Anna Heuer

Short CV

since October 2025: PostDoc at Universität Bremen, Research Methods and Cognitive Psychology

September 2018–June 2025: PostDoc at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Experimental Psychology: Active Vision and Cognition

October 2016–August 2018: PostDoc at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Cognitive Psychophysiology

October 2016: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.; summa cum laude), Philipps-Universität Marburg / International Research Training Group (IRTG) 1901: The Brain in Action (supervisor: Prof. Anna Schubö)
Best dissertation award in Life Sciences and Medicine from Philipps-Universität Marburg in 2017

May 2015–October 2015: Visiting Researcher at York University (Toronto, Canada), Centre for Vision Research, Visuomotor Neuroscience (Host: Prof. John Douglas Crawford)

August 2013–September 2016: PhD student/Research assistant at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Cognitive Psychophysiology

June 2013: Diplom (M.A. + B.A. equivalent) in Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Research grant projects

Current project:

2025–2028: DFG research grant (HE 8207/5-1) „Visual working memory in action contexts“ with Markus Janczyk 

Completed projects:

2021–2025: DFG research grant (HE 8207/1-2) „The function of (spatio-)temporal context in visual working memory“ with Martin Rolfs

2018–2021: DFG research grant (HE 8207/1-1) „Representing and attention to the temporal structure of visual events in working memory“ with Martin Rolfs

Publications

Heuer, A., & Rolfs, M. (2025). Predictable object motion is extrapolated to support visual working memory for surface features. Cognition, 261: 106150.

Heuer, A., & Schubö, A. (2025). Cueing distractors is effective when the incentive to suppress is high. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 87, 1416–1430. 

Heuer, A.,& Rolfs, M. (2023). Temporal and spatial reference frames in visual working memory are defined by ordinal and relational properties. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49, 1361–1375. 

Heuer, A., & Rolfs, M. (2022). A direct comparison of attentional orienting to spatial and temporal positions in visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 182–190.

Heuer, A.*,Mennig, M.*, Schubö, A., & Barke, A. (2021). Impaired disengagement of attention from computer-related stimuli in Internet Gaming Disorder: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 10, 77–87.

*shared first authorship

Heuer, A., & Rolfs, M. (2021). Incidental encoding of visual information in temporal reference frames in working memory. Cognition, 207:104526. 

Heuer, A., Ohl, S., & Rolfs, M. (2020). Memory for action: A functional view on selection in visual working memory. Visual Cognition, 28(5–8), 388–400. 

Heuer, A., & Schubö, A. (2020). Cueing distraction: Electrophysiological evidence for anticipatory active suppression of distractor location. Psychological Research, 84, 2111–2121. 

Heuer, A., Wolf, C., Schütz, A.C., & Schubö, A. (2019). The possibility to make choices modulates feature-based effects of reward. Scientific Reports, 9:5749.

Heuer, A., & Schubö, A. (2018). Separate and combined effects of action relevance and motivational value on visual working memory. Journal of Vision, 18, 14.

Wolf, C., Heuer, A., Schubö, A. & Schütz, A.C. (2017). The necessity to choose causes the effects of reward on saccade preparation. Scientific Reports, 7:16966.

Heuer, A., Wolf, C., Schütz, A.C., & Schubö, A. (2017). The necessity to choose causes reward-related anticipatory biasing: Parieto-occipital alpha-band oscillations reveal suppression of low-value targets. Scientific Reports,7:14318.

Heuer, A., & Schubö, A. (2017). Selective weighting of action-related feature dimensions in visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24, 1129-1134. 

Heuer, A., Crawford, J.D., & Schubö, A. (2017). Action relevance induces an attentional weighting of representations in visual working memory. Memory & Cognition, 45, 413-427.

Heuer, A., Schubö, A. & Crawford, J.D. (2016). Different cortical mechanisms for spatial vs. feature-based attentional selection in visual working memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10:415.

Heuer, A., & Schubö, A. (2016). The focus of attention in visual working memory: Protection of focused representations and its individual variation. PLoS ONE, 11, e0154228.

Heuer, A., & Schubö, A. (2016). Feature-based and spatial attentional selection in visual working memory. Memory & Cognition, 44, 621-632.