Anders Petersen

Anders Petersen

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3595-6275

  • Øster Farimagsgade 2A, 1350 København K

20072019

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Research fields

  • Visual attention and memory
  • Mathematical modeling
  • Eye tracking, pupillometry and EEG

Research group memberships

  • Center for Visual Cognition (Department of Psychology) 

Research: brief description

Anders Petersen is associate professor in quantitative methods at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on developing tools for investigating human visual attention and short-term memory by using mathematical modeling, eye tracking, and EEG and contributes to the continuous development of the Theory of Visual Attention (TVA; see Bundesen, Vangkilde & Petersen, 2014 for latest developments). A major focus of his research has been on the development of paradigms to measure temporal dynamics of visual attention (see Petersen & Kyllingsbæk, 2013) and he has developed the first quantitative stochastic model explaining the attentional dwell-time phenomenon (see Petersen et. al. 2012, 2013). The model is an elegant extension of the TVA with a large potential not only for explaining behavioral data but also for bridging cognition and neurophysiology.

Grants

  • Individualised Diagnostics and Rehabilitation for Attentional disorders (INDIREA), EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network (2013-2017), Danish cluster (PI: Prof. Claus Bundesen): Full grant DKK 4,367,692.

Teaching

  • Course coordinator, Statistics I and II, BA-level.
  • Statistics, MA-level.
  • Summer courses in statistics, BA- and MA-level.
  • Cognitive Psychology, BA-level.

CV

Born:

30th of March 1979 (Denmark)

Education:

MSc in Computer Science (University of Copenhagen, 2005). Ph.D. in Psychology (University of Copenhagen, 2010) 

Current position:

2017- : Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen

Previous positions:

2014-2017: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen

2010-2014: Postdoc, Center for Visual Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.

2006-2010: Ph.D. student, Center for Visual Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.

Administration:

2015-: Work Environment representative for the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.

2015-: Member of the Collaboration Committee at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.

Keywords

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Visual attention
  • Mathematical modeling

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