Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel - Universität Mainz

1994
Vordiplom (B.Sc. equivalent) in Psychology, Universität Bremen
1998
Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent) in Psychology, Universität Bremen
1998-2003
Research Associate / Lecturer at the Technische Universität Berlin, Experimental Psychology (Prof. H. Jungermann)
since 2003
Assistant professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Experimental Psychology (Prof. H. Hecht)
2005
Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology, Technische Universität Berlin
2011
Habilitation (venia legendi for psychology), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Perception, psychophyscis, and cognitive psychology

Influence of surface lightness/color on perceived room size
Do the mechanisms for the perception of interior space differ from the perception of small objects?

Time-to-contact (with Heiko Hecht, Uni Mainz, Robin Baurès, Université Paris Sud and Pat DeLucia, Texas Tech University)

Effects of distractor information and selective attention
Simultaneous time-to-contact estimation for multiple objects
Sensory integration ("global" and "local" visual motion, visual and auditory motion information)
Applied aspects (traffic safety)

Intensity discrimination and loudness (DFG grant "Temporal aspects of auditory information processing", OB 346/4-1)

Temporal weighting of loudness, temporal direction of auditory attention (with Jesko Verhey, Uni Oldenburg, and Tina Plank, Universität Regensburg)

Auditory information processingin tinnitus patients (with Wolfgang Hiller, Uni Mainz)

Attentional strategies in Stroop-tasks (with Kerstin Dittrich, Uni Freiburg and Wolfram Rollett, TU Dortmund)

Effect of ambient color on the flavor of wine (in cooperation with Weingut Allendorf, Winkel, Heiko Hecht, Uni Mainz, and Florian Wickelmaier, Uni Tübingen)

Visuotactile integration in patients with somatoform disorders (with Anna Katzer, Michael Witthöft and Wolfgang Hiller, Section Clinical Psychology, Uni Mainz)

Understanding human stick balancing: Can we predict the balancability of an object from its the physical structure? (with Heiko Hecht, Uni Mainz and Jan Sieber, University of Portsmouth)

Psychophysical and statistical methods

Monte-Carlo simulation study on the robustness of repeated-measures analyses of variance (research grant, Uni Mainz)

Simulation study: Measuring difference limens with adaptive procedures (with Markus Goldbach, Uni Mainz)

Development of a questionnaire for the peer-evaluation of student presentations (with Wolfram Rollett, TU Dortmund, and Christoph Kemper, GESIS)

Dr. habil. Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel