Franziska Oren

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Current research

I am pursuing a PhD in the research project Intentions, Selection, and Agency (ISA), in which my colleagues and I investigate how we remember what we have decided to do. In order for this to happen appropriately, we need to select and retrieve the right intention in a particular given context from a large set of multiple intentions that we have formed at some point in the past. This ability is central for human agency. Without it, we would lose our ability for long-term planning, and our psychological and practical life would lose its structure and stability. 

I conduct my research under the supervision of Søren Kyllingsbæk, and co-supervision of Thor Grünbaum. The ISA project is part of the Cognition, Intention, and Action (CoInAct) research group, which is an interdisciplinary research group, performing experimental and theoretical research within cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and philosophy of mind and action. 

Primary fields of research

My PhD studies can be situated among the following research fields: 

• Intentions & prospective memory
• Planning & executive control
• Multitasking & task switching 
• Computational modeling

I primarily conduct behavioural experiments and make use of quantitative analysis methods. 

Fields of interest

Besides my primary PhD-related research fields, I have a general interest in:

• Memory
• Future-oriented cognition
• Media, communication, & cognition
• Eye movements

Teaching

• Spring 2017: MA course "Empirical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Communication" | Department of Communication, UCPH
• Co-supervision of BA and MA theses in cognitive experimental psychology | Department of Psychology, UCPH