Dr. Michael Öllinger

Research Scientist Experimental Psychology

Michael Öllinger studied psychology at the LMU Munich and participated in the Graduate Program of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Wolfgang Prinz and Prof. Dr. Günther Knoblich. He worked as a research scientist for the MPI and is a lecturer at the LMU at the Department of General and Experimental Psychology. From 2006 onwards he has been a research scientist at the Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking. His main interest is the understanding of human thinking from a psychological point of view. Conducting behavioural and physiological experiments, he does research in the fields of insight problem solving, the understanding of causal reasoning and categorization, as well as the development of cognitive theories that conceptually incorporate behavioural and neurocognitive findings. Furthermore, he is interested in the developmental aspects of the researched thinking abilities from a longitudinal as well as from a cross sectional perspective.