Katja Dörschner-Boyaci

Short info

Research in my lab aims to uncover the mechanisms by which the brain is able to construct a rich perceptual experience from sensory input. Specifically, we concentrate on understanding the computational and neural mechanisms that allow humans to judge material qualities from static and dynamic images, and to find out how experiences and interactions with materials and objects shape perceptual expectations.

Open Science

Böhm, A., Schneider, T., Belousov, B., Kshirsagar, A., Lin, L., Doerschner, K., ... & Peters, J. (2024).
What matters for active texture recognition with vision-based tactile sensors.
arXiv preprint 2403, 13701.

Cavdan, M., Kapucu, A., Doerschner, K., & Drewing, K. (2024).
Happiness promotes global processing in haptic perception.
bioRxiv, 2024-07.

Chen, J., Kshirsagar, A., Heller, F., Andreu, M. G., Belousov, B., Schneider, T., Lin, L. P., Doerschner, K., Drewing, K., & Peters, J. (2025).
Investigating Active Sampling for Hardness Classification with Vision-Based Tactile Sensors.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13231.

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

Malik, A., Yu, Y., Boyaci, H., & Doerschner, K. (2025).
Perceiving Material Qualities from Moving Contours.
bioRxiv, 2025-07.

Articles

Böhm, A., Schneider, T., Belousov, B., Kshirsagar, A., Lin, L., Doerschner, K., ... & Peters, J. (2024).
What matters for active texture recognition with vision-based tactile sensors.
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 15099-15105.

Lin, L. P. Y., Böhm, A., Belousov, B., Kshirsagar, A., Schneider, T., Peters, J., Doerschner, K., & Drewing, K. (2024).
Task-Adapted Single-Finger Explorations of Complex Objects.
EuroHaptics

Lin, L. P., Drewing, K., & Doerschner, K. (2024).
Exploring For Gloss: The Role of Active Exploration in Visual Material Perception.
bioRxiv, 2024-07.

Schmid, A. C., Barla, P., & Doerschner, K. (2023).
Material category of visual objects computed from specular image structure.
Nature Human Behaviour, 7(7) ,1151-1169.