Soemer, A., Gericke, C., & Schiefele, U. (accepted). Reciprocal relations between mind wandering and interest. Journal of Educational Psychology.

Gericke, C., Soemer, A., & Schiefele, U. (in press). Attentional mediators of the effect of interest on comprehension. Learning & Instruction, 95, 102010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102010

Soemer, A., Gericke, C., & Schiefele, U. (2024). Mind wandering may both promote and impair learning. Memory & Cognition, 52, 373-389. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-023-01466-8

Soemer, A., Gericke, C., & Schiefele, U. (2022). Does mind wandering mediate the effects of trait-level reading motivation on comprehension? Learning & Instruction, 83, 101639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101693

Gericke, C., Soemer, A., & Schiefele, U. (2022). Benefits of mind wandering for learning in school through its positive effects on creativity. Frontiers in Education, 7, 774731. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.774731

Grosse, G., Barth, S., Soemer, A., Linde, N. , Simon, A., & Schoenfeld, R. (2022). Teacher-child interaction quality fosters working memory and social-emotional behavior in toddlers. International Journal of Early Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13158-022-00327-w

Soemer, A., & Schiefele, U. (2020). Working memory capacity and (in)voluntary mind wandering. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 27, 758-767.  https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01737-4

Soemer, A., Idsardi, H.-M., Minnaert, A., & Schiefele, U. (2019). Mind wandering and reading comprehension in secondary school children. Learning and Individual Differences, 75, 101778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2019.101778

Soemer, A. (2019). Task-unrelated thoughts and forgetting in working memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 106, 118-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.03.004

Soemer, A. & Schiefele, U. (2019). Text difficulty, topic interest, and mind wandering during reading. Learning and Instruction, 61, 12-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.12.006

Chu, W.-H., Kao, C.-W., & Soemer, A. (2018). A longitudinal study of the development of Mandarin Chinese learners’ oral fluency. Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, 15, 21-47.

Soemer, A. & Schiefele, U. (2018). Reading amount as a mediator between intrinsic reading motivation and reading competence in the in the early elementary grades. Learning and Individual Differences, 67, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2018.06.006

Soemer, A. & Schwan, S. (2016). Task-appropriate visualizations: Can the very same visualization format either promote or hinder learning depending on the task requirements? Journal of Educational Psychology, 108, 960-965. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/edu0000093

Soemer, A. & Saito, S. (2016). Domain-specific processing in short-term serial order memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 88, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2015.12.003

Soemer, A. (2016). The multi-component model, attention and long-term memory in multimedia learning: A comment on Schweppe and Rummer (2014). Educational Psychology Review, 28, 197-200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-015-9303-9

Soemer, A. & Saito, S. (2015). Maintenance of auditory-nonverbal information in working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 22, 1777-1783. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0854-z

Tseng, S. C., Soemer, A. & Lee, T.-L. (2013). Tones of reduced T1-T4 Mandarin disyllables. International Journal for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 18, 81-106. https://aclanthology.org/O13-4005.pdf

Soemer, A. & Schwan, S. (2012). Visual mnemonics for language learning: Static pictures versus animated morphs. Journal of Educational Psychology, 104, 565-579. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0029272

Soemer, A., Gericke, C., & Schiefele, U. (2024). The dynamics of situational interest and mind wandering during learning. Future Education Conference 2024 - Empowering Learners for Tomorrow, Graz, Austria, 3-5 September 2024.

Soemer, A. (2024). Thinking about intentions and fulfilling them: A daily-life experience sampling study. Poster, Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Regensburg, Germany, 18-20 March 2024.

Neumann, M., Deribo, T., Hericks, N., & Soemer, A. (2023). Rezeption von Schulrückmeldungen durch Schulleitungen und Lehrkräfte im Rahmen der Initiative „Schule macht stark“. 34. EMSE-Tagung „Basiskompetenzen und das Recht auf Bildung“, Berlin, Germany, 30 November 2023.

Soemer, A. (2023). Mind wandering and proactive interference. Current Issues in Mind Wandering Research, Heidelberg, Germany, 6-8 July 2023.

Birner, C., Grosse, G., Soemer, A., Wettach, R. (2023). Mydoula-Fearless birth – Mobile app-based intervention program for pregnant women to promote mental well-being (RCT). Poster, Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), Bremen, Germany, 4-9 September 2023.

Soemer, A. (2023). Trait-level differences in mind wandering. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Brussels, Belgium, 9-11 March 2023.

Gade, M., Soemer, A., & Paelecke, M. (2021). In the mind – linking inner speech, attentional control, and every day cognitive failures. Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Ulm, Germany, 14-16 March 2021.

Soemer, A. (2019) Working memory, attention, and motivation during learning from text. Invited Talk at the Educational Vision Research Institute at Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, 18 October 2019.

Soemer, A. (2018). Working memory capacity and task-unrelated thoughts during learning from texts. European Working Memory Symposium (EWOMS), Pavia, Italy, 29-31 August 2018.

Soemer, A. (2018). The role of internally-generated interference in forgetting over unfilled retention intervals. Memory and Cognition in Context Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, 9-10 February 2018.

Soemer, A. & Schiefele, U. (2017) Can working memory both promote and hinder mind wandering? Poster, Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), Potsdam, Germany, 3-6 September 2017.

Soemer, A. (2017).The role of internally-generated interference in forgetting over unfilled retention intervals. Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), Potsdam, Germany, 3-6 September 2017.

Soemer, A. Mind wandering: A promising area of research for educational psychology. Invited Talk at the Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen, Germany, 23 May 2017.

Soemer, A. (2017) Can mind wandering account for time-related forgetting in working memory? Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Dresden, Germany, 26-29 March 2017.

Soemer, A. & Saito, S. (2016) Domain-specific interference in serial order memory. International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain, 5-8 May 2016. 

Soemer, A. & Chu, W.S. (2015) A longitudinal study of the development of Mandarin Chinese learners’ oral proficiency. International Conference of the Department of Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 5 July 2015.

Soemer, A. (2015) Auditory imagery as a mechanism for auditory rehearsal? Kyoto-Bristol Workshop at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 19 March 2015.