Martin back from Sabbatical at Dartmouth College

Martin spent a sabbatical at Dartmouth College, from August 29th to December 31st, 2022. As a Fellow of the Harris Program, he enjoyed numerous scientific interactions with Peter Tse, Viola Stoermer, Patrick Cavanagh, Caroline Robertson, Tor Wager, Matt van der Meer, and their groups at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. During his time … Continue reading Martin back from Sabbatical at Dartmouth College

Casimir Ludwig concludes his visit with talk: “Grounding cognitive model parameters”

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”

DGPs (Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie) Conference 2022

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

In Press: Foveal vision anticipates defining features of eye movement targets

Update: The paper is now out and available here: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78106 This is the key paper of Lisa’s PhD. While decades of research have characterized pre-saccadic sensitivity modulations at the target of eye movements, little is known about the concurrent development of visual sensitivity in the pre-saccadic center of gaze. In a series of experiments, we … Continue reading In Press: Foveal vision anticipates defining features of eye movement targets

ECEM-  Sven Ohl was awarded an SR Research Early Career Award for the best talk

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

Anna’s new paper: Temporal and Spatial Reference Frames in Visual Working Memory Are Defined by Ordinal and Relational Properties

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

ECVP 2022 

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 

Peter Neri gives presentation: “Human sensory adaptation to the ecological structure of environmental statistics”

The rolfslab is happy to welcome Dr. Peter Neri who will give a talk at our weekly colloquia on 01.06 titled " Human sensory adaptation to the ecological structure of environmental statistics." Dr. Neri is located in Paris as the CNRS Director of Research and head of the Vision team (Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs). We … Continue reading Peter Neri gives presentation: “Human sensory adaptation to the ecological structure of environmental statistics”