Field of research: Psychology

General Psychology investigates fundamental mechanisms of human experience and behavior with a scientific-experimental approach.

Using methods from cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, we investigate how cognitive functions are implemented in the brain. A central topic here are processes of cognitive control and action monitoring, which we investigate primarily by means of electroencephalography.

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How do human beings make decisions? What do humans know about their own decisions? These are questions related to human cognition and meta-cognition. Meta-cognition concerns cognition over cognition and is important for the study of human consciousness. Methodically, we conduct behavioral experiments with mathematical modeling.

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Our research focuses on assessing how humans control their actions based on external stimuli and internal goals to determine how technology has to be designed to support human action control. We especially use eye tracking to draw conclusions about human attention allocation, expectations, and intentions. In terms of methods, we combine behavioral and eye tracking experiments in the lab as well as online.

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