Dana Huvermann, Psychologist (M.Sc.)

LVR-Universitätsklinik Essen
Kliniken/Institut der Universität Duisburg-Essen
Institut für Forensische Psychiatrie und Sexualforschung
Postfach 103043
45030 Essen

Tel.: +49 (0) 201 4396636 - 33

DanaMaria.Huvermann@lvr.de

Vita

since 2025 Research Associate at the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Sex Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen
2020-today

Dr. rer. nat. Psychology – Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Doctoral thesis topic: “Cerebellar Contributions to Prediction Error Processing in Reinforcement Learning”

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jutta Peterburs; Prof. Dr. Christian Bellebaum; Prof. Dr. Dagmar Timmann-Braun
2023-today Visiting researcher at the Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2020-2025 Research assistant in the department of experimental neurology, Universitätsklinikum Essen
2020-2023 Research Associate at the Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2018-2020

Master's degree in Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Master's thesis topic: „ The Impact of Selective Devaluation of High Preference Rewards on Outcome Processing”
2017-2020 student/research assistant at Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2015-2018

Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Bachelor's thesis topic: „The Effect of Taxonomic and Associative Relations on the EEG Correlates of Concrete and Abstract Word Processing”

Publications

  • Thieme, A., Rubarth, K., van der Veen, R., Müller, J., Faber, J., Barkhoff, M., Minnerop, M., Elben, S., Huvermann, D., Erdlenbruch, F., Berlijn, A. M., Sulzer, P., Reetz, K., Dogan, I., Jacobi, H., Aktories, J.-E., Batsikadze, G., Liu, Q., Frank, B., … Timmann, D. (2025). Optimizing selectivity of the Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome Scale by use of correction formulas, and validation of its German version. Journal of Neurology, 272(5), 343. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-025-13083-3

  • Berlijn, A. M., Huvermann, D. M., Bechler, E., Thieme, A., Schnitzler, A., Bellebaum, C., Timmann, D., Minnerop, M., & Peterburs, J. (2025). Impaired reinforcement learning and coding of prediction errors in patients with cerebellar degeneration—A study with EEG and voxel-based morphometry. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01303-2

  • Huvermann, D., Berlijn, A., Thieme, A., Erdlenbruch, F., Groiss, S. J., Deistung, A., Mittelstaedt, M., Wondzinski, E., Sievers, H., Frank, B., ... Peterburs, J. (2025). The cerebellum contributes to prediction error coding in reinforcement learning in humans. The Journal of Neuroscience, e1972242025. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1972-24.2025

  • Liu, Q., Rubarth, K., Faber, J., Sulzer, P., Dogan, I., Barkhoff, M., Minnerop, M., Berlijn, A. M., Elben, S., Jacobi, H., Aktories, J.-E., Huvermann, D. M., Erdlenbruch, F., Van der Veen, R., Müller, J., Nio, E., Frank, B., Köhrmann, M., Wondzinski, E., … Thieme, A. (2024). Subtypes of cognitive impairment in cerebellar disease identified by cross-diagnostic cluster-analysis: Results from a German multicenter study. Journal of Neurology, 272(1), 83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-024-12831-1

  • Berlijn, A. M., Huvermann, D. M., Schneider, S., Bellebaum, C., Timmann, D., Minnerop, M., & Peterburs, J. (2024). The role of the human cerebellum for learning from and processing of external feedback in non-motor learning: A systematic review. The Cerebellum, 23, 1532–1551. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12311-024-01669-y

  • Berlijn, A. M.*, Huvermann, D. M.*, Groiss, S. J., Schnitzler, A., Mittelstaedt, M., Bellebaum, C., Timmann, D., Minnerop, M., & Peterburs, J. (2024). The effect of cerebellar TMS on error processing: A combined single-pulse TMS and ERP Study. Imaging Neuroscience, 2, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00080 *geteilte Erstautorenschaft

  • Huvermann, D., Ghio, M., Funke, A., Bellebaum, C., & Bechtold, L. (2023). A Fine-Grained Investigation of Single-Trial N400 Amplitudes and Response Times in Association-and Similarity-Driven Abstract and Concrete Word Priming. PsyArXiv.

  • Huvermann, D. M., Bellebaum, C., & Peterburs, J. (2021). Selective Devaluation Affects the Processing of Preferred Rewards. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(5), 1010–1025. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00904-x

Conference Presentations (first author)

  • Huvermann, D. M., Berlijn, A., Thieme A., Erdlenbruch F., Wondzinski E., Sievers H., … & Peterburs, J. (2024). Cerebellar involvement in reward prediction error processing – evidence from patients with cerebellar stroke. Poster auf der Jahrestagung der Society for Psychophysiological Research, Prag, Tschechische Republik (Psychophysiology, Vol. 61, p. S137).

  • Huvermann, D. M.*, Berlijn, A., Thieme A., Erdlenbruch F., Wondzinski E., Sievers H., … & Peterburs, J. (2024). The cerebellum is involved in processing reward prediction errors - evidence from patients with cerebellar stroke. Poster auf der “Psychologie und Gehirn“, Hamburg. * mit einem Posterpreis ausgezeichnet.

  • Huvermann, D. M., Berlijn, A., Thieme A., Erdlenbruch F., Wondzinski E., Sievers H., … & Peterburs, J. (2023). Reinforcement learning in a cognitive task in patients with chronic cerebellar stroke – an EEG study. Poster auf der Gordon Research Conference Cerebellum, Lewiston, USA.

  • Huvermann, D. M., Berlijn, A., Groiss, S., Mittelstaedt, M., Schnitzler, A., Bellebaum, C., … & Peterburs, J. (2023). The effect of cerebellar TMS on error and feedback processing in a probabilistic learning task. Poster auf der Gordon Research Conference Cerebellum, Lewiston, USA.

  • Huvermann, D. M.*, Berlijn, A., Groiss, S., Minnerop M., Bellebaum, C., Timmann, D. & Peterburs, J. (2022). The effect of cerebellar TMS on feedback processing. Poster auf der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurologie, Berlin, Germany. * mit einem Posterpreis ausgezeichnet.

  • Huvermann, D., Berlijn, A., Groiss, S., Mittelstaedt, M., Schnitzler, A., Bellebaum, C., ... & Peterburs, J. (2022). The Effect Of Cerebellar Stimulation On Feedback Processing: A Combined Single-Pulse TMS And ERP Study. Poster auf der Jahrestagung der Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vancouver, Canada (Psychophysiology, Vol. 59, p. S65).

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