Markus Knauff

Markus Knauff is a Professor at the Justus Liebig University Giessen in the Department of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science. His research focuses on high-level cognition, including reasoning, decision-making, and rationality, as well as spatial cognition and mental imagery in cognitive processes.

• Dipl.-Psych., University of Bochum, 1991
• Dr. phil., University of Freiburg, 1996
• Habilitation, University of Freiburg, 2002

His work integrates cognitive science, psychology, and artificial intelligence, emphasizing mental models and belief revision. He explores how counterexamples, probabilities, and spatial reasoning influence human cognition, with applications in navigation and decision-making. While his publications span deductive reasoning, belief dynamics, and spatial mental models, his recent studies highlight probabilistic reasoning in the brain and rationality frameworks.

Markus leads the Giessen virtual environment laboratory, focusing on human wayfinding and landmark salience. He contributes to interdisciplinary projects like the SPP1516 "New Frameworks of Rationality" and has mentored researchers in cognitive systems, though specific student names are not listed in the provided texts.