Impacts of eye movements on visual processing: from retina to perception (C02 (ehem. 11))

• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology ; Ophthalmology ; Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 276693517

Eye movements result in substantial retinal image shifts. This creates continuous spatio-temporal modulations of neural activity, starting from the photoreceptors and all the way to downstream areas. Our ultimate goal is to understand how such continuous “movies” at the input stage of the visual system shape perception. In the second funding period, we will further investigate the impacts of eye move-ments on visual processing, focusing on eye movements of different temporal and spatial scales (slow drifts, microsaccades, and larger saccades) that support different behavioural task requirements.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1233: Robust Vision - Inference Principles and Neural Mechanisms
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Dr. Katrin Franke, until 8/2022; Professor Ziad Hafed, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Frank Schaeffel, until 12/2020