Katja Fiehler
Justus-Liebig University Giessen
Professor (Associate, Full, Senior Lecturer or above)
Spatial vision for action (egocentric and allocentric reference frames)
Sensorimotor predictions (tactile suppression)
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I hold a professorship in Experimental Psychology at the University of Giessen, Germany. I studied Psychology at the Technical University Dresden and did my PhD on performance monitoring at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. I started my work on perception-action coupling during a PostDoc at the University of Marburg. In 2011, I was awarded a Heisenberg-Professorship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) to build up my research group on Perception & Action at the University of Giessen. My group is interested in spatial coding for action and predictive mechanisms in goal-directed movements. By combining psychophysical experiments with eye and hand movement tracking in the lab and in virtual reality we try to understand how humans represent objects in space to guide eye and hand movements and how they predict the sensory consequences of their actions. In addition, we investigate the underlying cortical mechanisms by using fMRI.