Research Interests
- Memory-processes in judgment and decision-making
- Hypotheses testing during sequential diagnostic reasoning
- The role of previous experiences on the decision process
- Eye movements, memory and attention
- Top-down modulated eye movement behavior
- Eye movements during verbal memory retrieval
- Eye-tracking methodology
- Process tracing to study thinking and reasoning
- Comparison of eye-tracking methodologies
Academic Positions
| since 09/2020 | Research Associate, Cognitive Psychology, University of Zurich (Switzerland) |
| 03/2016-08/2020 |
Post-doctoral Researcher, Cognitive Decision Science Lab, University of Zurich (Switzerland) |
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06/2015-02/2016 |
Head Research Scientist “Abductive and Diagnostic Reasoning“, Cognitive and Engineering Psychology, Technische Universität Chemnitz (Germany) |
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05/2015 |
Dissertation in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.), Technische Universität Chemnitz (Germany) |
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03/2013-06/2013 |
Visiting Researcher, Economic Psychology, University of Basel (Switzerland) |
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09/2009-05/2015 |
Research Assistant, Cognitive and Engineering Psychology, Technische Universität Chemnitz (Germany) |
Selection of the latest Publications from ZORA
ZORA Publication List
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Publications
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Investigating retrieval strategies in an associative recognition test in working memory: Evidence from eye movements Cognition, 263, 106199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106199
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Tracking reactivation of location information during memory strategies: insights from eye movements Journal of Cognition, 8, 38. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.449
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Are eye movements and covert shifts of attention functional for memory retrieval? Proceedings of the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3649902.3653355
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Advancing Knowledge on Situation Comprehension in Dynamic Traffic Situations by Studying Eye Movements to Empty Spatial Locations Human Factors, 65, 1674–1688. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187208211063693
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More Than Storage of Information: What Working Memory Contributes to Visual Abductive Reasoning Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 18, 203–214. https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0366-1
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When the eyes have it and when not: How multiple sources of activation combine to guide eye movements during multiattribute decision making Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 151, 1394–1418. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000833
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Ambivalence in decision making: An eye tracking study Cognitive Psychology, 134, 101464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101464
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Information stored in memory affects abductive reasoning Psychological Research, 85, 3119–3133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01460-8
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Tracing Current Explanations in Memory: A Process Analysis Based on Eye-Tracking The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 1703–1717. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820922509
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A new way to guide consumer’s choice: Retro-cueing alters the availability of product information in memory. Journal of Business Research, 111, 135–147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.08.012
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Memory shapes judgments: Tracing how memory biases judgments by inducing the retrieval of exemplars Cognition, 190, 165–169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.05.004
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Eye Movements in Vehicle Control In C. Klein & U. Ettinger (Eds.), Eye Movement Research : An Introduction to its Scientific Foundations and Applications (pp. 929–969). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20085-5_22
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Comparing eye trackers by correlating their eye-metric data Behavior Research Methods, 50, 1853–1863. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0954-y
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Covert shifts of attention can account for the functional role of “eye movements to nothing.” Memory & Cognition, 46, 230–243. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-017-0760-x
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Watching diagnoses develop: Eye movements reveal symptom processing during diagnostic reasoning Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24, 1398–1412. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1294-8
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Differentiating between encoding and processing during sequential diagnostic reasoning: An eye-tracking study (A. Papafragou, Ed.; pp. 129–134). Cognitive Science Society. https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2016/papers/0035/paper0035.pdf
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Listen up, eye movements play a role in verbal memory retrieval Psychological Research, 80, 149–158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-014-0639-4
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Shifting covert attention to spatially indexed locations increases retrieval performance of verbal information (D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, T. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio, Eds.; pp. 1907–1912). Cognitive Science Society. https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2015/papers/0330/paper0330.pdf
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Tracking memory processes during ambiguous symptom processing in sequential diagnostic reasoning (N. Taatgen, M. van Vugt, J. Borst, & K. Mehlhorn, Eds.; pp. 71–72). University of Groningen. http://www.iccm2015.org/proceedings/papers/0016/paper0016.pdf
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Eye movements reveal memory processes during similarity- and rule-based decision making Cognition, 136, 228–246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.019