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Colloquium talks in past semesters

WiSe 2023/24

Date Speaker Title
 
 
18. October

 

Antje Nuthmann

Kiel

 
 

Missing things, seeing weapons: Exploring eye movements helps understand visual attention

 
25. October

 

Maria Olkkonen

Microsoft Finland

 

Vision science in Mixed Reality: opportunities and challenges

 

01. November

 

 

Yoni Pertzov

Jerusalem

 

Individual differences in eye movements, from causes to potential consequences

 
08. November

 

Jan Koenderink

Utrecht

 

Color in the wild

 
15. November

 

Peter König

Osnabrück

 

Embodied cognition

 
22. November

 

Jorge Almeida

Coimbra

 

Contentopic mapping and object dimensionality – a novel understanding on the organization of object knowledge

 
29. November

 

Jennifer Randerath

Konstanz

 

To do or not to do - affordance judgments in older participants and stroke patients

 
06. December

 

Marc Ernst

Ulm

 

Development of multisensory perception for action after sight restoration from congenital cataracts

 
13. December

 

Sylvia Pont

Delft

 

Formgiving and light

 

17. January

 

 

Michael Herzog

EPFL, Lausanne

 

Spatio-temporal crowding and the fundamentals of vision

 

24. January

 

Isabelle Mareschal

Queen Mary, London

 

Facial emotion perception

 

31. January

 

Heleen Slagter

Amsterdam

 

Attention and distraction in the predictive brain

 

SoSe 2023

Date Speaker Title
12. April

Jesús Malo

Valencia

Artificial psychophysics with Deep Neural Networks

19. April

Doug Crawford

York University, Canada

Integration of egocentric and allocentric cues for gaze in prefrontal cortex

26. April

Paola Binda

Pisa

Visual perception through the eye-pupil
03. May

Roland Bennewitz

Saarbrücken

The psychophysics of friction in touch

31. May

Stefan Schweinberger

Jena

Face and voice perception for social interaction: Tools for basic science and intervention

07. June

David Pitcher

York University, UK

Evidence for a third visual pathway specialized for social perception

14. June

Nina Hanning

New York/Berlin

Presaccadic attention

21. June

Liuba Papeo

Lyon

Visual mechanisms and visual brain networks to represent social relationship
28. June

Marisa Nordt

Aachen

Cortical recycling in high-level visual cortex during childhood development

12. July

Richard Aslin

Hawkins laboratories, Yale

Koffka award lecture: The role of learning, memory, and attention in perceptual development

13. July

Alexander Gail

DPZ, Göttingen

Action goals beyond immediate reach – neurophysiology of unconstrained movements

WiSe 2022/23

 

Date Speaker Title
19. October

 Angela Yu

 UCSD, TU Darmstadt

Computational models for visual perception

 

25. October

 Erich Schröger

 Leipzig

Generative mental models of hearing

26. October

 Vassilia Hatzitaki

 Thessaloniki

Postural tracking of predictable and complex visual motion cues: Implications for visuomotor learning

01. November
 

 Monika Harvey

 Glasgow

Spatial attention changes across the lifespan

02. November

 Bevil Conway

 NIH, Bethesda

Principles of Neuroscience in Color
08. November
 
 

 Jeannette Bohg

 Stanford

The challenges of robot learning for manipulation of deformables
09. November

 

 

 Dimitris Mylonas

 Northeastern Univ London

Augmenting colour communication within and across languages
09. November
 

 Joy Geng

 UC Davis

Rethinking the target template in visual search: the role of learned expectations

16. November

 Claudia Lunghi

 ENS Paris 

Neuroplasticity, and the search for better vision

22. November
 

 Neil Burgess

 London

 

Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Memory and Navigation

23. November

 Pascal Mamassian

 ENS Paris

Confidence and aesthetics judgments in visual perception
29. November
 

 Vera Schlüssel

 Bonn

 

Orientation strategies and spatial memory in sharks and stingrays

30. November

 Kristine Krug

 Magdeburg

 

Probing the neural processes that underlie perceptual decisions by primates

14. December

 Jolande Fooken

 Queens Univ

 

Acting while perceiving: Adaptive eye-hand coordination in multi-tasking
11. January

 Thomas Wallis

 Darmstadt

 

Scene understanding and scene appearance

16. January
 

 Philipp Sterzer

 Charite, Berlin

 

The predictive coding account of psychosis

17. January
 

 Daniel Lakens

 Eindhoven

 

Proving Yourself Wrong: How to Design Informative Studies

18. January
 

 Nico Bunzeck

 Lübeck

 

Novelty processing and the effects of learning across the lifespan
24. January
 

 Craig Chapman

 Edmonton

 

Gaze and Movement Analysis (GaMA) in Real and Virtual Worlds

25. January

 Jolyon Troscianko

 Exeter

 

Using online gaming experiments to study camouflage
01. February

 Sharon Gilaie-Dotan

 Bar Ilan

 

Physical stimulus dimensions, memory and memorability during naturalistic encoding
07. February
 

 Joo-Hyun Song

 Providence

 

How does action training affect perception and cognition?

08. February

 

 Anke Huckauf

 Ulm

 

What Gaze tells us: perceptual, cognitive, and social functions
08. February
 

 Eckart Zimmermann

 Düsseldorf

 

How action trains perception

 

SoSe 2022

Date Speaker Title

19. April

Betina Korka

Magdeburg

Action intention and sensorial regularities represent distinctive prediction sources for a common mechanism. Evidence from the auditory domain.

27. April

Loes van Dam

Darmstadt

Interactions between vision and motor control

03. May

Jeannette Bohg

Stanford

The challenges of robot learning for manipulation of deformables

04. May

Hans Op de Beeck

KU Leuven

Seeing monsters in the dark: A computational & neuroscientific understanding

10. May

Simon Rushton

Cardiff

Why are we sensitive to optic flow?

31. May

 

Richard Wilkie

Leeds

Steering the drive towards automation: investigating control transitions

09. June

Sam Schwarzkopf

Auckland

Blind spot: pRF mapping and neural correlates of perceptual filling in

14. June

Ewa Niechwiej-Swedo

Waterloo

Role of binocularity in the development and performance of prehension

15. June

Marius Peelen

Nijmegen

Neural mechanisms underlying the efficiency of naturalistic vision

21. June

Florian Waszak

Paris

Intention-based and sensory-based predictions

22. June

Edward Vessel

Frankfurt

From 'What we see' to 'What we like': an interactionist account of aesthetic appeal

12. July

Ruth Rosenholtz

MIT

My year of banning attention

13. July

Ted Adelson

MIT

Koffka award lecture

WiSe 2021/22

Date Speaker Title

01. November

Daniel Kaiser

Gießen

Vision in a structured world

03. November

Rosanne Rademaker

Frankfurt ESI

Working memory relies on flexible coding formats and cortical locations

10. November

Eckart Zimmermann

Düsseldorf

The motor representation of perceptual space and time

16. November

Jakub Limanowski

Dresden

Precision control for flexible body representation

17. November

Mike Webster

Reno

Calibrating vision

23. November

Caroline Robertson

Dartmouth College

Active Vision in Immersive, Real-World Environments

24. November

Michael Arcaro

U Penn

How IT cortex gets its spots

01. December

Patrick Mayo

Pittsburgh

Cortical sensitivity to speed changes during pursuit and fixation

06. December

Karl Friston

London

Me and my Markov blanket

07. December

Gavin Buckingham

Exeter

Grasping the virtual world

08. December

Peggy Series

Edinburgh

Are Schizophrenia and Autism disorders of prediction?

14. December

Jordan Taylor

Princeton

Visuomotor learning

15. December

Eileen Kowler

Rutgers

The role of high- and low-level factors in smooth pursuit of predictable and random motions

12. January

Jella Pfeiffer

Gießen

Virtual Reality, eye movements and consumer choice

18. January

Opher Donchin

Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Facts and speculation on the components of motor adaptation

19. January

Gemma Roig

Frankfurt

DNN models in vision science

24. January

Sonja Hofer

London

Inhibitory circuits in sensory processing and behavior

25. January

Alaa Ahmed

Boulder

A unifying framework for decision making and movement control

26. January

Miguel Eckstein

Santa Barbara

Eye movement Control during Gaze-Following: The Strange Case of Reverse Saccades

31. January

Yulia Oganian

Tübingen

Encoding and decoding of speech sounds using direct neural recordings from human auditory cortex

08. February

Ladan Shams

UCLA

Multisensory perception, memory, and learning

09. February

Nancy Carlisle

Lehigh

Examining attentional control

15. February

Paul Cisek

Montreal

The neural mechanisms of real-time decisions

 

SoSe 2021

 

Date Speaker Title

14. April

Tim Kietzmann

Nijmegen

Deep recurrent neural networks as a modelling framework for understanding the dynamic computations of human vision

21. April

Fulvio Domini

Providence

A deterministic approach to 3D vision

28. April

Bevil Conway

N.I.H., Bethesda

Beyond the rainbow: color encoding and decoding

04. May

Chiara Turati

Milano-Bicocca

Action and emotion understanding in infancy and early childhood

05. May

Michele Rucci

Rochester

Active space-time encoding: the indissoluble link between vision and action

12. May

Josh McDermott

MIT

New Models of Human Audition via Machine Learning

18. May

Andreas Kalckert

Skövde

Ownership, Agency, and the body – a conceptual clarification

19. May

Clare Press

Birkbeck

Perceptual prediction: How do we render our experiences both veridical and informative?

01. June

Judy Ford

San Francisco

Predictive mechanisms in Schizophrenia

02. June

Jörn Diedrichsen

London, Canada

Where cognition and motor control meet: The organization of complex sequential action

08. June

Luc Tremblay

Toronto

Can multisensory integration research close the “loop” with sensorimotor control models and their practical applications?

09. June

Ichiro Kuriki

Saitama, Japan

Representation of color in the human brain

16. June

Nancy Kanwisher

MIT

The functional and computational architecture of the human brain and mind

23. June

Paul Bays

Cambridge

Computational principles of visual integration

29. June

Olaf Dimigen

Berlin

Electrophysiology in Active Vision

30. June

Birte Forstmann

Amsterdam

Strategic decision-making: A model-based cognitive neuroscience approach

06. July

Felix Blankenburg

Berlin

From Tactile Sensation to Action – an Attempt to Close the Loop

07. July

Linda Smith

Bloomington

Visual learning: Babies, bodies, and (implications for) machines

14. July

Stephanie Rossit

Norwich

Brains, Actions and Objects - from neuropsychology to neuroscience and back

 

WiSe 2020/21

 

Date Speaker Title

10. November

Irene Sperandio

Trento

Behavioural and neural correlates of size constancy

11. November

Isamu Motoyoshi

Tokyo

Analysis and utilization of texture information in the human visual system

24. November

Klaus Gramann

TU Berlin

Mobile Brain/Body Imaging to investigate natural spatial cognition

25. November

Mike Landy

New York

Multisensory cue integration and recalibration

1. December

Andrea Kiesel

Freiburg

Self-organized task scheduling when multitasking

2. December

Derek Arnold

Brisbane

An observer model of tilt perception and confidence

9. December

Shin'ya Nishida

Kyoto University

Towards deeper understanding of material perception

15. December

Birgit Nierula

MPI Leipzig

Body ownership and agency in immersive virtual environments

16. December

Reuben Rideaux

Cambridge

Exploring and explaining motion perception using artificial networks

13. January

Martin Hebart

Leipzig

Revealing the multidimensional representation of objects in behavior and language

20. January

Katharina Dobs

Giessen

The functional and computational architecture of face processing in visual cortex

27. January

Jenny Bosten

Sussex

Individual and group differences in colour perception

3. February

Werner Schneider

Bielefeld

Cognitive behavior of humans and animals: Introducing a situation model framework

9. February

Konstantina Kilteni

Karolinska Institute

Behavioral and neural mechanisms of somatosensory attenuation

10. February

Javier Vazquez-Corral

Barcelona

Perceptually-based gamut mapping

17. February

Yee Lee Shing

Frankfurt

Memory development across the lifespan

 

SoSe 2021

 

Date Speaker Title

14. April

Tim Kietzmann

Nijmegen

Deep recurrent neural networks as a modelling framework for understanding the dynamic computations of human vision

21. April

Fulvio Domini

Providence

A deterministic approach to 3D vision

28. April

Bevil Conway

N.I.H., Bethesda

Beyond the rainbow: color encoding and decoding

04. May

Chiara Turati

Milano-Bicocca

Action and emotion understanding in infancy and early childhood

05. May

Michele Rucci

Rochester

Active space-time encoding: the indissoluble link between vision and action

12. May

Josh McDermott

MIT

New Models of Human Audition via Machine Learning

18. May

Andreas Kalckert

Skövde

Ownership, Agency, and the body – a conceptual clarification

19. May

Clare Press

Birkbeck

Perceptual prediction: How do we render our experiences both veridical and informative?

01. June

Judy Ford

San Francisco

Predictive mechanisms in Schizophrenia

02. June

Jörn Diedrichsen

London, Canada

Where cognition and motor control meet: The organization of complex sequential action

08. June

Luc Tremblay

Toronto

Can multisensory integration research close the “loop” with sensorimotor control models and their practical applications?

09. June

Ichiro Kuriki

Saitama, Japan

Representation of color in the human brain

16. June

Nancy Kanwisher

MIT

The functional and computational architecture of the human brain and mind

23. June

Paul Bays

Cambridge

Computational principles of visual integration

29. June

Olaf Dimigen

Berlin

Electrophysiology in Active Vision

30. June

Birte Forstmann

Amsterdam

Strategic decision-making: A model-based cognitive neuroscience approach

06. July

Felix Blankenburg

Berlin

From Tactile Sensation to Action – an Attempt to Close the Loop

07. July

Linda Smith

Bloomington

Visual learning: Babies, bodies, and (implications for) machines

14. July

Stephanie Rossit

Norwich

Brains, Actions and Objects - from neuropsychology to neuroscience and back

 

WiSe 2020/21

 

Date Speaker Title

10. November

Irene Sperandio

Trento

Behavioural and neural correlates of size constancy

11. November

Isamu Motoyoshi

Tokyo

Analysis and utilization of texture information in the human visual system

24. November

Klaus Gramann

TU Berlin

Mobile Brain/Body Imaging to investigate natural spatial cognition

25. November

Mike Landy

New York

Multisensory cue integration and recalibration

1. December

Andrea Kiesel

Freiburg

Self-organized task scheduling when multitasking

2. December

Derek Arnold

Brisbane

An observer model of tilt perception and confidence

9. December

Shin'ya Nishida

Kyoto University

Towards deeper understanding of material perception

15. December

Birgit Nierula

MPI Leipzig

Body ownership and agency in immersive virtual environments

16. December

Reuben Rideaux

Cambridge

Exploring and explaining motion perception using artificial networks

13. January

Martin Hebart

Leipzig

Revealing the multidimensional representation of objects in behavior and language

20. January

Katharina Dobs

Giessen

The functional and computational architecture of face processing in visual cortex

27. January

Jenny Bosten

Sussex

Individual and group differences in colour perception

3. February

Werner Schneider

Bielefeld

Cognitive behavior of humans and animals: Introducing a situation model framework

9. February

Konstantina Kilteni

Karolinska Institute

Behavioral and neural mechanisms of somatosensory attenuation

10. February

Javier Vazquez-Corral

Barcelona

Perceptually-based gamut mapping

17. February

Yee Lee Shing

Frankfurt

Memory development across the lifespan

 

SoSe 2020

Date Speaker Title

29. April

4 pm

Andrew B. Watson

Apple

The pyramid of visibility

6. May

10 am

Andrew Parker

Oxford

How populations of neurons encode changes in the sensory stimulus: a study in depth

13. May

4 pm

Laurence Maloney

New York

The bounded rationality of probability distortion

20. May

10 am

Martin Szinte

Marseille

Premotor theory of attention or pre-attentional theory of motor preparation?

3. June

10 am

Maria Olkkonen

Helsinki/Durham

Learning object colors

10. June

4 pm

Miriam Spering

Vancouver

Eye movements as sensitive readout of decision making

17. June

10 am

Bart Anderson

Sydney

The ill-posed problems caused by construing perception as solving ill-posed problems: Conceptual paradoxes and resolutions

1. July

10 am

Robert Geirhos

Tübingen

Neural Networks love to cheat: shortcut learning in deep learning and beyond

8. July

10 am

Martin Rolfs

HU Berlin

Active visual perception and cognition

 

WiSe 2019/20

 

Date Speaker Title
23. October

Simon Rushton
Cardiff

Why are we sensitive to optic flow?

30. October Gabriel Diaz
RIT, Rochester, USA

Perception and action in Virtual Reality

13. November Michael Barnett-Cowan
Waterloo, CA

Multisensory integration in real and virtual environments

19. November Martin Lotze
Greifswald
Functional representation of long-term motor training in healthy individuals and after cerebral stroke
20. November
Andreas Wutz
Salzburg

Alpha oscillations: A temporal event structure for visual perception

27. November

Birte Forstmann

Amsterdam

Strategic decision-making: A model-based cognitive neuroscience approach

3. December

Daniel Senkowski
Charité, Berlin

The role of neural oscillations for multisensory processing in healthy individuals and people with schizophrenia

4. December

Claudio Guarnera

NTNU Norway

Computer vision for facial appearance acquisition: digital trickery for movie making

11. December

Michael Dimitriou

Umea

A third dimension in sensorimotor control

17. December

 

Hermann Müller
Gießen

Neural Correlates of Predictive Error Perception

15. January

Matthias Gamer

Würzburg

Mechanisms of social attention

22. January

Alberto Testolin

Padua

Unsupervised deep learning models of visual perception

28. January

Lars Meyer

MPI, Leipzig

The role of slow-frequency neural oscillations in language comprehension

29. January

Rochelle Ackerley

CNRS Marseille

Exploring touch in humans: how single afferents contribute to complex sensations

5. February

Stephanie Rossit

Norwich

Brains, Actions and Objects - from neuropsychology to neuroscience and back

12.February

Bozana Meinhardt-Injac

Mainz

Age-related changes in perception and recognition of social signals from faces: behavioural and virtual reality studies

 

SoSe 2019

 

Date Speaker Title
17. April

Huseyin Boyaci

Bilkent/Giessen

Effect of expectations on perceptual thresholds

24. April

 

Alex Wade

York

Seeing motion in depth

7. May

Paul Sauseng

Munich

The role of oscillatory brain activity for executive functions

8. May

 

Lewis Griffin

UC London

Colour: Statistics, Categories & Geometry
29. May

Jochem Rieger

Oldenburg

Attacking an old question with new tricks: Constructing models of perception with data driven statistical learning

5. June

Árni Kristjánsson

University of Iceland

How studies of human visual foraging can inform our conceptions of attention and working memory

12. June

 

Anna Montagnini

CNRS Marseille

Smooth pursuit eye movements as dynamic readout of sensory, motivational and inferential processing across different populations

19. June

 

Barry Lee

SUNY New York

The primate visual pathway and color vision

26. June

Daniel Kersten

Minnessota

KOFFKA AWARD LECTURE

2. July

Amelia Hunt

Aberdeen

Capacity limits in visual processing

10. July

James Ferwerda

RIT Rochester

Visual models for realistic imaging

17. July

Katinka van der Kooij
Amsterdam

The role of reward in shaping and motivating motor behavior

 

WiSe 2018/19

 

Date Speaker Title
17. October

Matthias Kümmerer
Tübingen

Saliency prediction in deep neural networks

24. October Manuel Spitschan
Oxford

Light and color in the non-image forming visual system

31. October Laurent Goffart
Marseille
Neural processes underlying the accurate foveation and tracking of a visual target
6. November Giacomo Novembre
London
Rethinking saliency: from perception to (re)action
7. November
Jan Philipp Röer
Witten

Irrelevant auditory information: What can be ignored and what can’t

13. November

Thomas Wolbers              Magdeburg

Spatial Navigation - a unique window into mechanisms of aging and dementia
14. November Dana Ballard

Austin

In large scale movements with a common goal humans use common postures

21. November

Sanjay Manohar
Oxford

Reward and the cost of noise reduction in cognitive and motor control

5. December

Ruth Rosenholtz
MIT

Capacity limits in visual processing

19. December
Arezoo  Pooresmaeili         Göttingen

The impact of reward value on sensory perception and action planning

16. January

 

Simon Rushton
Cardiff

Why are we sensitive to optic flow?

23. January Cristina de la  Malla
Barcelona

Eye-hand coordination in interception

30. January Meike Ramon
Fribourg

Super-recognizers in criminal investigation – hype or hope?

6. February

Wilfried Kunde
Würzburg

Effect-based action control

13. February Floris de Lange
Nijmegen

Brain signals for prediction in perception and cognition

SoSe 2018

 

Date Speaker Title
11. April

Dorothea Hämmerer
London

Age differences in noradrenergic brain structures

17. April

Markus Lappe

Münster

Saccadic adaptation and visual perception

18. April Jean Vroomen
Tilburg
Maintaining coherence between the senses
25. April
Daniel Oberfeld
Mainz

Sensory and cognitive aspects of auditory perception: Loudness of time-varying sounds and individual differences in cocktail-party listening

02. May

Hannes Saal

Sheffield

Multiple parallel pathways in the neural coding of touch: from periphery to cortex

14. May Jasna Martinovic
Aberdeen

Cortical summation and attentional modulation of combined chromatic and luminance signals

15. May

Clare Press
London

The influence of action predictions on perception: Contrasting facilitation and cancellation models

12. June

 

Katja Mombaur

Leuven

Optimal control of humanoid motion

20. June

Nick Scott-Samuel

Bristol

Camouflage research: what we know, and what we’d like to know

04. July

 

Hendrikje Nienborg

Tübingen

Visual processing for context dependent perceptual decisions

10. July

Jeroen Smeets

Amsterdam

Synergies in grasping

WiSe 2017/18

 

Date Speaker Title
25. October

Barbara Händel
Würzburg

Brain and body rhythms: on the relationship between movement and percept

01. November Andrew Glennerster
Reading
Coordinate frames for 3D vision in moving observers
08. November Anna Franklin
Sussex
Colour categories and their origins
16. November Alice O'Toole
Dallas
Human perception and memory for faces
22. November
Maarten Wijntjes
Delft

Material perception in unnatural images

28. November

Daniel Smith
Durham
What is the role of the oculomotor system in covert spatial attention?
29. November Ruth Krebs
Ghent
Motivational influences on human cognition and behaviour

6. December

Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry
Leuven

How the brain copes with aging: the case of visuomotor adaptation

13. December

Constanze Hesse
Aberdeen

Vision and cognition in action control: Recent studies on obstacle avoidance and optimal decision making during reaching

20. December
Nicolas Rothen
Bern

On the links between perception and memory

10. January

 

Felix Wichmann
Tübingen
Object recognition in man and convolutional deep neural networks
16. January

Matthias Bethge

Tübingen

Visual abstraction in brains and machines

23. January

Anthony Atkinson

Durham

Effective Connectivity Between Nodes of the Action Observation Network Supports Understanding of Emotional Actions

31. January

Erhan Genc

Ben Gurion Bochum

Anatomical signature of general knowledge and fluid intelligence

6. February

Mathias Hegele

Gießen

The Aging Mind in Small Motion: A window into age-related changes in sensorimotor learning
7. February

Rob van Lier

Nijmegen

Illusory Vision: Filling in Color and Form

SoSe 2017

 

Date Speaker Title
19. April

Gary Lupyan
Madison, Wisconsin

Top-down effects of language on perception

25. April

Matthias Müller
Leipzig

Neural dynamics of spatial and feature-based attention in early visual cortex of the human brain

03. May Pierre Jolicoeur
Montreal
The cognitive neuroscience of spatial attention
31. May
Christoph Teufel
Cardiff

The role of visual top-down processing
in feature extraction

06. June

Andrea Desantis
Paris

How action structures perception:
the influence of action-outcome prediction on the perception of sensory events

14. June David Foster
Manchester

Colour vision in the wild

21. June

Mel Goodale
London, Ca

How big is that box?
Differences in size constancy for
perception and action

28. June

 

Jan Koenderink
Leuven

Koffka Award Lecture

12. July Bilge Sayim
Bern

Crowding and appearance in peripheral vision

17. July

 

Ulrich Ettinger

Bonn

The dopamine transporter: From molecular imaging and pharmacology to cognition and clinical symptoms

WiSe 2016/17

 

Date Speaker Title
11. October

Takeo Watanabe &
Yuka Sasaki
Brown

Roles of attention and reward in perceptual learning

19. October Bart Anderson
Sydney
Coupled computations of shape, illumination, and material
26. October Jan Koenderink
Utrecht/Giessen
Brentano's Plerosis: Points, lines & edges
2. November Maria Olkkonen
Durham

Color memory and color constancy

9. November
Niko Troje
Kingston

Perception of dynamics in human action: kinematics and body shape

22. November

Niko Busch
Münster
Alpha oscillations, excitability, and perceptual bias
30. November Matteo Lisi
Paris
Perceptual and saccadic localization of moving objects

7. December

Christian Frings
Trier

Distractors for a better life! Irrelevant information shapes action regulation

14. December

Andreas Bulling
Saarbrücken

Eye-based user modelling

11. Januar
Wolf Harmening
Bonn

Single cell psychophysics

17. January

 

Alessandro Moscatelli
Bielefeld
Combining tactile and hand motion: Constancy, priors and perceptual illusions
25. January

Laurent Madelain

Lille

Learning in the eye movement system

31. January

David Franklin

München

Feedforward and feedback learning
in sensorimotor control

1. February

Ilana Nisky

Ben Gurion University

Living in the past – how our brain copes with delayed information?

8. February

Daniel Braun

Tübingen

Biological information-processing principles for sensorimotor learning and decision-making

SoSe 2016

 

Date Speaker Title
13. April Flip Philips
Skidmore

Cortical reorganisation following sensory loss: Why?

20. April Elena Azanon
London
Touch, space and the body
27. April Lars Muckli
Glasgow
Visual Predictions in different layers of visual cortex
04. May Susann Fiedler
Bonn

Understanding prosociality through gaze behavior

10. May

 

Ivan Toni
Nijmegen

Communicative action

31. May

 

Natalie Sebanz
Budapest

How t(w)o act together: Planning, coordination,
and learning in joint action

01. June Fred Devinck
Rennes
Neural correlates of the watercolor effect
08. June Betty Mohler
Tübingen

Using Virtual Reality to study space and body perception

15. June

 

Alexander Logvinenko
Glasgow

Color spaces for lights, objects and transparent media

21. June

 

Ruffin van Rullen
Toulouse

Perceptual cycles and waves

22. June

 

Vincent Hayward
Paris

The physics of touch shapes the early stages of neural somatosensory processing

29. June

 

Andrew Meltzoff

Seattle

Koffka Award Lecture

05. July

 

Martin Eimer

London

Attention and working memory in touch and vision

06. July

Radoslaw Cichy

Berlin

Towards a spatio-temporally resolved and algorithmically explicit account of visual cognition

WiSe 2015/16

 

Date Speaker Title
14. October Cheryl Olman
Minessota
Does high-field, high-resolution fMRI offer any advantages for perception research?
21. October Jan Koenderink
Utrecht
Eidolons
28. October Anna Schubö
Marburg
Attentional control in visual search - beyond top down and bottom-up
04. November Dirk Kerzel
Genf

Attentional capture in perception and action

11. November Vebjörn Ekroll
Leuven

Understanding simultaneous colour contrast

18. November Jenny Read
Newcaslte

What neural signal underlies human stereoscopic depth perception?

19. November

Patrick Haggard
London
Multisensory interactions and bodily self-awareness
25. November Sergio  Nascimento
Minho

Seeing colors in nature – what do we learn from spectral imaging

01. December

Michael Wiertlewski
Aix-Marseille

The role of friction in tactile rendering of natural scenes

09. December Annette Werner
Tübingen

Colour ambiguity: what have we learnt from #thedress?

16. December

Mark Wexler

Paris

Persistent states in vision

19. January

 

Bernhard Hommel

Leiden

The theory of event coding: Representing things, actions, and people

27. January

Bart Krekelberg

Rutgers

Transcranial current stimulation: Myths and mechanisms

03. February

Flavia Filimon

Berlin

Can allocentric spatial reference frames be explained using egocentric mechanisms?
10. February

Huseyin Boyaci

Bilkent

Lightness and its cortical correlates in context

16. February

 

Pieter Medendorp

Radboud

Multimodal processing in spatial constancy and motor planning

 

SoSe 2015

 

Date Speaker Title
15.April Jochen Braun
Magdeburg
Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity
22. April Bevil Conway
Wellesley
Processing of color, faces and shapes in monkey visual cortex
29. April Dejan Todorovic
Belgrade
How shape from contours affects shape from shading
06. Mai Joost Dessing
Belfast

Looking into the future; extrapolation for manual interception

27. Mai Claus Christian Carbon
Bamberg

Aesthetic dimensions of perception

03. Juni Baingio Pinna
Sassari, Italy

What is shape? New phenomena in the light of a new approach

17. Juni Arvid Herwig
Bielefeld
Predicting object features across saccades
24. Juni Anja Hurlbert
Newcastle

The Limits of Colour Constancy

30. Juni

 

Martin Rolfs
Berlin

Active visual memory: The impact of saccades beyond sensory stages of visual encoding

01. Juli Marc Guitart-Masip
Stockholm

Revisiting the role of dopamine in decision-making

01. Juli

 

Roland  Johansson
Umea

Koffka Award Lecture

08.Juli

 

Jean-Pierre  Bresciani

Fribourg

Perception and control of movement in virtual environments

14.Juli

 

Karl Friston

London

I am therefore I think

15. Juli

Michael Dorr

München

Visual efficient sensing for the perception-action loop

WiSe 2014/2015

Date Speaker Title
29. Oktober Marina Bloj
Bradford
Seeing and remembering colours
12. November Peter Neri
Aberdeen/Paris
Natural scene interpretation controls visual extraction of local image features
19. November Ana Radonjic
Philadelphia
Studying color constancy using natural tasks
26. November Marko Nardini
London/Durham

Learning and the organisation of brain mechanisms for sensory inference during childhood

03. Dezember David Souto
Leicester
Motion interpretation and physical context
21. Januar David Brainard
Philadelphia
Cortical population coding of surface lightness
28. Januar Brian White
Kingston
Visual coding in the superior colliculus: From simple stimuli to natural dynamic scenes
04. Februar Niko Troje
Kingston

Depth ambiguity and perceptual biases in biological motion perception

 

SoSe 2014

Date Speaker Title
16. April Nick Ross
Rutgers
Oculomotor behavior in dynamic scenes and
visuomotor tasks.
23. April Ben Eppinger
Dresden
Age-related changes in learning and decision-making
30. April Johan Wagemans
Leuven
Not all Gestalts are equal: The encoding of parts and wholes in the visual cortical hierarchy
7. May Rob Ennis
Giessen
The geometry of color space
28. May Roger Cholewiak
Princeton
Vibrotactile pattern perception: Effects of space, place, and age
11. June Joan López-Moliner
Barcelona
Uncertainty and prediction in timing tasks
18. June Niko Kriegeskorte
Cambridge
Object vision and population code representation
25. June Thérèse Collins
Paris
To remap or not to remap: Spatiotopy and oculomotor plasticity
14.July Elizabeth Spelke
Harvard
- Koffka award lecture -

 

 

WiSe 2013/2014

Date Speaker Title
23. October John Greenwood
London
The causes and correlates of individual differences in visual crowding
30. October Axel Kohler
Münster
The Individual Basis of Conscious Visual Perception
6. November  Zili Liu
UCLA
A Bayesian computational approach to understand a visual motion illusion
13. November  Eli Brenner
Amsterdam
Visual limitations in the timing of interception
27. November  Karin Pilz
Aberdeen
Age-related changes in visual motion perception
4. December  Stephen Engel
Minnesota
Long term visual adaptation measured with altered reality
11. December Tom Wallis
Tübingen
Sensitivity to gaze-contingent modifications of naturalistic movies
15. January Constantin Rothkopf
Darmstadt
Perception and action: from receptive fields to value functions
29. January Andrew Stockman
London
Using visible distortion to dissect visual pathways: a common pathway for color and brightness
5. February Andreas Bartels
Tübingen
Colour, motion, and predictive coding in the human brain
12. February Reinhold Kliegl
Potsdam
Eye movements during reading

 

 

SoSe 2013

Date Speaker Title
17. April Axel Lindner
Tübingen
Contributions of parietal and premotor cortex to prospective action planning and decision making as revealed by human fMRI
24. April Ian Thornton
Swansea
The Multi-Item Localization (MILO) task
25. April Sunčica Zdravković
Novi Sad
Relevant perceptual conditions and cognitive factors for lightness judgement
22. May Harold Bedell
Houston
Characteristics of foveal contour interaction and crowding
29. May Christoph Schiller
Darmstadt
Mesopic spectral sensitivity functions for the detection of objects

29. May Nils Haferkemper
Darmstadt
Spectral characteristics of the pupil diameter
5. June Erhardt Barth
Lübeck
Efficient visual representations
3. July Ben Kunsberg
Giessen/Yale
From Shading Flow to Surface in a Light Source Invariant Manner
10. July Steven Cholewiak
Giessen
The tipping point: Visual estimation of the physical stability of three-dimensional objects

WiSe 2012/2013

Date Speaker Title
17 October Richard Krauzlis
NIH Bethesda
Subcortical control of spatial attention
7 November Mary Hayhoe
Austin
Control of gaze and attention in the context of behavior
14 November Dana Ballard
Austin
Modeling gaze during driving
28 November Felix Wichmann
Tübingen
A neural population code model for human visual pattern detection
5 December Katja Dörschner
Bilkent
Motion, shape and surface material qualities
12 December Anna Montagnini
CNRS Marseille
On the adaptivity of human eye movements to the visual constraints and the task requirements
16 January Markus Janczyk
Würzburg
Action effects as a source of specific interference
23 January Thomas Schenk
Erlangen
What has motor control to do with cognition?
30 January Tandra Ghose
Kaiserslautern
Spatiotemporal interpolation: Perceiving objects that are not present in the stimulus
6 February Angelika Lingnau
Trento
The representation of actions in the human brain
13 February Aarlenne Khan
Kingston
Attention in action

SS 2012

Date Speaker Title
11 April Christoph Witzel
Giessen
Categorical perception of color
02 May Roland Fleming
Giessen
Towards a unified theory of 3D shape perception
23 May Matteo Toscani
Giessen
Lightness perception and eye movements
30 May Matteo Valsecchi
Giessen
Contributions of stereo information to the perception of natural scenes
05 June Stefan Everling
London, Canada
Neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of reflexive and voluntary saccades
13 June Bianca Wittmann
Giessen
Motivational modulation of long-term memory
20 June Alexander Schütz
Giessen
Look away - stimulus properties that repel fixation
27 June Jeroen Granzier
Giessen
The effects of different materials on color constancy
04 July Koffka Award Lecture  

WS 2011/12

Date Speaker Title
26 October Denis Pelli
New York
Visual sensitivity explained
02 November Frans Verstraten
Utrecht
Transparent motion makes adaptation transparent
08 November Pascal Mamassian
Paris
Uncertainty and confidence in visual perception
(Please note: different time and day!)
Tue, 18:15
16 November Zhuanghua Shi
München
Multisensory perception and action
21 November Céline Paeye
Lille
Saccadic adaptation by reinforcement
(Please note: different time and day!)
Mon, 11:30 R 318
30 November Rebekka Lencer
Münster
A model of smooth pursuit eye movements
in psychotic disorders
07 December Tobias Heed
Hamburg
Reference frames for touch in action and perception
14 December Rolland Baddeley
Bristol
Why we look where we do
11 January Lore Thaler
Durham
Echolocation in blind pleople: Brain activitiy and behavior
18 January Peter Wühr
Dortmund
Working-memory as perception-action interface:
Evidence from studies on spatial S-R correspondence
01 February Joshua Solomon
London
Extracting visual statistics from multiple orientations and sizes
08 February Alexander Gail
Göttingen
Selecting among rule-based motor goals

SS 2011

Date Speaker Title
20 April Frank Jäkel (Osnabrück) Categorization: from psychology to machine learning and back
27 April Werner Schneider
(Bielefeld)
Shared control processes of covert visual attention, overt eye movements and visual working memory
4 May Jürgen Golz
(Kiel)
Regularities in the chromatic interaction of light and surfaces as cues for colour constancy
18 May Simona Monaco
(Toronto)
Neural substrates involved in processing three-dimensional object properties for grasping
30 May Bart Anderson
(Sydney)
Contour and Surface Completion
8 June Thomas Otto
(Paris)
Noise and correlations in parallel perceptual decision making
15 June Philipp Sterzer
(Berlin)
Ambiguities and conflicts in visual information processing
22 June Concetta Morrone & David Burr
(Pisa)
Koffka-Award-Lecture
29 June Heiner Deubel (München) Attentional landscapes before eye-hand movements
6.July Yves Trotter
(Toulouse)
Neuronal processing of 3D space in primates

WS 2010/2011

Date Speaker Title
3 November Stefan Blaschke
(Göttingen)
Orienting Attention in Time in a Time Perception Task: Knowing “when” helps to know “how long”
10 November Alan Johnston
(London)
Visual time perception
17 November Elisabeth Hein
(Paris)
The role of features in object correspondence
24 November Roberta Klatzky
(Pittsburgh)
What is the modality of spatial perception? (Koffka Award Lecture)
1 December Marianne Maeterns
(Berlin)
The perception of brightness and its measurement
8 December Ziad Hafed
(Tübingen)
Neural mechanisms for generating and compensating for the smallest possible saccades
15 December Steve Shevell
(Chicago)
The perception of colors seen in context
19 January Fred Hamker
(Chemnitz)
Peri-saccadic perception
26 January Peter König
(Osnabrück)
On the relation of action & perception
2 February Marc Himmelbach
(Tübingen)
Visual streams - a simple story becomes complex

SS 2010

Date Speaker Title
14 April Carsten Bogler
(Leipzig)
Multivariate decoding reveals successive computational stages of saliency processing
28 April Martin Giesel
(Giessen)
The color of stuff: Effects of material on the color appearance of real objects
4 May Stefan Glasauer
(München)
Human behaviour as probabilistic dynamical system
18 May Paul Glimcher
(New York)
The neurobiology of decision
26 May Kurt Debono
(Giessen)
Oculoceptive fields for smooth pursuit eye movements
8 June Ron van Beers
(Amsterdam)
Role of sensory and motor noise in motor learning
22 June Michael Morgan
(London)
Visual geometry and eye movements
29 June Ulrich Ettinger
(München)
Molecular and behavioural genetic studies of oculomotor, cognitive and neuroimaging phenotypes

WS 2009/2010

Date Speaker Topic
14 October Melissa Vo
(Edinburgh)
The time course of initial scene processing
28 October Lukas Kaim
(Giessen)
Exploratory movement optimization in active touch
4 November Urs Kleinholdermann
(Giessen)
Grasping this and grasping that
11 November Owino Eloka
(Giessen)
Effects of changing object form during grasping movements
18.November Lisa Scocchia
(FIAS Frankfurt)
Crossing the borders of perceptual and motor systems: a psychophysical contribution
25 November Maria Olkkonen
(Philadelphia)
Perception of surface reflectance under real-world illumination
2 December Zhaoping Li
(UC London)
Using eye tracking of gaze shifts to study visual search with or without object recognition
7 December Janette Atkinson
(UC London) und
Oliver Braddick
(Oxford)
Koffka-Award: Visual development
16 December Larissa Albantakis
(Barcelona)
The encoding of alternatives in multiple-choice decision making
13 January Felix Wichmann
(TU Berlin)
Does cognitive science need kernels?
20 January Constantin Rothkopf
(FIAS Frankfurt)
Modeling visuomotor behavior in natural tasks from an optimal control perspective
27 January Thomas Schmidt
(Kaiserslautern)
Criteria for unconscious cognition: Three types of dissociations
3 February Sabine Raphael
(UC San Diego, L-Lab Paderborn)
Rods and cones in the twilight zone

SS 2009

Date Speaker Topic
22 April Sascha Serwe
(Giessen)
Integrating visual and haptic information
29 April Paul Martin
(Melbourne)
Marmoset color vision: physiology and anatomy
6 May Philipp Urban
(TU Darmstadt)
How to construct a Euclidean color space by distorting a non-Euclidean color space
19 May Antonino Casile
(Tübingen)
A fresh view at the monkey mirror neuron system
27 May Vebjørn Ekroll
(Kiel)
Individual differences as a tool for understanding contextual effects on color perception
3 June Reinhard Lakes-Harlan
(Giessen)
Insect audition and psychophysics
9 June Benjamin Tatler
(Dundee)
Eye movements during scene viewing
17 June Bruno Olshausen
(Berkeley)
Learning to factorize form and motion from natural movies
24 June Casimir Ludwig
(Bristol)
Spatial and temporal properties of saccadic eye movements
30 June Denise Henriques
(Toronto)
Multisensory interactions and recalibration in motor control
8 July Dagmar Wismeijer
(Utrecht)
3D cue combination in spontaneous eye movements
21 July Bevil R. Conway
(Wellesley)
Color mechanisms in macaque extrastriate globs

WS 2008/2009

Date Speaker Topic
22 October Thomas Schmidt
(Giessen)
Playing with your inner zombie: Perception, attention, and motor control without visual awareness
28 October Manfred Fahle
(Bremen)
Perzeptuelles Lernen
5 November Claes von Hofsten
(Uppsala)
Koffka Award presentation
12 November Laurence Maloney
(New York)
The economics of speeded movement
18 November Uwe Mattler
(Göttingen)
Werden Erwartungen zu Systemen verbunden?
26 November Yazhu Ling
(Newcastle)
A new system of colour preference: sex, culture and age.
2 December Patrick Cavanagh
(Paris; Harvard)
The Coordinates of Attention
9 December Geoff Loftus
(Seattle)
Eyewitness Testimony and the Law: Seeing Things at a Distance
10 December Geoff Loftus
(Seattle)
Hypothesis testing: Curse or abomination?
16 December Uta Wolfensteller
(Leipzig)
Bei rot musst Du was? Die Abbildung von S-R Regeln im Gehirn
14 January Anna Seydell
(Giessen)
Learning to behave optimally in a probabilistic environment.
21 January Daniel Kiper
(Zürich)
Virtual reality and neurorehabilitation
28 January Christian Frings
(Saarbrücken)
Cognitive Inhibition in Perception and Action
4 February David Souto
(Genf)
Attention and target selection for smooth pursuit eye movements
11 February Antje Nuthmann
(Edinburgh)
Fixation duration in scene viewing: Experimental data and computational modeling

SS 2008

Date Speaker Topic
15 April Robert O'Shea
(Otago, NZ)
Similarities and differences between monocular rivalry and binocular rivalry
16 April Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer
(Marburg)
Attention in Real-World Scenes - from Psychophysics to Computational Vision
23 April Michael Dorr
(Lübeck)
Modellierung und Lenkung von Augenbewegungen in natürlichen Szenen
30 April Volker Blanz
(Siegen)
Nachgesichter
6 May Fred Hamker
(Münster)
Peri-saccadic receptive field dynamics
20 May Simone Schütz-Bosbach
(MPI Leipzig)
Gemeinsame Repräsentation von Handlungen und Handlungsattribution
27 May Matthias Bethge
(MPI Tübingen)
Coding of natural images
11 June Tom Freeman
(Cardiff)
Do we have direct access to motion during smooth pursuit eye movement?
18 June Urs Kleinholdermann
(Giessen)
The control of grasping movements
25 June Maria Olkkonen
(Giessen)
Color naming and color constancy

WS 2007/2008

Date Speaker Topic
17 October Marcus Grüschow
(Leipzig)
Chromatic responses in the human brain
23 October Graham Barnes
(Manchester)
The role of expectancy and volition in predictive and reactive components of smooth pursuit eye movements
31 October Nicola Bruno
(Triest)
Illusions, visual perception, and visually guided action: support for two visual systems or experimental artifact?
7 November Astrid Kappers
(Utrecht)
Visual and haptic perception of space
14 November Marty Banks
(Berkeley)
Koffka award lecture
21 November Benjamin Tatler
(Dundee)
Understanding where we look: what salience can't tell us
27 November Alessandro Farné
(Lyon)
Multisensory perception for action
28 November Laurent Madelain
(Lille)
Control of smooth pursuit and saccades by consequences
5 December Ulrich Ansorge
(Bielefeld)
Contingent capture by color
12 December David Melcher
(Trento)
Trans-saccadic perception
18 December Christina Konen
(Princeton)
Functional characteristics of topographic maps in human posterior parietal cortex
19 December Jeroen Smeets
(Amsterdam)
Grasping inconsistent perception
8 January Silke Schicktanz
(Göttingen)
Das Elend mit dem Ethos: Wie erkennt und behandelt man ethische Problemen bei der Forschung mit Mensch und Tier?
9 January Jochem Rieger
(Magdeburg)
Natural Vision: Neuronal processing and the determination of mental states
16 January Daniel Wollschläger
(Kiel)
The influence of layered scene representations on color appearance
23 January Thomas Schenk
(Durham)
A re-evaluation of the perception/action model by Milner and Goodale
29 January Ferdinand Binkofski
(Lübeck)
Das Spiegelneuronensystem - Physiologie und therapeutische Ansätze
30 January Hauke Heekeren
(Berlin)
Neural Systems involved in human perceptual decision making
5 February Kevin O'Regan
(Paris)
Empirical confirmations of a sensorimotor approach to phenomenal feel
6 February Tom Troscianko
(Bristol)
Colour and illumination in natural scenes

SS 2007

Date Speaker Topic
18 April Wolf Kienzle
(Tübingen)
A non-parametric model for bottom-up eye movement control
25 April Anna Seydell
(Giessen)
Sensorimotor decision-making in a probabilistic environment
2 May Lukas Kaim
(Giessen)
Signalintegration bei aktiver haptischer Formwahrnehmung unter Variation von Kraft und Geschwindigkeit der exploratorischen Bewegung
9 May Sascha Serwe
(Giessen)
Perception of multi-sensory directional information during goal directed pointing movements
23 May Martin Stritzke
(Giessen)
Eye-hand coordination can be altered by feedback
30 May Maria Olkkonen
(Giessen)
Memory colour effects on colour appearance under various illuminants
5 June Tony Belpaeme
(Plymouth)
Does everyone think about colour in the same way? An argument for language influencing colour category acquisition
6 June Gunther Heidemann
(Stuttgart)
Spatio-chromaticity for computer vision
13 June Constanze Hesse
(Giessen)
Die Nutzung visueller Information bei der Planung und Ausführung von Greifbewegungen
20 June Alexander Schütz
(Giessen)
Contrast sensitivity during the initiation of smooth pursuit eye movements
25 June Martin Giesel
(Giessen)
The influence of chromatic distributions on chromatic discrimination

WS 2006/2007

Date Speaker Topic
25 October Michael Bach
(Freiburg)
Phenomena and illusions in visual perception
1 November Casper Erkelens (Utrecht) The nature of prediction in smooth pursuit eye movements
8 November Aline Bompas
(Cardiff)
Sensorimotor aspects of color vision
15 November Toni Saarela
(Lausanne)
Spatial and temporal effects in contrast masking
21 November Lucia Vaina
(Boston University)
Impairment on optic flow processing: fMRI and psychophysics
28 November Jan Koenderink
(Utrecht)
Pictorial shape
29 November Andrea van Doorn
(Utrecht)
Pictorial relief for equiluminant images
13 December John-Dylan Haynes
(Leipzig)
"Brain reading": Decoding conscious and unconscious mental states from brain activity in humans
20 December Lore Thaler
(Columbus, Ohio)
Effects of phase on shape perception from texture: Psychophysics and modeling
10 January Philippe Lefèvre
(Louvain)
Why is the cooperation beween saccades and smooth pursuit so important?
17 January Bevil Conway
(Harvard)
Specialized extrastriate modules for color processing?
24 January Jürgen Konczak
(University of Minnesota)
Kinästhetische Wahrnehmung bei Basalganglien-Störungen
31 January Anya Hurlbert
(Newcastle)
Colour constancy and colour memory for real objects
7 February Anna Montagnini
(Marseille)
Smooth pursuit eye movements and perception of motion

SS 2006

Date Speaker Topic
26 April Klaus Richter
(Berlin)
Unterscheidung von kleinen und grossen Farbabständen und ihr Zusammenhang
17 May Florian Waszak
(Paris)
Two routes to action: Intention-based and stimulus-based mechanisms in action selection
24 May Andrei Gorea
(Paris)
On the relationship between motor and perceptual behaviour – A signal detection theory framework
31 May Andrew Stockman Human cone light adaptation: from behavioral measurements to molecular mechanisms
7 June Pierre Bayerl
(Ulm)
Attention to visual motion - a computational approach
14 June Jan L. Souman
(Tübingen)
Motion perception during smooth pursuit eye movements
21 June Rainer Mausfeld
(Kiel)
Die Organisationsweise von Farbe im Wahrnehmungssystem und die Wahrnehmung von Materialfarben
28 June Boris Velichkovsky
(Dresden)
Studies on Eye Movements, Cognition and Communication
5 July Bruce Bridgeman
(Santa Cruz)
Perception and action in visual orientation
12 July Bill Geisler
(U Texas)
Bayesian Natural Scene Statistics
20 July Michael S. Landy
(NYU)
Discrimination, pattern identification and cortical coding
29 August Sergei Gepshtein
(Brain Science Institute, RIKEN)
The economics of motion perception

WS 2005/2006

Date Speaker Topic
26 October Michael Niedeggen
(Düsseldorf)
Wie beeinflusst Aufmerksamkeit die visuelle Bewegungswahrnehmung?
2 November Jochen Triesch
(Frankfurt)
Explorations into visual coding and visual memory
9 November Lindsay T. Sharpe What is luminance?
16 November Anna Ma-Wyatt
(Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute)
Visual constraints on motor performance
23 November Ralf Engbert
(Potsdam)
Microsaccades: A microcosm for research in oculomotor control, attention, visual perception
30 November Uwe J. Ilg
(Tübingen)
Augenbewegungen, Bewegungsanalyse und endliche Rechenkapazität
7 December Simon Watt
(University of Wales)
Perceiving depth in virtual scenes: Focus cues do matter
14 December Hannah Smithson
(Durham)
Colour space mapped by the reverse Stroop effect
11 January Dirk Kerzel
(Université de Genève)
Neues vom Fröhlich Effekt
18 January Jochen Müsseler
(Aachen)
Sensorische und motorische Prozesse etablieren den wahrgenommenen Raum: Evidenz durch eine relative Wahrnehmungstäuschung
25 January Christoph Rasche (Zürich) Searching for visual category representations: starting with shape perception
1 February Iain D. Gilchrist
(Bristol)
Control of saccadic eye movements
8 February Tim Ledgeway (Nottingham) Mechanisms of motion perception

SS 2005

Date Speaker Topic
20 April Kenneth Knoblauch In search of the neural substrate of transparency perception
27 April Colin Clifford
(Sidney)
Coupling of colour and orientation processing in human vision
3 May Josef Zihl
(München)
Zur Neuropsychologie der Blickbewegungen
4 May Daniel Kiper (Zürich) Studying form and color vision using Glass patterns
24 May Petra Stoerig
(Düsseldorf)
TBA
25 May Rufin van Rullen
(Toulouse)
Attention-driven discrete sampling of motion perception
7 June Jean-Rene Duhamel A parieto-frontal network for selective visual attention in non-human primates
8 June Peter De Graef (Leuven) Objects popping out of schemas: Putting object perception back in context
14 June Onur Güntürkün
(Uni Bochum)
Besser den Spatz in der Hand als die Taube auf dem Dach: Wie Neurone subjektive Präferenzen errechnen
15 June Hansjörg Scherberger
(Zürich)
Decoding arm movement plans from cognitive control signals
21 June Eckart Altenmüller
(Hannover)
Music production and perception as emotional communication: neurobiological foundations
6 July Werner X. Schneider (München) On the coupling of selection-for-action an selection-for-perception: Recent studies
20 July Martin S. Banks
(Berkeley)
Why pictures look right when viewed from the wrong place

WS 2004/2005

Date Speaker Topic
27 October Anne-Marie Brouwer
(Tübingen)
Predicting a ball's landing location: the role of acceleration, expansion and head movement
2 November  Thomas Münte
(Magdeburg)
Irren ist menschlich: neurale Korrelate der menschlichen Fehlerverarbeitung
3 November Nathalie Ziegler
(Giessen)
Laufende Doktorarbeit: Endogene und exogene Aufmerksamkeits-Shifts bei glatten Augenfolgebewegungen
9 November Matthew W. Crocker
(Saarbrücken)
Incremental spoken language understanding in visual contexts: evidence from eye-tracking and a computational model
10 November Jutta Billino und
Lars Pracejus
(Giessen)
Laufende Doktorarbeit: Störungen der visuellen Wahrnehmung: Farbe (Lars Pracejus) und Bewegung (Jutta Billino)
17 November Lindsay Sharpe
(London)
Visual function and the cone photoreceptor mosaic
23 November Stefan Schweinberger
(Glasgow)
Neuronale Repräsentationen von Gesichtern
24 November Knut Drewing
(Giessen)
Integration of cues within active touch
7 December Christian Büchel
(Hamburg)
TBA
8 December Denise de Grave
(Giessen)
Eye and hand movements in the Brentano illusion
14 December Guillaume Masson
(Marseille)
From 1D to 2D via 3D: Surface motion integration for the visual stabilisation of gaze
15 December Marc O. Ernst
(Tübingen)