Marcel Dorer

Mentoring of Bachelor and Master students during their theses and other student projects. Course instructor of seminars in the fields of computational neuroscience, neuro- and sensory physiology, as well as instructor of introductory and intermediate MatLab courses. Management of the faculties server as well as other administrative tasks.

Scholarship based independent research in the field of Cognition. Empirical study of the interplay of memory and eye movements during the solving process of spatial problems presented on a monitor, a curved screen and in virtual reality.

Instructor of advanced MatLab course.

Instructor of course on spatial and temporal cognition.

Doctoral student with focus on cognition, vision, eye movements, memory and problem solving. Thesis focusing on the utilization of eye movements during the mental problem solving process and the implications on the nature of mental representations.

Focus on cognitive and informatic aspects. Master thesis on the utilization of eye movements during the mental solving process of virtual Tower of Hanoi problems.

Focus on cognitive science. Bachelor thesis on the influence of size and angular differences of landmarks on the orientation in a virtual 3D environment (first person).