Carl Von Ossietzky Research Articles

Combined use of drugs inhibiting the renin-angiotensin system: prescribing patterns and risk of acute kidney injury in German nursing home residents.

Background/aimsIn 2012, the European Medicines Agency reviewed the safety of dual renin–angiotensin system (RAS) blockade because of potentially increased risks for inter alia acute kidney injury (AKI). Since residents of nursing homes are particularly vulnerable to adverse drug outcomes, the aims of our study were to describe RAS-inhibiting drug use in German nursing home residents and examine the risk of AKI associated with dual RAS blockade.MethodsBased on claims data, a nested case-control study within a cohort of RAS-inhibiting drug users was conducted. Using conditional logistic regression, confounder-adjusted odds ratios (aORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were obtained for the risk of AKI associated with dual RAS blockade. Subgroup analyses were performed in patients with diabetes or chronic kidney disease and both comorbidities.ResultsOf all 127,227 nursing home residents, the study cohort included 64,567 (50.7%) who were treated with at least one RAS-inhibiting drug. More than three quarters of the study population were female (77.1%). Mean age was 86.0 ± 6.8 years. Most residents were treated with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (77.8%), followed by angiotensin II receptor blockers (21.6%) and aliskiren (0.2%). Annual prevalence of dual RAS blockade declined from 9.6 (95% CI 7.8–11.8) in 2010 to 4.7 (95% CI 4.0–5.4) per 1,000 users in 2014. In the overall cohort, AKI was not significantly associated with dual RAS blockade (aOR 1.99; 0.77–5.17). However, significantly increased aORs were observed when considering patients with diabetes (3.47; 1.27–9.47), chronic kidney disease (4.74; 1.24–18.13) or both (11.17; 2.65–47.15).ConclusionsPrescribing of drugs inhibiting the RAS is common in German nursing homes. Though the prevalence of dual RAS blockade declined, our study showed an increased risk of AKI in patients with diabetes and/or chronic kidney disease. Therefore, cautious use is warranted in these vulnerable patients.

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IFLA News Media Conference “Reviving the past and keeping up with the future – the libraries’ role in preserving and providing access to newspapers and news media”, Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky, 20-22 April 2016

IFLA News Media Conference “Reviving the past and keeping up with the future – the libraries’ role in preserving and providing access to newspapers and news media”, Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky, 20-22 April 2016

The Langevin Approach: An R Package for Modeling Markov Processes

We describe an <em>R</em> package developed by the research group <em>Turbulence, Wind energy</em> <em>and Stochastics</em> (TWiSt) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, which extracts the (stochastic) evolution equation underlying a set of data or measurements. The method can be directly applied to data sets with one or two stochastic variables. Examples for the one-dimensional and two-dimensional cases are provided. This framework is valid under a small set of conditions which are explicitly presented and which imply simple preliminary test procedures to the data. For Markovian processes involving Gaussian white noise, a stochastic differential equation is derived straightforwardly from the time series and captures the full dynamical properties of the underlying process. Still, even in the case such conditions are not fulfilled, there are alternative versions of this method which we discuss briefly and provide the user with the necessary bibliography.

Small-scale benthos distribution modelling in a North Sea tidal basin in response to climatic and environmental changes (1970s-2009)

MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections MEPS 551:13-30 (2016) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11756 Small-scale benthos distribution modelling in a North Sea tidal basin in response to climatic and environmental changes (1970s-2009) A. Singer1,2,*, U. Schückel1, M. Beck3, O. Bleich4, H.-J. Brumsack3, H. Freund3, C. Geimecke5, K. A. Lettmann3, G. Millat6, J. Staneva5, A. Vanselow3, H. Westphal7, J.-O. Wolff3, A. Wurpts7, I. Kröncke1 1Senckenberg am Meer, Dept. for Marine Research, Südstrand 40, 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany 2INTERCOAST Research Training Group, University of Bremen, Leobener Strasse, 26359 Bremen, Germany 3Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany 4Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology, Am Seedeich 45, 27572 Bremerhaven, Germany 5Helmholtz-Centre Geesthacht (HZG), Max-Planck-Straße 1, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany 6National Park Administration Wadden Sea Lower Saxony (NLPV), Virchowstraße 1, 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany 7Coastal Research Station - Lower Saxony Water Management, Coastal Defence and Nature Conservation Agency (NLWKN), An der Mühle 5, 26548 Norderney, Germany *Corresponding author: anja.singer@senckenberg.de ABSTRACT: We used small-scale species distribution models to predict the past and present spatial distribution of 7 characteristic macrofauna species in response to climatic and environmental changes that have been recorded for the Jade Bay (German Wadden Sea) over the last 4 decades (1970s to 2009). Four presence-absence modelling algorithms (RF, MARS, GLM, GBM) were merged within the ensemble forecasting platform ‘biomod2’. The present spatial distribution (representing 2009) was modelled based on statistical relationships between species presences, true species absences and 7 high-resolution (5 m) environmental grids. The past spatial distribution (representing the 1970s) was then hindcast in response to climate change-induced (1) sea-level rise, (2) water temperature increase and (3) seagrass recovery due to de-eutrophication. The past distribution scenario was evaluated using independent historical macrofauna data from the 1970s. Present ensemble prediction maps accurately captured the potential ecological niches of the modelled species throughout Jade Bay (i.e. good to excellent true skill statistic [TSS] and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC] evaluation measures). The predicted present macrofauna distribution correlated most significantly with hydrodynamic conditions (submergence time, shear stress) and sediment characteristics (mud content). The past distribution scenario revealed significant changes in small-scale spatial distribution patterns of the characteristic modelled species (1970s to 2009) and showed a very good match with historical macrofauna data. Climate change-induced sea-level rise and its local implications for Jade Bay (changes in topography, tidal range and submergence time), and water temperature increase explained the potential macrofauna distribution shifts over the last 4 decades. KEY WORDS: Ensemble models · Hindcasting · Sea-level rise · Water temperature increase · Wadden Sea World Heritage Site · Seagrass recovery · Marine ecosystems · Benthos Full text in pdf format Supplementary material PreviousNextCite this article as: Singer A, Schückel U, Beck M, Bleich O and others (2016) Small-scale benthos distribution modelling in a North Sea tidal basin in response to climatic and environmental changes (1970s-2009). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 551:13-30. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11756 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in MEPS Vol. 551. Online publication date: June 09, 2016 Print ISSN: 0171-8630; Online ISSN: 1616-1599 Copyright © 2016 Inter-Research.

From mass to structure: an aromaticity index for high‐resolution mass data of natural organic matter

For the calculation of the Aromaticity Index (AI) all functional groups that potentially contribute Double Bond Equivalents (DBE) through bonds between carbon and heteroelements are subtracted from the original molecular formula. DBEAI is the DBE of the resulting molecular core, and CAI is the respective number of carbon atoms. AI is the DBEAI to CAI ratio. This error in Eqn. 3 does not affect the figures, interpretations and conclusions. Erratum written by: T. Dittmar, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), 26129 Oldenburg, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]

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1Technische Universität München, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Munich, Germany 2European Medical School at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Department of Plastic-, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Oldenburg, Germany

Investigating the Ecological Validity of Predictive Auditory Processing

Event Abstract Back to Event Investigating the Ecological Validity of Predictive Auditory Processing Martin Reiche1*, Andreas Widmann2 and Alexandra Bendixen3 1 Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Auditory Psychophysiology Lab, Department of Psychology, Germany 2 University of Leipzig, Cognitive incl. Biological Psychology, Department of Psychology, Germany 3 Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Auditory Psychophysiology Lab, Department of Psychology, Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Germany Predictive processing has been shown to play a crucial role in auditory perception. Predictable parts of a sound mixture can be pre-processed and attenuated, which saves resources for the processing of less predictable (hence more informative) parts of the signal. Studies usually investigate this phenomenon by contrasting the processing of unpredictable signals against perfectly predictable signals. However, predictability in natural signals is often compromised by uncertainty; hence the proposed predictive mechanism is only plausible if it can be shown to dynamically adapt to the certainty provided by the sensory context. We investigated this issue by adapting an event-related potential (ERP) paradigm in which predictability is implemented via frequency repetition in a passive listening situation. Predictive uncertainty was introduced by systematically varying the accuracy of frequency repetition over five conditions from fully predictable (perfectly accurate repetition) to fully unpredictable (deviation from repetition covering the whole available frequency range). ERP correlates of predictive processing show graded effects depending on the predictive certainty embedded in the stimulation. These results indicate that the auditory system dynamically adapts to the degree of predictive certainty, suggesting that the predictive mechanism is ecologically valid (i.e., it is still functional even when the stimuli cannot be predicted with full certainty). Keywords: Auditory Perception, EEG, prediction, event-related potential, passive listening, pre-stimulus ERPs Conference: XII International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON-XII), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 27 Jul - 31 Jul, 2014. Presentation Type: Poster Topic: Sensation and Perception Citation: Reiche M, Widmann A and Bendixen A (2015). Investigating the Ecological Validity of Predictive Auditory Processing. Conference Abstract: XII International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON-XII). doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2015.217.00388 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 19 Feb 2015; Published Online: 24 Apr 2015. * Correspondence: Mr. Martin Reiche, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Auditory Psychophysiology Lab, Department of Psychology, Oldenburg, Germany, martin.reiche@uni-oldenburg.de Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Martin Reiche Andreas Widmann Alexandra Bendixen Google Martin Reiche Andreas Widmann Alexandra Bendixen Google Scholar Martin Reiche Andreas Widmann Alexandra Bendixen PubMed Martin Reiche Andreas Widmann Alexandra Bendixen Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.

Photoelectron Circular Dichroism of Bicyclic Ketones from Multiphoton Ionization with Femtosecond Laser Pulses

AbstractThe front cover artwork is provided by Prof. Thomas Baumert and co‐workers (Institut für Physik und CINSaT Universität Kassel) and Prof. Matthias Wollenhaupt (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg). The image shows circular dichroism in the 10 % regime from randomly oriented (S)‐(−)‐camphor molecules in the gas phase observed on the 3D momentum distribution of ejected photoelectrons after three‐photon ionization with a table‐top laser set‐up. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/cphc.201402643.

Cognitive Outcome of Craniopharyngioma

Investigators from Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, and other centers in Germany, compared cognitive performance in a group of 15 patients with childhood craniopharyngioma and hypothalamic involvement and a group of 24 age- and intelligence-matched control subjects.

The Non-Cartesian Way

Based on the seamless learning approach (Wong, 2012), this paper illustrates how media competence can be developed, what didactic design is necessary, and what features this design possesses for teaching media competence at university. The ‘Natural History Museum Berlin project' is considered as an example of this. In this project, during the 2009 summer term, students at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany) in cooperation with the Natural History Museum Berlin (Germany) developed and produced media products (magazine articles, audio and video podcasts) in which they explored and reflected on the topic of knowledge transfer in terms of constructivism in an authentic context. The closeness to research activities at the university, especially in the Department of Continuing Education, is one of the essential aspects.

Editorial for special issue: “Auditory attention: merging paradigms and perspectives”

How can we be so absorbed into some activity that we fail to hear our name being called, while some minutes later we perfectly understand a whispering voice? Questions like this tap into the issue of auditory attention. As in any other modality, information processing in audition is shaped by the listener’s current goals. Consequently, perception of and responses to sound depend on inner states as much as on physical stimulus input. Diverse phenomena of auditory attention along the perception–action cycle have been addressed in various research groups. The field must, however, be described as somewhat scattered. In this special issue, we aim to provide an overview of the different research lines by bringing together 12 different perspectives on auditory attention. The 12 contributions comprise 5 review articles and 7 papers reporting original data. Seeing the links between the different research approaches is sometimes complicated by the fact that they come from fundamentally different traditions: some approach the problem of auditory attention with a strong focus on perceptual processes, others take an action-oriented perspective. Some base their investigation on the top-down allocation of attention in accordance with the listener’s goals, while others exploit the bottom-up capturing of attention resulting from stimulus saliency. While such dichotomies are difficult to avoid when structuring the available research material, we attempt to counteract them here by pointing out conceptual as well as methodological links between the various contributions. In everyday life, the need for (selective) auditory attention arguably arises most prominently from the presence of multiple objects producing sounds at the same time. What enables us to listen to our conversation partner in a busy cafeteria? We must be equipped with a powerful mechanism giving priority to the processing of some parts of the auditory input over others. This allows us to focus on a momentarily interesting signal (e.g., our conversation partner) while ignoring less relevant input (e.g., other speakers and the cafeteria noise). Many laboratory demonstrations of auditory selective attention in such scenarios rest on processing impairments for the unattended signals rather than on processing gains for the attended signals. The extent to which unattended signals are ignored is so surprisingly high that it has been termed inattentional deafness. This phenomenon is at the heart of the contribution by Koreimann, Gula, and Vitouch (2014). The authors provide an empirical demonstration of such perceptual failures in the ecologically valid case of listening to music: listeners, even musically trained ones, failed to notice an e-guitar improvisation in a piece by Richard Strauss when their attention was strongly focused on a certain aspect of the piece. This reflects a striking case of attentional over-selectivity. On the other hand, when the acoustic contrast between the e-guitar improvisation and the musical piece was increased, the inattentional deafness effect disappeared. Such findings illustrate a fine balance between attentional selectivity—allowing to focus on the task at hand— and the ‘‘breakthrough of the unattended’’ (Moray, 1959; Treisman, 1960)—allowing to check task-irrelevant but acoustically salient, potentially important information. The A. Bendixen (&) Auditory Psychophysiology Lab, Department of Psychology, Cluster of Excellence ‘‘Hearing4all’’, European Medical School, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany e-mail: alexandra.bendixen@uni-oldenburg.de

Correction: Depth Cues and Perceived Audiovisual Synchrony of Biological Motion

There was a missing affiliation for the second author, Catarina Mendonca. The correct affiliations for Catarina Mendonca are: Department of Psychology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Aalto University, Finland

Exhibition Reviews

Steampunk (Bradford Industrial Museum, UK)Framing India: Paris-Delhi-Bombay . . . (Centre Pompidou, Paris)E Tū Ake: Māori Standing Strong/Māori: leurs trésors ont une âme (Te Papa, Wellington, and Musée du quai Branly, Paris)The New American Art Galleries, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, RichmondScott's Last Expedition (Natural History Museum, London)Left-Wing Art, Right-Wing Art, Pure Art: New National Art (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw)Focus on Strangers: Photo Albums of World War II (Stadtmuseum, Jena)A Museum That Is Not: A Fanatical Narrative of What a Museum Can Be (Guandong Times Museum, Guandong)21st Century: Art in the First Decade (QAGOMA, Brisbane)James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific (Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn)Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands (QAGOMA, Brisbane) and Awakening: Stories from the Torres Strait (Queensland Museum, Brisbane)

Correction to “Comparison of the a Priori COSMO-RS Models and Group Contribution Methods: Original UNIFAC, Modified UNIFAC(Do), and Modified UNIFAC(Do) Consortium”

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVAddition/CorrectionORIGINAL ARTICLEThis notice is a correctionCorrection to “Comparison of the a Priori COSMO-RS Models and Group Contribution Methods: Original UNIFAC, Modified UNIFAC(Do), and Modified UNIFAC(Do) Consortium”Zhimin Xue†, Tiancheng Mu†*, and Jürgen Gmehling‡*View Author Information† Department of Chemistry, Renmin University of China, 100872, Beijing, China‡ Department of Industrial Chemistry, Institute for Pure and Applied Chemistry, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, D-26111, Oldenburg, Germany*E-mail: [email protected] (T.M.), [email protected] (J.G.).Cite this: Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2012, 51, 49, 16163Publication Date (Web):December 3, 2012Publication History Published online3 December 2012Published inissue 12 December 2012https://doi.org/10.1021/ie303175rCopyright © 2012 American Chemical SocietyRIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views503Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (121 KB) Get e-Alerts Get e-Alerts

Evidence on the ssvep account of pre-target differences in EEG alpha activity in the attentional blink

Event Abstract Back to Event Evidence on the ssvep account of pre-target differences in EEG alpha activity in the attentional blink Jolanda Janson1*, Jeremy D. Thorne1 and Cornelia Kranczioch1 1 Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany The attentional blink (AB) is a deficit in detecting the second of two targets (T1, T2) if T1 and T2 are presented in a rapid stream of distractors within 200-500 ms of one another. Previous research suggests that missing T2 is related to an increase in EEG alpha activity well before the presentation of T1, yet the design of these studies does not allow differentiating whether this is related to a modulation of intrinsically generated alpha activity or a modulation of the steady state visual evoked potential (ssVEP) induced by the rapid stimulus stream. The latter would be indicative of too much attention being paid to the distractor stream in T2 miss trials. This interpretation would be supported if experimentally manipulating the attentional resources drawn by the distractor stream affects the AB. This was tested in the present study. The first experiment (n = 14) consisted of three conditions: a skeletal AB paradigm (only T1, T2, T1+1, T2+1 stimuli; no distactors), various meaningless stimuli as distractors, and numbers as distractors. Targets were letters. As expected, the AB deficit was significantly smallest in the skeletal condition. However, the two other conditions did not differ from one another. A second experiment (n = 10) was run in which instead of various meaningless stimuli the same meaningless stimulus was used repeatedly in the meaningless distractor condition. T2 performance was similar now to the skeletal condition and significantly different from the number distractor condition. This suggests that if distractors capture attention the AB increases, even if distractors are highly dissimilar to the targets and supports the idea that enhanced pre-target alpha activity in the AB reflects an overinvestment of attentional resources to the distractor stream. Funding: This research was supported by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to CK (KR 3433/2-1). Keywords: Attention, Awareness Conference: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI), Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 25 Sep - 29 Sep, 2011. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Poster Sessions: Consciousness and Awareness Citation: Janson J, Thorne JD and Kranczioch C (2011). Evidence on the ssvep account of pre-target differences in EEG alpha activity in the attentional blink. Conference Abstract: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI). doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2011.207.00548 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 15 Nov 2011; Published Online: 28 Nov 2011. * Correspondence: Dr. Jolanda Janson, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany, jolanda.janson@uni-oldenburg.de Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Jolanda Janson Jeremy D Thorne Cornelia Kranczioch Google Jolanda Janson Jeremy D Thorne Cornelia Kranczioch Google Scholar Jolanda Janson Jeremy D Thorne Cornelia Kranczioch PubMed Jolanda Janson Jeremy D Thorne Cornelia Kranczioch Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.

?Low Temperature Near-field Scanning Optical Microscope for UV-Visible Spectroscopy of Nanostructures

Carl von Ossietzky Universit¨at Oldenburg, Institut fur¨ Physik, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany(Received 20 January 2010)A low-temperature near-field scanning optical microscope (LT-NSOM) is designed and realized inorder to study the optical properties of nanostructures at cryogenic temperatures in the UV-visiblewavelength range. Due to the simple and extensive optical design, any type of NSOM operationmode is accessible. In particular, the localized photoluminescence spectra of nanostructures can bemeasured at temperatures from 13 K up to 300 K. We successfully demonstrate the performance ofour LT-NSOM by investigating InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells grown on a sapphire substrateat 15 K.

The role of feedback on learning in children: Combined results of a large behavioural and an fMRI study

Event Abstract Back to Event The role of feedback on learning in children: Combined results of a large behavioural and an fMRI study Jale Özyurt1*, Andrea Anschuetz2, Barbara Moschner2, Sascha Bernholt3, Ilka Parchmann3 and Christiane Thiel1 1 Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Cognitive Neurobiology, Institute of Psychology, Germany 2 Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Research on Learning and Instruction, Institute of Educational Sciences, Germany 3 Leibniz Institute of Sciences and Mathematics Education, Department of Chemistry Education, Germany Feedback has major influences on learning. It is obvious that the type of feedback and the way the feedback is given can be differentially effective in the learning process. Although many behavioural studies focus on the role of feedback during instruction and many imaging studies on adults have examined the neural correlates of feedback processing, less is known about the impact of affective feedback on children. The present project aimed at investigating the neural and behavioral effects of self-relevant affective feedback in children to contribute to a better understanding of the role feedback may play in the learning processes. It is part a larger interdisciplinary study combining approaches from the neurosciences, computational sciences, chemistry education and research on learning and instruction (cf. poster 2). Participants were 10-13 years old children (N=481). We used an experimental paradigm requiring rule-based matching of chemical structures with their respective names. Children received informative positive or negative feedback depending on their performance. The affective value of feedback was manipulated within subject by providing self-relevant feedback of high or low affective value. The behavioral study was conducted in a classroom setting. Here, participants of both parts of the study were tested with standardized psychological tests and 418 of them performed the behavioural task. Another N=63 took part in the fMRI study, working on a similar task. First data of the behavioral study suggest significant influences of individual differences such as age, intelligence, and goal orientation on achievement measures in learning tasks. Results of the fMRI study reveal that manipulation of the affective value of positive feedback yielded a strong effect in several brain regions known to process affective and/or self-relevant information in adults. Results on individual differences obtained on a large sample within the behavioural study will be further used for the fMRI data to selectively test for individual differences in specified ROIs. Conference: EARLI SIG22 - Neuroscience and Education, Zurich, Switzerland, 3 Jun - 5 Jun, 2010. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Motivation and emotion Citation: Özyurt J, Anschuetz A, Moschner B, Bernholt S, Parchmann I and Thiel C (2010). The role of feedback on learning in children: Combined results of a large behavioural and an fMRI study. Front. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: EARLI SIG22 - Neuroscience and Education. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.11.00019 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 28 May 2010; Published Online: 28 May 2010. * Correspondence: Jale Özyurt, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Cognitive Neurobiology, Institute of Psychology, Oldenburg, Germany, jale.oezyurt@uni-oldenburg.de Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Jale Özyurt Andrea Anschuetz Barbara Moschner Sascha Bernholt Ilka Parchmann Christiane Thiel Google Jale Özyurt Andrea Anschuetz Barbara Moschner Sascha Bernholt Ilka Parchmann Christiane Thiel Google Scholar Jale Özyurt Andrea Anschuetz Barbara Moschner Sascha Bernholt Ilka Parchmann Christiane Thiel PubMed Jale Özyurt Andrea Anschuetz Barbara Moschner Sascha Bernholt Ilka Parchmann Christiane Thiel Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.

JOHANN SIGISMUND COUSSER, WILLIAM III AND THE SERENATA IN EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DUBLIN

ABSTRACTAmong the holdings of Hamburg’s Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky is an anonymous fifty-two-page score headed ‘Serenata à 4’, described in the corresponding catalogue entry by its former owner, German musicologist Friedrich Chrysander (1826–1901), as a ‘cantata for the funeral of the English king William III of Orange, 1702’. But both the work’s text and the recent identification of the manuscript as being in the hand of Johann Sigismund Cousser (1660–1727) call for a reassessment of this serenata’s provenance, situating it in either England or Ireland between Cousser’s arrival in London on Christmas Day 1704 and the end of Queen Anne’s reign in 1714. Over the course of the two decades he resided in Ireland, from 4 July 1707 until his death, Cousser was responsible for the composition and musical direction of one ode and more than twenty serenatas, the majority of which were commissioned by the viceregal court at Dublin Castle for state celebrations of the reigning monarch’s birthday. Taking printed librettos, contemporary newspaper reports, Cousser’s own commonplace book and two further surviving manuscript scores as its primary evidence, this study seeks to establish a likely location and occasion for the performance of the ‘William III’ serenata within Dublin’s musical life during the early eighteenth century. In their choice of terminology, compositional style and performance practices, Cousser’s serenatas, which may have incorporated elements of theatrical staging and dancing, reveal his extensive Continental experience, and they can be seen to have functioned in part as an operatic substitute, presumably reflecting the limited financial resources of Dublin high society.