Department of Experimental Psychology

Current Research:

• A new study investigates overt visuospatial attention in complex and realistic movie scenes: The Orbitofrontal–Anterior Temporal Network Complements the Attention Network for Where to Look in Social Situations
• Eye movements are processed based on both their spatial arrangement and their temporal order: Temporal Order-Dependent and -Independent Cortical Representation of Gaze Sequences

• A new study together with colleagues from Shanghai shows the representation of eye movement patterns in ventral cortical areas: Dynamic Face-related Eye Movement Representations in the Human Ventral Pathway
• Visual search in dense and sparse search displays leads - besides different search efficiency - to the involvement of distinct frontal cortices: Prefrontal dimension change-related activation differs for visual search in sparse and dense displays
• A paper compares foraging strategies in humans and desert gerbils: Differential patch-leaving behavior during probabilistic foraging in humans and gerbils

Older posts:

• A new book chapter discusses the interaction of eye movements and working memory in the temporal lobe
• A paper shows that object perception with a retinal implant can be improved through video-based training.

• In a recently published study, we were able to show that even unconsciously processed changes in stimuli lead to a shift in visual attention. Feature-Based Attentional Weighting and Re-weighting in the Absence of Visual Awareness
• In a new study, we show that visual perception areas in the human brain also process motor information, specifically eye movement sequences. This opens up a new view of the interaction between perception and action in the brain. Individual face- and house-related eye movement patterns distinctively activate FFA and PPA
• A selection of research methods for our field has just been published in the Springer Neuromethods series: Spatial Learning and Attention Guidance