Scientific Staff
Phone: +49 / 231 1084 383
Email: gajewski@Ifado.de
Curriculum Vitae:
- 2017 habilitation thesis in psychology, University of Dortmund
- since 2007 research assistant at the research group “Aging“
- 2005 PhD at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (Thesis: “Encoding processes during task switching”)
- since 2001 research associate at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo)
- since 2001 research associate at the Institute of Experimental Biological Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
- 1994-2001 study of biological psychology and psychiatry, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Research topics:
- Aging is associated with a decline of executive functions enabling goal-directed behavior via the continuous interaction between intentions and environmental requirements. However, the reduction of cognitive resources proceeds individually very different and performance differences become larger with increasing age. This variability is due to a number of exogenous or environmental factors like education, type of work, lifestyle, mental and physical activity or nutrition during the lifetime on the one hand, and endogenous factors like individual genetic diversity, latent diseases of the central nervous system, e.g. inflammatory processes or infectious diseases on the other. This interdisciplinary research aims at investigating systematically these factors by using psychometric and psychophysiological measures.
Key publications:
- Bröde, P.; Claus, M.; Gajewski, P.; Getzmann, S.; Golka, K.; Hengstler, J. G.; Wascher, E.; Watzl, C.: Immune age, but not chronological age, together with obesity and independently from sex predicts low physical working capacity
In: Technologie und Bildung in hybriden Arbeitswelten: 68. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft, Magdeburg, 02.-04.03.2022 (S. Beitrag A.1.2 (4 S)) / Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft (Hrsg.). St. Augustin: GfA-Press, 2022.
I am interested in this work - Getzmann, S.; Arnau, S.; Gajewski, P. D.; Wascher, E.: When long appears short: Effects of auditory distraction on event-related potential correlates of time perception
Eur. J. Neurosci. 55: 121-137 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15553
I am interested in this work - Gajewski, P. D.; Getzmann, S.; Bröde, P.; Burke, M.; Cadenas, C.; Capellino, S.; Claus, M.; Genç, E.: Impact of biological and lifestyle factors on cognitive aging and work ability in the Dortmund Vital Study: Protocol of an interdisciplinary, cross-sectional, and longitudinal study (alle Autoren: Gajewski PD, Getzmann S, Bröde P, Burke M, Cadenas C, Capellino S, Claus M, Genç E, Golka K, Hengstler JG, Kleinsorge T, Marchan R, Nitsche MA, Reinders J, van Thriel C, Watzl C, Wascher E)
JMIR Res. Protoc. 11: (3): e32352 (18 pp) (2022)
https://doi.org/10.2196/32352
I am interested in this work - Laera, G.; Arcara, G.; Gajewski, P. D.; Kliegel, M.; Hering, A.: Age-related modulation of EEG time-frequency responses in prospective memory retrieval
Neuropsychologia 155: 107818 (2021)
I am interested in this work
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107818 - Yordanova, J.; Gajewski, P. D.; Getzmann, S.; Kirov, R.; Falkenstein, M.; Kolev, V.: Neural correlates of aging-related differences in pro-active control in a dual task
Front. Aging Neurosci. 13: 682499 (12 pp) (2021)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2021.682499/full
I am interested in this work - Thönes, S.; Wascher, E.; Gajewski, P. D.; Getzmann, S.: Time hurries on but does not fly in older age – no effect of depressive symptoms
Timing Time Percept. 9: 241–256 (2021)
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https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10007 - Potter, G.; Hatch, D.; Hagy, H.; Radüntz, T.; Gajewski, P.; Falkenstein, M.; Freude, G.: Slower information processing speed is associated with persistent burnout symptoms but not depression symptoms in nursing workers
J. Clin. Exp. Neuropsychol. 43: 33-45 (2021)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2020.1863340
I am interested in this work - Bierbrauer, A.; Kunz, L.; Gomes, C. A.; Getzmann, S.; Wascher, E.; Gajewski, P. D.; Hengstler, J. G.; Axmacher, N.: Unmasking selective path integration deficits in Alzheimer’s disease risk carriers
Sci. Adv. 6: (35): eaba1394 (2020)
I am interested in this work
https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba1394
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2020/08/24/6.35.eaba1394.DC1 - Gajewski, P. D.; Thönes, S.; Falkenstein, M.; Wascher, E.; Getzmann, S.: Multidomain cognitive training transfers to attentional and executive functions in healthy older adults
Front. Hum. Neurosci. 14: article no. 86963 (17 pp) (2020)
I am interested in this work
https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.586963 - Gajewski, P. D.; Falkenstein, M.; Thönes, S.; Wascher, E.: Stroop task performance across the lifespan: high cognitive reserve in older age is associated with enhanced proactive and reactive interference control
NeuroImage 207: 116430 (14 pp) (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116430
I am interested in this work - Falkenstein, M.; Gajewski, P.; Stahn, C.; Zülch, J.: Stressmanagement und kognitives Training zur Förderung kognitiver und emotionaler Fähigkeiten älterer Beschäftigter in der Automobilfertigung
In: Arbeit, Kognition und Alter: wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse für die Praxis. 1. Auflage (S. 167-179) / Michael Falkenstein, Claudia Kardys (Hrsg.). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2020.
I am interested in this work - Hering, A.; Wild-Wall, N.; Falkenstein, M.; Gajewski, P. D.; Zinke, K.; Altgassen, M.; Kliegel, M.: Beyond prospective memory retrieval: Encoding and remembering of intentions across the lifespan
Int. J. Psychophysiol. 147: 44-59 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.11.003
I am interested in this work - Falkenstein, M.; Gajewski, P. D.: Changes of electrical brain activity due to cognitive training in old adults and older industrial workers
In: Cognitive Training: an overview of features and applications. 2nd ed. (S. 369-379) / Tilol Strobach, Julia Karbach (Eds.). Cham: Springer, 2020.
I am interested in this work
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39292-5_25 - Getzmann, S.; Gajewski, P.; Rinkenauer, G.: Förderung und Erhalt der kognitiven Leistungsfähigkeit älterer Beschäftigter
Betriebliche Prävention 131: 203-206 (2019)
I am interested in this work - Greine, Maleen; Gajewski, P. [Erstgutachter]; Falkenstein, M. [Zweitgutachter]: Unterschiede in der kognitiven Leistungsfähigkeit zwischen subklinischem Burnout und leichter DepressionGreine, Maleen; Gajewski, P. [Erstgutachter]; Falkenstein, M. [Zweitgutachter]. Dortmund: Techn. Univ., 2019.
Dortmund, Techn. Univ., Institut für Psychologie, Masterarbeit, 2019
I am interested in this work - Falkenstein, M.; Gajewski, P.; Kardys, C.: ¬Der¬ Einfluss von Stress auf die mentale Leistungsfähigkeit und Gesundheit bei älteren Beschäftigten: Grundlagen und Maßnahmen
In: Gesundheit in der Polizei: Neue Erkenntnisse aus Wissenschaft und Praxis (S. 1-21) / Andrea Fischbach und Philipp W. Lichtenthaler (Hrsg.). Frankfurt am Main: Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft, 2019.
I am interested in this work - Gajewski, P. D.; Falkenstein, M.: Physical activity and inactivity impacts on cognitive and emotional functioning in later life
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology (S. 1-44) / Brunstein A (Ed.). New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.425 - Gajewski, P. D.; Hanisch, E.; Falkenstein, M.; Thönes, S.; Wascher, E.: What does the n-back task measure as we get older?: Relations between working-memory measures and other cognitive functions across the lifespan
Front. Psychology 9: 2208 (17 pp) (2018)
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02208 - Gajewski, P. D.; Ferdinand, N. K.; Kray, J.; Falkenstein, M.: Understanding sources of adult age differences in task switching: evidence from behavioral and ERP studies
Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 92: 255-275 (2018)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.05.029
I am interested in this work - Depressive Symptomatik, Burnout, arbeitsbezogene Faktoren und zentralnervöse Informationsverarbeitung: Teilprojekt 3 im Verbundprojekt F 2318: Depressionen, Burnout und kognitive Defizite – Studien an Beschäftigten zum Einfluss arbeitsbezogener und individueller DeterminantenBoden, S.; Gajewski, P. D.; Willemssen, R.; Getzmann, S.; Falkenstein, M.. Dortmund: Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, 2018.
(Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin : Forschung ; Projekt, F 2318)
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http://dx.doi.org/10.21934/baua:bericht20180920
