Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Florian Kattner

Health and Medical University

Institute for Mind, Brain and Behavior

Department of Psychology

📪 Schiffbauergasse 14, 14467 Potsdam

📧 florian.kattner[at]hmu-potsdam.de

CV

Google Scholar, ORCID ID, ResearchGate, Loop

Doctoral Students

Samuel Conrad, M.Sc.

Health and Medical University

Institute for Mind, Brain and Behavior

Department of Psychology

📪 Schiffbauergasse 14, 14467 Potsdam

📧 samuel.conrad[at]hmu-potsdam.de

CV

2021-present, Doctoral Student, Health and Medical University Potsdam, Germany

2021, M.Sc. in Psychology, Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany

2018, B.Sc. in Psychology, University of Kassel, Germany

Mitra Hassanzadeh Dehka, M.Sc.

Health and Medical University

Institute for Mind, Brain and Behavior

Department of Psychology

📪 Schiffbauergasse 14, 14467 Potsdam

📧 mitra.hassanzadeh[at]hmu-potsdam.de

CV

2021-present, Doctoral Student in Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt and Health and Medical University Potsdam, Germany

2015-2018, M.Sc. in Psychology (and Education for Exceptional Children), University of Tehran, Iran

2011-2015, B.Sc. in Psychology (and Education for Exceptional Children), University of Tehran, Iran

Alexandra Clausen, M.Sc.

currently at Technical University of Darmstadt

Institute of Psychology

📪 Alexanderstr. 10, 64283 Darmstadt

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Website

CV

2020-present Lecturer for practical training in experimental research [Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum], Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

10/2019–03/2020 Lecturer for practical training in experimental research [Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum], Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

11/2019 Recipient of a research award of the Department of Human Sciences for an innovative doctoral research proposal, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

10/2018–03/2019 Co-Lecturer for practical training in experimental research [Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum], Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

08/2018–present Research Associate (doctoral candidate), Applied Cognitive Psychology Lab (Prof. Wolfgang Ellermeier), Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

09/2017–07/2018 Teacher in training, PGCE in Mathematics, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK

02/2017–08/2017 Student, SKE in Mathematics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

04/2016-08/2017 Teaching Assistant, South Bromsgrove High School, Bromsgrove, UK

11/2015-04/2016 Teaching Assistant, The Chase School, Malvern, UK

08/2015-12/2015 Support Worker, Safehands Recruitment, Worcester, UK

01/2015-07/2015 Live Skills Instructor, Options Malvern View residential care home (prior AALPS Midlands), Hanley Castle, Worcester, UK

10/2013–11/2014 Student, M.Sc. in Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK (Research focus: Neuroscience)

03/2013-09/2013 Self-employed, Public Relations, Communication and Congress Service, Bichl, Germany

08/2011-09/2011 Intern at the Department of Fundamentals and Development, Zentrum Informationsarbeit Bundeswehr (prior AIK), Strausberg, Germany

05/2009-12/2012 Student Assistant at the Department “Denkmalforschung und Denkmalerfassung”, Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Munich, Germany

10/2007-03/2013 Student, M.A. in Theatre Studies, Psychology, German Medieval Language and Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Publications / Presentations

Clausen, A., Lindenkreuz, H., Kracke, H., & Kattner, F. (2022). Visual attention guided by either associatively or propositionally learned valence. Fechner Day 2022 – 38th Annual meeting of the international society for psychophysics, Lund, Sweden.

Clausen, A., Schlichting, O., & Kattner, F. (2022). Investigating search asymmetry in visual search tasks with evaluative conditioned stimuli. 11th PhD Summer School Cognitive Psychology (“A-Dok”), Bremen, Germany.

Clausen, A. & Kattner, F. (2022). Revisiting valence in visual search tasks. 64th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Cologne, Germany.

Clausen, A., Kattner, F., & Westerweller, S. (2021). The salience of valence in visual search tasks. 63rd Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Ulm, Germany.

Kattner, F. & Clausen, A. (2020). Revisiting the prioritization of emotional information in iconic memory. Royal Society Open Science, 7, 191507. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191507. Authors contributed equally.

Clausen, A., Kattner, F., & Salazar-Vogel, K. (2020, March). Effects of evaluative conditioning on the selection from iconic memory. 62nd Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Jena, Germany.

Clausen, A., Saul, C., & Kattner, F. (2019, September). Investigating ERP components resulting from evaluatively conditioned stimuli. Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Clausen, A. & Kattner F. (2019, April). Revisiting the prioritization of emotional information in iconic memory: A pre-registered replication study. 61st Conference of Experimental Psychologists, London, United Kingdom.

Clausen, A., Fenner, B., Kennett, S., & Cooper, N. R. (2014, September). Through the looking glass: An EEG investigation into the proposed social responding function of the human mirror neuron system. Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience, York, United Kingdom.

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