Jan Tünnermann

Dr. Jan Tünnermann is a Research Fellow at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, affiliated with the Department of Cognitive Psychophysiology within the Faculty of Psychology. His research focuses on Visual Foraging, Temporal-Order Perception, and Artificial Visual Attention Systems, with particular emphasis on cognitive modeling and Bayesian estimation techniques. He investigates how attentional mechanisms guide human behavior in naturalistic and experimental settings, including foraging tasks, game-like experiments, and human-computer interaction scenarios.

Research Interests:

• Visual Attention Dynamics and Template Switching
• Temporal-Order Judgment and Psychophysics
• Cognitive Models of Attentional Resource Allocation
• Artificial Visual Systems Inspired by Human Perception

Recent work highlights attention's role in optimizing search strategies across oculomotor and manual tasks, revealing trade-offs between speed and accuracy. He collaborates on interdisciplinary projects, such as developing sensory substitution devices for visually impaired individuals and virtual cycling environments for human-in-the-loop experiments. His publications span journals like Journal of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Computation, with a focus on advancing computational theories of visual attention.

Key Contributions:

• Pioneering use of the Theory of Visual Attention (TVA) in real-world experiments
• Model-based analysis of temporal-order judgments
• Development of saliency detection algorithms for artificial systems

No scientific awards explicitly listed, though his work has received attention for methodological innovations in attention research.