Prof. Dr. Erich Schröger

Research focus

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

Curriculum Vitae

	Schröger, Erich, Prof. Dr.
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, D-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 living psychologists in the world
2020-2023	Appointed Member of the International Commission of Experts for the Elite Network of Bavaria

Current Journal Editorial positions

2012-2020

Senior Editor, Brain Research

10 most important peer-reviewed papers

(10 out of 258, Scopus h-index: 62)

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

Marzecová A, Schettino A, Widmann A, SanMiguel I, Kotz SA, Schröger E. Attentional gain is modulated by probabilistic feature expectations in a spatial cueing task: ERP evidence. Scientific Reports. 2018;8(1): 54.

Kokinous J, Tavano A, Kotz SA, Schröger E. Perceptual integration of faces and voices depends on the interaction of emotional content and spatial frequency. Biological Psychology. 2017;123: 155-165.

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

Schröger E, Bendixen A, Denham SL, Mill RW, Böhm TM, Winkler I. Predictive Regularity Representations in Violation Detection and Auditory Stream Segregation: From Conceptual to Computational Models. Brain Topography, 2014;27: 565-577.

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

Timm J, Schönwiesner M, SanMiguel I, Schröger E. Sensation of agency and perception of temporal order. Consciousness and Cognition. 2013;23: 42-52.

SanMiguel I, Widmann A, Bendixen A, Trujillo-Barreto N, Schröger E. Hearing silences: Human auditory processing relies on pre-activation of sound-specific brain activity patterns. Journal of Neuroscience. 2013;33(20): 8633-8639.

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

Schröger E. A neural mechanism for involuntary attention shifts to changes in auditory stimulation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 1996;8: 527-539.