Welcome!
My name is Katja Mehlhorn and I am currently working as a courtesy postdoc with Coty Gonzalez in the dynamic decision making lab at CMU. I am interested in how memory processes affect the way we think and make decisions. I investigate, for example, how people decide between different options based on their personal experience with the options' values.
Until 2011, I was a PhD student with Niels Taatgen at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and Josef Krems at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. In my PhD I used behavioral experiments and cognitive models to investigate how people use information from memory to generate hypotheses and make decisions.
I will defend my thesis on April 20 2012 at the University of Groningen.