Reinhold Kliegl

Reinhold Kliegl (born December 11, 1953 in Sinzing ( Bavaria )) is a German psychologist . Since 1994 Kliegl has been Professor of Cognitive Psychology in Potsdam .

Life

Kliegl studied psychology at the University of Regensburg and the University of Colorado . In 1992 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin . From 1983 to 1993 Kliegl was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. In 1994 he accepted a position at the University of Potsdam , where he still teaches today. Kliegl received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation in 2002 and has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 2003 . In 2008 he was awarded the Wilhelm Wundt Medal of the German Society for Psychology . He has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2009 .

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Kliegl's main focus is cognitive psychology and especially the mathematical modeling of cognitive processes. For example, Kliegl works with measurements of eye movements when reading texts. These measurements are used to create complex models and should therefore explain the capacities of the reading ability in more detail. For example, in contrast to large parts of the traditional theories, Kliegl comes to the conclusion that we are able to process three to four visually perceived words at the same time.

Another focus of Kliegl's work is the investigation of the effects of aging on cognitive capacities. Kliegl differentiates here between various basic cognitive processes and shows that aging only has an influence on a part.

Web links

• Kliegl's homepage at the University of Potsdam
• Publications recorded by ZPID in the "PsychAuthors" project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry of Reinhold Kliegl (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.