Anna Schroeger

About me

I work as a postdoc at Justus Liebig University Giessen at the Department of Experimental Psychology (Prof. Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner). I am part of the project 'The Adaptive Mind'.

I am interested in errors in human perception and performance, for instance, in the context of visual illusions and biases. My work is focused on spatial and temporal processing, eye-hand coordination, and face perception.

Twitter: @SchroegerA

Email: anna.schroeger [at] psychol.uni-giesssen.de

Current Projects (selection)

When we watch a moving object, like a flying ball, we continuously predict how it will continue its movement (e.g., it might bounce from a wall, get caught, start falling due to gravity). Those predictions are based on our experience and often linked with certain conditions in the environment. But what happens if the conditions under which we gained our experience suddenly change?

The aim of this project is to investigate the underlying processes of adaptation vs. stability in human behavior. To do so, we track eye and hand movements during watching or when interacting with a moving object. Participants will play a computer game (‘Pong’) on an iPad while we manipulate parameters of the ball’s movement, contextual cues, or the interaction of the participant with the touchscreen. Predictive eye movements will help us to understand how humans react towards unforeseen events and under which conditions and how fast they adapt to new conditions or maintain available/probed strategies.

Descriptions of my other projects will follow soon...

CV

since Feb 2022: research staff at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, as part of the program 'The Adaptive Mind' at the Department for Experimental Psychology (Prof. Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner)
2022: PhD 'Spatiotemporal biases in manual interception - effects of visual and auditory information processing'
2018 - 2021: research staff and doctoral candidate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, at the Department for the Psychology of Human Movement and Sport, Institute of Sports Science (Prof. Dr. Rouwen Cañal-Bruland); until December 2020 as part of the DFG project 'Moving in time and space - Do (a)symmetric time-space mappings depend on modality-specific processing?'
2015 - 2018: Master of Science, Studies of Psychology with focus on clinical psychology, psychotherapy and health, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
2012 - 2015: Bachelor of Science, Studies of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Publications

Preprints

Schroeger, A., Merz, S. (2025). Spatiotemporal biases in localization and interception: common underlying mechanisms? BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.25.650604

Schroeger, A., Goettker, A., Braun, D. I., Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2024). Keeping Your Eye, Head, and Hand on the Ball: Rapidly Orchestrated Visuomotor Behavior in a Continuous Action Task. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.17.628893

Peer-reviewed

Ficco L., Ramon M., Schroeger A., Kaufmann J.M., Schweinberger S.R. (2025). The role of expansion and adaptability of face-space for individual differences in face identity processing. R. Soc. Open Sci. 12: 240879. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240879

Sperl, L., Schroeger, A., Kaufmann, J. M., & Kreysa, H. (2024). Mental representation of words and concepts in late multilingualism: A replication and extension of the Revised Hierarchical Model. The Mental Lexicon, https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.23018.spe

Tolentino-Castro, J. W., Schroeger, A., Cañal-Bruland, R., & Raab, M. (2024). Increasing auditory intensity enhances temporal but deteriorates spatial accuracy in a virtual interception task. Experimental Brain Research, 242(4), 937–947. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-024-06787-x

Schroeger, A.*, Ficco, L.*, Wuttke, S. J., Kaufmann, J. M., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2023). Differences between high and low performers in face recognition in electrophysiological correlates of face familiarity and distance-to-norm. Biological Psychology, 182, 108654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108654

Kreyenmeier, P. *, Schroeger, A. *, Cañal-Bruland, R., Raab, M., & Spering, M. (2023). Rapid Audiovisual Integration Guides Predictive Actions. ENeuro, 10(8). https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0134-23.2023

Hüttner, N., Sperl, L., Schroeger, A. (2023). Slow motion bias: Exploring the relation between time overestimation and increased perceived intentionality. Perception, 52(2), 77–96. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066221139943

Schroeger, A., Kaufmann, J. M., Zäske, R., Kovács, G., Klos, T., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2022). Atypical prosopagnosia following right hemispheric stroke: A 23-year follow-up study with M.T. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 39(3-4), 196–207. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2022.2119838

Schroeger, A., Grießbach, E., Raab, M., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Spatial distances affect temporal prediction and interception. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 15786. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18789-2

Schroeger, A., Raab, M., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Tau and kappa in interception - how perceptual spatiotemporal interrelations affect movements. Attention, perception & psychophysics, 84(6), 1925–1943. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02516-0

Tolentino-Castro, J. W., Schroeger, A., Cañal-Bruland, R., & Raab, M. (2022). The Impact of Pitch on Tempo-Spatial Accuracy and Precision in Intercepting a Virtually Moving Ball. Journal of Motor Behavior, 54(2), 158–172. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222895.2021.1933886

Schroeger, A., Tolentino-Castro, J. W., Raab, M., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Effects of visual blur and contrast on spatial and temporal precision in manual interception. Experimental Brain Research, 239(11), 3343–3358. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06184-8

Sperl, L., Hüttner, N., & Schroeger, A. (2021). Why Do Actions in Slow Motion Appear to Last Longer? On the Effect of Video Speed Information. Perception, 50(1), 69–79. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006620982212

Loeffler, J., Cañal-Bruland, R., Schroeger, A., Tolentino-Castro, W. & Raab, M. (2018). Interrelations between temporal and spatial cognition and movement: The role of modality-specific processing. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition, 9:2609. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02609

Other publications

Schröger, A. (2019). Hören in Ballsportarten – schneller und genauer als visuelle Wahrnehmung? Zeitschrift Für Sportpsychologie, 26(4), 169. https://doi.org/10.1026/1612-5010/a000276

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