Martin Eimer (neuropsychologist)

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Martin Eimer (born August 5, 1959 in Kamen ) is a German-British neuropsychologist and university professor.

Life

Martin Eimer comes from Kamen and graduated from high school in Bergkamen in 1978 . He studied biology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University and psychology at the University of Bielefeld . With the dissertation information processing and mental representation. The analysis of human cognitive abilities using the example of visual perception , he received his doctorate in 1989 at the University of Bielefeld. He then worked from 1990 to 1997 as a research assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he completed his habilitation. From 1997 to 2000 he taught at the University of Cambridge . Since 2000 he has been Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck College . He is married to a British woman and is a British citizen.

His research area is brain research . In 2005, his team was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education . In 2012 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and in 2016 a member of the British Academy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Concepts of causality. Causal relationships and psychological concept formation. Huber, Bern 1987, ISBN 3-456-81563-8
  • Information processing and mental representation. The analysis of human cognitive abilities using the example of visual perception. Springer, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-540-52449-5 (dissertation)

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Individual evidence

  1. Birkbeck wins a 2005 Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated November 21, 2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk
  2. Member entry of Martin Eimer (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 5, 2016.