Maren Giersiepen

Maren Giersiepen is interested in how the sense of agency, the feeling of control over out actions and their effects, influences perception, decision-making, and learning during goal-directed behavior. She uses behavioral and neurophysiological methods to study the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying agency-related changes in behavior, with a particular focus on the role of outcome evaluation.

Publications

• Giersiepen, M., Heinrich, N. W., Österdiekhoff, A., Kopp, S., Russwinkel, N., Schütz-Bosbach, S., & Kaiser, J. (2025). Am I in control? The dynamics of sensory information, performance feedback, and personality in shaping the sense of control. Consciousness and Cognition, 135, 103938.
• Giersiepen, M., Schütz-Bosbach, S., & Kaiser, J. (2024). My choice, my actions: self-determination, not instrumental value of outcomes enhances outcome monitoring during learning. Cerebral Cortex, 34(8), bhae325. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae325
• Giersiepen, M., Schütz-Bosbach, S., & Kaiser, J. (2023). Freedom of choice boosts midfrontal theta power during affective feedback processing of goa l-directed actions. Biological Psychology, 183, 108659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108659
  

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