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Kuhn, D., Tünnermann, J., & Schubö, A. (2025). Picking the right piece: Action intentions shape visual search and action planning in human multi-target-foraging. iScience 28(6). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112656
Tünnermann, J., & Schubö, A. (2025). Attention directs actions in visual foraging. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 15788. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-97986-1
Wagner, I., Tünnermann, J., Schubö, A., & Schütz, A. C. (2025). Trade-off between search costs and accuracy in oculomotor and manual search tasks. Journal of Neurophysiology, 133(5), 1350–1367. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00488.202
Banh, N. C., Tünnermann, J., Rohlfing, K. J., & Scharlau, I. (2024). Benefiting from binary negations? Verbal negations decrease visual attention and balance its distribution. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1451309. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1451309
Hanne, A. A., Tünnermann, J., Schubö, A. (2024). Handling distractor interference in mixed and fixed search. Visual cognition, 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2328902
Henare, D. T., Tünnermann, J., Wagner, I., Schütz, A. C., & Schubö, A. (2024). Complex trade-offs in a dual-target visual search task are indexed by lateralised ERP components. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 22839. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-72811-3
Liesefeld, H. R., Lamy, D., Gaspelin, N., Geng, J.J., Kerzel, D., Schall J.D., Allen H.A., Anderson B.A., Boettcher S., Busch N.A., Carlisle N.B., Colonius H., Draschkow D., Egeth H., Leber A.B., Müller H.J., Röer J.P., Schubö A., Slagter H.A., Theeuwes J., Wolfe J. (2024). Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86, 1445-1472. DOI: https://doi.org/:10.3758/s13414-023-02820-3
Meibodi, N., Abbasi, H., Schubö, A. & Endres, D.M. (2024). Distracted by Previous Experience: Integrating Selection History, Current Task Demands and Saliency in an Algorithmic Model. Computational Brain & Behavior, 7, 268-285. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-024-00197-6
Mu, Y., Schubö, A., Tünnermann, J. (2024). Adapting attentional control settings in a shape-changing environment. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86(2):404-421. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02818-x
Mu, Y., Tünnermann, J., & Schubö, A. (2024). Distracted by objects: The impact of earlier semantic categorization. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 20(4), 303-322. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0434-y
Scheller, M., Tünnermann, J., Fredriksson, K., Fang, H., & Sui, J. (2024). Self-association enhances early attentional selection through automatic prioritization of socially salient signals. eLife, 13, RP100932. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.100932.1
Walper, D., Bendixen, A., Grimm, S., Schubö, A., & Einhäuser, W. (2024). Attention deployment in natural scenes: Higher-order scene statistics rather than semantics modulate the N2pc component. Journal of Vision, 24(6), 7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.6.7
Abbasi, H., Dötsch, D., Schubö, A. (2023). Electrophysiological correlates of attentional capture in joint action. The European Journal of Neuroscience, 58(1), 2248-2266. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16037
Abbasi, H., Henare, D., Kadel, H. & Schubö, A.. (2023). Selection history and task predictability determine the precision expectations in attentional control. Psychophysiology, 60(1), e14151. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14151
Gaspelin , N., Lamy , D., Egeth , H. E.; Liesefeld , H. R.; Kerzel , D.; Mandal , A.; Müller , M. M.; Schall , J. D.; Schubö , A.; Slagter , H. A.; Stilwell , B. T. & van Moorselaar , D. (2023). The Distractor Positivity Component and the Inhibition of Distracting Stimuli. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 35(11), 1693-1715. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02051
Grössle, I. M., Schubö, A., Tünnermann, J. (2023). Testing a relational account of search templates in visual foraging. Scientific Reports, 13, 12541. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38362-9
Hanne, A. A., Tünnermann, J., Schubö, A. (2023). Target templates and the time course of distractor location learning. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 1672. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25816-9
Wagner, I., Henare, D., Tünnermann, J., Schubö, A. & Schütz, A.C. (2023). Humans trade off search costs and accuracy in a combined visual search and perceptual task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(1), 23-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02600-5
Abbasi, H., Kadel, H., Hickey, C., et al. (2022). Combined influences of strategy and selection history on attentional control. Psychophysiology, 59(4), e13987. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13987
Dötsch, D., Deffner, D., Schubö, A. (2022). Color me impressed: A partner's target feature captures visual attention. Cognition, March 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104989
Tünnermann, J., Kristjánsson, Á., Petersen, A., Schubö, A. & Scharlau, I. (2022). Advances in the TVA-based visual attention research: Moving towards more naturalistic stimuli and game-like tasks. Open Psychology, 4(1), 27-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2022-0002
Bergmann, N. & Schubö, A. (2021). Local and global context repetitions in contextual cueing. Journal of Vision, 21(9). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.10.9
Dötsch, D., Kurz, J., Helm, F., Hegele, M., Munzert, J. & Schubö, A. (2021). End in view: Joint end-state comfort depends on gaze and extraversion. Human Movement Science, 80, 102867. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2021.102867
Garrido-Vásquez, P., Wengemuth, E. & Schubö, A (2021). Priming of grasp affordance in an ambiguous object: evidence from ERPs, source localization, and motion tracking. Heliyon, 7(4), e06870. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021. e06870
Henare, D.T., & Schubö, A. (2021). Voluntary choice tasks increase control settings and reduce capture. Visual Cognition, 29(9). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1936726
Heuer, A., Mennig, M., Schubö, A., et al. (2021). Impaired Disengagement of Attention from Computer-Related Stimuli in Internet Gaming Disorder: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence. Journal of Behavioural Addictions, 19 (1), 77-87. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.0010001
Krüger A.*, Tünnermann J.*, Stratmann, L., Briese, L., Dressler F., & Scharlau I. (2021) TVA in the wild: Applying the theory of visual attention to game-like and less controlled experiments. Open Psychology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2021-0001. Note: *indicates shared first authors.
Lockhofen, D. E., Hübner, N., Hemdan, F., Sammer, G.,Henare, D., Schubö, A., & Mulert, C. (2021). Differing time courses of reward-related attentional processing: An EEG source-space analysis. Brain topography, 34(3), 283-296. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-021-00827-3
Meibodi, N., Abbassi, H., Schubö, A., Endres, D. (2021). A model of selection history in visual attention. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43(43), 707-713. DOI: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3m33h9h7
Tünnermann, J., & Scharlau, I. (2021). Big-M-Small-N Temporal-Order Judgment Data. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 17(4), 355–373. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20982/tqmp.17.4.p355
Tünnermann, J., Chelazzi, L., & Schubö, A. (2021). How Feature Context Alters Attentional Template Switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(11), 1431-1444. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000951
Bergmann, N., Tünnermann, J., & Schubö, A. (2020). Reward-predicting distractor orientations support contextual cueing: Persistent effects in homogeneous distractor contexts. Vision Research, 171, 53–63. DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.visres.2020.03.010
Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T., Busch, N. A. & Schubö, A. (2020). Failed suppression of salient stimuli precedes behavioral errors. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01502
Henare, D. T., Kadel, H., & Schubö, A. (2020). Voluntary control of task selection does not eliminate the impact of selection history on attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(11), 2159-2177. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01609
Heuer, A. & Schubö, A. (2020). Cueing distraction: Electrophysiological evidence for anticipatory active suppression of distractor location. Psychological Research. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-019-01211-4. Advance online publication. Zenodo: DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2526290
Bergmann, N., Tünnermann, J., & Schubö, A. (2019). Which search are you on? Adapting to color while searching for shape. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 457–477. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01858-6
Bergmann, N., Koch, D. & Schubö, A. (2019). Reward expectation facilitates context learning and attentional guidance in visual search. Journal of Vision, 19(3), 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/19.3.10
Heuer, A., Wolf, C., Schütz, A. & Schubö, A. (2019). The possibility to make choices modulates feature-based effects of reward. Scientific Reports, 9:5749. Zenodo: DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1453309
Tünnermann, J., Born, C., & Mertsching, B. (2019). Saliency from Growing Neural Gas: Learning pre-attentional structures for a flexible attention system. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 28(11), 5296-5307. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2019.2913549
Heuer, A., & Schubö, A. (2018). Separate and combined effects of action relevance and motivational value on visual working memory. Journal of Vision, 18, 14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/18.5.14
Dötsch, D., Vesper, C. & Schubö, A. (2017). How you move is what I see: planning an action biases a partner’s visual search. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:77. DOI: https://doi.org.10.3389/ fpsyg.2017.00077
Feldmann- Wüstefeld, T., Miyakoshi, M., Petilli, M.A., Schubö, A. & Makeig, S. (2017). Reduced visual attention in heterogeneous textures is reflected in occipital alpha and theta band activity. PLOS ONE.
Heuer, A., & Schubö, A. (2017). Selective weighting of action-related feature dimensions in visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24, 1129-1134. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1209-0
Heuer, A., Crawford, J.D. & Schubö, A. (2017). Action relevance induces an attentional weighting of representations in visual working memory. Memory & Cognition, 45, 413-427. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-016-0670-3
Heuer, A., Wolf, C., Schütz, A. & Schubö, A. (2017). The necessity to choose causes reward-related anticipatory biasing: Parieto-occipital alpha-band oscillations reveal suppression of low-value targets. Scientific Reports, 7:14318. DOI: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-14742-w
Kadel, H., Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T. & Schubö, A. (2017). Selection history alters attentional filter settings persistently and beyond top-down control. Psychophysiology, 54, 736-754. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12830
Koenig, S., Kadel, H., Uengoer, M., Schubö, A., & Lachnit, H. (2017). Reward Draws the Eye, Uncertainty Holds the Eye: Associative Learning Modulates Distractor Interference in Visual Search. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00128
Oemisch, M., Watson, M.R., Womelsdorf, T. & Schubö, A. (2017). Changes of attention during value-based reversal learning are tracked by N2pc and feedback-related negativity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11:540. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00540
Wolf, C., Heuer, A., Schubö, A., & Schütz, A.C. (2017). The necessity to choose causes the effects of reward on saccade preparation. Scientific Reports, 7:16966. DOI: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17164-w
Heuer, A., Schubö, A. & Crawford, J.D. (2016). Different cortical mechanisms for spatial vs. feature-based attentional selection in visual working memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10, 415. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00415
Heuer, A., & Schubö, A. (2016a) The focus of attention in visual working memory: Protection of focused representations and its individual variation. PLOS ONE, 11, e0154228. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154228
Heuer, A., & Schubö, A. (2016b). Feature-based and spatial attentional selection in visual working memory. Memory & Cognition 44, 621-632. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-015-0584-5
Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T., Brandhofer, R., & Schubö, A. (2016). Rewarded visual items capture attention only in heterogeneous textures. Psychophysiology 53(7). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12641
Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T. & Schubö, A. (2016). Intertrial priming due to distractor repetition is eliminated in homogeneous contexts. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78(7), 1935–1947. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-016-1115-6
Dötsch, D. & Schubö, A. (2015). Social categorization and cooperation in motor joint action: Evidence for a joint end-state comfort. Experimental Brain Research, 233, 2323-2334.
Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T., Uengoer, M. & Schubö, A. (2015). You see what you have learned. Evidence for an interrelation of associative learning and visual selective attention. Psychophysiology, 52, 1483–1497. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12514
Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T. & Schubö, A. (2015). Action planning mediates guidance of visual attention from working memory. Journal of Ophthalmology, 2015, 387378. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/387378
Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T. & Schubö, A. (2014). Stimulus homogeneity enhances implicit learning: Evidence from contextual cueing. Vision Research, 97, 108-116. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2014.02.008
Garrido-Vásquez, P. & Schubö, A. (2014). Modulation of visual attention by object affordance. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 59. PDF. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00059
Akyürek, E. G., & Schubö, A. (2013). Electrophysiological correlates of early attentional feature selection and distractor filtering. Biological Psychology, 93, 269-278. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.02.009
Akyürek, E. G., & Schubö, A. (2013). The electrophysiological locus of the redundant target effect on visual discrimination in a dual singleton search task. Brain Research, 1537, 180-190. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2013.09.014
Akyürek, E. G., Köhne, C., & Schubö, A. (2013). Task set flexibility and feature specificity modulate the limits of temporal attention. Psychological Research, 77, 583-598.
Akyürek, E. G., Schubö, A., & Hommel, B. (2013). Attentional control and competition between episodic representations. Psychological Research, 77, 492-507.
Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T. & Schubö, A. (2013). Textures shape the attentional focus: Evidence from exogenous and endogenous cueing. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 75(8), 1644-1666.
Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T., Wykowska, A. & Schubö, A. (2013). Context heterogeneity has a sustained impact on attention deployment: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Psychophysiology, 50, 722-733.
Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T. & Schubö, A. (2013). Context homogeneity facilitates both distractor inhibition and target enhancement. Journal of Vision, 13 (3), 11, 1-12.
Garrido-Vásquez, P., Pell, M. D., Paulmann, S., Strecker, K., Schwarz, J., & Kotz, S. A. (2013). An ERP study of vocal emotion processing in asymmetric Parkinson's disease. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 8(8), 918-927.
Wykowska, A., Anderl, C., Schubö, A. & Hommel, B. (2013). Motivation modulates visual attention: Evidence from pupillometry. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:59.
Leszczynski, M., Myers, N., Akyürek, E. G., & Schubö, A. (2012). Recoding between two types of short-term memory representation revealed by the dynamics of memory search. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 653-663.
Mörtel, A., Lorenz, T., Vlaskamp, B.N.S., Gusraldi, A., Schubö, A., & Hirche, S. (2012). Modeling inter-human movement coordination: synchronization governs joint task dynamics. Biological Cybernetics, 106, 241–259
Vlaskamp, B.N.S., & Schubö, A. (2012). Eye movements during action preparation. Experimental Brain Research, 216, 463-472.
Wykowska, A., Schubö, A. (2012). Action intentions modulate allocation of visual attention: electrophysiological evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:379.
Wykowska, A., & Schubö, A. (2012). Perception and action as two sides of the same coin. A review of the importance of action-perception links in humans for social robot design and research. International Journal of Social Robotics, 4, 5–14.
Wykowska, A., Hommel, B., Schubö, A. (2012). Imaging when acting: picture but not word cues induce action-related biases of visual attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:388.
Akyürek, E. G., & Schubö, A. (2011). The allocation of attention in displays with simultaneously presented singletons. Biological Psychology, 87, 218-225.
Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T., Schmidt-Daffy, M., & Schubö, A. (2011). Neural evidence for the threat detection advantage: Differential attention allocation to angry and happy faces. Psychophysiology, 48, 697-707.
Garrido-Vásquez, P., Jessen, S., & Kotz, S. A. (2011). Perception of emotion in psychiatric disorders: On the possible role of task, dynamics, and multimodality. Social Neuroscience, 6, 515-536. PDF
Wykowska, A., & Schubö, A. (2011). Irrelevant singletons in visual search do not capture attention but can produce non-spatial filtering costs. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 645-660.
Wykowska, A., Hommel, B., & Schubö, A. (2011). Action-induced effects on perception depend neither on element-level nor on set-level similarity between stimulus and response sets. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73,1034–1041.
Wykowska, A., Maldonado, A., Beetz, M., & Schubö, A. (2011). How humans optimize their interaction with the environment: the impact of action context on human perception. International Journal of Social Robotics, 3, 223–231.
Akyürek, E., Dinkelbach, A., Schubö, A., & Müller, H. (2010). Electrophysiological correlates of detecting a visual target and detecting its absence: the role of feature dimensions. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3365-3370.
Akyürek, E. G., Vallines, I., Lin, E.-J., & Schubö, A. (2010). Distraction and target selection in the brain: an fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3335-3342.
Akyürek, E., Leszczynski, M., & Schubö, A. (2010). The temporal locus of the interaction between working memory consolidation and the attentional blink. Psychophysiology, 47, 1134-1141.
Akyürek, E., Dinkelbach, A., & Schubö, A. (2010). The neural processing fate of singleton target and nontarget stimuli. Brain Research, 1307, 115-133.
Akyürek, E., Schubö, A. & Hommel, B. (2010). Fast temporal event integration in the visual domain demonstrated by event-related potentials. Psychophysiology, 47, 512-522.
Schankin, A., & Schubö, A. (2010). Contextual cueing effects despite of spatially cued target locations. Psychophysiology, 47, 717-727.
Stork, S., & Schubö, A. (2010). Human cognition in manual assembly: Theories and applications. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 24, 320–328.
Stork, S., & Schubö, A. (2010). Cognition in manual assembly. KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, 24, 305-309.
Wykowska, A., & Schubö, A. (2010). On the temporal relation of top-down and bottom-up mechanisms during guidance of attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 640-654.