Dr. M. (Marte) Otten
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Brain and Cognition
Area of expertise: Social Cognition, Perceptual Processing, Prejudice and Stereotyping, Memory and Attention, Cognitive Neuroscience
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 129
- Room number: 0.07
Postal address
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Postbus 15915
1001 NK Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
I am an assistant professor at the Brain & Cognition department at University of Amsterdam (UvA) Psychology.
I received my BA & MA in Cognitive and Biological Psychology from the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and received my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Amsterdam.
Following my PhD, I was awarded a NWO Rubicon Scholarship to complete a 2 year post-doc at Harvard Univerity, in Mahzarin Banaji's Social Cognition Laboratory. Here my research focused on the influence that (unconscious) stereotypical knowledge has on low-level attentional processes, memory & language perception. Subsequently, I received a Marie Curie fellowship which allowed me to work together with Anil Seth at Sussex University, exploring the theoretical underpinning of how (social) predictions shape perceptual processing.
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Research
My research focusses on the interplay between social knowledge and cognition, particularly on how pre-existing social knowledge (prejudice, stereotypes, political beliefs, etc) can directly influence basic cognitive processing, such as visual perception, consciousness, memory and language perception.
RPA
- Polarisation (board member)
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Teaching
I teach an MA course on EEG, and BA courses on psycholinguistics. I have developed a course introducting cognitive and neuroscientific research methods (B&C Toolbox).
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Publications
2024
McGovern, H. T., & Otten, M. (2024). Priors and prejudice: hierarchical predictive processing in intergroup perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, Article 1386370. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1386370 [details]
2023
- Otten, M., Seth, A. K., & Pinto, Y. (2023). Seeing Ɔ, remembering C: Illusions in short-term memory. PLoS ONE, 18(4), Article e0283257. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283257 [details]
- Stein, T., Ciorli, T., & Otten, M. (2023). Guns Are Not Faster to Enter Awareness After Seeing a Black Face: Absence of Race-Priming in a Gun/Tool Task During Continuous Flash Suppression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(3), 405-414. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211067068 [details]
2017
- Otten, M., Pinto, Y., Paffen, C. L. E., Seth, A. K., & Kanai, R. (2017). The uniformity illusion: Central stimuli can determine peripheral perception. Psychological Science, 28(1), 56-68. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616672270 [details]
- Otten, M., Seth, A. K., & Pinto, Y. (2017). A social bayesian brain: How social knowledge can shape visual perception. Brain and Cognition, 112, 69-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2016.05.002 [details]
- Pinto, Y., Neville, D. A., Otten, M., Corballis, P. M., Lamme, V. A. F., de Haan, E. H. F., Foschi, N., & Fabri, M. (2017). Split brain: Divided perception but undivided consciousness. Brain, 140(5), 1231–1237. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/aww358 [details]
- Pinto, Y., Vandenbroucke, A. R., Otten, M., Sligte, I. G., Seth, A. K., & Lamme, V. A. F. (2017). Conscious visual memory with minimal attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 146(2), 214-226. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000255, https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000255.supp [details]
2014
- Otten, M., & Jonas, K. J. (2014). Humiliation as an intense emotional experience: Evidence from the electro-encephalogram. Social Neuroscience, 9(1), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2013.855660 [details]
2013
- Otten, M., & Jonas, K. J. (2013). Out of the group, out of control? The brain responds to social exclusion with changes in cognitive control. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(7), 789-794. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nss071 [details]
2012
- Otten, M., & Banaji, M. R. (2012). Social categories shape the neural representation of emotion: evidence from a visual face adaptation task. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, 9. Article 9. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2015.00009 [details]
2011
- Pinto, Y., Otten, M., Cohen, M. A., Wolfe, J. M., & Horowitz, T. S. (2011). The boundary conditions for Bohr’s law: when is reacting faster than acting? Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73(2), 613-620. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-010-0057-7 [details]
2009
- Otten, M., & van Berkum, J. J. A. (2009). Does working memory capacity affect the ability to predict upcoming words in discourse? Brain Research, 1291, 92-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2009.07.042 [details]
- van Berkum, J. J. A., Holleman, B., Nieuwland, M., Otten, M., & Murre, J. (2009). Right or wrong? The brain's fast response to morally objectionable statements. Psychological Science, 20(9), 1092-1099. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02411.x [details]
2014
- Jonas, K. J., Otten, M., & Doosje, B. (2014). Humiliation in conflict: underlying processes and effects on human thought and behavior. In C. K. W. de Dreu (Ed.), Social conflict within and between groups (pp. 37-54). (Current issues in social psychology). Psychology Press. [details]
Prize / grant
- Otten, M. (2012). Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development..
Media appearance
- Otten, M. (23-04-2023). Short term memory illusions [Radio] newstalk. Short term memory illusions. https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/futureproof-with-jonathan-mccrea/short-term-memory-illusions
- Otten, M. & Pinto, Y. (06-04-2023). Oh oh, ons geheugen faalt al na een paar seconden [Radio] BNR. Oh oh, ons geheugen faalt al na een paar seconden. https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/wetenschap-vandaag/10509057/oh-oh-ons-geheugen-faalt-al-na-een-paar-seconden
- Otten, M. & Pinto, Y. (05-04-2023). Human memory may be unreliable after just a few seconds, scientists find [Print] The Guardian. Human memory may be unreliable after just a few seconds, scientists find. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/05/short-term-memory-illusions-study
- Otten, M. & Pinto, Y. (05-04-2023). Your short-term memory can be unreliable after just a few seconds [Web] New Scientist. Your short-term memory can be unreliable after just a few seconds. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367992-your-short-term-memory-can-be-unreliable-after-just-a-few-seconds/
Others
- Otten, M. (organiser) (25-6-2012 - 26-6-2012). Small group meeting on extreme emotions in human interaction (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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McGovern, H. T., & Otten, M. (2024). Priors and prejudice: hierarchical predictive processing in intergroup perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, Article 1386370.