Centre Attention & Vision du LPP UMR 8158 – 45 rue des Saints Peres 75006 Paris, France

New articles!

Perdreau, F., & Cavanagh, P. (2013). Is artists' perception more veridical? Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7(6),1-11. Pdf

Rolfs, M., Dambacher, M., & Cavanagh, P. (2013). Visual adaptation of the perception of causality. Current Biology, in press. Pdf

Donatas Jonikaitis, D., Szinte, M., Rolfs, M., & Cavanagh, P. (2012). Allocation of attention across saccades. Journal of Neurophysiology. published ahead of print. Pdf

Greenwood, JA, Tailor, VK, Simmers, AJ, Sloper, JJ, Bex, PJ, & Dakin, SC (2012). Visual acuity, crowding and stereo-vision are linked in children with and without amblyopia. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 53(12), 7655-7665. Pdf

Anderson, EJ, Dakin, SC, Schwarzkopf, DS, Rees, G, & Greenwood, JA (2012). The neural correlates of crowding-induced changes in appearance. Current Biology, 22(13), 1199-1206. Pdf

Tibber, MS, Greenwood, JA, & Dakin, SC (2012). Number and density discrimination rely on a common metric: Similar psychophysical effects of size, contrast and divided attention. Journal of Vision, 12(6):8, 1-19. Pdf

New grants!

Humbolt Fellowship to Martin Szinte, now in Munich, 2012-2014

Spatial Cognition from FP7 to Hamker (Germany), Medendorp (Netherlands), Burgess (UK), VanRullen and Cavanagh (France) 2013-2016

Predictive Position Code, ERC to Cavanagh 2013-2017

New arrivals!

Three new postdocs will be arriving soon!

Matteo Lisi, February 1

Sabine Born, March 1

Hannah Krüger, April 1

Au revoir Matteo

After having visited us for few months, Matteo comes back to his lab at the University of Padova in Italy.
Best wishes from all of us!

New grants !

Here is the list of Patrick's new grants:

The Position Sense, ANR to Cavanagh 2013-2015

Common Map of Locations, ORA to Cavanagh, Collins, Deubel, Theeuwes, 2013-2015

DEFI-SENS, CNRS to Wexler, Collins, Cavanagh, Safran, and Sabbah, 2012

New articles !

Congratulations to the authors for those new publications!

Allard, R. & Cavanagh, P. (2012). Different processing strategies underlie voluntary averaging in low and high noise. Journal of Vision, in press.

Alvarez, G. A., Gill, J. V., & Cavanagh, P. (2012). Anatomical Constraints on Attention: Hemifield Independence is a Signature of Multifocal Spatial Selection. Journal of Vision, 12(5):9, 1-20. pdf

Butcher, S. J., & Cavanagh, P. (2012). Familiarity does not affect the unilateral field advantage for repetition detection. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, Epub ahead of print. pdf

Cohen, M. A., Cavanagh, P., Chun, M. M., Nakayama, K. (2012). The attentional requirements of consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(8), 411 - 417. pdf

Hein, E, & Cavanagh, P. (2012). Motion correspondence in the Ternus display shows feature bias in spatiotopic coordinates. Journal of Vision, in press.

Kosovicheva, A. A., Maus, G. W., Anstis, S., Cavanagh, P., Tse, P. U., & Whitney, D. (2012). The motion-induced shift in the perceived location of a grating also shifts its aftereffect. Journal of Vision, in press.

Solomon, J. A., Cavanagh, P., & Gorea, A. (2012). Recognition criteria vary with fluctuating uncertainty. Journal of Vision, in press.

Szinte, M., Wexler, M., & Cavanagh, P. (2012). Temporal dynamics of remapping captured by peri-saccadic continuous motion. Journal of Vision, 12(7):12, 1-18. pdf

ECVP 2012

Here is the list of the talks and posters presented by our group at ECVP:
European Conference on Visual Perception, 2-6 September, 2012, Alghero (Sardinia)

The motion of pure colour: it’s all in the jitter.
P Cavanagh, M Wexler

Temporal dynamics of the remote facilitation effect in crowding
B Sayim, JA Greenwood, P Cavanagh 

Extreme motion aftereffects

M Wexler, A Glennester, P Cavanagh

Role of landmark objects in the orienting of attention across saccades

M Lisi, P Cavanagh, M Zorzi

Influence of crowding on discriminating the direction of biological motion

H Ikeda, K Watanabe, P Cavanagh

Unnatural art, natural brain (at VSAC Satellite conference)
P Cavanagh

The pdf and the abstracts of all the talks and posters will soon be found in the presentations section.

Au revoir Bilge

After two years in CAVLab, Bilge Sayim has departed for his new postdoc position in Johan Wagemans's lab in Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
Best wishes from all of us.

Patrick awarded Honorary Doctorate

Patrick Cavanagh has received a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Montréal.
The graduation ceremony took place on the first of June 2012, in the presence of Guy Breton, rector of the Université de Montréal, of the director of the School of optometry Christian Casanova and the president of the professional order of optometrists from Quebec Lise-Anne Chassé.
Congratulations, Patrick!

AmsterdamFest

April 26th and 27th, 2012, AmsterdamFest:
we had the pleasure to host the lab of Jan Theeuwes for talks based loosely around saccades and attention. Presentations were given on the Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.

Click here to have the program: pdf

VSS 2012

Here is the list of talks and posters that will be presented by our group at VSS Vision Sciences Society, May 11-16, 2012, Naples (Florida):

Martin Szinte, Donatas Jonikaitis, Martin Rolfs, Patrick Cavanagh. Allocation of attention across saccades. (abstract)

Bilge Sayim, John Greenwood, Patrick Cavanagh. A remote target repetition reduces crowding. (abstract)

John Greenwood, Martin Szinte, Bilge Sayim, Patrick Cavanagh. Shared spatial uncertainty for crowding and saccades. (abstract)

Patrick Cavanagh, Stuart Anstis. The Flash Grab Effect. (abstract)

Andrei Gorea, Patrick Cavanagh, Joshua Solomon. On successive memories. (abstract)

Florian Perdreau, Patrick Cavanagh. The Artist’s visual span: better performance through smaller windows. (abstract)

Elisabeth Hein, Patrick Cavanagh. Features bias correspondence in apparent motion over short distances in the Ternus display but long distances in split motion. (abstract)

Au revoir Elisabeth!

Elisabeth Hein has departed for her new position as assistant professor at the famous Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany. She is joining Prof. Dr Bettina Rolke's lab in the Psychology Institute.

Good luck Elisabeth! Best wishes from all of us.

New articles!

Here is the list of our new and recent publications. Congratulations to the authors!

Greenwood J.A., Bex P.J. & Dakin S.C. Crowding follows the binding of relative position and orientation. Journal of Vision 2012;12(3):18:1-20. pdf

van Vugt, F. T. & Cavanagh, P. (2012). Response trajectories reveal conflict phase in image-word mismatch. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, online. pdf

Yeh, S.-L., He, S. & Cavanagh, P. (2012). Semantic priming from crowded words. Psychological Science, in press.

Dakin S.C., Tibber M.S., Greenwood J.A., Kingdom F.A.A. & Morgan M.J. A common visual metric for approximate number and density. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011;108:19552-19557. pdf

Perdreau, F. & Cavanagh, P. (2011). Do artists see their retinas? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:171.

Stanley, J., Forte, J., Cavanagh, P. & Carter, O. (2011). Onset rivalry: the initial dominance phase is independent of ongoing perceptual alternations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:140, 1-9.

Dakin S.C., Greenwood J.A., Carlson TA & Bex P.J. Crowding is tuned for perceived (not physical) location. Journal of Vision 2011;11(9):2:1-13. pdf

Vaziri Pashkam, M. & Cavanagh, P. (2011). Effect of speed overestimation on flash lag effect at low luminance. i-Perception, 2(9) 1063–1075. pdf

GiessenFest

December 8th and 9th, 2011, GiessenFest. We will receive a visit from Drs Karl Gegenfurtner, Doris Braun, Roland Fleming and 12 others for two days of talks on color, attention, and eye movements.

The program of our conference: pdf.

New publications

Congratulations for two publications accepted:

The Art of Transparency, to appear in i-Perception, by Bilge Sayim and Patrick Cavanagh

What line drawings reveal about the visual brain, to appear in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, by Bilge Sayim and Patrick Cavanagh

Visit of Dr Florian Ostendorf

October 6th, 2011, CAVLab welcomed Dr. Florian Ostendorf from La Charité Medical School in Berlin for an afternoon of discussions on Saccadic Suppression of Displacement.

ECVP 2011

Here is the list of the talks and posters presented by our group at ECVP:
European Conference on Visual Perception, August 28-September 1, 2011, Toulouse (France)

Motion correspondence shows feature bias in spatiotopic coordinates
E Hein, P Cavanagh (abstract)

Do Artists See their Retinas?
F Perdreau, P Cavanagh (abstract, pdf)

Long range grouping affects crowding
B Sayim, P Cavanagh (abstract)

Transient target signals reduce crowding, transient flanker signals do not
J Greenwood, P Cavanagh (abstract)

Sequential decisions on a memorized visual feature reveal implicit knowledge of decision errors - A Gorea, P Cavanagh, J A Solomon (abstract)

Crowding is immune to the pre-saccadic shift of attention
C Morvan, P Cavanagh (abstract)

Grouping trumps pooling and centroids in crowding
M Manassi, B Sayim, M H Herzog (abstract, pdf)

The pdf and the abstracts of all the talks and posters will soon be found in the presentations section.

Wonderful news: birth announcement

Congratulations on the arrival of your beautiful baby Alice, Martin and Elodie!
The first of August, 2011: a great day to remember!
Best wishes from all of us.

Au revoir Donatas

In August 2011, after six months in our group, Donatas has departed for his new postdoc position in Amsterdam.
Best wishes from all of us.

VSS 2011

Here is the list of the posters presented by our group at VSS
Vision Sciences Society, May 6-11, 2011, Naples (USA):

You can find the pdf and the abstracts of the posters in the Presentations section.

Anderson, E., Dakin, S., Schwarzkopf, D. S., Rees, G., & Greenwood, J. (2011).
The neural correlates of crowding-induced changes in appearance.

Anstis, S., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Large illusory displacements of spots flashed on a moving object.

Dakin, S., Tibber, M., Greenwood, J., Kingdom, F., & Morgan, M. (2011).
The common perceptual metric for human discrimination of number and density.


Dambacher, M., Rolfs, M., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Visual adaptation of causality.

Greenwood, J., Tailor, V., Simmers, A., Sloper, J., Rubin, G., Bex, P., & Dakin, S. (2011).
Links between acuity, crowding and binocularity in children with and without amblyopia.


Hein, E., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Correspondence in apparent motion: Features don’t like to travel far.


Kosovicheva, A. A., Maus, G. W., Anstis, S., Cavanagh, P, Tse, P. U., & Whitey, D. (2011).
The motion-induced shift in the perceived location of a grating also shifts its aftereffect.

Jonikaitis, D., Paepper, M., & Deubel, H. (2011).
Saccades redistribute attentional resources.

Manassi, M., Sayim, B., & Herzog, P. (2011).
When bigger is better.

Morvan, C., Deubel, H., & Cavanagh, P. (2011). (talk)
Saccade target visible on landing despite removal: Can human observers see the prediction generated by presaccadic remapping?

Sayim, B., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Effects of target-flanker grouping in crowding inside and outside the critical spacing.

Szinte, M., Correia, S., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Breakdown of spatial constancy for head roll but not head translation
.

Tibber, M., Greenwood, J., & Dakin, S. (2011).
Psychophysical evidence for a common metric underlying number and density discrimination.


Tse, P., Whitney, D., Anstis, S., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Voluntary attention modulates motion-induced mislocalization.

Vaziri Pashkam, M., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Saccades to moving targets are not influenced by the speed overestimation at low luminance.

Veenemans, A., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Tailgate masking: the obliterating effect of the unattended pre-mask.

Yeh, S.-L., He, S., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Extraction of semantic information from unidentifiable, crowded words.

Pisa-Paris Fest

On 14th and 15th of April, 2011, our whole team and two members of LPP were invited by Pisavisionlab (managed by Concetta Morone, David Burr and Stefano Baldassi). After our PisaFest mini-conference in Paris last year, we had the pleasure to meet again our Italian colleagues for the continuation of our scientific discussions.

This time, the subject was "Stability, Attention and Plasticity". You can find the Pisa-Paris Fest program here: pdf.

Un grand evenement dans notre equipe !

Nous adressons toutes nos félicitations à Elisabeth Hein, qui se marie le 12 mars 2011 avec Stefan Blaschke.

Elisabeth and Stefan, nous nous réjouissons de cet heureux événement et nous vous souhaitons un très beau mariage, et beaucoup de bonheur !

A great event in our team!

We send all our congratulations to Elisabeth Hein who marries Stefan Blaschke on the 12th of March, 2011.

Elisabeth and Stefan, we are delighted and we wish you a very beautiful wedding ceremony and a lot of happiness!

Martin Rolfs passe a la television

Martin Rolfs est passé à la télévision et la radio américaines pour parler d'une étude qu'il a publié avec Donatas Jonikaitis, Heiner Deubel et Patrick Cavanagh.
Cliquez ici pour voir sa vidéo "Priming The Mind's Eye" sur le site de ScienceFriday.

Martin Rolfs on US TV and radio

Martin Rolfs is on US TV and radio talking about the study that Martin, Donatas Jonikaitis, Heiner Deubel and Patrick Cavanagh just published.

Click here and enjoy his video "Priming The Mind's Eye" on ScienceFriday.

GottingenFest

Les 14 et 15 février 2011, nous avons eu le plaisir d'accueillir Stefan Treue et trois membres de son laboratoire (Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (CNL) au German Primate Center (DPZ) in Göttingen, Germany), ainsi que d'autres chercheurs sur la vision, pour la septième de nos rencontres bi-laboratoires, la Göttingen Fest, au cours de laquelle les deux laboratoires ont présenté les travaux récents et en cours.

Le programme de notre mini-conférence : pdf

GottingenFest

From February 14th to 15th 2011, we had the pleasure to host Stefan Treue and three members of his lab (Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (CNL) at the German Primate Center (DPZ) in Göttingen, Germany), and other vision researchers for the seventh in our series of bi-laboratory Fests, GöttingenFest. Both labs introduced recent and forthcoming work.

Also the timetable of our mini-conference : pdf

Le Monde et New Waver parlent de nos recherches

Les médias français s'intéressent à nos différents travaux de recherches.

Le Monde a présenté dans son édition du 27 novembre 2010 notre article sur le genre des visages : Donner un genre à un visage, matière à illusions.

Le magazine NewWaver (Editions Autrement) a consacré dans son numéro de janvier 2011 un article de cinq pages pour expliquer les recherches de Patrick sur l'art et le cerveau : An eye-opening tour of the Louvre with Patrick Cavanagh.

Vous pouvez retrouver tous les articles parus dans les médias dans la section Presse.

Our research in Le Monde and New Waver

The French media are interested in our research works.

Le Monde presented on 27th November 2010 our work about the gender-specific face aftereffect in a news in brief Donner un genre à un visage, matière à illusions.

The magazine NewWaver (Editions Autrement) dedicates in its issue of January 2011 an article of five pages to Patrick 's work about the 'art on the brain': An eye-opening tour of the Louvre with Patrick Cavanagh.

Go to the Media Coverage section for all our articles in the media.

Encore un nouvel article dans JoV

Félicitations à Martin Szinte et Patrick Cavanagh pour leur article publié dans le Journal of Vision du 8 février 2011. Vous pouvez trouver ici le pdf ou dans notre section Publications.

Another new article in JoV

Congratulations to Martin Szinte and Patrick Cavanagh for their article published in Journal of Vision, February 8, 2011. Here the pdf or in our Publications section.

Un nouvel article dans JoV

Bravo pour l'article d'Amelia Hunt et Patrick Cavanagh paru dans le Journal of Vision du 18 janvier 2011. Ci-joint le pdf ou voir notre section Publications.

New article in JoV

Congratulations on the publication of Amelia Hunt and Patrick Cavanagh's article in Journal of Vision, January 18, 2011. You can find here the pdf or in our Publications section.

Bienvenue, Donatas !

Donatas Jonikaitis, qui vient de Lituanie et a passé sa thèse à l'Université de Munich, rejoint aujourd'hui notre équipe pour un post-doc de six mois. Nous sommes heureux de t'accueillir, Donatas, et te souhaitons un très bon séjour à Paris !

Welcome to Donatas!

Donatas Jonikaitis, from Lituania, PhD from Munich University, is joining our team today for a post-doc position of six months. We're glad to welcome you, Donatas, and we wish you a nice stay in Paris!

GottingenFest 14/15 fevrier 2011

Stefan Treue et ses post-docs et thésards viendront à Paris le 14 et 15 février pour le prochain CAVLab Fest.
Ils présenteront leurs travaux sur l'attention et l'aire corticale MT et les membres du LPP présenteront les travaux comportementaux sur le mouvement, l'attention et la position.
Vous êtes tous les bienvenus.

GottingenFest 14/15 February, 2011

Stefan Treue and 3 of his lab members are in Paris February 14 and 15 for the next in the series of CAVLab Fests. They and several LPP members will present physiological and behavioral work on attention, position, and motion.
The talks are on the afternoon of the 14th, 2pm to 6pm and the morning of the 15th, 9am to 1pm at 45 rue des Saints Pères, H432.
All are welcome to attend.

Bienvenue, John !

John Greenwood, post-doc australien du laboratoire UCL de Londres, a rejoint ce mois-ci notre équipe pour effectuer un nouveau post-doc de deux ans.
Nous lui souhaitons la bienvenue dans notre laboratoire ainsi qu'un excellent séjour à Paris.

Welcome to John!

Our new Australian post-doc, John Greenwood, who comes from UCL, London, has just joined our team for two years.
Welcome in our lab, John, and have a nice stay in Paris!

Nouvel article dans Current Biology (et citation dans Nature)

Patrick Cavanagh, Arash Afraz (du MIT) et Maryam Vaziri Pashkam (de l'Université de Harvard), publient ce mois-ci dans le journal Current Biology un article intitulé “Spatial Heterogeneity in the Perception of Face and Form Attributes ” (voir abstract).
Voir le commentaire de la revue Nature (23/30 décembre 2010, vol. 468) : "Man or woman? Depends on view", directement ici ou dans la section Presse.

New article in Current Biology, presented in Nature

A new article by Patrick Cavanagh, Arash Afraz (MIT) and Maryam Vaziri Pashkam (Harvard University), entitled “Spatial Heterogeneity in the Perception of Face and Form Attributes ” (abstract here) is published in Current Biology 20, 2112-2116 (2010).
See the presentation of the article in Nature (23/30 December 2010, vol. 468) "Man or woman? Depends on view": pdf here or in the section Media coverage.

Publication d’un article dans Nature Neuroscience

L'article “Predictive remapping of attention across eye movements”, écrit par Martin Rolfs, Donatas Jonikaitis, Heiner Deubel, et Patrick Cavanagh, a été accepté par la revue Nature Neuroscience. Félicitations !
Vous pouvez lire ici l'abstract et l'article full text (publication en ligne du 26 décembre 2010) et aussi dans la section Publications.

Paper accepted in Nature Neuroscience

Our article “Predictive remapping of attention across eye movements”, written together by Martin Rolfs, Donatas Jonikaitis, Heiner Deubel, and Patrick Cavanagh, has just been accepted in Nature Neuroscience. Well done!
You can find the abstract here (see also our publications section). The article will be published online 26 December 2010.

Visite des artistes Anne Cleary et Denis Connolly

Vendredi 22 octobre 2010, de 10h à 12h, nous avons accueilli dans nos locaux (salle de réunion H432), deux artistes parisiens et irlandais, Anne Cleary et Denis Connolly, pour leur montrer nos recherches et entendre une présentation de leurs travaux.
Voici les titres des présentations :

Elisabeth Hein : Qui a bougé?
Christian Wehrhahn : L'induction chromatique par les composants invisibles du pourtour
Pascal Mamassian : Les images consécutives chromatiques
Patrick Cavanagh & Denis Connolly : Voir en couleurs pures
Denis Connolly : L'art vidéo http://www.connolly-cleary.com/Home/News.html
Bilge Sayim : L'art de la transparence
Arielle Veenemans : Invisibilité
Kevin O'Regan : La cécité au changement
Florian Perdreau : Est-ce que les artistes voient leurs rétines?
Martin Szinte : La poursuite des yeux et de la tête

Visit of the artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly

Friday, October 22, 10 AM until 12 in the seminar room H432, local artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly visited to see what we do and tell us about their work. Here are the titles of the presentations.

Elisabeth Hein: Who moved?
Christian Wehrhahn: Chromatic induction from the invisible
Pascal Mamassian: Color afterimages
Patrick Cavanagh & Denis Connolly: Seeing in pure color
Denis Connolly: Video art at http://www.connolly-cleary.com/Home/News.html
Bilge Sayim: The art of transparency
Arielle Veenemans: Invisibility
Kevin O'Regan: Change blindness
Florian Perdreau: Do artists see their retinas
Martin Szinte: Tracking eyes and heads

Art et neurosciences : New Scientist parle de nos recherches

Dans l'article "Windows to the mind" (18 septembre 2010), New Scientist discute de nos recherches sur les neurosciences et l'art. La journaliste Jessica Griggs se réfère aux travaux de Patrick Cavanagh pour expliquer que les artistes ont été des précurseurs intuitifs dans la compréhension neuroscientifique du système visuel.

Vous pouvez trouver tous nos articles publiés dans les médias dans la section Presse.

Neuroscience and art: our research in New Scientist

In the article "Windows to the mind" (September 18th, 2010), New Scientist describes our research on neuroscience and art. Jessica Griggs, the careers editor of New Scientist, refers to Patrick Cavanagh's scientific work to say that when it comes to understanding the brain’s visual system, artists are way ahead of neuroscientists.

Go to the media coverage section for all our articles in the media.

Au revoir Remy

Après avoir passé deux ans dans notre équipe, Rémy repart en octobre 2010 à Montréal où il commence un nouveau post-doc. Tous nos voeux de bonne continuation à Rémy, Judith et leur fils Wilbert.

Au revoir Remy

In October 2010, after two years in our group, Rémy and Judith and their son Wilbert will be back in Montréal, where Rémy is going to start a new post-doc. Best wishes from all of us.

Bienvenue, Stephanie et Florian

Bienvenue à Stéphanie Correia (Cogmaster M1) et Florian Perdreau (Cogmaster M2) qui vont effectuer leur stage de master pour leur projet de recherches dans notre laboratoire.