Université de Genève
Uni Mail, FaPSE
40 bd du Pont d'Arve
CH-1205 Genève
Email:
Fax: +41 (0) 22 - 3799129
Phone: +41 (0) 22 - 3799133
Office: 4128
Position:
Postdoctoral research and teaching assistant
Education:
PhD in Psychology
2007-2010: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Diplom in Psychology (former German equivalent to MA/MSc)
2003-2006: Dresden University of Technology, Germany
2000-2003: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Research Interests:
Relating visual perception to oculomotor control
What drives our eyes while scanning our visual environment?
Which visual event may capture our gaze?
What can make us hesitate to change our line of sight? Examining the modulatory effect of top-down mechanisms
How do our expectations, our intentions or task demands such as the difficulty of the task change our eye movements? Investigating the coupling between target selection for eye movements and attention
Is there a mandatory coupling? Does the attentional and the oculomotor system share the same ressources?
Teaching:
Attention et fonctions exécutives, Introduction à la programmation d’expériences
Publications:
Kerzel, D., Born, S., & Schönhammer, J. (in press). Perceptual grouping allows for attention to cover noncontiguous locations and suppress capture from nearby locations.
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Kerzel, D., Schönhammer, J., Burra, N., Born, S., & Souto, D. (2011). Saliency changes appearance.
PLoS ONE, 6(12), e28292.
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Born, S. & Kerzel, D. (2011). Time-course of feature-based top-down control in saccadic distractor effects.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37(6), 1689-1699.
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Born, S. & Kerzel, D. (2011). Effects of stimulus contrast and temporal delays in saccadic distraction.
Vision Research, 51, 1163-1172.
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Born, S., Kerzel, D., & Theeuwes, J. (2011). Evidence for a dissociation between the control of oculomotor capture and disengagement.
Experimental Brain Research, 208(4), 621-631.
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Kerzel, D., Born, S., & Souto, D. (2010). Inhibition of steady-state smooth pursuit and catch-up saccades by abrupt visual and auditory onsets.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 104(5), 2573-2585.
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van Diepen, R. M., Born, S., Souto, D., Gauch, A. & Kerzel, D. (2010). Visual flicker in the gamma-band range does not draw attention.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 103(3), 1606-1613.
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Born, S. & Kerzel, D. (2009). Congruency effects in the remote distractor paradigm: Evidence for top-down modulation.
Journal of Vision, 9(9):3, 1-13.
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Kerzel, D., Born, S. & Souto, D. (2009). Smooth pursuit eye movements and perception share target selection, but only some central resources.
Behavioural Brain Research, 201(1), 66-73.
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Born, S. & Kerzel, D. (2008). Influence of target and distractor contrast on the remote distractor effect.
Vision Research, 48(28), 2805-2816.
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Conference posters:
Kerzel, D., Born, S., Burra, N. & Schönhammer, J. (2011). Saliency changes appearance.
Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, Florida.
Born, S., Kerzel, D. & Theeuwes, J. (2010). Fatal attraction or reluctance to part: Is oculomotor disengagement independent of the initial capture of the eyes?
Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, Florida.
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Kerzel, D. & Born, S. (2010). Saliency enhances perceived contrast but degrades detection.
Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, Florida.
Souto, D., Born, S. & Kerzel, D. (2010). The sensory component of inhibition of return.
Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, Florida.
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Born, S. & Kerzel, D. (2008). Perceptual dimensions and the remote distractor effect.
Poster presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Visual Search and Selective Attention (VSSA08), Murten, Switzerland.
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Born, S. & Kerzel, D. (2008). Stimulus contrast and the remote distractor effect: Differential effects for foveal and peripheral distractors.
Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, Florida.
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Born, S. & Kerzel, D. (2007). Influence of distractor size and contrast on the remote distractor effect.
Poster presented at the 14th European Conference on Eye movements (ECEM), Potsdam, Germany.
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Conference talks:
Born, S. & Kerzel, D. (2011). Time-course of feature-based top-down control in saccadic distractor effects.
Paper presented at the 16th European Conference on Eye movements (ECEM), Marseille, France.
Born, S. & Kerzel, D. (2009). Timing is not everything: Stimulus onset asynchrony cannot compensate for all effects of contrast in the remote distractor paradigm.
Paper presented at the 15th European Conference on Eye movements (ECEM), Southampton, UK.
Born, S. & Kerzel, D. (2008). Interactions between perceptual dimensions in the remote distractor effect.
Paper presented at the 31st European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Other talks:
January 2010: Interactions between target and distractor properties in the remote distractor effect: Bottom-up and top-down modulations. Symposium
on eye movements: What determines when and where we look? Organised by the Rank Prize Funds, Grasmere, UK.
November 2009: Fatal attraction or reluctance to part: Is oculomotor disengagement independent of the initial capture of the eyes? Lunchtime colloquium,
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
December 2008: Interactions of target and distractor properties in the remote distractor effect. Sensational Seminar Series,
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK.
