Research

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When we move through our dynamic visual environment, we typically use smooth pursuit eye movements to continuously foveate moving objects of interest. Importantly, these ongoing eye movements are tightly linked to perception, hand movements, and cognitive processes during sensorimotor tasks. When a novel object appears suddenly, we have to evaluate whether it should be approached, avoided, or requires no action. This evaluative process requires information processing and potentially integration into ongoing movements. My PhD work will address whether we can use smooth pursuit eye movements as a model system to investigate processing and integration of novel visual stimuli during ongoing movements.

Publications

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Journal publications:

• Kreyenmeier, P., Deubel, H., & Hanning, N.M. (submitted). The Theory of Visual Attention (TVA) in Action: Assessing Premotor Attention in Simultaneous Eye-Hand Movements.
• Kozak, R.A., Kreyenmeier, P., Gu, C., Johnston, K., & Corneil, B.D. (2019). Stimulus-locked responses on human upper limb muscles and online-corrective reaches are preferentially evoked by low spatial frequencies. eNeuro, 6(5), 1-17
• Kreyenmeier, P., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2017). Context effects on smooth pursuit and manual interception of a disappearing target. Journal of Neurophysiology, 118(1), 404-415. [pdf]

Conference proceedings:

• Kreyenmeier, P., & Spering, M. (2019). Sudden Visual Stimulation Evokes Fast Orienting Responses During Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements. Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements. Lewiston, ME, USA.
• Kreyenmeier, P., Hanning, N.M., & Deubel, H. (2019). TVA in action: Attention capacity and selectivity during coordinated eye-hand movements. Journal of Vision, 19(10), 280b
• Kreyenmeier, P., Kozak, R.A., Gu, C., Johnston, K., & Corneil, B.D. (2018). Stimulus-locked activity in human upper limb muscles and fast online reach adjustments are preferentially evoked by low spatial frequency targets. Society for the Neural Control of Movement. Santa Fe, NM, USA.
• Kreyenmeier, P., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2016). Similar effects of visual context dynamics on eye and hand movements. Journal of Vision,16(12), 457.

CV

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Education:

• B.Sc. in Psychology from Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany (August 2015)
• M.Sc. in Brain Sciences from University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK (June 2017)
• M.Sc. in Neuro-cognitive Psychology from Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany (August 2018)

Selected awards:

• since 09/2018 - International Doctoral Fellowship, UBC Vancouver
• 12/2018 - Student Research Award, awarded from LMU Munich, Germany
• 04/2013-08/2018 - German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Research experience:

• Since 09/2018 - PhD student in the UBC Oculomotor Lab (Prof. Dr. Miriam Spering), Dept. Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• 01/2018-08/2018 - Graduate (MSc) student in the Deubel Laboratory (Prof. Dr. Heiner Deubel), Dept. Psychology, LMU, Munich, Germany
• 06/2017-10/2017 - Visiting Research Student in the Gaze Control Lab (Prof. Dr. Brian D. Corneil), Depts. Psychology, Physiology & Pharmacology; Western University, London, ON, Canada
• 10/2016-06/2017 - Graduate (MSc) student at the Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging (Prof. Dr. Lars Muckli), Dept. Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• 11/2015-06/2016 - Research Assistant at the German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders (Prof. Dr. Paul Taylor), Klinikum Grosshadern; LMU, Munich, Germany
• 03/2015-06/2015 & 02/2016-03/2016 - Visiting Research Student in the UBC Oculomotor Lab (Prof. Dr. Miriam Spering), Dept. Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada