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From March 9 to 12, 2025, the Conference of Experimental Psychologists (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen, TeaP) took place at Goethe University Frankfurt.

The Institute of Psychology (IfP) was also represented at TeaP with various contributions.

Contributions of the Work and Engineering Psychology Research Group

• Böffel, C., Soyka, S. J., Mundi, S., Wick, W., Schlittmeier, S. J., & Venkataramani, V. Improving doctor-patient communication using large language models – Results from an experimental online study [Presentation].
• Haehn, L., Schlittmeier, S. J., & Böffel, C. In deep – An experimental study on the influence of ambient and character sounds in a simulator game [Poster].
• Mohanathasan, C., Ehret, J., Ermert, C. A., Koleva, P. B., Bönsch, A., Fels, J., Kuhlen, T. W., & Schlittmeier, S. J. Memory and listening effort in conversations: The role of spatial position, visual cues, and cognitive functions [Presentation].
• Würger, S., Sinning, A., Bielak, J., Classen, M., Guo, W., Li, W., Miny, T., Kleinert, T., Schlittmeier, S. J., & Böffel, C. Cognitive biases in decision-making for recycled building materials: Insights from a vignette experiment [Presentation].

Furthermore, the symposium „Auditory Cognition in Interactive Virtual Environments“ was organized by Sabine Schlittmeier together with Stephan Getzmann (IfADo Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environments and Human Factors).

Contributions of the Cognitive and Experimental Psychology Research Group

• Benini, E., Koch, I., & Philipp, A. M. Is cognitive control adjusted to deal with partial repetitions in task switching? [Talk].
• Camisa, A., Koch, I., & Hirsch, P. Cognitive mechanisms underlying the reduction of task-pair set activation in dual-task contexts: The role of passive decay over time [Poster].
• Falanga, L., Behrens, L., Weckop, S., & Koch, I. Spatial cueing of distractor location and top-down inhibition in auditory selective attention [Talk].
• Hartmann, R., Koger, A., Straub, E., Johannsen, L., Koch, I., Stephan, D., Müller, H., & Kiesel, A. forceplate: An R package for processing raw force-plate data [Talk].
• Hirsch, P., Koch, I., & Philipp, A. M. The effect of task interruptions on performance in a typing task [Poster].
• Johannsen, L., Müller, H., Kiesel, A., & Koch, I. Interference between cognitive conflict resolution and control of standing balance [Talk].
• Köhler, A.-L., Koch, I., & Ladwig, S. Guiding drivers towards safer driving speed: Exploiting visual dominance in speed adaptation [Poster].
• Koger, A., Johannsen, L., Kiesel, A., Müller, H., Stephan, D. N., Straub, E. R., & Koch, I. Assessing the influence of cognitive dual-task demands on postural control: An event-related approach using cluster-based permutation analysis [Talk].
• Moretti, L., Koch, I., & von Bastian, C. When control measures actually measure control. [Talk].
• Paschmanns, A., Kuhlen, A. K., & Koch, I. Language production in bilingual dyads: The effect of speaker switches and language switches [Talk].
• Schils, L., Koch, I., Huang, P.-C., Hsieh, S., & Stephan, D. A new precueing paradigm: Impact of task preparation on multimodal precueing [Poster].
• Simonetti, M. E., Lorenz, M. G., Koch, I., & Roembke, T. No evidence for bilingual advantage in statistical word learning [Talk].
• Straub, E., Koger, A., Johannsen, L., Kiesel, A., Müller, H., & Koch, I. Event-related analysis of postural control and cognitive conflict in the Flanker Task [Talk].
• Strivens, A., Lavric, A., & Koch, I. Does engagement to a target or disengagement from a distractor drive the reduction of attention switch cost with preparation? [Poster].

Contributions of the Diagnostics and Intervention Research Group

• Pieczykolan, A. & Börger, D. Don’t Stop Believin’ in Multitasking: Perceived Effort in Serial and Parallel Dual-Task Strategies [Talk].
• Horbach, J., Dewenter, L., & Günther, T. Development of eyemovements in reading from first to fifth grade [Poster].