Colloquium talks in past semesters

WiSe 2024/25

Date	Speaker	Title
23. April	Denis Pelli (New York)	Reading and Crowding. Methods and Results
30. April	Sven Ohl (Berlin)	The elements of causal perception
7. May	Monica Gori (iit Genova)	Multisensory processing: sensory integration and cross-sensory interactions in children and adults. From cognitive neuroscience to technology
14. May	Benedikt Ehinger (Stuttgart)	The modern EEG regression toolkit: Theory and application to EEG-Eyetracking combined data
28. May	Shao-Min Hung (Tokyo)	Attentional modulation in the unconscious sensory world
04. June	Pascal Mamassian (ENS Paris)	Measurements of perceived time of visual events
11. June	Lore Thaler (Durham)	Human echo-location
18. June	Jeroen Smeets (Amsterdam)	The role of size in grasping and perceiving weight
25. June	Laurie-Anne Sapey-Triomphe (Lyon)	Predictive processes in autism
2. July	Philipp Sterzer (Basel)	Now you see it… now you don’t: Short-term fluctuations in perceptual inference and their role in psychosis
9. July	Michele Rucci (Rochester)	Seeing by moving
16. July	Heiða María Sigurðardóttir (Iceland)	Why is a raven like a writing desk? Mapping and tracking visual object representations
23. July	Martina Poletti (Rochester)	Active vision at the foveal scale

Date

Speaker

Title

23. April

Denis Pelli

(New York)

Reading and Crowding. Methods and Results

30. April

Sven Ohl

(Berlin)

The elements of causal perception

7. May

Monica Gori

(iit Genova)

Multisensory processing: sensory integration and cross-sensory interactions in children and adults. From cognitive neuroscience to technology

14. May

Benedikt Ehinger

(Stuttgart)

The modern EEG regression toolkit: Theory and application to EEG-Eyetracking combined data

28. May

Shao-Min Hung

(Tokyo)

Attentional modulation in the unconscious sensory world

04. June

Pascal Mamassian

(ENS Paris)

Measurements of perceived time of visual events

11. June

Lore Thaler

(Durham)

Human echo-location

18. June

Jeroen Smeets

(Amsterdam)

The role of size in grasping and perceiving weight

25. June

Laurie-Anne

Sapey-Triomphe

(Lyon)

Predictive processes in autism

2. July

Philipp Sterzer

(Basel)

Now you see it… now you don’t: Short-term fluctuations in perceptual inference and their role in psychosis

9. July

Michele Rucci

(Rochester)

Seeing by moving

16. July

Heiða María

Sigurðardóttir

(Iceland)

Why is a raven like a writing desk? Mapping and tracking visual object representations

23. July

Martina Poletti

(Rochester)

Active vision at the foveal scale

SoSe 2024

Date	Speaker	Title
17. April	Fulvio Domini Brown	The coordinated behavior of perception and action is based on a distorted representation of 3D space
24. April	Surya Gayet Utrecht	Perceiving objects in context
08. May	Daniel Osorio Sussex	Animal color vision
29. May	Sebastian Frank Regensburg	A lifespan perspective of visual learning and plasticity
05. June	Stefania Bracci Trento	The role of behavioural goals in shaping representations in the ventral visual pathway
12. June	Domenica Bueti Trieste	Tracking millisecond time in the human brain: from sensory features extraction to perception
19. June	Zoe Kourtzi Cambridge	Multimodal brain plasticity for adaptive behavior
26. June	Cristina Becchio UKE Hamburg	An information-based approach to measuring actions
03. July	Mary Hayhoe Austin	KOFFKA-award lecture
10. July	Iris Groen Amsterdam	Modeling natural scene perception in the human brain
17. July	Deborah Barany University of Georgia	The neural mechanisms underlying goal-directed movement

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

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. Januar_y	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)