Dr. Jochen Laubrock

Position: Senior Research Scientist

Unit: Cognitive Sciences | Cognitive Psychology

Other functions: Director of the EyeLab | Academic advisor for prospective students for B.Sc. in Psychology (see also: Academic Advisement in Psychology)

Degree: Dr. phil (2004, University of Potsdam) | Dipl.-Psych. (1998, University of Muenster)

Field: Cognitive Psychology

Research: Cognitive aging, modeling, selective attention, fixational eye movements, scene perception, eye movements during reading, reading development, cognitive and oculomotor control during reading of graphic literature

Other: Publications | Pubmed | BMBF-Junior Reseach Group "Hybrid Narrativity"

Publications

2024

Borchers, F., Rumpel, M., Laubrock, J., Spies, C., Kozma, P., Slooter, A., van Montfort, S. J. T., Piper, S. K., Wiebach, J., Winterer, G., Pischon, T., & Feinkohl, I (2024). Cognitive reserve and the risk of postoperative neurocognitive disorders in older age. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience,15.

Laubrock, J., Miklashevsky, A., Kühne, K., Michirev, A., Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., & Felisatti, A. (2024). Continuous methods: Eye tracking, hand tracking, and grip force recording. In: Felisatti, A., & Fischer, M. H. (eds.). Experimental Methods in Embodied Cognition. How Cognitive Psychologists Approach Embodiment (pp. 49–69). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290698-6

Meixner, J. M., & Laubrock, J. (2024). Executive functioning predicts development of reading skill and perceptual span seven years later. Journal of Memory and Language, 136, 104511.

2023

Çelikkol, P., Laubrock, J., & Schlangen, D. (2023). TF-IDF based scene-object relations correlate with visual attention. In Proceedings of the 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, ETRA ’23, New York, NY, USA. Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3588015.3588415

Chandra, J., Witzig, N., & Laubrock, J. (2023). Synthetic predictabilities from large language models explain reading eye movements. In Proceedings of the 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, ETRA ’23, New York, NY, USA. Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3588015.3588420

Laubrock, J., Krutz, A., Nübel, J., & Spethmann, S. (2023). Gaze patterns reflect and predict expertise in dynamic echocardiographic imaging. Journal of Medical Imaging, 10(S1):S11906. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.10.S1.S11906

2022

Cajar, A., Engbert, R., and Laubrock, J. (2022). Potsdam eye-movement corpus for scene memorization and search with color and spatial-frequency filtering. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.850482

Laubrock, J., & Tseng, C.-I. (2022, March 7). Empirische Aufmerksamkeitseffekte multimodaler Kohäsion im Film. In DHd 2022 Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses. 8. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" (DHd 2022), Potsdam. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6328083

2021

Meixner, J. M., Nixon, J. S., & Laubrock, J. (2021). The perceptual span is dynamically adjusted in response to foveal load by beginning readers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001140

Pan, J., Laubrock, J., and Yan, M. (2021). Phonological consistency effects in Chinese sentence reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 25(4):335–350. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2020.1789146

Tseng, C.-I., Laubrock, J., and Bateman, J. A. (2021). The impact of multimodal cohesion on attention and interpretation in film. Discourse, Context & Media, 44:100544, doi: 10.1016/j.dcm.2021.100544.

2020

Cajar, A., Engbert, R., & Laubrock, J. (2020). How spatial frequencies and color drive object search in real-world scenes: A new eye-movement corpus. Journal of Vision, 20(7):8, 1–16.

Felisatti, A., Laubrock, J., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2020). Commentary: A mental number line in human newborns. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14:99.

Felisatti, A., Laubrock, J., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2020). A biological foundation for spatial–numerical associations: the brain’s asymmetric frequency tuning. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14418.

Laubrock, J. & Dunst, A. (2020). Computational approaches to comics analysis. Topics in Cognitive Science, 12, 274–310.

Pan, J., Laubrock, J., & Yan, M. (2020). Phonological consistency effects in Chinese sentence reading. Scientific Studies of Reading. doi: 10.1080/10888438.2020.1789146.

Pan, J., Yan, M., & Laubrock, J. (2020). Semantic preview benefit and cost: Evidence from parafoveal fast-priming paradigm. Cognition. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104452.

Yan, M., Pan, J., Laubrock, J., & Shu, H. (in press). Semantic and phonological processing among Chinese deaf readers. In Wang, Q. and Andrews, J., editors, Toward a Global Understanding of Literacy Education for Deaf Students. Gallaudet University Press.

2019

Dubray, D. & Laubrock, J. (2019). Deep CNN-based Speech Balloon Detection and Segmentation for Comic Books. arXiv e-prints, 1902.08137.

Laubrock, J. & Dubray, D. (2019). Multi-class semantic segmentation of comics: A U-net based approach. Graphics Recognition (GREC) workshop. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Sydney, Australia.

Laubrock, J. & Dubray, D. (2019). CNN-based classification of illustrator style in graphic novels: Which features contribute most? In Kompatsiaris, I., Huet, B., Mezaris, V., Gurrin, C., Cheng, W., and Vrochidis, S. (eds.). MultiMedia Modeling. MMM, volume 11296 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 684–695, Cham. Springer.

Pan, J., Yan, M., Laubrock, J., & Shu, H. (2019). Lexical and sublexical phonological effects in Chinese silent and oral reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 23(5), 403–418.

2018

Dunst, A., Laubrock, J., & Wildfeuer, J. (2018). Comics and empirical research: An introduction. In Dunst, A., Laubrock, J, & Wildfeuer, J. (eds.). Empirical Comics Research.Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods, 1–24.

Dunst, A., Laubrock, J., & Wildfeuer, J., (eds) (2018). Empirical Comics Research: Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods. Routledge, New York.

Hartmann, M., Laubrock, J., & Fischer, M. H. (2018). The visual number world: A dynamic approach to study the mathematical mind. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(0), 28–36.

Laubrock, J., Hohenstein, S., & Kümmerer, M. (2018). Attention to comics: Cognitive processing during the reading of graphic literature. In Dunst, A., Laubrock, J, & Wildfeuer, J. (eds.). Empirical Comics Research.Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods, 239–263.

Tseng, C.-I., Laubrock, J., & Pflaeging, J. (2018). Character developments in comics and graphic novels: A systematic analytical scheme. In Dunst, A., Laubrock, J, & Wildfeuer, J. (eds.). Empirical Comics Research.Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods, 154–175.

2017

Dunst, A., Hartel, R., & Laubrock, J. (2017). The Graphic Narrative Corpus (GNC): Design, annotation, and analysis for the Digital Humanities. In 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), volume 03, 15–20.

Laubrock, J., Engbert, R., & Cajar, A. (2017). Gaze-contingent manipulation of the FVF demonstrates the importance of fixation duration for explaining search behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 144.

Kliegl, R. & Laubrock, J. (2017). Eye-movement tracking during reading. In de Groot, A. M. B. and Hagoort, P., (eds.). Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language: A Practical Guide, 68–88. Hoboken: Wiley.

Pan, J., Yan, M., and Laubrock, J. (2017). Perceptual span in oral reading: The case of Chinese. Scientific Studies of Reading, 21(3), 254–263.

2016

Cajar, A., Engbert, R., & Laubrock, J. (2016). Spatial frequency processing in the central and peripheral visual field during scene viewing. Vision Research, 127, 186–197.

Cajar, A., Schneeweiß, P., Engbert, R., & Laubrock, J. (2016). Coupling of attention and saccades when viewing scenes with central and peripheral degradation. Journal of Vision, 16(2):8, 1–19.

Pan, J., Laubrock, J., & Yan, M. (2016). Parafoveal processing in silent and oral reading: Reading mode influences the relative weighting of phonological and semantic information in Chinese. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 42(8), 1257–1273.

Sperlich, A., Meixner, J., & Laubrock, J. (2016). Development of the perceptual span in reading: A longitudinal study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 146, 181–201.

2015

Kliegl, R., Laubrock, J., & Köstler, A. (2015). Augenblicke bei der Bildbetrachtung. Eine kognitionswissenschaftliche Spekulation zum Links und Rechts im Bild. In Lepper, V. M., Deuflhard, P., and Markschies, C. (eds). Räume - Bilder - Kulturen, 77–90. de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston.

Laubrock, J. & Kliegl, R. (2015). The eye-voice span during reading aloud. Frontiers inPsychology, 6(1432), 1–19.

Sperlich, A., Schad, D. J., & Laubrock, J. (2015). When preview information starts to matter: Development of the perceptual span in German beginning readers. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27, 511–530.

2014

Fernández, G., Laubrock, J., Mandolesi, P., Colombo, O., & Agamennoni, O. (2014). Registering eye movements during reading in Alzheimer’s disease: Difficulties in predicting upcoming words. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 36(3), 302–316.

Laubrock, J. & Kinder, A. (2014). Incidental sequence learning in a motion coherence discrimination task: How response learning aspects perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40(5), 1963–1977.

Pan, J., Yan, M., Laubrock, J., Shu, H., & Kliegl, R. (2014). Saccade-target selection of dyslexic children when reading Chinese. Vision Research, 97, 24 – 30.

Pollatos, O., Laubrock, J., & Wittman, M. (2014). Interoceptive focus shapes the experience of time. PLoS One, 9(1), 1–6.

2013

Laubrock, J., Cajar, A., & Engbert, R. (2013). Control of fixation duration during scene viewing by interaction of foveal and peripheral processing. Journal of Vision, 13(12), 1–20.

Pan, J., Yan, M., Laubrock, J., Shu, H., & Kliegl, R. (2013). Eye–voice span during Rapid Automatized Naming of digits and dice in Chinese normal and dyslexic children. Developmental Science, 16(6), 967–979.

Yan, M., Pan, J., Laubrock, J., Kliegl, R., & Shu, H. (2013). Parafoveal processing efficiency in Rapid Automatized Naming: A comparison between Chinese normal and dyslexic children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 115(3), 579 – 589.

2012

Brzezicka, A., Krejtz, I., von Hecker, U., & Laubrock, J. (2012). Eye movement evidence for defocused attention in dysphoria - a perceptual span analysis. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 85(1), 129–133.

Laubrock, J. & Hohenstein, S. (2012). Orthographic consistency and parafoveal preview benefit: A resource-sharing account of language differences in processing of phonological and semantic codes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35(5), 292–293.

2010

Hohenstein, S., Laubrock, J., & Kliegl, R. (2010). Semantic preview benefit in eye movements during reading: A parafoveal fast-priming study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 36(5), 1150–1170.

Laubrock, J., Kliegl, R., Rolfs, M., & Engbert, R. (2010). When do microsaccades follow spatial attention? Attention Perception & Psychophysics, 72(3), 683–694.

2009

Kliegl, R., Rolfs, M., Laubrock, J., & Engbert, R. (2009). Microsaccadic modulation of response times in spatial attention tasks. Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung, 73(2), 136–146.

2008

Laubrock, J., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (2008). Fixational eye movements predict the perceived direction of ambiguous apparent motion. Journal of Vision, 8(14), 1–17.

Rolfs, M., Laubrock, J., & Kliegl, R. (2008). Microsaccade- induced prolongation of saccadic latencies depends on microsaccade amplitude. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 1(3), 1–8.

2007

Kliegl, R., Risse, S., & Laubrock, J. (2007). Preview benefit and parafoveal-onfoveal effects from word. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(5), 1250–1255.

Laubrock, J., Engbert, R., Rolfs, M., & Kliegl, R. (2007). Microsaccades are an index of covert attention: Commentary on Horowitz, Fine, Fencsik, Yurgenson, and Wolfe (2007). Psychological Science, 18(4), 364–366.

2006

Laubrock, J., Kliegl, R., & Engbert, R. (2006). SWIFT explorations of age differences in eye movements during reading. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 30(6), 872–884.

Rolfs, M., Laubrock, J., & Kliegl, R. (2006). Shortening and prolongation of saccade latencies following microsaccades. Experimental Brain Research, 169(3), 369–376.

2005

Laubrock, J., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (2005). Microsaccade dynamics during covert attention. Vision Research, 45(6), 721–730.