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Forschungsinteressen

• Task Switching (Exekutive Funktionen)
• Modalitätskompatibilität
• Crossmodales Lernen
• Posturale Kontrolle

 

Lehre

Psychologie B.Sc.

• Inferenzstatistik
• Übung Inferenzstatistik
• Wahrnehmung und Aufmerksamkeit
• Einführung in die Psychologie
• Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum
• Empirisches Praktikum

Psychologie M.Sc.

• Projektseminar: Leistung und Grenzen menschlicher Informationsverarbeitung

Vor 2019:

• Versuchspläne und empirische Methoden (B.Sc.)
• SPSS Basic (B. Sc.)
• Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum (B. Sc.)
• Empirisches Praktikum (B.Sc.)
• Motivation und Emotion (B.Sc.)
• Kognitionspsychologische Forschung (M.Sc.)
• Kognition und Handlung (M.Sc.)
• Gedächtnis (M.Sc.)

 

Aufgaben

• Studienberatung/Prüfungsausschuss Lehr- und Forschungslogopädie
• Labormanagement

 

Drittmittel-Forschungsprojekte

• DFG STE 2466/1-1: Crossmodale Selektion in Aufmerksamkeit und Handlung: Altersbedingte Veränderungen in kognitiver Vorbereitung crossmodaler Informationsverarbeitung und deren neuronale Grundlagen. Binationales Projekt in Kooperation mit Shulan Hsieh in Taiwan (2021-2024)
• RWTH Seed Fund Grant: Combining social science and life sciences in the study of basic motor learning capabilities: developing a novel methodological approach to assess locomotor sequence learning and transfer of learning in young and older adults als Co-PI in Kooperation mit dem Lehrstuhl für Geriatrie des UK Aachen (2019/2020)
• DFG KO 2045_19-2: Modalitätsspezifische Aufgabeninterferenz in Mehrfachtätigkeiten: Der Einfluss von Modalitätskompatibilität beim Aufgabenwechsel als Co-PI in Rahmen des SPP 1772 Human performance under multiple cognitive task requirements (2018-2021)
• RWTH Start Up Grant: Multimodal learning within a multisensory environment - Beneficial or confusing? (2019)
• RWTH Seed Fund Grant: The biomechanics of cognitive multitasking mechanisms: An approach to develop event-related measures of postural control als PI in Kooperation mit dem Lehrstuhl für Geriatrie des UK Aachen (2018/2019)
• DFG KO 2045_19-1: Modalitätsspezifische Aufgabeninterferenz in Mehrfachtätigkeiten: Der Einfluss von Modalitätskompatibilität beim Aufgabenwechsel als Co-PI in Rahmen des SPP 1772 Human performance under multiple cognitive task requirements (2015-2018)

 

Veröffentlichungen

• Johannsen, L., Friedgen, E., Stephan, D. N., Batista, J., Schulze, D., Laurentius, T., Koch, I., & Bollheimer, L. C. Keeping in step with the young: Chronometric and kinematic data show intact procedural locomotor sequence learning in older adults. PLoS One. 2022 May 3;17(5):e0266733. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266733.
• Stephan, D. N., Fintor, E., & Koch, I. (2022). Short-term pre-exposure to modality mappings: Modality incompatible single-task exposure reduces modality-specific between-task crosstalk in task-switching. Acta Psychologica, in press.
• Friedgen, E., Koch, I., & Stephan, D. N. (2022). Dissociating stimulus-response compatibility and modality compatibility in task switching. Memory & Cognition, online first. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01276-4 https://rdcu.be/cGbWm
• Stephan, D. N., Josten, J., Friedgen, E., & Koch, I. (2021). Crossmodal Effects in Task Switching: Modality Compatibility with Vocal and Pedal Responses. Journal of Cognition, 4(1): 9, pp. 1–14. doi: 10.5334/joc.129
• Fintor, E., Poljac, E., Stephan, D. N., & Koch, I. (2020). Modality compatibility biases voluntary choice of response modality in task switching. Psychological Research, 84, 380-388. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1040-5
• Friedgen, E., Koch, I., & Stephan, D. N. (2020). Modality compatibility in task switching depends on processing codes and task demands. Psychological Research, 1-18. doi:10.1007/s00426-020-01412-2
• Koch, I., Blotenberg, I., Fedosejew, V., & Stephan, D. N. (2020). Implicit learning of visual-auditory modality sequences. Acta Psychologica. doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102979

• Declerck, M., Koch, I. , Duñabeitia, J. A ., Grainger, J., & Stephan, D. N. (2019). What absent switch costs and mixing costs during bilingual language comprehension can tell us about language control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45, 771-789. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000627

• Stephan, D. N., Hensen, S., Fintor, E., Krampe, R., & Koch, I. (2018). Influences of postural control on cognitive control in task switching. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1152.
• Blotenberg, I., Stephan, D. N., & Koch, I. (2018). Consistent shifts of stimulus modality induce chunking in sequence learning. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 14, 100-110.
• Fintor, E., Stephan, D. N., & Koch, I. (2018). Emerging features of modality mappings in task switching: Modality compatibility requires variability at the level of both stimulus and response modality. Psychological Research, 82, 121-133.
• Fintor, E., Stephan, D. N., & Koch, I. (2018). The interplay of crossmodal attentional preparation and modality compatibility in cued task switching. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Advance Online Publication. doi: 10.1177/1747021818771836
• Kreutzfeldt, M. Stephan, D. N., Willmes, K., & Koch, I. (2017). Modality-specific preparatory influences on the flexibility of cognitive control in task switching. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29, 607-617.
• Stephan, D. N., & Koch, I. (2016). Modality-specific effects on crosstalk in task switching – Evidence from modality compatibility. Psychological Research, 80, 935-943.
• Kreutzfeldt, M., Stephan, D. N., Willmes, K., & Koch, I. (2016). Shifts in target modality cause attentional reset: Evidence from sequential modulation of crossmodal congruency effects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 1466-1473. Featured content: http://www.psychonomic.org/news/292466/Groundhog-Day-is-better-for-your-homework.htm
• Stephan, D. N., & Koch, I. (2015). Tactile stimuli increase effects of modality compatibility in task switching. Experimental Psychology, 62, 1-9.
• Kreutzfeldt, M., Stephan, D. N., Sturm, W., Willmes, K., & Koch, I. (2015). The role of crossmodal competition and dimensional overlap in crossmodal attention switching. Acta Psychologica, 155, 67-76.
• Stephan, D. N., & Koch, I. (2015). Tactile Stimuli Increase Effects of Modality Compatibility in Task Switching. Experimental Psychology. Experimental Psychology, 62, 1-9.
• Stephan, D. N., Koch, I., Hendler, J., & Huestegge, L. (2013). Task switching, modality compatibility, and the supramodal function of eye movements. Experimental Psychology, 60, 90-99.
• Stephan, D. N., & Koch, I. (2011). Modalitätseffekte im Aufgabenwechsel. Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, 22, 195.
• Stephan, D. N., & Koch, I. (2011). The role of input-output modality compatibility in task switching. Psychological Research, 75, 491-498.
• Stephan, D. N., & Koch, I. (2010). Central crosstalk in task switching – Evidence from manipulating input-output modality compatibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 36, 1075-1081.