Congratulations to Carina who successfully defended her thesis "The influence of semantic information on episodic memory retrieval: Behavioral and neural patterns and the modulation by the stress hormone cortisol." on 23.07.25. Carina is a member of P4 and under the supervision of PI Oliver Wolf has spent the past few year investigating the role of stress on memory. Her research lays the foundation for many of the FOR 2812 projects. She has not only worked together with other psychology groups but also with computational neuroscientists to create models that describe the behaviour in her subjects. 

Here are some of Carina's publications:

Klein, N., Zöllner, C., Otto, T., Wolf, O. T., & Merz, C. J. (2025). Cortisol modulates hippocampus activation during semantic substitution in men. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 219, 108049. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2025.108049

Fayyaz, Z., Altamimi, A., Zoellner, C., Klein, N., Wolf, O. T., Cheng, S., & Wiskott, L.. (2022). A Model of Semantic Completion in Generative Episodic Memory. Neural Computation, 34(9), 1841–1870. http://doi.org/10.1162/neco_a_01520