Publications

Peer reviewed articles

Under review


  • Burra and Vrticka, Attachment Anxiety Modulates the Gaze Direction-Related N170, Under Revision

  • Burra, Anger superiority effect relies on low spatial frequencies, Under Revision


2021


  • Kerzel D., Huynh Cong, S. & Burra, N. (2021) Do we need attentional suppression?, Visual Cognition, DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2021.1918304

  • Burra, N. and Kerzel, D. (2021), Meeting another’s gaze shortens subjective time by capturing attention, Cognition


2020

  • Baumeler, D., Born, S., Burra, N., Ptak, R. (2020) When Left is One and Right is Double: An Experimental Investigation of Visual Allesthesia after Right Parietal Damage. Vision, 4, 16.

  • Kerzel, D. & Burra, N. (2020). Capture by context elements, not attentional suppression of distractors, explains the PD with small search displays. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

2019


  • Burra, N. and Kerzel, D. (2019). Task demands modulate effects of threatening faces on early perceptual encoding, Frontiers in Psychology.

  • Erni, B., Maurer, R., Kerzel D., and Burra, N. (2019). Perception of eye gaze direction in a case of acquired prosopagnosia. Applied and Clinical Neuropsychology, 3.

  • Burra, N., Mares, I., & Senju, A. (2019). The influence of top‐down modulation on the processing of direct gaze. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, e1500.

  • Burra, N., Pittet, C., Barras, C., & Kerzel, D. (2019). Attentional suppression is delayed for threatening distractors. Visual Cognition, 1-14.

  • Burra, N., Massait S., and Vrtička, P. (2019) "Differential impact of trait, social, and attachment anxiety on the stare-in-the-crowd effect." Scientific reports 9, no. 1: 1797.

  • Burra, N., Kerzel, D., Munoz, D., Grandjean, D., & Ceravolo, L. 2019. Rapid orienting of spatial attention toward and away from aggressive voices. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.


2018

  • Burra, N., Framorando, D., & Pegna, A. J. 2018. Early and Late Cortical

Responses to Directly Gazing Faces are Task- Dependent, Cognitive, Affective, & Behaviorial Neuroscience.

  • Cheval, B., Tipura, E., Burra, N., Frossard, J., Chanal, J., Orsholits, D., ... & Boisgontier, M. P. (2018). Avoiding sedentary behaviors requires more cortical resources than avoiding physical activity: An EEG study. Neuropsychologia, 119, 68-80.

  • Framorando, D., Burra, N., Bapst, M. and Pegna, A.J. ERP responses greater for faces in the temporal compared to the nasal visual field. Neuroscience Letters (2018),

2017

  • Burra, N., Hervais-Adelman, A., Celeghin, A., de Gelder, B., & Pegna, A. J. (2017). Affective Blindsight relies on Low Spatial Frequencies. Neuropsychologia. <link>

  • Carlei, C, Framorando, D., Burra, N. and Kerzel, D. Vertical and horizontal hemi-field asymmetries in face processing. Visual Cognition, 1-13, 2017 <link>

  • Burra, N., Baker, S., & George, N. Processing of gaze direction within the N170 / M170 time window: A combined EEG / MEG study. Neuropsychologia. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.04.028 <link>

  • Burra, N., Kerzel, D., & Ramon, M. (2017). Gaze-cueing requires intact face processing–Insights from acquired prosopagnosia. Brain and Cognition, 113, 125-132. <link>

  • Framorando, D., George, N., Kerzel, D., & Burra, N. (2017). Straight gaze facilitates face processing but does not cause involuntary attentional capture. Visual Cognition <link>

  • Burra, N, Coll, S, Barras, C, and Kerzel, D. Electrophysiological evidence for attentional capture by irrelevant angry facial expressions: Naturalistic faces, Neuroscience Letters, 2017 <link>

2016

  • Burra, N, Kerzel, N and George N, Early left parietal activity elicited by direct gaze: a high-density EEG study, Plos One, 2016 <link>

  • Burra, N, Barras, C, Coll, S and Kerzel, D. Electrophysiological evidence for attentional capture by irrelevant angry facial expressions, Biological Psychology, 2016. <link>

2014

  • Burra N., Kerzel D., De Gelder, B. and Pegna, A. J. Lack of attentional capture by gaze orientation following and bilateral loss of visual cortex, Neuropsychologia, 2014. <link>

  • Burra N, and Kerzel, K, The distractor positivity (Pd) signals lowering of attentional priority: Evidence from event-related potentials and individual differences, Psychophysiology, 2014. <link>

2013

  • Burra N, and Kerzel, K, Attentional capture during visual search is attenuated by target predictability: evidence from the N2pc, Pd, and topographic segmentation, Psychophysiology, 2013. <link>

  • Burra N, Hervais-Adelman A, Kerzel D, Tamietto M, de Gelder B, Pegna AJ.,Amygdala activation for eye contact despite complete cortical blindness, Journal of Neuroscience, 2013. <link>

2011

  • Kerzel D, Schönhammer J, Burra N, Born S, Souto D., Saliency changes appearance, PlosOne, 2011. <link>

2010

  • Righart R, Burra N, Vuilleumier P., Face perception in the mind's eye, Brain Topography, 2010. <link>