Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors

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INSTITUTE

Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors
Ardeystr. 67
D - 44139 Dortmund

Phone: +49 / 231 1084 338
Fax: +49 / 231 1084 401
E-mail:

Academic background

since 08/2007 research associate (principal investigator) in the IfADo research group "Ageing and CNS alterations". Current project: "auditory dynamic information" (DFG)
2010 habilitation thesis in psychology, University of Dortmund
2004 Ph. D. (Dr. phil.; summa cum laude); topic of the PhD thesis: "Contrast effect in localization of sound sources in the median plane"
1999-2007 research associate at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bochum (Dept. Prof. Dr. R. Guski)
1999 diploma thesis in psychology
1991-1999 studies of psychology at the University of Duisburg and Wuppertal
1993 diploma thesis in electrical engineering
1987-1993 studies of electrical engineering at the University of Duisburg

Research interests

psychoacoustics: auditory space perception and crossmodal interaction in the processing of visual, acoustic, and tactile space information
cognitive psychophysiology
ageing and CNS-alterations
cortical processing of moving sound (for more information, see http://www.getzmann.de/)

Current research

research group "Aeging and CNS alterations"
DFG-project "Untersuchung zur Verarbeitung auditiver Bewegungsinformation im Kortex mittels Analyse akustisch evozierter Potentiale" (Exploring cortical processing of dynamic auditory information via analysis of auditory evoked brain potentials)

Boards and committees

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