Dr. Thomas Dolk - Universität Regensburg

Curriculum Vitae

Academic education

2013: Doctoral degree in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.), Leipzig University, Germany.
2009: Magister Artium (MA: Rehabilitation Pedagogics & Sociology), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

Professional employment history

09/2015 - present PostDoc at the Department of General and Applied Psychology, Regensburg University.

09/2013 – 09/2015 PostDoc at the Human Sciences Faculty, University of Potsdam, Research Group: “Diversity and Inclusion”.

04/2013 – 08/2013 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Group: “Competition and Priority Control in Mind and Brain: New Perspectives from Task-Driven Vision”, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.

09/2012 – 03/2013 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig.

07/2009 – 08/2012 PhD candidate at the Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig.Member of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) on Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure, and Plasticity. Supervisors: Prof. Dr Prinz and PD Dr Liepelt.

Research Interests

Action Perception and Execution, Brain Plasticity Across the Lifespan, Cognitive Control, Inter-/Intraindividual Differences, Joint Action, Multisensory Integration, Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Social and Spatial Cognition.

Methodological Spectrum

Methods include behavioral, electrophysiological measures (EEG), structural magnetic resonance imaging (structural MRI) as well as non-invasive techniques like transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

Publications

Articles (peer-reviewed)

Dolk, T., & Liepelt, R. (2018). The Multimodal go-nogo Simon Effect: Signifying the relevance of stimulus features in the go-nogo Simon paradigm impacts event representations and task performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2011.
Dolk, T., Freigang, C., Bogon, J., & Dreisbach, G. (2018). Auditory (dis-)fluency triggers sequential processing adjustments. Acta Psychologica, 191, 69-75. This article has been retracted by the authors due to a coding error in the experimental files. Please do not cite.
Ticini, L. F., Dolk, T., Waszak, F., & Schütz-Bosbach, S. (2018). IPL-M1 interaction shapes pre-reflective social differentiation in the human action system: new insights from TBS and TMS combined. Scientific Reports, 8, 12001.
Mendl, J., Fröber, K., Dolk, T. (2018). Are you keeping an eye on me? The influence of competition and cooperation on joint Simon task performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1361.
Sabah, K. , Dolk, T., Meiran, N., & Dreisbach, G. (2018). When less is more: : Costs and Benefits of Varied vs. Fixed Content and Structure in Short Term Task Switching Training. Psychological Research. Apr 5. doi:10.1007/s00426-018-1006-7.
Gerth, S., Klassert, A., Dolk, T., Fliesser, M., Fischer, M. H., Nottbusch, G., & Festman, J. (2016). Is Handwriting Performance Affected by the Writing Surface? Comparing Perschoolers', Second Graders', and Adults' Writing Performance on a Tablet vs. Paper. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1308.
Gerth, S., Dolk, T., Klassert, A., Fliesser, M., Fischer, M. H., Nottbusch, G., & Festman, J. (2016). Adapting to the surface: A comparison of handwriting measures when writing on a tablet computer and on paper. Human Movement Science, 48, 62-73.
Liepelt, R., Dolk, T., & Hommel, B. (2017). Self-perception beyond the body: The role of past agency. Psychological Research, 81, 549-559.
Janczyk, M., Welsh, T.N., & Dolk, T. (2016). A role of goals for social inhibition of return? The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60,
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Liepelt, R., Klempova*, B., Dolk*, T., Colzato, L. S., Ragert, P., Nitsche, M., & Hommel, B. (2016). The medial frontal cortex mediates self-other discrimination in the Joint Simon task: a tDCS study. Journal of Psychophysiology, 30, 87-101. *equal contribution
Sellaro, R., Dolk, T., Colzato, L. S., Liepelt, R., & Hommel, B. (2015). Referential coding does not rely on location features: Evidence for a non-spatial joint Simon effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 41, 186-195.
Dolk, T., Hommel, B., Prinz, W., & Liepelt, R. (2014). The joint flanker effect: less social than previously thought. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 1224-1230.
Dolk, T., Hommel, B., Colzato, L. S., Schütz-Bosbach, S., Prinz, W., & Liepelt, R. (2014). The Joint Simon Effekt: A review and theoretical integration. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:974.
Pfister, R., Dolk, T., Prinz, W., & Kunde, W. (2014). Joint Response-Effect Compatibility. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 817-822.
Stenzel, A., Dolk, T., Colzato, L. S., Sellaro, R., Hommel, B., & Liepelt, R. (2014). The joint Simon effect depends on perceived agency, but not intentionality, of the alternative action. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8:595.
Dittrich, K., Dolk, T., Rothe-Wulf, A., Klauer, K. C., & Prinz, W. (2013). Keys and seats: Spatial response coding underlying the joint Simon effect. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75, 1725-1736.
Dolk, T., Hommel, B., Prinz, W., & Liepelt, R. (2013). The (not so) social Simon Effect. A referential coding account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 1248-1260.
Dolk, T., Liepelt, R., Prinz, W., & Fiehler, K. (2013). Visual experience determines the use of external reference frames in joint action control. PlosOne, 8: e59008.
Dolk, T. Liepelt, R., Villringer, A., Prinz, W., & Ragert, P. (2012). Morphometric gray matter differences of the medial frontal cortex influence the social Simon effect. NeuroImage, 61, 1249-1254.
Liepelt, R., Dolk, T., & Prinz, W. (2012). Bidirectional semantic interference between action and speech. Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung. Psychological Research, 76, 446-455.
Liepelt, R., Schneider, J., Aichert, D., Wöstmann, N., Dehning, S., Möller, H.-J., Riedel, M., Dolk, T., & Ettinger, U. (2012). Action blind: Disturbed self-other integration in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 50, 3775-3780.
Obermeier, C., Dolk, T., & Gunter, T. C. (2012). The benefit of gestures during communication: Evidence from hearing and hearing-impaired individuals. Cortex, 48, 857-870.
Dolk, T., Hommel, B., Colzato, L. S., Schütz-Bosbach, S., Prinz, W., & Liepelt, R. (2011). How "social" is the Simon effect? Frontiers in Psychology, 2:84.

Book and Book chapters

Dolk, T., & Prinz. W. (2016). What it Takes to Share a Task: Sharing versus Shaping Task Representations. In E.S. Cross & S.S. Obhi (Eds.), Shared representations: Sensorimotor foundations of social life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dolk, T. (2013). A Referential Coding Account for the Social Simon Effect. MPI Series in Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 152. ISBN 978-3-941504-36-3.