Action Control, Attention, and Visual Search

Impact of affective content and/or aversive information on action, attention, and perception

Response selection

Intraindividual differences in responding

German Research Council (DFG) SCHO2000/1-1 (2022-2025)

S-R or IOR, that is the question! About the occurrence of S-R binding and inhibition of return in sequential designs.

Principal Investigator: L.-M. Schöpper in cooperation with C. Frings & M. Lappe

Schöpper, L.-M., Ogiermann, L., Eder, A. B., Rothermund, K., Frings, C. (in press). Re-visiting an affective modulation of stimulus-response binding and retrieval. Cognition and Emotion.

Paulus, T., Prochnow, A., Jaworski, J., Schöpper, L.-M., Beste, C., Frings, C., Münchau, A., Verrel, J., & Bäumer, T. (2026). Auditory-motor distractor-response binding is modulated by harmonicity of stimuli and acoustical discrimination skills. Cortex, 126, 155-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.12.012

Schöpper, L.-M., Soballa, P., Merz, S., & Frings, C. (2026). The touching difference: Evidence for stimulus-response binding effects in tactile detection and localization performance but not in their visual counterparts. Journal of Cognition, 9(1), 5, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.476

*Türkan, B. N., *Schöpper, L.-M., Vainio, L., & Frings, C. (2026) When affordances are not universal: The negative compatibility effect is modulated by task type and spatial association. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 88, 24. *shared first-authorship.https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03202-7

Singh, T., Schöpper, L.-M., & Frings, C. (2025). I am once again asking for your attention: A replication of feature-based attention modulations of binding effects with picture stimuli. Journal of Cognition, 8(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.432

Schöpper, L.-M.*, Laub, R.*, Franke, H., Moeller, B., & Frings, C. (2025). Meaning over familiarity: A secret ingredient for stimulus-response binding effects that exceeds perceptual features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. *shared first-authorship. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001509  

Schöpper, L.-M., & Frings, C. (2025). As time goes by: Event file decay does not unleash inhibition of return. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 16, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.422

Geissler, C. F.*, Schöpper, L.-M.*, Engesser, A. F., Beste, C., Münchau, A., & Frings, C. (2024). Turning the light switch on binding: Prefrontal activity for binding and retrieval in action control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36(1), 95-106. *shared first-authorship. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02071

Schöpper, L.-M., & Frings, C. (2024). Responding, fast and slow: Visual detection and localization performance is unaffected by retrieval. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86(1), 171-185. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02810-5

Schöpper, L.-M., Hoffmann, R., & Frings, C. (2024). Another dimension! Using dimension weighting to observe integration and retrieval in localization performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(1), 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001176

Schöpper, L.-M., Jerusalem, A., Lötzke, L., & Frings, C. (2023). Bound to a spider without its web: Task-type modulates the retrieval of affective information in subsequent responses. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(8), 2655-2672. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02791-5

Schöpper, L.-M., Küpper, V., & Frings, C. (2023). Attentional biases towards spiders do not modulate retrieval. Experimental Psychology, 70(3), 135-144. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000584

Merz, S.*, Beege, F.*, Schöpper, L.-M., Spence, C., & Frings, C. (2023). Investigating attentional control sets: Evidence for the compilation of multi-feature control sets. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85, 596-612. *shared first-authorship. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02566-4

Schöpper, L.-M., & Frings, C. (2023). Same, but different: Binding effects in auditory, but not visual detection performance. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85, 438-451. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02436-5

Schöpper, L.-M., & Frings, C. (2022). Inhibition of return (IOR) meets stimulus-response (S-R) binding: Manually responding to central arrow targets is driven by S-R binding, not IOR. Visual Cognition, 30, 641-658. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2023.2169802  

Schöpper, L.-M., Lappe, M., & Frings, C. (2022). Found in translation: The role of response mappings for observing binding effects in localization tasks. Visual Cognition, 30, 527-545. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2022.2139033 

Schöpper, L.-M., Lappe, M., & Frings, C. (2022). Saccadic landing positions reveal that eye movements are affected by distractor-based retrieval. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 2219-2235. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02538-8

Singh, T., Schöpper, L.-M., Domes, G., & Frings, C. (2022). Gaze Cues vs. Arrow Cues at short vs. long durations. Visual Cognition, 30, 587-596. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2022.2154878  

Soballa, P., Schöpper, L.-M., Frings, C., & Merz, S. (2022). Spatial biases in inhibition of return. Visual Cognition, 30(10), 696-715. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2023.2188336 

Schöpper, L.-M., Singh, T., & Frings, C. (2020). The official soundtrack to “Five shades of grey”: Generalization in multimodal distractor-based retrieval. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 3479-3489. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02057-4

Schöpper, L.-M., Hilchey, M. D., Lappe, M., & Frings, C. (2020). Detection versus discrimination: The limits of binding accounts in action control. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 2085-2097. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01911-4

since July 2026 Postdoc position, Learning Brain Lab, Prof. Dr. Yana Fandakova, University of Trier

since April 2021 Postdoc position, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Prof. Dr. Christian Frings, University of Trier

April 2021 PhD, University of Trier

Title of dissertation: "The boundaries of binding: About the absence and occurrence of binding effects in action control"

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christian Frings, University of Trier, & Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe, University of Münster

Dec 2017 - Apr 2021 PhD Student, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Prof. Dr. Christian Frings, University of Trier

Oct 2017 – Nov 2017 Short Research Project, Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods: General Psychology/ Empirical-Visual-Aesthetics-Lab (EVA-Lab),

Prof. Dr. Helmut Leder, University of Vienna

2014 – 2017 Master of Science (Psychology), University of Vienna

March 2016 – June 2017 Student Research and Teaching Assistant (“Studienassistenz”),

Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods: General Psychology/ Empirical-Visual-Aesthetics-Lab (EVA-Lab), Prof. Dr. Helmut Leder, University of Vienna

Sept 2015 – Dez 2015 Semester abroad, Queen’s University, Kingston (Ontario, Canada)

Nov 2014 – June 2015 Internship, Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods:

General Psychology/ Empirical-Visual-Aesthetics-Lab (EVA-Lab), Manuela Marin, University of Vienna

2011 – 2014 Bachelor of Science (Psychology), University of Vienna

Co-Review: 

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Cognitive Processing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Review:

Acta Psychologica

Cognition and Emotion

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Psychological Research

Visual Cognition

Institutes and Foundations:

Cusanuswerk

International Office of Trier University

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes