Alexander Schütz

Short info

My research focuses on the bidirectional interaction of visual perception and eye movements. On the one hand, I investigate how a seamless and stable representation of the world is reconstructed despite the large gaps in sensory information and the dynamic changes due to eye movements. On the other hand, I investigate how eye movements are continuously optimized to support perceptual and behavioural tasks.

My long-term goal is to understand how the brain actively acquires, weighs and reconstructs visual information to to efficiently interact with the environment. I use psychophysics, eye tracking, EEG and computational modelling.

Open Science

Eckert, A., Blume, J. S., Knopp, B., Schütz, A. C., & Endres, D. (2024).
Distinct Biases Shape Perceptual Inference Dynamics Along the Autism-Psychosis Spectra.

Articles

Baykan, C., & Schütz, A. C. (2025).
Electroencephalographic Responses to the Number of Objects in Partially Occluded and Uncovered Scenes.
Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 37(1), 227-238.

Baykan, C., & Schütz, A. C. (2025).
Eye movements do not preferentially test inferences in the blind spot.
Scientific Reports, 15, 43589.

Baykan, C., Mamassian, P., & Schütz, A. C. (2025).
Confidence in auditory perceptual completion.
Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2025(1), niaf018.

Baykan, C., Mamassian, P., & Schütz, A. C. (2026).
Low confidence for perceptual completion of partially occluded objects.
Journal of Vision, 26(1), 4, 1–14.

Brand, T. K., Schütz, A. C., Müller, H., Maurer, H., Hegele, M., & Maurer, L. K. (2024).
Sensorimotor prediction is used to direct gaze toward task-relevant locations in a goal-directed throwing task.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 132(2), 485-500.

Brand, T. K., Schütz, A. C., Müller, H., Maurer, H., Hegele, M., & Maurer, L. K. (2025).
Predicted task success and outcome history mediate eye movements toward locations with high informational or motivational value.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 134(2), 568-579.

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

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

Goktepe, N., & Schütz, A. C. (2024).
Frequency-specific and periodic masking of peripheral characters by delayed foveal input.
In Scientific Reports 14(1), 4642.

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

Ovsepian, R., Souto, D., & Schütz, A. C. (2025).
Robust generalization of tuning to self-induced sensation.
iScience, 28(6).

Schuetz, I., Trawnitschek, L., & Fiehler, K. (2024).
Object center of mass predicts endpoints for free-hand pointing in virtual reality.
Journal of Vision, 24(10), 615-615.

Schütz, A. C., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2025).
Within-subject confidence intervals for pairwise differences in scatter plots.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-14.

Schütz, A. C., & Stewart, E. E. (2025).
A review of the costs of eye movements.
Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-14.

Stewart, E. E., Fleming, R. W., & Schütz, A. C. (2024).
A simple optical flow model explains why certain object viewpoints are special.
bioRxiv,2023-10.

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

Wagner, I., Tünnermann, J., Schubö, A., & Schütz, A. C. (2025).
Trade-off between search costs and accuracy in oculomotor and manual search tasks.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 133(5), 1350-1367.