New book chapter out: Definition, Modeling, and Detection of Saccades in the Face of Post-saccadic Oscillations

We are pleased to announce the release of a new book chapter entitled "Definition, Modeling, and Detection of Saccades in the Face of Post-saccadic Oscillations" written by Richard and Martin. The chapter has been published in the book "Eye Tracking: Background, Methods, and Applications" (Editor: Sam Stuart), by Springer Nature. Congratulations to Richard and Martin on … Continue reading New book chapter out: Definition, Modeling, and Detection of Saccades in the Face of Post-saccadic Oscillations

Two dissertation awards for Richard Schweitzer

Richard Schweitzer defended his PhD thesis "Perceptual and Motor Consequences of Intra-saccadic Perception" in the lab on November 3, 2020 (see post here). We now received news from that his work has been awarded two dissertation prizes. The first award is the Humboldt-Prize 2021, an annual prize honoring excellent scientific work young scientists at Humboldt-Universität … Continue reading Two dissertation awards for Richard Schweitzer

In press: Oculomotor freezing indicates conscious detection free of decision bias

The same visual stimulus can sometimes reach awareness, while other times it does not. To understand why, we need objective, bias-free measures of awareness. We had previously discovered that a reflexive freezing of small eye movements indicates when an observer detects a stimulus (see White & Rolfs, 2016). In a new set of experiments that … Continue reading In press: Oculomotor freezing indicates conscious detection free of decision bias

Press coverage on Science Advances paper

Our recent paper in Intra-saccadic motion streaks jump-start gaze correction (2021, Science Advances), revealing a possible functional role of intra-saccadic motion streaks received some peer commentary and media coverage. Here's a summary of that: Perspective in Science Advances: Fabius, J. H. & van der Stigchel, S. (2021). Vision while the eyes move: Getting the full … Continue reading Press coverage on Science Advances paper

A direct comparison of attentional orienting to spatial and temporal positions in visual working memory

We are thrilled to announce the publication of Anna's new paper "A direct comparison of attentional orienting to spatial and temporal positions in visual working memory". Her findings illustrate the functional equivalence of space and time in VWM by demonstrating how spatial and temporal features may be used equally well to dynamically prioritize representations held … Continue reading A direct comparison of attentional orienting to spatial and temporal positions in visual working memory

In press: Intra-saccadic motion streaks jump-start gaze correction

How do human observers establish object correspondence when the objects rapidly change locations on the retina with each saccade? There is strong evidence that the visual system encodes pre-saccadic object features in visual short-term memory, which are subsequently matched to the post-saccadic retinal image. In a new paper, to appear in Science Advances, we provide evidence … Continue reading In press: Intra-saccadic motion streaks jump-start gaze correction

Our 8+1 contributions to virtual VSS 2021

This years VSS was virtual, but that did not keep us from submitting our most recent work. We created a Twitter thread explaining our 8 scientific contributions (1 talk by Lisa Kroell and 7 posters by ): https://twitter.com/rolfslab/status/1394300169286467589?s=20 The final contribution to the conference was virtual Club Vision — the conference's legendary dance party that … Continue reading Our 8+1 contributions to virtual VSS 2021