Research Focus and Expertise
I study how optical noise, such as myopia and blur, propagates through neural processing to shape perception, decision-making and action. My current work focuses on designing EEG, eye-tracking and behavioural experiments to collect datasets across paediatric and adult populations to uncover developmental trajectories and neural dynamics. I collaborate with multi-institutional teams on analysis standards and implement reproducible pipelines for signal processing, statistical modelling and transformer-based architectures.
Publications & Featured Work
- Steinfeld K., Murray M., Lewkowicz D. (2026). Gaze dynamics reveal the protracted development of perceptual segregation of multiple talking faces to solve the multisensory cocktail party problem , (in progress).
- Steinfeld K., Murray M., Carrasco M. (2026). Preserved Exogenous and Endogenous Attention in the Myopic Parafovea (in progress).
- Tovar D. A., Kunnath A. J., Steinfeld K., et al. (2026). The role of multisensory integration in child development - Developmental Review (under review).
- Steinfeld K., Murray M. (2025). Cortical Visual Processing Differences in Myopia and Blur - Neuropsychologia.
Conferences
- Steinfeld K., Murray M., Lewkowicz D. (2026). Gaze dynamics reveal the protracted development of perceptual segregation of multiple talking faces to solve the multisensory cocktail party problem, Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Tampa - FL, USA (2026).
- Steinfeld K., Murray M., Lewkowicz D. (2026). Gaze dynamics reveal the protracted development of perceptual segregation of multiple talking faces to solve the multisensory cocktail party problem, Applied Vision Sciences (AVS), Tampa - FL, USA, (2026).
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Steinfeld, K., Murray M.M., Micah, Carrasco, M. Preserved Exogenous Attention in the Myopic Parafovea, Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Tampa, FL, USA (2025, May 16 - May 20), Journal of Vision.
Awards & Grants
- Females of Vision Travel and Networking Award (FoVea) at the Vision Sciences Society meeting (2025).
- Competitive MD-PhD grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (2021-2024) for work at the Laboratory for Investigative Neurophysiology (LINE) , University of Lausanne, advisor: Prof. Micah M. Murray.
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