Dr. rer. nat. Ellen Joos

Education

2021 PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Strasbourg and the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. Title: "Neural processing of sensory ambiguity", funded by Neurex (IdEx Strasbourg, France) and the Deutsch-Französischen Hochschule (DFH)

2016 Master of Science: Biology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. Mastherthesis: "EEG correlates of Memory Effects during Perceptual Disambiguation"

2013 Bachelor of Science: Biological Sciences in a Double-Degree program at the University of Rostock, Germany and the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Rumania

Publications

Kornmeier J, Sosic-Vasic Z, Joos E (submitted) Spacing Learning Units affects both learn-ing and forgetting

Kornmeier J, Bhatia K, Joos E (2021) Top down resolution of visual ambiguity – knowledge from the future or by footprints from the past? PLoS ONE 16(10): e0258667

Joos E, Giersch A, Bhatia K, Heinrich SP, Tebartz van Elst L, Kornmeier J (2020) Using the perceptual past to predict the perceptual future influences the perceived present – a novel ERP paradigm PLoS ONE 15(9): e0237663

Joos E, Giersch A, Hecker L, Schipp J, Tebartz van Elst L, Kornmeier J (2020) Large EEG effects are highly similar across Necker cubes, smileys and abstract stimuli. PLoS ONE 15(5): e0232928

Prizes

06/2019 DGPA e.V. poster prize 2019 at the 45th meeting of "Psychology and Brain"

02/2019 Blitztalk prize at the annual meeting of Neuropôle de Strasbourg

03/2018 Third prize in the poster competition at the Doctoral School Days in Strasbourg

Conferences

06/2019 Joos E, Giersch A, Hecker L, Schipp J, Tebartz van Elst L, Kornmeier J "How Meta-perception helps to process Ambiguity in Geometry and Emotion", presented as a poster at the conference Psychology and Brain (PuG), Dresden, Germany

05/2019 Joos E, Giersch A, Hecker L, Schipp J, Tebartz van Elst L, Kornmeier J "How ambiguity helps to understand meta-perception – Similar EEG correlates of geometry and emotion processing", presented as a poster at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA

02/2019 Joos E, Giersch A, Tebartz van Elst L, Kornmeier J "How ambiguity helps to understand meta-perception", presented as a blitztalk at the annual meeting of Neuropôle de Strasbourg, France

08/2018 Joos E, Giersch A, Schaller U, Rauh R, Helzle V, Tebartz van Elst L, Kornmeier J "How much evidence do we need for a smile? ERP correlates of emotional ambiguity" In ECVP Abstract Supplement 2018. Presented as a poster at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Trieste, Italy

03/2018 Joos E, Kornmeier J "When Predictive Coding impedes Perception" In TeaP Abstract Supplement 2018, presented as a talk at the annual meeting of Experimentally working Psychologists (TeaP), Marburg, Germany

03/2018 Joos E, Giersch A, Kornmeier J "From motion to emotion – Neural correlates of a generalized reliability estimation of perception" In Médicine Science Review, presented as a poster at the Doctoral School Days of the Strabourg École doctoral de la vie et de la Santé, Strasbourg, France

10/2017 Organization team at the first annual meeting of the Timing Research Forum (TRF) in Strasbourg, France

08/2017 Joos E, Kornmeier J "When Predictive Coding impedes Perception" In Perception ECVP Abstract Supplement 2017, presented as a talk at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Berlin, Germany

08/2016 Joos E, Kornmeier J "EEG Correlates of Memory Effects during Perceptual Disambiguation" In Perception ECVP Abstract Supplement 2016, presented as a poster at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Barcelona, Spain