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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Frings

Psychologie , Universität Trier

Universitätsring 15, 54296 Trier, Raum: D 402

0651/201-2958

Profil

Auszeichnungen, Preise & Ehrungen

2008 Forschungspreis der Universität des Saarlandes 2008 für die Ersteinwerbung von DFG-Mitteln

2005 Dissertationswettbewerb FG Allgemeine Psychologie, Berlin
2005, Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie

Gutachterfunktionen

Editor in Chief:
Experimental Psychology (since 2018)

Associate Editor:
Experimental Psychology (2011-2014)

Consulting Reviewer:
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Performance & Perception (since 2013)

Journals:
Acta Psychologica
Advances in Cognitive Psychology
Appetite
Applied Cognitive Psychology
Applied Neuropsychology: Adult
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
Behavior Research Methods
Behavioral and Brain Functions
Biological Psychology
Brain and Cognition
Brain & Language
Brain Research
British Journal of Psychology
Child Development
Cognition
Cognition & Emotion
Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive Processing
Consciousness & Cognition
Emotion
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
European Journal of Social Psychology
Experimental Psychology
Frontiers in Cognition
IEEE Access
International Journal of Psychophysiology
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Performance & Perception
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition
Journal of Memory & Language
Journal of Neurophysiology
Journal of Psychology / Zeitschrift für Psychologie
Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
KI – Künstliche Intelligenz
Learning and Individual Differences
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Memory
Memory & Cognition
Motivation & Emotion
Multisensory Research
Neuropsychologica
Neuroscience
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Neuroscience Letters
Perception
Perception & Psychophysics
Perceptual & Motor Skills
PLoS ONE
Psychological Bulletin
Psychological Reports
Psychological Research
Psychological Research and Behavior Management
Psychological Science
Psychology and Aging
Psychology and Behaviour
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Psychophysiology
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
Social Cognition
Transaction on haptics
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic
Visual Cognition

Institutes:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
European Research Council
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Cusanuswerk

Mitgliedschaften

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie
• FG Allgemeine Psychologie
• European Society for Cognitive Psychology

Dfg Category

110-1 - Allgemeine, Biologische und Mathematische Psychologie

Funktionen

Mitarbeiter/in (Psychologie )

Forschungsgebiet

Main research My main research focuses on the processing of distractors. In a world full of possibly distracting stimuli we must selectively attend to goal-relevant information and selectively ignore the currently goal-irrelevant information. How can we achieve this? One idea is that humans can actively suppress the cognitive representations of distrating stimuli a process called distractor inhibition. Distractor inhibition is typically analyzed in experimental tasks in which participants have to respond to a target stimulus while ignoring a distractor object or distracting feature (the Stroop task the Eriksen flanker task the Negative Priming task and so on)
note that inhibtion has been chosen by the APA as one of the 15 core concepts in cognitive psychology. Another idea is that distractors can be encoded and retrieved together with the target stimuli and the responses given to these targets a phenomenon called distractor-response binding. Stimulus (and sometimes distractor)-response binding makes our behavior efficient by establishing nearly automatic SR retrieval routines that can emerge without much effort. Measurements of reaction times error rates and the electroencephalogram (EEG) are used to tap the processes of inhibition and binding in established computer-based experiments. What about multisensory interference? Imagine you are focused on a visual task (say reading) while something non-visual disturbs you (say your ringing and vibrating mobile phone). Are distractors presented to several senses and additionally presented to currently inattended senses ignored in the same way than distracors in unisensory selection? Is distractor processing comparable in vision and for example in touch? These questions are currently under research and first evidence from blind participants suggests that distractor processing in vision and touch may differ between these modalities. And what about distractors of emotional content? Yes that might be quite a different story. In fact there is a long standing debate in cognitive psychology whether emotional stimuli are processed in a different manner as compared to non-emotional stimuli (e.g. they might allocate attention in a near to automatic fashion). Thus I analyze in various established paradigms how selection of targets is influenced if the distractors do have emotional content. So far it seems likely that the different mechanisms of distractor processing also differ in the way they are affected by emotional distractors. Is there any link to applied research? Yes there is. Selection and interference are concepts that are important whenever humans interact with their environment. As a result my research has clear impact on applied research in ergonomics
for example recent experiments transfer binding effects to modern car driving-assistance systems. In addition I collaborate with the local department of applied sciences (mechanical and automotive engineering) for optimizing usage of electric cars. Further interests Despite theoretical research on inhibition and binding I am particulary interested in understanding what is going on in the established cognitive priming paradigms that is I am generally interested in the methodic/experimental approach. To be sure whether a specific paradigm taps validly the cognitive process one wishes to analyze we need paradigm-driven research just to validate the task/paradigm. I am also interested in decision making particulary the efficiency of very simple decision rules i.e. heuristics as suggested by the ABC research group from the Max Plank Institute in Berlin. Here I have analyzed the efficiency of the recognition heuristc in predicting sports or stocks performance.

Lehrgebiet

Cognition Perception and Attention Experimental design and analysis Scientific project work

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