Dr Anna Metzger
- Lecturer in Psychology
- Poole House P331, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
Since 2021 I'm a Lecturer at Bournemouth University. I studied Biology (BSc) in Hanover (Germany) and Cognitive Science (MSc) in Osnabrück (Germany). I worked with Peter König on a computational model of visual attention in my master thesis. After my graduation (2010) I worked in a company conducting applied research on human computer interaction. In 2014 I started my PhD in Giessen (Germany) on the integration of information in haptic perception with Knut Drewing. In 2017 I completed the PhD and was awarded the title Dr. rer. nat. I was on maternal leave after the PhD defence and until 2018, afterwards I continued to work in Giessen as a PostDoc. In this time I had the chance to collaborate with Matteo Toscani on unsupervised learning of haptic material properties, with Matteo Valcecchi on characterising movements in haptic exploration similar to peripheral vision and foveation in visual perception, with Katja Fiehler on neural correlates of haptic perception, with Bianca Jovanovic on haptic exploration in infants and with Arash Akbarinia on a DNN model of haptic saliency.
Research
I investigate visual and haptic perception. I am particularly interested in the haptic and multisensory exploration and perception of object shape and material properties. My main research question is how is exploration of objects guided and how are representations of their properties reconstructed from the serial and multimodal input? In my research I use motion- and eye-tracking techniques, psychophysics, computational modelling and virtual and augmented reality setups.
Favourites
- Metzger, A. and Toscani, M., 2022. Unsupervised learning of haptic material properties. eLife, 11.
- Metzger, A., Toscani, M., Akbarinia, A., Valsecchi, M. and Drewing, K., 2021. Deep neural network model of haptic saliency. Scientific Reports, 11 (1).
- Mueller, S., de Haas, B., Metzger, A., Drewing, K. and Fiehler, K., 2019. Neural correlates of top‐down modulation of haptic shape versus roughness perception. 40(18), 5172-5184. Human Brain Mapping, 40 (18), 5172-5184.
- Metzger, A., Lezkan, A. and Drewing, K., 2018. Integration of serial sensory information in haptic perception of softness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44 (4), 551-565.
