Dr. Jan Tünnermann

Research Interests

Visual Foraging
Visual Attention and Temporal-Order Perception
Cognitive Modeling and Bayesian Estimation
Artificial Visual Attention 

Selected Publications

Henare, D. T., Tünnermann, J., Wagner, I., Schütz, A. C., & Schubö, A. (2024). Complex trade-offs in a dual-target visual search task are indexed by lateralised ERP components. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 22839. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-72811-3

Scheller, M., Tünnermann, J., Fredriksson, K., Fang, H., & Sui, J. (2024). Self-association enhances early attentional selection through automatic prioritization of socially salient signals. eLife, 13, RP100932. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.100932.1

Hanne, A. A., Tünnermann, J., & Schubö, A. (2024). Handling distractor interference in mixed and fixed search. Visual Cognition, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2328902

Mu, Y., Schubö, A., & Tünnermann, J. (2024). Adapting attentional control settings in a shape-changing environment. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86(2), 404–421. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02818-x

Banh, N. C., Tünnermann, J., Rohlfing, K. J., & Scharlau, I. (2024). Benefiting from binary negations? Verbal negations decrease visual attention and balance its distribution. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1451309. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1451309

Grössle, I. M., Schubö, A., & Tünnermann, J. (2023). Testing a relational account of search templates in visual foraging. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 12541. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38362-9

Hanne, A. A., Tünnermann, J., & Schubö, A. (2023). Target templates and the time course of distractor location learning. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 1672. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25816-9

Wagner, I., Henare, D., Tünnermann, J., Schubö, A., & Schütz, A. C. (2023). Humans trade off search costs and accuracy in a combined visual search and perceptual task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(1), 23–40. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02600-5

Tünnermann, J., Kristjánsson Á., Petersen, A., Schubö, A., & Scharlau, I. (2022).
Advances in the application of a computational Theory of Visual Attention (TVA): Moving towards more naturalistic stimuli and game-like tasks. Open Psychology, 4(1), 27–46. https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2022-0002

Tünnermann, J. &  Scharlau I. (2021).  Big-M-Small-N Temporal-Order Judgment Data.  The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 17(4), 355–373. https://doi.org/10.20982/tqmp.17.4.p355

Tünnermann, J., Chelazzi, L., & Schubö, A. (2021). How Feature Context Alters Attentional Template Switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(11), 1431–1444. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000951

Krüger A.*, Tünnermann J.*, Stratmann, L., Briese, L., Dressler F., & Scharlau I. (2021). TVA in the wild: Applying the theory of visual attention to game-like and less controlled experiments. Open Psychology, 3(1), 1–46.  Note: * indicates shared first authors.

Kneuper, P., Kruse, S., Luchterhandt, B., Tünnermann, J., Scharlau, I., & Scheytt, C. (2021). Sensory substitution device for the visually impaired using 122 GHz radar and tactile feedback. In The 17th European Radar Conference. (pp. 90-93)

Bergmann, N., Tünnermann, J., & Schubö, A. (2020). Reward-predicting distractor orientations support contextual cueing: Persistent effects in homogeneous distractor contexts. Vision Research, 171, 53–63.

Bergmann, N., Tünnermann, J., & Schubö, A. (2019). Which search are you on? Adapting to color while searching for shape. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 457–477.

Tünnermann, J., Born, C., & Mertsching, B. (2019). Saliency from Growing Neural Gas: Learning pre-attentional structures for a flexible attention system. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 28(11), 5296–5307.

Stratmann, L., Buse, D. S., Heinovski, J., Klingler, F., Sommer, C., Tünnermann, J., Scharlau, I. & Dressler, F. (2019). Psychological Feasibility of a Virtual Cycling Environment for Human-in-the-Loop Experiments. In Proceedings of Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik (INFORMATIK 2019), 1st Workshop on ICT based Collision Avoidance for VRUs (ICT4VRU 2019), vol. LNI P-295,  pp. 185–194.

Mohamed M. A., Tünnermann, J., & Mertsching, B.(2018). Seeing signs of danger: Attention accelerated hazmat label detection. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics. 1–6.

Tünnermann, J., & Scharlau, I. (2018). Stuck on a plateau? A model-based approach to fundamental issues in visual temporal-order judgments. Vision. 2, 29.

Tünnermann, J., & Scharlau, I. (2018). Poking left to be right? A model-based analysis of temporal order judged by mice. Advances in Cognitive Psychology. 14, 39–50.

Tünnermann, J., Grüne, S., & Mertsching, B. (2017). Selection and execution of simple actions via visual attention and direct parameter specification. In:  Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Systems. 404–414.

Tünnermann, J., Krüger, A., & Scharlau, I.(2017). Measuring attention and visual processing speed by model-based analysis of temporal-order judgments. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 119, e54856.

Tünnermann, J. & Scharlau, I. (2016). Peripheral visual cues: Their fate in processing and effects on attention and temporal-order perception. Frontiers in Psychology. 7:1442.

Krüger, A., Tünnermann, J., & Scharlau, I. (2016). Fast and conspicuous? Quantifying salience with the theory of visual attention. Advancesin Cognitive Psychology, 12, 20–38.

Tünnermann, J., Petersen, A., & Scharlau, I. (2015). Does attention speed up processing? Decreases and increases of processing rates in visual prior entry. Journal of Vision, 15(3), 1–27.

Tünnermann, J., Krüger, N., Mustafa, W., & Mertsching, B. (2015). Affordance estimation enhances artificial visual attention: Evidence from a change-blindness study. Cognitive Computation, 7, 526–538.

Tünnermann, J., & Mertsching, B. (2014). Region-based artificial visual attention in space and time. Cognitive Computation, 6, 125–143.

Tünnermann, J., Born, C., & Mertsching, B. (2013). Top-down visual attention with complex templates. In: Proceedings of VISAPP (1), 370–377.

Tünnermann, J. & Mertsching, B. (2012). Continuous region-based processing of spatiotemporal saliency. In: Proceedings of VISAPP (1), 230–239.

Tseng, P., Tünnermann, J., Roker-Knight, N., Winter, D., Scharlau, I., & Bridgeman, B. (2010). Enhancing implicit change detection through action. Perception, 39, 1311–1321.

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