On Thursday, 5 November 2026, Martin and Nina Hanning take the Berlin Brains lecture series into the dome of the Zeiss-Großplanetarium. Their talk, “Zwischen den Blicken – Die verborgene Dynamik des Sehens”, covers what happens to perception every time we move our eyes. Attention shifts to the next target before the eyes arrive, and the … Continue reading Berlin Brains at the Planetarium: a live experiment on seeing between saccades
On Wednesday, October 28, at 16:00 CET (12:00 in São Paulo), we host the second talk in our Visual Sparks series. Luan Zimmermann Bortoluzzi, a PhD student in the Active Vision Lab at the University of São Paulo, will present “Visual processing of object features during oculomotor programming.” Before a saccade, attention shifts to the intended target … Continue reading Visual Sparks No. 02: Luan Zimmermann Bortoluzzi on object features and saccade programming
On Friday, 6 November 2026, Julie Ouerfelli-Éthier, Ole Hall, and Martin bring eye tracking to the Humboldt-Bibliothek in Berlin-Reinickendorf (Karolinenstr. 19) as part of Berlin Science Week. Between 13:00 and 18:00, visitors can try an eye tracker themselves. Short presentations and live demonstrations show how vision, attention, and behaviour work together, and what our eye … Continue reading Berlin Science Week: try eye tracking at the Humboldt-Bibliothek
On 23 September, we launched Visual Sparks, a new virtual talk series that gives early-career researchers a platform to present new work in active vision science. Our first speaker was Merve Erdogan (Perception & Cognition Lab, Yale University). She spoke about “Visual Cognition on the Move: From Biological Motion to Intuitive Physics in ‘Point-Light’ Scenes.” … Continue reading Visual Sparks kicks off: Merve Erdogan on biological motion and intuitive physics
On 18 September 2026, Martin joined the panel discussion accompanying Autonomes Stehen, an art installation in Berlin-Schöneberg that lets parked cars from the 1980s and today occupy a residential street for the length of the project. In a conversation moderated by Nele Peschel and Luca Raschke, he brought a vision scientist's perspective to a question local … Continue reading Autonomous standing: Martin on panel on parked cars and pedestrian perception
We are delighted to celebrate Wiebke Nörenberg successfully defending her PhD thesis! Wiebke has left a lasting mark on our entire lab. We have greatly enjoyed the discussions she sparked and have benefited time and again from her sharp, critical thinking. We will miss having her around, but we are very proud of all she … Continue reading Congratulations, Dr. Wiebke Nörenberg!
Our paper Predictive foveal processing in active vision is out in the 12th volume of Annual Review of Vision Science! In this review, we walk through psychophysics and neuroimaging studies showing that before the eyes even move, foveal vision is shaped by predictions of what information will arrive there in the next fixation. We lay … Continue reading New paper in Annual Review of Vision Science: Predictive foveal processing in active vision
We revamped our publication page, adding icons for resources next to each paper. The page now updates automatically, allowing immediate access to materials and ongoing updates for older works.
As part of an outreach event for fellows of the Humboldt Foundation, we recently hosted a lab tour titled "Perception through Action: How Vision Works in the Active Observer." Following a welcome address by Martin, guests explored a series of interactive demonstrations showcasing current research on active vision and the relationship between perception, cognition, and … Continue reading Perception through Action: Humboldt fellows visit the Rolfslab
At the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, our lab hosted "Schau mir in die Augen: Einblicke in die visuelle Wahrnehmung" an interactive journey into visual perception.Through visual illusions, eye-tracking demos, gaze-controlled games, and interactive perception experiments, visitors experienced firsthand how the brain interprets and interacts with the visual world. It was fantastic to see curious visitors … Continue reading A Night of Vision Science at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
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