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Peer-reviewed publications
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2019). Reducing demand for unsupported health remedies: A taxonomy for overcoming psychological barriers. Social Science & Medicine.
Paynter, J., Luskin-Saxby, S., Keen, D., Fordyce, K., Frost, G., Imms, C., Miller, S., Sutherland, R., Trembath, D., Tucker, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2019). Perceived evidence and use of autism intervention strategies in early intervention providers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Hamby, A. M., Ecker, U. K. H., & Brinberg, D. (2019). How stories in memory perpetuate the continued influence of false information. Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Gordon, A., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Polarity and attitude effects in the continued-influence paradigm. Journal of Memory and Language, 108, 104028.
Gordon, A., Quadflieg, S., Brooks, J. C. W., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Keeping track of ‘alternative facts’: The neural correlates of processing misinformation corrections. NeuroImage, 193, 46-56. [Supplement]
Swire, B., Berinsky, A., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2019). They might be a liar but they’re my liar: Source evaluation and the prevalence of misinformation. Political Psychology.
Ecker, U. K. H., O’Reilly, Z., Reid, J. S., & Chang, E. P. (2019). The effectiveness of short-format refutational fact-checks. British Journal of Psychology.
Ecker, U. K. H., & Ang, L. C. (2019). Political attitudes and the processing of misinformation corrections. Political Psychology, 40, 241-260.
Chang, E. P., Ecker, U. K. H., & Page, A. C. (2019). Not wallowing in misery—Retractions of negative misinformation are effective in dysphoric rumination. Cognition and Emotion, 33, 991-1005.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Jayawardana, K., & Mladenovic, A. (2019). Refutations of equivocal claims: No evidence for an ironic effect of counterargument number. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, 98-107.
Paynter, J., Luskin-Saxby, S., Keen, D., Fordyce, K., Frost, G., Imms, C., Miller, S., Trembath, D., Tucker, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2019). Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—Real-world autism treatment myth debunking. PLOS ONE, 14, e0210746.
Aird, M., Ecker, U. K. H., Swire, B., Berinsky, A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2018). Does truth matter to voters? The effects of correcting political misinformation in an Australian sample. Royal Society Open Science, 5, 180593.
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Reducing demand for ineffective health remedies: Overcoming the illusion of causality. Psychology & Health, 33, 1472-1489. [Supplement]
Brydges, C. R., Gignac, G. E., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Working memory capacity, short-term memory capacity, and the continued influence effect: A latent-variable analysis. Intelligence, 69, 117-122.
Singh, K. A., Gignac, G. E., Brydges, C. R., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Working memory capacity mediates the relationship between removal and fluid intelligence. Journal of Memory and Language, 101, 18-36.
Kirmsse, A., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Age-related changes in working memory: Age affects relational but not conjunctive feature binding. Psychology and Aging, 33, 512-526.
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Letting the gorilla emerge from the mist: Getting past post-truth. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 418-424.
Gordon, A., Brooks, J. C. W., Quadflieg, S., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Exploring the neural substrates of misinformation processing. Neuropsychologia, 106, 216-224.
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., & Cook, J. (2017). Beyond misinformation: Understanding and coping with the post-truth era. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 353-369.
Allanson, F., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). No evidence for a role of reconsolidation in updating of paired associates. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29, 912-919.
Cook, J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence. PLOS ONE, 12, e0175799.
Swire, B., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). The role of familiarity in correcting inaccurate information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 43, 1948-1961.
Chang, E. P., Ecker, U. K. H., & Page, A. C. (2017). Impaired memory updating associated with impaired recall of negative words in dysphoric rumination—Evidence for a removal deficit. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 93, 22-28.
Swire, B., Berinsky, A. J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Processing political misinformation—comprehending the Trump phenomenon. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 160802.
Ecker, U. K. H., Hogan, J. L., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Reminders and repetition of misinformation: Helping or hindering its retraction? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 185-192.
Trembath, D., Paynter, J., Keen, D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2016). “Attention: Myth follows!” Facilitated communication, parent and professional attitudes towards evidence-based practice, and the power of misinformation. Evidence-based Communication Assessment and Intervention, 9, 113-126.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Cheung, C. S. C., & Maybery, M. T. (2015). He did it! She did it! No, she did not! Multiple causal explanations and the continued influence of misinformation. Journal of Memory and Language, 85, 101-115.
Ecker, U. K. H., Brown, G. D. A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). Memory without consolidation: Temporal distinctiveness explains retroactive interference. Cognitive Science, 39, 1570-1593.
Cook, J., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). Misinformation and how to correct it. Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1-17.
Ecker, U. K. H., Tay, J.-X., & Brown, G. D. A. (2015). Effects of pre-study and post-study rest on memory: Support for temporal interference accounts of forgetting. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 772-778.
Fenton, O. & Ecker, U. K. H. (2015). Memory updating in sub-clinical eating disorder: Differential effects with food and body-shape words. Eating Behaviors, 17, 103-106.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Chang, E. P., & Pillai, R. (2014). The effects of subtle misinformation in news headlines. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20, 323-335.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Removal of information from working memory: A specific updating process. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 77-90.
Ecker, U. K. H., Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Working memory updating involves item-specific removal. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 1-15.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Fenton, O., & Martin, K. (2014). Do people keep believing because they want to? Pre-existing attitudes and the continued influence of misinformation. Memory & Cognition, 42, 292-304.
Hasan, A., Wobrock, T., Falkai, P., Schneider-Axmann, T., Guse, B., Backens, M., Ecker, U. K. H., Heimes, J., Scherk, H., & Gruber, O. (2014). Hippocampal integrity and neurocognition in first-episode schizophrenia: A multidimensional study. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 15, 188-199.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2013). Removal of information from working memory. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 400-405). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Ecker, U. K. H., Maybery, M. T., & Zimmer, H. D. (2013). Binding of intrinsic and extrinsic features in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 218-234.
Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2012). Computational constraints in cognitive theories of forgetting. Frontiers in Psychology, 3 (400), 1-5.
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Seifert, C., Schwarz, N., & Cook, J. (2012). Misinformation and its correction: Continued influence and successful debiasing. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 13, 106-131.
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Farrell, S., & Brown, G. D. A. (2012). Models of cognition and (unnecessary?) constraints from neuroscience: A case study involving consolidation. Australian Journal of Psychology, 64, 37-45.
Küper, K., Groh-Bordin, C., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2012). Electrophysiological correlates of exemplar-specific processes in implicit and explicit memory. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 52-64.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Swire, B., & Chang, D. (2011). Correcting false information in memory: Manipulating the strength of misinformation encoding and its retraction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 570-578.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Apai, J. (2011). Terrorists brought down the plane!—No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 283-310.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Tang, D. T. W. (2010). Explicit warnings reduce but do not eliminate the continued influence of misinformation. Memory & Cognition, 38, 1087-1100.
Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2010). Remembering perceptual features unequally bound in Object and Episodic Tokens: Neural mechanisms and their electrophysiological correlates. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 34, 1066-1079.
Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., Yang, L. X., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2010). A working memory test battery for Matlab. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 571-585.
Wobrock, T., Hasan, A., Malchow, B., Wolff-Menzler, C., Guse, B., Lang, N., Schneider-Axmann, T., Ecker, U. K. H., & Falkai, P. (2010). Increased cortical inhibition deficits in first-episode schizophrenia with comorbid cannabis abuse. Psychopharmacology, 208, 353-363.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Chee, A. E. H. (2010). The components of working memory updating: An experimental decomposition and individual differences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 170-189.
Ecker, U. K. H., Arend, A. M., Bergström, K., & Zimmer, H. D. (2009). Verbal predicates foster recollection but not familiarity of a task-irrelevant feature—An ERP study. Consciousness & Cognition, 18, 679-689.
Bermeitinger, C., Goelz, R., Johr, N., Neumann, M., Ecker, U. K. H., & Doerr, R. (2009). The hidden persuaders break into the tired brain. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 320-326.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2009). Components of working memory updating. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 347-352). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Ecker, U. K. H., & Zimmer, H. D. (2009). ERP evidence for flexible adjustment of retrieval orientation and its influence on familiarity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1907-1919.
Wobrock, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Scherk, H., Schneider-Axmann, T., Falkai, P., & Gruber, O. (2009). Cognitive impairment of executive function as a core symptom of schizophrenia. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 10, 442-451.
Wobrock, T., Schneider, M., Kadovic, D., Schneider-Axmann, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Retz, W., Rösler, M., & Falkai, P. (2008). Reduced cortical inhibition in first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 102, 252-261.
Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., & Groh-Bordin, C. (2007). Color and context: An ERP study on intrinsic and extrinsic feature binding in episodic memory. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1483-1501.
Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., & Groh-Bordin, C. (2007). The influence of object and background color manipulations on the electrophysiological indices of recognition memory. Brain Research, 1185, 221-230.
Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., Groh-Bordin, C., & Mecklinger, A. (2007). Context effects on familiarity are familiarity effects of context—An electrophysiological study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 64, 146-156.
Groh-Bordin, C., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2006). Has the butcher on the bus dyed his hair? When color changes modulate ERP correlates of familiarity and recollection. NeuroImage, 32, 1879-1890.
Zimmer, H. D., Steiner, A., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2002). How “implicit” are implicit color effects in memory? Experimental Psychology, 49, 120-131.
Book chapters, books, and other publications
Swire, B. & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Misinformation and its correction: Cognitive mechanisms and recommendations for mass communication. In B. G. Southwell, E. A. Thorson, & L. Sheble (Eds.), Misinformation and Mass Audiences (pp. 195-211). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Why rebuttals may not work: The psychology of misinformation. Media Asia.
Ecker, U. K. H., Swire, B., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Correcting misinformation—A challenge for education and cognitive science. In D. N. Rapp & J. L. G. Braasch (Eds.), Processing Inaccurate Information: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences (pp. 13-38). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ecker, U. K. H. (2007). Objects in context. The neurocognitive representation, binding, and processing of object and context features in recognition memory—An electrophysiological approach. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM.
Ecker, U. K. H., Groh-Bordin, C., & Zimmer, H. D. (2004). Electrophysiological correlates of specific feature binding in remembering—Introducing a neurocognitive model of human memory. In A. Mecklinger, H. D. Zimmer, & U. Lindenberger (Eds.), Bound in Memory—Insights from Behavioral and Neuropsychological Studies (pp.159-193). Aachen, Germany: Shaker.
Ecker, U. K. H. (2002). Implicit colour-congruency effects in object priming—A study on token construction in amnesics. Unpublished Honours thesis (“Diplomarbeit”), Saarland University, Germany.
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2019). Reducing demand for unsupported health remedies: A taxonomy for overcoming psychological barriers. Social Science & Medicine.
Paynter, J., Luskin-Saxby, S., Keen, D., Fordyce, K., Frost, G., Imms, C., Miller, S., Sutherland, R., Trembath, D., Tucker, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2019). Perceived evidence and use of autism intervention strategies in early intervention providers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Hamby, A. M., Ecker, U. K. H., & Brinberg, D. (2019). How stories in memory perpetuate the continued influence of false information. Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Gordon, A., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Polarity and attitude effects in the continued-influence paradigm. Journal of Memory and Language, 108, 104028.
Gordon, A., Quadflieg, S., Brooks, J. C. W., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Keeping track of ‘alternative facts’: The neural correlates of processing misinformation corrections. NeuroImage, 193, 46-56. [Supplement]
Swire, B., Berinsky, A., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2019). They might be a liar but they’re my liar: Source evaluation and the prevalence of misinformation. Political Psychology.
Ecker, U. K. H., O’Reilly, Z., Reid, J. S., & Chang, E. P. (2019). The effectiveness of short-format refutational fact-checks. British Journal of Psychology.
Ecker, U. K. H., & Ang, L. C. (2019). Political attitudes and the processing of misinformation corrections. Political Psychology, 40, 241-260.
Chang, E. P., Ecker, U. K. H., & Page, A. C. (2019). Not wallowing in misery—Retractions of negative misinformation are effective in dysphoric rumination. Cognition and Emotion, 33, 991-1005.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Jayawardana, K., & Mladenovic, A. (2019). Refutations of equivocal claims: No evidence for an ironic effect of counterargument number. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, 98-107.
Paynter, J., Luskin-Saxby, S., Keen, D., Fordyce, K., Frost, G., Imms, C., Miller, S., Trembath, D., Tucker, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2019). Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—Real-world autism treatment myth debunking. PLOS ONE, 14, e0210746.
Aird, M., Ecker, U. K. H., Swire, B., Berinsky, A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2018). Does truth matter to voters? The effects of correcting political misinformation in an Australian sample. Royal Society Open Science, 5, 180593.
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Reducing demand for ineffective health remedies: Overcoming the illusion of causality. Psychology & Health, 33, 1472-1489. [Supplement]
Brydges, C. R., Gignac, G. E., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Working memory capacity, short-term memory capacity, and the continued influence effect: A latent-variable analysis. Intelligence, 69, 117-122.
Singh, K. A., Gignac, G. E., Brydges, C. R., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Working memory capacity mediates the relationship between removal and fluid intelligence. Journal of Memory and Language, 101, 18-36.
Kirmsse, A., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Age-related changes in working memory: Age affects relational but not conjunctive feature binding. Psychology and Aging, 33, 512-526.
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Letting the gorilla emerge from the mist: Getting past post-truth. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 418-424.
Gordon, A., Brooks, J. C. W., Quadflieg, S., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Exploring the neural substrates of misinformation processing. Neuropsychologia, 106, 216-224.
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., & Cook, J. (2017). Beyond misinformation: Understanding and coping with the post-truth era. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 353-369.
Allanson, F., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). No evidence for a role of reconsolidation in updating of paired associates. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29, 912-919.
Cook, J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence. PLOS ONE, 12, e0175799.
Swire, B., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). The role of familiarity in correcting inaccurate information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 43, 1948-1961.
Chang, E. P., Ecker, U. K. H., & Page, A. C. (2017). Impaired memory updating associated with impaired recall of negative words in dysphoric rumination—Evidence for a removal deficit. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 93, 22-28.
Swire, B., Berinsky, A. J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Processing political misinformation—comprehending the Trump phenomenon. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 160802.
Ecker, U. K. H., Hogan, J. L., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Reminders and repetition of misinformation: Helping or hindering its retraction? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 185-192.
Trembath, D., Paynter, J., Keen, D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2016). “Attention: Myth follows!” Facilitated communication, parent and professional attitudes towards evidence-based practice, and the power of misinformation. Evidence-based Communication Assessment and Intervention, 9, 113-126.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Cheung, C. S. C., & Maybery, M. T. (2015). He did it! She did it! No, she did not! Multiple causal explanations and the continued influence of misinformation. Journal of Memory and Language, 85, 101-115.
Ecker, U. K. H., Brown, G. D. A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). Memory without consolidation: Temporal distinctiveness explains retroactive interference. Cognitive Science, 39, 1570-1593.
Cook, J., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). Misinformation and how to correct it. Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1-17.
Ecker, U. K. H., Tay, J.-X., & Brown, G. D. A. (2015). Effects of pre-study and post-study rest on memory: Support for temporal interference accounts of forgetting. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 772-778.
Fenton, O. & Ecker, U. K. H. (2015). Memory updating in sub-clinical eating disorder: Differential effects with food and body-shape words. Eating Behaviors, 17, 103-106.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Chang, E. P., & Pillai, R. (2014). The effects of subtle misinformation in news headlines. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20, 323-335.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Removal of information from working memory: A specific updating process. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 77-90.
Ecker, U. K. H., Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Working memory updating involves item-specific removal. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 1-15.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Fenton, O., & Martin, K. (2014). Do people keep believing because they want to? Pre-existing attitudes and the continued influence of misinformation. Memory & Cognition, 42, 292-304.
Hasan, A., Wobrock, T., Falkai, P., Schneider-Axmann, T., Guse, B., Backens, M., Ecker, U. K. H., Heimes, J., Scherk, H., & Gruber, O. (2014). Hippocampal integrity and neurocognition in first-episode schizophrenia: A multidimensional study. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 15, 188-199.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2013). Removal of information from working memory. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 400-405). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Ecker, U. K. H., Maybery, M. T., & Zimmer, H. D. (2013). Binding of intrinsic and extrinsic features in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 218-234.
Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2012). Computational constraints in cognitive theories of forgetting. Frontiers in Psychology, 3 (400), 1-5.
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Seifert, C., Schwarz, N., & Cook, J. (2012). Misinformation and its correction: Continued influence and successful debiasing. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 13, 106-131.
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Farrell, S., & Brown, G. D. A. (2012). Models of cognition and (unnecessary?) constraints from neuroscience: A case study involving consolidation. Australian Journal of Psychology, 64, 37-45.
Küper, K., Groh-Bordin, C., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2012). Electrophysiological correlates of exemplar-specific processes in implicit and explicit memory. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 52-64.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Swire, B., & Chang, D. (2011). Correcting false information in memory: Manipulating the strength of misinformation encoding and its retraction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 570-578.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Apai, J. (2011). Terrorists brought down the plane!—No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 283-310.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Tang, D. T. W. (2010). Explicit warnings reduce but do not eliminate the continued influence of misinformation. Memory & Cognition, 38, 1087-1100.
Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2010). Remembering perceptual features unequally bound in Object and Episodic Tokens: Neural mechanisms and their electrophysiological correlates. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 34, 1066-1079.
Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., Yang, L. X., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2010). A working memory test battery for Matlab. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 571-585.
Wobrock, T., Hasan, A., Malchow, B., Wolff-Menzler, C., Guse, B., Lang, N., Schneider-Axmann, T., Ecker, U. K. H., & Falkai, P. (2010). Increased cortical inhibition deficits in first-episode schizophrenia with comorbid cannabis abuse. Psychopharmacology, 208, 353-363.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Chee, A. E. H. (2010). The components of working memory updating: An experimental decomposition and individual differences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 170-189.
Ecker, U. K. H., Arend, A. M., Bergström, K., & Zimmer, H. D. (2009). Verbal predicates foster recollection but not familiarity of a task-irrelevant feature—An ERP study. Consciousness & Cognition, 18, 679-689.
Bermeitinger, C., Goelz, R., Johr, N., Neumann, M., Ecker, U. K. H., & Doerr, R. (2009). The hidden persuaders break into the tired brain. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 320-326.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2009). Components of working memory updating. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 347-352). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Ecker, U. K. H., & Zimmer, H. D. (2009). ERP evidence for flexible adjustment of retrieval orientation and its influence on familiarity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1907-1919.
Wobrock, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Scherk, H., Schneider-Axmann, T., Falkai, P., & Gruber, O. (2009). Cognitive impairment of executive function as a core symptom of schizophrenia. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 10, 442-451.
Wobrock, T., Schneider, M., Kadovic, D., Schneider-Axmann, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Retz, W., Rösler, M., & Falkai, P. (2008). Reduced cortical inhibition in first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 102, 252-261.
Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., & Groh-Bordin, C. (2007). Color and context: An ERP study on intrinsic and extrinsic feature binding in episodic memory. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1483-1501.
Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., & Groh-Bordin, C. (2007). The influence of object and background color manipulations on the electrophysiological indices of recognition memory. Brain Research, 1185, 221-230.
Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., Groh-Bordin, C., & Mecklinger, A. (2007). Context effects on familiarity are familiarity effects of context—An electrophysiological study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 64, 146-156.
Groh-Bordin, C., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2006). Has the butcher on the bus dyed his hair? When color changes modulate ERP correlates of familiarity and recollection. NeuroImage, 32, 1879-1890.
Zimmer, H. D., Steiner, A., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2002). How “implicit” are implicit color effects in memory? Experimental Psychology, 49, 120-131.
Book chapters, books, and other publications
Swire, B. & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Misinformation and its correction: Cognitive mechanisms and recommendations for mass communication. In B. G. Southwell, E. A. Thorson, & L. Sheble (Eds.), Misinformation and Mass Audiences (pp. 195-211). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Why rebuttals may not work: The psychology of misinformation. Media Asia.
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