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Members of Department: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heiko Hecht

General Experimental Psychology

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heiko Hecht
General Experimental Psychology

Postal Address

Psychological Institut of Johannes Gutenberg-University
Builing Taubertsberg II
Wallstrasse 3, 55099 Mainz

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hecht
  • 1982
    MBA, Berufsakademie Stuttgart
  • 1986
    Vordiplom (BA) psychology and philosophy, University of Trier
  • 1989
    Magister Artium psychology, University of Virginia, USA
  • 1992
    Ph. D. Experimental psychology, University of Virginia
  • 1991-1993
    Ludwig Maximilian Universität München/MPI Psychological Research
  • 1993-1995
    NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA
  • 1995-1999
    Center for interdisciplinary Research, Universität Bielefeld 
  • 1999-2002
    Man-Vehicle Laboratory (Aeronautics/Astronautics) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA
  • 2000
    Postdoctoral lecture qualification at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
  • since 2002
    Full-Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, head of the department of general experimental psychology
  • Perception and action in extreme environments
  • Perception and Technology
  • Virtual reality
  • Intersensory integration; Action control
  • Intuitive physics
  • Picture perception
  • Artificial gravity
  • Simulator and simulator-sickness
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 Selected publications

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Hecht, H., & Brauer, J. (2007). Convex rear view mirrors compromise distance and time-to-contact judgements. Ergonomics, 50, 601–614.
 
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Gamer, M., & Hecht, H. (2007). Are You Looking at Me? Measuring the Cone of Gaze. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 33, 705-715.
 
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Hecht, H. (2006). Film as dynamic event perception: Technological development forces realism to retreat. Image: Journal of Interdisciplinary Image Science. (online access: www.image-online.info)

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Bertamini, M., Jones, L., Spooner, A. & Hecht, H. (2005). Boundary extension: The role of magnification, object size, context and binocular information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31. 1288-1307. 
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Hecht, H., Bertamini, M., & Gamer, M. (2005). Naïve optics: Acting upon mirror reflections. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31. 1023-1038.

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Méliga, P., Hecht, H., Young, L. R., & Mast, F. W. (2005). Artificial Gravity - head movements during short-radius centrifugation: Influence of cognitive effects. Acta Astronautica, 56, 859 – 866.

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Bertamini, M., Spooner, A., & Hecht, H. (2003). Naïve optics: Predicting and perceiving reflections in mirrors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 982-1002.

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Young, L.R., Sienko, K.H., Lyne, L.E., Hecht, H., & Natapoff, A. (2003). Adaptation of the vestibulo-ocular reflex, subjective tilt, and motion sickness to head movements during short-radius centrifugation. Journal of Vestibular Research, 13, 65-77.
 
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Brown, E.L., Hecht, H., & Young, L.R. (2003). Sonsorimotor aspects of high-speed artificial gravity: I. Sensory conflict in vetibular adaptation. Journal of Vestibular Research, 12. 271-282.
 
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Hecht, H., Brown, E. L., & Young, L. R. (2002). Adapting to artificial gravity (AG) at high rotational speeds. Journal of Gravitational Physiology, 9 P1-P5.

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Croucher, C.J., Bertamini, M., & Hecht, H. (2002). Naive Optics: Undersstanding the Geometry of Mirror Reflections. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 28, 546-562.

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Hecht, H., Kaiser, M.K., Savelsbergh, G.J.P., & van der Kamp, J. (2002). The impact of spatiotemporal sampling on time-to-contact judgments. Perception & Psychophysics, 64. 650-666.

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Hecht, H. (2001). Regularities of the physical world and the absence of their internalization. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 608-617.

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Young, L.R., Hecht, H., Lyne, L.E., Sienko, K.H., Cheung, C.C., & Kavelaars, J. (2001). Artivicial Gravity: Head Movements During Short-radius Centrifugation. Acta Astronautica, 49, 215-226.

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Kerzel, D., Hecht, H., & Kim, N.-G. (2001). Time-to-passage judgments on circular trajectories are based on relative optical acceleration. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 1153-1170.

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Hecht, H., Vogt, S., & Prinz, W. (2001) Motor learning enhances perceptual judgment: a case for action-perception transfer. Psychological Research, 65, 3-14.

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Hecht, H., Kavelaars, J., Cheung, C.C., & Young, L.R. (2001). Orientation illusions and heart-rate changes during short-radius centrifugation. Journal of Vestibular Research, 11, 115-127.

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Hecht, H. (2001). Universal internalization or pluralistic micro-theories? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 746-753.

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Hecht, H., & Bertamini, M. (2000). Understanding Projectile Acceleration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 730-746.

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Hecht, H. (2000). The Failings of Three Event Perception Theories. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 30, 0021-8308.

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Hecht, H. (2000). Are Events and Affordances Commensurate Terms? Ecological Psychology, 12, 57-63.

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Oesker, M., Hecht, H., & Jung, B. (2000). Psychological evidence for unconscious processing of detail in real-time animation of multiple characters. Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, 11, 105-112.

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Kerzel, D., Hecht, H., & Kim, N.-G. (1999). Image Velocity, No Tau, Explains Arrival-Time Judgments from Global Optical Flow. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1540-1555.

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Hecht, H., Oesker, M., Kaiser, A., Civelek, H. & Stecker, T. (1999). A perception experiment with time-critical graphics animation on the World-Wide Web. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 31, 439-445.

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Hecht, H., van Doorn, A. & Koenderink, J. J. (1999). Compression of visual space in natural scenes and in their photographic caounterparts. Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 1269-1286.

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Hecht, H., & Bader, H. (1998). Perceiving topological structure of 2-D patterns. Acta Psychologica, 99, 255-292.

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Kerzel, D. & Hecht, H. (1997). Grenzen der perzeptuellen Robustheit bei perspektivischer Verzerrung. Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, Band XLIV, 3, 394-430.

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Kerzel, D., & Hecht, H. (1997). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 516-523.

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Hecht, H., Kaiser, M. K., & Martin, S. B. (1996). Gravitational acceleration as a cue for absolute size and distance? Perception & Psychophysics, 58, 1066-1075.

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Hecht, H. (1996). Heuristics and invariants in dynamic event perception: Immunized concepts or nonstatements? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 61-70.

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Kaiser, M. K. &  (1995). Time-to-passage judgments in nonconstant optical flow fields. Perception & Psychophysics, 1995, 57 (6), 817-825.

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Hecht, H. & Kaiser, M. K. (1995). Spatial Representation: Posers and Paradigm. Mail Stop 262-2, NASA Ames research Center, Moffitt Field, CA 94035, USA.

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Hecht, H., & Proffitt, D. R.  (1995). THE PRICE OF EXPERTISE: Effects of Experience on the Water-Level Task. Psycological Science, 1995, 6, 2, 90-95.

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Hecht, H. (1995). Retinal, attentional, and causal aspects of illusory-motion directionality. Psycological Research, 1995, 57, 70-79.

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Hecht, H.  (1993). Judging rolling wheels: dynamic and kinematic aspects of rotation — transiation coupling. Perception, 1993. volume 22, pages 917-928.

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Proffitt, D. R., Rock, I. , Hecht, H. & Schubert, J. (1992). Stereokinetic Effect and its relation to the Kinetic Depth Effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1992, Vol. 18, No. 1,3-12.

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Kaiser, M. K., Proffitt, D. R., Whelan, S. M., & Hecht, H. (1992). Influence of Animation on Dynamical Judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1992, Vol. 18, No. 3,669-690.

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Lasaga, M. I. & Hecht, H. (1991). Integration of local features as a function of global goodness and spacing. Perception & Psychophysics, 1991. 49 (3), 201-211.

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Hecht, H., & Proffitt, D. R. (1991). Apparent Extended Body Motions in Depth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1991, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1090-1103.

pdfAbstract Hecht, H., Schwartz, R., Atherton, M. (Eds.) (2003). Looking into pictures: An interdisciplinary approach to pictorial space. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hecht, H., Savelsbergh, G. J. P. (Eds.) (2004). Time-to-contact. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers.

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Hecht, H. (2006). Zeitwahrnehmung als Bewegungswahrnehmung. In N. Mewis & S. Schlag (Eds.), Zeit. (pp. 61 - 78). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

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Hecht, H. (2006). Bewegungswahrnehmung. In J. Funke & P. A. Frensch (Eds.), Handwörterbuch Psychologie: Allgemeine Psychologie: Kognition. (pp. 182 - 189). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

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Fischer, M., & Hecht, H. (2004). The Event Structure of Motion Perception. In L.M. Vaina, S.A. Beardsley and S.K. Rushton (Eds.). Optic Flow and Beyond (pp. 139-156) Kluwer Academic Pulishers, Netherland.

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Bertamini, M., Spooner, A., & Hecht, H. (2004). The representation of naive knowledge about physics. In G. Malcolm (Ed.). Multidisciplinary Appraches to Visual Representations and Interpretations. Elsevier. ISBN: 0-444-51463-5.
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Hecht, H. (2003). Bildkompetenz als Wahrnehmungskompetenz am Beispiel virtueller Räume. In K. Sachs-Hombach (Ed.) Was ist Bildkompetenz? (pp. 157-175). Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag.
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Koendering, J.J., Van Doorn, A.J., Arend, L., & Hecht, H. (2002). Ecological optics and the creative eye. In R. Mausfeld & D. Heyer (Eds.), Perception and the physical world: Psychological and philosophical issues in perception (pp 271-304). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Kerzel, D., & Hecht, H. (2001). Visual causality. In M. May & U. Oestermeier (Eds.), Interdisciplinary perspectives on causation. (pp. 119 - 139). Bern: Books on Demand. (Series: Bern Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 4, Eds. G. Graßhoff, T. Lampert & T. Sauer).

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Jung, B., Oesker, M., & Hecht, H. (2000). Virtual RoboCup: Real-time 3D visualization of 2D soccer games. In M. Veloso, E. Pagello and H, Kitano (Eds.), RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1856, (pp. 331-344). Berlin: Springer.
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Hecht, H. (1999). The Limits of an Occasionalist Gibsonian Theory of Perceptual Space. In G. Aschersleben, T. Bachmann, and J. Müsseler (Eds.) Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of the Spatial and Temporal Events (pp. 65-68). Elsevier Science B.V.
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Hecht, H. (1997). Subjective ralism in a simulated squast game. In K.-P. Holzhausen (Ed.), Advances in Multimedia and Simulation. Human-Machine-Interface Implication (pp. 365-370). Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter, Bochum. Fachhochschule Bochum: Bochum, Germany.
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Duma, U. & Hecht, H. (2006). Die Benutzerfreundlichkeit der Homepages deutscher Universitäten: Ein Internet Usability Vergleich. Mainzer Experimental Psychology Reports. 
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Übersetzung: Götzl, H. (2003). Wolfgang Metzger: Perspectives on his life and work (translation H.Hecht). In G.A. Kimble & M. Wertheimer (Eds.), Portraits of pioneers in psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum (pp. 176-191).
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Vogt, S. & Hecht, H. (2001). Multi-level sensorimotor interactions. Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 906-907.
Basis topics

General:
It is expected that the students familisize themselves detail with the topic. The thesis has to contain hypotheses which are to be lected empirically. These are to be introduced in form of a written exposés. The data acquisition is to be accomplished independently, whereby the lab support is ensured. The results should be presented in the informal department colloquium.
The thesis can be written in German, English or French.

 


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