My name is Daniël Schreij. I like to program comprehensive desktop and web applications, and am fascinated by human cognition and artificial intelligence. When I'm not tinkering with a computer, you can find me outdoors: I love doing all kinds of water sports and going for long hikes at pretty places. I furthermore like to play guitar, do photography, and sometimes to crash on my couch and watch a movie or read a book.
A brief history
My interest in computer science and human cognition led me to study Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I then became a PhD candidate in the area of Cognitive Psychology under supervision of Chris Olivers and Jan Theeuwes. During four years, I studied processes of attention in dynamic scenes and received my degree in January 2012 for my thesis Attention to Emerging Objects.
I continued working as a postdoc for four more years, during which I frequently helped people with programming complex experiments and analysis scripts. This made me rediscover my passion for writing software and I have henceforth continued my career as a freelance developer with a focus on scientific software.
I currently live together with my girlfriend on the Caribbean island Bonaire.
Publications
These are my publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, ordered chronologically:
2016
- Otten, M., Schreij, D. & Los, S.A. (2016) The interplay of goal-driven and stimulus-driven influences on spatial orienting. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-13
2015
- Schreij, D. & Olivers, C.N.L. (2015) The behavioral urgency of objects approaching your avatar. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 77 (8), 2669-2683
2014
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Olivers, C.N.L. & Schreij, D. (2014) Visual memory performance for color depends on spatiotemporal context. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 76 (7), 1873-1884
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Schreij, D., Los, S.A., Theeuwes, J., Enns, J.T. & Olivers, C.N.L. (2014) The interaction between stimulus-driven and goal-driven orienting as revealed by eye movements. Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance 40 (1), 378
2013
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Schreij, D. & Olivers, C.N.L. (2013) The role of space and time in object-based visual search. Visual Cognition 21 (3), 306-329
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Schreij, D. & Olivers, C.N.L. (2013) Spatiotemporal object history affects the selection of task-relevant properties. Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance 39 (1), 216
2012
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Mathôt, S., Schreij, D. & Theeuwes, J. (2012) OpenSesame: An open-source, graphical experiment builder for the social sciences. Behavior research methods 44 (2), 314-324
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Schreij, D. (2012) Attention to Emerging Objects. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit (PhD Thesis)
2010
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Schreij, D., Theeuwes, J. & Olivers, C.N.L. (2010) Irrelevant onsets cause inhibition of return regardless of attentional set. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 72 (7), 1725-1729
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Schreij, D., Theeuwes, J. & Olivers, C.N.L. (2010) Abrupt onsets capture attention independent of top-down control settings II: Additivity is no evidence for filtering. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 72 (3), 672-682
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Belopolsky, A.V., Schreij, D. & Theeuwes, J. (2010) What is top-down about contingent capture?. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 72 (2), 326-341
2009
- Schreij, D. & Olivers, C.N.L. (2009) Object representations maintain attentional control settings across space and time. Cognition 113 (1), 111-116
2008
- Schreij, D., Owens, C. & Theeuwes, J. (2008) Abrupt onsets capture attention independent of top-down control settings. Perception & Psychophysics 70 (2), 208-218