Dr. Marius Boeltzig

RUB
FOR2812
People
Dr. Marius Boeltzig

marius.boeltzig@uni-muenster.de +49 (0) 251 / 83 34101

University of Münster
Institut für Psychologie
Fliednerstraße 21
D-48149 Münster

Room Fl 315

marius.boeltzig@uni-muenster.de

With my background in Psychology, I am fascinated by human memory. My interests include autobiographical and collective memory, social and cultural influences, and the flexibility of episodic memory. In my Master's Thesis, I investigated the role of social factors in associative inference, a process that requires recombining separate episodes with each other. My current PhD work is concerned with factors that influence an episode's susceptibility to change, as well as the role of prediction errors in the process of memory updating.

2014 - 2018

B.Sc. Psychology, Potsdam University
2016 - 2018

Student Assistant at the Department of Psychology, Potsdam
- Tutor for statistics
- Tutor for scientific techniques
- Conducting eye tracking experiments
2019 - 2021

MSc Psychology, Lund University
Thesis: "The Role of Social Identity in Memory Integration"
2021 - 2022

Research Assistant, Lund Memory Lab
2021 - 2022

Research Intern, Granada University
since 2022

Researcher and doctoral student, University of Münster, Biological Psychology

2026

To update or to separate: Neural signatures and consequences of latent cause inference in episodic memory
Boeltzig, M., Siestrup, S., Bramão, I., & Schubotz, R. I.
NeuroImage, 332, 121898

@article{BoeltzigSiestrupBramãoEtAl2026, author = {Boeltzig, Marius and Siestrup, Sophie and Bramão, Inês and Schubotz, Ricarda I.}, title = {To update or to separate: Neural signatures and consequences of latent cause inference in episodic memory}, journal = {NeuroImage}, volume = {332}, pages = {121898}, month = {May}, year = {2026}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121898}, }

Boeltzig, M., Siestrup, S., Bramão, I., & Schubotz, R. I.. (2026). To update or to separate: Neural signatures and consequences of latent cause inference in episodic memory. NeuroImage, 332, 121898. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121898

2025

Shaping Memory from the Start: Initial Prediction Errors during First Encoding
Liedtke, N., Boeltzig, M., Siestrup, S., & Schubotz, R. I.
NeuroImage, 121660

@article{LiedtkeBoeltzigSiestrupEtAl2025, author = {Liedtke, Nina and Boeltzig, Marius and Siestrup, Sophie and Schubotz, Ricarda I.}, title = {Shaping Memory from the Start: Initial Prediction Errors during First Encoding}, journal = {NeuroImage}, pages = {121660}, month = {December}, year = {2025}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121660}, }

Liedtke, N., Boeltzig, M., Siestrup, S., & Schubotz, R. I.. (2025). Shaping Memory from the Start: Initial Prediction Errors during First Encoding. NeuroImage, 121660. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121660

Prediction errors lead to updating of memories for conversations

Boeltzig, M., Liedtke, N., & Schubotz, R. I.

Memory, 33(1), 73–83

@article{BoeltzigLiedtkeSchubotz2025,
	author		=	{Boeltzig, Marius and Liedtke, Nina and Schubotz, Ricarda I.},
	title		=	{Prediction errors lead to updating of memories for conversations},
	journal		=	{Memory},
	volume		=	{33},
	number		=	{1},
	pages		=	{73–83},
	month		=	{October},
	year		=	{2025},
	doi		=	{10.1080/09658211.2024.2404498},
}

The benefit of being wrong: How prediction error size guides the reshaping of episodic memories
Boeltzig, M., Liedtke, N., Siestrup, S., Mecklenbrauck, F., Wurm, M. F., Bramão, I., & Schubotz, R. I.
NeuroImage, Article 121375

link

@article{BoeltzigLiedtkeSiestrupEtAl2025, author = {Boeltzig, Marius and Liedtke, Nina and Siestrup, Sophie and Mecklenbrauck, Falko and Wurm, Moritz F. and Bramão, Inês and Schubotz, Ricarda I.}, title = {The benefit of being wrong: How prediction error size guides the reshaping of episodic memories}, journal = {NeuroImage}, pages = {Article 121375}, month = {July }, year = {2025}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121375}, }

Boeltzig, M., Liedtke, N., Siestrup, S., Mecklenbrauck, F., Wurm, M. F., Bramão, I., & Schubotz, R. I.. (2025). The benefit of being wrong: How prediction error size guides the reshaping of episodic memories. NeuroImage, Article 121375. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121375
Finding the sweet spot of memory modification: An fMRI study on episodic prediction error strength and type
Liedtke, N., Boeltzig, M., Mecklenbrauck, F., Siestrup, S., & Schubotz, R. I.
NeuroImage, 311, 121194

link

@article{LiedtkeBoeltzigMecklenbrauckEtAl2025, author = {Liedtke, Nina and Boeltzig, Marius and Mecklenbrauck, Falko and Siestrup, Sophie and Schubotz, Ricarda I.}, title = {Finding the sweet spot of memory modification: An fMRI study on episodic prediction error strength and type}, journal = {NeuroImage}, volume = {311}, pages = {121194}, month = {May}, year = {2025}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121194}, }

Liedtke, N., Boeltzig, M., Mecklenbrauck, F., Siestrup, S., & Schubotz, R. I.. (2025). Finding the sweet spot of memory modification: An fMRI study on episodic prediction error strength and type. NeuroImage, 311, 121194. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121194

2023

Ingroup sources enhance associative inference

Boeltzig, M., Johansson, M., & Bramão, I.

Communications Psychology, 1(1)

@article{BoeltzigJohanssonBramão2023,
	author		=	{Boeltzig, Marius and Johansson, Mikael and Bramão, Inês},
	title		=	{Ingroup sources enhance associative inference},
	journal		=	{Communications Psychology},
	volume		=	{1},
	number		=	{1},
	month		=	{December},
	year		=	{2023},
	doi		=	{10.1038/s44271-023-00043-8},
}

About the research unit

The research unit FOR 2812 "Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory" is a project funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The research unit studies the cognitive and neuronal mechanisms underlying scenario construction in episodic memory. We employ and integrate approaches from Philosophy, Psychology, and Experimental and Computational Neuroscience.

Contact

Universitätsstr. 150,
44801 Bochum, Germany

Tel: +49 (0)234 32 27996
Fax: +49 (0)234 32 14210