- IGPP
- Perception and cognition
PD Dr. rer. nat. Jürgen Kornmeier
Education
2013 Habilitation in Neurobiology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
Thesis: Ambiguous Figures - What happens in the brain when perception changes but not the stimulus?
2002 PhD in Neurobiology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
Thesis: Wahrnehmungswechsel bei mehrdeutigen Bildern - EEG-Messungen zum Zeitverlauf neuronaler Mechanismen
1998 Magister Scientiarum (MSc) and 1. Staatsexamen in biology und mathematics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Positions
Since 2013 Head of the Research Group "Perception und Cognition"
2009 - 2013 Deputy of the Department Theory and Data Analysis at the IGPP Freiburg
Since 2008 Scientist at the IGPP
2004 - 2008 Deputy of the Section Visual Function at the University Eye-Hospital Freiburg
2002 - 2009 Postdoc at the Section Visual Function at the University Eye-Hospital Freiburg
Publications
Kornmeier J, Bhatia K, Joos E (submitted) Top down resolution of visual ambiguity – knowledge from the future or by footprints from the past?
Hecker L, Rupprecht R, Tebartz van Elst L, Kornmeier J (submitted) ConvDip: A convolutional neural network for improved M/EEG Source Imaging
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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
Staadt R, Philipp ST, Cremers J, Kornmeier J, Jancke D (2020) Seeing what was not explained away: Visual illusion based on predictive coding signals
PLoS ONE 15(5): e0232349
Neumann F, Oberhauser V, Kornmeier J (2020) How our nose helps us optimize learning while we sleep – from lab research to real life.
Scientific Reports 10, 1227
Kornmeier J, Friedel E, Hecker L, Schmidt S, Wittmann M (2019) What happens in the brain of meditators when perception changes but not the stimulus?
PLoS ONE 14(10): e0223843
Liaci E, Fischer A, Atmanspacher H, Heinrichs M, Tebartz van Elst L, Kornmeier J (2018) Positive and Negative Hysteresis Effects for the Perception of Geometric and Emotional Ambiguities.
PLoS ONE 13(9): e0202398
Sosic-Vasic Z, Hille K, Kröner J, Spitzer M, Kornmeier J (2018) When learning disturbs
memory – temporal profile of retroactive interference of learning on memory formation.
Frontiers in Psychology 9:82. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00082
Kornmeier J, Wörner R, Riedel A, Tebartz van Elst L (2017) A different view on the Necker cube – differences in multistable perception dynamics between Asperger and Non-Asperger observers.
PLoS ONE 12(12): e0189197
Kornmeier J, Friedel E, Wittmann M, Atmanspacher H (2017) EEG Correlates of Cognitive Time Scales in the Necker-Zeno Model for Bistable Perception. Consciousness and Cognition 53, 136 - 150.
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Liaci E, Fischer A, Heinrichs M, Tebartz van Elst L, Kornmeier J (2017) Mona Lisa is always happy – and only sometimes sad. Scientific Reports 7, 43511
Kornmeier J, Wörner R, Bach M (2016) Can I trust in what I see? – EEG Evidence for a Cognitive Evaluation of Perceptual Constructs.
Psychophysiology 53 (10), 1507-1523
Liaci E, Wörner R, Bach M, Tebartz van Elst L, Heinrich SP, Kornmeier J (2016) Ambiguity in
visual and tactile apparent motion perception. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0152736.
Duval CZ, Goumon Y, Kemmel V, Kornmeier J, Dufour A, Andlauer O, Vidailhet P, Poisbeau P, Salvat E, Muller A, Mensah-Nyagan AG,
Schmidt-Mutter C, Giersch A (2016) Neurophysiological evidence of enhanced pain sensitivity in patients with schizophrenia. Scientific Reports 6, 22542, 1-10
Wernery J, Atmanspacher H, Kornmeier J, Candia V, Folkers G, Wittmann M (2015) Temporal processing in bistable perception of the Necker cube.
Perception 44(2), 157-168.
Kornmeier J. Mayer G. (2014) The alien in the forest OR when temporal context
dominates perception. Perception 43(11), 1270-1274.
Mayer G. & Kornmeier J. (2014). Rätselhafte Objekte auf den Bildern einer Wildkamera oder: die Tücken der Wahrnehmung.
Zeitschrift für Anomalistik Band 14, 7-24.
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Kornmeier J. & Bach M. (2014). EEG correlates to perceptual reversals of Boring's ambiguous Old/Young Woman.
Perception 43(9), 950-962-A.
Kornmeier J., Wörner R., Riedel A. & Tebartz van Elst L. (2014). A different view on the
checkerboard? Alterations in early and late visually evoked EEG potentials in Asperger
observers. PLoS ONE 9(3): e90993.
Kornmeier J., Spitzer M. & Sosic-Vasic Z. (2014). Very similar spacing-effect patterns in very different
learning/practice domains. PLoS ONE 9(3): e90656.
O'Shea R., Kornmeier J. & Roeber U. (2013). Predicting visual consciousness
electrophysiologically. PLoS ONE 8(10): e76134.
Kornmeier J. & Sosic-Vasic Z. (2012). Parallels between spacing effects during behavioural and cellular learning.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6(203): 1-5.
Kornmeier J. & Bach M. (2012). Ambiguous figures - What happens in the brain if perception changes but not the stimulus.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6(51): 1-23.
Kornmeier J., Pfäffle M. & Bach M. (2011). Necker cube: Stimulus-related
(low-level) and percept-related (high-level) EEG signatures early in occipital cortex.
Journal of Vision 11(9):12, 1-11.
Kornmeier J. & Sosic-Vasic Z. (2011). Hirngymnastik nach Plan - Gibt es ein Trainingsprogramm für effizientes Lernen?
Nervenheilkunde 30: 613-620.
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Ehm W., Bach M. & Kornmeier J. (2010). Variability in gamma activity during observation of ambiguous
figures. In: Fechner Day 2010, ed. by A. Bastianelli and G. Vidotto, International Society for
Psychophysics, Padua 2010, pp. 439-444.
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Ehm W., Bach M. & Kornmeier J. (2010). Ambiguous figures and binding: EEG frequency modulations during multistable perception.
Psychophysiology 48: 547-558.
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Ehm W., Kornmeier J. & Heinrich SP. (2010). Multiple testing via successive subdivision.
Electronic Journal of Statistics 4: 461-471.
Kornmeier J. & Bach M. (2009). Object perception: When our brain is impressed but we do not notice it.
Journal of Vision 9(1): 7, 1-10.
Kornmeier J., Hein CM. & Bach M. (2009). Multistable Perception: When bottom-up and top-down coincide.
Brain & Cognition 69: 138-147.
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Atmanspacher H., Bach M., Filk T., Kornmeier J., Römer H. (2008). Cognitive Time Scales in a
Necker-Zeno Model for Bistable Perception.
Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal 2: 234-251.
Kornmeier J., Ehm W., Bigalke H., Bach M. (2007). Discontinuous presentation of ambiguous figures:
How inter-stimulus-interval durations affect reversal dynamics and ERPs.
Psychophysiology 44(4): 552-560.
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Kornmeier J., Bach M. (2006). Bistable perception - Along the processing chain from
ambiguous visual input to a stable percept.
Int J Psychophysiol 62(2): 345-349.
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Kornmeier J., Bach M. (2005). The Necker cube - an ambiguous figure
disambiguated in early visual processing.
Vision Research 45(8): 955-960.
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Kornmeier J., Bach M., Atmanspacher H. (2004). Correlates of perceptive instabilities in visually evoked potentials.
Int J Bifurcations & Chaos 14(2): 727-736.
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Kornmeier J. & Bach M. (2004). Early neural activity in Necker-cube reversal:
Evidence for low-level processing of a gestalt phenomenon.
Psychophysiology 40(1): 1-8.
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