Research

Our research is currently focused on the following subjects:

• Auditory processing: natural language processing, pre-attentive language comprehension, speech perception
• Auditory processing: pre-attentive auditory deviance detection, sensory memory, Mismatch Negativit
• Experimental Aesthetics, Neuro-cognitive Psychology of Aesthetics
• Executive Functions

Current Projects:

• dtec.bw – Immersion and the Mind/Brain on Digital (IMBraD)
• dtec.bw – CoupleIT!
• Effektive Risikokommunikation (ERika)
• Innovative Airborne urban mobility (i-LUM)
• Cluster of Excellence: Understanding Written Artefacts – Valuating Handwriting in the Digital Age: A Case Study in Japanese Calligraphy
• Human performance under multiple cognitive task requirements: From basic mechanisms to optimized task scheduling (DFG-Project SPP1772) 
• Flexible learning under stress: neurocognitive mechanism and clinical implications: Teilprojekt B – Stress und flexibles Lernen: Kontextanpassung selektiver Aufmerksamkeit

Finished Projects:

• Sensory, Post-Perceptual, and Hemisphere-Specific Adjustment to Conflict Stimulation (DFG-Project)
• Pre-attentive phonotcatic processing (DFG-Project SPP1234)
• Touching, Moving, Catching. A detailed analysis of complex feeling concepts (Languages of Emotion)
• Aesthetic modulation of affective valence. The pleasure taken in disgust, anger and sadness in aesthetic experience (Languages of Emotion)
• Tuning the Brain for Music (EU FP6-2004-NEST-PATH)
• Preparation of Task Processing/Cognitive Control in Response to Conflicting S-R Translation (DFG-Project SPP1107)