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Switzerland
2023

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D-Index
82
Citations
27869
World Ranking
1318
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Klaus Oberauer is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Oberauer's work also touches on social psychology, artificial intelligence, and statistics, probability, and uncertainty.

The scientist's research covers a variety of main topics, including neural and behavioral psychology studies, memory processes and influences, cognitive functions and memory, human-automation interaction and safety, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, visual and cognitive learning processes, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Oberauer's publication record includes papers in frequently targeted venues such as the Journal of Experimental Psychology General, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, Cognition, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, and Journal of Cognition.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Oberauer include:

  • The Importance of Random Slopes in Mixed Models for Bayesian Hypothesis Testing, 2022, Psychological Science

Other notable papers related to Oberauer's frequent co-authors include:

  • Low replicability can support robust and efficient science, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Worldview-motivated rejection of science and the norms of science, 2021, Cognition
  • The effects of elaboration on working memory and long-term memory across age, 2021, Journal of Memory and Language
  • What Is Time Good for in Working Memory?, 2021, Psychological Science

Frequent co-authors in Oberauer's research collaborations include Alessandra S. Souza, Gidon T. Frischkorn, Lea Maria Bartsch, Eda Mızrak, and Benjamin Kowialiewski.

Best Publications

  • Access to information in working memory: exploring the focus of attention.

    Klaus Oberauer

  • WORKING-MEMORY CAPACITY EXPLAINS REASONING ABILITY - AND A LITTLE BIT MORE

    Heinz-Martin Süß;Klaus Oberauer;Werner W Wittmann;Oliver Wilhelm

  • Design for a working memory.

    Klaus Oberauer

  • The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Stephan Lewandowsky;Gilles E. Gignac;Klaus Oberauer;Klaus Oberauer

  • NASA Faked the Moon Landing—Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Klaus Oberauer;Gilles E. Gignac

  • Working memory capacity - facets of a cognitive ability construct

    Klaus Oberauer;Heinz-Martin Süß;Ralf Schulze;Oliver Wilhelm

  • Individual differences in components of reaction time distributions and their relations to working memory and intelligence

    Florian Schmiedek;Klaus Oberauer;Oliver Wilhelm;Heinz-Martin Süß

  • Working Memory and Intelligence—Their Correlation and Their Relation: Comment on Ackerman, Beier, and Boyle (2005)

    Klaus Oberauer;Ralf Schulze;Oliver Wilhelm;Heinz-Martin Süss

  • What is working memory capacity, and how can we measure it?

    Oliver Wilhelm;Andrea Hildebrandt Hildebrandt;Klaus Oberauer

  • The multiple faces of working memory: Storage, processing, supervision, and coordination

    Klaus Oberauer;Heinz-Martin Süß;Oliver Wilhelm;Werner W Wittman

  • Neural evidence for a distinction between short-term memory and the focus of attention

    Jarrod A. Lewis-Peacock;Andrew T. Drysdale;Klaus Oberauer;Bradley R. Postle

  • Working Memory and Attention - A Conceptual Analysis and Review.

    Klaus Oberauer

  • Binding and inhibition in working memory: individual and age differences in short-term recognition.

    Klaus Oberauer

  • A formal model of capacity limits in working memory

    Klaus Oberauer;Reinhold Kliegl

  • In search of the focus of attention in working memory: 13 years of the retro-cue effect

    Alessandra S. Souza;Klaus Oberauer

  • Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory.

    Klaus Oberauer;Stephan Lewandowsky;Edward Awh;Gordon D.A. Brown

  • Modeling working memory: An interference model of complex span

    Klaus Oberauer;Stephan Lewandowsky;Simon Farrell;Christopher R Jarrold

  • Motivated Rejection of Science

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Klaus Oberauer

  • Removing irrelevant information from working memory: a cognitive aging study with the modified Sternberg task.

    Klaus Oberauer

  • Addressing the theory crisis in psychology

    Klaus Oberauer;Stephan Lewandowsky

  • Effects and mechanisms of working memory training: a review.

    Claudia C. von Bastian;Klaus Oberauer

  • An interference model of visual working memory.

    Klaus Oberauer;Hsuan-Yu Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
Oliver Wilhelm
Oliver Wilhelm University of Ulm
Reinhold Kliegl
Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam
Gordon D. A. Brown
Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick
Simon Farrell
Simon Farrell University of Western Australia
Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Ullrich K. H. Ecker University of Western Australia
Gilles E. Gignac
Gilles E. Gignac University of Western Australia
Lutz Jäncke
Lutz Jäncke University of Zurich
Christopher Jarrold
Christopher Jarrold University of Bristol
Florian Schmiedek
Florian Schmiedek Max Planck Society

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