PD Dr. Heinrich René Liesefeld

Research interests

Topics: distraction, priority maps, visual working memory, visual attention, statistics, mental rotation
Methods: computational modeling, psychophysics, EEG, eye tracking, fMRI, theoretical integration

Publications

Clicking on the DOI will take you to the article on the publisher's website; clicking on the title will take you to an online read-only version of the full article (if available)

in press/online first

• Laybourn, S., Frenzel, A.C., Constant, M., & Liesefeld, H.R. (in press). Unintended emotions in the laboratory: Emotions incidentally induced by a standard visual working memory task predict task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Liesefeld, H.R.*, Liesefeld, A.M.*, & Müller, H.J. (2021). Preparatory control against distraction is not feature-based. Cerebral Cortex.http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab341 (*shared first authorship)

2021

• Arend, J.M., Liesefeld, H.R., & Pörschmann, C. (2021). On the contribution of binaural cues to auditory distance estimation of nearby sound sources. Acta Acustica, 5, 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/aacus/2021001
• Arend, J. M., Ramírez, M., Liesefeld, H. R., & Pӧrschmann, C. (2021). Do near-field cues enhance the plausibility of non-individual binaural rendering in a dynamic multimodal virtual acoustic scene? Acta Acustica, 5, 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/aacus/2021048
• Chen, S., Kocsis, A., Liesefeld, H.R., Müller, H.J., & Conci, M. (2021). Object-based grouping benefits without integrated feature representations in visual working memory. Attention Perception, & Psychophysics,83, 1357-1374. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02153-5
• Dodwell, G., Liesefeld, H.R., Conci, M., Müller, H.J., & Töllner, T. (2021). EEG evidence for enhanced attentional performance during moderate-intensity exercise. Psychophysiology, 58, e13923. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13923
• Constant, M., & Liesefeld, H.R. (2021). Massive effects of saliency on information processing in visual working memory. Psychological Science, 32, 682-691. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797620975785 [preprint]
• Liesefeld, H.R., Liesefeld, A.M., & Müller, H.J. (2021). Attentional capture: an ameliorable side-effect of searching for salient targets. Visual Cognition, 29, 600-603.http:/dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1925798
• Liesefeld, H.R., & Müller, H.J. (2021). Modulations of saliency signals at two hierarchical levels of priority computation revealed by spatial statistical distractor learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 710-728. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000970
• Pavlov, Y.G., Adamian, N., Appelhoff, S., Arvaneh, M., Benwell, C., Beste, C., … Liesefeld, H.R., … Mushtaq, F. (2021). #EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments. Cortex, 144, 213-229.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.03.013 [preprint]
• Sauter, M., Hanning, N.M., Liesefeld, H.R., & Müller, H.J. (2021). Statistical learning of frequent distractor locations in visual search: A role for post-selective distractor rejection processes? Cortex, 135, 108-126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.11.016 [preprint]
• Souza, A.S., Thaler, T., Liesefeld, H.R., Santos, F.H., Peixoto, D.S., & Albuquerque, P.D. (2021). No evidence that self-rated negative emotion boosts visual working memory precision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,47, 282-307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000891

2020

• Geyer, T., Günther, F., Müller, H.J., Kacian, J., Liesefeld, H.R., & Pierides, S. (2020). Reading English-language haiku: An eye-movement study of the 'cut effect'. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 13 [Special Issue Eye Tracking and Visual Arts]. https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.13.2.2
• Liesefeld, H.R., & Müller, H.J. (2020). A theoretical attempt to revive the serial/parallel-search dichotomy. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82 [40 Years of Feature Integration: Special Issue in Memory of Anne Treisman], 228-245. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01819-z
• Liesefeld, H.R., Liesefeld, A.M., Sauseng, P., Jacob, S.N., & Müller, H.J. (2020). How visual working memory handles distraction: Cognitive mechanisms and electrophysiological correlates. Visual Cognition, 28, 372-387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2020.1773594
• Sauseng, P., & Liesefeld, H.R. (2020). Cognitive control: Brain oscillations coordinate human working memory. Current Biology, 30, R405-R407. [Dispatch] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.067

2019

• Allenmark, F., Zhang, B., Liesefeld, H.R., Shi, Z., Müller, H.J. (2019). Probability cueing of singleton-distractor regions in visual search: the locus of spatial distractor suppression is determined by color swapping. Visual Cognition, 27 [Special Issue Visual Search and Selective Attention], 576-594. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2019.1666953
• Liesefeld, H.R. & Janczyk, M. (2019). Combining speed and accuracy to control for speed-accuracy tradeoffs (?). Behavior Research Methods, 51, 40-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1076-x
  [Featured blog post]
• Liesefeld, H.R., Liesefeld, A.M., & Müller, H.J. (2019). Distractor-interference reduction is dimensionally constrained. Visual Cognition, 27 [Special Issue Dealing with distractors in visual search], 247-259.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2018.1561568
• Liesefeld, H.R., Liesefeld, A.M., & Müller, H.J. (2019). Two good reasons to say ‘change!’ – ensemble representations as well as item representations impact standard measures of VWM capacity. British Journal of Psychology, 110 [Special Issue Current directions in visual working memory research], 328-356. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12359
• Liesefeld, H.R., & Müller, H.J. (2019). Current directions in visual working memory research: An introduction and emerging insights. British Journal of Psychology, 110, 193-206. [Editorial for Special Issue Current directions in visual working memory research]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12377
• Liesefeld, H.R., & Müller, H.J. (2019). Distractor handling via dimension weighting. Current Opinion in Psychology, 29 [Special Issue Attention and Perception], 160-167. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.03.003
• Pierides, S., Geyer, T., Günther, F., Kacian, J., Liesefeld, H.R., & Müller, H.J. (2019). Knocking on the doors of perception: Further inquiries into haiku and the brain. Juxta: Research and Scholarship in Haiku, 5, 9-33.
• Sauter, M., Liesefeld, H.R., & Müller, H.J. (2019). Learning to suppress salient distractors in the target dimension: Region-based inhibition is persistent and transfers to distractors in a non-target dimension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 2080-2097. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000691
• Zhang, B., Allenmark, F., Liesefeld, H.R., Shi, Z., Müller, H.J. (2019). Probability cueing of singleton-distractor locations in visual search: priority-map- versus dimension-based inhibition? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45, 1146-1163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000652

2018

• Liesefeld, H.R. (2018). Estimating the timing of cognitive operations with M/EEG latency measures: A primer, a brief tutorial, and an implementation of various methods. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12 [Research Topic From raw MEG/EEG to publication: how to perform MEG/EEG group analysis with free academic software], 765. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00765
• Liesefeld, H.R., Liesefeld, A.M., Pollmann, S., & Müller, H.J. (2018). Biasing allocations of attention via selective weighting of saliency signals: behavioral and neuroimaging evidence for the dimension-weighting account. In: T. Hodgson (Ed.), Processes of Visuo-spatial Attention and Working Memory. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, vol. 41 (pp. 87-113). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/7854_2018_75
• Sauter, M., Liesefeld, H.R., Zehetleitner, M., & Müller, H.J. (2018). Region-based shielding of visual search from salient distractors: Target detection is impaired with same-but not different-dimension distractors. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80, 622-642. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1477-4

2017

• Liesefeld, H.R., Liesefeld, A.M., Müller, H.J., & Rangelov, D. (2017). Saliency maps for finding changes in visual scenes? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 2190-2201. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1383-9
  [Featured blog post]
• Liesefeld, H.R., Liesefeld, A.M., Töllner, T., & Müller, H.J. (2017). Attentional capture in visual search: capture and post-capture dynamics revealed by EEG. NeuroImage, 156, 166-173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.05.016
• Moran, R., Liesefeld, H.R., Usher, M., & Müller, H.J. (2017). An appeal against the item's death sentence: Accounting for diagnostic data patterns with an item-based model of visual search. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e148. [Commentary] http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16000182
• Müller, H.J., Liesefeld, H.R., Moran, R., & Usher, M. (2017). Parallel attentive processing and pre-attentive guidance. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e149. [Commentary] http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16000194

2016

• Folyi, T., Liesefeld, H.R., Wentura, D. (2016). Attentional enhancement for positive and negative tones at an early stage of auditory processing. Biological Psychology, 114, 23-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.12.001
• Liesefeld, H.R., Hoffmann, E., & Wentura, D. (2016). Intelligence as the efficiency of cue-driven retrieval from secondary memory. Memory, 24, 285-94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2014.1002412 
• Liesefeld, H.R.,Liesefeld, A.M., & Zimmer, H.D. (2016). Recollection is delayed under changed viewing conditions: A graded effect on the latency of the late posterior component. Psychophysiology, 53, 1811-1822. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12760
• Liesefeld, H.R., Moran, R., Usher, M., Müller, H.J., & Zehetleitner, M. (2016). Search efficiency as a function of target saliency: The transition from inefficient to efficient search and beyond. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 821-836. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000156
• Liesefeld, H.R., Schütz-Bosbach, S., & Müller, H.J. (2016). Evidenzbasierte Psychologie in der Praxis. Psychologische Rundschau, 67, 179-180. [Commentary]
• Moran, R., Zehetleitner, M., Liesefeld, H.R., Müller, H.J., & Usher, M. (2016). Serial vs. parallel models of attention in visual search: accounting for benchmark RT-distributions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 1300-1315. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0978-1
  [Featured blog post]

2015 and before

• Liesefeld, H.R., Fu, X., & Zimmer, H.D. (2015). Fast or careless or careful and slow? Apparent holistic processing in mental rotation is explained by speed-accuracy trade-offs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 1140-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000081
• Liesefeld, A.M.*, Liesefeld, H.R.*, & Zimmer, H.D. (2014). Intercommunication between prefrontal and posterior brain regions for protecting visual working memory from distractor interference. Psychological Science, 25, 325-333. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797613501170 (*equal contributions)
• Liesefeld, H.R., & Zimmer, H.D. (2013). Think spatial: The representation in mental rotation is nonvisual. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 167-182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0028904
• Liesefeld, H.R. (2012). The mental representation in mental rotation: Its content, timing, and neuronal source. [Doctoral Thesis]
• Liesefeld, H.R., & Zimmer, H.D. (2011). The advantage of mentally rotating clockwise. Brain & Cognition, 75, 101-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2010.10.012

• Zimmer, H.D., & Liesefeld, H.R. (2011). Spatial information in (visual) working memory. In A. Vandierendonck & A. Szmalec (Eds.), Spatial working memory (pp. 46-66). Hove, England: Psychology Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315793252