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Dr Meike Scheller's Outputs (21)

Thinking on your feet: potentially enhancing phylogenetic tree learning accessibility through a kinaesthetic approach (2024)
Journal Article
Laurentino, T. G., Scheller, M., Glover, G., Proulx, M. J., & de Sousa, A. A. (2024). Thinking on your feet: potentially enhancing phylogenetic tree learning accessibility through a kinaesthetic approach. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 17(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-024-00215-y

Background: Phylogenetics is one of the main methodologies to understand cross-cutting principles of evolution, such as common ancestry and speciation. Phylogenetic trees, however, are reportedly challenging to teach and learn. Furthermore, phylogene... Read More about Thinking on your feet: potentially enhancing phylogenetic tree learning accessibility through a kinaesthetic approach.

Towards Human Sensory Augmentation: A Cognitive Neuroscience Framework for Evaluating Integration of New Signals within Perception, Brain Representations, and Subjective Experience (2024)
Journal Article
Nardini, M., Scheller, M., Ramsay, M., Kristiansen, O., & Allen, C. (2025). Towards Human Sensory Augmentation: A Cognitive Neuroscience Framework for Evaluating Integration of New Signals within Perception, Brain Representations, and Subjective Experience. Augmented Human Research, 10(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41133-024-00075-7

New wearable devices and technologies provide unprecedented scope to augment or substitute human perceptual abilities. However, the flexibility to reorganize brain processing to use novel sensory signals during early sensitive periods in infancy is m... Read More about Towards Human Sensory Augmentation: A Cognitive Neuroscience Framework for Evaluating Integration of New Signals within Perception, Brain Representations, and Subjective Experience.

Self-association enhances early attentional selection through automatic prioritization of socially salient signals (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Scheller, M., Tünnermann, J., Fredriksson, K., Fang, H., & Sui, J. (2024). Self-association enhances early attentional selection through automatic prioritization of socially salient signals

Efficiently processing self-related information is critical for cognition, yet the earliest mechanisms enabling this self-prioritization remain unclear. By combining a temporal order judgement task with computational modelling based on the Theory of... Read More about Self-association enhances early attentional selection through automatic prioritization of socially salient signals.

Towards Human Sensory Augmentation: A Cognitive Neuroscience Framework for Evaluating Integration of New Signals within Perception, Brain Representations, and Subjective Experience (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nardini, M., Scheller, M., Ramsay, M., Kristiansen, O., & Allen, C. (2024, September). Towards Human Sensory Augmentation: A Cognitive Neuroscience Framework for Evaluating Integration of New Signals within Perception, Brain Representations, and Subjective Experience. Presented at AH2024: 14th Augmented Human International Conference, Geneva, Switzerland

Sociocultural Pressures, Internalization, and Body Esteem in Congenitally Blind, Late-Blind, and Sighted Men and Women (2024)
Journal Article
Dell’Erba, S., Scheller, M., de Sousa, A. A., & Proulx, M. J. (2024). Sociocultural Pressures, Internalization, and Body Esteem in Congenitally Blind, Late-Blind, and Sighted Men and Women. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 18(2), 73-84. https://doi.org/10.1177/0145482x241235167

Introduction:
Visual experience has a substantial effect on how individuals construct a template of their own bodies in space. Whether the absence of total or partial visual exposure in individuals of both genders allows the buffering of harmful ef... Read More about Sociocultural Pressures, Internalization, and Body Esteem in Congenitally Blind, Late-Blind, and Sighted Men and Women.

Potential factors contributing to observed sex differences in virtual-reality-induced sickness. (2024)
Journal Article
Bannigan, G. M., de Sousa, A. A., Scheller, M., Finnegan, D. J., & Proulx, M. J. (2024). Potential factors contributing to observed sex differences in virtual-reality-induced sickness. Experimental Brain Research, 242, 463-475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06760-0

Virtual reality (VR) technology has been widely adopted for several professional and recreational applications. Despite rapid innovation in hardware and software, one of the long prevailing issues for end users of VR is the experience of VR sickness.... Read More about Potential factors contributing to observed sex differences in virtual-reality-induced sickness..

Self as a prior: The malleability of Bayesian multisensory integration to social salience (2023)
Journal Article
Scheller, M., Fang, H., & Sui, J. (2024). Self as a prior: The malleability of Bayesian multisensory integration to social salience. British Journal of Psychology, 115(2), 185-205. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12683

Our everyday perceptual experiences are grounded in the integration of information within and across our senses. Due to this direct behavioural relevance, cross-modal integration retains a certain degree of contextual flexibility, even to social rele... Read More about Self as a prior: The malleability of Bayesian multisensory integration to social salience.

Correctly establishing evidence for cue combination via gains in sensory precision: Why the choice of comparator matters (2023)
Journal Article
Scheller, M., & Nardini, M. (2024). Correctly establishing evidence for cue combination via gains in sensory precision: Why the choice of comparator matters. Behavior Research Methods, 56(4), 2842-2858. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02227-w

Studying how sensory signals from different sources (sensory cues) are integrated within or across multiple senses allows us to better understand the perceptual computations that lie at the foundation of adaptive behaviour. As such, determining the p... Read More about Correctly establishing evidence for cue combination via gains in sensory precision: Why the choice of comparator matters.

The Role of Sexual and Romantic Attraction in Human Mate Preferences (2023)
Journal Article
Scheller, M., de Sousa, A. A., Brotto, L. A., & Little, A. C. (2024). The Role of Sexual and Romantic Attraction in Human Mate Preferences. The Journal of Sex Research, 299-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2176811

Sex differences in mate preferences are ubiquitous, having been evidenced across generations and cultures. Their prevalence and persistence have compellingly placed them in the evolutionarily adaptive context of sexual selection. However, the psycho-... Read More about The Role of Sexual and Romantic Attraction in Human Mate Preferences.

Assessing people with visual impairments’ access to information, awareness and satisfaction with high-tech assistive technology (2022)
Journal Article
Liang, I., Spencer, B., Scheller, M., Proulx, M. J., & Petrini, K. (2024). Assessing people with visual impairments’ access to information, awareness and satisfaction with high-tech assistive technology. British Journal of Visual Impairment, 42(1), 149-163. https://doi.org/10.1177/02646196221131746

Assistive technology (AT) devices are designed to help people with visual impairments (PVIs) perform activities that would otherwise be difficult or impossible. Devices specifically designed to assist PVIs by attempting to restore sight or substitute... Read More about Assessing people with visual impairments’ access to information, awareness and satisfaction with high-tech assistive technology.

Social relevance modulates multisensory integration (2022)
Journal Article
Scheller, M., & Sui, J. (2022). Social relevance modulates multisensory integration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(9), 1022-1038. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001013

When interacting with the environment, humans exhibit robust biases towards information that pertains to themselves: Self-relevant information is processed faster and yields more accurate responses than information linked to others. Recent studies ha... Read More about Social relevance modulates multisensory integration.

The Power of the Self: Anchoring Information Processing Across Contexts (2022)
Journal Article
Scheller, M., & Sui, J. (2022). The Power of the Self: Anchoring Information Processing Across Contexts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(9), 1001-1021. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001017

A stable self-representation has an intrinsically beneficial connotation for information processing: it allows the individual to flexibly adapt to different contexts, while prioritizing information that pertains to the own immediate survival. Indeed,... Read More about The Power of the Self: Anchoring Information Processing Across Contexts.

Feeling Colours: Crossmodal Correspondences Between Tangible 3D Objects, Colours and Emotions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lin, A., Scheller, M., Feng, F., Proulx, M. J., & Metatla, O. (2021, May). Feeling Colours: Crossmodal Correspondences Between Tangible 3D Objects, Colours and Emotions. Presented at Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

With increasing interest in multisensory experiences in HCI there is a need to consider the potential impact of crossmodal correspondences (CCs) between sensory modalities on perception and interpretation. We investigated CCs between active haptic ex... Read More about Feeling Colours: Crossmodal Correspondences Between Tangible 3D Objects, Colours and Emotions.

The Role of Vision in the Emergence of Mate Preferences (2021)
Journal Article
Scheller, M., Matorres, F., Little, A. C., Tompkins, L., & de Sousa, A. A. (2021). The Role of Vision in the Emergence of Mate Preferences. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50(8), 3785–3797. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01901-w

Cross-cultural research has repeatedly demonstrated sex differences in the importance of partner characteristics when choosing a mate. Men typically report higher preferences for younger, more physically attractive women, while women typically place... Read More about The Role of Vision in the Emergence of Mate Preferences.

Late‐ but not early‐onset blindness impairs the development of audio‐haptic multisensory integration (2020)
Journal Article
Scheller, M., Proulx, M. J., de Haan, M., Dahlmann‐Noor, A., & Petrini, K. (2021). Late‐ but not early‐onset blindness impairs the development of audio‐haptic multisensory integration. Developmental Science, 24(1), Article e13001. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13001

Integrating different senses to reduce sensory uncertainty and increase perceptual precision can have an important compensatory function for individuals with visual impairment and blindness. However, how visual impairment and blindness impact the dev... Read More about Late‐ but not early‐onset blindness impairs the development of audio‐haptic multisensory integration.