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PD Dr. Kai Hamburger

Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat. Kai Hamburger, Assistant Professor

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Phone:+49 (0) 641 / 99 - 26 186

Room: F 161 (Phil. I, Haus F, 1.OG)

Office Hours: Wednesday, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m
Curriculum Vitae
  • Dipl.-Psych., University of Frankfurt, 2004
  • Dr. rer. nat.., University of Gießen, 2007
  • Habilitation, University of Gießen, 2015

Research interests

  • Spacial cognition - landmark-based wayfinding
  • Reasoning (with conections to emotion and spatial cognition)
  • Consciousness

 

Five selected publications

  • Vormittag, S., Schwarz, M., & Hamburger, K. (2025). The use of mentally imagined auditory vs. physical auditory landmark information in route knowledge and landmark recognition. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2025.2528828
  • Pohl, N. S., Schwarz, M., Makhlouf, K., & Hamburger, K. (2025). Spatial Cognition and the Arts. In Handbook of Gestalt-Theoretical Psychology of Art (pp. 268-284). Routledge.
  • Schwarz, M., Yang, A. L., & Hamburger, K. (2024). The human sense of smell in spatial orientation: A state-of-the-art review. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000395
  • Schwarz, M., & Hamburger, K. (2024). Memory effects of visual and olfactory landmark information in human wayfinding. Cognitive Processing, 25(1), 37-51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-023-01169-7
  • Schwarz, M., & Hamburger, K. (2023). Implicit versus explicit processing of visual, olfactory, and multimodal landmark information in human wayfinding. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1285034. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1285034
  • Hamburger, K., & Nuhn, E. (2023). Cognitive landmark research beyond visual cues using GIScience. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1092715. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1092715
  • Huston, V., & Hamburger, K. (2023). Navigation aid use and human wayfinding: How to engage people in active spatial learning. KI – Künstliche Intelligenz. doi: 10.1007/s13218-023-00799-5
  • Schwarz, M., & Hamburger, K. (2022). Modality switching in landmark-based wayfinding. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 888871. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.888871
  • Hamburger, K., & Knauff, M. (2019), Odors Can Serve as Landmarks in Human Wayfinding. Cogn Sci, 43: e12798. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12798
       List of publications on request