Sarah Schwarzkopf, M.A.
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Research interests
- Social Cognition
- Gaze Following
- Visuospatial Perspective Taking
- Shared Attention
- Cognitive Cooperation
- Mentalizing
- Eye Tracking Methodology
- Attention
- Implicit and Explicit Processing
- Mental Models
- Autism Spectrum
- Embodied Cognition
- Applied Cognitive Science:
- Multi-Agent-Models
- Usability & User-Centered Design
- Language Processing
Vita
- since 2017: Research assistant at Neurocenter, Department of Neurology & Neuroscience, University Medical Center Freiburg (Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools, project: BCI Neurotechnology for Novel Rehabilitation Approaches in Stroke-induced Cognitive Defects)
- since 2012: Research assistant at Center for Cognitive Science, University of Freiburg (SFB TR/8 "Spatial Cognition", project: Signage, Eye‐Tracking & Airport Navigation)
- 2010 - 2012: Research assistant at Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, University Hospital of Cologne (Research group Neuroimaging & Social Cognition, project: Being addressed as You – Conceptual and Empirical Investigations of a Second-Person Approach to Other Minds)
- 2010: Research assistant at University of Bielefeld (SFB 673 "Alignment in Communication", project: Alignment of Situation Models)
- 2009: Magistra Artium (M.A.). Thesis: Mentale Simulation von Perspektive bei der Satzverarbeitung. Eine experimentelle Studie zur Embodied Cognition (Mental simulation of perspective during sentence processing. An experimental study on embodied cognition)
- 2003 - 2009: Studies of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Philosophy at University of Freiburg
Teaching
I gave the following seminars at the Center for Cognitive Science in Freiburg:
- Embodiment, winter term 2013/14
- Cognitive Science, summer term 2013
- Empirical research methods, winter term 2006/07 as a teaching assistant
Publications
Articles
- Schwarzkopf, S., Büchner, S.J., Hölscher, C., & Konieczny, L. (2017). Perspective tracking in the real world. Gaze angle analysis in a collaborative wayfinding task. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 17(1-2), 143-162.
- Fiebich, A.*, Nguyen, N*., & Schwarzkopf, S*. (2015). Cooperation with robots? A two-dimensional approach. In C. Misselhorn (ed.), Collective Agency and Cooperation in Natural and Artificial Systems, Philosophical Studies Series 122, 25-43. *equal contribution, alphabetical order
- Müller-Feldmeth, D.*, Schwarzkopf, S.*, Büchner, S.J., Hölscher, C., Kallert, G., von Stülpnagel, R., & Konieczny, L. (2014). Location Dependent Fixation Analysis with Sight Vectors. Locomotion as a Challenge in Mobile Eye Tracking. Paper presented at the 2nd International workshop on eye tracking for spatial research, ET4S 2014 (in conjunction with GIScience 2014), Vienna. *equal contribution, alphabetical order
- Schwarzkopf, S., Schilbach, L., Vogeley, K., Timmermans, B. (2014). “Making it explicit” makes a difference:
Evidence for a dissociation of spontaneous and intentional level 1 perspective taking in high-functioning autism. Cognition 131 (3), 345–354. - Schwarzkopf, S., von Stülpnagel, R., Büchner, S.J., Konieczny, L., Kallert, G., & Hölscher, C. (2013). What Lab Eye Tracking Tells us about Wayfinding. A Comparison of Stationary and Mobile Eye Tracking in a Large Building Scenario. Paper presented at the 1st International workshop on eye tracking for spatial research, ET4S 2013 (in conjunction with COSIT 2013), Scarborough.
- Schwarzkopf, S., Weldle, H., Müller, D., Konieczny, L. (2011). Mental Simulation of Spatial Perspective during Sentence Comprehension. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 11), July 2011, Boston.
- Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Hachmann, W., Schwarzkopf, S., & Wolfer, S. (2009). Local syntactic coherence interpretation. Evidence from a visual world study. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 09), July 2009, Amsterdam.
Conference contributions
- Schwarzkopf, S. (2015, accepted). Individual and cooperative functions of shared visual attention. Poster at the 6th Joint Action Meeting (JAM), July 2015, Budapest.
- Schwarzkopf, S., von Stülpnagel, R., & Hölscher, C. (2013). We never walk alone – the influence of social interaction on wayfinding behavior. Poster at the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 13), August 2013, Berlin.
- Fiebich, A.*, Schwarzkopf, S.*, Nguyen, N.* (2013). What is cooperation? Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics. Talk at the 5th Joint Action Meeting (JAM), July 2013, Berlin. *equal contribution
- Fiebich, A.*, Schwarzkopf, S.*, Nguyen, N.* (2013). What is cooperation? Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics. Joint talk at the conference on "Cooperation: Why, How, and With Whom", April 2013, Aarhus. *equal contribution
- Schwarzkopf, S., Schilbach, L., Vogeley, K., Timmermans, B. (2012). Automatic and Intentional Level 1 Perspective-Taking in Adults with High-Functioning Autism. Poster at the 11th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society (KogWis 2012), October 2012, Bamberg.
- Schwarzkopf, S., Schilbach, L., Vogeley, K., Timmermans, B. (2012). Explicit and Implicit Level One Perspective-Taking in Adults with High-Functioning Autism. Poster at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Social Interaction, Engagement and the Second-Person Perspective, May 2012, Cologne.
- Schwarzkopf, S., Schilbach, L., Vogeley, K., Timmermans, B. (2012). Automatic Level One Perspective-Taking is Intact in Adults with High-Functioning Autism. Poster at the Interdisciplinary College (IK 2012), March 2012, Günne.
- Schwarzkopf, S., Schilbach, L., Vogeley, K., Timmermans, B. (2012). Explicit and Implicit Level One Perspective-Taking in Adults with High-Functioning Autism. Poster at the Workshop on Pre-reflective and Reflective Processing in Social Interaction, March 2012, Cambridge (UK).
- Schwarzkopf, S., Timmermans, B., Vogeley, K., Schilbach, L. (2011). Looking through your eyes: Investigating automatic perceptual perspective taking with a mental rotation task. Poster at the 4th Joint Action Meeting (JAM), July 2011, Vienna.
- Schwarzkopf, S., Müller, D., Weldle, H., Konieczny, L. (2008). Grammatical person controls perspective taking in embodied simulation semantics. Poster at the 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 08), September 2008, Cambridge (UK).
- Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Hachmann, W., Wolfer, S., Schwarzkopf, S. (2007). Local coherence interpretation in spoken language comprehension. Talk at the European Conference on Eye-Movements (ECEM 07), August 2007, Potsdam.