Main Content

Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Markus Knauff

Research interests

Our group has two research lines, human rationality and spatial cognition. The rationality research focuses on how humans achieve rational conclusions and explanations and make good decisions. We aim for a detailed understanding of the cognitive representations and processes underlying these abilities. In spatial cognition research, we investigate how spatial knowledge is represented in memory and how humans retrieve, revise, and use it for spatial problem solving and wayfinding. Within both research lines we use psychological experiments to analyze behavior, computer simulations to model mental processes, and neuroimaging to understand the underlying brain structures and processes.