Dr.

Sabine Grimm

Much of my work is motivated by the wish to better understand processes of perception, and how they are affected by memory, attention and action. My research is mainly focused on the experimental study of audition, and more specifically, on how context and temporal dynamics of sound events shape the way in which they are perceived, attented and stored in memory. In other words, I am interested in the "intermediate" levels of sound representation and sound processing, which go beyond basic feature extraction and are a prerequisite for higher-order functions, such as the understanding of speech and music. Most recently, I am also working on research questions concerning the interplay between perception and action, for instance the question how we use active movements of our eyes and body to optimally tune perceptual input in the service of goal-directed behavior.