Michiko Sakaki
Principal Investigator
Michiko Sakaki received her PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Tokyo in 2007. She received her postdoc training on neuroscience at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, as well as additional postdoc training on cognitive neuroscience and aging at the University of Southern California in USA. She then worked at the University of Reading, UK between 2013 and 2020 as a senior research fellow. Since 2021, she is a tenure track professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Postdoctoral Researchers

Postdoctoral Fellow
ed.negnibeut-inu@regealhcsgilo.enibas LinkedIn Twitter
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Hector Research Institute for Education Science and Psychology at the University of Tübingen working in the field of developmental neuroscience with a focus on intellectually gifted children. My interest lies in how the spatial organization of the cerebral cortex subserves learning and cognition in the human brain. To this end, I pursue questions about the developmental mechanisms by which the spatial arrangement of functions may emerge in the cerebral cortex, and its ramifications for cognitive abilities.
PhD Students

Graduate Student
I am interested in the effects of emotions on cognition particularly the influence of mood on memory. Any given mood state appears to have an influence on cognitive processing. Mood affects memory, what we think and remember matches our mood state (mood congruity). My research will focus on emotion regulation in adolescence and adulthood as well as how mood states affect memory processes using behavioural, physiological and neuroimaging methods to provide insight into link between emotion, mood and memory in adolescence and adulthood.

Graduate Student
ed.negnibeut-inu@nil.gnim-yw Profile Twitter
I am a PhD student at the Hector Research Institute for Education Science and Psychology at the University of Tübingen. My project will focus on how mental health issues and their implications on motivation and emotion impact our ability to achieve our goals. Some of my interests revolve around self-regulation and self-regulated learning as well as educational psychology.
Research Assistants
Lorenz Gewert
Cedric Volpp
Tiffany Wang
Name | Role in the lab | Where are they now? |
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Dona Kandaleft | Graduate Student | at "Lynor" |
Jasmine Raw | Graduate Student | PostDoc, University of Reading, UK |
Nilgun Turkileri | Graduate Student | Head of Department, Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Turkey |
Ayano Yagi | Postdoctoral Fellow | Lecturer, Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan |