Prof. Dr. Stefan Scherbaum
Professor
Contact information
TU Dresden, Bereich Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Biopsychologie und Methoden der Psychologie
Zellescher Weg 17
01062 Dresden
Phone: +49 351 463 33 258
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Research Statement
I am interested in the continuous process dynamics of human behavior, especially of cognitive control and decision making. Hence, my first main goals is to develop and apply continuous empirical methods, (e.g. frequency tagged EEG, time frequency analysis of EEG, mouse tracking) to open a direct window on the processes underlying cognitive functions. My second main goal is then to use these data to develop and validate dynamic models (e.g. dynamic connectionist and dynamic neural field models) of the processes underlying human behaviour.
Scientific Education
| 2011 | PhD: Psychology, TU Dresden, 2011, Prof. Dr. Thomas Goschke |
| 2006 | MSc in Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück, 2006, Prof. Dr. Peter König |
| 2002-2006 | Studies in Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück |
| 2002 | Diploma in Computer Science in Media, Hochschule Furtwangen, Prof. Wilhelm Walter |
| 1998-2002 | Studies in Computer Science in Media, Hochschule Furtwangen |
Professional Experience
| since 04/2018 | Professor for Research Methods and Cognitive Modeling |
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03/2014 - |
Junior Professor for Methods of Psychology with focus on Computational Cognitive Modeling |
| 11/2010 - 03/2014 | Postdoc, TU Dresden |
Other Scientific Activities, Honors, Awards
| since 2006 | Member of the "European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities" of the Volkswagen Foundation. |
| 2011 | Award for the best Dissertation by the Cognitive Psychology Group of the German Psychological Society (Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie), 1st place |
Selected Publications
Scherbaum, S., & Kieslich, P. J. (2018). Stuck at the starting line: How the starting procedure influences mouse-tracking data. Behavioral Research Methods, 50(5), 2097–2110.
Scherbaum, S, Haber, P., Morley, K., Underhill, D., & Moustafa, A. A. (2017). Biased and less sensitive: Delay discounting in heroin addiction. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2017.1324022
Scherbaum, Stefan, Frisch, S., Dshemuchadse, M., Rudolf, M., & Fischer, R. (2016). The test of both worlds: identifying feature binding and control processes in congruency sequence tasks by means of action dynamics. Psychological Research, 1–16.
Scherbaum, S, Frisch, S., Leiberg, S., Lade, S. J., Goschke, T., & Dshemuchadse, M. (2016). Process dynamics in delay discounting decisions: An attractor dynamics approach. Judgement and Decision Making, 11(5), 472–495.
Scherbaum, S., Dshemuchadse, M., Leiberg, S., Goschke, T. (2013) Harder than
Expected: Increased Conflict in Clearly Disadvantageous Delayed Choices in a Computer Game. PLoS ONE 8(11): e79310. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079310
Scherbaum, S., Fischer, R., Dshemuchadse, M., & Goschke, T. (2011). The dynamics of cognitive control: Evidence for within-trial conflict adaptation from frequency-tagged EEG. Psychophysiology, 48(5), 591–600.
Scherbaum, S. (2010). Making Decisions under conflict with a continuous mind: from micro to macro timescales. QuCoSa (OpenAccess): nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-62028
Scherbaum, S., Dshemuchadse, M., Fischer, R., & Goschke, T. (2010). How decisions evolve: The temporal dynamics of action selection. Cognition, 115(3), 407–416.
Scherbaum, S., Dshemuchadse, M. & Kalis, A. (2008). Making Decisions with a Continuous Mind. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 4, 454-474.
Scherbaum, S. (2006). Clustering of ICA Components for efficient EEG artifact detection. Journal of Psychophysiology. 20(2). 133.