Sensory Consequences of Visual Actions
- Date: Dec 8, 2023
- Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Prof. Martin Rolfs
- Prof. Martin Rolfs is a Heisenberg Professor for Experimental Psychology, Active Perception and Cognition, at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8
- Room: room 203
- Host: Zhaoping Li
- Contact: li.zhaoping@tuebingen.mpg.de
We use rapid eye, head, and body movements to extract information from a
new part of the visual scene upon each new gaze fixation. But the
consequences of such visual actions go beyond their intended sensory
outcomes. On the one hand, intrinsic consequences accompany movement
preparation as covert internal processes (e.g., predictive changes in
the deployment of visual attention). On the other hand, visual actions
have incidental consequences, side effects of moving the sensory surface
to its intended goal (e.g., global motion of the retinal image during
saccades). In this talk, I will present studies in which we investigated
intrinsic and incidental sensory consequences of visual actions and
their sensorimotor functions. Our results provide insights into
continuously interacting top-down and bottom-up sensory processes, and
they reify the necessity to study perception in connection to motor
behavior that shapes its fundamental processes.We plan to organize 1-1
meetings with Prof. Rolfs before his talk. If you'd like to have a 1-1
meeting with Prof. Rolfs, please contact me (maria.pavlovic@tue.mpg.de)
latest by December 5th
Acces via Zoom:
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