Max Schulz

PhD Candidate in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience | University of Lübeck

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Me on a very tiny sailboat.

Hi, I’m Max! 👋

I am a PhD candidate at the Dynamics of Attention Lab at the University of Lübeck. Together with Malte Wöstmann and Jonas Obleser, my research aims to unravel the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying how we focus our attention in acoustically busy environments.


Research Focus

Auditory Attention

Investigating the subprocesses of selective attention, with a specific focus on delineating target enhancement from distractor capture and suppression.

Methods & Tech

Using EEG (Electroencephalography) and developing webcam-based eye & head tracking tools to track attention in real-time.


Recent Talks & Symposia

June 2026
Symposium Organizer & Speaker — Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG)

Organized and chaired the symposium "Dynamics of Enhancement and Suppression: Integrating Neural and Behavioral Perspectives on Selective Attention" in Heidelberg, Germany.

March 2026
Symposium Speaker — Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP)

Presented "Behavioral and neural signatures of extracting regularities from relevant and irrelevant sequences of sound" in Tübingen, Germany.

January 2026
Invited Talk — Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour

Presented ongoing research on infant OCAPI (Objective Coding of Attention Pipeline for Infants) in Marlene Meyer's Lab in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

selected publications