Curriculum Vitae Dr. Tobias Meilinger

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1 Curriculum Vitae Dr. Tobias Meilinger Address Tobias Meilinger Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics Spemannstr Tübingen Tel.: 07071/ Homepage: Education 12/ /2002 PhD in Psychology, University of Freiburg (date of disputation 7/12/2007) Thesis: Strategies of orientation in environmental spaces, Prof. Strube Diploma in Psychology, University of Würzburg Thesis: Kompetenzerwerb von Menüsystemen als multikodierter Prozess (Knowledge acquisition in menu systems as a multi-coded process), Prof. Krüger Academic Positions 11/2005 until today 6/ /2005 2/2003-4/ / /2002 Research Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Prof. Bülthoff (EU-project Wayfinding until 4/2008, postdoc stipend from MPG, since 1/10 DFG-project survey knowledge ) Research scientist at the University of Freiburg (project MapSpace within the SFB TR/8 Spatial Cognition ) Research scientist at the University of Würzburg (BASt-project Bäume und Sträucher im Straßenverkehr - trees and bushes in traffic) Research assistant at the University of Würzburg in various projects Visiting fellowships 11/ /2007 Collège de France, Prof. Berthoz 11/ /2004 Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Prof. Bülthoff Grants DFG grant Where is my goal? The functional, computational and neural basis of human survey knowledge (PI: Tobias Meilinger) Humboldt-JSPS stipend: Spatial integration from views and maps MPG post-doc stipend Extension of the DFG-project Map Space within the SFB/TR-8 Spatial Cognition (PI: Markus Knauff & Christian Freksa) BASt grant Einfluß der Straßenbepflanzung und Straßenraumgestaltung auf das Verhalten der Verkehrsteilnehmer und auf die Sicherheit im Straßenverkehr an Außerortsstraßen (PI: Hans-Peter Krüger)

2 Publications Journal papers Frankenstein, J., Mohler, B.J., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2012). Is the Map in Our Head is Oriented North? Psychological Science, 23, 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, Barnett-Cowan, M., Meilinger, T., Vidal, M., Teufel, H. & Bülthoff, H.H. (accepted). MPI CyberMotion Simulator: Implementation of a novel motion simulator to investigate path integration in three dimensions. Journal of Visualized Experiments. Meilinger, T. 1, Berthoz, A. & Wiener, J.M. 1 (2011). The integration of spatial information across different viewpoints. Memory & Cognition, 39, 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, 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, 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, Meilinger, T., Knauff, M., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2008). Working memory in wayfinding - a dual task experiment in a virtual city. Cognitive Science, 32, 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, 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, Journal papers submitted Meilinger, T., Riecke, B.E. & Bülthoff, H.H. (under revision). Local and global reference frames for environmental spaces. Meilinger, T., Schulte-Pelkum, J., Frankenstein, J., Laharnar, N., Hardieß, G., Mallot, H. & Bülthoff, H.H. (submitted). Left at the Right Link: Sensorimotor Enhancement and Impairment Through Language. Book chapters Vosgerau, G. Knoll, A., Meilinger, T. & Vogeley, K. (forthcoming). Representation. In A. Stephan & S. Walter (Eds.), Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft. Stuttgart: Metzler. 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 ). Berlin: Springer. 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 ). Berlin: Springer. 1 Both authors contributed equally to this publication.

3 Conference papers Basten, K., Meilinger, T. & Mallot, H.A. (2012). Mental travel primes place orientation in spatial recall. International Conference Spatial Cognition 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 ). 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 ). 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 ). 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). Wiener, J. 1, Meilinger, T. 1, & Berthoz, A. (2008). The integration of spatial information across different perspectives. 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp ). 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 ). 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 ). 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 ). Berlin: Springer. 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. Meilinger, T., Hölscher, C., Büchner, S. J., & Brösamle, M. (2006). How Much Information Do You Need? Schematic Maps in Wayfinding and Self Localisation. International Conference Spatial Cognition 2006 (pp ). Berlin: Springer. 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 ). 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 ). [Note: Six page paper version online]. Meilinger, T. (2005). Wayfinding with Maps and Verbal Directions. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp ). 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 ). Düsseldorf: VDI-Verlag.

4 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. 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 ). Düsseldorf: VDI-Verlag. (best paper award). Conference abstracts 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. Pape, A-A., Wolbers, T., Schultz, J., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2011). Grid cell remapping in humans Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.[included into hot topic media materias] Barnett-Cowan, M., Meilinger, T., Vidal, M. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2010) Path integration in the third dimension. XXVI Bárány Society Meeting. Meilinger, T., Souman, J.L. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2010). Asymmetrien und die Konstruktion von Überblickswissen. 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. 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. 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. 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. 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. Meilinger, T (2008). Human orientation in Space: Distinguishing spaces, memory systems, and reference frames. Beitrag auf der 9. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. 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. Meilinger, T. & Vosgerau, G. (2008). Conceptions of Space - an Interdisciplinary Exchange. Symposium at the 9. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. Wiener, J.M. 1, Meilinger, T. 1 & Berthoz, A. (2008). The integration of spatial information across different perspectives. 9. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. 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. 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.

5 Non peer-reviewed publications 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. 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. Meilinger, T. (2006). Orientation with maps: memory systems, memory content and strategies. 29th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Meilinger, T., Widinger, A., Knauff, M., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2006). Verbal, Visual and Spatial Memory in Wayfinding. 9. Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz. 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. Meilinger, T., Knauff, M., Widiger, A., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2005). Gedächtnissysteme beim Finden von Wegen in einer virtuellen Umgebung. 47. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Meilinger, T. & Knauff, M. (2004). Ask for your way or use a map? A field study. Interdisciplinary College Meilinger, T. & Knauff, M. (2004). Nach dem Weg fragen oder Karte studieren, was ist besser? Ein Feldexperiment. 46. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. 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. Meilinger, T., Totzke, I., & Krüger, H.-P. (2002). Kompetenzerwerb von Informationssystemen: Fehleranalysen und Leistungsvorhersage. 44. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Meilinger, T. & Doeller, C. (2009). Von A nach B. Gehirn und Geist, October 2009, Meilinger, T. (2008). Strategies of Orientation in Environmental Spaces. Berlin: Logos Verlag. (Ph.D. thesis) 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. 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 /2001). Technical Report. Meilinger, T. (2002). Kompetenzerwerb von Menüsystemen als multikodierter Prozess. Diploma thesis, University of Würzburg.

6 Popular science contributions which reported about my work 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, 11/2011. Wo geht s lang. Geolino, 09/2011. Impuls, SWR2 (radio), 07/2011. Orientierungssinn. Apotheken Umschau, 01/2011. Kartensatz im Kopf. Max Planck Forschung 09/2010. Virtuelle Welt zum Anfassen. Gehirn und Geist, Issue 7-8, Orientierungssinn: Gleiches Ziel, verschiedene Wege. Apotheken Umschau, 06/2008. Nano, 3Sat (tv), 08/2007. Faszination Wissen, BR (tv), 07/2007 Reviewing ad hoc reviewer for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany), Agence National de la Recherche (ANR, France), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI, together with H.H. Bülthoff), Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF, Austria; together with H.H. Bülthoff) PLoS One, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Acta Psychologica, Memory & Cognition, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Behavioural Brain Research, Cognitive Processing, Journal of Spatial Information Systems, Spatial Cognition and Computation, Presence, Environment and Planning B, International Journal of GIS, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, Environment & Planning B, IEEE VR, Spatial Cognition Conference, Cognitive Science Conference Teaching spring 2012 Lecture Perception, Cognition and Behaviour together with Marc Himmelbach and Ziad Hafed spring 2011 Lecture Perception, Cognition and Behaviour together with Marc Himmelbach and Martin Giese spring 2010 Lecture Perception, Cognition and Behaviour together with Marc Ernst and Marc Himmelbach fall 2009 Course Advanced Statistics together with Stephan de la Rosa and Jan Souman spring 2009 Course Cognitive and computational psychophysics together with colleagues from the MPI for Biological Cybernetics fall 2007 Seminar Raum (space) at the Forum Scientiarium of the University of Tübingen together with Matthias Neuber (Philosophy) fall 2006 Course Psychophysics of cognitive processes together with colleagues from the MPI for Biological Cybernetics

7 Supervision Diploma thesis Julia Frankenstein (Psychology, University of Tübingen) The Map in Our Mind - Effects of Alignment and Distance in Memory for Highly Familiar Environments Master thesis Anna-Antonia Pape (Max Planck Graduate School of Neural & Behavioural Sciences) Grid cells in environmental spaces Bachelor thesis Bianca Siefredi (Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück) feelspace II multimodal perception with a new sensory modality Placement year Agnes Henson (Cardiff University) Modelling human survey knowledge Placement year Mary O Malley (Cardiff University) Mental models vs. mental walk Invited presentations 14/2/2012 Wie navigieren wir in Städten und Gebäuden?, Rotary Club Reutlingen- Tübingen Nord 9/12/2011 Spatial integration within environmental spaces at the SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition Colloquium Freiburg/Bremen/Münster/Buffalo 5/12/2011 Reference frames for environmental spaces at the Winter Workshop on Coordinate Frames for Visual Stability, Reading University 6/6/2011 Commentator on Michael Bratman Acting over Time Acting Together at the Rational Agency Workshop, University of Tübingen 16/12/2010 How do we memorize everyday environments and use this memory for pointing and selecting routes? Freiburg University, PD Christoph Hölscher 24/8/2010 Situated maps University of California Santa Barbara, Prof. Hegarty, Prof. Montello 5/5/2010 Spatial cognition and virtual characters University of Bielefeld, Prof. Wachsmuth 23/4/2010 Local and global reference frames in survey knowledge acquired from navigation and maps Workshop spatial behaviour and linguistic representation, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg 4/11/2009 Situatedness in spatial cognition Giessen University, Prof. Knauff 27/6/2009 Situatedness in spatial cognition Collège de France, Prof. Berthoz 29/2/2008 Raumkonzepte in der Psychologie (conceptions of space in Psychology) Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Prof. May 21/11/2007 Do humans use metric maps for environmental large scale spaces?, Collège de France, Prof. Berthoz 25/6/2007 Orientierung im Raum (orientation in space), University of Würzburg, Prof. Krüger, Prof. Hoffmann 9/9/2006 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 21/6/2006 Memory for environmental spaces, University of Freiburg, Prof. Strube 7/6/2006 Memory for environmental spaces, University of Tübingen, Prof. Mallot 3/4/2006 Psychophysik der Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstelle (Psychophysics of the man-machine-interface), Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen 13/12/2004 How to reach a goal strategies and representations in wayfinding, University of Tübingen, Prof. Mallot