Erich Schröger

Erich Schröger (born 11 November 1958 in Munich) is a German psychologist and neuroscientist.

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Biography

Schröger studied philosophy and psychology at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1982 he earned a Baccalaureat in Philosophy; in 1986 he earned a Diploma in Psychology; and in 1991 he was awarded a PhD for his work on loudness constancy. After a research stay at the Cognitive Brain Research unit of the University of Helsinki(Finland) and a stint of teaching at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Schröger achieved habilitation in psychology in 1996 at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. The title of his habilitation thesis is, "[Discovery of changes in repetitive attraction sequences: Electrophysiological investigations of auditory data processing]".

In 1997 Schröger was appointed to the University of Leipzig as a professor of biological psychology. Since 2001 he has held its Chair of Cognitive and Biological Psychology.

Research

Schröger's main fields of research include perception, attention, and memory, mainly in audition. He has developed an experimental paradigm for assessing the mechanisms of automatic distraction of attention by irrelevant information. He mainly uses event-related potentials (ERPS) from EEG data.

For his scientific work, Schröger received the 1996 Distinguished Scientific Award for at Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology from the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR). In 2004, Schröger became a Fellow of the College of Psychology within the German Research Council (DFG).

Selected works

• Wontorra, M., Meischner-Metge, A., & Schröger, E. (Hrsg.). (2004). Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) und die Anfänge der Experimentellen Psychologie. (CD: ISBN 3-00-013477-8 ed.).

• Schröger, E., Kaernbach, K., Jacobsen, T., & Jost, K. (Hrsg.). (2004). Psychophysik und Audiologie. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.

• Kaernbach, C., Schröger, E., & Müller, H. J. (Hrsg.). (2004). Psychophysics beyond sensation: laws and invariants of human cognition. Erlbaum: Hilsdale, NJ.

• Schröger, E. (1995). Entdeckung von Veränderungen in repetitiven Reizfolgen: Elektrophysiologische Untersuchungen zur auditiven Informationsverarbeitung. Habilitationsschrift, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

• Schröger, E. (1991). Konstanz und Lautheit. Zur Wirkung von Entfernung und Einstellung auf die Lautstärkebeurteilung. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

• Schubö, W., Uehlinger, H.-M., Perleth, C., Schröger, E., & Sierwald, W. (1991). SPSS. Handbuch der Programmversionen SPSS 4.0 und SPSS-X 3.0. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer.

• Schubö, W., Perleth, C., Schröger, E., & Sierwald, W. (1991). SPSS kompakt für die Versionen 3 und 4. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer.

• Schubö, W., Piesbergen, C., Brodbeck, F., Rauh, R., & Schröger, E. (1989). Einführung in die Statistik: Wahrscheinlichkeit und Hypothesenprüfung. München: Oldenbourg.

• Publikationen: Erich Schröger