Nicolas Münster


M.Sc. Nicolas Münster

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Phone: +49 (0)651 201 2073

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Professional / Educational History

Since Oct. 2022
Phd Student, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Prof. Dr. Christian Frings, University of Trier

Apr. 2020 – Jun. 2022
Master of Science Psychology, University of Trier
Thesis Title: “Action-effect anticipation in a conflict scenario: An oscillatory perspective”
Supervisors: PD Dr. Bernhard Pastötter and M. Sc. Céline C. Haciahmet, University of Trier

Apr. 2021 – Aug. 2021
Tutor in Multivariate Statistics, Department of Educational Psychology, Prof. Dr. Michael Schneider

Apr. 2019 – Aug. 2020
Tutor in Test Theory, Department of Giftedness research, Prof. Dr. Franzis Preckel

Oct. 2016 – Jul. 2020 
Bachelor of Science Psychology, University of Trier

Research Interests

  • Neuropsychology
  • Action Control
  • Feature (Hyper-)Binding and Retrieval in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS)

Reviewing Activity

Journals:

  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Performance & Perception

Publications

Journal articles (peer reviewed) 
Münster, N. D., Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C. (in press). It’s About Location, Location, Location: Absolute and Relative Stimulus Positions in Action Control. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 
Münster, N. D., & Frings, C. (2025). From tusk till horn: Modulating feature boundaries in action control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001280  
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 Adults.Acta Psychologica, 244, 104190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104190  
Talks / Posters
Münster, N.D., & Frings, C. (2025, March 9-12). Any Color You Like: How context modulates feature relations in action-perception integration [Poster]. 67th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Frankfurt, 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.		 
Münster, N.D., Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C. (2024, March 17-20). Bound to a place? Disentangling two types of locations in S-R binding [Talk]. 66th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Regensburg, Germany.
Münster, N.D., Schmalbrock, P., & Frings, C. (2023, October 6-8). The elephant in the room - Perspective as a feature in stimulus-response binding [Talk]. 55th Herbsttreffen Experimentelle Kognitionspsychologie (HexKop) Hildesheim, Germany.
Münster, N.D., & Frings, C (2023, March 27-29). Feature binding and retrieval in younger and older adults - a systematic comparison [Poster]. 65th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Trier, Germany.