We had previously announced our excitement that Martin's preprint ‘Lawful kinematics link eye movements to the limits of high-speed perception‘ had finally been published after 7+ years. Another 1.5 years later, the final paper (with additional data and modeling) has now been published in Nature Communications! You find it here. The wonderful Solveig Steinhardt at … Continue reading Press release: New paper out in Nature Communications!
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New Preprint: Sensorimotor Awareness Requires Intention
Our latest work, now on bioRxiv, shows that people can detect even the tiniest eye movements—microsaccades—when these movements are preceded by an intention. Using a novel paradigm, we dissociate intention from sensory consequences and find that awareness of these minuscule actions hinges on intention itself. Klanke, J.-N., Ohl, S., & Rolfs, M. (2024). Sensorimotor awareness … Continue reading New Preprint: Sensorimotor Awareness Requires Intention
New preprint: What to do with outdated movements?
Congratulations to Clara for pushing out her PhD's first preprint! This work is the first of its kind from the lab to utilize a novel sequential hand movement paradigm -- and to show that outdated hand movements are inhibited following different types of changes in one's immediate environment. Stay tuned for more work on this, … Continue reading New preprint: What to do with outdated movements?
New commentary: The power and potential of a blink
Martin and Carolin just published a commentary in PNAS about the potential of thinking about blinks as more than just the gates of perception -- they may also play a critical role in changing some of the earliest computations that are performed by the visual system. Read the commentary here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2404021121 And we also recommend … Continue reading New commentary: The power and potential of a blink
New papers exploring eye movements and psychosis
We've been pushing forward several papers in collaboration with Katy Thakkar's lab at Michigan State University, dealing with the role of eye movements in individuals with psychosis (and schizophrenia)! Here's one on an oculomotor measure of psychosis: https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/advance-article/doi/10.1093/schbul/sbad180/7584025. But interestingly, it isn't always that individuals with schizophrenia must necessarily be worse off. Here's another paper … Continue reading New papers exploring eye movements and psychosis
In Press: Saccadic selection in visual working memory is robust across the visual field and linked to saccade metrics
Sven, Lisa and Martin's new article on saccadic selection is in press! To be among the first to know when the paper is published, follow Rolfslab on the platform formerly known as twitter. Ohl, S., Kroell, L. M., & Rolfs, M. (2023). Saccadic selection in visual working memory is robust across the visual field and … Continue reading In Press: Saccadic selection in visual working memory is robust across the visual field and linked to saccade metrics
New preprint on gaze behaviour in dynamic real-world scenes
In this new preprint by Martin and our Science of Intelligence collaborators Nicolas Roth, Olaf Hellwich, and Klaus Obermayer, we show that including object-based attention in models simulating human eye movements improves their ability to closely mimic human gaze behavior.Roth, N., Rolfs, M., Hellwich, O., & Obermayer, K. (2023). Objects guide human gaze behavior in … Continue reading New preprint on gaze behaviour in dynamic real-world scenes
Preprint: Visual routines for detecting causal interactions are tuned to motion direction
Sven and Martin just published this article on bioRxiv examining adaptation effects on perception of causality.Ohl, S. & Rolfs, M. (2023). Visual routines for detecting causal interactions are tuned to motion direction [Preprint]. bioRxiv. [doi] Abstract:Detecting causal relations structures our perception of events in the world. Here, we determined whether generalized or specialized visual routines … Continue reading Preprint: Visual routines for detecting causal interactions are tuned to motion direction
New publication: Attention can be oriented across binocular disparities
PNAS nexus has published this paper by Baptiste Caziot, Martin, and Benjamin Backus, where we mapped the 3D shape of attentional focus on stimuli that were individually offset in both eyes to study binocular disparity.Caziot, B., Rolfs, M., & Backus, B. (2023). Orienting attention across binocular disparity. PNAS nexus, 2(10), pgad314. [link] [pdf] Abstract:The spatial … Continue reading New publication: Attention can be oriented across binocular disparities
New preprint on active foveal processing
In a new article that we just pushed out as a preprint to bioRxiv, Lisa and Martin show that the conspicuity of the saccade target (i.e., its contrast / signal-to-noise ratio) influences the magnitude & time course of pre-saccadic foveal prediction. This is a follow-up to our recent paper on foveal prediction.Kroell, L. M. & … Continue reading New preprint on active foveal processing
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