Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
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Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler

Nominated by

  • German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • AcademiaNet member since 10.12.2012
  • AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria


Employed by

  • Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Health and welfare
  • Social sciences, journalism and information


Field

Health, Social and behavioural sciences



Area of specialisation

Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience



Research interests

  • perception-action coupling

  • working memory, attention and motor control

  • multisensory integration

  • spatial cognition in blind and sighted people

  • cortical plasticity of blind people



Distinctions and Awards

  • Heisenberg-Professorship, 2012 – 2015



Interested in

  • Membership in scientific bodies, Professorship


Languages

English, German



Doctorate

  • 2005: Temporospatial characteristics of error correction


PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

  • 2011: Interaction of Perception and Action: A converging view of psychophysical and neuroimaging findings in sighted and blind people




Short CV/Education and training

  • 1996 – 2001
    Study of Psychology at the Technical University Dresden, Germany

  • 2002 – 2005
    Doctoral study at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig,Germany

  • 2005 – 2006
    PostDoc, Department of Psychology at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

  • 2006 – 2012
    Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

  • Since 2012
    W2 Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology and Sports Science at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

Selected publications

  • Reuschel, J., Rösler, F., Henriques, D.Y.P., & Fiehler, K. (2012). Spatial updating depends on gaze direction even after loss of vision. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(7), 2422 – 2429.

  • Beets, I.A.M., Rösler, F., & Fiehler, K. (2010). Non-visual motor learning improves visualmotion perception: Evidence from violating the two-thirds power law. Journal of Neurophysiology, 104, 1612 – 1624.

  • Fiehler, K. & Rösler, F. (2010). Plasticity of multisensory dorsal stream functions: Evidence from congenitally blind and sighted adults. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 28, 193 – 205.

  • Fiehler, K., Burke, M., Engel, A., Bien, S., & Rösler, F. (2008). Kinesthetic working memory and action control within the dorsal stream. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 243 – 253.



Complete list of publications

Selected projects

  • International Graduate School (IRTG) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) together with 3 Canadian Universities: Title "The brain in action"

  • DFG Project: Title "The impact of working memory on visuomotor functions"

  • TransCoop project together with a Canadian researcher funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation: Title "Action-oriented spatial processing in sighted and blind humans"

Membership in scientific bodies/juries

  • Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

  • German Psychological Society (DGPs)

  • German Association of University professors and lecturers (DHV)

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