Nicole Wetzel

Variability of Head Motion Reveals Development of Spatial Attention

This study shows that task-independent head movements decrease with age and correlate with attention accuracy, indicating they reflect attentional control rather than noise.

Interaction of involuntary and executive attention during development

This study examines how executive attention and involuntary orienting interact in children, adolescents, and adults using auditory tasks and EEG measurements.

Flexibility and Neural Correlates of Action-Sound Predictions

This study investigates how flexible action-sound predictions are in changing environments, showing that predictions adapt at different cortical levels, with unexpected sounds eliciting consistent responses regardless of expectation.

Tuned to explore: Increased phasic responses to auditory targets and novelty in children regardless of induced tonic arousal

This study examines how modulating tonic arousal affects attentional processing in children and adults, finding no effect of arousal modulation but stronger phasic responses in children to novel stimuli.

The dynamic interplay between tonic and phasic arousal shapes attention to optimize performance

This study investigates how tonic and phasic arousal interact to influence attention and performance in humans during an auditory task.

Processing of task-irrelevant sounds during typical everyday activities in children

This study examines how 7-8-year-old children and adults process task-irrelevant sounds during everyday activities, finding immature neuronal mechanisms in children.

Emotion lies in the eye of the listener: emotional arousal to novel sounds is reflected in the sympathetic contribution to the pupil dilation response and the P3

The paper examines how emotional arousal to novel sounds affects pupil dilation and ERP components, showing that sympathetic activation is linked to emotional responses.