Book review on “How attention works”

Lisa and Martin have had the pleasure of reviewing Stefan van der Stigchel’s book “How Attention Works: Finding Your Way in a World of Distraction” (MIT Press). Check out their review here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/peca/49/7

Apply now for Postdoc and PhD positions in ERC project

Applications are now closed. We have openings for 2 postdoc and 2 PhD positions to work on an exciting new project called "How visual actions shape active vision (VIS-Á-VIS)". It is a five-year project funded through an ERC Consolidator Grant, awarded to Martin by the European Research Council. The project will start in September 2020, … Continue reading Apply now for Postdoc and PhD positions in ERC project

Virtual-VSS Poster: The peripheral sensitivity profile reshapes during saccade preparation

Come see Lisa Kroell's poster presentation on how the peripheral sensitivity profile reshapes during saccade preparation. If you are registered for V-VSS, the poster is here. Lisa scheduled three Zoom sessions: 20 June, 8am EST (2pm CET) - View Presenter Conference23 June, 2pm EST (8pm CET) - View Presenter Conference24 June, 5am EST (11:00 CET) - View Presenter … Continue reading Virtual-VSS Poster: The peripheral sensitivity profile reshapes during saccade preparation

New review on working memory and action

Anna, Sven and Martin have published a review on how actions planned and generated during memory maintenance select content in visual memory. Get one of the 50 free copies: https://bit.ly/3c1FZCj. Thanks to Stefan van der Stigchel and Chris Olivers for organizing this special issue!

Deadline extended: Special issue on Trans-saccadic perception in Journal of Vision

The deadline for Journal of Vision's Special Issue accompanying the workshop "From Peripheral to Transsaccadic and Foveal Perception" (which took place in Rauischholzhausen Castle, Germany, August 14th - 16th, 2019) has just been extended to August 1, 2020. Submissions to the special issue are open to anyone in the field (not just participants of the … Continue reading Deadline extended: Special issue on Trans-saccadic perception in Journal of Vision

Welcome to Kai, Yiğit, and Susie

Our team is now complete for the upcoming semester. We warmly welcome Kai Standvoß, a PhD fellow of the Einstein Center Neurosciences, to his lab rotation and Yiğit Erigüç who will do an internship on intra-saccadic vision. And of course, welcome back Susie Bryan who is going to tackle her master's thesis.

Adu and Anna join the lab

A warm welcome to Adu Matory and Anna Melkonyan, who join us during their lab rotation. Both are studying at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and we are very much looking forward to having them in the lab.