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Member of the Executive Committee of Research Focus "Cognitive Sciences"

Degrees

Dr. rer. nat. (1998, Department of Physics, University of Potsdam, Germany)
Dipl.-Physiker (1994, Department of Physics, RWTH Aachen, Germany)

Research Interests

Dynamical systems approach to cognition
Attention and eye movements
Biological and mathematical psychology

Research Projects

Project B03 of CRC 1294 (DFG): Gaze dynamics and reinforcement learning during Pavlovian conditioning (DFG, with Prof. Alexandra Carpentier and Prof. Daniel Schad)

Project B05 of CRC 1294 (DFG): Attention selection and recognition in scene viewing (DFG, with Prof. Tobias Scheffer)

Project B03 of CRC 1287 (DFG): Modeling the control of eye movements and sentence processing (DFG, with Prof. Shravan Vasishth and Dr. Maximilian Rabe)

Project B07 of CRC 1287 (DFG): Variability in infants’ gaze dynamics during word recognition: Insights from experiments and computational modeling (DFG, with Prof. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan)

Mobile eye tracking: Generalizability and limitations of the static scene viewing paradigm (DFG, Lead PI: Dr. Hans A. Trukenbrod)

Integration of oculomotor and cognitive-dynamical modeling of eye-movement control during reading (DFG)

The integration of early vision, saliency models, and eye-movement control: Experiments, modeling, and spatial statistics (DFG, with Prof. Felix A. Wichmann, Tübingen)

Foveal and peripheral influences on the control of gaze and attention during scene perception: Experiments and mathematical modeling (DFG, with Dr. Jochen Laubrock)

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