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Dr. Philip Schmalbrock

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Phone: +49 (0)651 201 2907
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Twitter: @PSchmalbrock_TR

Professional / Educational History

since Aug. 2022
Postdoc position, Department of Cognitive Psychology , Prof. Dr. Christian Frings, Trier University

July 2022
PhD, Trier University
Title of dissertation: "Modulation of Integration and Retrieval in Stimulus-Response Binding Effectsl"
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christian Frings, Trier University & Prof. Dr. Andrea Kiesel, University of Freiburg

Aug. 2019 - July 2022
Research Assistant (PhD Student), Department of Cognitive Psychology , Prof. Dr. Christian Frings, Trier University

Oct. 2017 – Aug. 2019
Master of Science Psychology, University of Bielefeld
Thesis Title: „A Double Surprise? Schema Adaptation in a Two Singleton Setup“, supervised by
apl. Prof. Dr. Gernot Horstmann and Dr. Daniel Ernst, University of Bielefeld

Oct. 2013 – Sep. 2017
Bachelor of Science Psychology, University of Bielefeld

Research Interests

  • Action Control
  • Visual Attention
  • Stimulus-Response Binding
  • Attentional Weighting
  • Perception & Action
  • Memory & Action Control
  • Expectancy

Reviewing Activity

Journals:

  • Journal of Cognition
  • Psychological Research

Institutes and Foundations:

  • Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Publications

Journal articles (peer-reviewed) 
Nemeth, M., Geißler, Christoph F., Schmalbrock, P., Frings, C., & Moeller, B. (in press). Binding effects occur even shortly after integration: Implications on the retrieval process in action control. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 
Hell, L., Geissler, C., Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C (2025). Signaling as a context-dependent strategy in action control. Psychological Research, 89, 112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-025-02145-w 
Münster, N. D., Schmalbrock, P., Beste, C., Münchau, A., & Frings, C. (2025). Adding meaningful distal action effects in feature binding. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03092-9 
Münster, N. D., Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C. (2025). It’s about location, location, location: Absolute and relative stimulus positions in action control. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03062-1 
Schmalbrock, P., Theeuwes, J., & Frings, C. (2025). Habituation in predictability-modulations of stimulus-response binding. Journal of Cognition, 8(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.438 
Münster, N. D., Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C. (2024). A question of perspective: Perspective as a feature in stimulus-response binding. Visual Cognition, 32(2) 169-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2406046 
Münster, N. D., Schmalbrock, P., Bäumer, T., Hommel, B., Beste, C., Münchau, A., & Frings, C. (2024). Separating binding and retrieval of event files in older aAdults. Acta Psychologica, 244, 104190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104190  
Frings*, C., Beste*, C., Benini*, E., Möller*, M., Dignath, D., Giesen, C., Hommel, B., Kiesel, A., Koch, I., Kunde, W., Mayr, S., Mocke, V., Moeller, B., Münchau, A., Parmar, J., Pastötter, B., Pfister, R., Philipp, A., Qiu, R., ... Schmalbrock, P. (2024). Consensus definitions of perception-action-integration in action control. Communications Psychology, 2, 7. *shared first authorship. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00050-9 
Friehs, M., Schmalbrock, P., Merz, S., Dechant, M., Hartwigsen, G., & Frings, C. (2024). A touching advantage: cross-modal stop-signals improve reactive response inhibition. Experimental Brain Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06767-7 
Nemeth, M., Frings, C., Schmalbrock, P., & Moeller, B. (2024). No Need to Execute: Omitted Responses still yield Response-Response Binding Effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(12), 1196-1205.https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001251 
Schmalbrock, P., Liesefeld, H.R., & Frings, C. (2023). Increased display complexity reveals effects of salience in action control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49(10), 1345-1359. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001151 
Soballa, P., Frings, C., Schmalbrock, P., & Merz, S. (2023). Multisensory integration reduces landmark distortions for tactile but not visual targets. Journal of Neurophysiology, 130(6),1403-1413. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00282.2023 
Schmalbrock, P., Hommel, B. , Münchau, A., Beste, C. , Frings, C.  (2022). Predictability reduces event-file retrieval. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02637-6 
Schmalbrock, P. & Frings, C. (2022). A mighty tool not only in perception: figure-ground mechanisms control binding and retrieval alike. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 2255–2270. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02511-5 
Schmalbrock, P., Kiesel, A., & Frings, C. (2022). What belongs together retrieves together – The role of perceptual grouping in stimulus-response binding and retrieval. Journal of Cognition, 5, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.217 
Schmalbrock, P., Frings, C., & Moeller, B. (2022). Pooling it all together - The role of distractor pool size on stimulus-response binding. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 34, 249-260.https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2022.2026363 
Schmalbrock,P., & Frings, C. (2022). Temporal expectancy modulates stimulus-response integration. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 84, 221-230. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02361-7  
Schmalbrock, P., Laub, R., & Frings, C. (2021). Integrating salience and action – Increased integration strength through salience. Visual Cognition, 29, 91-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2020.1871455 
Invited Talks
Schmalbrock, P. & Selimi, S. (2020). Integration and retrieval in action control – The binding of stimuli and responses?
Invited Talk at Kolloquium der Neuro-Kognitiven Psychologie (Unit Schneider), University Bielefeld, 08.12.2020.
Schmalbrock, P. (2020). Figure, Ground, Binding? – Figure-Ground segmentation in a distractor-response binding Task.
Invited Talk at Kolloquium der Psychologie & Musikpädagogik (Unit Mayr), University Passau, 02.12.2020.
Talks / Posters
Nemeth, M., Frings, C., Schmalbrock, P., & Moeller, B. (2025, May 07-09). The cognitive representation of actions: Evidence for a common coding of action and perception [Poster]. 25th Workshop on CONCEPTS, ACTIONS, and OBJECTS, Rovereto, Italy.

Schmalbrock, P. & Münster, N. D. (2025, May 07-09). Percepts vs. concepts in action control [Poster]. 25th Workshop on CONCEPTS, ACTIONS, and OBJECTS, Rovereto, Italy.

Schmalbrock, P. (2025, March 09-12). Constant auditory noise as a burden on working memory? [Poster]. 67th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Frankfurt, Germany.

Hell, L., Geissler, C., Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C. (2025, March 09-12). Signaling as a context-dependent strategy in action control [Poster]. 67th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Frankfurt, Germany.

Hell, L., Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C. (2024, September 30-October 2). Attentional capture by invisible features retrieved from episodic memory  [Poster]. 56. Herbsttreffen Experimentelle Kognitionspsychologie (HExKoP), Paderborn, Germany.

Münster, N.D., Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C. (2024, September 30-October 2). Weighting feature dimensions to modulate the influence of task-irrelevant features on S-R binding [Talk]. 56th Herbsttreffen Experimentelle Kognitionspsychologie (HExKoP), Paderborn, Germany.

Schmalbrock, P. (2024, September 30-October 2). Constant auditory noise as a burden on working memory? [Talk]. 56. Herbsttreffen Experimentelle Kognitionspsychologie (HExKoP), Paderborn, Germany.

Schmalbrock, P. & Frings, C. (2024, March 17-20). Distractor-Response Binding and Dimension Repetition Benefits – two sides of the same medal? [Poster]. 66th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Regensburg, Germany.

Hell, L., Schmalbrock, P., Geissler, C., Moeller, B., & Frings, C. (2024, March 17-20). Capacity limits of event files [Poster]. 66th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Regensburg, Germany.

Nemeth, M., Frings, C., Schmalbrock, P., & Moeller, B. (2024, March 17-20). Ideomotor effects in response-response binding: Responses do not need to be executed to retrieve other responses [Poster]. 66th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Regensburg, Germany.

Soballa, P., Frings, C., Schmalbrock, P., & Merz, S. (2024, March 17-20). A comparison of unisensory and multisensory landmark distortions on tactile target localization [Talk]. 66th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Regensburg, Germany.

Schmalbrock, P., Geißler, C.F., & Frings, C. (2023, June 13-16). Intentional weighting is context-dependent Poster]. BRAC Annual Meeting 2023, Trier, Germany.

Geissler, C. F., Selimi, S., Schmalbrock, P., Frings, C., & Moeller, B. (2023, March 27-29). Binding Interactions in working memory. [Talk].  65th. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Trier, Germany.
Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C. (2023, March 27-29). S-R Binding and figure-ground segmentation – Revealing unanticipated effects of display complexity [Poster]. 65th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Trier, Germany.
Schmalbrock, P., Selimi, S., & Benini, E. (2023, March 2-29). Recent advances in binding and retrieval in action control [Talk]. 65th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Trier, Germany.
Schmalbrock, P., & Selimi, S. (2023, March 27-29). Ask a PhDworkshop [Talk]. 65th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Trier, Germany.
Geißler, C.F., Selimi, S., Schmalbrock, P.P., Frings, C., & Moeller, B. (2022,  Oct. 7-9). Competition without unbinding: Event file interaction in response-response bBinding [Poster]. 54th Herbsttreffen der Experimentellen Kognitiven Psychologie (HexKop) Greifswald, Germany.
Schmalbrock, P., Geißler, C., & Frings, C. (2022, Oct. 7-9). Spatial information and predictability in Ssimulus-response binding [Poster]. 54th Herbsttreffen der experimentellen Kognitiven Psychologie (HexKoP), Greifswald, Germany.
Schmalbrock, P., Geißler, C., & Frings, C. (2022, July 22-25). Predictability modulates distractor-response binding effects, but modulation depends on spatial information [Poster]. Handling Visual Distraction, Munich/Ammersee, Germany.
Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C. (2022, March 21-23 ). Tracking DRB effects with the mouse [Talk]. 64th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Virtual Meeting hosted in Cologne, Germany.
Schmalbrock, P. , & Frings, C. (2021, July, 16-18). Gestalt principles in stimulus-response binding [Talk]. 10. Doktorand*innen Workshop Allgemeine Psychologie (A-Dok), Würzburg, Germany.
Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C. (2021, March 14-16). Figure-Ground Segmentation in a distractor-response binding task [Talk]. 63rd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Ulm, Germany. [Online conference].
Schmalbrock, P., Hommel, B., & Frings, C. (2020, Oct. 8-10). Predictability beats retrieval – Predictable distractors do not retrieve S-R bindings [Poster]. 53rd Herbsttreffen der experimentellen Kognitiven Psychologie (HexKoP), Würzburg, Germany.
Laub, R., Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C. (2020, March 22-25). Investigating the influence of salience on binding effects [Talk]. 62nd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Jena, Germany. (Conference canceled)

Abschlussarbeiten / Specific theses

ThemaArt der ArbeitBetreuungKurzbeschreibung
HandlungssteuerungBachelorDieses Projekt untersucht, welche Informationen von unserem kognitiven System für Handlungen herangezogen werden. Spezifisch, soll dabei die Frage geklärt werden, wie unsere Ziele beeinflussen, welche Informationen wir aus der Umwelt für Handlungen nutzten. Die Arbeit umfasst die Auswertung und Verschriftlichung eines Experiments.
HandlungssteuerungBachelorDieses Projekt untersucht, welche Informationen von unserem kognitiven System für Handlungen herangezogen werden. Spezifisch, soll dabei die Frage geklärt werden, ob nur die reine Wahrnehmung genutzt wird oder ob auch Konzepte relevant sind. Die Arbeit umfasst die Auswertung und Verschriftlichung eines Experiments.