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>