletta
Paolo Ghisletta University of Geneva

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