Dr. Katharina Lingelbach
Junior Professor of Neuroergonomics
About Me
I lead the Neuroergonomics Research Group at the University of Stuttgart, where I am a junior professor at the Institute of Human Factors and Technology Management (IAT).
I study how people manage competing cognitive, social, and emotional demands at work. I use neurophysiological recordings, eye tracking, and behavioural measures, and also conduct applied research at Fraunhofer IAO.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
Interests
- Attention and cognitive control
- Information processing under limited cognitive resources
- Social and emotional processes at work
- Human–AI and human–robot collaboration
- Multimodal Neurophysiology and Imaging
Education
Dr. rer. nat., Department of Psychology
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
M.Sc. Psychology, Neuroscience (Mind & Brain)
University of Vienna
B.Sc. Psychology
University of Vienna
My Research
Socio-Cognitive Neuroergonomics
- Cognitive demands
- Social demands
- Emotional demands
These demands draw on shared control processes.
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
Lingelbach, K., Herrmann, C. S., & Rieger, J. W. (2026). Oscillatory and gaze signatures of socio-emotional speech processing, visuo-spatial cognition, and their interaction in a near-realistic dual-task MEG study. Imaging Neuroscience, 4, IMAG.a.1134. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1134
Stramaccia, D. F., Bergmann, F., Lingelbach, K., Numssen, O., Hartwigsen, G., & Benoit, R. G. (2026). Hindering Memory Suppression by Perturbing the Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 38(2), 340–352. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.a.90
Vorreuther, A., Tagalidou, N., Lingelbach, K., Hubert, A., Bareiß, L., Nittel, T., Ristau, M., & Vukelić, M. (2026). Response Inhibition in Autistic Adults: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study in Virtual Reality. Brain and Behavior, 16(2), e71249. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.71249
Lingelbach, K., Vorreuther, A., Moll, E., & Vukelić, M. (2025). Shielding the Mind With Flow: Attention Allocation and Auditory Event-Related Potentials Under Varying Mental Workload. European Journal of Neuroscience, 62(8), e70283. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.70283
Lingelbach, K., & Rieger, J. W. (2025). Decoding the Neural Basis of Interactions between Emotional Speech Processing and Attentional Control in Realistic Environments. In 50th Annual Conference on Psychology and the Brain (PuG).
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