Prof. Dr. Sarah Weigelt
Mail: sarah.weigelttu-dortmundde
Chair of Vision, Visual Impairments and Blindness
Phone: 0231 / 755 - 4559
Emil-Figge-Str. 50 | Room 4.421

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Mail: sarah.weigelttu-dortmundde
Chair of Vision, Visual Impairments and Blindness
Phone: 0231 / 755 - 4559
Emil-Figge-Str. 50 | Room 4.421

Sarah Weigelt studied psychology and philosophy at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She obtained her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Maastricht University in 2008 for research performed in Wolf Singer’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt. Sarah was a postdoc in Nancy Kanwisher’s group at MIT before starting her own group at the Ruhr University Bochum in 2013. In October 2018 she joined TU Dortmund University as a full professor, where she heads the research group on vision, visual impairments and blindness.
Meissner, T. W., Prüfer, H., Nordt, M., Semmelmann, K., & Weigelt, S. (2018). Development of face detection in preschool children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 42(4), 439–444. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025417738058
Nordt, M., Semmelmann, K., Genç, E., & Weigelt, S. (2018). Age-related increase of image-invariance in the fusiform face area. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 31, 46–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.04.005
Semmelmann, K., Hönekopp, A., & Weigelt, S. (2017). Looking Tasks Online: Utilizing Webcams to Collect Video Data from Home. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1582. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01582
Semmelmann, K., Nordt, M., Sommer, K., Röhnke, R., Mount, L., Prüfer, H., Terwiel, S., Meissner, T. W., Koldewyn, K., & Weigelt, S. (2016). U Can Touch This: How Tablets Can Be Used to Study Cognitive Development. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1021. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01021
Weigelt, S., Koldewyn, K., Dilks, D. D., Balas, B., McKone, E., & Kanwisher, N. (2014). Domain-specific development of face memory but not face perception. Developmental Science, 17(1), 47–58. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12089
See FAIR publications or the full publication list of the Chair of Vision, Visual Impairments and Blindness.