Erich Schröger

Erich Schröger (born 11 November 1958 in Munich) is a German psychologist and neuroscientist.

Biography

Erich Schröger[1] studied philosophy and psychology at the Munich School of Philosophy and at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich. In 1982, he earned a Baccalaureat in Philosophy, in 1986 he earned a Diploma in Psychology, and in 1991 he was awarded a PhD from the LMU for his work on loudness constancy.[2] After research stays at the Cognitive Brain Research unit of the University of Helsinki (Finland) and a stint of teaching at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Schröger achieved his Habilitation in psychology in 1996 at LMU.

In 1997, Schröger was appointed to the University of Leipzig as a professor of Biological Psychology. Since 2001 he has held its Chair of Cognitive[3][4] and Biological Psychology[5] and has been the Head of the research group BioCog.[6]

From 1999-2002, Schröger served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty for Biological Sciences, Pharmacy, and Psychology at the University of Leipzig. In 2014, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty. Schröger's other service roles at the university include: from 2002-2004, Director of the Institute for General Psychology; from 2003-2004, Head of the Psychological Institutes; in 2005 and from 2010-2013, Dean for Study Affairs in Psychology.

Research

Schröger's main fields of research include perception,[7] attention,[8] and memory.[9] He mainly works in audition,[10][11][12][13] but he also investigates visual[14][15][16] and multimodal[17][18][19][20] mechanisms of human information processing. Among other scientific contributions, he has developed an experimental paradigm for assessing the mechanisms of automatic distraction of attention by changes of task-irrelevant stimulus information.[21] Contributing to the work of the Finnish psychologist Risto Näätänen, Schröger has described important processes on which the detection of violations in regular stimulus sequences is based.[22] For example, he was able to show that such automatic change detection involves both sensory adaptation processes and cognitive comparison processes of sensory memory.[23][24] Furthermore, Schröger is interested in the History[25][26] and Methods of Psychology.[27][28][29][30]

In December 2008, Schröger was granted a Reinhart Koselleck Project by the German Research Council (DFG).[31] The main research issue of this project is the mechanism of predictive modeling in audition. Specifically, Schröger investigates how automatic predictions about upcoming auditory events can be generated on the basis of regular environmental stimulation.[32][33] Due to this mechanism, for example, incoming acoustic stimuli can be processed with astonishing speed as when comprehending spoken language or localizing moving sounds. Likewise, the specific processing of self-induced auditory stimuli—stimuli that a person creates by means of its own behavior—can be explained by the principles of predictive modeling.[34] In order to optimize a predictive model, the information processing system calculates predictive errors as the difference between the prediction and the actual stimulus signal.[35]

For his scientific work, Erich Schröger received the 1996 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career – Contribution to Psychophysiology from the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR). From 2004 to 2011, he has been a Fellow of the Review Board for Psychology within the German Research Council (DFG),[36][37] and from 2012 to 2015, he has been appointed to the Selection Committee for the Allocation of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research awards. As of September 2013, Schröger has published about 250 scientific papers and book chapters, and he has been an honorary reviewer for more than 100 scientific journals and organizations.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~biocog/schroger/
  2. ↑ Schröger, E. (1991). Konstanz und Lautheit. Zur Wirkung von Entfernung und Einstellung auf die Lautstärkebeurteilung. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
  3. ↑ Schröger, E., & Koelsch, S. (Hrsg.). (2013). Kognitive und Affektive Neurowissenschaften: Enzyklopädie der Psychologie (Serie II: Kognition, Band 9). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
  4. ↑ Kaernbach, C., Schröger, E., & Müller, H. J. (Hrsg.). (2004). Psychophysics beyond sensation: laws and invariants of human cognition. Erlbaum: Hilsdale, NJ.
  5. ↑ Schröger, E. (2010). Biologische Psychologie. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
  6. ↑ http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~biocog/
  7. ↑ Schröger, E., Kaernbach, C., & Schönwiesner, M. (2002). Auditive Wahrnehmung und multisensorische Verarbeitung. In J. Müsseler & W. Prinz (Hrsg.), Allgemeine Psychologie (S. 66-114). Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
  8. ↑ Näätänen, R., Alho, K., & Schröger, E. (2002). Electrophysiology of Attention. In H. Pashler & J. Wixted (Eds.), Steven´s Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Third Edition Volume Four: Methodology in Experimental Psychology (pp. 601-653). John Wiley: New York.
  9. ↑ Schröger, E., Mecklinger, A., & Pollmann, S. (Hrsg.). (2004). Special issue: working memory and cognition. Experimental Psychology, 51(4).
  10. ↑ Grimm, S., Roeber, U., Trujillo-Barreto, N. J., & Schröger, E. (2006). Mechanisms for detecting auditory temporal and spectral deviations operate over similar time windows but are divided differently between the two hemispheres. Neuroimage, 32(1), 275-282.
  11. ↑ Richter, N., Schröger, E., & Rübsamen, R. (in press). Differences in evoked potentials during the active processing of sound location and motion. Neuropsychologia.
  12. ↑ Weise, A., Bendixen, A., Müller, D., & Schröger, E. (2012). Which kind of transition is important for sound representation? An event-related potential study. Brain Research, 1464, 30-42.
  13. ↑ Schröger, E., Bendixen, A., Trujillo-Barreto, N. J., & Roeber, U. (2007). Processing of abstract rule violations in audition. PLoS One, 2(11), e1131.
  14. ↑ Kimura, M., Kondo, H., Ohira, H., & Schröger, E. (2012). Unintentional Temporal Context-Based Prediction of Emotional Faces: An Electrophysiological Study. Cerebral Cortex, 22(8), 1774-1785.
  15. ↑ Müller, D., Winkler, I., Roeber, U., Schaffer, S., Czigler, I., & Schröger, E. (2010). Visual object representations can be formed outside the focus of voluntary attention: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1179-1188.
  16. ↑ Roeber, U., Widmann, A., Trujillo-Barreto, N. J., Herrmann, C. S., O'Shea, R. P., & Schröger, E. (2008). Early correlates of visual awareness in the human brain: time and place from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Vision, 8(3): 21, 1-12.
  17. ↑ Bendixen, A., Grimm, S., Deouell, L. Y., Wetzel, N., Mädebach, A., & Schröger, E. (2010). The time-course of auditory and visual distraction effects in a new crossmodal paradigm. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2130-2139.
  18. ↑ Saupe, K., Widmann, A., Bendixen, A., Müller, M. M., & Schröger, E. (2009). Effects of intermodal attention on the auditory steady-state response and the event-related potential. Psychophysiology, 46(2), 321-327.
  19. ↑ Schröger, E., & Widmann, A. (1998). Speeded responses to audiovisual signal changes result from bimodal integration. Psychophysiology, 35(6), 755-759.
  20. ↑ Eimer, M., & Schröger, E. (1998). ERP effects of intermodal attention and cross-modal links in spatial attention. Psychophysiology, 35(3), 313-327.
  21. ↑ Schröger, E., & Wolff, C. (1998). Behavioral and electrophysiological effects of task-irrelevant sound change: a new distraction paradigm. Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research, 7(1), 71-87.
  22. ↑ Schröger, E. (1997). On the detection of auditory deviations: a pre-attentive activation model. Psychophysiology, 34(3), 245-257.
  23. ↑ Schröger, E., & Wolff, C. (1996). Mismatch response of the human brain to changes in sound location. Neuroreport, 7(18), 3005-3008.
  24. ↑ Jacobsen, T., & Schröger, E. (2001). Is there pre-attentive memory-based comparison of pitch? Psychophysiology, 38(4), 723-727.
  25. ↑ Wontorra, M., Meischner-Metge, A., & Schröger, E. (Eds.). (2004). Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) und die Anfänge der Experimentellen Psychologie [Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) and the rise of experimental psychology]. Retrieved October 28th, 2011, from http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~psycho/wundt/viewerz.htm. (CD: ISBN 3-00-013477-8 ed.).
  26. ↑ Wontorra, M., Kästner, I., & Schröger, E. (Eds.). (2011, September). Wilhelm M. Wundts Briefwechsel [Letters to and from Wilhelm M. Wundt]. Leipzig, Germany: Institut für Psychologie der Universität Leipzig. Retrieved from http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~wundtbriefe/.
  27. ↑ Schubö, W., Perleth, C., Schröger, E., & Sierwald, W. (1991). SPSS kompakt für die Versionen 3 und 4. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer.
  28. ↑ Schubö, W., Piesbergen, C., Brodbeck, F., Rauh, R., & Schröger, E. (1989). Einführung in die Statistik: Wahrscheinlichkeit und Hypothesenprüfung. München: Oldenbourg.
  29. ↑ Schröger, E., Rauh, R., & Schubö, W. (1993). Probability functions of Minkowski distances between discrete random variables. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 53, 379-398.
  30. ↑ Widmann, A., & Schröger, E. (2012). Filter effects and filter artifacts in the analysis of electrophysiological data. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 233.
  31. ↑ http://www.dfg.de/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/2008/pressemitteilung_nr_70/index.html
  32. ↑ Bendixen, A., SanMiguel, I., & Schröger, E. (2012). Early electrophysiological indicators for predictive processing in audition: A review. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 83(2), 120-131.
  33. ↑ Pieszek, M., Widmann, A., Gruber, T., & Schröger, E. (2013). The human brain maintains contradictory and redundant auditory sensory predictions. PLoS One, 8, e53634.
  34. ↑ Timm, J., SanMiguel, I., Saupe, K., & Schröger, E. (2013). The N1-suppression effect for self-initiated sounds is independent of attention. BMC Neuroscience, 14(1), 2.
  35. ↑ SanMiguel, I., Widmann, A., Bendixen, A., Trujillo-Barreto, N., & Schröger, E. (2013). Hearing silences: Human auditory processing relies on pre-activation of sound-specific brain activity patterns. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(20), 8633– 8639.
  36. ↑ Weber, H., & Schröger, E. (2012). Kostbares Gut: Forschungsförderung durch die DFG. Forschung und Lehre, 1, 30-32.
  37. ↑ Brähler, E., Brüggemann, A., Brunstein, J. C., Diehl, M., Erdfelder, E., Kirschbaum, C., Lindenberger, U., Schröger, E., Sonnentag, S., Ulrich, R., & Weber, H. (2011). Bericht des Fachkollegiums Psychologie der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und der DFG-Geschäftsstelle Psychologie. Psychologische Rundschau, 62(4), 248-253.

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