Research
We are interested in all aspects of visual perception. Here is what we focus on at the moment ...
Tomas is intrigued by the fact that our brains seem to create the world we live in so effortlessly all day long, for our entire lives. We have for ourselves the impression of a very coherent mental image that we sample almost objectively from the outside world, don't we? Actually what our brain does when we 'look' is a very interpretative process based on extremely noisy information, implemented in extremely noisy hardware. It is no wonder, then, that the stability and reliability that we perceive and depend on is an illusion. 
Arielle is 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?
The Topic that Martin and Patrick both share an interest in is visual direction constancy, or, spatiotopy. That is, why seems visual perception so remarkably continuous in space and time despite the fact that eye-, head-, and body-movements produce large-scale transitions in the input stream on the retina? And how do we keep track of things are around us if they jump around on our receptors? Neurophysiology has provided a number of findings that may guide our way.
Please note that this page is still under construction....