Since July 2021
Phd Student, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Prof. Dr. Christian Frings, University of Trier

Sep 2019 – Jun 2021
Master of Science Psychology, University of Trier
Thesis Titel: “Inhibition of return – An online investigation of its time course and directional bias”

Oct 2017 – Jun 2021
Research Assistant, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Prof. Dr. Christian Frings, University of Trier

Oct 2016 – Sep 2019 
Bachelor of Science Psychology, University of Trier

Research Interests

• Visual Attention
• Multisensory perception
• Object localization

Journal articles (peer reviewed)

Talks / Posters

Soballa, P., Schöpper, L.-M., Frings, C., & Merz, S. (2021). Inhibition of Return at home - investigating temporal and spatial influences in online studies. Talk at the 53rd Herbsttreffen Experimentelle Kognitionspsychologie (HexKoP), October 08.-10., Würzburg, Germany.

Merz, S., Soballa, P., Frings, C., & Spence, C.(2021). The speed prior account: Explaining localization biases of moving stimuli with prior speed expectations. Virtual Poster at the 63rd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 15th – 16th, Ulm.

Merz, S., Soballa, P., Frings, C., & Spence, C.(2020). Localizing implied motion in touch: The interplay between the Fröhlich, onset-repulsion and representational momentum effect. Virtual Poster at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Psychonomics), Nov 19th – 22nd.