Dipl.-Psych., Universität Bochum, 1991

Dr. phil., Universität Freiburg, 1996

Habilitation, Universität Freiburg, 2002

markus.knauff@psychol.uni-giessen.de

Tel: +49 (0) 641 / 99 - 26 180

 Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft

Forschungsinteressen

• Denken, Entscheiden, Rationalität
  
• Logisches Denken und Gehirn
• Raumkognition, Navigation und Wegefinden
• Neuronale Grundlagen sozialer Kognition
• visuell-räumliches Arbeitsgedächtnis, anschauliches Denken, mental imagery
• Künstliche Intelligenz und kognitive technische Systeme

Curriculum Vitae

• CV Knauff

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Ausgewählte Publikationen

Knauff, M. (2009). Reasoning. In: M. D. Binder, N. Hirokawa, U, Windhorst, M. C. Hirsch (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (pp. 3377- 3382). Berlin: Springer.

Knauff, M. (2009). A Neuro-Cognitive Theory of Deductive Relational Reasoning with Mental Models and Visual Images. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 109-137.

Fangmeier, T., &  Knauff, M. (2009). Neural correlates of acoustic reasoning. Brain Research, 1249, 181-190.

Meilinger, T. & Knauff, M. (2008). Ask for directions or use a map: A field experiment on spatial orientation and wayfinding in an urban environment. Journal of Spatial Science,53, 13-24.

Meilinger, T., Knauff, M. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2008). Working memory in wayfinding - a dual task experiment in a virtual city. Cognitive Science, 32, 755-770

Ragni, M. & Knauff, M. (2008). Deductive Spatial Reasoning: A Computational and Cognitive Perspective. Künstliche Intelligenz, 1, 13-17.

Jahn, G., Knauff, M. & Johnson-Laird, P. N. (2007). Preferred Mental Models in Linear Reasoning. Memory & Cognition, 35, 2075-2087.

Knauff, M. (2007). How our brains reason logically. Topoi, 26, 19-36.

Fangmeier, T., Knauff, M., Ruff, C. C., & Sloutsky, V. (2006). fMRI Evidence for a Three-Stage Model of Deductive Reasoning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 320-334.

Hölscher, C., Meilinger, T., Vrachliotis, G., Brösamle, M., & Knauff, M. (2006). Up the down staircase: Wayfinding strategies in multi-level buildings. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 26(4), 284-299.

Held, C., Knauff, M., & Vosgerau, G. (Eds.). (2006). Mental Models and the Mind. A Conception in the Intersection of Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind. North-Holland: Elsevier.

Knauff, M. (2006). Deduktion und logisches Denken. In J. Funke (Hrsg.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Themenbereich C, Bd. 8, Denken und Problemlösen (pp. 167-264). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Knauff, M. & May, E. (2006). Mental imagery, reasoning, and blindness. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 161-177.

Rößler, F., Tejada, E., Fangmeier, T., Ertl, T., & Knauff, M. (2006). GPU-based Multi-Volume Rendering for the Visualization of Functional Brain Images. In T. Schulze, G. Horton, B. Preim &  S. Schlechtenweg (Eds.), Simulation und Visualisierung 2006 (pp. 305 – 318). Magdeburg: SCS Publishing House.

Barkowsky, T., Bateman, J., Freksa, C., Burgard, W. , & Knauff, M. (2005). Spatial Cognition: Reasoning, Action, Interaction. IT - Information Technology, 47, 163-171.

Freksa, C., Knauff, M., Krieg-Brückner, B., Nebel, B. & Barkowsky, T. (Eds.) (2005). Spatial Cognition IV. New York: Springer.

Rauh, R., Hagen, C., Knauff, M., Kuß, T., Schlieder, C., & Strube, G. (2005). From preferred to alternative mental models in spatial reasoning. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 5, 239-269.

Knauff, M. & Schlieder, C. (2004). Spatial inference: No difference between mental images and models. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 27, 589-590.

Knauff, M., Strube, G., Jola, C., Rauh, R., & Schlieder, C. (2004). The psychological validity of qualitative spatial reasoning in one dimension. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4, 167-188.

Knauff, M., Fangmeier, T., Ruff, C. C., & Johnson-Laird, P. N. (2003). Reasoning, models, and images: Behavioral measures and cortical activity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 559-573.

Ruff, C. C., Knauff, M., Fangmeier, T., & Spreer, J. (2003). Reasoning and working memory: Common and distinct neuronal processes. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1241-1253.

Knauff, M., & Johnson-Laird, P. N. (2002). Visual imagery can impede reasoning. Memory & Cognition, 30, 363-371.

Knauff, M., Mulack, T., Kassubek, J., Salih, H. R., & Greenlee, M. W. (2002). Spatial imagery in deductive reasoning: A functional MRI study. Cognitive Brain Research, 13, 203-212.

Knauff, M., Schlieder, C., & Freksa, C. (2002). Spatial cognition: From rat-research to multifunctional spatial assistance systems. Künstliche Intelligenz, 3, 5-9.

Knauff, M., & Strube, G. (2002). Anschauliches Denken und Arbeitsgedächtnis: Kognitive und kortikale prozesse. Psychologische Rundschau, 53, 49-60.

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