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Prof. Dr Wolfgang Prinz

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Prof. Dr Wolfgang Prinz

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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Stephanstraße 1A, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

Department of Psychology

Phone: +49 341 9940 - 2287

Fax: +49 341 9940 2330

Function: Director

Homepage: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/~prinz

CV

Curriculum Vitae table
Timeframe, Date	Description
Education
1962 - 1966	Study of Psychology, Philosophy, and Zoology (University of Munster, Germany)
1966 - 1970	Research Assistant at the Chair of Cognitive Psychology (Department of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
since 1966	Diploma in Psychology (University of Munster, Germany)
since 1970	PhD at the School of Philosophy, Pedagogy, and Psychology (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Career
1970 - 1974	Senior Researcher at the Department of Psychology (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
1974 - 1975	Interim Professor of Psychology of Learning (University of Essen, Germany)
1975 - 1990	Professor of Experimental Psychology (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
1976 - 1977	Dean of the Faculty of Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Psychology (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
1982 - 1989	Research Director at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
1990 - 1998	Professor of Psychology and Philosophy (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
1990 - 2004	Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research Munich, Germany
1997 - 2000	Head of the Humanities Section of the Max Planck Society
since 1998	Honorary Professor for Psychologiy at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
since 2004	Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
since 2005	Honorary Professor for Psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany

Memberships in Research Councils and Societies

Academia Europea; German Academy of Natural Scientist Leopoldina, Halle (Saale), Germany; Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, Germany; Advisory Board of the Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany; Honorary Member of the European Society of Psychology (ESCoP); Psychonomic Society; German Society of Psychology (DGPs)

Awards

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Selected Publications

Waszak, F., Springer, A., & Prinz, W. (in press). The Dynamic Control of Human Actions. In R. R. Hassin, K. Ochsner, & Y. Trope (Eds.), Self control in society, mind, and brain (The Oxford series for social cognition and social neuroscience). New York: Oxford University Press.
Prinz, W., Aschersleben, G., & Koch, I. (2009). Cognition and action. In E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Human Action (pp. 35-71). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bach, P., Gunter, T. C., Knoblich, G., Prinz, W., & Friederici, A. D. (2009). N400-like negativities in action perception reflect the activation of two components of an action representation. Social Neuroscience, 4(3), 212-232.
Daum, M. M., Sommerville, J., & Prinz, W. (2009). Becoming a social agent: Developmental foundations of an embodied social psychology. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 1196-1206.
Daum, M. M., Vuori, M., Prinz, W., & Aschersleben, G. (2009). Inferring the size of a goal object from an actor's grasping movement in 6- and 9-month-old infants. Developmental Science, 12(6), 854-862.
Klein, A., Zwickel, J., Prinz, W., & Frith, U. (2009). Animated triangles: An eye tracking investigation. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(6), 1189-1197.
Grosjean, M., Zwickel, J., & Prinz, W. (2009). Acting while perceiving: Assimilation precedes contrast. Psychological Research, 73(1), 3-13.
Prinz, W. (2008). Mirrors for embodied communication. In I. Wachsmuth, M. Lenzen, & G. Knoblich (Eds.), Embodied communication in humans and machines (pp. 111-128). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Atmaca, S., Sebanz, N., Prinz, W., & Knoblich, G. (2008). Action co-representation: The joint SNARC effect. Social Neuroscience, 3(3-4), 410-420.
Bendixen, A., Prinz, W., Horvath, J., Trujillo-Barreto, N. J., & Schröger, E. (2008). Rapid extraction of auditory feature contingencies. NeuroImage, 41(3), 1111-1119.
Müller, K., Aschersleben, G., Schmitz, F., Schnitzler, A., Freund, H.-J., & Prinz, W. (2008). Inter-versus intramodal integration in sensorimotor synchronization: A combined behavioral and magnetoencephalographic study. Experimental Brain Research, 185(2), 309-318.
Daum, M. M., Prinz, W., & Aschersleben, G. (2008). Encoding the goal of an object-directed but uncompleted reaching action in 6- and 9-month-old infants. Developmental Science, 11(4), 607-619.
Häberle, A., Schütz-Bosbach, S., Laboissière, R., & Prinz, W. (2008). Ideomotor action in cooperative and competitive settings. Social Neuroscience, 3(1), 26-36.
Ishihara, M., Keller, P. E., Rossetti, Y., & Prinz, W. (2008). Horizontal spatial representations of time: Evidence for the STEARC effect. Cortex, 44(4), 454-461.
Lepper, M., Massen, C., & Prinz, W. (2008). What to do and how to do it: Sequence learning of action effects and transformation rules. Acta Psychologica, 128(1), 139-152.
Prinz, W. (2008). Mirror games. In F. Morganti, A. Carassa, & G. Riva (Eds.), Enacting intersubjectivity: A cognitive and social perspective on the study of interactions (pp. 165-174). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
Massen, C., & Prinz, W. (2007). Activation of action rules in action observation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33(6), 1118-1130.
Koester, D., & Prinz, W. (2007). Capturing regularities in event sequences: Evidence for two mechanisms. Brain Research, 1180, 59-77.
Schütz-Bosbach, S., & Prinz, W. (2007). Perceptual resonance: Action-induced modulation of perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11(8), 349-355.
Graf, M., Reitzner, B., Corves, C., Casile, A., Giese, M., & Prinz, W. (2007). Predicting point-light actions in real-time. In , NeuroImage (36, pp. T22-T32). : .
Hauf, P., Aschersleben, G., & Prinz, W. (2007). Baby do – Baby see! How action production influences action perception in infants. Cognitive Development, 22(1), 16-32.
Prinz, W. (2006). Free will as a social institution. In S. Pockett, W. P. Banks, & S. Gallagher (Eds.), Does consciousness cause behavior? (pp. 257-276). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bosbach, S., Cole, J., Prinz, W., & Knoblich, G. (2005). Inferring another's expectation from action: The role of peripheral sensation. Nature Neuroscience, 8(10), 1295-1297.
Drost, U. C., Rieger, M., Brass, M., Gunter, T. C., & Prinz, W. (2005). When hearing turns into playing: Movement induction by auditory stimuli in pianists. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section A: Human Experimental Psychology, 58A(8), 1376-1389.
Koch, I., & Prinz, W. (2005). Response preparation and code overlap in dual tasks. Memory & Cognition, 33, 1085-1095.
Prinz, W. (2005). An ideomotor approach to imitation. In S. Hurley & N. Chater (Eds.), Mechanisms of imitation and imitation in animals (Perspectives on imitation: From neuroscience to social science, Vol. 1, pp. 141-156). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Sebanz, N., Knoblich, G., & Prinz, W. (2005). How two share a task: Corepresenting stimulus-response mappings. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 6(31), 1234-1246.

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