Ausgewählte Publikationen

Tesky, V. A., Schall, A., Schulze, U., Stangier, U., Oswald, F., Knopf, M., König, J., Blettner, M., Arens, E., & Pantel, J. (2019). Depression in the nursing home: a cluster-randomized stepped-wedge study to probe the effectiveness of a novel case management approach to improve treatment (the DAVOS project). Trials, doi.org.10.1186/s13063-019-3534-x.

Kubik, V., Jönsson, F. U., Knopf, M., & Mack, W. (2018). The direct testing effect is pervasive in action memory: Analyses of recall accuracy and recall speed. Frontiers in Psychology, doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01632.

Badinlou, F., Kormi-Nouri, R., & Knopf, M. (2018). A study of retrieval processes in action memory for school-aged children: the impact of recall period and difficulty on action memory. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 30, 792-802.

Óturai, G., Kolling,T., & Knopf, M. (2018). Developmental trend towards exact imitation in the second year of life: Evidence from a longitudinal study. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 42, 388–395.

Badinlou, F., Kormi-Nouri, R., & Knopf, M. (2018). Action memory and knowledge-based cuing in school-aged children: The effect of object presentation and semantic integration. Acta Psychologica, 186, 118-125.

Kim, Z., Óturai, G., Király, I., Hirte, M., & Knopf, M. (2018). A variation of the social context in the warm-up period influences 18-month-olds` imitation. Cognitive Development, 45, 105-112.

Vöhringer, I. A., Kolling, T., Graf, F., Poloczek, S., Fassbender, I., Freitag, C., Lamm, B., Suhrke, J., Teiser, J., Teubert, M., Keller, H., Lohaus, A., Schwarzer,. G., & Knopf, M. (2018). The development of implicit memory from infancy to childhood: On average performance levels and inter-individual differences. Child Development, 89, 370-382.

Hirte, M., Graf, F., Kim, Z., & Knopf, M. (2017). What three-year-olds remember from their past: Long-term memory for persons, objects, and actions. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41, 371-379.

Badinlou, F., Kormi-Nouri, R., Mousavi Nasab, S. M. H., & Knopf, M. (2017). Developmental differences in episodic memory across school ages: Evidence from enacted events by self and others. Memory, 25, 84-94.

Obermeyer, S., Kubik, V., Schaich, A., Kolling, T., & Knopf, M. (2016). Learning to recognize younger faces at an older age. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 29, 191-196.

Bolhuis, J., Kolling,T., & Knopf, M. (2016). Looking in the eyes to discriminate: Linking infants’ habituation speed to looking behaviour using faces. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 40, 243-252.

Kolling, T., Graf, F., & Knopf, M. (2016). Cross-cultural perspectives on declarative and non-declarative memory from infancy to early childhood. Child Development Perspectives, 10, 28-32. 

Knopf, M., Graf, F., & Kolling, T. (2015). Early memory development and cultural variations. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, (2nd ed., Vol 6, pp. 759-764). Oxford, Elsevier.

Kim, Z., Óturai, G., Király, I., & Knopf, M. (2015). The role of objects and effects in action imitation: Comparing the imitation of object-related actions vs. gestures in 18-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 41, 43-51.

Vöhringer, I. A., Poloczek, S., Graf, F., Lamm, B., Teiser, J., Fassbender, I., Freitag, C., Suhrke, J., Teubert, M., Keller, H., Lohaus, A., Schwarzer, G., & Knopf, M. (2015). Is perceptual priming affected by culture? A study with German middle-class and Cameroonian Nso farmer children. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 176, 156-170.

Knopf, M., Graf, F., & Kolling, T. (2015). Early memory development and cultural variations. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, (2nd ed., Vol 6, pp. 759-764). Oxford, Elsevier.

Kubik, V., Obermeyer, S., Meier, J., & Knopf, M. (2014). The enactment effect in a multi-trial free-recall paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26, 781-787.

Kolling. T., & Knopf, M. (2014). Late life human development – Boosting or buffering universal biological ageing. GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 27, 103-108, doi: 10.1024/1662-9647/a000108.

Kubik, V., & Knopf, M. (2014). Plastizität. In J. Pantel, J. Schröder, C.Bollheimer, C. Sieber, & A. Kruse (Hrsg.), Praxishandbuch der Altersmedizin. Geriatrie – Gerontopsychiatrie – Gerontologie (S. 111-121). Stuttgart, Kohlhammer.

Graf, F., Borchert, S., Lamm, B., Goertz, C., Kolling, T., Fassbender, I., Teubert, M., Vierhaus, M., Freitag, C., Spangler, S., Keller, H., Lohaus, A., Schwarzer, G., & Knopf, M. (2014). Imitative learning of Nso and German infants with 6 and 9 months of age: Evidence for a cross-cultural learning tool. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45, 47-61.

Kolling, T., Óturai, G., & Knopf, M. (2014). Is selective attention the basis for selective imitation in infants? An eye-tracking study of deferred imitation with 12 month-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 128, 18-35.

Borchert, S., Lamm, B., Graf, F., & Knopf, M. (2013). Deferred imitation in 18-month-olds from two cultural contexts: The case of Cameroonian Nso farmer and German-middle class infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 36, 717– 727.

Óturai, G., Kolling, T., & Knopf, M. (2013). Relations between 18-month-olds`gaze pattern and target action performance: A deferred imitation study with eye tracking. Infant Behavior and Development, 36, 736-748.

Kolling, T., Haberstroh, J., Kaspar, R., Pantel, J., Oswald, F., & Knopf, M. (2013). Evidence and deployment-based research into care for the elderly using emotional robots. Psychological, methodological and cross-cultural facets. GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 26, 83-88, doi:10.1024/1662-9647/a000084.

Graf, F., Lamm, B., Goertz, C., Kolling, T., Freitag, C., Spangler, S., Fassbender, I., Teubert, M., Vierhaus, M., Keller, H., Lohaus, A., Schwarzer, G., & Knopf, M. (2012). Infant contingency learning in different cultural contexts. Infant and Child Development, 21, 458-473, doi:10.1002/icd.1755.

Obermeyer S., Kolling T., Schaich A., & Knopf, M. (2012). Differences between old and young adults’ ability to recognize human faces underlie processing of horizontal information. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 4, doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2012.00003.

Óturai, G., Kolling, T., Rubio Hall, L., & Knopf, M. (2012). The role of object functions for deferred imitation - Do infants selectively retain and forget target actions? Infant Behavior and Development, 35, 195-204.

Knopf, M., Borchert, S., Kolling T., & Goertz, C. (2011). Entwicklungsorientierte Diagnostik des Gedächtnisses im Säuglings-, Kleinkind- und Kindergartenalter. Diagnostica, 57, 179-190.

Schatz, T. R., Spranger, T., Kubik, V., & Knopf, M. (2011). Exploring the enactment effect from an information processing view: What can we learn from serial position analyses? Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 52, 509-515.

Knopf, M., & Mack, W. (2011). Entwicklung kognitiver Funktionen, des Selbst und der Identität in der Adoleszenz. In P. J. Uhlhaas & K. Konrad (Hrsg.). Das Adoleszente Gehirn (S. 45-60). Stuttgart, Kohlhammer.

Knopf, M., Goertz, C., & Kolling, T. (2011). Entwicklung des Gedächtnisses bei Säuglingen und Kleinkindern. Psychologische Rundschau, 62, 85-92. Göttingen, Hogrefe.

Knopf, M., & Goertz, C. (2011). Theoretische Grundlagen der Entwicklungsdiagnostik. In L. F. Hornke, M. Amelang & M. Kersting (Hrsg.). Grundfragen und Anwendungsfelder psychologischer Diagnostik (Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, B/II/1, S. 87-130). Göttingen, Hogrefe.

Knopf, M., Graf, F., Goertz, C., & Kolling, T. (2011). Die Entwicklung des Gedächtnisses von Säuglingen. In H. Keller (Hrsg.). Handbuch der Kleinkindforschung (S. 582-607). Bern, Verlag Hans Huber, Hogrefe.

Goertz, C., Lamm, B., Graf, F., Kolling, T., Knopf, M., & Keller, H. (2011). Deferred imitation in 6-month-old German and Cameroon Nso infants. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 10, 44-55.

Knopf, M. (2011). Kognitive Entwicklung im Alter. In J. Haberstroh & J. Pantel (Hrsg.). Demenz psychosozial behandeln (S. 19-27). Heidelberg, AKA.

Schatz, T. R., Spranger, T., & Knopf, M. (2010). Cognition and Neurosciences - Is there a memory profit after repeated learning of subject-performed actions? Comparing direct and long-term memory performance level as a function of age. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 51, 465-472.

Kolling, T., Goertz, C., Frahsek, S., & Knopf, M. (2010). Memory development throughout the second year – Overall pattern, individual differences and developmental trajectories. Infant Behavior & Development, 33, 159-167.

Frahsek, S., Mack, W., Mack, C., Pfalz-Blezinger, C., & Knopf, M. (2010). Assessing declarative aspects of pretend play within a play setting: Towards a standardized assessment of pretend play in young children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28, 331-345.

Kolling, T., Goertz, C., Frahsek, S., & Knopf, M. (2009). Stability of deferred imitation in 12-to 18-month-old infants: A closer look into developmental dynamcis. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6, 615-640.

Goertz, C., Kolling, T., Frahsek, S., & Knopf, M. (2009). Der Frankfurter Imitationstest für 36 Monate alte Kinder (FIT 36). [The Frankfurt Imitation Test for 36-Month-Old Infants]. Kindheit & Entwicklung, 18, 173-179.

Spranger, T., Schatz, T. R., & Knopf, M. (2008). Does action make you faster? A retrieval-based approach to investigating the origins of the enactment effect. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 49, 487-495.

Goertz, C., Kolling, T., Frahsek, S., Stanisch, A., & Knopf, M. (2008). Assessing declarative memory in 12-month-old infants: A test-retest reliability study based on the deferred imitation task. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 5, 492-506.

Knopf, M., & Mack, W. Säuglingsentwicklung. (Infant development). (2006). In M. Hasselhorn & W. Schneider (Hrsg.). Handbuch der Entwicklungspsychologie. Göttingen, Hogrefe-Verlag.

Kressley-Mba, R. A., & Knopf, M. (2006). A comparison of between- and within-subjects imitation designs. Infant Behavior & Development, 29, 564-573.

Mack, W., & Knopf, M. (2006). Gedächtnisstörungen. (Memory dysfunction). In J. Funke & P. Frensch (Hrsg.). Handbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie: Kognition (S. 379-388). Göttingen, Hogrefe.

Goertz, C., Knopf, M., Kolling, T., Frahsek, S., & Kressley, R. A. (2006). Entwicklung und Erprobung eines Messinstruments zur Erfassung des deklarativen Gedächtnisses Einjähriger: Der Frankfurter Imitations-Test für 12 Monate alte Kinder (FIT 12). (The Frankfurt Imitation Test for 12-Month-Old Infants: Testing a series of items for measuring declarative memory in 1-year-olds.) Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie, 38, 88-96.

Mack, W., Kressley-Mba, R. A., & Knopf, M. (2006). Zum Begriff der Entwicklung in Wundts Psychologie. (On the concept of development in Wundt`s Psychology). In G. Jüttemann (Hrsg.). Wilhelm Wundts anderes Erbe (S. 69-80). Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Knopf, M., Kraus, U., & Kressley-Mba, R. A. (2006). Relational information processing of novel unrelated actions by infants. Infant Behavior & Development, 29, 44-53.

Knopf, M., Mack, W., & Kressley-Mba, R. A. (2005). Wissen und Erinnern – Zur Genese des episodischen Gedächtnisses bei Säuglingen und präverbalen Kindern (Knowing and remembering – On the development of episodic memory in infants and preverbal children). Psychologische Rundschau, 56, 113-122.

Knopf, M. (2005). Die Anfänge des Gedächtnisses im Verlauf der Ontogenese und rezeptive Erinnerungen. (The origins of memory during ontogenesis and receptive memories). In M.-L. Käsermann & A. Altorfer (Hrsg.). Über Lernen. Ein Gedankenaustausch (S. 187-196). Bern, EditionSolo.

Knopf, M., Mack, W., Lenel, A., & Ferrante, S. (2005). Memory for action events: Findings in neurological patients. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 46, 11-19.

Kressley-Mba, R. A., Lurg, S., & Knopf, M.(2005). Testing for deferred imitation of 2- and 3-step action sequences in 6-month-olds. Infant Behavior and Development, 28, 82-86.

Mack, W., Eberle, C., Frölich, L., & Knopf, M.(2005) Memory for performed actions in dementia of Alzheimer type: Further evidence for an enactive encoding failure. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 20, 381–387.

Knopf, M., & Lenel, A. (2005). Schriftspracherwerb und dessen mögliche Frühförderung. (Acquisition of writing and possible early training). In T. Guldimann & B. Hauser (Hrsg.). Bildung von 4- bis 8-jährigen Kindern (S. 41-57). Münster, Waxmann.

Russ, M. O., Mack, W., Grama, C.-R., Lanfermann, H., & Knopf, M.(2003). Enactment effect in memory: Evidence concerning the function of the supramarginal gyrus. Experimental Brain Research, 149, 497-504.

Knopf, M. (2003). Die Entwicklung des Gedächtnisses von Säuglingen. (The development of memory among infants). In H. Keller (Hrsg.). Handbuch der Kleinkindforschung (3. Aufl., S. 895-926). Bern, Hans Huber.

Knopf, M., & Weber, A. (2003). Über die Entwicklung des expliziten und impliziten Gedächtnisses im Verlauf der Lebensspanne. (On the development of explicit and implicit memory over the lifespan). In W. Schneider & M. Knopf (Hrsg.). Entwicklung, Lehren und Lernen. Zum Gedenken an Franz E. Weinert (S. 31-47). Göttingen, Hogrefe.

Schneider, W., & Knopf, M. (Hrsg.). (2003), Entwicklung, Lehren und Lernen. (Development, Teaching and Learning). Zum Gedenken an Franz E. Weinert. Göttingen, Hogrefe.

Schneider, W., Knopf, M., & Stefanek, J. (2002). The development of verbal memory in childhood and adolescence: Findings from the Munich Longitudinal Study. Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 751-761.

Knopf, M. (2001). Optimierung des Gedächtnisses älterer Menschen durch Training. (Optimization of memory among older adults through training). In K. J. Klauer (Hrsg.), Handbuch Kognitives Training (S. 491-512). Göttingen, Hogrefe.