Research Areas
Second language acquisition
Object-, and person perception
Interaction of vision and language
Emotional Neuroscience
Aphasia
Methods: MEG, EEG, Eyetracking, Performance measures
Selected Publications
Dobel, C., Enriquez-Geppert, S., Bölte, J., & Zwitserlood, P. (in press). Representation of actions in sign language. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.
Junghöfer, M., Kissler, J., Schupp, H., Putsche, C., Elling, L. & Dobel, C. (2010). A fast neural signature of motivated attention to consumer goods separates the sexes. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4:179. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00179
Hirschfeld, G., Zwitserlood, P. & Dobel, C. (2010). Effects of language comprehension on visual processing - MEG dissociates early perceptual and late N400 effects. Brain and Language.
Dobel, C., Junghöfer, M., Klauke, B., Breitenstein, C., Pantev, C., Knecht, S. & Zwitserlood, P. (2010). New names for known things: On the association of novel word forms with existing semantic information. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1251-1261.
Dobel, C., Lagemann, L. & Zwitserlood, P. (2009). Non-native phonemes in adult word learning – evidence from the N400m. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 364, 3697-3710.
Lange, J., de Lussanet, M., Kuhlmann, S., Zimmermann, A., Lappe, M., Zwitserlood, P. & Dobel, C. (2009) Impairments of biological motion perception in congenital prosopagnosia. PLoS ONE. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7414. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007414.
Dobel, C., Geiger, L., Bruchmann, M., Putsche, C., Schweinberger, S. & Junghöfer, J. (2008). On the interplay of familiarity and emotional expression. Psychological Research, 72, 580-586.
Dobel, C., Putsche, C., Zwitserlood, P. & Junghöfer, M. (2008). Early left-hemispheric dysfunction of face processing in congenital prosopagnosia: an MEG study. PLoS ONE 3(6): e2326.
Breitenstein, C., Zwitserlood, P., de Fries, M., Feldhuis, C., Knecht, S. & Dobel, C. (2007). Five days versus a lifetime: Intense associative vocabulary training generates lexically integrated words. Journal of Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 25, 493- 500.
Dobel, C., Bölte, J., Aicher, M. & Schweinberger, S. (2007). Prosopagnosia without apparent cause: Overview and diagnosis of six cases. Cortex, 43, 718-733.
Dobel, C., Diesendruck, G. & Bölte, J. (2007). How writing system and age influence spatial representations of actions - a developmental, crosslinguistic study. Psychological Science, 18, 487-491.
Academic CV
| 1986–1988 | Undergraduate Studies of Psychology, University of Konstanz |
| 1988–1989 | Scholarship Holder, University of Rutgers, New Jersey, USA |
| 1989–1994 | Graduate Studies of Psychology, University of Konstanz |
| 03/94 | Diploma of Psychology (Dipl. Psych.) University of Konstanz Supervisors: Prof. Dr. R. Cohen, Prof. Dr. B. Rockstroh Subject: Programming of movements in schizophrenic patients |
| 1997-1999 | Dissertation (Dr. rer. soc.), University of Konstanz Supervisors: Prof. Dr. B. Rockstroh, Prof. Dr. Dr. P.W. Schönle Subject: Event related potentials of aphasics and controls in language production tasks |
| 1999–2000 | Postdoc position with Prof. Dr. F. Pulvermüller, University of Konstanz |
| 2000–2002 | Postdoc position with Prof. Dr. W.J.M Levelt, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL; funded by the German Research Council (DFG) |
| 2002–2006 | Assistant Professor (C1), Department of Prof. Dr. P. Zwitserlood, University of Münster |
| Since 2006 | Senior scientist at the Insitute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Münster / Medical Department |
| 12/07 | Habilitation and Venia Legendi for Psychology, University of Münster Title: Cognition of action events |
| 04/10-03/11 | Temporary Head of General and Biological Psychology, University of Wuppertal |