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)

Merz, S., Soballa, P., Spence, C., & Frings, C. (in press). The speed prior account: A new theory to explain multiple phenomena regarding dynamic information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Talks / Posters

Soballa, P.,  Frings, C., & Merz, S. (2022, July 8-10). How tactile landmarks change where tactile targets were felt [Talk].  11. Doktorand*innenworkshop Allgemeine Psychologie (A-Dok), Bremen, Germany.

Soballa, P., Schöpper, L.-M., Frings, C., & Merz, S. (2022, March 21-23). Effects of spatial influences on inhibition of return in online studies [Talk]. 64rd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Virtual Meeting hosted in Cologne, Germany.

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

Merz, S., Soballa, P., Frings, C., & Spence, C.(2021, March 15-16). The speed prior account: Explaining localization biases of moving stimuli with prior speed expectations [Poster]. 63rd Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Ulm, Germany.

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