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Prof. Dr. Erich Schröger

Research focus

  • ​Human predictive information processing, Irregularity detection
  • Attention (involuntary, voluntary) 
  • Perception (auditory, crossmodal)
  • Action-perception cycle

​Official position

Professor for Cognitive and Biological Psychology

Institution

Institute of Psychology - Wilhelm Wundt, Faculty of Life Sciences, Leipzig University 

Business address

Neumarkt 9-19
04109 Leipzig

Academic education and degrees

1980 - 1982

Bakkalaureat in Philosophy (Hochschule für Philosophie München, Philosophische Fakultät S.J.)

​1982 - 1986

Diplom in Psychology (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)​​

​1987 - 1991

Dr. phil. in Psychology (Major: Psychology; minor: Statistics, Philosophy; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

​1991 - 1996

Habilitation in Psychology (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)​

 

Professional career

1987 - 1991

Researcher/Lecturer, University of Munich

1991 - 1996

​Assistant Professor (C1), University of Munich

1997 - 1997

​Associate Professor (C2), University of Munich

1997 - 2001

​Professor for Biological Psychology (C3), University of Leipzig

since 2001

Full Professor for Cognitive including Biological Psychology

2014 - 2016

​Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology

since 2017

​Vice Rector for Research and Young Academics of Leipzig University​

 

Honors, awards and positions

1996

Distinguished Scientific Award for An Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology of the Society for Psychophysiological Research

​1998 - 2003

​Head of the Study-Group (DFG-Forschergruppe) "Working Memory" of the German Research Foundation (DFG)​

​2003 - 2005

​Elected Head of the Department General Psychology (Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie) of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs)

​2004 - 2008

​Delegate for Young Researchers of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs)

​2004 - 2011

​Elected Member and Speaker (2007-2011) of the Grant Council (DFG-Fachkollegium) "Psychology" of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

​2008 - 2013

​Reinhart-Koselleck Grant (DFG)

​2013 - 2022

​Member of the Selection Committee for the Allocation of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Awards

​2014 - 2021

​Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg

​2015 - 2023

​Member of the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena

​since 2015

​Elected Member, Academia Europaea

2019 - 2022

Fellow of the Max Planck School of Cognition

​2018

Named among the 50 most influential livingpsychologists in the world 

2020 - 2023

Appointed Member of the International Commission of Experts for the Elite Netwo​​rk of Bavaria​

 

Current Journal Editorial positions 

2012 - 2020

​Senior Editor, Brain Research

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10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 258, Scopus h-index: 62)

  1. Schröger, E., & Roeber, U. (2020). Encoding of deterministic and stochastic auditory rules in the human brain: The mismatch negativity mechanism does not reflect basic probability. Hearing Research, 107907.

  2. Marzecová, A., Schettino, A., Widmann, A., SanMiguel, I., Kotz, S. A., & Schröger, E. (2018). Attentional gain is modulated by probabilistic feature expectations in a spatial cueing task: ERP evidence. Scientific Reports, 8, 54.

  3. Kokinous, J., Tavano, A., Kotz, S. A., & Schröger, E. (2017). Perceptual integration of faces and voices depends on the interaction of emotional content and spatial frequency. Biological Psychology, 123, 155-165.

  4. Schröger, E., Marzecova, A., & SanMiguel, I. (2015). Attention and prediction in human audition: a lesson from cognitive psychophysiology. European Journal of Neuroscience, 41(5), 641-664.

  5. Schröger, E., Bendixen, A., Denham, S. L., Mill, R. W., Böhm, T. M., & Winkler, I. (2014). Predictive Regularity Representations in Violation Detection and Auditory Stream Segregation: From Conceptual to Computational Models. Brain Topography, 27, 565-577.

  6. Widmann, A., Engbert, R., & Schröger, E. (2014). Microsaccadic responses indicate fast categorization of sounds: a novel approach to study auditory cognition. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(33), 11152-11158.

  7. Timm, J., Schönwiesner, M., Sanmiguel, I., & Schröger, E. (2013). Sensation of agency and perception of temporal order. Consciousness and Cognition, 23C, 42-52.

  8. 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.

  9. Schröger, E. (1997). On the detection of auditory deviations: a pre-attentive activation model. Psychophysiology, 34(3), 245-257.

  10. Schröger, E. (1996). A neural mechanism for involuntary attention shifts to changes in auditory stimulation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 527-539.​

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