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Winter term 2022/23

When & Where Speaker Title Materials Host
Oct 18 2022,
virtual,
4:00 PM
Intro talks
Oct 25 2022,
Giessen, Seminargebäude II, Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, Raum 012,
4:00 PM
Erich Schröger Generative mental models of hearing paper 1
paper 2

recordings
Elena
Nov 01 2022,
virtual,
4:00 PM
Monika Harvey Spatial attention changes across the lifespan paper1

recordings
Michaela
Nov 08 2022,
virtual,
6:00 PM
Jeannette Bohg The Challenges of Robot Learning for Manipulation of Deformables paper 1
paper 2
paper 3

recordings
Frieder
Nov 15 2022,
virtual,
4:00 PM
Intro talks
Nov 22 2022,
virtual,
4:00 PM
Neil Burgess Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Memory and Navigation paper 1
paper 2
paper 3

recordings
Renate
Nov 29 2022,
virtual,
4:00 PM
Vera Schluessel Orientation strategies and spatial memory in sharks and stingrays recordings Kathrin
Dec 6 2022, IRTG Retreat
Dec 13 2022,
virtual
Career Path talk Dr. Michael Joch
Technical Solution Manager
Bionic Analytics
Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA
Jan 10 2023,
virtual,
4:00 PM
Intro talks
Jan 17 2023,
virtual,
4:00 PM
Daniel Lakens Proving Yourself Wrong: How to Design Informative Studies recordings

presentation
Elena
Jan 24 2023,
virtual,
4:00 PM
Intro talks
Jan 31 2023,
virtual,
4:00 PM
Craig Chapman Gaze and Movement Analysis (GaMA) in Real and Virtual Worlds paper

recordings
Viswajit Kumar
Feb 07 2023,
virtual,
4:00 PM
Song Joo-Hyun How does action training affect perception and cognition? paper

recordings
Sebastian D’Amario
May 04 2023,
virutal
Career Path talk
Alexandra Lezkan und Michael Joch
recordings

Summer term 2022

When & Where Speaker Title Materials Host
April 12 Intro + Retreat social event planning Elena, Ed/Elef
April 19,
4:00 PM
Bettina Korka,
Leipzig University
Action intention and sensorial regularities represent distinctive prediction sources for a common mechanism.
Evidence from the auditory domain.
paper 1
paper 2

recordings
Elena
April 26 Intro Frieder, Hongy
May 3,
6:00 PM
Jeannette Bohg,
Stanford University
The Challenges of Robot Learning for Manipulation of Deformables paper 1
paper 2
Frieder
May 10,
4:00 PM
Simon Rushton,
Cardiff University
Why are we sensitive to optic flow? paper

recordings
Hongyi
May 17 VSS
May 24 Intro Hongyi, Ambika, Ed
May 31,
4:00 PM
Richard Wilkie,
University of Leeds
Steering the drive towards automation: investigating control transitions paper

recordings
Hongyi
June 14,
4:00 PM
Ewa Niechwiej-Swedo,
University of Waterloo
Role of binocularity in the development and performance of prehension paper

recordings
Ambika
June 21,
4:00 PM
Florian Waszak,
CNRS, Université de Paris
"An ideomotor account of voluntary action control" paper 1
paper 2

recordings
Ed
June 28 IRTG retreat
July 5 Career Path talk - Harun Karimpur Senior Strategy Consultant, Deloitte
July 12 Ruth Rosenholtz My year of banning attention recordings

Winter term 2021/22

When & Where Speaker Title Materials Host
02.11.2021
!!changed starting time!!
15:15 -16:45 Uhr
workshop TBD Best practices in open-science recordings Ben & Matt
09.11.2021
16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Speakers’ intro Christina & Ambika
16.11.2021
16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Jakub Limanowski

Technical University Dresden
Precision control for flexible body representation paper 1
paper 2

recordings
Christina
23.11.2021
16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Caroline Robertson

Dartmouth College, USA
Active Vision in Immersive, Real- World Environments
paper 1
paper 2

recordings
Ambika
30.11.2021
16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Speakers’ intro Frieder & Raphael
07.12.2021
16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Gavin Buckingham

University of Exeter, GB
Grasping the virtual world paper 1
paper 2
paper 3

recordings
Frieder
14.12.2021
16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Jordan Taylor

Princeton University, USA
The steep part of the learning curve: how cognitive strategies shape motor skill acquisition. paper 1
paper 2

recordings
Raphael
11.01.2022
16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Speakers’ intro Jen & Laura paper
18.01.2022
16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Opher Donchin

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Isreal
Facts and speculation on the components of motor adaptation paper

recordings
Jen
25.01.2022
16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Alaa Ahmed

University of Colorado, USA
A unifying framework for decision making and movement control recordings Laura
01.02.2022
16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Speakers’ intro Moritz & Ben
08.02.2022
starting time: 18:15 Uhr
Ladan Shams

UCLA, USA
Multisensory perception, memory, and learning
paper

recordings
Moritz
15.02.2022
16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Paul Cisek

University of Montreal, CA
The neural mechanisms of real-time decisions paper

recordings
Ben
22.02.2022
16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
workshop TBD Organizing Code: Legibility, Reuse, and Open Science recordings Ben & Matt

Summer term 2021

When & Where Speaker Title Materials Host
20.04.2021 Career Path talk -
Dr. Anke Marit Albers,
Strategic Business Unit, University of Twente
IRTG news from Katja and Frank recordings
27.04.2021 Speakers Intro Lucie, Moritz
04.05.2021 Chiara Turati,

University of Milano-Bicocca
Action and emotion understanding in infancy and early childhood recordings Lucie
11.05.2021 No seminar - Scientific Writing workshop
18.05.2021 Andreas Kalckert,

University of Skövde
Ownership, Agency, and the body – a conceptual clarification paper

recordings
Moritz
25.05.2021 Speaker Intro Ed, Marie
01.06.2021 Judy Ford,

University of California San Francisco
Predictive mechanisms in Schizophrenia recordings Ed
08.06.2021 Luc Tremblay,

University of Toronto
Can multisensory integration research close the “loop” with sensorimotor control models and their practical applications? paper 1
paper 2

recordings
Marie
15.06.2021 IRTG retreat
22.06.2021 Speakers Intro Renate, Elena
29.06.2021

!!! starting time 16.00 Uhr !!!

Olaf Dimigen,

Humboldt University Berlin
Electrophysiology in Active Vision Renate
06.07.2021 Felix Blankenburg,

Free University Berlin
From Tactile Sensation to Action – an Attempt to Close the Loop recordings Elena

Winter term 2020/21

When & Where Speaker Title Materials Host
03.11.2020 Speakers Intro Elef
10.11.2020 Irene Sperandio PhD,
University of Trento (Italy)
Behavioural and neural correlates of size constancy recordings
17.11.2020 Speakers Intro Jakob, Hossein
24.11.2020 Klaus Gramann,
Technical University Berlin
Mobile Brain/Body Imaging to investigate natural spatial cognition paper 1
paper 2
paper 3

recordings

01.12.2020 Andrea Kiesel,
Freiburg University
Self-organized task scheduling when multitasking paper 1
paper 2
paper 3
paper 4

recordings
08.12.2020 Speakers Intro Pierre-Pascal
15.12.2020 Birgit Nierula,
MPI Leipzig
Body ownership and agency in immersive virtual Environments paper 1
paper 2
paper 3
paper 4

recordings
12.01.2021 Speaker Intro Jonny Coutinho: Miriam Spering
Laura Mikula: Orban de Xivry
19.01.2021 Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry,
Professor Movement control and neuroplasticity KU Leuven
Sensory and motor functions that are preserved with aging paper

recordings
26.01.2021 Miriam Spering
University of Bristish Columbia, CA
Eye Movements as a Window into Decision Making paper

recordings
02.02.2021 Speaker Intro Marie
02.02.2021 Career Path talk Dr. Stefanie Müller
(Leibniz Institute for Psychology, Head of study planning, data collection, and data analysis Services)
recordings
09.02.2021 Konstantina Kilteni Behavioral and neural mechanisms of somatosensory attenuation paper 1
paper 2
paper 3

recordings
16.02.2021 Career Path talk Mareike Pazen,
Clinical Research Associate, AstraZeneca
recordings

Summer term 2020

!! planed schedule for summer term 2020 !!

When & Where Speaker Title Materials Host
14.04.2020 Lecture: Tilo Kircher lecture materials

recordings
21.04.2020 No Seminar
28.04.2020 Lecture Frank Bremmer + Intro Speaker lecture materials

recordings
05.05.2020 Hermann Mueller (Giessen University) Neural correlates of predictive error perception recordings Raphael
12.05.2020
!! starting time: 16:15 Uhr !!
Lecture Karl Gegenfurtner recordings
19.05.2020 PD module: Michael Johnny, Manager, Knowledge Mobilization Unit,York University OralCommunications Workshop: Clear Language and Presentation
20.05.2020 No Seminar
26.05.2020
!! starting time: 16:15 Uhr !!
Lecture Roland Fleming recordings
!! postponed to 9. February 2021 !! Konstantina Kilteni (Karolinska Institute Stockholm) Behavioral and neural mechanisms of somatosensory attenuation Marie
02.06.2020 Lecture Doug Crawford recordings
09.06.2020
!! starting time: 16:15 Uhr !!
Lecture Katja Fiehler recordings
16.06.2020
!! starting time 16:15 Uhr !!
PD module: Saeed and Michael Wang "What I have been doing and what I wish I have done" recordings
!! postponed to 15. December 2020 !!
Birgit Nierula (MPI Leipzig) Body ownership and agency in immersive virtual Environments Pierre-Pascal
23.06.2020 Lecture Jörn Munzert recordings
01.07.2020
new starting time !! starting time 18:00 Uhr !!
Corrina Wang Project Managementprinciples to academic Research recordings Maria Ayala
!! postponed to 1. December 2020  !! Andrea Kiesel (Freiburg University) Hossein
07.07.2020 Lecture Dominik Endres recordings - part 1
recordings - part 2
recordings - part 3
recordings - part 4
14.07.2020
!! starting time: 16:15 Uhr !!
Laurie Wilcox (York University, Toronto) Stereoscopic depth perception in real and virtual environments recordings Sia
21.07.2020
!! starting time: 16:15 Uhr !!
Lecture Benjamin Straube recordings
28.07.2020
!! starting time 16:15 Uhr !!
Lecture Gudrun Schwarzer recordings

Winter term 2019/20

When & Where Speaker Title Materials Host
15.10.2019, Gießen Welcome new German IRTG students

22.10.2019 No seminar (SfN)

29.10.2019 Doug Munoz Lecture recordings

05.11.2019 Jonathan Cant, University of Toronto Scarborough Role of ensemble processing in human visual cognition paper

recordings

12.11.2019 Gunnar Blohm Lecture
&
Intro Martin Lotze (Lars)
recordings

19.11.2019, Gießen Martin Lotze, Universität Greifswald Functional representation of long-term motor training in healthy individuals and after cerebral stroke recordings Lars
26.11.2019,
Marburg
Alexander Schütz Lecture
&
Intro Daniel Senkowski (Jakob)


03.12.2019, Marburg Daniel Senkowski, Charité Berlin The role of neural oscillations for multisensory processing in healthy individuals and people with schizophrenia paper 1

paper 2

paper 3
Jakob
10.12.2019 Denise Henriques Lecture
&
Intro Hermann Müller (Raphael)

recordings

!! canceled date !!
17.12.2019, Gießen
!! canceled date !!
Hermann Müller, JLU Gießen Neural Correlates of Predictive Error Perception paper 1

paper 2
Raphael
07.01.2020 No Seminar

!! canceled date !!
14.01.2020
!! canceled date !!
Doug Crawford Lecture

21.01.2020 Laurence Harris Lecture
&
Intro Lars Meyer (Yifei He)
recordings Yifei He
28.01.2020,
Marburg
Dr. Lars Meyer, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig The role of slow-frequency neural oscillations in language comprehension
paper 1

paper 2

paper 3

recordings

Yifei He
04.02.2020 Niko Troje  Lecture

Intro Ragnhild Eg (Lukas)

recordings
11.02.2020,
Marburg
Ragnhild Eg, Kristiania College Oslo Adversarial interactions in multisensory perception


paper 1

paper 2

recordings

Lukas
18.02.2020 Jody Culham Lecture recordings


25.02.2020, Marburg


Anna Schubö
Lecture recording

Summer term 2019

When & Where Speaker Title Materials Host

30.04.2019

Intro Sauseng + Intro Welsh
07.05.2019
Marburg
Paul Sauseng,
Department of Psychology
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
It's swinging in the brain: how slow brain rhythms might control working memory processes paper 1

paper 2

Recording
Constanze Schmitt

14.05.2019

Tim Welsh
(York)
Attention, decisions and action paper

Recording
Ambika Bansal

21.05.2019
Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society - VSS

28.05.2019
Intro Scott Adler (York) + Rita

4.06.2019

Scott Adler
(York)

Development in attention and eye movement

Recording Annalise D'Souza

11.06.2019

Annual meeting of the Center for Vision Research - CVR

18.06.2019

IRTG Retreat

25.06.2019

Paulina Cuevas Intro Hunt + 1 Introductory talk Analyzing language with MRI Illja Wagner
02.07.2019
Marburg
Amelia Hunt,
School of Psychology
University of Aberdeen

Choice and Consequence in Eye Movements and Beyond paper 1

paper 2

Recording
Illja Wagner
09.07.2019 Fabio Lu Intro Maiello + 1 Introductory talk  Reference Frames and Spatial Relations Lina Klein

16.07.2019

Guido Maiello
(JLU)
Eyes and hands: Eye-hand coordination and grasping in 3D paper 1

paper 2

Recording
Lina Klein

Winter term 2018/19

When & Where
Speaker Title Materials Host
16.10.2018 Tom Professional development Recording Queen's
Students
23.10.2018
Marburg
Benjamin
Adrian
Introductory talk on Movement Primitives and Electrophysiological recodrings in NHP
30.10.2018 Hossein
Harun
Introduction of the next weeks' speakers

06.11.2018
Marburg
Giacomo Nevembre
University College, London
Rethinking saliency: from perception to (re)Action
Paper

Hossein
13.11.2018
Giessen

Thomas Wolbers
University of Magdeburg
Spatial Navigation - a unique window into mechanisms of ageing and dementia Paper 1
Paper 2

Recording
Harun
20.11.2018 tba Introduction of the next weeks' speakers

Paper
27.11.2018
York
Erez Freud
York University
Object recognition - A tale of two pathways
Recording
04.12.2018
York
Marcus Watson
York University
Gaze and choice behaviour during multidimensional learning
Recording
11.12.2018
Giessen
Jonny

Fabio
Introduction of the next week's Speaker

Introductory talk on 2-stream model of vision in pictorial and visual Scenes
18.12.2018
Giessen

Philippe Lefevre
Université catholique de Louvain
"Short-term memory and visual signals contribute to saccade-pursuit synergy" Recording


Jonny
15.01.2019
Giessen

Rita
Gloria
Introduction of the next weeks' Speakers Giessen
22.01.2019
Western
Michael Barnett-Cowan
University of Waterloo
“Perception and Action in Virtual Environments” Estimating the sensorimotor components of cybersickness

Recording

Rita
30.01.2019
Giessen
Room F341a
Meike Ramon
University of Fribourg
Super-recognizers in criminal investigation - hype or hope?


Familiarity matters: A review on prioritized
processing of personally familiar faces

All new kids on the block? Impaired holistic
processing of personally familiar faces in a
kindergarten teacher with acquired prosopagnosia

Recording

Gloria
05.02.2019
Marburg
Room +4/90150,
Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie,
Rudolf-Bultmann-Straße 8,
35039 Marburg
Lina
Mareike
Introductory talk fMRI


12.02.2019
Queen’s
Sophie Kenny Career Path talk, Staff Scientist, ViPixx Technologies Inc. Recording
19.02.2019
Queen’s
Julia Professional development Recording

If not noted otherwise, seminars are scheduled for 18.00h to 20.00h (CET).

Seminars in Marburg (talks by invited guest speakers) take place in: Kleiner Hörsaal (Lecture Hall) Renthof 5, 35037 Marburg

Seminars in Marburg Ortenberg (broadcasts and introductory talks) take place in: Ernst-Kretschmer-Konferenzraum, room number: +4/90650, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Rudolf-Bultmann-Straße 8, 35039 Marburg

Seminars in Giessen take place in: Phil I, Otto- Behaghel-Str. 10, Room F9

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