Prof. Dr. Dirk Vorberg
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Curriculum Vitae
Born 5. 7. 1942, Stettin
Grown up in Wuppertal
Higher education
62 Abitur, Gymnasium Siegesstr., Wuppertal
62 - 67 Studies in psychology, Universities Marburg and Hamburg
Diploma 1967 Universität Marburg
67 - 69 Doctoral studies, psychology and mathematics, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Ph.D. 1970 TH Darmstadt
69 - 74 wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Universität Konstanz
Habilitation 1974 Universität Konstanz
Academic positions
75 - 83 Professorship (C2/C3), Experimental and Mathematical Psychology, Universität Konstanz
83 - 90 Professorship (C4), Experimental Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg
90 - 07 Professorship (C4), Experimental Psychology, Technische Universität Braunschweig
08 - Guest Professorship, Institut für Psychologie, WWU Münster
94 - 99 External Member, Graduate School „Kognitionswissenschaften“, Universität Hamburg
Research positions and sabbaticals
72 - 73 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, New York University, New York
Visiting Asistant Professor, Mathematical Psychology Laboratory, Rockefeller Univ., NY
79 - 80 Guest Researcher, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., USA, Human Information Processing Group
WS 88/89 Sabbatical, Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
SS 97 Gastprofessor, Innovationskolleg „Formale Modelle kognitiver Komplexität“, Univ. Potsdam
WS 00/01 Sabbatical, Department of Neurocognition, Maastricht Universiteit, The Netherlands
Selected publications
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Simulation
Vorberg, D. & Goebel, R., (1991). Das Lösen rekursiver Programmierprobleme: I. Rekursi-onsschemata. Kognitionswissenschaft, 1, 83-95.
Goebel, R. & Vorberg, D. (1991). Das Lösen rekursiver Programmierprobleme: II. Ein Si-mulationsmodell. Kognitionswissenschaft, 2, 27-36.
Numerical Cognition
Blankenberger, S. & Vorberg, D. (1997).
The Single-Format Assumption in arithmetic fact retrieval. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Memory, Learning, and Cognition, 23, 721-738.
Response time measurement and modelling
Vorberg, D. (1981). Reaction time distributions predicted by serial selfterminating models of memory search. In: Grossberg, S. (ed.), Mathematical Psychology and Psychophysics, SIAM-AMS Proceedings, 13.
Vorberg, D. & Schwarz, W. (1991). Rasch-representable reaction time distributions. Psychometrika, 55, 617-632.
Colonius, H., & Vorberg, D., (1994). Distribution inequalities for parallel models with unlimited capacity. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 38, 35-58.
Gondan, M, Vorberg, D., & Greenlee, M.W. (2007).
Modality shift effects mimic multisensory interactions: an
event-related potential study. Experimental Brain Research, 182,
199-214.
Vorberg, D. (in prep.). Exact statistical tests of
the Race Model and related inequalities (paper presented at the European
Mathematical Psychology Meetings, Graz 2008).
Timing and synchronization of rhythmic behavior
Vorberg, D. & Wing, A. (1996). Modeling variability and dependence in timing. In: H. Heuer & S.W. Keele (Eds.) Handbook of Perception and Action. Vol. 2: Motor Skills. London: Academic Press (181-262)
Semjen, A., Vorberg, D., & Schulze, H.H. (1998). Getting synchronized with the metro-nome: Comparisons between phase and period correction. Psychological Research, 61, 44-55.
Krampe, R.T., Kliegl, R., Mayr, U., Engbert, R., & Vorberg. D. (2000).
The Fast and the Slow of Skilled Bimanual Rhythm. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 205-233.
Semjen, A., Schulze, H.H., & Vorberg, D. (2000). Timing precision in continuation and synchronization tapping. Psychological Research, 63, 137-147.
Vorberg, D., & Schulze, H.-H.. (2002).
Linear phase-correction in synchronization: Predictions, parameter
estimation, and simulations. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 46,
56-87
Schulze, H.H., Cordes, A. & Vorberg, D. (2005). Keeping synchrony while tempo changes: Accelerando and ritardando. Music Perception, 22, 461-477.
Subliminal perception
Vorberg, D., Mattler, U., Heinecke, A., Schmidt, T. & Schwarzbach, J. (2003). Invariant time-course of priming with and without awareness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, 6275-6280.
Lingnau, A., & Vorberg, D. (2005). The time course of response inhibition in masked priming. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 545-557.
Schmidt, T., & Vorberg, D. (2006). Criteria for unconscious cognition: Three types of dissociation. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 489-50.
Schütz, K., Schendzielarz, I., Zwitserlood, P., & Vorberg, D. (2007).
Nice wor_ if you can get the wor_: Subliminal semantic and form priming
in fragment completion. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 520-532.
Albrecht, T., & Vorberg, D. (2010).
Long-lasting effects of briefly flashed words and pseudowords in
ultra-rapid serial visual presentation. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 36, 1339–1345.
Psychophysical methods
Lingnau, A., Schwarzbach, J., & Vorberg, D. (2008).
Adaptive strategies for reading with a forced retinal location. Journal
of Vision, 8(5): 6, 1–18, http://journalofvision.org/8/5/6/,
doi:10.1167/8.5.6.
Ulrich, R. & Vorberg, D. (2009).
Estimating the difference limen in 2AFC tasks: Pitfalls and improved
estimators. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1219-1227.
Lingnau, A., Schwarzbach, J., & Vorberg, D. (2010).
Uncoupling gaze and attention outside central vision. Journal of
Vision, 10(1): 1–13, http://www.journalofvision.org/content/10/11/13,
doi:10.1167/10.11.13.
