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Martin Rolfs

Principal Investigator

Psychology

HU Berlin

 

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Martin Rolfs

Martin Rolfs

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Martin Rolfs is Heisenberg Professor for Experimental Psychology Active Perception and Cognition at HU. For SCIoI, he represents the analytic discipline psychology. His research builds on the premise that any deep understanding of sensation and perception requires studying its key processes in observers that actively explore their environment. He investigates selective processes in active vision. His research combines eye tracking, motion tracking, psychophysics, computational modeling, EEG, and studies of clinical populations.

Projects

Martin Rolfs is member of:

• Project 01: Object-level scene descriptions and attention in visual search
• Project 02: Capabilities and consequences of recursive, hierarchical information processing in visual systems
• Project 23: Control models of perceptual stability
• Project 57: Internal and External Visual Information Sampling Using Eye-Movements and Overt Attention in Dynamic Scenes
Battaje, A., Godinez, A., Hanning, N., Rolfs, M., & Brock, O. (2024). An Information Processing Pattern from Robotics Predicts Unknown Properties of the Human Visual System. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.20.599814
Hall, O., Qu, R., Ouerfelli-Ethier, J., Roth, N., Hellwich, O., Obermayer, K., & Rolfs, M. (2024). Saccadic decision-making in dynamic scenes under competing task demands. EGPROC.
Mengers, V., Roth, N., Brock, O., Obermayer, K., & Rolfs, M. (2024). A Robotics-Inspired Scanpath Model Reveals the Importance of Uncertainty and Semantic Object Cues for Gaze Guidance in Dynamic Scenes. Journal of Vision, 25(6). https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.2.6
Roth, N., McLaughlin, J., Obermayer, K., & Rolfs, M. (2024). Gaze Behavior Reveals Expectations of Potential Scene Changes. Psychological Science, 35(12), 1350–1363. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241279198
Battaje, A., Brock, O., & Rolfs, M. (2023). An Interactive Motion Perception Tool for Kindergarteners (and Vision Scientists). IPerception. https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695231159182
Godinez, A., Battaje, A., Brock, O., & Rolfs, M. (2023). Probing Perceptual Mechanism of Shape-Contingent Color after-Images via Interconnected Recursive Filters. Journal of Vision 23 / VSS 2023. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.9.4885
Roth, N., McLaughlin, J., Obermayer, K., & Rolfs, M. (2023). Looking for potential action: Differences in exploration behavior of static and (potentially) dynamic scenes. Journal of Vision. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.9.5293
Roth, N., Rolfs, M., Hellwich, O., & Obermayer, K. (2023). Objects guide human gaze behavior in dynamic real-world scenes. PLOS Computational Biology. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011512
Roth, N., Shurygina, O., Muscinelli, F. M., Obermayer, K., & Rolfs, M. (2023). Modeling the spread of object-based attention during free viewing. MODVIS 2023. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/modvis/2023/session02/3/
Schweitzer, R., Doering, M., Seel, T., Raisch, J., & Rolfs, M. (2023). Saccadic omission revisited: What saccade-induced smear looks like. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.15.532538
Muscinelli, F., Roth, N., Shurygina, O., Obermayer, K., & Rolfs, M. (2022). Object-based Spread of Attention Affects Fixation Duration During Free Viewing. PERCEPTION / 44th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2022. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03010066221141167
Roth, N., Rolfs, M., & Obermayer, K. (2022). ScanDy: Simulating Realistic Human Scanpaths in Dynamic Real-World Scenes. MODVIS 2022. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/modvis/2022/session01/6/
Roth, N., Rolfs, M., & Obermayer, K. (2022). Scanpath prediction in dynamic real-world scenes based on object-based selection. Journal of Vision / VSS 2022. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.14.4217
Rolfs, M., & Schweitzer, R. (2022). Coupling perception to action through incidental sensory consequences of motor behaviour. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, 112–123. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-021-00015-x
Schweitzer, R., Watson, T., Balsdon, T., & Rolfs, M. (2022). The sources of peri-saccadic mislocalization: Evidence from the perception of intra-saccadic motion streaks. VSS 2022. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.14.3897
Schweitzer, R., & Rolfs, M. (2022). Definition, modeling and detection of saccades in the face of post-saccadic oscillations. Eye Tracking: Background, Methods, and Applications. https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-0716-2391-6_5
Shurygina, O., & Rolfs, M. (2022). Eye movement characteristics reflect object-based attention. Journal of Vision / VSS 2022, 3481–3481. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.14.3481
Shurygina, O., & Rolfs, M. (2022). Saccade kinematics reflect object-based attention in realistic but not in simplified stimuli. PERCEPTION / 44th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2022.
Wirth, L., Shurygina, O., Rolfs, M., & Ohl, S. (2022). Target-location rather than target-object specific saccadic selection in visual working memory. PERCEPTION / 44th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2022. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03010066221141167
Roth, N., Bideau, P., Hellwich, O., Rolfs, M., & Obermayer, K. (2021). Modeling the influence of objects on saccadic decisions in dynamic real-world scenes. PERCEPTION / 43rd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2021. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03010066211059887
Roth, N., Bideau, P., Hellwich, O., Rolfs, M., & Obermayer, K. (2021). A modular framework for object-based saccadic decisions in dynamic scenes. CVPR EPIC Workshop / ArXiv:2106.06073. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2106.06073
Schweitzer, R., & Rolfs, M. (2021). Intrasaccadic motion streaks jump-start gaze correction. Science Advances, 7(30), eabf2218. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf2218
Shurygina, O., Pooresmaeili, A., & Rolfs, M. (2021). Pre-saccadic attention spreads to stimuli forming a perceptual group with the saccade target. Cortex, 140, 179–198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.03.020
Shurygina, O., & Rolfs, M. (2021). Visual sensitivity and reaction time measures show no evidence for purely exogenous object-based attention. Journal of Vision / VSS 2021, 2571–2571. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2571

ERC Consolidator Grant (2019)

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Research

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