INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY

Currently I am a postdoc on the CBBS ScienceCampus grant "A multifaceted individual differences approach to investigating nonretinal vision".

From March-June 2018 I was a postdoc on the OVGU FEM-POWER Bridge grant "Visual hallucinations during low contrast image detection".

From 2014-2018 I was a postdoc on the multi-national grant "Tracing the Template".

Education
PhD:  CIMeC, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy, 2014
Thesis: The search template for object detection in natural scenes: Contents and characteristics, neural underpinnings, and individual differences

Research Interests
My research focuses on how internally generated knowledge shapes visual perception. Specifically, I am interested in what is called "nonretinal vision", or vision in the absence of external stimulation. This includes visual imagery, visual working memory, preparatory templates, misperceptions, and hallucinations.

Publications

1. Reeder, R. R., Hanke, M., & Pollmann, S. (2017). Task relevance modulates the representation of feature conjunctions in the target template. Scientific Reports, 7. doi: 10.1038/s41598-­017-­04123-­8

2. Reeder, R. R., Olivers, C. N. L., & Pollmann, S. (2017). Cortical evidence for negative search templates. Visual Cognition. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2017.1339755

3. Reeder, R. R. (2016). Individual differences shape the content of visual representations. Vision Research. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2016.08.008

4. Reeder, R. R., Stein, T., & Peelen, M. V. (2016). Perceptual expertise improves category detection in natural scenes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-8. doi: 10.3758/s13423-015-0872-x

5. Stein, T., Reeder, R. R., & Peelen, M. V. (2015). Privileged access to awareness for faces and objects of expertise. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. doi:10.1037/xhp0000188

6. Reeder, R. R., Perini, F., & Peelen, M.V. (2015). Preparatory attentional templates in posterior temporal cortex causally contribute to object detection in scenes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(11), 2117-2125. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00845

7. Reeder, R. R., van Zoest, W., & Peelen, M. V. (2015). Involuntary attentional capture by task-irrelevant objects that match the search template for category detection in natural scenes. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 1-11. doi: 10.3758/s13414-015-0867-8

8. Reeder, R. R., & Peelen, M. V. (2013). The contents of the search template for category-level search in natural scenes. Journal of vision, 13(3). doi: 10.1167/13.3.13