Werner Schneider

Name:	Prof. Dr. Werner Schneider
Postal Address:	Universität Bielefeld Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft Abteilung für Psychologie Postfach 10 01 31 D-33501 Bielefeld
Unit:	AE01 / Neuro-Cognitive Psychology
Room:	T4-223
Phone:	++49 (0)521 106 - 4502
Fax:	++49 (0)521 106 - 156934
Email:	wxs 'at' uni-bielefeld.de
Office-Hour:	Tuesday 1-2 pm

Research Topics

Overall topic

Attentional control of visual perception, memory and sensori-motor actions

Central issues

Selection-for-perception (covert visual attention) and selection-for-saccadic eye movements (where-to-look-next)
Attention, eye movements and visual-spatial working memory
Attentional control, skill learning and long-term memory
Task-based competition for attentional resources over time: The "attentional blink" et al.

Theoretical frameworks

"Perception-for-action" (A. Allport, O. Neumann, W. Prinz)
The "Visual Attention Model" (VAM, W.X. Schneider)
The "(Neural) Theory of Visual Attention" (TVA, C. Bundesen)
The "Natural Task Approach" (D. Ballard, M. Hayhoe, M. Land, B. Tatler)

Methods

Experimental studies with normal subjects and patients
Computational modeling and its application to artificial intelligent systems (e.g., attention-based control of fast shifting mobile visual sensors in robots)

ZiF Research Group 'Competition and priority control in mind & brain: New perspectives from task-driven vision'

The Research Group 'Competition and priority control in mind & brain: New perspectives from task-driven vision' will take place at the Center Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University (Germany) from October 2012 until July 2013; organized by Werner Schneider (Neuro-cognitive Psychology, Bielefeld University) and Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer (Neurophysics, Philipps-University Marburg). The group centers on the working hypothesis that perception, memory and action share competition and priority control ("attention") as integrative principles. A major goal will be to specify these principles at the levels of frameworks, theories and computational models - guided by four perspectives of vision, task, real-world, and priority maps. Besides hosting two conferences and several workshops, the ZIF group consists of more than 30 high-profile resident fellows who will stay at the ZIF for at least one month. The ZiF is Bielefeld University's Institute for Advanced Study - an independent thematically open research institution that is open to scholars from all disciplines and all countries.

Current Grants

Excellence Cluster "Cognitive Interaction Technology" (CITEC), DFG (German Research Foundation)

Cooperation Partners

Claus Bundesen (Copenhagen), Heiner Deubel (Munich), Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer (Marburg), Kathrin Finke (Munich), Thomas Habekost (Copenhagen), Wolfgang Prinz (Leipzig), Jochen Steil (Bielefeld)

Reviews

Journals: Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, Biological Cybernetics, Cognition, Cognition & Emotion, Cognitive Psychology, Consciousness and Cognition, European Journal for Cognitive Psychology, Experimental Brain Research, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, Journal of Vision, Perception & Psychophysics, Neurocase, Neuropsychologia, Psychological Research, Psychological Review, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: A, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Vision Research, Visual Cognition

Förster, R.M., Carbone E., Koesling H., & Schneider W.X. (2012). Saccadic eye movements in the dark while performing an automatized sequential high-speed sensorimotor task. Journal of Vision, 12 (2):8, 1-15. (PDF)

Finke, K., Matthias, E., Keller, I., Muller, H.J., Schneider, W.X., Bublak, P. (2012). How does phasic alerting improve performance in patients with unilateral neglect? A systematic analysis of attentional processing capacity and spatial weighting mechanisms. Neuropsychologia, 50, 1178-1189. (PDF)

Förster, R.M., Carbone E., Koesling H., & Schneider W.X. (2011). Saccadic eye movements in a high-speed bimanual stacking task: Changes of attentional control during learning and automatization. Journal of Vision, 11(7),1-16. (PDF)

Finke, K.,Schwarzkopf, W.,Muller, U.,Frodl, T.,Muller, H.J.,Schneider, W.X., Engel, R.,Riedel, M.,Moller, H.J.,Hennig-Fast, K. (2011). Disentangling the Adult Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Endophenotype: Parametric Measurement of Attention. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120(4), 890-901. (PDF)

Stenneken, P., Egetemeir, J., Schulte-Körne, G., Müller, H.J., Schneider, W.X., & Finke, K. (2011), Slow perceptual processing at the core of developmental dyslexia: A parameter-based assessment of visual attention. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3454-3465. (PDF)

Carbone, E & Schneider, W. X. (2010). The control of stimulus-driven saccades is not subject to central, but visual attention limitations. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72, 2168-2175. (PDF)

Wischnewski, M., Belardinelli, A., Schneider, W.X. & Steil J.J. (2010) Where to Look Next? Combining Static and Dynamic Proto-objects in a TVA-based Model of Visual Attention. Cognitive Computation, 2, 326-343. (PDF)

Võ, M. L.-H., Zwickel, J. & Schneider, W. X. (2010) Has someone moved my plate? The immediate and persistent effects of object location changes on gaze allocation during natural scene viewing. Attention, Perception,& Psychophysics, 72, 1251-1255. (PDF)

Redel, P., Bublak, P., Sorg, C., Kurz, A., Förstl, H., Müller, H.J., Schneider, W.X., Perneczkyc, P., & Finke, K. (2010, online first). Deficits of spatial and task-related attentional selection in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer?s disease. Neurobiology of Aging. (PDF)

Herwig, A., Beisert, M., & Schneider, W. X. (2010). On the spatial interaction of visual working memory and attention: Evidence for a global effect from memory-guided saccades. Journal of Vision, 10(5):8, 1--10. (PDF)

Stein, T., Zwickel, J., Kitzmantel, M., Ritter, J.,& Schneider, W.X. (2010) Irrelevant Words Trigger an Attentional Blink. Experimental Psychology, 57, 301-307. (PDF)

Schneider, W.X. & Mojzisch, A. (in press). Visuelle Aufmerksamkeit und Kognitive Neurowissenschaft: Befunde und Mechanismen. In M. Eimer & T. Gotschke (Ed.). Enzyklopädie der Psychologie: Kognitive Neurowissenschaft. Göttingen: Hofgrefe

Matthias, E., Bublak, P, Müller, H.J., Schneider, W.X., Krummenacher, J., Finke, K. (2010) The influence of alertness on spatial and non-spatial components of visual attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 36, 38-56. (PDF)

Võ, M. L.-H., & Schneider, W. X. (2010). A Glimpse Is Not A Glimpse: Differential Processing of Flashed Scene Previews Leads to Differential Target Search Benefits. Visual Cognition, 18, 171-200.

Matthias, E., Bublak, P., Costa, A. Müller, H.J.,; Schneider, W.X. & Finke K. (2009) Attentional and sensory effects of lowered levels of intrinsic alertness. Neuropsychologia, 47, 3255-3264.

Stein, T., Zwickel, J., Ritter, J., Kitzmantel, M., & Schneider, W.X. (2009) The effect of fearful faces on the attentional blink is task-dependent. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 104-109. (PDF)

Wischnewski, M., Steil J.J., Kehrer, L., Schneider, W.X. (2009) Integrating Inhomogeneous Processing and Proto-object Formation in a Computational Model of Visual Attention. Proceedings of Human Centered Robotic Systems (HCRS), 93-102, 2009. (PDF)

Võ, M.L.-H., Schneider, W.X. & Matthias, E. (2008). Transsaccadic Scene Memory Revisited: A 'Theory of Visual Attention (TVA)' Based Approach to Recognition Memory and Confidence for Objects in Naturalistic Scenes. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2(2):7, 1-13.

Khan, A.Z., Blangero1, A., Rossetti, Y., Salemme. R,, Luaute, J., Deubel, H., Schneider, W.X., Laverdure, N., Rode, G., Boisson, D., & Pisella, L. (2008) Parietal Damage Dissociates Saccade Planning from Presaccadic Perceptual Facilitation. Cerebral Cortex (online first). (PDF)

Stein, T., Vallines, I., & Schneider, W.X. (2008) Primary visual cortex reflects behavioral performance in the attentional blink. Neuroreport, 19, 1277-1281. (PDF)

Drewing, K. & Schneider, W. X. (2007) Disentangling functional from structural descriptions and the coordinating role of attention. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 205 - 206.

Finke, K.; Schneider, W.X., Redel, P.; Dose, J.; Kerkhoff, G.; Müller, H.J., Bublak, P. (2007) The capacity of attention and simultaneous perception of objects: A group study of Huntington's disease patients. Neuropsychologia, 45, 3272-3284. (PDF)

Schneider, W.X. (2006) Action control and its failure in clinical depression: A neuro-cognitive theory. In N. Sebanz & W. Prinz (Eds.) Disorders of Volition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (PDF)

Finke, K., Bublak, P., Dose, M.; Müller, HJ, & Schneider, W.X. (2006) Parameter-based assessment of spatial and non-spatial attentional deficits in Huntington?s disease. Brain, 129, 1137-1151. (PDF)

Finke, K., Bublak, P., Krummenacher, J., Kyllingsbaek, S, Müller, H.J, & Schneider, W.X. (2005), Usability of a theory of visual attention (TVA) for the parameter-based measurement of attention I: Evidence from normal subjects. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11, 832-842. (PDF)

Stemme, A.; Deco, G; Busch, A. & Schneider, W.X. (2005) Neurons and the synaptic basis of the fMRI signal associated with cognitive flexibility. Neuroimage, 26, 454-470.

Deubel, H. & Schneider, W.X. (2004). Attentional selection in sequential manual movements, movements around an obstacle and in grasping. In: G. W. Humphreys and M.J. Riddoch (Eds), Attention in Action, Hove: Psychology Press. (PDF)

Deubel, H., Bridgeman, B. & Schneider, W.X. (2004) Different effects of blinks and target blanking on saccadic suppression and displacement. Perception & Psychophysics, 66, 772-779.

Deubel, H. & Schneider, W.X. (2003) Delayed saccades, but not delayed manual pointing movements, require visual attention shifts. Annuals of New York Academy of Sciences, 1004, 289-296. (PDF)

Schiegg, A., Deubel, H. & Schneider, W.X. (2003) Attentional selection during preparation of prehension movements. Visual Cognition, 10, 409-431. (PDF)

Schneider, W.X. & Deubel, H. (2002). Selection-for-perception and selection-for-spatial-motor-action are coupled by visual attention: A review of recent findings and new evidence from stimulus-driven saccade control (p. 609-627). In W. Prinz & B. Hommel (Eds). Attention and Performance XIX: Common Mechanisms in Perception and Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (PDF)

Deubel, H., Schneider, W.X. & Bridgeman, B. (2002) Transsaccadic memory of position and form. J. Hyönä, D.P. Munoz & R. Raddach (Eds.). Progress in Brain Research, 140, 165-180. (PDF)

Hommel, B. & Schneider, W.X. (2002). Visual attention and manual response selection: Distinct mechanisms operating on the same codes. Visual Cognition, 9, 392-420. (PDF)

Schneider, W.X., Deubel, H. & Wesenick, B. (2001). Characterizing chunks in visual short-term memory: Not more than one feature per dimension? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 144-145. (PDF)

Kyllingsbaek, S., Schneider, W.X. & Bundesen, C. (2001): Automatic attraction of attention to former targets in visual displays of letters. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 85-93. (PDF)

Schneider, W.X., Owen, A. & Duncan, J. (2000, Eds.) Executive Control and the Frontal Lobe: Current Issues. Experimental Brain Research, Special Issue, 133, 1-138. (Erratum, Experimental Brain Research, 134, 407 & book edition, Springer, Heidelberg).

Schneider, W.X. & Prinz, W. (2000). Kognitive Neurowissenschaft (S. 249-251). In H. Hanser (Ed.) Lexikon der Neurowissenschaft. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag. (PDF)

Schneider, W.X. (1999). Visual-spatial working memory, attention, and scene representation: A neuro-cognitive theory. Psychological Research, 62, 220-236. (PDF)

Deubel, H., Irwin, D.E. & Schneider, W.X. (1999). The subjective direction of gaze shifts long before the saccade (p. 65-70). In: W. Becker, H. Deubel & Th. Mergner (Ed.) Current Oculomotor Research: Physiological and Psychological Aspects. New York, London: Plenum. (PDF)

Deubel, H., Schneider, W.X., & Paprotta, I. (1998). Selective dorsal and ventral processing: Evidence for a common attentional mechanism in reaching and perception. Visual Cognition, 5, 81-107. (PDF)

Schneider, W.X. & Maasen, S. (1998; Ed.). Mechanisms of Visual Attention: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach. Visual Cognition, Special Issue, 5, 1-320.

Deubel, H., Bridgeman, B., & Schneider, W.X. (1998). Immediate postsaccadic information mediates space constancy. Vision Research, 5, 3147-3159.

Walker, R., Deubel, H., Schneider, W.X. & Findlay, J. (1997). The effect of remote distractors on saccade programming: Evidence for an extended fixation zone. Journal of Neurophysiology, 78, 1108-1119. (PDF)

Schneider, W.X. (1996). Neural Networks and Visual Information Processing. In W. Prinz & B. Bridgeman (Eds.). Handbook of Perception and Action (p. 103-141). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Deubel, H. & Schneider, W.X. (1996). Saccade target selection and object recognition: Evidence for a common attentional mechanism. Vision Res., 36: 12, 1827-1837. (PDF)

Schneider, W.X. (1995). VAM: A Neuro-Cognitive Model for Visual Attention Control of Segmentation, Object Recognition, and Space-based Motor Action, Visual Cognition, 2, 331-375. (PDF)

Schneider, W.X. & Deubel, H. (1995). Visual attention and saccadic eye movements: Evidence for obligatory and selective spatial coupling. In J.M. Findlay, R.W. Kentridge & R. Walker (Eds.) Eye Movement Research: Mechanisms, Processes, and Applications (p. 317-324). Elsevier Science. 15. (PDF)

Deubel, H. & Schneider, W.X. (1994). Perceptual stability and postsaccadic visual information: Can man bridge a gap? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 259-260.

Schneider, W.X. (1993). Space-based visual attention models and object selection. Psychological Research, 56, 35-43. (PDF)

Career

Since May 2008: Full Professor of Neuro-Cognitive Psychology (Allg. Psych. I, W3), Department Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany
2005-2008 Associate Professor of Neuro-Cognitive Psychology (W2) Department Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), München, Germany
2001-2005 Temporary Professorships at the Psychology Departments of the Universities of Eichstätt/Ingolstadt & Giessen, Germany; Research Scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, München
1990-2001 Researcher and Lecturer Department Psychology, LMU

Education

1997 Habilitation Degree for Psychology, LMU, Germany; Habilitation Thesis on Task-dependent vision
1991 Dr. phil., Department Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany; Doctoral thesis on Experimental Studies on Visual Attention
1982-1987 Diploma study program 'Psychology', Bielefeld University, Germany & University of Minnesota/Minneapolis, Graduate School, Psychology, USA (Fellowship of CUSANUSWERK, Foundation of German Catholic Bishops for Gifted Students)

Current administrative activities

Member of the 'Scientific Board' of the Excellence Cluster 'Cognitive Interaction Technology' (funded by the German Excellence Initiative), Bielefeld University (since July 2011)
Head of the Examination Committee of the Psychology Department (since January 2011)

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