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Dr. Tobias Meilinger

Curriculum Vitae

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2013 – Group leader of the Social and Spatial Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological

Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany

2012 –2013 Research Scientist at the University of Tokyo, Japan (Humboldt Foundation/Japan Society for the

Promotion of Science)

2010 –2012 Project leader in own project from the German Research Foundation (DFG), Max Planck Institute

for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

2008 –2009 Post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

11-12/2007 Visiting fellow at Collège de France, Paris

2005 –2008 Researcher in EU-project, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

2003 –2005 PhD student in project within Collaborative Research Centre (DFG), Cognitive Science

InstriFreiburg University, Germany

2-4/2003 Researcher in project of the Federal Highway Research Institute, Würzburg University, Germany

1997 –2002 Research assistant, Würzburg University, Germany

EDUCATION

4/2016 Habilitation in Psychology, Tübingen University, Thesis: Reference frames in spatial integration,

memory and recall

8/2014 Baden-Württemberg Zerifikat für Hochschuldidaktik, Modul 1, (public certificate on university

teaching), and follow up courses on e-learning and leadership

12/2007 Doctor in Psychology, Freiburg University, Thesis: Strategies of orientation in environmental

spaces, Prof. Strube

11/2002

Diploma in Psychology, Würzburg University (subsidiary subjects: artificial intelligence,

philosophy, economy; specialization: traffic psychology), Thesis: Kompetenzerwerb von

Menüsystemen als multikodierter Prozess (Knowledge acquisition in menu systems as a multi-

coded process), Prof. Krüger

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Science: Environmental representation; navigation, collaborative spatial problem solving, spatial

perception, spatial integration, working and long-term memory, multimodal learning, social spaces,

interaction, collaboration

Applications: virtual reality, satnav & wayfinding aids, location based services, human-machine

interaction, driving assistance, architecture and urban design, collaborative planning


EXTERNAL FUNDING

PI Co-Avatar: Collaborative Spatial Problem Solving (joint Max Planck

and Fraunhofer Society project, overall volume: 1 200 000€)

500 000€

Feodor Lynen grant by the Humboldt Foundation 40 000€

Where is my goal? The functional, computational and neural basis of

human survey knowledge German Research Foundation (DFG)

130 000€

Spatial integration from views and maps, Japan Society for the

Promotion of Science (JSPS)

60 000€

Wrote on

proposal DFG-project MapSpace within the SFB TR/8 Spatial Cognition (overall

volume 2nd

phase: 11 200 000€, further tasks: researcher, contribute to

financial planning, reporting and follow-up grant

500 000€

BASt-project (German Federal Highway Research Institute) Bäume und

Sträucher im Straßenverkehr – trees and bushes in traffic, further tasks:

researcher, reporting

180 000€

Researcher EU-project Wayfinding (overall volume: 1 900 000€), role: researcher,

financial and personal organization, reporting

FAT (automobile industry)/BASt-project Learnability of car

infotainment systems (300 000€), role: researcher

TEACHING

Lectures Psychologie für Nebenfachstudierende (Psychology for non-psychology students), 2014

Perception, Cognition and Behaviour together colleagues from the University Tübingen, 2010-

2017

Courses Social Cognition, 2017

Philosophie für Psychologen (Philosophy for Psychologists), 2017

Kognitive Ergonomie (Cognitive Ergonomics), 2016

Human Mobility, Cognition and GIS together with D. Montello, O.B. Jensen & S. van der Spek,

2015

Advanced Statistics together with S. de la Rosa and J. Souman, 2009

Raum (space) at the Forum Scientiarium of the University of Tübingen together with M. Neuber

(Philosophy), 2007

Cognitive and Computational Psychophysics together with colleagues from the MPI for Biological

Cybernetics, 2006, 2009

SUPERVISION

Dissertations Marianne Strickrodt (Neural & Behavioural Sciences), Regionalization in environmental

knowledge (ongoing)

Thomas Hinterecker (Neural & Behavioural Sciences), Reference frames for object locations and

linear self-movement in 3D space (ongoing)

Dissertation

committee Aurelie Saulton (Neural & Behavioural Sciences), Understanding the nature of the body model

underlying position sense

Laura Fademrecht (Neural & Behavioural Sciences), Action Recognition in the Visual Periphery

Anne Thaler (Neural & Behavioural Sciences), Visual influences on body representations

(ongoing)

Matt Knight (Psychology, Flinders University), The role of interactivity in the context of map

learning


Olivia Haas (Neuroscience Munich University), Sensory Input Dependent Neuronal

Representations of Virtual Environments (ongoing)

Master/

Diploma

theses

Julia Frankenstein (Psychology), Tübingen University, The Map in Our Mind – Effects of

Alignment and Distance in Memory for Highly Familiar Environments

Katja Kaiser, Max Planck Graduate School of Neural & Behavioural Sciences, Environmental

spatial priming – comparing place- and view-graph models

Anna-Antonia Pape, Max Planck Graduate School of Neural & Behavioural Sciences Grid cells in

environmental spaces

Caroline Leroy (Cognitive Science), Tübingen University, Spatial memory in 3D

Sebastian Wegener (Psychology), BW Universität Hamburg, Influence of speech and visual

partner information on collaborative search.

Johannes Kurz (Cognitive Science), Tübingen University, Social influences on perspective taking,

(Co-supervision with Martin Butz)

Marcel Bechthold (Computer Science), Tübingen University, The influence of a self-avatar on

reaching affordances in immersive VR headsets (Co-supervision with Betty Mohler)

Bachelor

theses

Maxine-Rafaela Hanrieder (Cognitive Science), University of Tübingen, Collaborative search

Edgard Jung (Psychology), Innsbruck University, Influence of body orientation and gaze

direction on distance estimation to avatars

Bianca Siefredi (Cognitive Science), University of Osnabrück, feelSpace II – multimodal

perception with a new sensory modality (Co-supervision with Peter König)

Chantal Horeis (Cognitive Science), University of Tübingen, View integration within rooms

Placement

year stud. Agnes Henson (Psychology), Cardiff University, The acquisition of human survey knowledge

Mary O’Malley (Psychology), Cardiff University, Mental models vs. mental walk

Interns Franziska Keilmann (Psychology & Mathematics) Hagen & Braunschweig University

Maximilian Kirschhock (Neuroscience) Tübingen University

Katja Kaiser (Neuroscience) Tübingen University

Simone Kurek (Cognitive Science) Tübingen University

Caroline Leroy (Cognitive Science), Tübingen University

Celia Foster (Neuroscience), Tübingen University

Marianne Strickrodt (Psychology), Giessen University

Katsuhisa Kawaguchi (Neuroscience), Tübingen University

Jon Rebane (Computational Neuroscience), Tübingen University

Sebastian Wegener (Psychology), BW University Hamburg

Kasia Krawczyńska (Psychology), Warsaw University

Sandra Andraszewicz (Cognitive Science), Utrecht University

Sophie Peschke (Biology), Tübingen University

Max Bäuerle (Biology), TU Berlin

Laura Engelhardt (Art); Berlin

SERVICE & ORGANIZATION

Department/

University

Member in Group Leader Board, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Department for

Perception, Cognition and Action (institute’s organization and development including recruitment)

Representative for phD and postdoc training in the department, Max Planck Institute for Biological

Cybernetics

Member of teaching board at the Graduate School for Neural and Behavioral Science (coordinate

courses, select prospective students)


Elected student representative, Würzburg University (University board member, student tutor,

organize 1st year introduction, talks, and student library)

Community Humboldt Alumni Society (organize local meetings)

Organization IEEE VR 2018, Exhibits chair

Second International Workshop on Models and Representations in Spatial Cognition, together with

Hanspeter A. Mallot, Tübingen, 6-7/4/2017

Symposium Spatial representation and processing - what information do we need? together with

Ramona Grzeschik at the 13th German Cognitive Science Conference, 29/9/2016

Symposium Conceptions of Space – an Interdisciplinary Exchange, together with Gottfried

Vosgerau at the 9th German Cognitive Science Conference. 28/9/2008

COLLABORATIONS

Christoph Hölscher (Cognitive Science), ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Ruth Rosenholtz & Christa Ehinger (Psychology / Computer Science), MIT/Harvard Medical

School, USA

Katsumi Watanabe & Kohske Takahashi (Cognitive Science), The University of Tokyo, Japan

Betty Mohler (Computer Science), Stephan de la Rosa (Psychology), Heinrich H. Bülthoff

(Biology), MPI Tübingen, Germany

Ulrike Cress, Stephan Schwan (Psychology) Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen

Thomas Wolbers (Neuroscience), DZNE Magdeburg, Germany

Hanspeter A. Mallot (Biology), Stephan Schwan, Markus Huff, Frank Papenmeier

(Psychology), Tübingen University, Germany

Peter & Sabine König, (Cognitive Science), Osnabrück University

Ruth Conroy Dalton (Architecture), Northumbria University, UK

Jan Wiener (Biology), Bournemouth University, UK

Ineke van der Ham & Albert Postma (Psychology), Leiden University, Utrecht University,

Netherlands

Jean-Pierre Bresciani (Psychology), CNRS/ Grenoble/Fribourg University, France, Switzerland

Manuel Vidal (Computer Science), CNRS/Marseille University, France

Michael Barnett-Cowan (Psychology), Waterloo University, Canada

Julia Frankenstein (Psychology), TU Darmstadt, Germany

Alain Berthoz, Collège der France, Paris (previous)

Kai Florian Richter & Alexander Klippel (Computer Science/Geography), Bremen University,

Germany

Mark Vollrath, Ingo Totzke, Hans-Peter Krüger (Psychology), Würzburg University, Germany

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Keynote GI VR/AR 2017 [1]

Workshops Compartmentalization in human memory for large scale spaces, 3rd

Symposium on Spatial

Navigation, LMU Munich 15/3/2017

[8]

Spatial integration within large-scale spaces, iNAV 2016, 1st Interdisciplinary Navigation

Symposium, 26/6/2016

[7]

Humans construct survey estimates on the fly and do not rely on a unified representation of

the navigated environment, Modeling Spatial Cognition Workshop, Hanse-

Wissenschaftskolleg, 3/3/2016

[6]


Human navigation in virtual large scale spaces, Bernstein Sparks Workshop on Multi-modal

closed-loop stimulation and virtual realities, Bernstein Center for Computational

Neuroscience Munich, 26/6/2015

[5]

Compartmentalization in spatial memory, Vespucci Initiative Workshop on Brain and Space,

Lisboa, Prof. Taube, Wolbers Fiete, Câmara & Shinazi, 3/9/2014

[4]

Reference frames for environmental spaces, Winter Workshop on Coordinate Frames for

Visual Stability, Reading University, 5/12/2011

[3]

Commentator on Michael Bratman Acting over Time – Acting Together, Rational Agency

Workshop, University of Tübingen, 6/6/2011

[2]

Local and global reference frames in survey knowledge acquired from navigation and maps

Workshop spatial behaviour and linguistic representation, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg,

23/4/2010

[1]

Public

lectures Navigation - wie wir unsere Umwelt repräsentieren und uns in ihr zurecht finden. Forum

Scientarium Tübingen, 2/2/2017

[5]

Wie kommen wir zu unserem Ziel? Navigation in Städten und Gebäuden, puplic lecture as

part of the “Campus Talks” series from ARD alpha, München, 17/2/2016

[4]

Orientierung im Raum, part of a public science lectures on visual perception, Tübingen

University, 7/5/2015

[3]

Navigation und Gehirn. Wie wir wissen wo wir sind und wohin wir wollen, ERES-

Foundation for the communication between art and science, Munich, 2/2/2015

[2]

Wie navigieren wir in Städten und Gebäuden?, Rotary Club Reutlingen-Tübingen Nord,

14/2/2012

[1]

Colloquia Navigation in cities and buildings, Giessen University, Prof. Fiehler, 15/7/2014 [19]

Spatial integration, Freiburg University, Prof. Ferstl, 26/6/2014 [18]

Spatial cognition – different processes for different kinds of spaces, CerCo/CNRS, Toulouse,

Prof. Barbau, 12/11/2013

[17]

Navigation in environmental spaces, The University of Tokyo, Prof. Ishikawa, 7/5/2013 [16]

Spatial integration, Kyoto University, Prof. Altmann, 5/3/2013 [15]

Spatial integration within environmental spaces at the SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition

Colloquium Freiburg/Bremen/Münster/Buffalo, 9/12/2011

[14]

How do we memorize everyday environments and use this memory for pointing and selecting

routes? Freiburg University, PD Christoph Hölscher, 16/12/2010

[13]

Situated maps University of California Santa Barbara, Prof. Hegarty, Prof. Montello,

24/8/2010

[12]

Spatial cognition and virtual characters University of Bielefeld, Prof. Wachsmuth, 5/5/2010 [11]

Situatedness in spatial cognition Giessen University, Prof. Knauff, 4/11/2009 [10]

Situatedness in spatial cognition Collège de France, Prof. Berthoz, 27/6/2009 [9]

Raumkonzepte in der Psychologie (conceptions of space in Psychology) Helmut Schmidt

University Hamburg, Prof. May, 29/2/2008

[8]

Do humans use metric maps for environmental large scale spaces?, Collège de France, Prof.

Berthoz, 21/11/2007

[7]

Orientierung im Raum (orientation in space), University of Würzburg, Prof. Krüger, Prof.

Hoffmann, 25/6/2007

[6]

Orientierung im Raum mit Karten – wie Menschen ihren Weg von A nach B finden

(orientation in space with maps), DLR Braunschweig, PD. Dr. Mark Vollrath, 9/9/2006

[5]

Memory for environmental spaces, University of Freiburg, Prof. Strube, 21/6/2006 [4]

Memory for environmental spaces , University of Tübingen, Prof. Mallot, 7/6/2006 [3]

Psychophysik der Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstelle (Psychophysics of the man-machine-

interface), Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, 3/4/2006

[2]

How to reach a goal – strategies and representations in wayfinding, University of Tübingen,

Prof. Mallot, 13/12/200

[1]


REVIEWING

Editor Frontiers in Psychology, Cognitive Science Conference

Grants Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany), Agence National de la Recherche (ANR,

France), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC, UK), Netherlands

Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF, Switzerland),

Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF, Austria), Israel Science Foundation

(ISF, together with S. de la Rosa and H.H. Bülthoff), Minerva Center for Excellence (Germany-

Israel, together with H.H. Bülthoff ), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI, together with H.H.

Bülthoff)

Journals Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Psychological Science, Cognition, Scientific Reports, PLoS One,

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, &

Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Journal of Experimental Child

Psychology, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Learning and Individual Differences, Acta

Psychologica, Experimental Brain Research, Memory & Cognition, British Journal of Psychology,

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Attention,

Perception & Psychophysics, Behavioural Brain Research, Journal of Cognitive Psychology,

Cognitive Processing, Adaptive Behavior, Journal of Spatial Information Systems, Spatial

Cognition and Computation, Presence, Environment and Planning B, Scandinavian Journal of

Psychology; Adaptive Behavior, Language and Cognition, Psychologia, Psyche, Advances in

Cognitive Psychology, International Journal of GIS, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception,

Behavioral Sciences

Conferences Cognitive Science Conference, Spatial Cognition Conference, Media Psychology Conference,

EuroAsianPacific Cognitive Science Conference, IEEE – VR, International Conference on

Artificial Reality and Telexistence - Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments

DISSEMINATION

Participation

in diss-

emination

activities

Open house day Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (18/6/2016; 15/10/2011;

17/10/2009)

Open house day Tübingen University (25/4/2014)

Girls day (23/4/2015; 10/4/2012; 13/4/2010)

School internships (3/2015; 10/2014; 2/2014; 11/2013; 3/2012; 10/2011; 3/2011; 10/2010; 2/2010;

10/2009)

Coverage in

the media

Campus talk, ARD alpha (tv) 2/2016

Science blog of the Psychonomic Society, USA, 8/2015

Radiokolleg, Ö1 (radio) 3/2014

Wo bin ich, Süddeutsche Zeitung (newspaper), 12/2013

Interview, SWR4 (radio), 3/2012

Various reports about the „Map in the head paper e.g., New York Times, Le Monde, Süddeutsche

Zeitung, 1&2/2012

Interview, Deutschlandfunk (radio), 12/2011

Interview, Süddeutsche Zeitung (newspaper), 11/2011

Wo geht’s lang?, Geolino (kids magazine), 09/2011

Impuls, SWR2 (radio), 07/2011

Orientierungssinn, Apotheken Umschau (magazine), 01/2011

Kartensatz im Kopf, Max Planck Forschung (scientific magazine), 09/2010

Virtuelle Welt zum Anfassen, Gehirn und Geist, Issue 7-8 (scientific magazine), 08/2008

Orientierungssinn: Gleiches Ziel, verschiedene Wege, Apotheken Umschau (magazine), 06/200


Nano, 3Sat (tv), 08/2007

Faszination Wissen, BR (tv), 07/2007

MEMBERSHIPS

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (German Psychological Society)

Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (German Cognitive Science Society)

Deutsche Gesellschaft der Humboldtianer (Humboldt Alumni Society)

Tobias Meilinger - Publications page 8

PUBLICATIONS

Impact Citations: 1165 (google scholar), 471 (scopus)

H index: 18 (google scholar), 11 (scopus)

Book Meilinger, T. (2008). Strategies of Orientation in Environmental Spaces. Berlin: Logos Verlag.

Journal

papers

Hinterecker, T., * Leroy, C., * Zhao, M., Butz, M., Bülthoff, H.H., Meilinger, T. (in press). No

Advantage for Remembering Horizontal over Vertical Spatial Locations Learned from a Single

Viewpoint. Memory & Cognition. [*equal contributions]

[25]

Claessen, M., Visser-Meily, J., Meilinger, T., Postma, A., de Rooij, N. & van der Ham, I. (2017). A

systematic investigation of navigation impairment in chronic stroke patients: Evidence for three distinct

types. Neurospychologia, 103, 154-161.

[24]

König, S.U., Goeke, C., Meilinger, T. & König, P. (in press). Are allocentric spatial reference frames

compatible with theories of Enactivism? Psychological Research.

[23]

Meilinger, T.,* Strickrodt, M.,* & Bülthoff, H.H. (2016). Qualitative differences between

environmental and vista space memory are caused by the separation of space, not by movement or

successive perception. Cognition, 155, 77–95. [*equal contributions]

[22]

Meilinger, T., * Frankenstein, J., * Simon, N., Bülthoff, H.H., & Bresciani, J.-P. (2016). Not all

memories are the same: situational context influences spatial recall within ones city of residency.

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23, 246-252. [*equal contributions]

[21]

Meilinger, T. & Watanabe, K. (2016). Multiple strategies for spatial integration of 2D layouts in

working memory. PLOS ONE, 11, e0154088.

[20]

Jung, E., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K, de la Rosa, S. Butz, M.V., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T.

(2016). The Influence of Human Body Orientation on Distance Judgments. Frontiers in Psychology, 7,

1-9.

[19]

Meilinger, T., Schulte-Pelkum, J., Frankenstein, J., Hardiess, G. Mallot, H.A., Bülthoff, H.H. (2016).

How to best name a place? Facilitation and inhibition of route learning due to descriptive and arbitrary

location labels. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1-7.

[18]

König, S.U., Schumann, F., Keyser, J., Goeke, C., Krause, C., Wache, S., Lytochkin, A., Ebert, M.,

Brunsch, V., Wahn, B., Kaspar, K., Nagel, S.K., Meilinger, T., Bülthoff, H.H., Wolbers, T., Büchel, C.,

& König, P. (2016) Learning New Sensorimotor Contingencies: Effects of Long-Term Use of Sensory

Augmentation on the Brain and Conscious Perception. PLOS ONE, 11, 1-35.

[17]

Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H.H., & Hölscher, C. (2015). Reference frames

in learning from maps and navigation. Psychological Research, 79, 1000-1008.

[16]

Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2014). When in doubt follow your nose – a

wayfinding strategy. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1-7.

[15]

Meilinger, T., Riecke, B.E., Bülthoff, H.H. (2014). Local and global reference frames for

environmental spaces. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 542-569.

[14]

Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Bülthoff, H.H. (2013). Learning to navigate: experience vs. maps.

Cognition, 129, 24-30.

[13]

Meilinger, T. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2013). Verbal shadowing and visual interference in spatial memory.

PLOS ONE, 8, e74177.

[12]

Takahashi, K..,* Meilinger, T.,* Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H.H. (2013). Psychological influences on

distance estimation in a virtual reality environment. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 1-7. [*equal

contributions]

[11]

Frankenstein, J., Mohler, B.J., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2012). Is the Map in Our Head is

Oriented North? Psychological Science, 23, 120-125.

[10]

Meilinger, T., Franz, G., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2012). From Isovists via Mental Representations to

Behaviour: First Steps Toward Closing the Causal Chain. Environment and Planning B, 39, 48-62.

[9]

Barnett-Cowan, M., Meilinger, T., Vidal, M., Teufel, H. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2012). MPI CyberMotion

Simulator: Implementation of a novel motion simulator to investigate path integration in three

dimensions. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 63, 1-6.

[8]

Meilinger, T.,* Berthoz, A. & Wiener, J.M.* (2011). The integration of spatial information across

different viewpoints. Memory & Cognition, 39, 1042-1054. [*equal contributions]

[7]


van der Ham, I.J.M., van Zandvoort, M.J.E., Meilinger, T., Bosch, S.E., Kant, N. & Postma, A. (2010).

Spatial and temporal aspects of navigation in two neurological patients. NeuroReport, 21, 685-689.

[6]

Hölscher, C., Büchner, S. J., Meilinger, T., & Strube, G. (2009). Adaptivity of wayfinding strategies in

a multi-building ensemble – the effects of spatial structure, task requirements and metric information.

Journal of Environmental Psychology, 29, 208-219.

[5]

Meilinger, T. & Knauff, M. (2008). Ask for your way or use a map: A field experiment on spatial

orientation and wayfinding in an urban environment. Journal of Spatial Science, 53, 13-23.

[4]

Meilinger, T., Knauff, M., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2008). Working memory in wayfinding – a dual task

experiment in a virtual city. Cognitive Science, 32, 755-770.

[3]

Hölscher, C., Meilinger, T., Vrachliotis, G., Brösamle, M., & Knauff, M. (2006). Up the down

staircase: next term Wayfinding strategies in multi-level buildings. Journal of Environmental

Psychology, 26, 284–299.

[2]

Vollrath, M., Meilinger, T., & Krüger, H.-P. (2002). How the presence of passengers influences the

risk of a collision with another vehicle. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 34, 649–654.

[1]

Journal

papers

submitted

Meilinger, T.,* Pape, A.-A.,* Schultz, J., Bülthoff, H.H., & Wolbers, T. (under revision). Grid cell

remapping in human entorhinal cortex. Nature Neuroscience [*equal contributions]

[5]

Meilinger, T., Garsoffky, B. & Schwan, S. (under revision). The catchup illusion: a perception-bias in

relative target movements from a visually moving observer originating from altered between-target

distance compression. Scientific Reports.

[4]

Meilinger, T., Henson, A., Rebane, J., Bülthoff, H.H., Mallot, H.A. (submitted). Humans construct

survey estimates on the fly and do not rely on a unified representation of the navigated environment.

[3]

Foster, C., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K, Bülthoff, H.H., & Meilinger, T. (submitted). Distance

estimation of objects depends on their orientation, independent of aversiveness and animacy.

[2]

Keilmann, F., de la Rosa, S., Cress, U., Mohler, B.J., Schwan, S., Bülthoff, H.H., & Meilinger, T.

(submitted). Collaborative search advantages overweigh costs when knowing the environment.

[1]

Book

chapters

Wiener, J.M. & Meilinger, T. (forthcoming). Spatial Biases in Wayfinding and Navigation. In T.

Hubbard (Ed.), Spatial Biases in Perception and Cognition. Cambridge University Press.

[7]

Hardiess, G., Meilinger, T., & Mallot, H.A. (2015). Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition. In J.D.

Wright (Ed), International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 133-137). Amsterdam:

Elsevier.

[6]

Vosgerau, G. Knoll, A., Meilinger, T., & Vogeley, K. (2013). Representation. In A. Stephan, S. Walter

(Eds.), Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft (pp.386-401). Stuttgart: Metzler.

[5]

Basten, K., Meilinger, T., & Mallot, H.A. (2012). Mental travel primes place orientation in spatial

recall. In C. Stachniss, K. Schill, D.H. Uttal (Eds.), Spatial Cognition VIII, LNAI 7463 (pp. 378-385).

Berlin: Springer.

[4]

Meilinger, T. & Vosgerau, G. (2010). Putting Egocentric and Allocentric into Perspective. In C.

Hölscher, C., T. F. Shipley, M. Olivetti Belardinelli, J. A. Bateman, N. S. Newcombe (Eds.), Spatial

Cognition VII, LNAI 6222 (pp. 207-211). Berlin: Springer.

[3]

Meilinger, T. (2008). The network of reference frames theory: A synthesis of graphs and cognitive

maps. In C. Freksa, N.S. Newcombe, P. Gärdenfors & S. Wölfl (Eds.), Spatial Cognition VI, LNAI 5248

(pp. 344-360). Berlin: Springer.

[2]

Meilinger, T., Hölscher, C., Büchner, S. J., & Brösamle, M. (2006). How Much Information Do You

Need? Schematic Maps in Wayfinding and Self Localisation. In T. Barkowsky et al. (Eds.), Spatial

Cognition V, LNAI 4387 (pp. 381–400). Berlin: Springer.

[1]

Confe-

rence

papers

Meilinger, T., Schulte-Pelkum, J., Frankenstein, J., Berger, D. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2015). Global

Landmarks Do Not Necessarily Improve Spatial Performance in Addition to Bodily Self-Movement

Cues when Learning a Large-Scale Virtual Environment. International Conference on Artificial Reality

and Telexistence. Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments.

[17]

Henson, A., Mallot, H.A., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2011). When do we integrate spatial

information acquired by walking through environmental spaces? 33rd Annual Conference of the

Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2764-2769).

[16]

Meilinger, T. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2010). The Direction Bias and the Incremental Construction of Survey

Knowledge. 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2500-2505).

[15]


Frankenstein, J., Meilinger, T., Mohler, B. J. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2009). Spatial memory for highly

familiar environments. 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2650-2655).

[14]

Bülthoff, H.H., Campos, J.L. & Meilinger, T. (2008). Virtual Reality as a Valuable Research Tool for

Investigating Different Aspects of Spatial Cognition. International Conference Spatial Cognition 2008

(pp. 1-3).

[13]

Wiener, J.*, Meilinger, T.*, & Berthoz, A. (2008). The integration of spatial information across

different perspectives. 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2031-2036).

[*equal contributions]

[12]

Hölscher, C., Büchner, S. J., Brösamle, M., Meilinger, T., & Strube, G. (2007). Signs and Maps:

Cognitive Economy in the Use of External Aids for Indoor Navigation. Proceedings of the 29th Annual

Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 377–382).

[11]

Meilinger, T., Riecke, B. E., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2007). Orientation Specificity in Long-Term-Memory

for Environmental Spaces. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

(pp. 479–484).

[10]

Hölscher, C., Büchner, S. J., Meilinger, T., & Strube, G. (2006). Map Use and Wayfinding Strategies in

a Multi-Building Ensemble. International Conference Spatial Cognition 2006 (pp. 365–380). Berlin:

Springer.

[9]

Meilinger, T., Franz, G., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2006). From Isovists via Mental Representations to

Behaviour: First Steps Toward Closing the Causal Chain. Proceedings of the Space Syntax and Spatial

Cognition Workshop (pp. 1–16). Bremen: Universität Bremen.

[8]

Meilinger, T., Knauff, M., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2006). Working memory in wayfinding – a dual task

experiment in a virtual city. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science

Society (pp. 585–590).

[7]

Hölscher, C., Meilinger, T., Vrachliotis, G., & Knauff, M. (2005). The Floor Strategy: Wayfinding

Cognition in a Multi-Level Building. 5th International Space Syntax Symposium (pp. 823–824). [Note:

Six page paper version online].

[6]

Vrachliotis, G., Hölscher, C., Meilinger, T. (2005). Building analysis from a spatial cognition

perspective. 5th International Space Syntax Symposium, 823–824. [Note: Six page paper version

online].

[5]

Meilinger, T. (2005). Wayfinding with Maps and Verbal Directions. Proceedings of the 27th Annual

Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1473–1478).

[4]

Totzke, I., Meilinger, T., & Krüger, H.-P. (2005). Adaptivität und Adaptierbarkeit von

menügesteuerten Informationssystemen – Kein Ansatz zur Lösung des Problems der Erlernbarkeit?!. In

C. Urbas & C. Steffens (Eds.), Zustandserkennung und Systemgestaltung (pp. 35–40). Düsseldorf: VDI-

Verlag.

[3]

Hölscher, C., Meilinger, T., Vrachliotis, G., Brösamle, M., & Knauff, M. (2004). Finding the Way

Inside: Linking Architectural Design Analysis and Cognitive Processes. International Conference

Spatial Cognition 2004 (pp. 1–23). Berlin: Springer.

[2]

Totzke, I., Meilinger, T., & Krüger, H.-P. (2003). Erlernbarkeit von Menüsystemen im Fahrzeug –

mehr als "nur" eine Lernkurve. In Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (Eds.), Der Fahrer im 21. Jahrhundert,

VDI Berichte 1768 (pp.171-195). Düsseldorf: VDI-Verlag. (best paper award).

[1]

Confe-

rence

abstracts

Keilmann, F., de la Rosa, S., Schwan, S., Cress, U., Mohler, B.J., Bülthoff, H.H., & Meilinger, T.

(2017). Comparing Individual and Collaborative Problem Solving in Environmental Search. 39th

Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

[53]

Hinterecker, T., Leroy, C., Kirschhock, M., Zhao, M., Butz, M. V., Bülthoff, H. H., Meilinger, T.

(2017). Reference Systems in Spatial Memory for Vertical Locations. 39th Annual Conference of the

Cognitive Science Society.

[52]

Strickrodt, M., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2017). Flexible integration of a navigable, clustered

environment. 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

[51]

Hinterecker, T., Leroy, C., Kirschhock, M., Zhao, M., Butz, M. V., Bülthoff, H. H., Meilinger, T.

(2017). Spatial memory for vertical locations. 27th Oculomotor Meeting.

[50]

Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Bresciani, J.-P., Mohler, B., Simon, N. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2016). Wie

erinnern wir räumliches Wissen unseres Wohnortes? 50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für

Psychologie.

[49]

http://www.spacesyntax.tudelft.nl/media/Papers/212sp.pdf




Horeis, C., Foster, C., Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H.H., & Meilinger, T. (2016). The integration of room

views. 13th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society.

[48]

Strickrodt, M., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2016). Beyond the border: Separation of space

influences memory structure of an object layout. International Conference Spatial Cognition.

[47]

O'Malley, M., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2016). Spatial integration within environmental spaces:

Testing predictions from mental walk and mental model. International Conference Spatial Cognition.

[46]

Hinterecker, T., Leroy, C., Zhao, M., Butz, M., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2016). Gravity as a

universal reference direction? Influences on spatial memory for vertical object locations. International

Conference Spatial Cognition.

[45]

Meilinger. T., Strickrodt, M., Hinterecker, T., Chang, D.-S., Saulton, A., Fademrecht, L. & de la Rosa,

S. (2016). Using Virtual Reality to Examine Social and Spatial Cognition. Virtual Environments:

Current Topics in Psychological Research: VECTOR Workshop, Tübingen, Germany.

[44]

Lohmann, J., Kurz, J., Meilinger, T. & Butz, M.V. (2016). Embodied social spaces: Implicit racial bias

modulates spatial perspective taking, 58. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.

[43]

Hinterecker, T. *, Leroy, C.*, Butz, M. V., Bülthoff, H. H., & Meilinger, T. (2016). Spatial memory in

the vertical plane: the influence of gravity and room orientation during learning and retrieval. 58.

Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. [* equal contributions]

[42]

de la Rosa, S., Lubkull, M., Streuber, S., Saulton, A., Meilinger, T., Bülthoff, H.H. & Cañal-Bruland,

R. (2015). Motor planning and control: Humans interact faster with a human than a robot avatar. 15th

Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2015), St. Pete's Beach, FL, USA, Journal of

Vision, 15(12) 52.

[41]

de la Rosa, S., Wahn, Y., Bülthoff, H.H., Fademrecht, L., Saulton, A., Meilinger, T. & Chang, D.-S.

(2015). Does the two streams hypothesis hold for joint actions? 6th Joint Action Meeting (JAM 2015),

Budapest, Hungary.

[40]

Stangl, M., Meilinger, T., Pape, A.-A., Schultz, J., Bülthoff, H.H. & Wolbers, T. (2015). Triggers of

entorhinal grid cell and hippocampal place cell remapping in humans. 45th Annual Meeting of the

Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2015), Chicago, IL, USA.

[39]

Meilinger, T., Takahashi, K., Foster, C., Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H.H., & de la Rosa, S. (2015). Spatial

orientation as a social cue – the case of objects and avatars. VI International Conference on Spatial

Cognition.

[38]

Saulton, A., Meilinger, T., Bülthoff, H.H. & de la Rosa, S. (2015). The interaction of social and spatial

cognitive processes in naturalistic social interactions. VI International Conference on Spatial Cognition.

[37]

Meilinger, T., Rebane, J., Henson, A., Bülthoff, H.H. & Mallot, H.A. (2015). The acquisition of survey

knowledge through navigation. VI International Conference on Spatial Cognition.

[36]

Meilinger, T., Garsoffky, B., Horeis, C., Schwan, S. (2015). The perception of relative speed of two

bodies as a function of independent observer movement. 57. Tagung experimentell arbeitender

Psychologen.

[35]

Meilinger, T., Henson, A., Bülthoff, H.H. (2015). Mental mapping impossible environments. 57.

Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.

[34]

Strickrodt, M. & Meilinger, T. (2015). Movement, successive presentation and environmental structure

and their influence on spatial memory in vista and environmental space. 57. Tagung experimentell

arbeitender Psychologen.

[33]

Leroy, C, Zhao, M. Butz, M, Bülthoff, HH, Meilinger, T. (2015). Spatial memory in 3D. 57. Tagung

experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.

[32]

Huff, M., Papenmeier, F., Meilinger, M. & de la Rosa, S. (2015). Semantic Relations in Asymmetric

Dynamic Social Interactions. 57. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.

[31]

Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Mohler, B.J., Bülthoff, H.H., (2014). How to remember Tübingen?

Reference frames in route and survey knowledge of one’s city of residency. KogWis 2014.

[30]

Meilinger, T., Henson, A., Bülthoff, H.H. & Mallot, H.A. (2014). How much path integration is in the

cognitive map? European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting 2014.

[29]

O’Malley, M., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2014). How to find a shortcut within a city? Mental

walk vs. mental model. 56th Conference of Experimental Psychologists.

[28]

Meilinger, T. & Watanabe, K. (2014). Multiple strategies for spatial integration. 56th Conference of

Experimental Psychologists.

[27]


Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H.H. & Hölscher, C. (2014). Map-based

reference frames are used to organize memory of subsequent navigation experience. Spatial Cognition

2014.

[26]

Meilinger, T. & Watanabe, K. (2013). Reference frames in the integration of spatial information across

views. Vision Science Society 13th Annual meeting.

[25]

Meilinger, T., Henson, A., Bülthoff, H.H. & Mallot, H.A. (2012). Modeling errors in human

navigation. Workshop on modeling human and humanoid locomotion at the IEEE Biorobotics

Conferences.

[24]

Pape, A-A., Wolbers, T., Schultz, J., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2011). Grid cell remapping in

humans. 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.[included into “hot topic” media

materias]

[23]

Barnett-Cowan, M., Meilinger, T., Vidal, M. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2010) Path integration in the third

dimension. XXVI Bárány Society Meeting.

[22]

Meilinger, T., Souman, J.L. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2010). Asymmetrien und die Konstruktion von

Überblickswissen. 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.

[21]

Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Holzer, S. Brescani, J.-P. (2009). The situational influence of location

and body orientation on the recall of survey knowledge. 4th International Conference on Spatial

Cognition.

[20]

Frankenstein, J., Mohler, B. Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2009). Distance and alignment effects in

survey knowledge of a highly familiar city. European Conference on Visual Perception.

[19]

Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Holzer, S. Brescani, J.-P. (2009). The influence of the current situation

on the recall of survey knowledge: the case of location and body orientation. European Conference on

Visual Perception.

[18]

Meilinger, T., Schulte-Pelkum, J., Frankenstein, J., Laharnar, N., Hardieß, G., Mallot, H.A. & Bülthoff,

H.H. (2009). Place naming – examining the influence of language on wayfinding. 31st Annual

Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

[17]

Meilinger, T. (2008). Human orientation in Space: Distinguishing spaces, memory systems, and

reference frames. Beitrag auf der 9. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft.

[16]

Meilinger, T., Schulte-Pelkum, J., Laharnar, N., Teramoto, W., Frankenstein, J. & Bülthoff, H.H.

(2008). Orientation biases in memory for vista and environmental spaces. 9. Fachtagung der

Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft.

[15]

Meilinger, T. & Vosgerau, G. (2008). Conceptions of Space – an Interdisciplinary Exchange.

Symposium at the 9. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft.

[14]

Wiener, J.M., Meilinger, T. & Berthoz, A. (2008). The integration of spatial information across

different perspectives. 9. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft.

[13]

Meilinger, T., Riecke, B. E., Laharnar, N., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2007). Orientation dependency in

memory for environmental spaces. Proceedings of the 15th Meeting of the European Society of

Cognitive Psychology.

[12]

Meilinger, T., Brösamle, M., Hölscher, C., Wilbertz, G., Büchner, J., & Sprenger, H. (2007). Wie viel

Information brauchen wir? Selbstlokalisation und Wege finden mit schematisierten Karten. 49. Tagung

experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.

[11]

Meilinger, T., Riecke, B. E., Laharnar, N., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2007). Long-Term Memory for

Environmental Spaces – the Case of Orientation Specificity. 10. Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz.

[10]

Büchner, S. J., Hölscher, C., & Meilinger, T. (2006). Wie komm ich da jetzt hin? Der Einfluss von

Navigationshilfen und Strategiewahl auf das Bewegungsverhalten in einem komplexen Gebäude. 48.

Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.

[9]

Meilinger, T. (2006). Orientation with maps: memory systems, memory content and strategies. 29th

Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

[8]

Meilinger, T., Widinger, A., Knauff, M., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2006). Verbal, Visual and Spatial Memory

in Wayfinding. 9. Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz.

[7]

Hölscher, C., Meilinger, T., Vrachliotis, G., & Brösamle, M. (2005). Maps, Room Numbers and

Wayfinding Strategies: Investigations in a Vertically Complex Building. Proceedings of the Conference

on Spatial Information Theory.

[6]


Meilinger, T., Knauff, M., Widiger, A., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2005). Gedächtnissysteme beim Finden von

Wegen in einer virtuellen Umgebung. 47. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.

[5]

Meilinger, T. & Knauff, M. (2004). Ask for your way or use a map? A field study. Interdisciplinary

College 2004.

[4]

Meilinger, T. & Knauff, M. (2004). Nach dem Weg fragen oder Karte studieren, was ist besser? Ein

Feldexperiment. 46. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.

[3]

Krüger, H., Totzke, I., Meilinger, T., & Rauch, N. (2002). Die Bedeutung der visuell-räumlichen

Repräsentation für das Erlernen von Informationssystemen. 44. Tagung experimentell arbeitender

Psychologen.

[2]

Meilinger, T., Totzke, I., & Krüger, H.-P. (2002). Kompetenzerwerb von Informationssystemen:

Fehleranalysen und Leistungsvorhersage. 44. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.

[1]

Non peer-

reviewed

de la Rosa, S. & Meilinger, T. (2015). Können Sie mir sagen, wie ich zum Ziel komme? Die

Interaktion räumlichen und sozialen Denkens. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Jahrbuch 2015.

[5]

Meilinger, T. & Doeller, C. (2009). Von A nach B. Gehirn und Geist, October 2009, 54-59 [4]

Meilinger, T., Riecke, B. E., Berger, D., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2007). A novel immersive virtual

environment setup for behavioural experiments in humans, tested on spatial memory for environmental

spaces. MPI Technical Report, 158.

[3]

Totzke, I., Krüger, H.-P., Hofmann, M., Meilinger, T., Rauch, N., & Schmidt, G. (2004).

Kompetenzerwerb für Informationssysteme – Einfluss des Lernprozesses auf die Interaktion mit

Fahrerinformationssystemen. Veröffentlichter Abschlussbericht (Förderkennzeichen BaSt FE

82.196/2001). Technical Report.

[2]

Meilinger, T. (2002). Kompetenzerwerb von Menüsystemen als multikodierter Prozess. Diploma thesis,

Würzburg University.

[1]

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