Welcome...

..to the lab of Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe. We are interested in the mechanisms of active perception of space and motion and the control of spatially directed actions. Our approaches involve psychophysics, cognitive neuroscience, and computer modeling. You can find an overview of our current projects here.

Research team discovers disruption of visual stability

In our newest study we investigated the interaction of eye movements and perception for non-rigid motion, like the movement of a water vortex. Participants were able to perceive the movement of the vortex well but could not continuously follow it with their gaze (smooth pursuit)—a previously unknown combination. When participants then brought the vortex back to the center of their visual field with a quick eye movement (saccade), the vortex appeared to jump; the usual compensation mechanism for eye movements failed for this type of motion. The results show that smooth pursuit and saccades rely on different mechanisms and provide insight into how eye movements are normally compensated to enable a stable perception of the world.

For further details please visit the following website:

https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=14383

The study was published in Science Advances on November 6, 2024.

 

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PhD for Frauke Heins

We congratulate Dr. Frauke Heins on successfully defending her thesis "Post-saccadic feedback signals in oculomotor learning" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe, Dr. Christian Wolf and Prof. Dr. Annalisa Bosco (University of Bologna).

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PhD for Anna-Gesina Hülemeier

We congratulate Dr. Anna-Gesina Hülemeier on successfully defending her thesis "Visual perception of the optic flow and biological motion during locomotion" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe, Prof. Dr. Niko Busch and Prof. Dr. Benjamin Risse.

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Congratulations on the Best Paper Award

Congratulations to our PhD students Gianni Bremer and Niklas Stein for winning the Best Paper Award at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (IEEE AIVR 2021) in Taiwan. In their paper "Predicting Future Position From Natural Walking and Eye Movements with Machine Learning", the two presented an LSTM machine learning model for predicting future walking movements based on motion, orientation and eye tracking data. Their article and Gianni's presentation convinced the international jury especially by their high scientific quality and the versatile applications of the presented results. Due to the pandemic, the conference took place online as a remote event from November 15 - 17, 2021.

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Congratulations

We congratulate our PhD student Niklas Stein.  i-Perception awarded him the Early Career Advancement Prize for his paper “A comparison of eye tracking latencies among several commercial head-mounted displays”.
 

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Congratulations

We congratulate our PhD student Krischan Koerfer on the Best Poster Award at the European Conference on Visual Perception in Leuven (ECVP 2019).
His poster "Heading Bias based on Conflicting Local Optical Flow and Biological Motion Confirms Independent Processing Paths of Heading Perception and Object Segmentation" was rewarded for its scientific quality, clarity and presentation.
 

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Congratulations

We congratulate our PhD student Jana Masselink on the SR Research Poster Award at the European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 2019). The conference was held from 18-22 August in Alicante (Spain) where she received the award for giving the best interactive presentation of a model on oculomotor plasticity in visual, motor and forward model representations (title: ’Saccadic motor command adapts to post-saccadic target representation in pre-saccadic coordinates’).
 

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