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

• When to move the eyes: Re-examining alternative accounts in light of human behavioral data. In S. Casteau, & F. Vitu (Eds.),
• Investigating the role of intra-collicular excitatory connections in the generation of vertical saccades: A Human behavioural study. In S. Casteau, & F. Vitu (Eds.),
• Casteau, S., Vitu, F., & Walker, R. Is the remote distractor effect on saccade latency greater when the distractor is less eccentric than the target?. . https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006616671273
• The uncertainty of target location: A tool to explore the neural mechanisms involved in the computation of vertical saccades in humans. In S. Casteau, & F. Vitu (Eds.),
• Can the Cortical Magnification Factor account for the latency increase in the Remote Distractor Effect when the distractor is less eccentric than the target?. In S. Casteau, F. Vitu, & R. Walker (Eds.), . https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.10.6
• Enhanced fixation activity reduces remote-distractor and global effects. In S. Casteau, & F. Vitu (Eds.),
• Population averaging in the distorted map of the superior colliculus: A new and simple account of systematic saccadic undershoot. In S. Casteau, & F. Vitu (Eds.),
• Mapping the distribution of neural activity in humans’ oculomotor centres: A behavioural study. In S. Casteau, & F. Vitu (Eds.),
• Do the eye-movement system and the arm-movement system contribute independently to attentional orienting: a TMS study. In S. Casteau, J. Hathaway, A. Ellison, & D. T. Smith (Eds.), . https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006618824879
• An attempt to generate vertical saccades with pairs of contralateral stimuli. In S. Casteau, & F. Vitu (Eds.),
• Casteau, S., & Walker, R. (2015). The spatio-temporal modulation of saccades in a double-step paradigm. In U. Ansorge, T. Ditye, A. Florack, & H. Leder (Eds.),
• (2014). An image-based population model of human saccade programming in the Superior Colliculus. Journal of Vision, 14(10), 1215-1215. https://doi.org/10.1167/14.10.1215
• (2014). How the distorted representation of visual space in our brain constrains the way we move our eyes. https://doi.org/10.1167/14.10.751

Journal Article

• 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