We have an opening for a postdoc to work in a project called "Probing properties of recursive, hierarchical information processing in visual systems", which is an exciting collaboration with the Robotics and Biology Laboratory (PI: Oliver Brock) and part of the larger research cluster Science of Intelligence (short: SCIoI). The official announcement at the website … Continue reading Open postdoc position in SCIoI project
Melis & Wiebke join Berlin School of Mind & Brain
Melis and Wiebke had interviews at the Berlin School of Mind & Brain last week. As we have learned today, they have both been accepted to the program and will start there in the fall. Congratulations! As Mind & Brain PhD students, they follow in the footsteps of many others in the lab (Richard, Lisa, … Continue reading Melis & Wiebke join Berlin School of Mind & Brain
Our event at Brain Awareness Week
Together with Science of Intelligence, we are participating in the Brain Awareness Week! Brain Awareness Week is a global campaign to spark public interest in brain research. In that context, we want to share some of our enthusiasm about (arguably) the human brain’s most important sense: vision. If you have ever wondered how we perceive … Continue reading Our event at Brain Awareness Week
In press: New paper on perceptual grouping during pre-saccadic attention
What is the unit of pre-saccadic selection: A location that is spatially confined to the target of an upcoming eye movement, or an extended object – the one that an observer is aiming to inspect by directing her gaze towards it? We teamed up with Arezoo Pooresmaeili at the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen to study … Continue reading In press: New paper on perceptual grouping during pre-saccadic attention
Welcome to Melis & five new student RAs
The second PhD student in the ERC project “How visual actions shape active vision (VIS-Á-VIS)” arrived. Melis Ince just started to work on her dissertation project on object continuity. Welcome! We also welcome five new student research assistants who join the lab after a long hiring process. Welcome to the team, Amelie von Werder, Annick Langlois, … Continue reading Welcome to Melis & five new student RAs
In press: New paper on how visual sensitivity reshapes at saccade targets
How does the preparation of an eye movement alter the shape of a broad sensitivity profile at the eye movement target? And how does this affect sensitivities to single spatial frequencies on the profile? In a new paper, to appear in Cortex, we set out to provide a holistic description of pre-saccadic sensitivity modulations by … Continue reading In press: New paper on how visual sensitivity reshapes at saccade targets
ERC Consolidator project ‘VIS-Á-VIS’ starts — welcome to Wiebke and Lukasz!
With the beginning of this year, we started an exciting new project called “How visual actions shape active vision”, and like all European projects it goes by an acronym: VIS-Á-VIS. It is a five-year project funded through an ERC Consolidator Grant, awarded to Martin by the European Research Council. So far, we have hired two postdocs and … Continue reading ERC Consolidator project ‘VIS-Á-VIS’ starts — welcome to Wiebke and Lukasz!
Out now: New paper on temporal reference frames in visual working memory
We are happy to announce Anna's first paper coming out of her work on temporal reference frames in visual working memory, which has just appeared in Cognition. Heuer, A. & Rolfs, M. (2021). Incidental encoding of visual information in temporal reference frames in working memory. Cognition, 207:104526, 1-9. [pdf] Spatial and temporal properties structure our visual experience, but our … Continue reading Out now: New paper on temporal reference frames in visual working memory
We joined the new PsychToolbox community
The lab has relied on PsychToolbox from the start and we have often reached out to the main developer, Mario Kleiner, for additional functionality and received exceptional support. PsychToolbox is certainly one of the most valuable services to the vision science community. After years of discussions and uncertainty of how it could be made sustainable, … Continue reading We joined the new PsychToolbox community
Julius wins Humboldt prize for his Master’s thesis
Julius Krumbiegel was awarded the Humboldt Prize 2020 for his Master’s thesis “Evidence for efference copies from combined eye-head gaze shifts”, an award that recognizing exceptional academic work by students. Congratulations for this outstanding and well-deserved achievement! In his work, Julius investigated the ability of human observers to maintain a sense of spatial locations in … Continue reading Julius wins Humboldt prize for his Master’s thesis
