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Prof. Dr. Stefan Debener

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Postal address

Abt. Neuropsychologie
Department für Psychologie
Fakultät VI - Medizin und Gesundheitswissenschaften
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118
26129 Oldenburg

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Prof. Dr. Stefan Debener

Research Interests

My personal goal is to further our understanding of the brain-behaviour relationship. How does the brain respond to sensory deprivation, and how could a better knowledge of compensatory mechanisms help us to improve rehabilitation strategies, for instance in the deaf? How is information of the different senses, such as seeing and hearing, combined to create a coherent percept of the world? Why do we make errors even in very simple tasks? And could we predict those errors before they occur? To investigate these questions we combine established approaches in experimental psychology with non-invasive recordings of human brain function. Our key tool is the high-density EEG, but we also use MEG, fMRI, and concurrent EEG-fMRI recordings. Because these tools provide us with very complex, mixed signals that reflect different features of human brain function, we spend some time on the application and evaluation of signal un-mixing and signal integration procedures as well.

"As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain, will also be a mystery" Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934)

 

Education - Career

Since December 2009
Full Professor of Neuropsychology, Dept. of Psychology, University of Oldenburg, Germany.

November 2008 - November 2009
Full Professor and Director of the Biomagnetic Center, Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital Jena, Germany.

March 2006 - October 2008
Honorary Reader, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.

October 2005 - October 2008
Senior Scientist and Deputy Head of MRC Institute of Hearing Research Southampton Section, Southampton, UK.

July 2003 - September 2003
Visiting fellow, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (Director Scott Makeig), La Jolla, CA, USA.

January 2003 - September 2005
Center of Experimental Medicine, Institute of Neurophysiology (Director Prof. A.K. Engel), University Hospital Hamburg. Senior Scientist, head of the EEG group.

August 2001 - December 2002
Research Center Juelich, Institute of Medicine. Post-doc, Cellular Neurobiology group (A. K. Engel).

July 2001
Ph.D. degree (Dr. rer. nat.) received at Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

1997 & 1999
Lab visits and training in EEG/ERP analysis, Dept. of Biopsychology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA.

August 1996 - July 2001
Dresden University of Technology, Germany. Ph.D. Student and Academic Assistant at Dept. of Psychology.

July 1996
Berlin University of Technology, Germany. Degree in Psychology (Diplom-Psychologe).

1994 - 1996
Berlin University of Technology, Germany. Teaching assistant (Tutor) at Dept. of Biopsychology (G. Erdmann).

Memberships in scientific societies

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie
Society for Psychophysiological Research
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendungen
Society for Neuroscience
Deutscher Hochschulverband

Editorial board memberships

Associate Editor of Psychophysiology (since 2009)
Member of the Editorial Board of Brain Topography (since 2010)
Guest Editor for International Journal of Psychophysiology (2008)

Reviewer activities and publications

Frequently requested ad-hoc reviewer for various scientific journals (>15) and research funding bodies

For up-to-date lists of publications please visit Google Scholar and PubMed.

You can also find us on ResearchGate and Twitter.

 

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