Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen 
Fachbereich 06, Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft
Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie
Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10F
35394 Giessen

Campus: Building F1, Room 303
Phone: +49(0)641 / 99-26118
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Member of the Emmy-Noether-Group „Sensori-Motor Decision Making“ of Dr. Julia Trommershäuser

Member of the Graduate Program "NeuroAct“

Note: I am now (as of May 1st, 2009) a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC, USA, working with Dr. Josef P. Rauschecker on investigating the neural mechanisms underlying tinnitus.

Education:
Dr. rer. nat., 2009, University of Giessen, Germany
Thesis title: Living with Uncertainty: How humans achieve near-optimal behavior in a stochastic world

Research Interests:
Decision Making, Sensori-Motor Integration, Response Priming, Attention, Cue Integration, Auditory Perception, Tinnitus

Collaborations:
Sergei Gepshtein (RIKEN, Brain Science Inst., Japan)
David C. Knill and Brian McCann (Center for Visual Science , University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA)
Thomas Schmidt (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)

Scientific manuscripts and presentations
Journal articles

Seydell, A., McCann, B. C., Trommershäuser, J., & Knill, D. C. (2008). Learning stochastic reward distributions in a speeded pointing task. The Journal of Neuroscience 28(17): 4356-4367. [pdf]

Schmidt, T. & Seydell, A. (2008). Visual attention amplifies response priming of pointing movements to color targets. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 443-455.

Gepshtein, S., Seydell, A. & Trommershäuser, J. (2007). Optimality of human movement under natural variations of visual-motor uncertainty. Journal of Vision 7/5/13.

Seydell, A., Knill, D. C. & Trommershäuser, J. (submitted). Adapting Bayesian priors for the integration of visual depth cues.

Seydell, A. & Schmidt, T. (under revision). Response priming by illusory contours.

Seydell, A., Knill, D. C., & Trommershäuser, J. (2009). Environmental statistics influence integration of visual cues to depth.
9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, Naples, Florida, USA, May 8-13, 2009.

Seydell, A., McCann, B. C., Trommershäuser, J., & Knill, D. C. (2008). Learning to behave optimally in a probabilistic environment.
8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, Naples, Florida, USA, May 9-14, 2008.

Seydell, A., Schmidt, S., & Trommershäuser, J. (2008). Optimal performance in a cognitive probabilistic decision-task.
50th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Marburg, Germany, March 3-5, 2008.

Seydell, A., McCann, B. C., Trommershäuser, J., & Knill, D. C. (2007). Human pointing movements in a probabilistic environment.
49th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Trier, Germany, March 26-29, 2007.

Schmidt, T., & Seydell, A. (2006). Primes and targets in rapid chases: Response Priming as a feedforward process.
Herbsttreffen Experimentelle Kognitionspsychologie, Braunschweig, Germany, Nov 17-19, 2006.

Seydell, A., & Schmidt, T. (2006). Response Priming with Illusory-Contour Figures.
48th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Mainz, Germany, March 26-29, 2006.

Schmidt, T., & Seydell, A. (2006). Boosting feedforward processing by visual attention.
48th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Mainz, Germany, March 26-29, 2006.

Seydell, A., Knill, D. C., & Trommershäuser, J. (2008). Humans rapidly switch priors to fit with the task environment.
Computational Workshop "Cue combination - unifying perceptual theory", Rauischholzhausen Castle, Giessen, Germany, October 12-15, 2008.

Seydell, A., McCann, B. C., Trommershäuser, J., & Knill, D. C. (2007). Human pointing movements in a probabilistic environment.
7th Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, Sarasota, Florida, USA, May 11-16, 2007.

Schmidt, T., & Seydell, A. (2007). Modulation of feedforward response priming by exogenous and endogenous attention.
7th Goettingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (31st Goettingen Neurobiology Conference), Goettingen, Germany, March 29 - April 1, 2007.

Schmidt, T., & Seydell, A. (2006). Modulation of cortical feedforward dynamics by exogenous and endogenous attention.
Computational Workshop "Bridging the gap between sensation and motor control", Rauischholzhausen Castle, Giessen, Germany, July 13-16, 2006.

Schmidt, T., & Seydell, A. (2006). Modulation of cortical feedforward dynamics by exogenous and endogenous attention.
6th Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, Sarasota, Florida, USA, May 5-10, 2006.

Seydell, A., & Schmidt, T. (2006). Response Priming with Illusory-Contour Figures.
9th Tuebinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz, Tuebingen, Germany, March 3-5, 2006.