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Project 9: Expectation and selective attention

Prof. Dr. Anna Schubö 

PhD Students: Nils Bergmann, Philipp Berg

This project examines how humans use selective visual attention to cope with the large amount of incoming information in a visual scene. We assume that humans use knowledge they have acquired in former encounters with similar scenes to predict the most promising item to attend to in an upcoming scene. This project will examine this assumption by using visual search tasks in which stimuli are presented in various situational contexts. As human observers are usually not aware of the attentional mechanisms they are using, visual attention will be measured by means of behavioral performance and eye tracking.

Publications

Bergmann, N. & Schubö, A. (2021). Local and global context repetitions in contextual cueing, Journal of Vision, 21(9). DOI 10.1167/jov.21.10.9.

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.

Bergmann, N., Koch, D., & Schubö, A. (2019). Reward expectation facilitates context learning and attentional guidance in visual search. Journal of Vision, 19(3), 1-18.

Bergmann, N., Tünnermann, J., & Schubö, A. (2019). Which search are you on? Adapting to color while searching for shape. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-21.

Rief, W., Glombiewski, J. A., Gollwitzer, M., Schubö, A., Schwarting, R., & Thorwart, A. (2015). Expectancies as core features of mental disorders. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 28(5), 378-385.

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