Frank Rösler

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Frank Rösler (born January 29, 1945 in Dresden ) is a German psychologist .

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Frank Rösler studied psychology, philosophy and physiology at the University of Hamburg . He then worked as a research assistant at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel until 1983 , where he obtained his doctorate in the field of psychophysiology in 1976 and his habilitation in 1983 . During this time, research stays took him to Canada , Australia and the USA . In 1986 he was appointed to the chair for general and biological psychology at the Philipps University of Marburg . After his retirement in 2010, he was initially a senior professor at the University of Potsdam and has been a senior professor at the University of Hamburg since 2013 .

In his research he examines the biological basis of cognitive processes (especially memory and language) as well as neuroplasticity in acquired or congenital damage to the nervous system. He is one of the "pioneers of electrophysiological research into language comprehension processes". In addition to teaching, Frank Rösler was a long time member of the Senate and the Approval Committee for Collaborative Research Centers of the German Research Foundation . In 2001 he was accepted as a member of the Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences and is currently a member of the Leopoldina Presidium.

honors and awards

Publications (selection)

  • Rösler, F. (1982). Brain electrical correlates of cognitive processes. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer.
  • Rösler, F. (Ed.). (1998). Encyclopedia of Psychology: C / I / 5. Results and Applications of Psychophysiology. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
  • Rösler, F. (Ed.). (2000). Encyclopedia of Psychology: C / I / 4. Basics and methods of psychophysiology (1st). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
  • Rösler, F. (2011). Psychophysiology of Cognition: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience. Heidelberg: Spectrum Akad. Verl.
  • Rösler, F. (2013). Every learning process changes the structure and function of the brain - in Matthias Eckoldt " Can the brain understand the brain? ", Carl-Auer-Verlag

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Laudation on the occasion of the honor of the scientific life's work of Prof. Dr. Frank Rösler at the 48th Congress of the German Society for Psychology in Bielefeld (PDF; 78KB)
  2. ^ Member entry by Frank Rösler (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Rösler, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden