Christian H. Poth Curriculum vitae Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology, P.O. box 10 31 01, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany ++49 521 106 4505 c.poth@uni-bielefeld.de Personal information Born: 1986 in Essen, Germany Child: Born in 2017 February 5, 2018 Web: @ uni-bielefeld.de, @ Google scholar, @ ResearchGate Research Active vision: The interplay of attention, eye movements and perception Dynamic visual cognition: Object recognition and perceptual stability in changing environments Experimental methodology: Vision research techniques and virtual reality for psychology and neuroscience Education Dr. rer. nat. (PhD; summa cum laude) January 2014 - January 2017 Department of Psychology (defended on April 25, 2017) Interdisciplinary PhD program Intelligent Systems January 2014 - January 2017 Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology Faculty of Technology, Master of Science (Psychology, 1.0) October 2011 - September 2013 Department of Psychology Visiting student researcher November 2012 - February 2013 Center for Visual Cognition University of Copenhagen, Denmark Bachelor of Science (Psychology, 1.3) October 2008 - September 2013 Department of Psychology Research experience and academic positions Post-doctoral researcher Since February 2017 Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology PhD student and junior researcher January 2014 - January 2017 Neuro-cognitive Psychology, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Werner Schneider Bielefeld, University 1/5
Scientific research assistant October 2013 - January 2014 Neuro-cognitive Psychology Scientific/student research assisstant February 2010 - August 2012 Project Cognitive Interaction Technology for Medicine Grants and awards PhD thesis award 2017 Westphalian-Lippian University Society (Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft) Post-doctoral research fellowship 2017-2018 Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology, Full PhD scholarship 2014-2017 Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology, Erasmus travel scholarship 2012-2013 Funding of a three-months research internship at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark Scientific and academic service and professional memberships Editorial board member.............................................................................................. Review editor for Frontiers in Psychology (2017 - ) Reviewer for............................................................................................................. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Journal of Neurophysiology, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, Psychological Research, Visually Situated Language Comprehension, and the 17th and 18th European Conferences on Eye Movements ECEM (2013, Lund, Sweden and 2015, Vienna, Austria). Extended scientific board............................................................................................ Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (2014-2017) Professional memberships............................................................................................ Full member of the German Psychological Association (DGPs; since 2017) Student member of the Vision Sciences Society, USA (2014-2016) Student member of the Applied Vision Association, UK (2016-2017) Teaching MSc Psychology....................................................................................................... Project seminar in Neuro-cognitive Psychology: Visual illusions - Experimental programming and data analysis (winter semester 2017; in English) Project seminar in Neuro-cognitive Psychology: Experimental diagnostics of cognitive abilities (summer semester 2017; in German) Project seminar in Neuro-cognitive Psychology: Experimental diagnostics of cognitive abilities (summer winter semester 2016/2017; in German) BSc Psychology........................................................................................................ Empirical seminar in General Experimental Psychology (summer semester 2015; in German) 2/5
Empirical seminar in General Experimental Psychology (winter semester 2014/2015; in German) Supervised students................................................................................................... Philipp Kaniuth (M.Sc. thesis) Hannah Nilles (M.Sc. thesis) Kristin Almsted (M.Sc. thesis, secondary advisor, with PD Dr. Arvid Herwig) Melanie-Isabel Rammert (B.Sc. thesis) Rebecca Helling (B.Sc. thesis) Publications Journals (peer-reviewed)............................................................................................. Koeller, C. P., Poth, C. H., & Herwig, A. (2018). Object discrepancy modulates feature prediction across eye movements. Psychological Research. doi:10.1007/s00426-018-0988-5 Poth, C. H., Foerster, R. M., Behler, C., Schwanecke, U., Schneider, W. X., & Botsch, M. (2018). Ultra-high temporal resolution of visual presentation using gaming monitors and G-Sync. Behavior Research Methods. doi:10.3758/s13428-017-1003-6 Poth, C. H., & Horstmann, G. (2017). Assessing the monitor warm-up time required before a psychological experiment can begin. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 13 (3),166-173. doi:10.20982/tqmp.13.3.p166 Foerster, R. M., Poth, C. H. (shared first author), Behler, C., Botsch, M., & Schneider, W. X. (2016). Using the virtual reality device Oculus Rift for neuropsychological assessment of visual processing capabilities. Scientific Reports, 6:37016, doi: 10.1038/srep37016 Poth, C. H, & Schneider, W. X. (2016). Episodic short-term recognition requires encoding into visual working memory: Evidence from probe recognition after letter report. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1440. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01440 Poth, C. H., & Schneider, W. X. (2016). Breaking object correspondence across saccades impairs object recognition: The role of color and luminance. Journal of Vision, 16(11):1, 1-12, doi:10.1167/16.11.1. Poth, C. H., Herwig, A., & Schneider, W. X. (2015). Breaking object correspondence across saccadic eye movements deteriorates object recognition. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 9, 176. doi:10.3389/fnsys.2015.00176. Poth, C. H., Petersen, A., Bundesen, C., & Schneider, W. X. (2014). Effects of monitoring for visual events on distinct components of attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 930, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00930 Book chapter (peer-reviewed)...................................................................................... Poth, C. H. & Schneider, W. X. (2013). Aufmerksamkeit [Attention]. In A. Stephan & S. Walter (Eds.), Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft [Handbook of Cognitive Science] (pp. 221-230). Stuttgart, Germany: J. 3/5
B. Metzler Verlag. Doctoral dissertation.................................................................................................. Poth, C. H. (2017). Episodic visual cognition: Implications for object and short-term recognition. Bielefeld University. https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/publication/2911816 Software................................................................................................................. Behler, C., Poth, C. H., Foerster, R. M., Schneider, W. X., & Botsch, M. (2016). Virtual reality test of visual performance: Processing speed and working memory.. doi:10.4119/unibi/2906585 Conference presentations and invited talk Conference talks (peer-reviewed).................................................................................. Poth, C. H., & Schneider, W. X. (2017, August). Task-relevant objects compete for attention across saccades. European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Wuppertal, Germany. Abstract published in Journal of Eye Movement Research, 10(6). Poth, C. H., Herwig, A., & Schneider, W. X. (2015, August). Attentional competition across the saccade depends on visual stability: Evidence from the blanking paradigm. European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Vienna, Austria. Abstract published in Journal of Eye Movement Research, 8(4):1. Poth, C. H., Bundesen, C., Petersen, A., & Schneider, W. X. (2014, April). The effects of a visual prospective memory task on distinct components of attention. Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TEAP), Giessen, Germany. Schneider, W.X, Herwig, A. & Poth, C. H. (2014, March). Competition and priority control of visual processing across the saccade: On the interaction of attention and working memory. Closing conference Competitive visual processing across space and time: Interactions with memory of the ZiF Research Group Competition and priority control in mind and brain: New perspectives from task-driven vision, ZiF, Bielefeld, Germany. Conference posters (peer-reviewed)............................................................................... Foerster, R. M., Poth, C. H., Behler, C., Botsch, M., & Schneider, W. X. (2017, August). Neuropsychological assessment of visual-cognitive capabilities with the virtual reality device HTC Vive. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Berlin, Germany. Poth, C. H., Foerster, R. M., Behler, C., Schneider, W. X., & Botsch, M. (2017, August). Presenting visual stimuli with ultra-high temporal resolution using gaming monitors and G-Sync. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Berlin, Germany. Poth, C. H., Foerster, R. M., Behler, C., Botsch, M., & Schneider, W. X. (2016, August). Assessing visual processing capabilities using the virtual reality device Oculus Rift. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Barcelona, Spain. Poth, C. H., & Schneider, W. X. (2016, June). Priority in visual working memory enhances retention for and processing speed in a comparison task. 4th international TVA meeting, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Poth, C. H., Herwig, A., & Schneider, W. X. (2015, May). Perturbing object stability across saccadic eye movements facilitates displacement detection but hinders object recognition. Meeting of the Vision 4/5
Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 15(12), 883. doi: 10.1167/15.12.883 Poth, C. H., Bundesen, C., Petersen, A., & Schneider, W. X. (2014, May). Monitoring for visual prospective memory events reduces processing speed in ongoing tasks. Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 14(10), 536. doi: 10.1167/14.10.536 Poth, C. H., Bundesen, C., Petersen, A., & Schneider, W. X. (2014, March). Monitoring for visual events reduces processing speed in a concurrent task: Effects of expected salience. Conference Competitive visual processing across space and time: Interactions with memory of the ZiF Research Group Competition and priority control in mind and brain: New perspectives from task-driven vision, ZiF, Bielefeld, Germany. Poth, C. H., Werner, J., Bogdanov, M., Boege, R. M. J., Labrenz, S., Dierkes, J. & Herwig, A. (2012, October). Object-based representations in spatial working memory guide the allocation of spatial attention. Conference Linking selection for visual perception, memory and action of the ZiF Research Group Competition and priority control in mind and brain: New perspectives from task-driven vision, ZiF, Bielefeld, Germany. Poth, C. H., Grewe, P., Flentge, D., Dyck, E., Botsch, M. & Piefke, M. (2012, September). The role of visual-spatial working memory in map learning and way-finding. Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Bielefeld, Germany. Invited talk.............................................................................................................. Poth, C. H. (2014, May). How monitoring for visual events may affect components of visual attention. Talk given at the Forschungskolloquium Experimentelle Psychologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, hosted by Prof. Dr. Uwe Mattler. 5/5