M.Sc. Andrea Janker

• 10/2025 - aktuell: Promotion, Universität Regensburg, DFG-Projekt (Thema: Toward an integrative understanding of the flexibility-stability-balance and its underlying mechanisms via computational modeling and behavioral experimentation)
• 04/2021 - 09/2023: Master of Science in Psychologie, Universität Regensburg (Thema der Masterarbeit: You can’t always get what you want: Wenn Zielpersistenz Flexibilität erfordert)
• 10/2017 - 03/2021: Bachelor of Science in Psychologie, Universität Regensburg (Thema der Bachelorarbeit: You can’t always get what you want: Wenn Persistenz in der Aufgabenwahl erhöhte Flexibilität erfordert)

• 10/2025 - aktuell: Doktorandin, Universität Regensburg, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie (Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach)
• 10/2023 - 09/2025: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Universität Regensburg, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie (Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach)

• kognitive Kontrolle und die Balance aus Stabilität und Flexibilität
• Effekte von Belohnung und Erwartungsverletzung auf kognitive Kontrolle

• Janker, A. (2023). You can't always get what you want: Wenn Zielpersistenz Flexibilität erfordert [unveröffentlichte Masterarbeit]. Universität Regensburg.
• Janker, A. (2020). You can't always get what you want: Wenn Persistenz in der Aufgabenwahl erhöhte Flexibilität erfordert [unveröffentlichte Bachelorarbeit]. Universität Regensburg.

• Janker, A., Musslick, S., & Dreisbach, G. (2026). Control Dilemmas Exist on Different Levels of Information Processing: Flexibility and Stability Trade off at the Task Level. 68th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Tübingen (Germany). [Poster]
• Janker, A., Musslick, S., & Dreisbach, G. (2025). The Influence of Different Distractor Types on Stability and Flexibility. 14th Workshop of General Psychology for Doctoral Students (A-Dok), Aachen (Germany). [Poster]

• Seminar Emotion & Motivation
• Experimentalpsychologisches Projektseminar I und II

• Bachelorarbeiten
• Masterarbeiten 

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The ability to balance cognitive flexibility and stability is crucial for human adaptive behavior in constantly changing environments. However, there is a lack of consensus on the mechanisms that underlie both faculties. This lack of integration is a significant obstacle to comprehending the regulation of cognitive flexibility and stability in human cognition, such as understanding whether flexibility and stability are regulated independently or whether they need to be traded off against each other via shared mechanisms. Thus, a more mechanistic understanding is needed to advance our current understanding of cognitive flexibility and stability, and, ultimately, to devising effective interventions to enhance both faculties. With this grant proposal, we seek to obtain a more integrative understanding of the mechanisms underlying the regulation of cognitive flexibility and stability. Specifically, we seek to address recent conflicting results that (a) suggest that cognitive flexibility and stability trade off against each other versus (b) that they are regulated independently (Egner, 2023; Mayr & Grätz, 2024). The theoretical account probed in this work is capable of reconcealing these two differing perspectives, suggesting that cognitive flexibility and stability can be both dependent and independent: Cognitive flexibility and stability trade off within a level of information processing (e.g., the processing of task sets) but can be regulated independently across levels of information processing (e.g., the processing of task sets versus the processing of response sets).

PI - Projekt 1: Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach (University of Regensburg)
Ph.D. student: M.Sc. Andrea Janker (University of Regensburg)

PI - Projekt 2: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Musslick (University of Osnabrück) (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)
Ph.D. student: M.Sc. Alessandra Brondetta (University of Osnabrück) (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)