Portrait of Gidon Frischkorn

I am Gidon Frischkorn and I currently work as an SNF Ambizione Fellow associated with the Cognitive Psychology Lab at the Department of Psychology of the University of Zurich. I also hold a position as a research and teaching associate for Statistics and Methods at the Faculty of Behavioral Sciences and Psychology of the University Lucerne. I did my PhD in Cognitive Individual Differences Research at Heidelberg University under the supervision of Prof. Dirk Hagemann.

I am a psychometrician - that is a psychologists researching how to measure psychological processes - focussing on 1) the measurement of cognitive processes, such as working memory, processing speed, and attention, as well as 2) evaluating experimental manipulations that might affect these processes.

My research lies at the inter-section of psychometrics, psychological research methods, and experimental psychology. Empirical research typically collects self-reports or behavioral data, such as accuracies and response times, from participants. Yet, these do not directly reflect the psychological processes to be measured and investigated. My work tries to address this gap by using mathematical models that describe how psychological processes interact and translate into observed behavior.