Professor

Prof. Dr. Stephanie Jainta

Psychology

E-Mail:	[email protected]
Phone:	+49 2381 9291 168

About me

since April 2022 Professor of Psychology at the SRH University of Applied Sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia
since December 2021 Lecturer at the SRH University of Applied Sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia
2019 - 2021 Professor at the Institute of Optometry, School of Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, Olten, Switzerland
2016 - 2019 Research assistant (WiMi 3) at the Institute of Optometry, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, FHNW, Olten, Switzerland
2016 - 2018 Professor in the Department of Business Psychology at ISM - International School
of Management, Dortmund, Germany
2012 - 2015 External lecturer in the Bachelor's degree program "Business Psychology" at the BiTS - Business and Information Technology School in Iserlohn, Hamburg and Berlin
2011 - 2016 Research assistant at IfADo - Leibniz Institute for Occupational Research at the University of Dortmund, including in the DFG project "Dynamic vergence functions and near vision complaints in natural visual tasks"
(DFG Ja 747/6-1)
2010 - 2011 Research assistant as part of a DFG research fellowship at the School of Psychology, University of Southampton, England (DFG Ja 1921/2-1)
2010 - 2010 Research assistant within the framework of a DFG return fellowship at IfADo (DFG Ja 1921/3-1)
2009 - 2010 Research assistant at the CRNS, Team IRIS (FRE 3154), Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France (DFG Ja 1921/1-1) as part of a DFG research fellowship
2002 - 2009 Research assistant at the Institute of Occupational Physiology at the University of Dortmund, in two consecutive DFG projects: "Individual reactions of the autonomic nervous system (accommodation, pupil size, heart rate) to visual and mental stress" (DFG Ja 747/3-1); "Development of valid vernier vergence tests" (DFG Ja 747/4-1,2)
2006 Acquisition of the academic degree Dr. phil. at the
Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology and Sports Science at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster (WWU)
2002 Degree in Psychology from the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology and Sports Science at the University of Münster (WWU)

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I have contributed to these publications

Joss, J., & Jainta, S. (2022). Verändern MKH-Prismen den binokularen Vorteil beim Lesen? OCL: Optometry and Contact Lenses, 2(4)
Joss, J., & Jainta, S. (2021). Do standard optometric measures predict binocular coordination during reading? Journal of Eye Movement Research, 13(6).
Hofmann, J. Domdei, L., Jainta, S. & Harmening, W.M. (2020). Binocular fixational eye movements. Investigative ophthalmology & Vision Science, 61 (7), 1729-1729
Jainta, S. & Joss, J. (2019). Binocular advantages in reading revisited: attenuating effects of individual horizontal heterophoria. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 12(4):10
Nikolova, M., Jainta, S., Blythe, H. & Liversedge, S.P. (2018). Binocular advantages for parafoveal processing in reading. Vision Research, 145, 56-63.
Jainta, S. (2018). Lesen – wie sich beide Augen bewegen und binokulare Vorteile zeigen. DOZ, 1, 57-60
Nikolova, M., Jainta, S., Blythe, H. & Liversedge, S.P. (2017). Using a dichoptic moving window presentation technique to investigate binocular advantages during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol 43(2), Feb 2017, 265-280
Jainta, S., Nikolova, M. & Liversedge, S.P. (2017). Does text contrast mediate binocular advantages in reading? Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(1), 55-68
Jainta, S., Nikolova, M., Blythe, H.I., Jones, M.O. & Liversedge, S.P. (2015). A comparative analysis of vertical and horizontal fixation disparity in sentence reading. Vision Research, 110, 118-127.
Nikolova, M., Jainta, S., Blythe, H.I., Jones, M.O. & Liversedge, S.P. (2015). Vergence responses to vertical binocular disparity during lexical identification. Vision Research, 106, 27-35.
Jainta, S., Blythe, H.I. & Liversedge, S.P. (2014). Binocular advantages in reading. Current Biology, 24 (5), 526-530.
Grosjean, M., Rinkenauer, G. & Jainta, S. (2012). Where Do the Eyes Really Go in the Hollow-Face Illusion? PLoS ONE 7(9): e44706. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044706.
Jainta, S. & Jaschinski, W. (2012). Individual differences in binocular coordination are uncovered by directly comparing monocular and binocular reading conditions. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci., 53: 5762-5769.
Blythe, H.I., Holliman,, N.S., Jainta,, S., Tbaily,, L.W., & Liversedge, S.P. (2012). Binocular coordination in response to two-dimensional, three-dimensional and stereoscopic visual stimuli. Ophthal. Physiol. Opt., 32, 397-411.
Jainta, S., Dehnert, A., Heinrich, S.P. & Jaschinski, W. (2011). Binocular Coordination during Reading of Blurred and Nonblurred Text. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 52: 13, 9416-9424.
Jainta, S., Vernet, M., Yang, Q. & Kapoula, Z. (2011). “The pupil reflects motor preparation for saccades - even before the eye starts to move”, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 5, article 97, 1-10.
Jainta, S., Bucci, M.P., Wiener-Vacher, S. & Kapoula, Z. (2011). Changes in vergence dynamics due to repetition. Vision Research, 51, 1845-1852.
Svede, A., Hoormann, J., Jainta, S. & Jaschinski, W. (2011). Subjective fixation disparity affected by dynamic asymmetry, resting vergence, and nonius bias. Investigate Ophthalmology and Vision Science. 52: 4356-4361.
Jainta, S. & Kapoula, Z. (2011). Dyslexic children are confronted with unstable binocular fixation while reading. PLoS ONE 6(4): e18694. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018694.
Jainta, S., Jaschinski, W. & Wilkins, A. (2010). Periodic letter strokes within a word affect fixation disparity during reading. Journal of Vision, 10(13):2, 1-11.
Jaschinski, W., Jainta, S. & Kloke, W.B. (2010). Objective versus subjective measures of fixation disparity for short and long fixation periods. Opht. Physiol. Opt., 30, 379-390.
Jainta, S. & Jaschinski, W. (2010). “Trait” and “state” aspects of fixation disparity during reading. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 3(3), 1-13.
Jainta, S. & Baccino, T. (2010). Analyzing the pupil response to increased cognitive demand: an independent component analysis study. Intern. J. Psychophys, 77, 1-7.
Jainta, S., Hoormann, J., Kloke, W.B. & Jaschinski, W. (2010). Binocularity during reading fixations: properties of the minimum fixation disparity. Vision Res., 50, 1775-1785.
Kloke, W. B., Jaschinski, W. & Jainta, S. (2009). Microsaccades under monocular viewing conditions. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 3(1):2, 1-2.
Jainta, S., Hoormann, J. & Jaschinski, W. (2009). Accommodation modulates the individual difference between objective and subjective measures of the final convergence Step response. Ophthalmic Physiol. Opt., 29, 162-172.
Jainta, S., Hoormann, J., & Jaschinski, W. (2008). Ocular accommodation and cognitive demand: An additional indicator besides pupil size and cardiovascular measures? J Neg. Res Biomed 7:6, 1-14.
Jaschinski, W., Jainta, S., & Hoormann, J. (2008). Comparison of shutter glasses and mirror stereoscope for measuring dynamic and static vergence. J Eye Movement Res 1(2): 5, 8-12.
Hoormann, J., Jainta, S., & Jaschinski, W. (2008). The effect of calibration errors on the accuracy of eye movement recordings. J Eye Movement Res 1(2): 1-7.
Jaschinski, W., Švede, A., & Jainta, S. (2008). Relation between fixation disparity and the asymmetry between convergent and divergent disparity step responses. Vision Res 48: 253-263.
Jainta S., Hoormann, J. & Jaschinski, W. (2007). Objective and subjective measures of vergence step responses. Vision Res., 47: 3238-3246.
Jaschinski, W., Jainta, S., Hoormann, J., & Walpe, N. (2007). Objective vs subjective measurements of dark vergence. Ophthalmic Physiol. Opt. 27: 85-92.
Jaschinski, W., Jainta, S., & Schürer, M. (2006). Capture of visual direction in dynamic vergence is reduced with flashed monocular lines. Vision Res. 46: 2608-2614,
Jaschinski, W., Kloke, W.B., Jainta, S., & Buchholz, J. (2005). Horizontal fixation disparity measures with nonius lines. Optom. Vis. Sci. 82: 988-999.
Jainta, S., Jaschinski, W. & Hoormann, J. (2004). Measurement of refractive error and accommodation with the photorefractor PowerRef II. Opht. Phy. Opt., 24, 520-527.
Jainta, S., Jaschinski, W. & Baccino, T. (2004). No evidence for prolonged latency of saccadic eye movements due to intermittent light of a CRT computer screen. Ergonomics, 47, 105-114.
Jainta, S. & Jaschinski, W. (2002). Fixation Disparity: Binocular Vergence Accuracy for a Visual Display at Different Positions Relative to the Eyes. Human Factors, 44, 443-450.