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Dr. Tom Nissens

Scientific Employee
Room: 343, Building F2
Telephone:+49 (0)641 99 26035
Fax: +49 (0)641 99 26119


Scientific Training

 

since 04/2020

 

Postdoctoral researcher, Justus Liebig-University Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Research group "Perception and Action" (Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler)

 

11/2016 - 12/2019

Doctoral Candidate, Justus Liebig-University Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Research group "Perception and Action" (Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler)

 
01/2016–10/2016

Research Assistant, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Research Group “Reward” (Prof. Dr. Jan Theeuwes)

 
09/2013–09/2015


 Studies of Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium, Degree Awarded: M.Sc.

09/2010 - 09/2013

 

 Studies of Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium, Degree Awarded: B.Sc.

Team member in the project mentioned below


 

Publications


  • Nissens, T. & Fiehler, K. (2020). Reaching movements are attracted by stimuli that signal reward. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 3804–3810.
  • Nissens, T. & Fiehler, K. (2020). The attractiveness of salient distractors to reaching movements is task-dependent. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 2502-2515.
  • Nissens, T. & Fiehler, K. (2018). Saccades and reaches curve away from the other effector's target in simultaneous eye and hand movements. Journal of Neurophysiology, 119, 118-123.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00618.2017

  • *Nissens, T., *Failing, M., & Theeuwes, J. (in press). People look at the object they fear: oculomotor capture by stimuli that signal threat. Cognition & Emotion, 31(8), 1707-1714. (*shared first authorship) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1248905

  • Failing, M., Nissens, T., Pearson, D., Le Pelley, M., & Theeuwes, J. (2015). Oculomotor capture by stimuli that signal the availability of reward. Journal of Neurophysiology, 114 (4), 2316-2327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00441.2015

 

Conference proceedings


Poster presentations

  • Nissens, T., & Fiehler, K. (2017). Common or independent attentional maps across modalities and effectors? An investigation into the curvature of concurrent eye and hand movements. Gordon Research Conference and Seminar (GRC & GRS) on Eye Movements, Lewiston, ME, United States of America, July 2017.
  • Nissens, T., & Fiehler, K. (2017). Common or independent attentional maps across modalities and effectors? An investigation into the curvature of concurrent eye and hand movements. 40th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Berlin, Germany, August 2017.


Oral presentations
  • Nissens, T., Failing, M., & Theeuwes, J. (2017). Oculomotor capture by signals of reward and threat. 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Dresden, Germany, March 2017.