Lucas Lörch
Year: 2016
Center: Social Sciences
Supervisor: Stefan Münzer
After completing secondary school Lucas took a gap year during which he worked with persons with mental disability at the “Heilpädagogischer Wohn- und Beschäftigungsverbund”. He then started his psychology degree at the University of Mannheim. During his Master studies, which he finished in 2016, he was employed as a research assistant at the Chair of Educational Psychology and supported a project on way-finding and orientation. His further areas of research are (visual) information processing, divergent thinking and expertise.
Publications
2024
- Lörch, L. & Huovinen, E. (2024). Fostering composer voice in tertiary teaching of contemporary music composition. Journal of Research in Music Education, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1177/00224294241255579
2023
- Lörch, L., Lemaire, B. & Portrat, S. (2023). A hebbian model to account for musical expertise differences in a working memory task. Cognitive Computation, 15(5), 1620–1639. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-023-10138-3
2022
- Lörch, L. (2022). Chunking in tonal contexts: Information compression during serial recall of visually presented musical notes. Psychology of Music, 50(3), 691–708. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356211013396
2021
- Lörch, L. (2021). The association of eye movements and performance accuracy in a novel sight-reading task. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 14(4, Article 5), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.14.4.5
2020
- Münzer, S., Lörch, L. & Frankenstein, J. (2020). Wayfinding and acquisition of spatial knowledge with navigation assistance. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Applied, 26(1), 73–88. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000237
2021
- Lörch, L., Funk, C., Waag, A.-S. & Münzer, S. (2021). Corona und die Digitalisierung der universitären
Lehre an der Universität Mannheim : Executive Summary zu einer Studierendenbefragung im HWS 2020/
21. Mannheim.
2023
- Ahmed, A., Ludwig, S., Vogler, M., Lörch, L., Aprea, C. & Deutscher, V. (2023). Unterrichtsplanung mit virtuellen Lernsimulationen – Ein sinnvoller Ansatz zur Förderung des Einsatzes automatisierter Lernprompts durch angehende Lehrkräfte? GEBF-Tagung 2023, 10. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung “Bildung zwischen Unsicherheit und Evidenz”, Essen, Germany.
2020
- Lörch, L. & Huovinen, E. (2020). Fostering composer voice in tertiary teaching of music composition. 25th Conference of Nordic Network for Research in Music Education, NNMPF 2020, København, Denmark.
2023
- Lörch, L. (2023). Expertise in processing musical notation. An investigation of chunking, working memory, and eye movements. [Doctoral dissertation, Universität Mannheim].

Credit: Daniela Haupt
Dr. Lucas Lörch
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5665-3313