Thoughtful discussions, the spark of new projects, cooking sessions, afternoon (polar) plunges, the bike-ride tradition and cat-orials are just some of the memories that can be drawn from the latest rolfslab retreat. We had the pleasure of having our collaborator Jude Mitchell join us during the retreat and give us a keynote lecture on his … Continue reading rolfslab bi-annual retreat

New preprint available by Richard, Mara, Martin and our collaborators from Science of Intelligence Thomas Steel and Jörg Raisch. They found evidence to suggest that there is both a generation and reduction of perceived smears that happens during saccades. Thus, saccadic omission of motion smears can be viewed as a parsimonious visual mechanism caused by a combination … Continue reading preprint on what saccade-induced smear looks like

A new preprint is available for a recent paper Martin worked on in collaboration with Nicolas Roth, Olaf Hellwich, and Klaus Obermayer, who work with him through the Cluster of Excellence through the Science of Intelligence. Through their work, they present a computational framework that can be used to simulate where and when humans decide … Continue reading New preprint on object guided human gaze behavior

We would like to welcome Mohammed Shams, who is a postdoctoral researcher from Patrick Cavanagh’s lab in Toronto, and will be visiting the lab until March 1. He is here investigating visual stability during eye movements and the potential role of a recently found illusion called the 'frame effect'. The visit to the rolfslab is … Continue reading Postdoctoral Visitor- Mohammed Shams

Cas Ludwig, our collaborator from the School of Psychological Science at the University of Bristol spent time the last six months in Berlin working with out lab and Ralf Engbert’s group at the University of Potsdam. He has been a long-standing visitor of Berlin since 2018when he began working with both groups. His research while in Berlin … Continue reading Casimir Ludwig concludes his visit with talk: “Grounding cognitive model parameters”

Jan gave a talk at the “Action and Time Perception” symposium held in Hildesheim as a part of DGPs. He gave a talk about his research titled “Effect Binding for Undetected Spontaneous Micromovements.” Here, he showed that effect binding may be possible in the absence of voluntary control and may be involved in the awareness … Continue reading DGPs (Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie) Conference 2022

We are happy to announce that Sven recently presented his talk "What the variations in saccade metrics and visual memory across the visual field tell about saccadic selection in visual working memory" at the European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM) and was awarded one of the SR Research Early Career Award for the best talk … Continue reading ECEM-  Sven Ohl was awarded an SR Research Early Career Award for the best talk

The advanced publication of Anna’s new paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition is now available. Here, it was shown that ordinal and relational transformations in the spatial or temporal structure of object configurations impair memory performance, whereas global transformations do not. Therefore, inter item relations such as the distances between … Continue reading Anna’s new paper: Temporal and Spatial Reference Frames in Visual Working Memory Are Defined by Ordinal and Relational Properties

Several members of our lab attended the recent European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) and presented posters and talks on their research. Olga Shurygina and Nicholas Roth began by holding a tutorial on "Eye movements recording, analysis and modeling”. Olga then presented her poster "Saccade kinematics reflect object-based attention in realistic but not in simplified … Continue reading ECVP 2022 

We are pleased to announce the hiring of two new student research assistants, Jen DiMascio Donohue and Carmen Haake. They will be joining our team and will be working closely with us to support ongoing research projects. Together, the student assistants play an important role in our research efforts. They help in recruiting participants and … Continue reading New student RA’s hired