Saskia Wilken

• Embodiment
• Internal Models
• Learning & Expertise
• EEG
• rTMS

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• 01/2025 – 04/2025 Research Associate at Carl-Gustav-Carus University Clinic Dresden
• 09/2024 – 12/2024: PhD Scholarship
• 08/2021 – 08/2024: Research Associate in the externally funded project "The Limits of Action Emulation – A psychophysiological investigation in athletes and patients with autism spectrum disorder" at FernUniversität Hagen
• 05/2021 – 07/2021: Working Student in the NEMO research group, Department of Psychiatry, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Coding a pipeline for preprocessing psychophysiological BIOPAC data (skin conductance, ECG, respiration, pulse)
• 12/2020 – 03/2021: Internship in the NEMO research group, Department of Psychiatry, Karl-Jaspers Clinic
• 05/2017: MATLAB Tutor at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
• 04/2017 – 06/2017: Working Student at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
• 08/2014 – 11/2014: Internship at Daimler AG in Human Resource Development
• 10/2016 – 04/2021: M.Sc. Neurocognitive Psychology at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Practical project: Craniopharyngioma and Emotion Recognition – a VBM study. Master Thesis: Does Schizotypy Boost Creativity if Protective Factors Come into Play? An Investigation Using Multi-Scale Entropy of EEG Signals
• 09/2012 – 03/2016: B.Sc. Psychology at University of Koblenz-Landau. Bachelor Thesis: A Part of Me is a TV Star: Parasocial Relationships and Breakups Mediated by Inclusion of Other in the Self​

• Böttcher, A., Wilken, S., Raab, M., Hoffmann, S., & Beste, C. (2025). Directed Neural Network Dynamics in Sensorimotor Integration: Divergent Roles of Frontal Theta Band Activity Depending on Age. Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0427-25.2025
• Wilken, S., Böttcher, A., Beste, C., Raab, M., & Hoffmann, S. (2025). Beyond the neural underpinnings of action emulation in expert athletes: An EEG study. Neuropsychologia, 109085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109085
• Wilken, S., Böttcher, A., Adelhöfer, N., Raab, M., Beste, C., & Hoffmann, S. (2024). Neural oscillations guiding action during effects imagery. Behavioural Brain Research, 115063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2024.115063
• Böttcher, A., Wilken, S., Adelhöfer, N., Raab, M., Hoffmann, S., & Beste, C. (2023). A dissociable functional relevance of theta- and beta-band activities during complex sensorimotor integration. Cerebral Cortex, bhad191. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad191
• Wilken, S., Böttcher, A., Adelhöfer, N., Raab, M., Hoffmann, S., & Beste, C. (2023). The neurophysiology of continuous action monitoring. iScience, 106939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106939
• Böttcher A., Adelhöfer N., Wilken S., Raab M., Hoffmann S., Beste C. (2023) TRACK - a new algorithm and open-source tool for the analysis of pursuit-tracking sensorimotor integration processes. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02065-w