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Gernot Horstmann

Gernot Horstmann

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Psychology

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37
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4304
World Ranking
9292
National Ranking
441

Overview

Gernot Horstmann is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and specializes in neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research contributions span 34 publications in neuroscience, particularly exploring visual perception and processing mechanisms, as well as face recognition and perception.

The scientist's work prominently addresses multiple interconnected topics including:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Face recognition and perception
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Gaze tracking and assistive technology
  • Visual attention and saliency detection
  • Hemispheric asymmetry in neuroscience
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Horstmann has contributed to several notable journals and conference proceedings, with a frequent presence in the following venues:

  • Journal of Vision (6 publications)
  • Perception (5 publications)
  • Acta Psychologica (2 publications)
  • Vision Research (1 publication)
  • Cognition (1 publication)

The individual has collaborated regularly with a set of coauthors, primarily including:

  • Linda Linke (10 joint publications)
  • Daniel Ernst (3 joint publications)
  • Stefanie I. Becker (3 joint publications)
  • Johan Hulleman (2 joint publications)
  • Jeremy M. Wolfe (2 joint publications)

Among recent publications are several papers that detail specific investigations pertinent to visual cognition and attention:

  • Examining Gaze Cone Shape and Size, 2021, published in Perception
  • How Vergence Influences the Perception of Being Looked At, 2022, published in Perception
  • Which Processes Dominate Visual Search: Bottom-up Feature Contrast, Top-down Tuning or Trial History?, 2023, published in Cognition
  • Novelty Competes with Saliency for Attention, 2020, published in Vision Research
  • Urbanicity-Perspectives from Neuroscience and Public Health: A Scoping Review, 2022, published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Horstmann's research intersects multiple domains such as human-computer interaction and computer vision, supported by work in related subfields including health and atomic and molecular physics with optics. The collective output reflects an emphasis on understanding cognitive and perceptual functions, particularly those involved in vision and gaze behavior.

Best Publications

  • What do facial expressions convey: feeling states, behavioral intentions, or action requests?

    Gernot Horstmann

  • Search asymmetries with real faces: testing the anger-superiority effect.

    Gernot Horstmann;Andrea Bauland

  • Coherence between Emotion and Facial Expression: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments:

    Rainer Reisenzein;Markus Studtmann;Gernot Horstmann

  • Evidence for attentional capture by a surprising color singleton in visual search

    Gernot Horstmann

  • Eye Movement Control

    Stefanie I. Becker;Gernot Horstmann;Arvid Herwig

  • The Cognitive-Evolutionary Model of Surprise: A Review of the Evidence.

    Rainer Reisenzein;Gernot Horstmann;Achim Schützwohl

  • Social facilitation with social robots

    Nina Riether;Frank Hegel;Britta Wrede;Gernot Horstmann

  • Playing a different imitation game: Interaction with an Empathic Android Robot

    Frank Hegel;Torsten Spexard;Britta Wrede;Gernot Horstmann

  • Flanker effects with faces may depend on perceptual as well as emotional differences.

    Gernot Horstmann;Kirsten Borgstedt;Manfred Heumann

  • Preattentive Face Processing : What Do Visual Search Experiments With Schematic Faces Tell Us?

    Gernot Horstmann

  • Anthropomorphic inferences from emotional nonverbal cues: A case study

    Friederike Eyssel;Frank Hegel;Gernot Horstmann;Claudia Wagner

  • The surprise-attention link: a review.

    Gernot Horstmann

  • In search of the emotional face: Anger versus happiness superiority in visual search

    Ruth A. Savage;Ottmar V. Lipp;Belinda M. Craig;Stefanie I. Becker

  • Attentional capture by an unannounced color singleton depends on expectation discrepancy.

    Gernot Horstmann

  • Of toothy grins and angry snarls—Open mouth displays contribute to efficiency gains in search for emotional faces

    Gernot Horstmann;Ottmar V. Lipp;Stefanie I. Becker

  • More efficient rejection of happy than of angry face distractors in visual search

    Gernot Horstmann;Ingrid Scharlau;Ulrich Ansorge

  • Perceptual grouping, not emotion, accounts for search asymmetries with schematic faces.

    Stefanie I. Becker;Gernot Horstmann;Roger W. Remington

  • Preemptive control of attentional capture by colour: evidence from trial-by-trial analyses and orderings of onsets of capture effects in reaction time distributions.

    Ulrich Ansorge;Gernot Horstmann

  • Latency and duration of the action interruption in surprise

    Gernot Horstmann

  • Attentional capture by masked colour singletons

    Ulrich Ansorge;Gernot Horstmann;Franziska Worschech;Franziska Worschech

  • Novelty biases attention and gaze in a surprise trial

    Gernot Horstmann;Arvid Herwig

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Ansorge
Ulrich Ansorge University of Vienna
Roger W. Remington
Roger W. Remington University of Minnesota
Werner X. Schneider
Werner X. Schneider Bielefeld University
Rainer Reisenzein
Rainer Reisenzein University of Greifswald
Ottmar V. Lipp
Ottmar V. Lipp Curtin University
Gabriele Wulf
Gabriele Wulf University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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