Erdmute Sommerfeld

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Erdmute Sommerfeld , née Klein , (born March 31, 1943 in Bartnig, Silesia ) is a German physicist and professor of theoretical psychology . She is a recognized Klix student and specializes in cognitive psychology .

Career

Erdmute Klein was born in Bartnig as the daughter of the farmer Siegfried Klein and his wife, the welfare worker and nurse Erna Klein. After the Second World War, which took place resettlement of the family in the Mark east of Berlin . Here she attended elementary school in Langsow (Mark) from 1949 to 1957 and then the Extended High School (EOS) in Seelow (Mark), where she graduated from high school in 1961 .

This was followed by studies at the Technical University "Otto von Guericke" Magdeburg , which she graduated in 1966 with a diploma in physics . The Magdeburg physics education goes back to Ernst-Joachim Gießmann - rector and later Minister for Higher Education and Technical Education , whose term of office also included the Third University Reform of the GDR.

In 1979 she received her doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR with a dissertation on the topic "Analysis and Synthesis of problem-solving processes." In 1993 habilitated it relates to the field of "Mathematics and psychological analysis of cognitive structures" at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB).

Erdmute Sommerfeld has been married to the physicist Rudolf Sommerfeld since 1965 and lives in Berlin. The couple has a son.

Research and teaching

After graduation, she got at the Technical University "Otto von Guericke" in Magdeburg a postgraduate . She interrupted this for two years after the birth of her son in 1967.

She then worked from 1969 to 1990 at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW), renamed the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW) after the academy reform was completed in 1972 (President: Hermann Klare , then Werner Scheler ). Here she was at the newly founded Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes (ZKI founding director: Horst Völz , then Volker Kempe ) in the areas of "Basics of Cybernetics", "Artificial Intelligence" and "Psychology" in the "Problem Solving Processes" department founded by Friedhart Klix active (Head: Werner Krause ).

From 1985 until the beginning of the winding up of the Academy of Sciences in 1990 she was head of the department "Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Cognitive Processes". Then she headed the "Mathematical Psychology" project group within the framework of the Scientist Integration Program (WIP). She was a visiting professor at the universities of Jena , Bochum , Braunschweig and Leuven ( Belgium ). From 1993 she was employed as a senior scientific assistant at the Institute for Psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

In 1994 she was offered a lectureship in "Methods of Psychology" at the University of Leipzig and in 2003 was appointed Associate Professor .

In 2004 she was elected as a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin .

Research priorities

  • Theoretically oriented cognitive psychology, with a focus on "Mathematical-psychological elementary analysis of human information processing"

Sommerfeld has developed a model approach to systematize and formalize cognitive processes (collaboration with Werner Krause and Fred Sobik ). Her approach is detailed in her book “Cognitive Structures”. This systematization of cognitive processes is based on the claim to completeness. In this way, she has made a contribution to a “theoretical psychology” that will be established in the future. Based on this, she was able to present for the first time a completeness analysis of the set of universal processes of human information processing (according to Klix: universals in human thinking ), which Klix established through its evolutionary development and whose requirement relevance and invariance he demonstrated experimentally (Klix, 1992, Klix & Lanius , 1999). She underpinned the theoretical framework she created through experimental analyzes using psychophysical and neuroscientific methods (collaboration with Werner Krause, Tobias Dörfler, Anke Hensel, Katharina Köhler, Michael Köhler, Franziska Kopp, Simone Malotinsky, Bärbel Schack and Andrea Simmel).

  • Simplicity as a principle of action, knowledge and design

On this topic, Sommerfeld founded the working group “Principle Simplicity” in 2010 together with Herbert Hörz and Werner Krause at the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, in which an interdisciplinary group of scientists researches and discusses the following question: “Is simplicity a universal principle the effect, a universal principle for recognizing and a universal principle for design in the most diverse disciplines of science? If so, in which functions, structures, processes, rules or laws and under which conditions does such a principle express itself? ”. To this end, together with Herbert Hörz and Werner Krause, she published two meeting reports of the Leibniz Society on this subject.

Memberships and honors (selection)

Publications

Erdmute Sommerfeld has developed around 150 publications, most of which arose from her special research and teamwork.

monograph

  • E. Sommerfeld: Cognitive structures - mathematical-psychological elementary analyzes of knowledge structuring and information processing. Waxmann, Münster / New York 1994.

Editorships

  • W. Krause , E. Sommerfeld, M. Zießler (Ed.): Inference and interpretation processes. Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 1991, pp. 127–172.
  • E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, Th. Lachmann (Ed.): Fechner Day 2001: The 200th Birthday of Gustav Theodor Fechner. (= Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics ). Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich / Berlin 2001.
  • E. Sommerfeld, H. Hörz , W. Krause (eds.): Simplicity as a principle of action, knowledge and design (I). (= Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin. Vol. 108). trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2010. (leibnizsozietaet.de)
  • H. Hörz, W. Krause, E. Sommerfeld (eds.): Simplicity as a principle of action, knowledge and design (II). (= Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin. Vol. 125/126). trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2016. (leibnizsozietaet.de)
  • W. Krause, E. Sommerfeld (ed.): Friedhart Klix - natural scientist, psychologist, thought leader - 1927-2004. Plenary event of the Leibniz Society: Human Information Processing - Interdisciplinary Analysis and Application - in December 2017 on the occasion of his 90th birthday. (= Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin. Vol. 135). trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2018. (leibnizsozietaet.de)

Edited volumes, proceedings and research publications (selection)

  • E. Sommerfeld: Heuristic rules for the problem of interface minimization when designing printed circuit boards. In: F. Klix, W. Krause, H. Sydow (eds.): Analysis and synthesis of problem-solving processes I. (= cybernetics research. Volume 2). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften (DVW), Berlin 1972, pp. 160–177.
  • W. Voshage, E. Sommerfeld, W. Krause: About a psychological analysis in the design of printed circuit boards. In: H.-G. Geissler, F. Klix (ed.): Psychological analyzes of mental processes. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften (DVW), Berlin 1974, pp. 121–127.
  • W. Krause, E. Sommerfeld: Experimental psychological investigations for the solution of a decomposition problem. In: F. Klix, W. Krause, Sydow. H. (Ed.): Analysis and synthesis of problem-solving processes II. (= Cybernetics research. Volume 5). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften (DVW), Berlin 1975, pp. 353–386.
  • E. Sommerfeld: Graph decomposition and property invariance. In: Scientific journal of the TH Ilmenau. 6, 1982, pp. 71-74.
  • E. Sommerfeld: Classification stable graph transformations. In: ZKI information. No. 3/82, AdW der DDR, Berlin 1982, pp. 51–88.
  • E. Sommerfeld: Decomposition of graphs into subgraphs with certain properties. In: M. Fiedler (Ed.): Graphs and Other Combinatorial Topics. (= Teubner texts on mathematics. Vol. 59). Teubner, Leipzig 1983, pp. 286-295.
  • F. Sobik, E. Sommerfeld: A graph theoretical approach to the characterization of classes of structured objects. In: Computers and Artificial Intelligence. 3, 1984, pp. 235-247.
  • E. Sommerfeld: On the stability of the corona of two graphs. In: H. Sachs (Ed.): Graphs, Hypergraphs and Applications. (= Teubner texts on mathematics. Vol. 73). Teubner, Leipzig 1985, pp. 165-168.
  • E. Sommerfeld, F. Sobik: Graph theoretical models for transformation and comparison of cognitive structures. In: F. Klix, H. Hagendorf (Ed.): Human Memory and Cognitive Capabilities. Mechanisms and Performances. North Holland, Amsterdam 1986, pp. 1017-1024.
  • W. Krause, R. Seifert, E. Sommerfeld: Effective cognitive structures in simple problem solving. In: F. Klix, H. Hagendorf (Ed.): Human Memory and Cognitive Capabilities. Mechanisms and Performances. North Holland, Amsterdam 1986, pp. 1001-1016.
  • W. Krause, R. Seifert, E. Sommerfeld: Training and transformation of cognitive structures in problem solving. In: ZKI information. No. 2/87. AdW of the GDR, Berlin 1987.
  • W. Krause, E. Sommerfeld, G. Höhne, H. Sperlich: Effort-minimizing restructuring of knowledge structures of construction in human memory. In: Scientific journal of the TH Ilmenau. Volume 89, 1989, pp. 51-54.
  • E. Sommerfeld: Systematization and formalization of cognitive structure transformations on the basis of graph transformations. In: M. Brzezinski, T. Marek (Ed.): Models and Tests. Contributions to the Quantitative Psychology and its Methodology. Rodopi, Amsterdam, Atlanta, GA 1990, pp. 105-120.
  • E. Sommerfeld: Inference processes and cognitive effort - a formal analysis. In: W. Krause, E. Sommerfeld, M. Zießler (Ed.): Inference and interpretation processes. Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 1991, pp. 127–172.
  • E. Sommerfeld: Mental representations - mathematical modeling of their training and transformation. In: Journal of Psychology. Volume 202, 1994, pp. 233-251.
  • W. Krause, J. Müller, E. Sommerfeld, S. Franz: Restructuring of knowledge at the designer. In: G. Pahl (Ed.): Psychological and pedagogical questions when constructing. Verlag TÜV Rheinland, 1994, pp. 89-104.
  • E. Sommerfeld, W. Krause, Ch. Schleußner: To measure the cognitive effort in the construction process. In: W. Hacker, P. Sachse (Ed.): On the role of intuition and abstraction in the constructive design process. Universitätsverlag, Dresden 1996, pp. 131–166.
  • E. Sommerfeld, W. Krause: Control processes in working memory before and after exercise. In: U. Kotkamp, ​​W. Krause (ed.): Intelligent information processing. Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden 1998, pp. 101–110.
  • E. Sommerfeld, W. Krause, B. Schack, C. Markert, R. Pies, H. Tietze: For measuring exercise and training success on the basis of EEG parameters. In: Journal for Educational Psychology. Volume 13, No. 1/2, 1999, pp. 60-73.
  • E. Sommerfeld, A. Hensel, A. Hildebrandt: Cooperation of frontal and parietal brain areas as function of cognitive training. In: PR Killeen, WR Uttal (Ed.): Fechner Day 99: The End of 20thCentury Psychophysics. The International Society for Psychophysics, Tempe, AZ, USA 1999, pp. 356-361.
  • W. Krause, E. Sommerfeld: Elemental analysis of thought processes with psychophysical and neuroscientific methods. In: Journal of Psychology. Volume 208, No. 3-4, 2000, pp. 322-339.
  • T. Dörfler, A. Simmel, F.-M. Schleif, E. Sommerfeld: Complexity-dependent synchronization of brain subsystems during memorysation. In: E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, Th. Lachmann (Ed.): Fechner Day 2001: The 200th Birthday of Gustav Theodor Fechner. In: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich / Berlin 2001, pp. 343-348.
  • E. Sommerfeld: Comparison processes in memory: Performance measures and synchronous brain activity. In: E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, Th. Lachmann (Ed.): Fechner Day 2001: The 200th Birthday of Gustav Theodor Fechner. (= Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics ). Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich / Berlin 2001, pp. 81-86.
  • E. Sommerfeld: Clarification of basic processes of human information processing. A systematic approach through elementary analysis of thought processes when solving problems of order? In: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin. Vol. 101, trafo Verlag, Berlin 2009, pp. 93–110. leibnizsozietaet.de Detailed version in Leibniz-Online. No. 6, 2009. www.leibnizsozietaet.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/05-Sommerfeld_2009_04_281.pdf
  • E. Sommerfeld: Simplicity - a basic principle in the most varied of disciplines? Suggestions for interdisciplinary discussion. In: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin. Vol. 108, trafo Verlag, Berlin 2010, pp. 145–163. (leibnizsozietaet.de)
  • E. Sommerfeld, W. Krause: "Objective, but special": Psychology as a natural science. In: Leibniz Online. No. 15, 2013. www.leibnizsozietaet.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/sommerfeld_krause-3.pdf
  • E. Sommerfeld: Structural information: representation, interpretation, reduction. In: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin. Vol. 118, trafo Verlag, Berlin 2014, pp. 91-104. (leibnizsozietaet.de)
  • H. Hörz, W. Krause, E. Sommerfeld: Are Complex Systems Simple? Assessment of the working group “Principle of Simplicity”. In: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin. Vol. 125/126, trafo Verlag, Berlin 2016, pp. 7–24. leibnizsozietaet.de

literature

  • JA Da Silva, EH Matsushima, NP Ribeiro-Filho (ed.): Fechner Day 2002: In a New Continent, for a New Psychophysics. The International Society for Psychophysics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • S. Grondin, I. Lacouture (Ed.): Fechner Day 98. The International Society for Psychophysics, Quebec, Canada 1998.
  • PR Killeen, WR Uttal (Ed.): Fechner Day 99: The End of 20th Century Psychophysics. The International Society for Psychophysics, Tempe, AZ, USA.
  • F. Klix: The nature of the mind. Hogrefe, Göttingen / Toronto 1992.
  • F. Klix, H. Hagendorf (Eds.): Human Memory and Cognitive Capabilities. Mechanisms and Performances. North Holland, Amsterdam 1986.
  • F. Klix, W. Krause, H. Sydow (Eds.): Analysis and synthesis of problem-solving processes I. (= cybernetics research. Volume 2). Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften (DVW) 1972.
  • F. Klix, K. Lanius : Ways and wrong ways of the humans. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1999.
  • U. Kotkamp, ​​W. Krause (Ed.): Intelligent information processing. University Press, Wiesbaden 1998.
  • W. Krause: Thinking and memory from a scientific point of view. Hogrefe, Göttingen / Toronto 2000.
  • JP Plath, E.-Ch. Haß (Ed.): Networked Sciences - Crosslinks in Natural and Social Sciences. Logos, Berlin 2008.
  • Erdmute Sommerfeld: Friedhart Klix on his 80th birthday. In: Meeting reports of the Leibnitz Society. Volume 101, 2009. (ae-info.org)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erdmute Sommerfeld: For the analysis and synthesis of problem-solving processes in a class of decomposition problems. Dissertation A. Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW), Berlin 1979, DNB 810352052 .
  2. ↑ Erdmute Sommerfeld: Mathematical-psychological analyzes of the formation and transformation of cognitive structures. Habilitation. Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB), Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Berlin 1993, DNB 943006341 .
  3. ^ E. Sommerfeld: Cognitive structures - mathematical-psychological elementary analyzes of knowledge structuring and information processing. Waxmann, Münster / New York 1994, pp. 45-134.
  4. ^ E. Sommerfeld, F. Sobik: Operations on cognitive structures - their modeling on the basis of graph theory. In: D. Albert (Ed.): Knowledge Structures. Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1994, pp. 146–190.
  5. ↑ E. Sommerfeld: The Klix operations: requirement-invariant and mathematically exact. (= Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin. Vol. 135). trafo Verlag, Berlin 2018, pp. 75–97. leibnizsozietaet.de
  6. ^ E. Sommerfeld, W. Krause: The effect of practice in a working memory task on synchronization of specific brain areas. In: S. Grondinm, I. Lacouture (Ed.): Fechner Day 98. The International Society for Psychophysics, Quebec, Canada 1998, pp. 355-360.
  7. ^ A. Simmel, T. Doerfler, F.-M. Schleif, E. Sommerfeld: An analysis of connections between internal and external learning process indicators using EEG coherence duration. In: E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, Th. Lachmann (Ed.): Fechner Day 2001: The 200th Birthday of Gustav Theodor Fechner . (= Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics ). Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich / Berlin 2001, pp. 602-607.
  8. ↑ M. Köhler, K. Buchta, F.-M. Schleif, E. Sommerfeld: Complexity and difficulty in memory based comparison. In: JA Da Silva, EH Matsushima, NP Ribeiro-Filho (ed.): Fechner Day 2002: In a New Continent. for a New Psychophysics. The International Society for Psychophysics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2002, pp. 433-439.
  9. ^ E. Sommerfeld: Memory Psychophysics - an interdisciplinary approach. In: JP Plath, E.-Ch. Haß (Ed.): Networked Sciences - Crosslinks in Natural and Social Sciences. Logos, Berlin 2008, pp. 205–241.
  10. ↑ E. Sommerfeld, H. Hörz , W. Krause (Ed.): Simplicity as a principle of action, knowledge and design. Berlin, 2010 and 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Sommerfeld, Erdmute
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klein, Erdmute (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cognitive psychologist and university professor (theoretical psychology)
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bartnig, Silesia