Department of Psychology – Cognitive Psychology

 

Team

Head

Klaus Oberauer

Klaus Oberauer, Prof. Dr
Head of Cognitive Psychology Unit
k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch
phone: +41 44 635 74 70
fax: +41 44 635 74 79
office: BIN 4.B.06

  • limits of cognitive capacity
  • working memory
  • dual-task performance
  • deductive reasoning

Secretariat

Anke Benker

Anke Benker
Secretary
kognition@psychologie.uzh.ch a.benker@psychologie.uzh.ch
phone: +41 44 635 74 71
fax: +41 44 635 74 79
office: BIN 4.B.02

  • secretariat
    office hours: Mo - FR, 9am - 3pm
  • telecom delegate

Senior research assistant

Dr. Miriam Gade

Miriam Gade, Dr
Senior research assistant
m.gade@psychologie.uzh.ch
phone: +41 44 635 74 61
fax: +41 44 635 74 79
office: BIN 4.B.03

  • multitasking
  • inhibition in the cognitive system
  • the role of language in action control
  • multilingualism and its influence of the cognitive system

Post-docs and doctoral students

Claudia von Bastian

Claudia von Bastian, Dr
Assistant
c.vonbastian@psychologie.uzh.ch
phone: +41 44 635 74 88
fax: +41 44 635 74 79
office: BIN 4.B.04

  • cognitive training and transfer
  • plasticity of working memory
  • forgetting in working memory
  • development of Tatool
Michel Druey

Michel Druey, Dr
Post-doc
m.druey@psychologie.uzh.ch
phone: +41 44 635 74 74
fax: +41 44 635 74 79
office: BIN 4.B.04

  • attention and (executive) control
  • (working) memory
  • cognitive development
  • cognitive, developmental and clinical neuroscience (e.g. ADHD)
Corinne Frey

Corinne Frey, lic. phil.
PhD student
c.frey@psychologie.uzh.ch
phone: +41 44 635 74 66
fax: +41 44 635 74 79
office: BIN 4.B.05

  • face recognition
  • training of identification by photographs
  • recognizing supsicious behavior prior to the deed
  • the influence of cognitive abilities on early recognition of suspicious behavior
Hsuan-Yu Lin

Hsuan-Yu Lin, MSc
PhD student
h.lin@psychologie.uzh.ch
phone: +41 44 635 74 65
fax: +41 44 635 74 79
office: BIN 4.B.05

  • working memory
  • recognition
  • modeling
  • bridging between different tasks
Laura Rerko

Laura Rerko, Dr
Post-doc (SNF project)
l.rerko@psychologie.uzh.ch
phone: +41 44 635 74 73
fax: +41 44 635 74 79
office: BIN 4.B.08

  • attention
  • working memory
  • focus of attention in working memory
  • cueing effects in working memory
Dr Alessandra da S. Souza de Carvalho

Alessandra da S. Souza de Carvalho, Dr
Post-doc (SNF project)
a.souza@psychologie.uzh.ch
phone: +41 44 635 74 72
fax: +41 44 635 74 79
office: BIN 4.B.08

  • processing of verbal and procedural information in working memory
  • attention & working memory
  • Learning
  • operant conditioning
  • behavioral variability

IT

Thomas Blumer

Thomas Blumer, lic. phil.
IT administrator
it.kog@psychologie.uzh.ch
phone: +41 44 635 74 76
fax: +41 44 635 74 79
office: BIN 4.B.07

  • IT administration
  • IT support
  • webmaster