Maren Giersiepen

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

Publications

• 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
• 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

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