Staff profile

Research Interest

My research is at the intersection between psychology and neuroscience, I am interested in the properties of the saccadic system trying to establish a low level approach to study the underlying processes guiding eye movements in simple and complex visual scenes.

Main research interests and methods

- Spatial and temporal properties of visually guided saccadic eye-movements.
- Experimental cognitive psychology: Interactions between cognitive processes, visual perception, attention and working memory.
- Voluntary and automatic attentional guidance, covert and overt attention, motor programming.

- Eye tracking (Eyelink II, Eyelink 1000, Dual Purkinje Image Eye-tracker, Cambridge Research System).
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).
- Psychophysics

Memberships

Experimental psychology Society (EPS)

Vision Science Society

Women in Science Database (WISDATABASE)

R-Ladies Global Organization

Women in vision UK 

Conference Paper

• (2011, December). The uncertainty of target location: A tool to explore the neural mechanisms involved in the computation of vertical saccades in humans. Presented at 11th European Conference on Visual Perception, Toulouse, France
• (2010, December). An attempt to generate vertical saccades with pairs of contralateral stimuli. Presented at 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland
• (2011, December). Investigating the role of intra-collicular excitatory connections in the generation of vertical saccades: A Human behavioural study. Presented at The Vision Science Society meeting, Naples, Florida
• (2011, December). Mapping the distribution of neural activity in humans’ oculomotor centres: A behavioural study. Presented at 16th European Conference on Eye Movements, Marseille, France
• (2017, December). Can the Cortical Magnification Factor account for the latency increase in the Remote Distractor Effect when the distractor is less eccentric than the target?. Presented at 19th European Conference on Eye Movements, Wuppertal, Germany
• (2013, December). When to move the eyes: Re-examining alternative accounts in light of human behavioral data. Presented at 17th European Conference on Eye Movements, Lund, Sweden
• (2013, December). Population averaging in the distorted map of the superior colliculus: A new and simple account of systematic saccadic undershoot. Presented at The Vision Science Society meeting, Naples, Florida
• (2018, December). Do the eye-movement system and the arm-movement system contribute independently to attentional orienting: a TMS study. Presented at 41st European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Trieste, Italy
• (2011, December). Enhanced fixation activity reduces remote-distractor and global effects. Presented at 16th European Conference on Eye Movements, Marseille, France
• Casteau, S., Vitu, F., & Walker, R. (2016, December). Is the remote distractor effect on saccade latency greater when the distractor is less eccentric than the target?. Presented at 39th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Barcelona, Spain
• Casteau, S., & Walker, R. (2015, August). The spatio-temporal modulation of saccades in a double-step paradigm. Presented at 18th European Conference on Eye Movements, Vienna, Austria
• How the distorted representation of visual space in our brain constrains the way we move our eyes
• An image-based population model of human saccade programming in the Superior Colliculus

Journal Article

• Casteau, S., & Smith, D. T. (2024). How does contextual information affect aesthetic appreciation and gaze behavior in figurative and abstract artwork?. Journal of Vision, 24(12), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.12.8
• Casteau, S., & Smith, D. (2020). On the link between attentional search and the oculomotor system: is pre-attentive search restricted to the range of eye movements?. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 82(2), 518-532. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01949-4
• Casteau, S., & Smith, D. (2020). Covert Attention Beyond the Range of Eye-movements: Evidence for a Dissociation between Exogenous and Endogenous orienting. Cortex, 122, 170-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.11.007
• Casteau, S., & Smith, D. (2019). Associations and Dissociations between Oculomotor Readiness and Covert Attention. Vision, 3(2), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision3020017
• Smith, D., & Casteau, S. (2019). The effect of offset cues on saccade programming and covert attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(3), 481-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818759468
• Vitu, F., Casteau, S., Adeli, H., Zelinsky, G., & Castet, E. (2017). The magnification-factor accounts for the greater hypometria and imprecision of larger saccades: Evidence from a parametric human-behavioral study. Journal of Vision, 17(4:2), 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1167/17.4.2
• Tandonnet, C., Casteau, S., & Vitu, F. (2013). On the limited effect of stimulus boundaries on saccade metrics. Journal of Vision, 13(12), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1167/13.12.13
• saccadic behavior: A challenge to neural-field models. Journal of Vision, 12(12), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1167/12.12.14