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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
2023
- Lörch, L., Lemaire, B. & Portrat, S. (2023). A hebbian model to account for musical expertise differences in a working memory task. Cognitive Computation, 1–20. 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.
2018
- Krukar, J., Münzer, S., Lörch, L., Anacta, V. J., Fuest, S. & Schwering, A. (2018). Distinguishing sketch map types: A flexible feature-based classification. In S. Creem-Regehr (eds.), Spatial Cognition XI : 11th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2018, Tübingen, Germany, September 5–8, 2018, Proceedings (S. 279–292). Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Springer International Publishing: Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96385-3_19
- Lörch, L. & Münzer, S. (2018). Improving navigation systems. How design features of guidance systems influence wayfinding and survey knowledge. In A. C. Schütz (eds.), 60. TeaP 2018 : Abstracts of the 60h Conference of Experimental Psychologists, March, 11th to 14th, Marburg, Germany (S. 159). , Pabst Science Publishers: Lengerich.
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.
2019
- Lörch, L. (2019). A new view on complex span tasks. Using eye tracking to reveal the influence of memory load on eye movements. 61. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), London, UK.
- Lörch, L. (2019). C Dur. Chunking im Gedächtnis von Musikexperten. 35. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie “Kognitive Musikpsychologie”, Eichstätt, Germany.
- Lörch, L. (2019). Neue Einblicke in die Blickbewegungen von Musikexperten beim Blattspielen. 35. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie “Kognitive Musikpsychologie”, Eichstätt, Germany.
- Lörch, L. (2019). The interplay of eye movements and long-term memory: Using a novel combination of eye tracking and complex span tasks to reveal how eye movements draw on long-term memory. 20th European Conference on Eye Movements, ECEM 2019, Alicante, Spain.
- Lörch, L. (2019). The magic numbers 4 and 7. Modeling chunking in immediate memory. 61. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), London, UK.
2018
- Lörch, L. (2018). Acquisition of survey knowledge while wayfinding with navigation assistance. 51. DGPs Kongress, Frankfurt a.M., Germany.
2023
- Lörch, L. (2023). Expertise in processing musical notation. An investigation of chunking, working memory, and eye movements. [Doctoral dissertation, Universität Mannheim].
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