Main Focus
- Neural signatures of remembering and forgetting in early childhood
- Early cognitive development
- Language development in early childhood
Curriculum Vitae
Since 09/2023 Predoc at Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Since 09/2022 PhD Candidate at the Max Planck School of Cognition
2021 M.Sc. Psychology, Leipzig University
2019 B.Sc. Psychology, Leipzig University
Publications
Werwach, A.*, Tsompanidis, A.*, Villa, L., Tait, R., Suckling, J., Austin, T., Hampton, S., Allison, C., Holt, R., Baron-Cohen, S.*, & Schaadt, G.* (2026). Prenatal volume in the bilateral superior temporal gyrus predicts children’s expressive vocabulary at 24-36 months. Developmental Science, 29(3), e70187. *These authors contributed equally. See article
Prein, J.C., Maurits, L., Werwach, A., Haun, D.B.M.*, Bohn, M.* (2024). Variation in gaze follwing across the life span: A process-level perspective. Developmental Science, 27(6), e13546. *These authors contributed equally. See article
Wöhner, S., Luckow, J., Brandt, M., Stahlmann, J., Werwach, A., & Jescheniak, J.D. (2024). Semantic facilitation in blocked picture classification: Some data and considerations regarding task selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 55(5), 515-530. See article
Schaadt, G.*, Werwach, A.*, Obrig, H., Friederici, A.D., Männel, C. (2023). Maturation of consonant perception, but not vowel perception, predicts lexical skills at 12 months. Child Development, 94(3), e166-e180. *These authors contributed equally. See article
Werwach, A., Männel, C., Obrig, H., Friederici, A.D., & Schaadt, G. (2022). Longitudinal trajectories of electrophysiological mismatch responses in infant speech discrimination differ across speech features. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 56, 101127. See article
Werwach, A., Mürbe, D., Schaadt, G., & Männel, C. (2021). Infants’ vocalizations at 6 months predict their productive vocabulary at one year. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101588. See article