Department of Experimental Psychology

Some impressions of research and teaching activities of the department.

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
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