Physics of Cognition
Sabine Grimm
Physics of Cognition 

Dr. Sabine Grimm

Portrait: Sabine Grimm    Sabine Grimm
   Dr. rer. nat., Psychologist
   Senior Researcher
 
   Phone: +49 371 531-32018
   Room: Campus Reichenhainer Straße, Physikbau, P134
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Academic service at TU Chemnitz

  • since 10/2023 Study Success Management for the Institute of Physics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences  

Education and career path

  • since 10/2023: Senior Researcher at the Physics of Cognition Group, Chemnitz University of Technology
  • 01/2022-01/2024: Postdoctoral Researcher in the SFB/TRR 135, Physics of Cognition Group, Chemnitz University of Technology
  • 07/2021-01/2022: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Cognitive Systems Lab, Chemnitz University of Technology
  • 2017: Deputy Professor of "Structure and function of cognitive systems", Chemnitz University of Technology
  • 2013-2016 & 2018-2021: Assistant Professor at the Institute of Psychology, Leipzig University, Group "Cognitive including Biological Psychology"
  • 2008-2013: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain, Group "Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group"
  • 2002-2008: Researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Leipzig University, Group "Cognitive including Biological Psychology" - PhD Thesis "Representations of auditory time: Pre-attentive and attentive processing of temporal sound features"
  • 1996-2002: Studies of psychology at Leipzig University - Diploma Thesis "The double-flash phenomenon: Temporal aspects of visual processing"

Publications

Latest contributions to peer-refereed journals

  • Meissner, S., Miksch, J., Würbach, L., Feder, S., Grimm, S., Einhäuser, W., & Billino, J. (2025). Violated expectations during locomotion through virtual environments: Age effects on gaze guidance. Journal of Vision, 25(13), 11. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.13.11 [Open Access]
  • Müller, P. R., Grimm, S., & Einhäuser, W. (2025). No robust evidence for an effect of head-movement propensity on central bias in head-constrained scene viewing, despite an effect on fixation duration. Journal of Vision, 25(4), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.4.10 [Open Access]
  • Einhäuser, W., Neubert, C. R., Grimm, S., & Bendixen, A. (2024). High visual salience of alert signals can lead to a counterintuitive increase of reaction times. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8858. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58953-4 [Open Access] [Open Data]
  • Walper, D., Bendixen, A., Grimm, S., Schubö, A., & Einhäuser, W. (2024). Attention deployment in natural scenes: Higher-order scene statistics rather than semantics modulate the N2pc component. Journal of Vision, 24(6), 7. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.6.7 [Open Access]
  • Coy, N., Bendixen, A., Grimm, S., Roeber, U., & Schröger, E. (2024). Conditional deviant repetition in the oddball paradigm modulates processing at the level of P3a but not MMN. Psychophysiology, 00, e14545. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14545 [Open Access] [Open Data]
  • Ringer, H., Rösch, S. A., Roeber, U., Deller, J., Escera, C., & Grimm, S. (2024). That sounds awful! Does sound unpleasantness modulate the mismatch negativity and its habituation? Psychophysiology, 61, e14450. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14450 [Open Access] [Open Data]

Books, Book Chapters, Monographs

  • Schröger, E., Grimm, S., & Müller, D. (2022). Biologische Psychologie. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
  • Grimm, S. (2009). Representations of Auditory Time: Pre-Attentive and Attentive Processing of Temporal Sound Features. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.

Full list of publications

Acquired funding

  • 2016: Continuation Project  "Rapid learning of unfamiliar sound patterns based on spectrotemporal matching mechanisms" funded by the German Research Foundation (GR 3412/2-2, funding period: 2017-2019)
  • 2014: Project  "Rapid learning of unfamiliar sound patterns based on spectrotemporal matching mechanisms" funded by the German Research Foundation (GR 3412/2-1, funding period: 2015-2017)
  • 2013: Successful candidate for a Postdoctoral Fellowship Ramon y Cajal of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competition (funding period: 5(+2) years)
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship Juan de la Cierva (JCI 2009-04401) of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (funding period: 2009-2012)
  • DFG grant for a conference trip to the Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Marseille, France

Reviewer activity

for research funding bodies

  • National Science Centre, Poland
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
  • OTKA - Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

for peer-refereed journals:

Behavioral and Brain Function; Biological Psychiatry; Biological Psychology; Brain Research; Cerebral Cortex; Clinical Neurophysiology; Current Research in Neurobiology; European Journal of Neuroscience; Frontiers in Neuroscience; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Journal of Neurophysiology; Journal of Neuroscience; Nature Reviews Psychology; Neuroimage; Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience; Neuroscience Letters; PLOS One; Psychophysiology; Scientific Reports