lab members
Le Chef
Patrick Cavanagh
I started as a computer/electrical engineer, wanting to make thinking computers. But then I thought, why not study the really big computer. I retooled in Pittsburgh, moved to Montreal and then Cambridge and now Paris. Research in vision is an adventure of discovery, full of surprises and challenges, with the ever pleasant company of hardy, ingenious colleagues and students. We are like tourists observing and describing the mysterious customs and rituals of the visual system. OK, sometimes the weather turns bad, the luggage is lost, and we take the wrong road. But what a fabulous trip. Currently traveling through attention and the position sense.
email
room: H431f
tel: +33(0)6.88.39.36.90
Postdoctoral Fellows
Rémy Allard
I finished my Ph.D. in experimental psychology in 2008 at Université de Montréal with Jocelyn Faubert as an advisor. Since then, I am pursuing a postdoc with Patrick Cavanagh at Université de Paris-Descartes. My main research interests are the processing of first- and second-order motion and signal detection in noise.
email
room: H431a
tel:+33(0)1.42.86.21.98
Bilge Sayim
After a Master in Psychology and Computer Science (CAU, Kiel), I received my PhD in Neuroscience at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). In June 2010, I started my postdoc with Patrick Cavanagh here at the Centre Attention & Vision. I am interested in the mechanisms that generate a rich and stable perception of the world from the highly ambiguous and ever-changing light pattern falling on the retina. In particular, I am intrigued by the complex interactions between local and global levels of stimulus processing and their dependence on factors such as grouping, figure-ground segregation, and Gestalt.
email
room: H431b
tel:+33(0)1.42.86.21.99
Elisabeth Hein
My interest in vision research arose while studying psychology in Strasbourg where I first realized what an amazing task our visual system does: It takes the ambiguous and incomplete information that is “captured” by the retina and generates a coherent representation of the world. Doing my Ph.D. in Tübingen, I investigated how attention can influence this process. As a post-doc in Iowa City I pursued the question of how the visual system organizes the visual information that is sampled from constantly changing input into meaningful units and how those units are updated over time, looking at apparent motion and masking. Here in Paris I am continuing this quest by asking in particular what consequences the updating process has for the content of the organized representations.
email
room: H431b
tel:+33(0)1.42.86.21.99
Graduate Students
Arielle Veenemans
After finishing an MSc in Neurosciences at Utrecht University including an 8 month internship at the Vision Lab in Boston, I started a PhD with Patrick Cavanagh in the CAV lab in Paris in November 2008. I am interested in many different aspects of vision such as crowding, grouping, object recognition, binding etc. The brain’s ability to process an large amount of different elements in a matter of milliseconds and build a coherent concept from that information is truly amazing. However, the brain sometimes fails or takes an alternative approach, which can also help us understand the mechanisms behind perception better. And why does the brain choose to use certain cues while ignoring others? These are all questions that keep me busy. Apart from psychophysics I have a sweet tooth for fMRI and would like to learn about other techniques some time in the future as well.
email
room: H414
tel:+33(0)1.42.86.21.96
Martin Szinte
I finished a Master in Cognitive Science (ENS, EHESS, Paris Descartes University) in june 2009 and started my phD in the “Cav lab” with Patrick Cavanagh since september 2009. I am generally interested in understanding the mechanisms underlying visual perception and attention. I focus on attentionnal processes imply on spatial constancy.
email
bureau : H414
tel:+33(0)1.42.86.21.96
Staff
Thi Bich Doan
Manager
room: H431e
tel:+33(0)1.42.86.42.68
