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work is the first of its kind from the lab to utilize a novel sequential hand movement paradigm -- and to show that outdated hand movements are inhibited following different types of changes in one's immediate environment. Stay tuned for more work on this, … Continue reading New preprint: What to do with outdated movements?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
Sven is awarded the Heisenberg Fellowship
After being with us since 2013, Sven will now be starting his own group - the Mind In Action Lab - as supported by the Heisenberg Program of the DFG. We're not ready to say goodbye yet though - which is why we are thrilled that his lab will be located right here at HU … Continue reading Sven is awarded the Heisenberg Fellowship
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
Lisa wins the Adlershof Dissertation Prize
The lab is incredibly proud of one of our own, Lisa Kröll, who was awarded the Adlershof Dissertation Prize 2023 for her work on how active predictions shape human vision. For more information on the prize and the runners-up, you can check out the news here: https://www.adlershof.de/news/dissertationspreis-adlershof-fuer-2023-geht-an-dr-lisa-kroell.
People, old and new
We've had a lot of movement in our team recently. We've had to say some difficult goodbyes, with Carolin headed to TU Chemnitz, Angie to UC Berkeley, Richard to CiMeC in Italy, and Kathi for a new job. Lisa is headed to Munich (but only for a few months, thank goodness!) to start a collaboration … Continue reading People, old and new
Martin is elected to the DFG review board
The election results are in! Lab director Martin Rolfs was elected to the DFG's review board, in which he will now play a critical role in evaluating funding applications in the domain of General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology. The DFG is Germany's main research funding organization, so this is meaningful to have a representative within … Continue reading Martin is elected to the DFG review board
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
Joan is awarded the AvH Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Joan, who just received a Humboldt Research Fellowship to carry out her work on "perceptual vigor" with our lab - stay tuned for new experiments and discoveries on this phenomenon. The fellowship supports researchers from all over the world. For more information, see here: https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/humboldt-research-fellowship.
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
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