.JPG)
Education
| 1987 | Diploma Thesis Psychology, St. Petersburg/ Russia |
| 1994 | PhD, Berlin |
| 2005 | Habilitation (2nd dissertation), Berlin |
Professional career
| 1987 - 1993 | Scientific fellow at the Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes |
| 1994 - 1996 | Post-doc HU Berlin, Psychology |
| 1996 - 1999 | Senior researcher Max-Planck Institute for Cognitive Neouroscience, Leipzig, Neurology |
| 1999 - 2005 | Assistant professor HU Berlin, Psychology |
| 2005-now | PD at HU Berlin, Psychology, funded by DFG |
Ad-hoc Reviewer for
Advances in Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Brain Research; European Journal of Cognitive Psychology; Experimental Brain Research; Journal of Experimental Psychology: HPP; Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry; Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews; Psychologische Rundschau; Psychology and Aging; Psychological Research; Psychological Science; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Zeitschrift für Psychologie
Research group
PhD students
Christine Stelzel (HU Berlin)
Tilo Strobach (HU Berlin)
Alumni:
Grit Hein (now UC Berkeley).
Andre Szameitat (now University of Surrey, UK).
Rico Fischer (now University of Dresden, Germany).
Roman Liepelt (now MPI Leipzig, Germany)
Students
Anne-Marie Horn
Marina Palazova
Research topics and methods
Main Goal of our research group
We investigate how putative processing limitations of the cognitive system influence the stream of processing operations when humans perform two or more actions simultaneously. Which processing operations are subjected to capacity limitations and how humans cope with these capacity limitations during task performance? What are the psychological mechanisms as well as the neural implementation of executive control in multi-tasking situations? We use research methods from experimental psychology, e.g. reaction times and errors, as well as methods from modern cognitive neuroscience, e.g. fMRI. In addition, we investigate patients with different neurological disorders. For the content of the topics and the members of the research group see → General Psychology → research:
Topics:
• Dual-task situations and non-conscious information processing
• Learning in dual-task situations
• Localisation of executive functions in the brain with fMRI
• Impairments of executive functions in patients with neurological disorders and in old aged persons
• Deep brain stimulation of the basal ganglia in patients with Parkinson's disease
