Sascha Meyen

Dr. Sascha Meyen

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Experimental Cognitive Science

Sand 6 / room F238

72076 Tübingen

Germany

 

E-Mail: sascha.meyen (at) uni-tuebingen.de

Phone: +49 (0)7071 29 78974

Mobile: +49 (0)1578 52 58 556

Office hours: 13:00-15:00 (send a short email beforehand)


Work

I apply Information Theory to reseach on human consciousness.

Several influential papers imply that more information is processed unconsciously than consciously. I re-analyze their data and conclude that, contrary to these claims, humans very often have full conscious access to these processes.

I investigate in the context of confidence-weighted majority voting how much information participants can consciously access.

CV

I studied Human-Computer-Interaction (B.Sc.) and Psychology (B.Sc.) in parallel followed by Informatics (M.Sc.) at the University of Hamburg. Starting with my master thesis I worked at the Theory of Machine Learning and Experimental Cognitive Science groups in Tübingen. In 2022, I finished my dissertation on statistical flaws in unconsciousness research and theoretical bounds on ensemble performances. Now, I continue to combine these two topics and investigate how the visual system integrates ensemble information.

Mediation

I am trained as a certified mediator (IMI Mediator). If there is a conflict in your work group, I am happy to create a safe environment for you and the people involved so that you can find a fair solution. Just send me a quick email to sascha.meyen(at)uni-tuebingen.de.

Literature

2022

  • Meyen, S., Zerweck, I. A., Amado, C., von Luxburg, U., & Franz, V. H. (2022). Advancing research on unconscious priming: When can scientists claim an indirect task advantage? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(1), 65–81. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001065

  • Zerweck, I. A., Kao, C. S., Meyen, S., Amado, C., von Eltz, M., Klimm, M., & Franz, V. H. (2021). Number processing outside awareness? Systematically testing sensitivities of direct and indirect measures of consciousness. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(6), 2510-2529. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02312-2

  • Schnepf, I. A., Friedrich, F., Hepting, C., Meyen, S., & Franz, V. H. (2022). Neural mechanisms of response priming do not support veridical unconscious processing. Consciousness and Cognition, 102, 103348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103348

  • Meyen, S., von Luxburg, U., & Franz, V. H. (2022, March). Quantifying the contribution of top-down information in visual perception using metacognition. Poster session conducted at the meeting of Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen, online conference.

2021

  • Meyen, S., Sigg, D. M. B., Luxburg, U. v., & Franz, V. H. (2021) Group decisions based on confidence weighted majority voting. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00279-0

  • Meyen, S., Göppert, F., Alber, H., von Luxburg, U., & Franz, V. H. (2021). Specialists Outperform Generalists in Ensemble Classification. arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04381

  • Meyen, S., von Luxburg, U., & Franz, V. H. (2021, August). Contextual Cueing May Not Be Unconscious. Talk session conducted at the European Conference on Visual Perception, online conference.

  • Meyen, S., von Luxburg, U., & Franz, V. H. (2021). Is Contextual Cueing Unconscious? The Indirect Task Advantage in Implicit Learning. Journal of Vision, 21(9), 1831-1831.

  • Meyen, S., Zerweck, I. A., Amado, C., von Luxburg, U., & Franz, V. H. (2021, March). A Fallacy in Unconscious Priming Research: When can Scientists Truly Claim an Indirect Task Advantage?. Talk session conducted at the meeting of Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen, Ulm, Germany.

2017-2020

  • (Accepted but cancelled due to Corona) Meyen, S., Alber, H., Wiedner, D., von Luxburg, U., & Franz, V. H. (2020, April). A Theoretical Perspective on the Allocation of Informational Resources in Classification Tasks. Talk session at the Spring School on Mathematical Statistics, Leipzig, Germany.

  • Meyen, S., Helen, A., Wiedner, D., von Luxburg, U., & Franz, V. H. (2020, January). A Theoretical Perspective on the Allocation of Processing Resources in the Visual System. Poster session presented at the GK Doctoral Symposium on Cognitive Science, Tübingen, Germany.

  • Meyen, S., Zerweck, I. A., Amado, C., von Luxburg, U., & Franz, V. H. (2019, May). Re-analyzing unconscious priming: Is there really an indirect task advantage? Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Florida, USA.

  • Meyen, S., Zerweck, I. A., Amado, C., von Luxburg, U., & Franz, V. H. (2018, August). Reviewing evidence for superior visual processing without awareness: Do we really process more than we can know? Poster session presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Trieste, Italy.

  • Meyen, S., von Luxburg, U., & Franz, V. H. (2018, April). Reviewing evidence for superior indirect discrimination performance. Poster session presented at Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1233 ”Robust Vision” retreat 2018, Reutlingen, Germany.

  • Meyen, S., von Luxburg, U., & Franz, V. H. (2018a, March). Reviewing evidence for superior unconscious processing: Do we really perceive more than we know? In G. Hesselmann (Chair), Perception: Visibility and awareness. Talk session conducted at the meeting of Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen, Marburg, Germany.

  • Meyen, S., Franz, V. H., & von Luxburg, U., (2017, April). Classification accuracy and mutual information in psychological research. Poster session presented at Machine Learning Summer School, Tübingen, Germany.