Katja Fiehler

Short info

My research focuses on the interplay of perception and action. I’m interested in how different sensory information are used for space perception and goal-directed actions, comprising eye, hand, and body movements. I also investigate how humans predict the sensory outcome of their actions and how adapt their behavior to dynamically changing environments.

My long-term goal is to better understand how the human brain plans, controls, and adapts natural actions in complex environments. To this end, I combine psychophysics with motion tracking in real and virtual environments and apply EEG and fMRI to uncover the underlying neural processes.

Open Science

Borovska, P., de Haas, B. (2022).
Extrafoveal faces modulate the dynamics of scene viewing.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Broda, M.D., de Haas, B. (2022).
Reading the Mind in the Nose.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Foxwell, M.J.*, Wang, G.*, Cichy, R.M., Pitcher, D., Kaiser, D. (2023). *contributed equally
Individual differences in internal models explain idiosyncrasies in scene perception.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Goupil, N., Kaiser, D., Papeo, L. (2023).
Category-specific effects of high-level relations in visual search.
OSF preprint

Goupil, N., Kaiser, D., Papeo, L. (2023).
Alpha-frequency feedback to early visual cortex orchestrates coherent natural vision.
bioRxiv preprint

Gregorova, K., Turini, J., Gagl, B., & Vo, M. L. H. (2021).
Access to meaning from visual input: Object and word frequency effects in categorization behavior.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Grotheer, M., Bloom, D., Kruper, J., Richie-Halford, A., Zika, S., Aguilera Gonzalez, V.A., Yeatman, J.D., Grill-Spector, K., Rokem, A. (2023).
Human white matter myelination rate slows down at birth.
bioRxiv preprint

Kaiser, D. (2022).
Spectral brain signatures of aesthetic natural perception in the alpha and beta frequency bands.
bioRxiv preprint

Kaiser, D., Stecher, R., Dörschner-Boyaci, K. (2023).
EEG decoding reveals neural predictions for naturalistic material behaviors.
bioRxiv preprint

Kessler, F., Frankenstein, J., & Rothkopf, C. A. (2022).
A Dynamic Bayesian Actor Model explains Endpoint Variability in Homing Tasks.
bioRxiv

Kirchner, L., Eckert, A., Berg, M., Endres, D., Straube, B., & Rief, W. (2022).
Better safe than sorry? - An active inference approach to biased inference on social contexts in depression.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Kirchner, L., Kloft, M., Berg, M., & Rief, W. (2022).
Measuring Dysfunctional Interpersonal Beliefs: Validation of the Interpersonal Cognitive Distortions Scale among a German-speaking Sample.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Linka, M., Sensoy, Ö., Karimpur, H., Schwarzer, G., de Haas, B. (2022).
Attentional biases in free viewing of complex scenes in preschoolers and adults.
PsyArXiv Preprints

McKay, C., Wijeakumar, S., Rafetseder, E., & Shing, Y. L. (2021).
Disentangling Age and Schooling Effects on Inhibitory Control Development: An fNIRS Investigation.
bioRxiv

Osorio, S., Straube, B., Meyer, L., & He, Y. (2022).
Co-speech gestures enhance lexical-semantic prediction: Naturalistic evidence from time-resolved regression ERPs.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Pitcher, D., Sliwinska, M.W., Kaiser, D. (2023).
TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions.
bioRxiv preprint

Wroblewski, A., Hollandt, M., Yang, Y., Ridderbusch, I.C., Pietzner, A., Szeska, C., Lotze, M., Wittchen, H.-U., Heinig, I., Pittig, A., Arolt, V., Koelkebeck, K., Rothkopf, C.A., Adolph, D., Margraf, J., Lueken, U., Pauli, P., Herrmann, M.J., Winkler, M.H., Ströhle, A., Dannlowski, U., Kircher, T., Hamm, A.O., Straube, B.* & Richter, J.* (2022). *contributed equally
Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear: How Intolerance of Uncertainty and Trait Anxiety impact fear acquisition, extinction and the return of fear.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Xu, X., & Triesch, J. (2023).
CIPER: Combining Invariant and Equivariant Representations Using Contrastive and Predictive Learning.
arXiv preprint

Yu, Z., Dhami, D. S., & Kersting, K. (2021).
Sum-Product-Attention Networks: Leveraging Self-Attention in Probabilistic Circuits.
arXiv preprint

Zečević, M., Dhami, D. S., Rothkopf, C. A., & Kersting, K. (2021).
Structural Causal Interpretation Theorem.
arXiv preprint

Articles

Arikan, B. E., van Kemenade, B. M., Fiehler, K., Kircher, T., Drewing, K., & Straube, B. (2021).
Different contributions of efferent and reafferent feedback to sensorimotor temporal recalibration.
Scientific Reports, 11(1).

Aubret, A., Ernst, M.R., Teulière, C., & Triesch, J. (2023).
Time to Augment Contrastive Learning.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR).

Aubret, A., Teulière, C., & Triesch, J. (2022).
Toddler-inspired embodied vision for learning object representations.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Development and Learning (ICDL).

Augustat, N., Chuang, L. C., Panitz, C., Stolz, C., Mueller, E. M., & Endres, D. M. (2022).
Modeling Reward Learning Under Placebo Expectancies: A Q-Learning Approach.
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Beyvers, M. C., Fraser, L. E., & Fiehler, K. (2022).
Linking Signal Relevancy and Intensity in Predictive Tactile Suppression.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 75.

Beyvers, M. C., Koch, I., & Fiehler, K. (2022).
Episodic Binding and Retrieval in Sequences of Discrete Movements – Evidence from Grasping Actions.
Journal of Cognition, 5(1), 41, 1-14.

Broda, M. D., & de Haas, B. (2022).
Individual differences in looking at persons in scenes.
Journal of Vision, 22(12), 9-9.

Broda, M. D., & de Haas, B. (2022).
Individual fixation tendencies in person viewing generalize from images to videos.
i-Perception, 13(6), 20416695221128844.

Broda, M. D., & de Haas, B. (2023).
Reading the mind in the nose.
i-Perception, 14(3), 1–4.

Broda, M. D., Haddad, T., & de Haas, B. (2023).
Quick, eyes! Isolated upper face regions but not artificial features elicit rapid saccades.
Journal of Vision, 23(2), 5-5.

Cheeseman, J. R., Fleming, R. W., & Schmidt, F. (2022).
Scale ambiguities in material recognition.
iScience, 25(3):103970.

Churan, J., Kaminiarz, A., Schwenk, J. C., & Bremmer, F. (2021).
Coding of interceptive saccades in parietal cortex of macaque monkeys.
Brain Structure and Function, 226(8), 2707-2723.

Churan, J., Kaminiarz, A., Schwenk, J. C., & Bremmer, F. (2021).
Action-dependent processing of self-motion in parietal cortex of macaque monkeys.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 125(6), 2432-2443.

Cuevas, P., He, Y., Steines, M., & Straube, B.Cuevas, P., He, Y., Steines, M., & Straube, B. (2022).
Processing of Semantic Complexity and Cospeech Gestures in Schizophrenia: A Naturalistic, Multimodal fMRI Study.
Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 3(1), sgac026.

Davidson, Ch., Shing, Y. L., McKay, C. Rafetseder, E., & Wijeakumar, S. (2023).
The first year in formal schooling improves working memory and academic abilities.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101205.

Dillmann, J.*, Sensoy, Ö.*, & Schwarzer, G. (2022). *shared first authorship
Parental perceived stress and its consequences on early social-emotional child development during COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal of Early Childhood Research, 1476718X221083423.

Dowiasch, S., Kaminiarz, A., & Bremmer, F. (2022).
The visual representation of space in the primate brain.
Neuroforum, 28(4), 199-209.

Eckert, A. L., Pabst, K., & Endres, D. M. (2022).
A Bayesian model for chronic pain.
Frontiers in Pain Research, 152.

Engel, D., Student, J., Schwenk, J. C., Morris, A. P., Waldthaler, J., Timmermann, L., & Bremmer, F. (2021).
Visual perturbation of balance suggests impaired motor control but intact visuomotor processing in Parkinson’s disease.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 126(4), 1076-1089.

Fiehler, K., & Karimpur, H. (2022).
Spatial coding for action across spatial scales.
Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-13.

Flachot, A., Akbarinia, A., Schütt, H. H., Fleming, R. W., Wichmann, F. A., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2022).
Deep neural models for color classification and color constancy.
Journal of vision, 22(4), 17-17.

Forster, P.-P., Karimpur, H., & Fiehler, K. (2022).
Demand characteristics challenge effects in embodiment and presence.
Scientific Reports, 12, 14084.

Forster, P.‑P., Karimpur, H., & Fiehler, K. (2022).
Why we should rethink our approach to embodiment and presence.
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 3, Article 838369.

Fuehrer, E., Voudouris, D., Lezkan, A., Drewing, K., & Fiehler, K. (2022).
Tactile suppression stems from specific sensorimotor predictions.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(20), Article e2118445119.

Gehb, G., Vesker, M., Jovanovic, B., Bahn, D., Kauschke, C., & Schwarzer, G. (2022).
The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants.
Brain Sciences, 12(4), 479.

Goktepe, N., & Schütz, A. C. (2023).
Familiar objects benefit more from transsaccadic feature predictions.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-13.

Hebart, M. N., Contier, O., Teichmann, L., Rockter, A. H., Zheng, C. Y., Kidder, A., Corriveau, A., Vaziri-Pashkam, M., & Baker, C. I. (2023).
THINGS-data, a multimodal collection of large-scale datasets for investigating object representations in human brain and behavior.
Elife, 12, e82580.

Helbing, J., Draschkow*, D., & Võ*, M. L.-H. (2022).
Auxiliary scene-context information provided by anchor objects guides attention and locomotion in natural search behavior.
Psychological science, 33(9), 1463–1476.

Hesse, R., Schaub-Meyer, S., & Roth, S. (2021).
Fast axiomatic attribution for neural networks.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 34(2), 19513-19524.

Kadner, F., Thomas, T., Hoppe, D., & Rothkopf, C. A. (2023).
Improving saliency models' predictions of the next fixation with humans' intrinsic cost of gaze shifts.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (pp. 2104-2114).

Kaiser, D. (2022).
Characterizing dynamic neural representations of scene attractiveness.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(10), 1988-1997.

Kanwisher, N., Gupta, P., & Dobs, K. (2023).
CNNs Reveal the Computational Implausibility of the Expertise Hypothesis.
iScience, 105976.

Kanwisher, N., Khosla, M., & Dobs, K. (2023).
Using artificial neural networks to ask ‘why’ questions of minds and brains.
Trends in Neurosciences, 46, 72-88.

Kavroulakis, E., van Kemenade, B. M., Arikan, B. E., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2022).
The effect of self- vs. externally generated actions on timing, duration and amplitude of BOLD response for visual feedback processing.
Human Brain Mapping, in press.

Kirchner, L., Eckert, A. L., & Berg, M. (2022).
From Broken Models to Treatment Selection: Active Inference as a Tool to Guide Clinical Research and Practice.
Clinical Psychology in Europe, 4(2), 1-5.

Kollenda, D., de Haas, B. (2022).
The influence of familiarity on memory for faces and mask wearing.
Cognitive Research, 7(1).

Kramer, M., Hebart, M. N., Baker, C. I., & Bainbridge, W. A. (2023).
The features underlying the memorability of objects.
Science Advances 9, eadd2981.

Linka, M., Broda, M. D., Alsheimer, T. A., de Haas, B., & Ramon, M. (2022).
Characteristic fixation biases in Super-Recognizers.
Journal of Vision, in press.

Lubinus, C., Einhäuser, W., Schiller, F., Kircher, T., Straube, B. & van Kemenade, B.M. (2022).
Action-based predictions affect visual perception, neural processing, and pupil size, regardless of temporal predictability.
NeuroImage, in press.

Mattern, D., López, F.M., Ernst, M.R., Aubret, A., & Triesch, J. (2022).
MIMo: A Multi-Modal Infant Model for Studying Cognitive Development in Humans and AIs.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Development and Learning (ICDL), accepted.

McKay, C., Wijeakumar, S., Rafetseder, E., & Shing, Y. L. (2021).
Disentangling age and schooling effects on inhibitory control development: An fNIRS investigation.
Developmental Science: e13205. 205, 102117.

Meibodi, N., Abbasi, H., Schubö, A., & Endres, D. M. (2021).
A model of selection history in visual attention.
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 43(43), 707-713.

Meibodi, N., Schubö, A., & Endres, D. (2022).
Sensorimotor processes are not a source of much noise: sensorimotor and decision components of reaction times.
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Men, H., Altin, A., & Schütz, A. C. (2023).
Underestimation of the number of hidden objects.
Journal of Vision, 23(2):1, 1–20.

Neudert, M. K., Schäfer, A., Zehtner, R. I., Fricke, S., Seinsche, R. J., Kruse, O., Stark, R., Walter, B. & Hermann, A. (2023).
Behavioral pattern separation is associated with neural and electrodermal correlates of context-dependent fear conditioning.
Scientific Reports, 13(1), 5577.

Neudert, M. K., Schäfer, A., Zehtner, R. I., Fricke, S., Seinsche, R. J., Stark, R., & Hermann, A. (2023).
Decontextualized fear memories? Stronger conditioned fear responses during extinction learning and extinction recall in a safe context predict the development of long-term analog intrusions.
Psychological Medicine, 1-10.

Niehaus, H.,Stroth, S., Kamp-Becker, I., Endres, D. (2022).
Modeling aberrant volatility estimates in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Ody, E., Straube, B., He, Y., Kircher, T. (2023).
Perception of self-generated and externally-generated visual stimuli: Evidence from EEG and behavior.
Psychophysiology, e14295.

Ortiz-Tudela, J., Bergmann, J., Bennett, M., Ehrlich, I., Muckli, L., & Shing, Y. L. (2023).
Concurrent contextual and time-distant mnemonic information co-exist as feedback in the human visual cortex.
NeuroImage, 265, 119778.

O’Leary, A., Fernàndez-Castillo, N., Gan, G., Yang, Y., Yotova, A. Y., Kranz, T. M., ... Kircher, T. …, Straube, B., ... Reif, A. (2022).
Behavioural and functional evidence revealing the role of RBFOX1 variation in multiple psychiatric disorders and traits.
Molecular Psychiatry, 1–10.

Pabst, K., Zittrell, F., Homberg, U., Endres, D. (2022).
A Model for Optic Flow Integration in Locust Central-Complex Neurons Tuned to Head Direction.
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Preißler, L., Jovanovic, B., Munzert, J., Schmidt, F., Fleming, R.W., & Schwarzer, G. (2021).
Effects of visual and visual-haptic perception of material rigidity on reaching and grasping in the course of development.
Acta Psychologica, 221, November, 103457.

Prokott, E., & Fleming, R. W. (2022).
Identifying specular highlights: Insights from deep learning.
Journal of vision, 22(7), 6-6.

Ridderbusch, I. C., Wroblewski, A., Yang, Y., Richter, J., Hollandt, M. Hamm, A. O., Wittchen, H.-U., Ströhle, A., Arolt, V., Margraf, J., Lueken, U., Hermann, M. J., Kircher, T. & Straube, B. (2021).
Neural adaptation of cingulate and insular activity during delayed fear extinction: A replicable pattern across assessment sites and repeated measurements.
NeuroImage, 237, 118157.

Riedl, L., Nagels, A., Sammer, G., Choudhury, M., Nonnenmann, A., ... & Straube, B. (2022).
Changes in Neural Processing After Multimodal Speech-Gesture Training in Patients With Schizophrenia.
OHBM conference. 237, 118157.

Riedl, L., Nagels, A., Sammer, G., Choudhury, M., Nonnenmann, A., Sütterlin, A., Feise, C., Haslach, M., Bitsch, F., Kühne, H., Hartmann, T.H., Shvetsova, N. & Straube, B. (2022).
Multimodal speech-gesture training in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder: Effects on quality of life and neural processing.
Schizophrenia Research, 246, 112-125.

Rosenblum, L., Grewe, E., Churan, J., & Bremmer, F. (2022).
Influence of Tactile Flow on Visual Heading Perception.
Multisensory Research, 35(4), 291-308.

Rosenblum, L., Kreß, A., Schwenk, J. C., & Bremmer, F. (2022).
Visuo-tactile heading perception.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 128(5), 1355-1364.

Schmitt, C., Krala, M., & Bremmer, F. (2022).
Neural signatures of actively controlled self-motion and the subjective encoding of distance.
Eneuro.

Schmitt, C., Schwenk, J. C. B., Schütz, A., Churan, J., Kaminiarz, A., Bremmer, F. (2021).
Preattentive processing of visually guided self-motion in humans and monkeys.
Progress in Neurobiology, 205, 102117.

Schmitter, C.V. & Straube, B. (2022).
The impact of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on sensorimotor and inter-sensory temporal recalibration.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16:998843.

Schneider, F., Xu, X., Ernst, M. R., Yu, Z., & Triesch, J. (2021).
Contrastive Learning Through Time.
In SVRHM 2021 Workshop@ NeurIPS.

Schommartz, I., Lembcke, Ph. F., Pupillo, F., Schuetz, H., Wald de Chamorro, N., Bauer, M., Kaindl, A. M., Buss, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2023).
Distinct multivariate structural brain profiles are related to variations in short- and long-delay memory consolidation across children and young adults.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 59, 101192.

Schramowski, P., Turan, C., Andersen, N., Rothkopf, C. A., & Kersting, K. (2022).
Large pre-trained language models contain human-like biases of what is right and wrong to do.
Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(3), 258-268.

Schuetz, I. & Fiehler, K. (2022).
Eye tracking in virtual reality: Vive Pro Eye spatial accuracy, precision, and calibration reliability.
Journal of Eye Movement research, 15, 3.

Schuetz, I., Karimpur, H., & Fiehler, K. (2022).
vexptoolbox: A software toolbox for human behavior studies using the Vizard virtual reality platform.
Behavior Research Methods, 1-13.

Schülke, R., Schmitter, C., Straube, B. (2023).

Schultheis, M., Rothkopf. C. A., Koeppl, H. (2022).
Reinforcement learning with non-exponential discounting.
Neural Information Processing Systems.

Schultheis, M., Straub, D., & Rothkopf, C. A. (2021).
Inverse optimal control adapted to the noise characteristics of the human sensorimotor system.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 34, 9429-9442.

Schwarzer, G., Gehb, G., Kelch, A., Gerhard-Samunda, T., Jovanovic, B. (2022).
Locomotion training contributes to 6-month-old infants' mental rotation ability.
Human Movement Science, Volume 85, October 2022, 102979.

Seinsche, R. J., Fricke, S., Neudert, M. K., Zehtner, R. I., Walter, B., Stark, R., & Hermann, A. (2023).
Memory representation of aversive social experiences in Social Anxiety Disorder.
Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 102669.

Stangier, U., Frick, A., Thinnes, I., Arens, E.A. & Hofmann, S. (2021).
Metta-based therapy for chronic depression: A wait list control trial.
Mindfulness, 12, 2929-2942.

Stewart, E.E.M., Hartmann, F.T., Morgenstern, Y., Storrs, K.R., Maiello G., & Fleming R.W. (2022).
Mental object rotation based on two-dimensional visual representations.
Current Biology 32, R1201–R1225.

Stoinski, L. M., Perkuhn, J., & Hebart, M. N. (2023).
THINGSplus: New norms and metadata for the THINGS database of 1,854 object concepts and 26,107 natural object images.
Behavior Research Methods, 1-21.

Storrs, K. R., Anderson, B. L., & Fleming, R. W. (2021).
Unsupervised learning predicts human perception and misperception of gloss.
Nature Human Behaviour, 1-16.

Straube, B., Kuehne, H., van Dam, L., Frey, K., van Kemenade, B.M., Kircher, T., & Ried, L. (2022).
Speech-gesture mismatch detection in individuals with high vs. low schizotypal traits.
International Consortium on Schizotypy Research, ICSR 2022.

Stroth, S., Niehaus, H., Wolff, N., Poustka, L., Roessner, V., Kamp‐Becker, I., & Endres, D. (2022).
Subdimensions of social‐communication behavior in autism—A replication study.
JCPP Advances, e12077.

Student J, Engel D, Timmermann L, Bremmer F, Waldthaler J (2022).
Visual Perturbation Suggests Increased Effort to Maintain Balance in Early Stages of Parkinson’s to be an Effect of Age Rather Than Disease.
Front. Hum. Neurosci. 16:762380.

Tamura, H., Prokott, K. E., & Fleming, R. W. (2022).
Distinguishing mirror from glass: A “big data” approach to material perception.
Journal of vision, 22(4), 4-4.

Thoma, N., Yu, Z., Ventola, F., & Kersting, K. (2021).
RECOWNs: Probabilistic Circuits for Trustworthy Time Series Forecasting.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Tractable Probabilistic Modeling (TPM 2021).

Tiedemann, H., Morgenstern, Y., Schmidt, F., & Fleming, R. W. (2022).
One-shot generalization in humans revealed through a drawing task.
eLife, 11.

Tiedemann, H., Schmidt, F., Fleming, R.W. (2022).
Superordinate Categorization Based on the Perceptual Organization of Parts.
Brain Sciences, 12, 667.

Trick, S., & Rothkopf, C. A. (2022).
Bayesian Classifier Fusion with an Explicit Model of Correlation.
In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (pp. 2282-2310). PMLR.

Turini, J., & Võ, M. L. H. (2022).
Hierarchical organization of objects in scenes is reflected in mental representations of objects.
Scientific Reports, 12(1), 20068.

Ventola, F., Dhami, D. S., & Kersting, K. (2021).
Generative Clausal Networks: Relational Decision Trees as Probabilistic Circuits.
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP).

Voudouris, D., & Fiehler, K. (2022).
The role of grasping demands on tactile suppression.
Human Movement Science, 83, 102957.

Wagner, I., & Schütz, A. C. (2023).
Interaction of dynamic error signals in saccade adaptation.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 129, 717-723.

Wiesmann, S. L., & Võ, M. L. H. (2022).
What makes a scene? Fast scene categorization as a function of global scene information at different resolutions.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(8), 871.

Wiesmann, S. L., & Võ, M. L.-H. (2023).
Disentangling diagnostic object properties for human scene categorization.
Sci Rep 13, 5912.

Yu, Z., Ventola, F. G., & Kersting, K. (2021).
Whittle networks: A deep likelihood model for time series.
International Conference on Machine Learning (PMLR), 12177-12186.

Yu, Z., Zhu, M., Trapp, M., Skryagin, A., & Kersting, K. (2021).
Leveraging Probabilistic Circuits for Nonparametric Multi-Output Regression.
Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2021).