Physics: Cognitive Systems
Sabine Thomaßen
Physics: Cognitive Systems 

Dr. Sabine Thomaßen

Portrait: Sabine Thomassen    Sabine Thomaßen
   Dr. rer. nat. (Sensory Science and Cognitive Psychology)
   M.Sc. Psychology
   B.Sc. Psychology
   Phone: +49 371 531-30388
   Fax: +49 371 531-830388
   Room: Campus Reichenhainer Straße, Physikbau, C60.138
   E-Mail: sabine.thomassen@...

 

PhD project "Foreground-background organization of complex auditory scenes", funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) within the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR31 "The active auditory system"

Education and career path

  • 04/2022-09/2024: Postdoctoral researcher in the Cognitive Systems Lab, Chemnitz University of Technology
  • since 10/2020: postgraduate training in psychotherapy at the Akademie für Psychotherapie (AfP) Erfurt
  • 04/2016-03/2022: PhD student in the Cognitive Systems Lab, Chemnitz University of Technology - PhD thesis "Auditory foreground and background decomposition: New perspectives gained through methodological diversification"
  • 04/2014-03/2016: PhD student in the Auditory Psychophysiology Lab, Oldenburg University
  • 2011-2014: Studies of Psychology (M.Sc.) at Leipzig University - Master thesis "Evaluation eines Fragebogens zur situationsbezogenen Erfassung von Unaufmerksamkeit und Hyperaktivität auf Grundlage der ADHS-Symptomatik"
  • 2008-2011: Studies of Psychology (B.Sc.) at Bielefeld University - Bachelor thesis "Der Einfluss von Darbietungshäufigkeiten und Darbietungsabständen auf implizite Gedächtsnisleistungen - Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel des Multiple Repetition Primings und des Mere-Exposure-Effekts"
  • 08/2003: Abitur at Thomasschule Leipzig

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Thomassen, S., Hartung, K., Einhäuser, W., & Bendixen, A. (2022). Low-high-low or high-low-high? Pattern effects on sequential auditory scene analysis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(5), 2758-2768. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0015054 [Open Data]

Thomassen, S., & Bendixen, A. (2018). Assessing the background decomposition of a complex auditory scene with event-related brain potentials. Hearing Research, 370, 120-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2018.09.008

Einhäuser, W., Thomassen, S., & Bendixen, A. (2017). Using binocular rivalry to tag foreground sounds: towards an objective visual measure for auditory multistability. Journal of Vision, 17(1), 34. https://doi.org/10.1167/17.1.34 [Open Access, Open Data]

Thomassen, S., & Bendixen, A. (2017). Subjective perceptual organization of a complex auditory scene. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141, 265-276. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4973806

Peer-reviewed proceeding contributions

Thomassen, S., & Bendixen, A. (2019). Foreground-background decomposition in complex auditory scenes. In M. Ochmann, M. Vorländer, & J. Fels (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (pp. 5685-5691). Berlin: DEGA. https://doi.org/10.18154/RWTH-CONV-239397 [Open Access]

Conference contributions

Thomassen, S., & Bendixen, A. (2019). Foreground-background decomposition in complex auditory scenes. Talk held at the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2019), Aachen, Germany, September 9-13, 2019.

Thomassen, S., & Bendixen, A., (2017). Representation of the perceptual background in a complex auditory scene. Poster presented at the 13th International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON), Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 5-8, 2017.

Thomassen, S., Bendixen, A., & Einhäuser, W. (2016). Using binocular rivalry to tag competing tone sequences: towards a no-report paradigm for auditory multistability. Talk held at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Barcelona, Spain, August 28-September 1, 2016.

Thomassen, S., & Bendixen, A. (2015). Subjective reports of foreground-background formation in complex auditory scenes. Poster presented at the 57. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Hildesheim, Germany, March 8-11, 2015.

Dal Mas, D., Kühnel, S., Thomaßen, S., Reichelt, B., & Markowitsch, H. J. (2012). Stimulus complexity variations in the context of subliminal priming. Poster presented at the 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Bielefeld, Germany, September 23-27, 2012.

Kuehnel, S., Thomaßen, S., Bogazliyan, G., & Markowitsch, H. J. (2012). Influence of stimuli's category affiliation on the priming process. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), Chicago (IL), USA, May 24-27, 2012.

Thomaßen, S., Kuehnel, S., & Markowitsch, H. J. (2012). Better - faster: Performance on speed and accuracy in subliminal priming experiments. Poster presented at the 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Mannheim, Germany, April 1-4, 2012.

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