Dr. Anna Schröger

• visual and auditory illusions and biases
• spatial, temporal and motion processing
• eye movements and eye-hand-head coordination
• face perception
• perception and action

since September 2026: Lecturer, Department of General Psychology: Judgement, Decision Making, Action, FernUniversität in Hagen

2022 – 2025: research staff at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, as part of the program 'The Adaptive Mind' at the Department for Experimental Psychology (Prof. Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner)

2022: PhD 'Spatiotemporal biases in manual interception - effects of visual and auditory information processing'

2018 – 2021: research staff and doctoral candidate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, at the Department for the Psychology of Human Movement and Sport, Institute of Sports Science (Prof. Dr. Rouwen Cañal-Bruland); until December 2020 as part of the DFG project 'Moving in time and space - Do (a)symmetric time-space mappings depend on modality-specific processing?' (co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. Markus Raab)

2017: 3-month internship (Erasmus plus) at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

2016 – 2017: Studies abroad (Erasmus) at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

2015 – 2018: Master of Science, Studies of Psychology with focus on clinical psychology, psychotherapy and health, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

2012 – 2015: Bachelor of Science, Studies of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Articles (preprints)

• Schroeger, A., Merz, S. (2025). Spatiotemporal biases in localization and interception: common underlying mechanisms? BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.25.650604
• Schroeger, A., Gerharz, L., Voudouris, D. (2025). Adaptive Eye Movement Behavior for Actions in Younger and Older Adults. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.06.674432

Articles (peer-reviewed)

• Schroeger, A., Goettker, A., Braun, D. I., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2025). Keeping your eye, head, and hand on the ball: Rapidly orchestrated visuomotor behavior in a continuous action task. Journal of Vision, 25(12), 20–20. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.12.20
• Steinhof, V., Schroeger, A., Liepelt, R., Sperl, L. (2025). Time and video speed perception: a comprehensive investigation of the relation between estimated video speed, clip duration and original duration. Cogn. Research, 10, 36. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-025-00637-2
• Ficco L., Ramon M., Schroeger A., Kaufmann J.M., Schweinberger S.R. (2025). The role of expansion and adaptability of face-space for individual differences in face identity processing. R. Soc. Open Sci. 12: 240879. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240879
• Sperl, L., Schroeger, A., Kaufmann, J. M., & Kreysa, H. (2024). Mental representation of words and concepts in late multilingualism: A replication and extension of the Revised Hierarchical Model. The Mental Lexicon. https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.23018.spe
• Tolentino-Castro, J. W., Schroeger, A., Cañal-Bruland, R., & Raab, M. (2024). Increasing auditory intensity enhances temporal but deteriorates spatial accuracy in a virtual interception task. Experimental Brain Research, 242(4), 937–947. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-024-06787-x
• Schroeger, A.*, Ficco, L.*, Wuttke, S. J., Kaufmann, J. M., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2023). Differences between high and low performers in face recognition in electrophysiological correlates of face familiarity and distance-to-norm. Biological Psychology, 182, 108654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108654
• Kreyenmeier, P. *, Schroeger, A. *, Cañal-Bruland, R., Raab, M., & Spering, M. (2023). Rapid Audiovisual Integration Guides Predictive Actions. ENeuro, 10(8). https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0134-23.2023
• Hüttner, N., Sperl, L., Schroeger, A. (2023). Slow motion bias: Exploring the relation between time overestimation and increased perceived intentionality. Perception, 52(2), 77–96. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066221139943
• Schroeger, A., Kaufmann, J. M., Zäske, R., Kovács, G., Klos, T., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2022). Atypical prosopagnosia following right hemispheric stroke: A 23-year follow-up study with M.T. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 39(3-4), 196–207. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2022.2119838
• Schroeger, A., Grießbach, E., Raab, M., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Spatial distances affect temporal prediction and interception. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 15786. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18789-2
• Schroeger, A., Raab, M., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Tau and kappa in interception - how perceptual spatiotemporal interrelations affect movements. Attention, perception & psychophysics, 84(6), 1925–1943. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02516-0
• Tolentino-Castro, J. W., Schroeger, A., Cañal-Bruland, R., & Raab, M. (2022). The Impact of Pitch on Tempo-Spatial Accuracy and Precision in Intercepting a Virtually Moving Ball. Journal of Motor Behavior, 54(2), 158–172. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222895.2021.1933886
• Schroeger, A., Tolentino-Castro, J. W., Raab, M., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Effects of visual blur and contrast on spatial and temporal precision in manual interception. Experimental Brain Research, 239(11), 3343–3358. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06184-8
• Sperl, L., Hüttner, N., & Schroeger, A. (2021). Why Do Actions in Slow Motion Appear to Last Longer? On the Effect of Video Speed Information. Perception, 50(1), 69–79. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006620982212
• Loeffler, J., Cañal-Bruland, R., Schroeger, A., Tolentino-Castro, W. & Raab, M. (2018). Interrelations between temporal and spatial cognition and movement: The role of modality-specific processing. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition, 9:2609. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02609

Book Chapters

• Sperl, L. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Changing automatized movement patterns. In N. J. Hodges & A. M. Williams (Eds.), Skill Acquisition in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice (3rd edition) (pp. 20-38). London: Routledge.

Other Publications

• Schröger, A. (2019). Hören in Ballsportarten – schneller und genauer als visuelle Wahrnehmung? Zeitschrift Für Sportpsychologie, 26(4), 169. https://doi.org/10.1026/1612-5010/a000276

• ​​​​​​2024: research grant: Connect and Collaborate Program of the „Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie“
• 2024: VISTA travel grant for a 1-month research stay at York University, Toronto, Canada
• 2023: Dissertation prize (3rd place) of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Division of General Psychology
• 2021 – 2022: DAAD grant for a 3-month research stay at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Seminars: Social Psychology in Sport , Motivation and Emotion in Sport, Motor Learning and Performance
• Supervision of Bachelor’s and Master‘s theses

Reviewer for scientific peer-reviewed journals:

• Brain research
• In Mind
• International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
• Journal of Motor Behavior
• Journal of Vision
• Motor Control
• PLOS ONE
• Psychology of Sport & Exercise
• Psychological Research
• Psychonomic Bulletin
• Scientific Reports