Profile

Our research addresses basic topics in cognitive psychology such as

• attention (especially in the acoustic modality),
• working memory (especially its disruption by noise),
• sound source localization,
• long-term memory (especially its evolutionary adaptability, changes over the life span and eyewitness identifications in lineups), and
• social interactions (cooperation and punishment)

as well as applied topics such as

• moral dilemmas in autonomous driving,
• readability of text on computer screens,
• color perception under artificial light,
• distance perception in driving,
• driver fatigue,
• perception of poorly visible objects depending on the design of the instrument panel, and
• the roles of attention and memory in advertising.