Deutsch Intern
    Developmental Psychology

    Dr. Wienke Wannagat

    Phone:+49 931 - 31 84532
    E-mail:wienke.wannagat(at)uni-wuerzburg.de
    Address:Röntgenring 10, room 316
    Office hours:by appointment

     

    • Text comprehension
    • Cognitive development across the lifespan
    • Cognitive demands of digital media use and physiological correlates

    Articles and book chapters

    Wannagat, W., Nieding, G., & Tibken, C. (2024). Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment. Cognitive Development, 70, 101440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101440

    Wannagat, W., Martin, T., Nieding, G., Rohleder, N., & Becker, L. (2024). Media multitasking in younger and older adults: Associations with cognitive abilities and biological stress responses. Media Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2298686

    Tibken, C., Richter, T., & Wannagat, W. (2023). Metacognitive comprehension monitoring: Cognitive abilities explain performance differences between younger and older adults. Scientific Studies of Reading. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2023.2261572

    Wannagat, W., Huestegge, L., Landmann, E., Nieding, G., & Huestegge, S.M. (2022). Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task. Cognitive Development, 64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101263

    Tibken, C., Richter, T., Wannagat, W., Schmiedeler, S., von der Linden, N., & Schneider, W. (2022). Measuring comprehension monitoring with the inconsistency task in adolescents: Stability, associations with reading comprehension skills, and differences between grade levels. Discourse Processes, 59(5-6), 439-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2022.2073736   (open access)

    Wannagat, W., Steinicke, V., Tibken, C., & Nieding, G. (2021). Same topic, different genre: Elementary school children’s mental representations of information embedded in narrative and expository texts. Learning and Instruction. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2021.101559

    Seger, B. T., Wannagat, W., & Nieding, G. (2021). Children's surface, textbase, and situation model representations of written and illustrated written text. Reading and Writing, published online. doi:10.1007/s11145-020-10118-1

    Wannagat, W., Waizenegger, G., & Nieding, G. (2021). Coherence formation during narrative text processing: A comparison between auditory and audiovisual text presentation in 9- to 12-year-old children. Cognitive Processing, published online. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-020-01008-z

    Wannagat, W., Henkel, M., & Nieding, G. (2020). Children’s comprehension of narrative texts: Protagonists' goals and Mental Representation of Coherence Relations. Cognitive Development, 56. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100966

    Möckel, T., Wannagat, W., Nieding, G., & Ohler, P. (2019) Entwicklungspsychologische Aspekte der Digitalisierung: Medienwirkung und Medienkompetenz im Kindes- und Jugendalter. In S. Rietmann, M. Sawatzki, & M. Berg (eds.) Beratung und Digitalisierung. Zwischen Euphorie und Praxis (pp. 57-83). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-25528-2.

    Seger, B., Wannagat, W., & Nieding, G. (2019). How pictures and picture animations contribute to multi-level mental representations of auditory text in 7-, 9-, and 11-year-old children. Journal of Cognition and Development, 20(4), 573-591. doi:10.1080/15248372.2019.1636799

    Wannagat, W., Waizenegger, G., Hauf, J., & Nieding, G. (2018). Mental representations of the text surface, the text base, and the situation model in auditory and audiovisual texts in 7-, 9-, and 11-year-olds. Discourse Processes, 55(3), 209-304. doi:10.1080/0163853X.2016.1237246

    Wannagat, W., Waizenegger, G., & Nieding, G. (2017). Multi-level mental representations of written, auditory, and audiovisual text in children and adults. Cognitive Processing, 18(4), 491-504. doi:10.1007/s10339-017-0820-y

    Wannagat, W., Zielasek, J., & Gaebel, W. (2013). Therapy of post-stroke depression - a systematic review. Die Psychiatrie, 10(2), 108-129. doi:10.1055/s-0038-1670863

    Talks and posters

    Wannagat, W., Martin, T., & Nieding, G. (2023, September). Unterbrechungen durch Benachrichtigungen aus sozialen Netzwerken: Regulation des Umgangs und Effekte auf Aufgabenleistungen und Stressempfinden [paper presentation]. 19. Fachgruppentagung Pädagogische Psychologie (PAEPS) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Kiel, Germany.

    Tibken, C., Richter, T., Wannagat, W., Schmiedeler, S., von der Linden, N., & Schneider, W. (2022). Metakognitive Kompetenzen beim Leseverstehen von Jugendlichen: Stabilität und Altersunterschiede. In C. Tibken & W. Wannagat (Org.), Kognitive Selbstregulation über die Lebensspanne: Befunde zu Struktur, Trainierbarkeit und Zusammenhängen mit weiteren kognitiven Fähigkeiten. Symposium beim 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Hildesheim, 12.-15.09.2022.

    Wannagat, W., Tibken, C., Richter, T., & Nieding, G. (2022). Unterschiede in metakognitiven Kompetenzen beim Leseverstehen zwischen jüngeren und älteren Erwachsenen: Die Bedeutung von Updating, Kurzzeitgedächtniskapazität und verbaler Intelligenz. In C. Tibken & W. Wannagat (Org.), Kognitive Selbstregulation über die Lebensspanne: Befunde zu Struktur, Trainierbarkeit und Zusammenhängen mit weiteren kognitiven Fähigkeiten. Symposium beim 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Hildesheim, 12.-15.09.2022.

    Scholze, T., Wannagat, W., & Nieding, G. (2021, March). Executive functions as predictors of digital stress. Short talk presented at TeaP21, Ulm, Germany.

    Wannagat, W., & Nieding, G. (2019, September). Die Bedeutung von Updating für die mentale Repräsentation von Kohärenzbeziehungen beim Verstehen narrative Texte. Paper presented at PAEPSY 2019, Leipzig, Germany.

    Wannagat, W., & Nieding, G. (2019, September). Supporting children’s comprehension of narratives: The effect of presentation mode and protagonist-goals on the mental representation of coherence relations. Poster presented at 11th Conference of the Media Psychology Division, Chemnitz, Germany.

    Wannagat, W., & Nieding, G. (2019, August). First-graders’ updating capacity in relation to cognitive processes involved in text comprehension. Poster presented at 19th Biennial EARLI Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Aachen, Germany.

    Wannagat, W., & Nieding, G. (2019, July). Protagonist Goals and Coherence Formation during Narrative Text Processing. Paper presented at 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, New York City, USA.

    Wannagat, W., Henkel, M., & Nieding, G. (2018, September). Die Betonung von Protagonistenzielen beim Verstehen auditiver und audiovisueller Texte. Poster presented at 51. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

    Wannagat, W., & Nieding, G. (2018, August). The effect of protagonist-goal emphasis on comprehension of auditory and audiovisual text. Poster presented at 126th Annual Convention der American Psychological Association (APA), San Francisco, USA.

    Seger, B., Wannagat, W., & Nieding, G. (2018, July). How do static and animated pictures contribute to multi-level mental representations of auditory text in basic school students? Poster presented at 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, Brighton, UK.

    Wannagat, W., Waizenegger, G., & Nieding, G. (2017, August). Multi-level mental representations of written, auditory, and audiovisual text in children and adults. Paper presented at 17th Biennial EARLI Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Tampere, Finland.

    Wannagat, W., Waizenegger, G., & Nieding, G. (2017, September). Kognitive Prozesse beim Textverstehen: Vergleiche zwischen schriftlicher, auditiver und audiovisueller Darbietung im Entwicklungsverlauf. Paper presented at PAEPSY 2017, Münster, Germany.

    Wannagat, W., Waizenegger, G., & Nieding, G. (2016, July). Global coherence in auditory and audiovisual texts - An experiment with first and fourth graders. Poster presented at 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, Kassel, Germany.

    Wannagat, W., Waizenegger, G., & Nieding, G. (2016, July). Does audiovisual text presentation support global coherence processes in 6-, 9-, and 12-year-olds? Poster presented at 24th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Vilnius, Lithuania.

    Waizenegger, G., Wannagat, W., Hauf, J., & Nieding, G. (2015, August). Mental representations of auditory, audiovisual, and written texts in children and adults. Paper presented at 123rd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA), Toronto, Canada.

    Wannagat, W., Waizenegger, G., Hauf, J., & Nieding, G. (2014, September). Die kognitive Verarbeitung auditiver und audiovisueller Texte - Ein Experiment mit Erst-, Viert- und Sechstklässlern. Paper presented at 49. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bochum, Germany.

    Waizenegger, G., Wannagat, W., Hauf, J., & Nieding, G. (2014, September). Der Aufbau kognitiver Repräsentationsebenen bei der Verarbeitung auditiver, audiovisueller und schriftlicher Texte von Kindern und Erwachsenen. Poster at 49. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bochum, Germany.

    Wannagat, W., Waizenegger, G., Hauf, J., & Nieding, G. (2014, August). Development of children’s mental representations of auditory and audiovisual information. Paper presented at 122nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA), Washington D.C., USA.

    2018Doctorate, University of Würzburg
    since 2013Research Associate at the chair of Developmental Psychology at the University of Würzburg
    2011 - 2013Institut für Bildung im Kindes- und Jugendalter, University of Koblenz-Landau and at LVR-Klinikum, Düsseldorf
    2011Diploma in psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau

    • 2019: Beatrice Edgell award