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Professional career

• 10/2008 - 10/2011
  Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy, and Psychology at Leipzig University
• 10/2006 - 10/2016
  Board of management for the Research Academy Leipzig
• 10/2005 - 10/2008
  Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy, and Psychology at Leipzig University
• 10/2004 - 10/2006
  Head of the Psychology department and board member of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at Leipzig University
• since 04/2003
  Professor for Experimental Psychology and Methods at Leipzig University
• 10/2001 - 03/2003
  Head of the Multidisciplinary Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Liverpool, Great Britain
• 01/2000 - 03/2003
  Professor for Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology at the University of Liverpool, Great Britain
• 09/1995 - 09/1996
  Research stay at the Institute for Neurosciences, University of California at San Diego and Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, USA
• 10/1994 - 12/1999
  Lecturer in Clinical and Differential Psychology at the University of Konstanz
• 03/1994 - 05/1994
  Research stay at the Cuban Center for Neurosciences Havana, Cuba
• 09/1991 - 10/1991
  Research stay at the University of Gainesville, Florida and Stanford University, California, USA
• 09/1990 - 09/1994
  Researcher at the University of Konstanz, working group Clinical and Differential Psychology
• 01/1988 - 08/1990
  Student assistant and employee for numerous projects at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Tübingen

Human perception is characterized by the necessity of dealing with an incomplete, but still massive stream of sensory information. Full processing of all of this information would overload our perceptual system - therefore only a part of this information is selected for elaborate processing. Attentional selection, both within and between different sensory modalities, is the main focus of our research. For that purpose we mainly conduct EEG experiments.

• Stresstest der "signal suppression" Hypothese: Experimente zum Aufbrechen der zirkulären Argumentation auf der Basis von Verhaltensdaten und der lateralen "Distractor positivity (Pd)"

  Müller, Matthias

  Duration: 05/2021 – 04/2025

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Psychologie und Methodenlehre
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• Neuronale Dynamik der Ablenkung unter Wettbewerb im visuellen Kortex

  Müller, Matthias

  Duration: 03/2022 – 06/2025

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Psychologie und Methodenlehre
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• Neural temporal dynamics of facilitation and suppression in top-down guided feature-based attention

  Müller, Matthias

  Duration: 04/2024 – 03/2027

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Psychologie und Methodenlehre
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• Neuronal interaction between spatial- and feature-based attention in visual object processing

  Müller, Matthias

  Duration: 11/2018 – ongoing

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Psychologie und Methodenlehre
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• Shifting attention within or between feature dimensions. Neural temporal dynamics in human early visual cortex

  Müller, Matthias

  Duration: 09/2017 – 08/2025

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Psychologie und Methodenlehre
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more projects

• de Echegaray Diaz de Otazu, J.; Keil, A.; Müller, M.

  Neural dynamics of attentional resource allocation in early visual cortex: Emotional scenes produce competitive interactions

  Cerebral Cortex. 2024. 34 (12).

  DOI: doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae428
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• Gundlach, C.; Forschack, N.; Müller, M.

  Alpha-band fluctuations represent behaviorally relevant excitability changes as a consequence of top-down guided spatial attention in a probabilistic spatial cueing design

  Imaging Neuroscience. 2024. pp. 1–24.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00312
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• Oxner, M. J.; Forschack, N.; Müller, M.

  Testing the contributions of proactive target and distractor templates in visual search performance

  Visual Cognition. 2024.

  DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2024.2344724
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• Gundlach, C.; Müller, M.

  Increased visual alpha-band activity during self-paced finger tapping does not affect early visual stimulus processing

  Psychophysiology. 2024.

  DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14707
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• Oxner, M. J.; Mazza, V.; Müller, M.

  Repetition of critical search features modulates EEG lateralized potentials in visual search

  Cerebral Cortex. 2024. 34 (11).

  DOI: doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae450
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The courses inExperimental Psychology and Methods mainly deal with the following topics: attention, learning, memory, emotion and motivation. Our teachings aim to outline general principles for human and animal behaviour. In Leipzig we put emphasis on cognitive neurosciences regarding psychology. In methodological seminars as well as accompanying courses of the Cognitive and Biological Psychology, we provide the neccessary tools for a general understanding of e.g. electroencephalographic recordings (EEG), functional imaging (fMRI, PET) or electrical / magnetic stimulation methods (tACS, TMS).

• Modul Allgemeine Psychologie 11-PSY-11008

  The module consists of a lecture of 2 SWS and 2 accompanying seminars General Psychology I and General Psychology II (2 SWS each).