Nathalie Wess
PhD Student , School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
B.Sc. in Psychology, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
M.Sc. in Brain and Behaviour/Neuropsychology, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Contact
| Email: | nwess@une.edu.au |
| Room: | 1.10 (S5; Howie Wing) |
Research interests
Bi- and Multilingualism, Executive Functions, Cognitive Inhibition, Second Language Processing, Theories of Lexical Access, Second Language Acquisition, Metacognition
Current Thesis Topic/Program
PhD Cognitive Psychology/ Psycholinguistics. Tentative title: "Cognitive Inhibition and Fine Tuning in the Acquisition of a Second Language Vocabulary".
The two critical issues of this thesis project are how languages are functionally kept apart whilst still allowing switching between them, and why some people learn and speak a second language more easily and become more proficient than others.
Publications
Moritz, S., Wess, N., Treszl, A. & Jelinek, L. (2010). The attention training technique as an attempt to decrease intrusive thoughts in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): From cognitive theory to practice and back. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 41(3), 135-143.