Dr. Katrin Heimann
Hauptforschungsgebiete
- Anwendung, Entwicklung und Methodenkritik von Mikro-Phänomenologie und verwandter Methoden
- Experimente zu Kunsterfahrung und ihrer empirischen Erforschung (Pilotieren und Methodenreflektion) mithilfe von Mikro-Phänomenologie und anderer Methoden (auch in Kombination mit (Neuro-)Physiologie etc.)
Vita
Akademische Ausbildung
2012–2015 | Promotion zum Thema “Neurocinematics” an der Universität Parma, Gruppe Vittorio Gallese |
2010–2012 | Master of Science Studium Brain and Cognitive Sciences an der Universität, Amsterdam (UvA), Niederlande |
2008–2010 | Master of Arts Studium Philosophie und Kulturreflektionan der Universität Witten/Herdecke |
2004–2006 | Bachelor of Arts Studium Philosophie und Kulturreflektionan der Universität Witten/Herdecke |
Werdegang
Seit 2022 | wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik, Frankfurt am Main |
Since 2015 | PostDoc/Assistant Professor am Interacting Minds Center, Aarhus Universität, Dänemark. |
2012–2015 | Early Researcher Fellow, Marie Curie Projekt TESIS – Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity |
Publikationen
Fingerhut, J., Heimann, K. (accepted) Enacting Moving Images Film Theory and Experimental Science Within a New Cognitive Media Theory. Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind.
Lübbert, A., González-Fernández, P., & Heimann, K. (2021). From What Is to What If to Let’s Try: A Treasure-Box for the Playful Academic. Journal of Play in Adulthood, 3 (1), 52-70.
Suhr, C., Boelsbjerg, H. B. & Heimann, K. (2021). Hvordan oplever vi kærlighed? Mikrofænomenologi som metode til beskrivelse af subjektive oplevelser [How do we Experience Love? Micro-Phenomenology as a Method for Describing Subjective Experiences], Jordens Folk - Etnografisk Tidsskrift, 56(2). 59-69.
Heimann, K. (2020). About Process and Progress – Suggestions about how to Investigate Subjective Experience Most Ecologically. Constructivist Foundations, 15, 253-255.
Tylén, K., Fusaroli, R., Rojo, S., Heimann, K., Fay, N., Johannsen, N., Riede, F., & Lombard, M. (2020). The evolution of early symbolic behavior in Homo sapiens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(9), 4578-4584.
Heimann, K., Calbi, M., Uithol, S., Umilta, M. A., Guerra, M., Fingerhut, J., & Gallese, V. (2019). Embodying the camera: An EEG study on the effect of camera movements on film spectators´ sensorimotor cortex activation, P L o S One, 14(3). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0211026
Cavaletti, F., & Heimann, K. (2019). Longing for tomorrow: phenomenology, cognitive psychology, and the methodological bases of exploring time experience in depression. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 19 (2), 271-289. doi:10.1007/s11097-018-09609-y
Heimann, K., & Roepstorff, A. (2018). How playfulness motivates – putative looping effects of autonomy and surprise revealed by micro-phenomenological investigations. Frontiers in Psychology, Special Issue on Playfulness. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01704
Calbi, M., Siri, F., Heimann, K., Barratt, D., Gallese, V., Kolesnikova, A., & Umiltà, A. (2018). The influence of the context on facial expressions perception: a source localization high-density EEG study on the “Kuleshov effect”. Scientific report, 9, 2107 -2019
Calbi, M., Heimann, K., Barratt, D., Siri, F., Umiltà, M.A., Gallese, V. (2017). How context influences our perception of emotional faces: a behavioral study on the Kuleshov effect. Frontiers in Psychology,8,1684. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01684
Mitkidis, P., Ayal, S., Shalvi, S., Heimann, K., Levy, G., Kyselo, M., Wallot, S., Ariely, D., Roepsdorff, A. (2017). The effects of extreme rituals on moral behavior: The performers-observers gap hypothesis. Journal of Economic Psychology, 59, 1-7.
Heimann, K. (2016). Körperfilme – Filmkörper: Ein neurowissenschaftlicher Beitrag zu Embodiment im Film. Bildkörper: Zum Verhältnis von Bildtechnologien und Embodiment. ed. / Lars C. Grabbe; Patrick Rupert-Kruse; Norbert M. Schmitz. Darmstadt : Büchner Verlag. 72-95.
Heimann, K., Uithol, S., Calbi, M., Umiltà, M.A., Guerra, M. & Gallese, V. (2016). “Cuts in Action”: A High-Density EEG Study Investigating the Neural Correlates of Different Editing Techniques in Film. Cognitive Science, 41(6):1555-1588. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12439
Fingerhut, J. & Heimann, K. (2016). Movies and the mind. On our filmic body in Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture. Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World (ed. Durt, C., Fuchs, T. & Tewes, C.), MIT Press, 353-377.
Weitere Publikationen und Media
Heimann, K. (2021) How playfulness develops and spurs a drive to learn. Child and Family Blog: https://childandfamilyblog.com/. 2021Blog.
Høj Jensen, M. (2021) Vores filmiske krop som kunstform: Et interview med Katrin Heimann.(Our filmic body as a form of art: an interview with Katrin Heimann), Turbulens.net : forum for samtidsrefleksion
https://turbulens.net/vores-filmiske-krop-som-kunstform-et-interview-med-katrin-heimann/
Heimann, K., Løppethin , A, Ziska, J. (2021) How is WeUsed.To experienced? - Micro-phenomenological explorations. A video essay in three parts: https://www.eer.info/activities/we-used-to
Auszeichnungen & Stipendien
2017–2020 | European Based Fellow of the Einstein Group Consciousness, Emotions and Values, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin |
2008–2011 | Stipendiatin der Deutschen Studienstiftung |
2007 | Stipendiatin im China-Stipendien-Programm der Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung |
Weitere akademische Tätigkeiten
Co-Korrektorin Universität Kopenhagen, im Master of Arts Studiengang Cognition and Communication seit 2018
Gastherausgeberin der Sonderausgabe “Working with others´ experiences” (Journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences)
Gastherausgeberin der Sonderausgabe “Learning, Breaking, Making – Analysing Processes of Play” (Frontiers in Psychology)
Gastherausgeberin of the Special Issue “Rising Ideas” (Frontiers in Psychology)
Regelmässige Arbeit als Reviewerin in den Journals Phenomenology and the Cognitive Science, Constructivist Foundations, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts u.a.
Vorstandsmitglied des Aarhus Licht Festivals