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Dr. Christina B. Reimer

Research interests

I am interested in whether visual attention and response selection rely on the same or on distinct capacity limitations. In other words, I investigate whether visual attention is deployed serially or concurrently to the response selection processes of another task in dual-task situations. I use behavioral and electrophysiological measures to examine this question.

In addition, I am interested in whether saccades are influenced by the concurrent performance of another task (project with Luke Tudge) and how task-order control processes regulate the processing order of two tasks in a dual-task situation (project with Sebastian Kübler).

Teaching

• Seminar: General Psychology I (topics include visual attention and action control)
• Seminar: Lab course Experimental Psychology
• Tutorial: General Psychology II (topics include motivation and perception)

Publications

• Reimer, C. B., & Schubert, T. (submitted). To mask, or not to mask, is not the question: Deploying visual attention to non-masked and masked search displays concurrently to response selection of another task.
• Reimer, C. B., Strobach, T., & Schubert, T. (2016). Concurrent deployment of visual attention and response selection bottleneck in a dual-task: Electrophysiological and behavioural evidence. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi:10.1080/17470218.2016.1245348   
• Reimer, C. B., Strobach, T., Frensch, P., & Schubert, T. (2015). Are processing limitations of visual attention and response selection subject to the same bottleneck in dual-tasks? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77(4), 1052-1069. doi:10.3758/s13414-015-0874-9   

Bachelor and master theses

We offer Bachelor and Master projects on action control/multi-tasking, visual attention and the influence of motivation/reward on multi-tasking and visual attention processes.

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