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Prof. Dr. Markus Knauff

Prof. Dr. phil. Markus Knauff

 

Dipl.-Psych., University of Bochum, 1991

Dr. phil., University of Freiburg, 1996

Habilitation, University of Freiburg, 2002

 

Mail:

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

Room: F 159 (Phil. I, Building F)

Office hours: Wednesday, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.


Curriculum Vitae

 

Research interests

  • High-level cognition
  • Reasoning, decision-making, rationality
  • social cognition and collective rationality
  • Spatial cognition, navigation and wayfinding
  • Mental Imagery in reasoning
  • Artificial intelligence and cognitive technical systems

 

Five selected publications

  • Hinterecker, T., Knauff, M ., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2016). Modality, probability, and mental models.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42 (10), 1606-1620.
  • Gazzo Castaneda, L. E., & Knauff, M. (2016). Defeasible reasoning with legal conditionals. Memory & Cognition. 44 (3), 499-517.
  • Ragni, M., & Knauff, M. (2013). A theory and a computational model of spatial reasoning with
    preferred mental models, Psychological Review, 120, 561-588.
  • Wolf, A., G., Rieger, S., & Knauff, M. (2012). The effects of source trustworthiness and inference type
    on human belief revision. Thinking & Reasoning, 18, 417-440.
  • Fangmeier, T., Knauff, M., Ruff, C. C., & Sloutsky, V. (2006). The neural correlates of logical thinking:
    An event-related fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 320-334.