Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pannasch
Contact information
Technische Universität Dresden
Faculty of Science
Engineering Psychology and Applied Cognition
01062 Dresden
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)351 - 463 34221
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Research Statement
My research focuses on the understanding of perception, attention and information processing in the context of active vision. Therefore, I investigate eye movements, especially the behavior of visual fixations in scene perception but also in interactive task settings. I focus on the understanding of the complex eye movement behavior for instance by linking eye movement patterns to distinct processing modes. I am also interested to integrate the findings into applied settings such as employing changes in fixation behavior to the recognition of hazards in driving and developing gaze-directed control and analysis paradigms in social interaction.
Scientific Education
| 2012 | Habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification), TU Dresden |
| 2003 | PhD in Science (Dr. rer. nat.), TU Dresden |
| 1999 | Diploma in Psychology and Medicine, TU Dresden |
| 1993 – 1999 | Studies of Psychology, TU Dresden |
Professional Experience
| since 2013 | Professor for Engineering Psychology and Applied Cognition TU Dresden, Institute of Psychology III |
| 2012 - 2013 | Associate Professor (Privatdozent) TU Dresden, Institute of Psychology III |
| 2009 - 2012 | Post-doctoral Research Fellow Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Espoo, Finland |
| 2008 - 2009 | Assistant professor TU Dresden, Institute of Psychology III |
| 2008 | Visiting researcher University of California, Santa Cruz, USA |
| 2006 - 2008 | Assistant professor TU Dresden, Institute of Psychology III |
| 2006 | Assistant professor of Psychophysiology and Perception (Juniorprofessur) Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany |
| 2004 - 2006 | Assistant professor TU Dresden, Institute of Psychology III |
Selected Publications
Velichkovsky, B. M., Korosteleva, A. N., Pannasch, S., Helmert, J. R., Orlov, V. A., Sharaev, M. G., . . . Ushakov, V. L. (2019). Two Visual Systems and Their Eye Movements: a Fixation-Based Event-Related Experiment with Ultrafast fMRI Reconciles Competing Views. Sovremennye tehnologii v medicine, 11(4), 7. doi:10.17691/stm2019.11.4.01
Munz, T., Chuang, L., Pannasch, S., & Weiskopf, D. (2019). VisME: Visual microsaccades explorer. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 12(6). https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.12.6.5
Weber, S., Schubert, R. S., Vogt, S., Velichkovsky, B. M., & Pannasch, S. (2018). Gaze3DFix: Detecting 3D fixations with an ellipsoidal bounding volume. Behavior Research Methods, 50(5), 2004-2015. doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0969-4
Helo A., Van Ommen S., Pannasch S., Danteny-Dordoigne L., Rämä P. (2017). Influence of semantic consistency and perceptual features on visual attention during scene viewing in toddlers. Infant Behavior and Development, 49, 248-266.
Helmert, J.R. & Pannasch, S. (2017). Eye Movements: Parameters, Mechanisms, and Active Vision. In P. Á. Gargiulo, & H. L. Mesones-Arroyo, (eds.). Psychiatry and Neuroscience Update - Vol. II: A Translational Approach (pp. 265-279). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Helo, A., Rämä, P., Pannasch, S., & Meary, D. (2016). Eye movement patterns and visual attention during scene viewing in 3- to 12-month-olds. Visual Neuroscience, 33, 1-7.
Ramkumar, P., Hansen, B. C., Pannasch, S., & Loschky, L. C. (2016). Visual information representation and rapid-scene categorization are simultaneous across cortex: An MEG study. NeuroImage, 134, 295-304.
Hansen, B.C., Rakhshan, P.J., Ho, A.K., & Pannasch, S. (2015). Looking at others through implicitly or explicitly prejudiced eyes. Visual Cognition, 1-31.
Helo, A, Pannasch, S, Sirri, L, & Rama, P (2014). The maturation of eye movement behavior: Scene viewing characteristics in children and adults. Vision Research, 103C, 83-91.
Fischer, T., Graupner, S.-T., Velichkovsky, B. M., & Pannasch, S. (2013). Attentional dynamics during free picture viewing: Evidence from oculomotor behavior and electrocortical activity. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 7.
Pannasch, S., Schulz, J., & Velichkovsky, B. M. (2011). On the control of visual fixation durations in free viewing of complex images. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73(4), 1120-1132.
Pannasch, S, Helmert, JR, Roth, K, Herbold, AK, & Walter, H (2008). Visual fixation durations and saccadic amplitudes: Shifting relationship in a variety of conditions. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2(2), 4:1-19.
Unema, PJA, Pannasch, S, Joos, M, & Velichkovsky, BM (2005). Time-course of information processing during scene perception: The relationship between saccade amplitude and fixation duration. Visual Cognition, 12(3), 473-494.